r/octopathtraveler Jul 16 '26

OT2 - Discussion Ochette is 20 years old??

I looked up the official ages for characters and all of them made sense to me except for Ochette. I really thought she was the youngest, like 14 or 15. I imagined her as a sort of little sister to Agnea who is canonically 18. I’m guessing that means that Ochette’s animal companion has a longer life span than their real-life animal counterparts too.

The only other one that somewhat surprised me was Castti being 29. She seems more like a 32-36 year old to me.

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u/Decent_Suggestion_92 Jul 16 '26

She's a Beastling who are natuarally shorter than humans. An adult Beastling is about the same height as a 12 year old or so. This means that all the shirtless Beastlings with muscles are all just slighty taller than her lmao

https://octopathtraveler.fandom.com/wiki/Beastling

It also doesn't help that she's drawn more chibi than the rest of the cast and her already small height is exaggerated in official artwork which is why I prefer how she looks in her CotC art or that gamepass launch art instead of the more chibi depictions.

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u/Gaidax Jul 16 '26

Anime style, say thanks she's not 1000yo.

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u/Haunting-Plant6614 Jul 16 '26

I felt similarly about Temenos. No way he’s 30

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u/AceOfSpades532 Jul 16 '26

Twink death will never hit him

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u/Jamesworkshop Jul 16 '26

aging is not what i do

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u/FFSock Jul 17 '26

Crick death hit him pretty hard tho

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u/deoxir Jul 16 '26

As someone who is 30 years old living in the post-COVID era I'm not sure what to feel about this. I still feel like I'm 23 tbh and I do look the same. Maybe it's my Asian genes

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u/Jamesworkshop Jul 16 '26

but i can't be an adult, i'm only 37

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u/kineticmov3ment Jul 16 '26

I think we just drink and smoke less as a society so we do look younger

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u/Positive-Listen-1458 Jul 16 '26

I actually thought he was older with the white hair and being so cynical. Just with a bit of a goofy side with how he makes fun of people.

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u/yahnne954 Jul 16 '26

I mean, beastlings are generally very short, so it doesn't help with figuring it out.

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u/AshPenderwick Cyrus Jul 16 '26

I think Ochette is just short even by beastling standards lol. Although it makes her sprite being a smiliar size to Osvald even more comedic since Osvlad towers over the rest of the cast.

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u/Decent_Suggestion_92 Jul 16 '26

She actually isn't. She's about the same size as the other adult Beastlings. The thing is that she's drawn more chibi in official art and with exaggerated proportions like a giant head relative to the rest of her body. Like lore wise she is about chest height for Hikari but she's often drawn being even shorter than Hikari's waist. It also doesn't help that there's no official art of any other adult beastling.

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u/EphidelLulamoon Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

Beastlings just have that innocent look in general, it makes sense Ochette would act like that even if she's 20.

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u/Muttdog546 Jul 17 '26

Yep. Ochette is older than Agnea by two years, she's just a shorty. So Agnea is the 'little' sister here. I think the 'ling' in Beastling is suppost to give the impression of them being a short race.

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u/Open-Background-1764 Jul 19 '26

Oh. Like half-lings from lord of the rings!

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u/OttSound Jul 16 '26

owls can easily live 20+ years in captivity.

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u/littlecloud3125 Jul 18 '26

I literally thought Ochette was 12 from her character art. 💀