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Originally Posted by Sarah
That's funny, I thought that "Good Wilt Hunting" would have been his mid-life crisis... 
I was also thinking that maybe he's in his teenage years and that's him 'finding himself', per say.
I don't really think Imaginary Friends age, and if they do I don't think they would age like we do.
Then again - it's probably up to the child who imagined it. They don't have the capacity of aging when they have IF's, so they wouldn't age - right?
I don't know. XD |
You mean that the
children who create IF's don't have the capacity to age, or what? Humans start aging the second that they're born, although they might now show the physical signs that most of us associate with aging until much later in life. Most children as young as two have an understanding of the aging process, and know that people look different as they get older.
While it has been more or less stated on the show that Imaginary Friends do not age, outwardly at least, you can see the effects of 30 years' worth of guilt, pain and anxiety on Wilt's features. Compare the screencap of him getting off the bus at the terminal, or when he is sitting on the lawnmower watching those kids play basketball, with the flashback picks of him and Jordan practicing. It's not just the loss of an arm and the messed-up, blind eye-Wilt LOOKS older now than he did back then. It's very subtle, but the effects of those past 30 years are still as much there on his face as they are on any human's. Carrying around all the guilt and self-loathing cannot have been good for his physical well-being, either, and it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't have some internal effect, like ulcers, as a result. He's just too tough to let it show...for now.
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