Character relationships?

[dinnertime]

Any source on that? I was under the impression that the entirety of ARR+HW somehow took place in under a year.

They're still 16. The game's timeline is trapped in a time bubble. In ARR they mention Ala Mhigo being conquered 20 years ago and they still do in Stormblood. Pretty much the only indication of time passing they've mentioned in the MSQ is how it took 2 months to go from Eorzea to Hingashi.

[Meraii]

They're still 16. The game's timeline is trapped in a time bubble. In ARR they mention Ala Mhigo being conquered 20 years ago and they still do in Stormblood. Pretty much the only indication of time passing they've mentioned in the MSQ is how it took 2 months to go from Eorzea to Hingashi.

The kettle to the Mettle quest makes it reasonable to assume that 2 years have passed: http://i.imgur.com/VSkHdEM.png / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQhuqdl7TdE
Aside from that, it would be a fallacy to assume no time has passed. Whilst SE won't give a statement on the specifics (so that they don't write themselves into a continuity error, no doubt), other mentions in-game talk about having met the player 'a lifetime ago' or other progressions in time and the fact that NPC characters have changed (hair growth etc) is indicitive of time passing.
So although the official line is simpson-esque time bubbles, within the world of the game the characters would have to have aged for any of it to make sense and a popular theory is that each expansion exists in a timebubble of roughly a year.


This is all an aside to the main point of the thread though. :P