I'm not sure if this is a troll-post or a serious thread by someone who actually wants to play a child, but... either way I hope its pretty clear to everyone that there is a huge difference between letting us play Alphinaud for 30 minutes (maximum amount of time you have for the duty) and our PC being a child. Using this duty as argument to let us play children is weak at best, silly at worst.

Besides Alphinaud being 16 years old, so more of a teenager than an actual child. While he certainly does look very young, he doesnt look like a little kid (unlike, for example, Khloe).