Frustrating relative lack of LGBT NPCs in this game

[Padudu]

Not that it'd lower the creepiness, but Alphinaud should be 18 by now considering the timeskip in Shadowbringers.

I forgot where I saw it, but wasn't it said that ARR-EW all takes place within a year? So at most 17 maybe. I'm pretty sure time in the First moves faster than the Source, but I don't remember at this point