Quote Originally Posted by Dualblade View Post
FFXIII, Hope. Fully playable and killable. Not even the first child to be playable in an FF game, though most of them were pre-3d. That said I completely understand where you are coming from and I'm pretty sure Lalas already are toeing the line as it is.
FF4, FF5 and FF6 all have main (playable) characters that are children.

FF4 had Rydia (Age 7), FF5 had Cara (age 14), and FF6 had Relm (age 10).

It's only Western RPG's that shy away from children dying, and even then... you could do it in some CRPG's that are of the same vintage (EG you could kill -everyone- in all Ultima games up to 8)

The problem, more or less, in a MMORPG are RP'ers who take things a great bit too far.

Aside from those outlier elements, when given an environment where most of the characters can be whatever age they want, people don't select younger ages unless there is some bonus to it, or for cosmetic reasons.