Spicy meatball delivered.
Haruka's part of the "youngsters" when she's probably the oldest one there... Even the guy that looks around the same age as Haruka's old man form is probably much younger, considering the level of technology in this world.
Haruka be like: "greetings fellow kids"
Here's waiting for some other elf to actually date her and turns out she is twice her human age or even well into the hundreds.
Even the guy that looks around the same age as Haruka's old man form is probably much younger, considering the level of technology in this world.
Just a reminder, just because the
average age of past was way lower, doesn't mean people didn't live to a ripe old age. The statistics are skewed heavily by high infant and child mortality rates. Still, with lack of proper medical understanding and even less access to whatever medicine, any bad wound could lead to your deaths. But even then, you had soldiers live through quite horrible shit and live to a relatively or actually old age.
Much of that anyhow is mooted, due to
magic. The common cause of death is infection, be it a disease or due to an injury and both of those can be waved away with magic spells or herbs in fantasy. Therefore, lifespans in fantasy settings, violence aside, would approach modern times, unless magic and magic herbs are rare and hard to access, which rarely is the case.