>>57146335We got setting and character materials from Gen III to SM thanks to a game freak leak. Lots of random office documents with actual ages and general back stories that might have been boiled down to a line of an NPC saying "Their dad was a gym leader"
People are coping because a good chunk of the characters they thought were 20-something adults are at best 18, and the oldest protagonist until Arceus was 14 instead of just being ambiguous.