With things at DC steadily moving forward towards 5G, I was thinking last night about how the rapid changes in character age could impact titles and relationships within the Batfamily.
Acting with the assumption that additions to the Batfamily during New 52 and Rebirth (like Luke, Harper, and Duke) age differently than pre-Flashpoint members, then:
- Harper and Duke are probably closer to Damian's age than the rest of the family (late teens to early twenties versus mid-teens)
- Tim, Steph, and Cass are all somewhere in their mid-twenties
- Luke is somewhere between his mid-and-late twenties
- Jason is late twenties/early thirties
- Kate is younger than Dick, but not by much (and was not present during Thomas and Martha's funeral)
- Jean-Paul is somewhere between Kate and Dick (though if we assume he sticks around, then we've got some of the dead/rebirth time shenanigans that Jason Todd's timeline deals with
- Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon are somewhere in their thirties
Now that will change a lot of relationships, for example, Cassandra and Harper's (especially with DC saying every story matters).
What do you think, hope, or anticipate for the 5G Status Quo?