Is Durin a child?

My understanding was that, even if Mini Durin was a child, human Durin was more mature ("Mini Durin was simply a child at heart, who wanted to make friends and explore the world." "After his transformation into humanoid form, Durin matures to the extent where he asserts 'I'm not as "mini" as I used to be,' after Albedo asks Paimon to drop the diminutive "Mini" on behalf of Durin. Albedo suggests that this prior name no longer reflects who Durin has become, and Durin elaborates on the importance of using names that show respect to one's status. How he wants others to see him is revealed in him insisting: "No matter how you look at it, this isn't a childlike form... Besides, I want to keep moving forward," focusing on growth and maturity instead of the past.") , so I thought that made him a teenager. He is also refered to as a "young man" by other people. My headcanon was that he was between 15 and 17. What do yall think?

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ChChChillian2026-01-10 10:07

He's physically a teenager, unless he was made short on purpose and always will be. In that sense, addressing him as "young man" is only natural. But in terms of life experience, he has even less than most children. Spiritually, he's old.

Take him on his own terms. He doesn't fit neatly into any categories.

SanicHegehag2026-01-10 14:23

His Human Body was created by Albedo. It's likely that

A: He'll always be the Medium Sized Body, since that's what Albedo is.

Or

B: As he gets better at controlling his power, he'll be able to change his own form, again, much like Albedo.

RemoteEconomics90272026-01-10 10:07

Not as mini as he used to be means his actual size, not age , he is still a child, it is mini durin but with the power of the dragon spine durin within him, he is currently the youngest character in the game, even younger than klee

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 10:10

Even younger thank Klee? Even with all the time he spent in Simulanka beforehand? I thought Klee was like, 5-8yo, is Simulanka younger than that?

RemoteEconomics90272026-01-10 10:15

You can even argue that he is newly born, since he just got created (as a human), bottom line is still think he is a child, whether older or younger then klee depends on how you view it, even his voicelines are clearly childish, when he say he wants to go play and stuff, and the fact that he is still learning stuff

AnonymooPuppy2026-01-10 10:49

Klee is 50 years old and Durin is hundreds of years old, but he is still a teenager at heart and Klee is still a child at heart.

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 11:03

Durin isn't hundred of years old, he isn't og Durin under a new form. The whole point is that he is a different person from og Durin, he just so happens to share his name and used the energy from og Durin's heart to fuel the ritual that gave him a human form

RemoteEconomics90272026-01-10 11:06

Bro are you a lore skipper ? This durin is not the evil dragon, they are not the same person, did you not finish the story ?

AnonymooPuppy2026-01-10 14:29

The Durin right now is not the old dragon but he was made in the simulanka storybook which is hundreds of years old by now. So he existed in the book for a long time.

RemoteEconomics90272026-01-10 15:02

But he is a kid, his whole story is about that, it does not matter if the book is old or not, he is a character, and his role is to play the baby dragon

HaukevonArding2026-01-10 12:27

Klee is not 50 years old. She is explicity as old as every other child in Mondstadt. Or do you have any proof she is 50 year old? That would mean she was in Mondstadt before Jean or Varka were even born.

AnonymooPuppy2026-01-10 14:27

I looked for proof because I thought as an elf she was aging slower but I didn't find any. 😅 I might have read somewhere that she is 50 years old.

PersonalitySad6172026-01-10 10:10

child in dragon age maybe. We don't know his actual age but maybe like at least 60 years old consider M created him when she was young

La-Roca992026-01-10 10:22

In the words of Vision during Age of Ultron

*I was born yesterday*

Jarvis, as in the AI, was with Iron Man since the first movie

But Vision the "entity" was only just created on the preparation to fight Ultron

This is pretty much the same

Durin the dragon was alive 500 years ago

But Durin the humanoid dragon was just created last windblume so he doesnt know much about anything. Hence why its considerable "young"

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 10:37

But Durin the humanoid was mini Durin before, he isn't as old as when his human body was created he is older than that, not by like decades but a few good years no? Since his mom created him then died of old age

La-Roca992026-01-10 11:13

The thing is, Mini Durin was just an "evil dragon that does evil things" on Simulanka until we arrived, he didnt know much else

You could argue that gives him an extra year of existance at most, but even still thats young

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 11:14

He wasn't really evil though just misunderstood no? But yeah he's still young, just not one year old young

Electronic-Price-5302026-01-10 10:35

>Is Durin a child?

No, he's a dragon.

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 10:38

Oh thanks I didn't notice! /j

MiniMages2026-01-10 13:21

He's a big, smol dragon.

Hojuma2026-01-10 11:01

He's old but his "common sense" is from the storybook world he lived in, probably isolated for centuries so my headcanon is he's mentally he's a child, maybe a teenager at most.

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 11:04

My headcanon was that he was a teenager too

turnup4wat2026-01-10 12:01

Durin is not human. Horns and wings??

Foreign-Day5872026-01-10 12:29

No he' explicitely says he's an adult

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 16:11

I don't think so? He's a teenager at most, definetly not an adult

Foreign-Day5872026-01-10 16:19

\-Sucrose literally calls him “Monsieur” like “Monsieur Neuvillette” ,in her birthday letter, which is basically the French equivalent of “Sir.”
\-In one of his voicelines about Alice, he states it with zero ambiguity: *“*I’m clearly an adult*”*
\-He even drinks alcohol in his teaser something you obviously wouldn’t give to a teenager in the first place
Hoyo isn’t being subtle or ambiguous about his age at all, and you’re still bending over backwards to ignore it just because it doesn’t fit your headcanon

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 16:32

Idk I shiped him with Freminet at first, thinking they were both teenagers but someone told me I shouldn't because he was clearly way younger and provided evidence that made me doubt myself, they made sense.

I'm sorry if it seems like I'm "bending over backwards", I'm just trying to figure out where I stand on this because even though you say Hoyo isn't being ambiguous it feels like they are a little? In his voice line with Alice he doesn't say he's and adult he says he is "all grown up", which could either mean he is an adult or a teenager, yk because teens don't want to be seen as little kids? I guess Sucrose's letter and the alcohol are evidence he is more mature than I thought but when I saw the trailer I thought they had just made him taste some in a teasing way, kinda how grandpas or uncles give some wine to kids at events, because after Diluc gave him juice. Idk, I'm not trying to seem like I know everything I'm sorry if it comes out this way :(

Foreign-Day5872026-01-10 16:36

I dont have the english version but he does say he's an adult in the french one [link](https://x.com/QuinoaShin50906/status/2009270070883602770)

At the end of the day, he’s a fictional character. If you're more comfortable seeing him as a teen, go for it no one’s gonna jump you for it \^\^

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 16:44

I speak french, and yeah in this version there isn't a doubt possible but in the english one it is:

"Aunt Alice asked me to spend more time with Klee. She said she'd reward me by giving me anything I wanted. But only children want rewards, and I'm clearly all grown up... I like playing with Klee because I'm happy when we spend time together — it's as simple as that. When I told Aunt Alice that, though, she was overjoyed, and said she'd pick out a "giant toy" just for me..."

So yeah it's weird, could be that the teams doing the translations for the french and english versions took different interpretations of the original text, or that both thought the same but it's just the word that is vague in itself. I guess checking the original chinese version could give the final answer depending on the word choice but I don't speak mandarin so I can't really. Urgh it's annoying, I think I'll just drop the shipping part and just draw them as having and older and younger brother relationship because I don't want to ship someone I interpret as a teen/young man and someone that could be seen as either a child, teenager or adult, it's weird :/

Foreign-Day5872026-01-10 16:58

He says “only children want rewards, and I’m all grown up,” which is basically an “I’m a grown-ass man” moment separating him from kids and teens. The French version just makes that clearer, and since the lines are officially approved, that reading is canon

I don’t know much about Freminet, but wasn’t it mentioned somewhere that he’s an adult?

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 17:11

I'm not sure about Freminet, he is my favorite character with Durin but I haven't done Fontaine's quest (Started last year, I'm still at Inazuma) so I don't know all about his story, since I don't want to get spoiled. I've seen people say Lyney and Lynette were in their early twenties and that Freminet was younger than them so I figured he was around 19 or smth

OmniOnly2026-01-10 14:15

He's old enough to drink, something the traveler is not allowed to do but he's just mentally a kid, now finally a teen. He's two Durins fused and basically a sheltered potential college student. That's what happens when you don't have life experience. It's like how mana are hundreds of years old and act like children. So take him as his mentality when it comes to magic.

QueasyPhase77762026-01-10 15:17

I see him as more of a Tarzan like character.

He’s lived a long life, but in a place where his development was stilted. Now that he is in the human world he is very much a “fish out of water” since his life experiences are far behind his age and intelligence. It comes off as naive and childish but it’s significantly different than a character like Klee who ages slowly and is mentally a child.

Upbeat-Touch-63992026-01-10 16:02

He's still mentally pretty young is he not?

oof-eef-thats-beef2026-01-10 16:16

Op: what do you think?
Also OP: here’s the answer

Please keep the puriteen stuff out of here. Its fiction - his age is never stated. Have your headcanons but otherwise let it go and let others have their own.