If someone was able to control time, would they age while doing so? For example, if someone stopped time temporarily in everything and everyone except him/herself, would that person still age because he/she is not affected?
Depends. Logically, I'd say yes. If they slowed time outside themselves to half speed, they would appear to move and age twice as fast. That said, it's physics-breaking magic anyway so I guess it does whatever the author says it does.
Yea I suppose it would depend on how exactly one is freezing time, but the causes for aging are at least largely internal so if you're still metabolizing and turning over cells and such you should still age. If the power is a very fundamental control over physics/matter though, they could skirt that I guess.
If we're taking fictional characters, nearly every character I can think of that has a time stop power (as opposed to a speed up power) either doesn't age or the story doesn't delve into what happens to aging.
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controlling time typically happens in one of two ways, either a machine are though magic.
With a machine, it typically creates a bubble "safe zone" that time flows correctly, and everything outside flows in any direction you want.
As for magic, that also depends on the type of magic. Is it a power to be given or taken, biological like a mutation, or is it a spell that can be cast? Either which way the user should age correctly inside their bubble.
The closest real-life equivalent of this says that if you accelerate a person to a significant percentage of lightspeed, their frame of refrence for time will be slower and they'll age slower than everyone else (this can be measured on orbital space stations, but mainly with atomic clocks as the degree of diffrence is so small).
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Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
I mean, if it's magic, I ain't gotta explain it.
If we're taking fictional characters, nearly every character I can think of that has a time stop power (as opposed to a speed up power) either doesn't age or the story doesn't delve into what happens to aging.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
With a machine, it typically creates a bubble "safe zone" that time flows correctly, and everything outside flows in any direction you want.
As for magic, that also depends on the type of magic. Is it a power to be given or taken, biological like a mutation, or is it a spell that can be cast? Either which way the user should age correctly inside their bubble.
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