They Are Stuck..

They are stuck..

i cant sleep so i wanna talk about the different ways i conceptualize cecil's age. to me there are 3 domains i consider: chronological, physical, and functional

for his chronological age, we know cecil was a teenager in 1745 making him more than 279 years old. this one's pretty straight forward.

for his physical age we have to do some math. i've broken it down in greater detail before, but the tldr of that post is that (in my estimation) cecil physically ages 4-8 years for every 49 years he's alive. given how much wtnv likes a 1:10 ratio, i'd actually be willing to bet my math in the original post is close but wrong and cecil ages at a 1:10 rate. if cecil was at least 15 in 1745, and if he was stuck at 19 for at most 100 years, that would make him around 33 physically.

cecil's functional age i've never seen talked about and i haven't had a lot of chances to talk about before, so this was the main motivator for this post. cecil isn't just a man, he is The Voice. and since huntokar found night vale after it was founded and didn't break time until 1983, we can assume there was something supernatural about cecil before her involvement.

leonard burton was host of nvcr for "an uncountable number of years" and cecil has said he didn't recall anyone being host before him.

cecil interned under him from at least 1745 until ww2, likely after pearl harbor (1941) since cecil stated america was involved in the war at that time. so cecil interned for ~179 years and has been hosting for ~83 years

it's unclear when leonard died, i've detailed the murky timeline on his wiki page, but cecil had been hosting for between 38-60 years when he did. when leonard died he was crossing the street outside of nvcr, which i interpret this to mean leonard was still involved even after he retired, likely continuing his mentor role informally or else helping cecil as a consultant.

no matter how long cecil had been hosting, 38-60 years is a drop in the bucket compared to "an uncountable number of years." cecil as The Voice was still very new, functionally very young, when leonard died.

this continues the theme of cecil's life: that he's abandoned too young and before he's ready. i read cecil's lack of on-air professionalism to be a reflection of that; just like how he struggled and lashed out and acted up after his mother left he's doing the same thing on the radio. he didn't have anyone to show him any better. we aren't seeing cecil the 279 year old immortal or cecil the 33 year old man, we're seeing The Voice who is still only a child

just a doodl

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Carlos practice :3

okay. yk what? i heard a song that gave me wtnv vibes, i guess

and i decided to translate it so you,ll understand the text which gives me that vibe

pit in head

(dont bury me. dont forget me. dont bury..)

dont bury, dont forget about me

i can do that myself

the sky will melt,

and out of the season i go (i go)

dont bury, dont forget about me

i can do that myself

the sky will melt,

and out of the season i go (i go)

somewhere i will get alone,

i digged a pit in my own head

somewhere i will get alone,

i digged a pit in my own head

the smoke and fog will melt whereever i was alone (alone)

where they wait for you then and there

(leave) Leave

the smoke and fog will melt whereever i was alone (alone)

where they wait for you then and there

(leave) Leave

somewhere i will get alone,

i digged a pit in my own head (4x)

i sang it there

he is chilling. Don't mind him