Okay, so I've tried to only quote the parts of previous comments that I'm commenting on. Tried too..... *deep breath*
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Harry174 
I remember when I was year 6 (last year of Primary School which is 10-11) You sort of felt happy because you were the oldest in the school and you know the most but you still played all those classic children games like what time is it Mr Wolf and things like that but we played more football, but then when you went to Secondary School (which would be your second year here)
When I went from Primary School to Secondary School I went from a school with only 67 pupils in it, so small we had two years in a class to a school that had 700 pupils in it and each year had 8 different form teachers.
THIS. Okay, I come from the middle of the countryside in Scotland, a mile from my tiny tiny village, seven miles from the closest town (at that time, small town - its bigger now), and about 27 miles from the City. The City wasn't somewhere we went often, maybe a few times a year for shopping for Christmas and the like, and maybe to go to the cinema or bowling if it was my birthday or something. In general though, we just used the small shops in the small town, and that was it.
So that, for me - transfers to an eleven year old who isn't used to too much diversity. Everyone from my village was generally born and raised in a 10 mile radius and my school had roughly 60-70 students over 4 classes, ranging from 4/5 to 11/12 years old. Like Liam, I then went on to our local Academy which has roughly 16 classes of 19-21 people with roughly 13-1400 people ranging from 11/12 to 17/18. It's an insane feeling. Especially when you have 7 others in the whole school that went to school with you, yet some of the other Primaries had 30-40 pupils in the same year. It is overwhelming, and large and that - I think - is the feeling of moving to a 24/7 school that is SO unlike where you grew up.
To add to that, I draw inspiration from my University experience. I moved to Edinburgh for Uni - and as I said, I only went to the city a few times a year growing up, and to suddenly be in the Capital, in a hugely diverse and amazing and cultural city with SO many people was even MORE overwhelming. I don't think that is an age thing, simply a change in atmosphere and surroundings and what is well known and familiar. My Degree itself in my first year in the umbrella classes had between 300 and 600 people in most of the lectures. That is a LOT of people.
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fanficfanatict I know kids around that age who are super cool and 'adult' and aren't little children anymore, but I also know kids who still run around with swords and dolls because they are still into that stuff. I personally played with my dolls until I was thirteen (barbies were the best, ok).
And that's all I'm gonna say besides that fact that I love this thread. A lot.
BARBIES! YES! Also, I was very mature but barbies with my best friend? Couldn't beat a full day gaming! XD
Also – this though. I grew up with my parents and my Gran in the same house. My parents both worked full time and both had a part time second job on top of that – so I spent A LOT of time with my Gran. With no more children around my outside of school, I think it definitely made me more mature over my friends at school who had lots of siblings or grew up with close access to a lot of children around their age.
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Lissy Longbottom Right now I'm teaching 12 year olds, so the same age as Caleb, which is great for inspiration haha. But as far as skill level goes, I think it's important to remember that even if you have a character who is SUPER DOOPER SMART and knows everything - that's just as realistic as a firstie who doesn't know much at all. I teach writing, and there are some kids in my class who could literally write college essays right now. Not many, but a few. Then there's a few who are way, wayyyy behind as well and need a bit of extra help to catch up. It is totally possible to have a smarty pants first year who DOES know everything simply because they paid attention to their surroundings when they grew up, or read a lot growing up, etc. It's not unheard of, but it is nice to see people struggle a bit. Caleb didn't like it when I did that to him, but it was fun having him NOT know EVERYTHING.
As far as face models don't even ask my opinion because I am TERRIBLE at picking out models haha. There's a reason I usually start my RP charries at 5th year haha.
I think this relates to what I learnt at primary haha. I was part of a group of 4 in my year who were ahead of the other 5 in maths and reading - but they were all fantastic at other things, such as sport, music, art, etc. Everyone has their own quirks and abilities
Also - I'm also terrible for characters. If I'm not going to be physically playing them, I'll just pick an adult FC that resembles the rest of their family. Then if I do decide to play them, I'll try to find someone who can be the same person but younger.
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Bazinga I don't have much to add, but thought this was funny tonight. On the relationship thing.. I was at a preschool and yes I said preschool concert and my four year old told me I had to meet this little girl. He then proceeded to tell me it was his girlfriend. I asked him what happened to the other one and he said he was over her. A FOUR YEAR OLD.... SO it happens at any age.
Hahaha. This comment made me laugh SO much. XD. Not because of what you said, but because of a memory it invoked. My Mam was one of those four year olds. She had her first kiss, at five years old beside her primary bike shed. It always amused me when she told me, though I was all "ewww" at the time (I was probably about 7 when she mentioned it first). While apart from kissing female friends as fun/friendship I was twelve/thirteen. I think it comes with personalities. She was the youngest of three and was always trying to keep up and be as "seen" as them... me on the other hand, lived with three adults and no children and didn't have to play catch up etc.
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Kaos.Doodles I think that the characters history is important to shaping how they will act, and that that's more important than how their peers would generally act?
In terms of knowledge and what charries know. Kyroh for example has parents who were both professors so you'd THINK he'd know like everything right? Well no not really.
Cai: And you forgot an amazing God-Father who was your Tutor while Dash was teaching. Duh
But yes! History and how they grew up, and what they were surrounded by is totally important. It helps with not only values, ethics and personality but it gives an idea of what they would have learned just by being at home. Like I learnt about Weddings and baking and how stressful being a post man is in a Scottish Snowy winter around Christmas time XD.... But yes, history!
..... I swear I didn’t mean for this to be so long but there were so many fitting points I just had to comment.... Even though it’s been a while since anyone else has posted.