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A theory on Loid's age, using math and medicine.

I recently had this interesting thought come up in my head "just how old is Loid Forger".

By that I mean the fake personality of "Loid" not Twilight the man portraying him.

Now, how are we going on about this?

My method will mostly look at two main factors for the calculation.

1. His known psychiatry career

2. The age of his daughter

To begin, it takes about 12 years for someone to become a psychiatrist with a medical license, assuming modern day practices.

These 12 years are divided into 4 years for a bachelor's degree in a subject like psychiatry, 4 years of med school and another 4 years of residency.

Which means that Loid, at least, has to be 30 years old in order to work as an independent doctor in the berlint hospital, assuming an early start at exactly 18 years of age.

But there is one problem, Anya is 6 years old, at least officially, which would mean one of two things.

Either she was conceived and born, as far as the cover story is concerned, while Loid was still a med student at ages 23 and 24 respectively or Loid is a bit older than 30 right now. But being 24 during her birth seems a bit to young for me.

Loid is supposed to portray the image of a perfect doctor and father for all people in the hospital, however, becoming a dad at a very young age while still being a broke med student might jeopardize that image. Which is something the meticulous planer of twilight would not want.

Thus my theory goes on like this.

Loid's first wife became pregnant during his first year of residency with Anya being born during the second one, assuming the soonest possible dates for all of this to occur in order to keep his age down as much as possible while still being plausible for him to be a father of a 6 year old.

Which would make loid roughly 32 years old, maybe 33 to account for the birthdays not matching up correctly and the time that already passed in the story.

This age also makes sense regarding other circumstances.

It's old enough for him to have a six year old daughter.

Young enough to were twilight, whom I assume to be a bit younger, can play the role without a mask, while not seeming to young to his co-workers.

As well as being young enough for him to find an unmarried woman for the mission without the age gap becoming to much of a problem.

Now, this might not make 100% sense for everyone, since it does rely on a fair amount of speculation, but I think that this theory on his age works well enough to be used for other theories, fanfics or whatever.

Feel free to give me feedback on those calculations of you think something seems off about them.