#I've gone so far as to consider whether the Beholder should be older or younger than Frieren

[greatwyrmgold]

You know that anime about a white-haired immortal with immense magical power and how the short-lived (mostly human) people they meet on their globe-trotting journey change them? I am, of course, talking about both Frieren: Beyond Journey's End and To Your Eternity. But despite their superficial similarities, Frieren and Fushi are very different.

Fushi starts his journey as basically a shapeshifting infant, moving forward on instinct more than anything else; one of the first people he meets is a four-year-old, and she has to teach him a lot. Luckily, Fushi's good at learning; he changes a lot in his first few years of life, and changes at that speed pretty much any time he isn't being a nokker-slaying hermit.

Frieren, on the other hand, is mature and stagnant. She's been around (and not hermit-ing) for well over a millennium, and the Frieren we see in flashbacks to a thousand years ago is almost identical to the one we see at the start of the series. Frieren barely changes at all, compared to someone like Fushi; the changes she undergoes are remarkable only because she's not used to any change.

I bet a story where the two of them met and decided to travel together for a while would be neat. They're similar in some ways, but they're fundamentally very different in ways I think would make their interactions quite entertaining.