yuiyamana:

stansxreader: stan and ford are between the ages of 58 and 61 and all i really want for christmas is a confirmation on what their actual canon ages are Stan said he was ‘pushing 70’ that might be the best we’re gonna get.

i’m on mobile so i cant supplement my text with proof but in ATOTS there is a portrait of former president richard nixon hanging in the principal’s office, putting the time range for the twins’ senior (we’ll assume senior) year between 1969-1974. since the Mystery Shack as a tourist attraction is 30 years old, the grand opening was some time in 1982. when stan first arrives to his brother’s house, he says that it has been “over ten years” since he’s last seen his brother, cutting that time range down to 1969-1972. another assumption, but we’re assuming they were 18 when Stan was kicked out, so 1969-18=1951= 61 in 2012 and 1972-18=1954= 58 in 2012.

if we were to disregard the Nixon portrait, when Stan refers to the flashback to the day he and his brother found the beaten up ship for their pet project, they look around Dipper and Mabel’s age, which has been 12 for a majority of the series. (also, i think the creators like the flashback age of 12 for their characters, since Soos was 12 in BG, ya feel?). Stan said the year was “1960-something” meaning the widest their age range could potentially be is (1960-12=1948= 64 in 2012 and 1969-12=1957= 55 in 2012) between 64 and 55, but i doubt they were born anytime after 1954 (58 present day).

another piece of proof is when Stan is playing with the paddleball and watching TV and he says “man, that Jackie-O, what a fox.” he'a referring to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who was given the nickname “Jackie O” after her remarriage in 1968 to Aristotle Onassis. it doesn’t give a definite year range of reference, but it does mean that they weren’t born any time before 1950.

TLDR: the oldest Stan and Ford could be is 64, but it’s more likely that their age is between 58 and 61

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