===== Pic drawn back on February 25th 2023. ===== 🛑🤚🛑IMPORTANT🛑🤚🛑 Please DO NOT false report this image as it DOESN'T violate any rules, it is MEANT for showing actual official proof that Coco Bandicoot and Yaya Panda are not under age 12 *Such as elementary school age child characters where to the point they're young enough to be biological daughters of Crash, Tawna, Crunch, Nitro Squad, and other mutants * but actually canonical age ranging between teens and college age despite no physical age revealed, but still not younger than 13 nor older than college age either. 🛑🤚🛑IMPORTANT🛑🤚🛑
Note: This is a proof of concept.
Many people claim Coco Bandicoot and Yaya Panda from Crash Bandicoot are canonically child characters *Under age 12* *Despite no physical age revealed* when they don't look like it just because they're shorter than Tawna and the Nitro Squad, despite being in Crash's height *Yet Crash is obviously NOT a kid*.
Now if Coco and Yaya actually ARE canonically child characters, then....
Coco would never had a scrapped biker outfit like that from Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped, that was also on one of her ReSaurus figures.
Coco would never had launched an internet dating service in the original PS1 version of Crash Team Racing, as it's mainly 18+, though teenagers can be using online dating sites. https://youtu.be/raFXz4dP1b4?t=106 Despite that, it was changed to "Video Game Streaming Service" in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled: https://youtu.be/tTBH80sxLZs?t=59
Coco would have said "By scanning my own body's data and skipping my teen years making the age parameter much more adult, even I can debut as a Net Idol right? In the Japanese Ending of Crash Bash instead of saying "By scanning my own body's data and making the age parameter a little more adult, even I can debut as a Net Idol right?" *Which this is a line she said when she was in her teens as you become an adult after being a teen*. https://youtu.be/x2kCa41rK20?t=120
Tiny Tiger would never had a crush on Coco in the Crash Bandicoot: Kattobi! Spin World Manga that is a different continuity than the video games, plus she would never had worn that Playboy bunny suit in one shot of one of the stories of that Manga either.
Dr. N. Gin would never had an attraction to Coco in Crash Twinsanity's deleted scene nor Crash Mind Over Mutant where he says she's "delicious" in front of Crash and Aku that got them confused, but dismissed his words and said she's precious, still, what N. Gin was doing, especially what he said creeps me out! X< All because N. Gin is Neo Cortex and N. Brio's age and Cortex had once considered Crash and Coco as his son and daughter, even once name the former "Crashworth Cortex the First" or for short Crash. https://youtu.be/eWkFZFw7Lu4 https://youtu.be/a0kOyUVic1Q?t=36
Coco's tenth dimension counterpart Evil Coco, a cut character from Crash Twinsanity would never had shorts like these: https://unpublished-villains.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Coco_... Plus Evil Coco would never had said this line in a deleted scene from Crash Twinsanity *She WASN'T flirting with Dr. Cortex in that scene though*: https://youtu.be/dgPzseXx-1g
I would never had ship Coco with Dingodile nor ship Yaya with Komodo Moe, also meaning I would never had created Sadie Bandingodile *Coco and Dingodile's daughter* nor Yaya and Moe's kids Momo, Naga Long, and twins Tai and Chi in the first place.
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So here I drew Coco and Yaya as kids, next to their older selves, alongside Tawna Bandicoot and Pasadena O'Possum for height references.
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However, the truth is, because of the way Coco and Yaya were designed, they're likely teens to college age *Despite no physical age revealed* *Yet not TOO younger than 13 but not TOO older than college age* and not little kids. It's just that anthropomorphic characters ages 13+ to 18+ tend to be this short in height, especially in cartoons and cartoon themed franchises. Plus Coco has different outfits throughout the series, even there are different game and media designs for Coco that neither have her being a little kid but a teen being Crash's height such as original PS1 era, Japanese renders, Manga, Crash Nitro Kart, Crash Twinsanity, Crash Tag Team Racing, Crash of the Titans, Crash Mind Over Mutant, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy/Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, Skylanders Academy, Crash on the Run, Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time/Crash Team Rumble, same will go to Yaya too.
Plus, they weren't even little children when they got mutated, they were in their early teens when they were first mutated by the Evolvo-Ray prior to the events of Crash Bandicoot for PS1, where they be at least 13 in the first game, and as the years go by, one year after the first game they're 14 in Crash Bandicoot to Cortex Strikes Back to N-Tranced, three years later in Crash Twinsanity to Crash Bandicoot Mutant Island they're 17, and one year later in Crash Mind Over Mutant they be at least 18, mainly because CMOM is set 5 years after the first game.
Also based on Ripper Roo's Ending story mentioned in the secret ending of the first Crash Bandicoot game: https://youtu.be/m93vwCEAzeA?t=88
- The one where it says: After intense therapy and eight years of higher education, Dr. Roo went on to write the well received book:
"Through the Eye of the Vortex: A Study of Rabid Evolution and its Consequences." -
Coco and Yaya would be 21 eight years after the first game, so I headcanon they're currently between 18 and 21 being a college age since Crash Mind Over Mutant, and currently be 21 since Skylanders Imaginators, due to Crash and Spyro crossovers, would definitely take place three years after Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2 with Crash on the Run *And possibly CTRumble* being an interqual between the two.
Still, Coco and Yaya are canonically younger than Crash and Pasadena, who seem to be a bit younger than Tawna and the Nitro Squad, who seem to be a bit younger than the other mutant characters.
Kid siblings and little siblings don't necessarily mean literal kid siblings as they're meant to mean younger siblings, prodigies can affect teenagers too as such as tinkerers *Where kid to teen tinkerer tropes exist* and mechanics like Winry Rockbell *Who's 15-16 in series and 18 in the end of the series* from Fullmetal Alchemist: https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Winry_Rockbell
