How do immortals age? Superman grew from a baby to an adult and he just...stopped. Does he still age...

How do immortals age? Superman grew from a baby to an adult and he just...stopped. Does he still age, or is it just so incredibly slow that it appears to be completely still?

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I would hope that by the time the earth is consumed by the sun expanding into a red giant, technology would have advanced a bit more to allow superman to have more than a prosthetic arm thats just held on with a strap

I might be wrong but my understanding is that growth and aging are two different mechanisms.
Growth is development up to maturity (adulthood), then everything else is gradual cellular decay.

I think Morrison said Superman doesn’t go through cellular decay when under a yellow sun.

Is this painted in actual watercolor or is it digital?

maybe it's just really slow

Aging is just your body slowly dying. Superman lives a long time, so it takes a long ass time for him to age.

They age to the point where their body is in peak physical condition, then they don’t age past their prime.

Same way elves grow up to become adults: they age to a certain point and then simply stop. Depending on the setting this could be a conscious decision or not

Growing to maturity and growing "old" are actually different things.
Growing to maturity is your body steadily building onto itself until it grows to "completion" and the "schematics" are properly developed.

Growing old? That comes much later when your cells can't properly duplicate themselves anymore. These two things aren't quite linked even though one comes after the other and both signify age.

Superman just ages very much slower.

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That's KC-Superman. Prime-Superman is functionally immortal.

>trying to write a story that involves age old immortals
>everything goes smoothly - until
>I started writing about a relatively younger generation of immortals, though still ages old to us
>and I realized that while the men, to my understanding, should still produce seed just fine the women should have all hit menopause millenia ago
Fuck my autism. Guess I should ignore this and never touch on it or bullshit some regenerative ability into this even though no such thing was planned. But now this just keeps bothering me.

This sucks.

have you ever considered containing your autism? not absolutely every single minuscule detail in a story must be explained

whats this from?

Fuck you, that guy's autism is what produces the best works of fiction. He gives enough of a shit about his setting and its internal consistency that he auts the duck out of it until he's personally satisfied with it.

I remember one version of Superman that's age slower and slower as he got older, and hung out with Batman who had kept using the Lazarus Pit until he didn't need it anymore.

>not absolutely every single minuscule detail in a story must be explained
I already said that I might have to resort to ignoring it and just never point to it and just hope no one thinks to it.
Doesn't mean it won't bother me to no end. If I think of something that'll sort it all out I'll take it in a heartbeat. If anything just to soothe my autism.

He's like a dog

>and I realized that while the men, to my understanding, should still produce seed just fine the women should have all hit menopause millennia ago

that's an interesting concept though but if they are immortal, they should have developed test tube babies a long time ago, otherwise they would have died.

Pretty sure a lot of that is also Kryptonian genetic engineering. By Jor El's time all Kryptonians were engineered to be perfect specimens and tailor made to their caste in society. Had been for a few hundred thousand years. I imagine they edited things to be in their prime for a lot longer than normal.

I wouldn't be surprised. Kryptonian tech is usually completely broken.

Alternatively you could explore the moral implications, and how their society sees it, that what amount to little more than infants to them are the only fertile beings in their society. Does this mean only the most degenerate scum breed naturally and the 'mother' is treated as an abused child despite by our understanding being an adult? Or do they just have a different concept of age and consent to mortals?

You don't need to be constrained by your autism. Fucking let it ride.

You know those memes about actors that just stop aging? It's like that but times infinity.