every time you post an update of Keep Up I swear jack and reader consume my brain for like days after š
anyways sorry if youāve addressed this or if itās been asked already and I just missed it! but what age did you have in mind when you wrote reader and her backstory, especially in the flashbacks I always find myself wondering how old she was then and how many years they served together
Ahhh ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø First of all, thank you. Knowing these two stay in your head for days after an update honestly makes me so happy.
And yes, I actually left the readerās age ambiguous on purpose because I wanted everyone to be able to imagine her a little differently. But since you asked, hereās what I had in mind while writing:
Reader was 27ā28 during the army flashbacks, and sheās 35 in the present timeline.
Jack is 43 in the present, so thereās about an 8-year age gap between them.
Diaz: around 30ā31 when he died (a few years older than her in the war, fitting the āannoying big brotherā dynamic rather than being literally old enough to be one).
As for how long they served together, they knew each other for around a year before everything happened. Long enough to become each otherās safe place, but also short enough that it still feels cruel how much the war took from them.
Iām actually really happy you asked this because I never realized Iād never shared it before. š¤
