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Most of their childhood, however, they spend being around the bean to 1,5m. As larvae, they are often carried around by their parents in the mouth, shaded from the sun, and kept warm. After their final larva molt, they emerge covered in fuzz. In most cases, this fluff is pure white and protects a body with very little pigmentation. These fairies get to learn very slowly, but they grow fast under the parent's restles care.

A child is one who can speak for itself, even if in simple terms. They can walk, run, and eat food on their own. They remain fluffy with light eyes that make their pupils a lot more visible. Kids also have a lot of orange in their skin, even in their fluff at times. This gradually disappears, starting age 14 to 16, but some adults keep hints of it (there are land uniima groups that have regular occurrence of orange in adults).

Lands don't have development as consistent as mammals. In some cases, a child starts losing their white coat and characteristic colors in their 13th year, while others may take another 4 to begin. Though this gap is even bigger in aging into adulthood.

The norm is to lose all the child traits and gain a deeper, more flexible voice in their early 20s. However, there are rare cases where an adult doesn't biologically emerge until closer to or even in their 30s. Sometimes, this is interpreted as an early sign that one will be an architect later in life - meaning they cross the usual life expectancy point and keep growing, rarely living as long as 200 years. Other times, this is misreading someone's development, as they have a harder time adjusting to voice or have a developmental problem. Resulting in them being seen as a "mumbling" pseudoadult. Most often, however, the slowed-down changes are from stress, both psychological and physiological. While environmental changes can sometimes speed up the aging process.

When it comes to the ages of maturity/majority, this depends a lot on a given culture. In some places, the younger adults and pre-adults are allowed to have relationships, but they will not be seen as legitimate compared to those of older adults. Age and size are attractive to lands. It shows resistance to the effects of aging and sickness (which is always scary in a world with smaller, closed communities, more likely to develop unique branches of illness). In some places, the hand of a parent is over their child even up to their 40s, which one can't even be confident to reach with the land unii medicine and technologies.

Other places don't have an age of majority and are built around ability. One only pays their tax once they manage to. But only then do they get to participate in different parts of society.

And well, anything in between.