And if you argue Terra is the main character then she’s 18 too.
I honestly am not sure how to count Clive because he’s got two time skips with three wildly different age ranges, but the game starts with him at his second age of 28 before going back to his teenaged years in the flashback.
I think if there's a "main character" of FFVI, it's definitely Terra. She's in the title art, the entire plot kicks off with her mission to secure an Esper.
this is a defensible position but also getting into a discussion about who the main character of ffvi is on the internet is one of the classic blunders
just surprised Celes is supposed to be the same age as Terra; thought she was supposed to have *some* experience and not be another child soldier
It's 100% an ensemble cast with varying degree of focus on differing protagonists. There's not a lot of narrative built around Mog or Umaro or Gogo, obviously; meanwhile Terra, Locke, Celes, the Figaro Twins, etc all have extensive story arcs.
Celes being basically a child soldier *is* weird.
Cid says that she was transformed into a Magitek Knight "very young", and *then* she rapidly rose through the ranks to become an 18 year old *General* which is insane.
Just another way the Gestahlian Empire sucks.
