Wait... if Lemeza is 36 years old, and Lemisa is 21 years old...

[Professor Q]

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How early do these 8th children get married??

[Triggerfisk]

I'm pretty sure I recall a tablet saying The age of consent is 13 in Japan

[RabidChoco]

@Triggerfisk: They're American, though.

We honestly don't know that much about Lumisa, Lemeza, or Shawn.
I've seen some speculation that Lumisa was an illegitimate child, and other that theorizes that she's actually Shawn's.

All said, is it really all that important?

[Triggerfisk]

They are?! I somehow missed that part of the lore. Anyway, the ingame glossary description of Lumisa mentions exactly that, that her age doesn't add up with Lemeza's, and that some speculate she might be Shawn's child.

[RabidChoco]

Yeah, the manual for both games have them down as Japanese-American.

[Citronvand]

I was kind of hoping Lumisa was made from the Secret of Life from LM1, kind of like a reincarnated Mother or something similar.

[Halfshell]

Originally posted by Citronvand:

I was kind of hoping Lumisa was made from the Secret of Life from LM1, kind of like a reincarnated Mother or something similar.

Does time not match up if thats the case? It surely has not been 20 years between games.. unless.. she had accelerated aging from another artifact? Theres also no way Lemeza was 15 in LM1. Its highly likely Lemisa was a teenager during the events of LM1.

[☃Residual Toast☃]

to quote the glossary Her age doesn't seem to match up with her father's, like, at all... but let's leave that up to the complicated circumstances of the Kosugi family

[Wild Matsu]

I was really hoping LM2 would shine some light onto the mystery of who Lumisa is. I thought there was a reason they switched out the protagonist, and a reason why her age didn't make sense.

I think the theory that she was made using the Secret Treasure of Life after La-Mulana 1 was kicked around a lot by fans. It seemed so obvious that we were not really waiting for LM2 to confirm that... we were waiting for LM2 to shed further light on why she was made and what significance that would have for the game's story.

As for her age being wrong, it would have easily been explained away by 21 being her physical/apparent age, not her true age. She could have been created as an adult. Simple as that.

This contradicts Lumisa rescuing Lemeza from the death trap in the Chamber of Birth in the April Fool's video, as that would have been before her creation, but that didn't seem like a big hurdle at all; the April Fool's video can be safely assumed to be not canon.

But alas, LM2 doesn't tell us anything about Lumia. I guess, ultimately, La-Mulana is not about the Kosugis. It's about the ruins. We merely experience them through the Kosugis.

[Sabin Stargem]

Considering how wonky the ruins are, I wouldn't rule out time-bending shenanigans.