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[NightMareMage]

I wonder what age is considered legally adult? Emil was an adult at 17 as he was able to make the decision, but the Cleanser poster doesn’t mention anything about a 13 yo needing a parental consent. The age limit text would be the part to include it. Are they considered independent adults at 13?

The age of adulthood could very between the nations in SSSS.

In real life legal minors can sometimes make decisions with out parental consent. I don't know about elsewhere but in the US, there's a few decisions one can make at 16 (or sometimes younger) without their parents consent or at times even knowledge. And there is also the opposite, where a legal adult can not do something legally until are even older (like drinking in the US, Iceland and Japan.)

Hypothetically, Sweden could have the age of adulthoood at 15, they can join the Cleaners at their own volition at 13 but they can't go to a casino until they are 18.

[tehta]

I don't think the Cleanser poster is exhaustive.  It leaves out things like health information (e.g. immunity status) which must surely be taken into consideration.
Also, we don't actually know that Emil didn't have to get parental permission! It's not the sort of thing he would mention.

The 'when-are-you-an-adult' thing has varied wildly across cultures. I believe that in its later stages the Roman Empire had a pretty wild disparity between when a boy stopped being a child (and could fight in the army, etc) which happened at 14-18 or so (depending on the time period) and when he became a man considered capable of making his own big decisions. (Around 25, ha -- before that he would have to go through a guardian.) That's a law Onni would have appreciated, I am sure.

Women didn't have this, of course.
 

[Suominoita]

I don't think the Cleanser poster is exhaustive.  It leaves out things like health information (e.g. immunity status) which must surely be taken into consideration.
Also, we don't actually know that Emil didn't have to get parental permission! It's not the sort of thing he would mention.

The 'when-are-you-an-adult' thing has varied wildly across cultures. I believe that in its later stages the Roman Empire had a pretty wild disparity between when a boy stopped being a child (and could fight in the army, etc) which happened at 14-18 or so (depending on the time period) and when he became a man considered capable of making his own big decisions. (Around 25, ha -- before that he would have to go through a guardian.) That's a law Onni would have appreciated, I am sure.

Yes well -- considering their family was mostly gone when Onni himself was only 17, maybe not so much back then considering he would need some outsider to be his guardian-- Veeti or Taru maybe? Then again, when Tuuri decides to leave, yes - seeing as he is well over 25 by that point... as for Emil choosing Cleansers at 17- - well, if his parents were dead (as he was attending the public school now) maybe he could just choose that option all by himself. Anyway-- was his home school main subject hair-style management or something? Particularly knowing what his cousins like to do and how awesome his hair somehow stays.

[dmeck7755]

Particularly knowing what his cousins like to do and how awesome his hair somehow stays.

Emil is a "hair" mage   Never a bad hair-day.

The person who does my hair says "If you have good hair, everything feels great!"

[thorny]

considering their family was mostly gone when Onni himself was only 17, maybe not so much back then considering he would need some outsider to be his guardian

We don't know whether they would have needed an older guardian. Maybe Onni was considered to be old enough at 17.