you know the more i do things with immortals the more i think their grasp on time would be loose

like me, when i was younger: this character is 1235 years old, they know this

me, now: this character is like 1200 maybe? older than 1000. who keeps track at that point.

and like it's a semi common thing in stories that involve both immortals and also time travel to have like

immortal show up at the very moment time traveler is gonna arrive at this specific spot, 1000 years later

and i'm here like

man people can't even make it to the dentist they planned a week ago on time

what kind of obsessive attention to detail are you gonna need to pull that off when the calendar systems being used aren't even the same anymore

i know it's used to neatly wrap things up and all but i think it's potentially better and funnier if the time traveler shows up and the immortal isn't there and there is Concern about it or whatever and it turns out that no, they'd just calculated out a date 3 months later or something

if it's even that close

Yeah, when I have Alastor give his age, he barely remembers to the decade. Usually just gives to the century.

yeah if you have a character who measures centuries like years then like

why would they know down to the year

how many people do you know who even know off the top of their head how many months old they are, let alone days

Years are miniscule.

or even just the immortal fullscale forgot the meeting or got really distracted with something they'd been working on for the past decade that was finally happening and they get found eventually like "oh"

"hey"

"........... WAIT"