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  I'm not the OP but I don't agree with this. Having authority over a universe doesn't make completely arbitrary nonsensical assertions acceptable on the base premise that you have authority. 
  If the creator of Sonic came out tomorrow and went "umm actually Sonic is a wolf" you would not go "oh well it's from an official source so that is a meaningful sense of the characters species" would you?
  When you create a universe that in any way attempts to be believable by establishing rules and expectations you kind of become beholden to your past choices moving forward because you've already asked your consumers to accept those choices as truth. 
  That's the entire reason the word retcon exists. Because it's not acceptable to just randomly assert contradictory or nonsensical things about an existing universe. Even if you own it.
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  I mean, Ash Ketchum has bed the same age over a huge period of time. Same with the Simpsons characters. Characters in media don’t always age, even if they have a canonical timeline of events. It’s not realistic, but neither is a talking flying fox.
  Tails is whatever arbitrary age Sega says he is. If they say he’s 8 tomorrow he’s 8. >
  
  This is why I specified that he is not 8 years old in any meaningful sense. If Sega says that he is 8, but this does not allow us to make any sort of inferences about his behavior, how others treat him, or how long he has been alive and doing things, then what meaning can we derive from it? >
  
  Official canon age is a meaningful sense of age.