Canon Find: Flynn's Age In College

Fandom: The Librarian

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(Originally posted here on tumblr.)

I'm currently rewatching the first movie and caught a line of dialogue that never really registered before:

Mrs Carsen states that Flynn has spent sixteen years in college. At the time of the first movie, he's 31 years old (he turns 32 in the second movie, which is specifically stated to take place a year later) which means that Flynn started college when he was fifteen years old.

That actually does clear up some of my questions regarding how he managed to accumulate so many advanced degrees on top of each other when, even fast tracking them, they'd still take years to complete. Also, I had often wondered if he started college early given the fact that he was mentioned to be pretty advanced intellectually even as a young kid.

But also, I can't help thinking about how much trouble Flynn has with feeling like he fits in around others, and his issues when it comes to social situations. How much worse would that make it to also be trying to navigate college for the first time as such a young teenager? Also that probably means he was the youngest member of his class, by quite a few years, during high school too. No wonder he doesn't show much interest in making connections with people at the start of the first movie; he's probably used to being the odd one out through most of his life. Not just for his brains or his special interests, but also from never really being able to hang out with kids his own age and do normal teen things.

I'm gonna be adding this tidbit of info to Flynn's character profile on my Librarian site, but figured I should toss it into the tumblr void too, in case any fic writers find the info useful.