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Being sick-ish, I found myself rewatching odd bits of Firefly on Hulu, as one does. And I can't for the life of me figure out how the hell old Simon Tam is.

Every source I've ever seen pegs Simon at 27, which, okay I guess. Cept that puts him at a good eleven years older than River at sixteen, and that doesn't make any sense to me. The flashback we see of them at the beginning of "Safe" shows us a Simon and River who grew up together - River looks to be somewhere between eight and ten, Simon could maybe pass for fifteen, though the actor playing him is thirteen and, imo, looks it. At largest stretch, that puts seven years between them, which would make Simon at the time of the show 23.

Do we know where the canon of Simon's date of birth comes from?

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