Was this learned in the data logs or on a wiki.....DjinnFor said:Most of the "plot holes" aren't really plot holes and make sense if you play Final Fantasy XIII-2, which was all about paradoxes introduced by the concept of time travel. Some time traveler traveled back to the ending of Final Fantasy 13 and messed it up, so the characters of 13-2 went to stop him.
In FF13-2 Hope was older, because the main characters traveled to a time set 10 yrs after the events of FF13 and then met up with him. When they solved the problem that had motivated them to time travel all over the place, and the plot picked back up after the events of FF13 10 years earlier, Hope was still a kid. Then, since the lack-of-aging process kicked in, he remained a boy for the next ~500 years.
Because neither make this kinda plot something I would not stomach in a GOOD game.