This is from an official 'Zellig comic which takes place on Maya's 16th birthday. It features younger-looking designs for the girls, who at the time are 15, with the exception of the 16-year-old Maya. So if the 'Zellig girls are canonically 16 during the events of Deels 1-6, then why are they drawn significantly younger-looking here?
Some context: Maya's birthday is Sept. 21st, Coco's is Dec. 16th, and Mymy's is March 3rd.
The Coco design is very similar to the third panel in this series of four Massa drew depicting her growing up. Now, in the second panel, Coco is at most eight years old, as this same image is used as her photo in what's made to look like a school assignment where the girls' ages are all given as eight. If we're generous and assume this assignment was due the day before Maya's ninth birthday and that the photo was taken at the last minute, that's a seven-year jump from the second panel to the third. If the gap between 2-3 is seven years, why would the gap between 3-4 be three months?
If we're even more generous and say Coco is 13 or 14 in the third panel, that's still at least five years. If we assume five years is the interval between all the panels (with panel 1 being three years old), this would mean Coco is 18 in panel 4.
>but what if the gap is four years??? then she'd be 16!!!!
If that were the case, why would her nearly-16-year-old design resemble her "12-year-old" design more than her "16-year-old" design?
Non-wordswordswords version: we have their designs near 16 years old, they're not the "present-day" designs.