So, I finally dug up my English version of the Megaman Battle Network Official Complete Works, because I had really wanted to confirm what snowmobile-russian had mentioned about Laika’s questionable age.
Interestingly enough, the English version doesn’t mention his age at all. There’s still the comment that they wanted to make sure he “looks like he is from Sharo” (aka Russian), but the only other comment made about him is that they had rejected one of the early designs because he had “too much forehead showing”. So it looks like we don’t have any confirmation on that…
On a different, somewhat humorous, note, there is a comment next to the design sketches of Baryl that states: “He may look a bit wild, but he has gentle, passionate eyes.”
