How Old Is Four From Divergent At The Start Of Divergent?

From memory, Tobias 'Four' Eaton is 18 when the Divergent series begins. Does the book ever reveal his exact birth date or age difference from Tris?
2025-08-30 06:41:51
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Jaime Freeman
Jaime Freeman
It’s interesting to note the age of the young protagonists in faction-based conflicts, including Four/Tobias who is 16 in the start of Divergent as his Choosing Ceremony takes place the year he turns 17. I just started reading Marked By The Four by Kallia Reyes and the young protagonist is bound by a system of four competing powers but the cost of choosing a side is rendered through a deeply personal and physical bond that slowly erodes their independence. It’s an intense and intimate read from the very first chapter.
2026-08-05
Yara
Yara
Four (whose “real” name is Tobias Eaton) is 16 at the beginning of Divergent. So, he reads like someone older, and is generally portrayed as being more mature than his years. (Much of the movie going public think of him in his late teens/early twenties, but in the novels he is 16 and transfers to Dauntless at that time because that is when the Faction Choosing happens).

One tiny life-detail for you: when I read their first scene together on a rainy afternoon while commuting, I thought he was older than 16 until a friend pointed out the fact. This scene was read by me on a rainy afternoon while commuting. The scene and his backstory create the impression of an older person. But no, he is 16 in the books and this difference in age creates a lot of interesting tensions and aspects in his relationship with Tris.
2025-09-03
Uma
Uma
Just had the age of Tobias (better known to Divergent fans as ‘Four’) established in the Q&A as 16 at the start of the Divergent story. This makes sense given the story is set in a world where everything about the society revolves around the factions that people can choose to join at the age of 16. Given the back story he must have transferred to Dauntless at about this time (presumably after parental forces trying to pressure him into Abnegation gave up) it is very plausible that Tris would be about the same age as Tobias. One notes of course that he seems rather older than this (especially in demeanor).

And yes, when watching the movie adaptation it can seem like Theo James is much older than Tobias, because he is indeed in his late 20s when shooting Divergent. However, in the book we get many clues about the age of the initiates, we hear the characters talking about the Choosing Ceremony when they were 16 and we even read that Tobias is the same age as Tris, which makes him 16 in the beginning of the story. Four acts much older than he is, but it’s obvious that he is 16 in the beginning of the story.

So yes, Four is 16 at the beginning of Divergent. I can go looking for the appropriate quotes from the book if you want, I have all of these dog-eared and have been pretending to study them over coffee for years.
2025-09-03
Thomas
Thomas
So I'm trying to explain the Divergent trilogy to my friends. The part that they keep getting wrong about the book Divergent and its characters is their age. Specifically, Tobias/ Four is 16 in the novel. He's 16 when Tris chooses her faction, just like her.

Lots of people assume that Four is older than he actually is (he's 16 in the novel 'Divergent' for example) due to the fact that Theo James looks quite a bit older than this in real life. In fact, I used to get into a big argument with my book club about this point. But after much reflection I finally worked out how it was possible for Four to be 16 in the novel. His history of leaving his family at the age of 16 (leaving his home in Abnegation to go to Dauntless around the time of the Choosing) makes sense for a 16 year old, and he behaves like a 16 year old too (with all the caution and trauma that this age brings). This is actually one of the reasons that I liked Four so much in the novel.

If you’re reading the book again, it’s worth re-reading the scenes where the Choosing Ceremony and the training for the different ranks take place as these are the only subtle references to Tris’ and Tobias’ ages. This is also something worth mentioning to people who have only seen the movies as the casting in the books is quite different and this always sparks up a great debate with my friends and I about which version is better.
2025-09-04
Edward Keipert
Edward Keipert
Most fanfiction commits this one error: Four is written up as an early twenties character to avoid the ‘teen instructor’ problem, but aging Four up substantially changes the character. The youth of Part Four is part of his tragedy: a child soldier promoted to the role of drill sergeant for Tris. Four is trying to protect Tris from the worst of Dauntless while being a product of it himself—and struggling to figure out how to do that as he grows up.

By keeping Four at the canon age of 18, you can better preserve the tragic irony that he is trying his best to protect Tris from the worst of Dauntless while being a product of it himself. He is still learning how to be this Drill Sergeant/Leader/Protector figure and as such has a very different and more painful approach to things than an older character would.
2026-08-05
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