It wasn't until I read Miss Snark that I realised YA characters have to be YAs. Partly because people like DWJ get away with writing YA novels where you
think the characters are YA and then they turn out not to be.
Anyway, I promise this isn't going to get anywhere close to YAs (not that it's really up to me) and if it continues in the state it's in -- half-written at 5,000 words -- it's not going to get anywhere close to anyone