>>713379485Kiddy Kong is a baby now in the present, yeah. Tiny grew up with a random growth spurt because they felt like redesigning her. Again, there's no consistent realistic subtle aging here. A character is as they are unless they're specifically being made into a baby or old form for a story.
The Yoshi's Island games are the start and show how Mario, Luigi, DK, etc were all babies at the same time.
DK Bananza happened after that and DK, Dixie, Diddy, Cranky, now adults, meet kid Pauline.
Then a while later at the start of the "present era", so to speak, once she's grown up, DK Arcade happens, where now both Pauline and Mario are adults too.
Then the further Mario and the further DKC games happen in the present.
And any mention of Cranky fighting a plumber or a guy in overalls is relegated to a 4th wall meta joke but not an actual thing in canon.
Simple and done. Even if you want to be autistic about it and get specific durations etc, this easily fits with imagining DK Bananza being like, a decade at most before the present time. Just imagine Diddy and Dixie in this game are like 16 too and now are in their late 20s or something