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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

so it writes teen characters, but then puts them in INCREDIBLY adult situations. It’s easy to either overlook or ignore this character being a high school student when they’re a badass knight, or princess in some other universe, ya know?

Exactly this. This is what bothers me in general about people clutching pearls over characters ages. In general, the only way many of these characters actually resemble teenagers or children is that they're small, or that the creator happens to be explicit about their age. But otherwise they're characters created by adults, voiced by adults, written by adults, and otherwise in general portrayed very adult.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right. Unless something about them is actually represented as a teen, it's pretty natural to just fit them into whatever demographic you're in.

This applies to the 9000 year old dragon loli, too. If they're not portrayed as an ancient elder dragon, and just portrayed as a little girl, they're just a little girl.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah. This character looks identical to every adult in the show she's in, so it's easy to forget that she's canonically 15. I can forgive someone calling her their waifu. Still gross, still weird, but not upsetting. It's very hard to forget that this character is a middle schooler, and if you call her your waifu, you are a problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Careful with that edge, old man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the comment is much better without that second paragraph. Sorry to make yours look out of context after editing it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It’s very hard to forget that this character is a middle schooler, and if you call her your waifu, you are a problem.

I have no idea who this character is from, but just from that picture I would have no idea how old they would be intending to represent. I could be from 12 to like 25. If there's more context in the show, sure. But that's kind of my point.