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Sorry for anon I just feel like we're playing jenga with a hornet's nest with this topic but my personal opinion on some of the aged up stuff is when the character's age is major to how they're acting, ie. Immature characters, etc. So if it were someone like the twins from XIV, it freaks me out because a lot of their character and development IS around the fact that they are young and can still be pretty naive about things. It's really important to them specifically and, while I'm positive quite a few of those traits CAN be divorced from the childish nature of them and still carried into adulthood (Alisaie's snark, Alphi's diplomatic nature), it just really freaks me out that whoever is doing the aged up shit still, at some point or another, was like "I like these characters a little too much even though they're kids" and it rubs me all the wrong ways. Granted, I'm also a person that gets really disgusted by anime where every character IS 18+ but still look like. middle schoolers. So idk

oh absolutely for the twins, it’s weird territory in video games with self-insert/avatar charas because…our relationship to the twins is that of knowing them as kids as an adult (if you and your wol are grown lol) & yep that sort of falls into the category of oh damn you got weird about these adolescent characters to me. People arguing that “they’re 18 now” are like…bro you dont think that actually works out like that for you do you.

I think age ups are just one of those things where it can veer from harmless creative idea to genuinely creepy just depending on how you go about it and who is involved in it. You and I are the same in thinking that behavior and dynamics in combination with looks and intent are the most important thing, hence why the 90000 year old dragon in a kid’s body drawing every creep from 749383 leagues around horseshit is horseshit.

I can see the “why were you horny about these chars anyway 💀” angle but I honestly feel like a lot of the less weird/obsessive age-ups are people just doing a throwback to their childhood crushes/faves. i.e. red/blue pkmn is an official one and I don’t think people are weird at all being like hey that dude I loved as a kid grew up with me and he’s handsome now or w/e. I do think it’s weird for grown people to get into kids media specifically to find jerkoff material though lol

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