I’ve long since given up trying to avoid characters that are “canonically underage”.
There is no difference.
Japanese media has a wierd insistence on characters being young, even when the story is likely to, or meant to, appeal to a wide range of ages.
No matter how characters are depicted or written, they are always in their damn teens. And even when they aren’t, and are explicitly mature, there is little to no effective difference in the actual depiction.
I’m not attracted to actual kids, and I’m never going to engage in any kind of sexual behaviour with anyone without consent.
So who cares if I post art featuring characters I like? The ages of characters are almost never mentioned in the actual shows. If the characters look adult enough, and act adult enough… I’m not gonna suddenly become disgusted with myself because some writer somewhere arbitrarily picked a number below 18.
If you find a picture of a real adult person attractive, but I then tell you they play a 17-year-old in a movie… Do you suddenly just stop finding them attractive? Are they not, in just the same way, “effectively” a child?
Or would you just tell me to fuck off, because it’s not like you were looking at them and feeling what you felt because of, or even despite, that.
What 17-year-old? There is no 17-year-old. It’s a fictional person. Made up. Invented. Arbitrary. Not real.
An actor can pretend to be any age, but a fictional figment of my imagination can be any age. You tell me she’s “canonically” a certain age, and I tell you I don’t care. That’s someone else’s imagination, not mine.
With a real person their age would have legal and mental implications, because you know, they’re real.
But with a fictional one, a character is literally whatever you think they are. It’s not like the canonical age of a charachter is somehow static and universal, so that they are their “official” age in all depictions and thoughts.
I’m not looking at her and imagining a child. End of story.
Adults can pass for underage people, and underage people can pass for adults.
Finding people in that range of appearances attractive, is normal.
Not respecting consent and the mental maturity required to be capable of it, is wrong.
No normal person is going to sleep with someone while they’re passed out, no matter how legal they are. For the same reason, no normal person is going to sleep with someone incapable of consenting due to the mental immaturity of their brain, no matter how grown up their body appears.
Their exact age, isn’t the issue. That’s the line drawn by the law. The moral one is more nuanced. As an example, I stopped pursuing someone when I was 19, because even though they were 18, mentally they seemed too young, and I wasn’t ok with that.
Considering that is in no way a concern with fictional people, depicted in a style that omits age-indicating details, I seriously struggle to understand what it is you take issue with.
I’ve long since given up trying to avoid characters that are “canonically underage”.
There is no difference.
Japanese media has a wierd insistence on characters being young, even when the story is likely to, or meant to, appeal to a wide range of ages.
No matter how characters are depicted or written, they are always in their damn teens. And even when they aren’t, and are explicitly mature, there is little to no effective difference in the actual depiction.
I’m not attracted to actual kids, and I’m never going to engage in any kind of sexual behaviour with anyone without consent.
So who cares if I post art featuring characters I like? The ages of characters are almost never mentioned in the actual shows. If the characters look adult enough, and act adult enough… I’m not gonna suddenly become disgusted with myself because some writer somewhere arbitrarily picked a number below 18.
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You’re going to have to elaborate. Why?
If you find a picture of a real adult person attractive, but I then tell you they play a 17-year-old in a movie… Do you suddenly just stop finding them attractive? Are they not, in just the same way, “effectively” a child?
Or would you just tell me to fuck off, because it’s not like you were looking at them and feeling what you felt because of, or even despite, that.
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What 17-year-old? There is no 17-year-old. It’s a fictional person. Made up. Invented. Arbitrary. Not real.
An actor can pretend to be any age, but a fictional figment of my imagination can be any age. You tell me she’s “canonically” a certain age, and I tell you I don’t care. That’s someone else’s imagination, not mine.
With a real person their age would have legal and mental implications, because you know, they’re real.
But with a fictional one, a character is literally whatever you think they are. It’s not like the canonical age of a charachter is somehow static and universal, so that they are their “official” age in all depictions and thoughts.
I’m not looking at her and imagining a child. End of story.
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Dude.
Which part of “I’m not thinking of a child” do you not get?
You’re the only one picturing a kid here.
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Who decided this depiction features a 17-year-old?
Are these 17 to 20-year-olds?
Does the existence of these aged down versions of the adult charachters make sexy art of 19-year-old Satsuki “wrong”?
Adults can pass for underage people, and underage people can pass for adults.
Finding people in that range of appearances attractive, is normal.
Not respecting consent and the mental maturity required to be capable of it, is wrong.
No normal person is going to sleep with someone while they’re passed out, no matter how legal they are. For the same reason, no normal person is going to sleep with someone incapable of consenting due to the mental immaturity of their brain, no matter how grown up their body appears.
Their exact age, isn’t the issue. That’s the line drawn by the law. The moral one is more nuanced. As an example, I stopped pursuing someone when I was 19, because even though they were 18, mentally they seemed too young, and I wasn’t ok with that.
Considering that is in no way a concern with fictional people, depicted in a style that omits age-indicating details, I seriously struggle to understand what it is you take issue with.