Today I witnessed something disgusting, and unsurprising. I firmly believe if you ship Leon and Sherry, you're a creep, and possibly a pedo, and today I got confirmation of it. I saw a very cute JakexSherry fanart and in the comments, someone had "edited/AI edited" the picture to have it be RESIDENT EVIL 2 Sherry and Leon, so her child self and Leon's young self.
This guy's entire page ( linked at least for now ) is dedicated to promote CSAM, because that's the only way you could call what he posts.
Leon and Sherry's age gap is not the problem, the problem, is that Leon met Sherry as a child (in both RE2 OG, and RE2R where we see Sherry asking for Leon and Claire to be her legal guardians), interacted with her during her childhood and later on RE6, treated her as if she was still a child (by telling her she should be more careful, and by acting like a worried father hoping that Jake was a good guy)
It's not some "fandom thing" that they have a father/daughter dynamic, and RE2R did a piss poor job at showing Leon's contribution to Sherry being saved but he offers her his hand if I recall properly, so basically he adopted her from that moment on.
Also in RE6 Leon says "I heard you became an agent", he's been keeping tabs on her whether able to interact or not. Claire is implied to have been more present.
So there is no way under the sun, that you could ship that without being a pedo.
And don't get me started with people trying to say it's a Japan thing and to Japanese people it's not weird, because there is a whole entire issue in Japan when it comes to lolicon, pedos, and perverts taking upskirt pictures of teenage girls. Just because it's "culturally accepted" it does not stop being a bad thing, that is a logical fallacy.
