You know what, I wanted to add something to my previous answer. The thing that bugs me the most about the absolute hypocrisy of A*eon shippers shitting on everything else, but especially on Kennecroft, is precisely the moral policing and trying to have it both ways, where what they find problematic is somehow threatening to shatter the very fabric of reality, but their actually problematic ship is 100% fictional and great.
They’ll nitpick anything that’s not A*eon, trying to find something real world problematic about it, and drag in anything that has no connection to the argument they’re trying to prove. This is where the whole “The age gap!!! You must be supporting Epstein!!!” argument comes in which sounds absolutely insane to any person with a functional frontal lobe. Because Grace is not a minor, she’s far from being a minor, so whether they like it or not their argument falls flat. Believe it or not, grown people can be manipulated into things, too, and NOT necessarily by the older person in the dynamic.
Yet in the same breath they would argue that A*eon is fictional, therefore non-consent and trying to manipulate people is okay. Which, again, is absolutely fine when it’s fiction, but you can’t argue one is bad because it would be bad in real life (which in case of Kennecroft isn’t even true, because, AGAIN, GRACE IS AN ADULT WOMAN), and the other is fantastic even though it’s miles worse irl tbh.
And I’m saying that as someone who has, in fact, been molested as a pre-teen by a distant relative, albeit underage as well, and who was manipulated by a close friend I thought I could trust into sexual acts I wasn’t comfortable with as an adult. Said ‘friend’ was actually like five years younger than me btw. :D Which brings me back to abusers and manipulators in real life not always being older.
So excuse me if the next time someone comes at me with this bullshit of how you can’t ship one because it’s baaaaad through the real life lens and sets some kind of harmful precedent, and the other is great and uwu, I’ll tell them to go fuck themselves.
Kennecroft is two consenting adults and their relationship is built on mutual trust. Friendship, romantic, whatever, Leon is definitely not the kind of man who would use or abuse her, so fuck off with the problematic angle.
A*eon is manipulative bullshit based solely on how attractive they both are. She tries to manipulate Leon each time they meet & kisses him without his consent.
You can’t seriously bloody argue one is problematic because real life problematic!!! And the other is sunshine and rainbows. A*eon would literally put Leon in the position of being manipulated into things he wouldn’t be comfortable with, not necessarily intimate, but like… In general, because they would never, ever be on equal footing, and A*da would always, always try to fuck with him, even if just for shits and giggles.
You either interpret both as fiction and fuck off without preaching to anyone from your moral high horse, or you interpret both as problematic because ‘real life consequences™’, but either way, one is in fact vastly less problematic than the other, and it’s not the one you try to pretend it is.
Again, if you like problematic in fiction, that’s great for you, and unless you harass other people, I’ve got no problems. But you cannot have it both ways.
