I’m always kinda confused when people are saying the don’t like a ship because of the age gap (I mean it’s fine to not like ships as long as you don’t tear down the shippers that do like it) but the reason I’m confused is because of two main reasons:
1. The “age gap” is something like 2 and a half years. The “age gap” really ain’t much of a gap. And / or the characters are both full grown adults fully mentally developed and at that point a few years of difference in age doesn’t matter much. (
2. And because the younger one is usually the more dangerous and manipulative and problematic one who is way more likely of using their partner for their own gain and sometimes has actually used them or other people like that like that in cannon (wether they were together or not). And yet people say they don’t want the (mostly very slightly) older character to be a pedo. Like. What. I’m so confused. First of all a lot of things about those ships are sappy and fluffy and innocent. And also. No honey. If anything kind of abuse were to be going on. The older character would be the one getting used and abused in so many different ways. The older character is the one suffering in that relationship not the slightly younger one.
(Btw if you couldnt tell im proship in every sense of the word so im not saying the younger character using and abusing the older character is a bad thing i in fact enjoy ships like this. Just trying to point out something I noticed about antis in both the PJO and Voltron fandoms over the years just trying to explain my confusion)
And even for the ship that do have an actual concerning age gap. It’s fiction. It’s not real. And it’s obvious that relations like that shouldn’t happen in real life. And if that ain’t obvious to you you’re way too young and way too naive to be on the internet if you associate every single piece of fictional not real media you see with yourself and your own life. That’s dangerous for you. That’s also dangerous for the people around you. Don’t do that. )
