With Jaune and Cinder being soul mates, how do you like the idea that Jaunes' ability to attract older women is to compensate for the fact he was born later and is younger than her?
I think people get caught up in the 'older women' thing and don't focus on the fact they're just trying to set him up as a pretty boy (the most correct characterisation for him) and by extension Prince Charming. He's also good with children. That's the whole idea there, it's not anything to do with... sexy age gaps.
So the idea there (to my eyes) is that he's handsome and good with children... wow okay... so you're telling me the mean bad lady who never had a family could... oh I see! lol
For the record, I don't think Cinder's that much older. I'm not sure of her precise age, but I've seen people put her in her thirties? No way, lol. To my eyes, she's play-pretending an older woman (like a child's idea of a woman), I've said this for ages and I’m sorry to repeat myself, there's all the Jungian persona stuff, when she's actually much younger. This fits her opposite Ruby, who's admitted into Beacon very young, but is much 'wiser' (though still has growing to do - she's still a symbolic child for a while).
It's very fitting to me that Cinder is fifteen in the flashback when she kills her slavemaster, the sisters and Rhodes, because that's the same age as Ruby when her story 'started'. So, they're on even ground, ultimately. The symbolic/structural stuff is always more meaningful to me, but not everybody.
So, I think Cinder is maybe... twenty-three? as-is in canon now, maybe twenty-four. I couldn't see older than twenty-four. So Jaune is like, nineteen or twenty? It's not a major difference, nobody would bat an eyelid if it were the other way around.
I also think there's something sort of sad, depending how far you run with the soulmates thing, that she had to wait for him.
