Tell me a hot take about twst, I go first/j
No but really, hot take here
The infantilization of Ortho in the fandom, despite having said MULTIPLE times that his AI evolves and that he himself is 16 years old, must be the worst thing about the fandom for me.
Like, the lack of text interpretation sucks, but sometimes it can be genuinely funny. The sexualization of the characters doesn't affect me because I'm chronically online and of course everyone is going to be sexualized (more Leona and Jamil, but this talk is for other days). Incest exists in any fandom, it's easy to ignore. But the objectification of Ortho? The way everyone treats him like an accessory to Idia? There's no way to avoid that in a easy way.
Like, when they were updating the age of the gang in book 7, they didn't talk about Ortho at all. And I think that's so lame, I think it's so disrespectful to his entire narrative and book 6/7 and so pseudo-infantilization. He's not a 9-year-old kid, people, he has the right to fall in love, to have a social life, to be a fucking jerk and just kind of live. Am I a fan of his ships? No, but I'm not even a fan of Epel's ships and I see Epel with the soul of a 58-year-old Viking with a thirst for blood and chaos.
Just, let's treat him like the other first-year students.





















