Okay I’ve been seeing a bunch of Rougamy discourse so I’m gonna explain why I ship them and why I think it’s okay to ship them!
The #1 reason I see for Rougamy hate is that Amy is 12 and rouge is 18, therefore making the ship pediphilic. When rouge debut she was 17, and was aged up so people can more easily sexualize her, a decision I still judge heavily. She is often seen to be around the same age as the rest of the cast, and is never really seen to be an adult. Amy’s age has gone through many changes, and I think most can agree that she is not protrayed to be twelve in modern media and is most likely closer to Sonic in age. I see her as around 14.
Most people I see shipping rougamy don’t have them as kids when shipping them, something I do as well. I don’t like the thought of making art and stuff with teenagers when it comes to romance, yeah it happens but it’s already over romanticized and I feel icky doing it. I ship them when they are consenting adults! The biggest age gap I see with them is four years, maybe five. But I prefer them to be closer in age, aboit three years.
People say that rougamy shippers use the age removal as an excuse to be able to ship them, much like others do with child and older characters. While I agree that this is a problem with most ships I do not think it applies to Rougamy since they are both protrayed to be teens, and yeah some Rougamy shippers ship them as kids which I don’t agree with, but sonamy shippers do the same thing often and it doesn’t nearly get as much hate. If you’re going to be insistent that Amy is twelve realize that it’s still weird if Sonic is fifteen/sixteen
I genuinely think that it’s less the age and more people disliking lesbian ships and just using the ages to justify it, much like with the Sonadow “shadow is fifty” argument.
And if SEGA brings ages back and has rouge as much older than Amy then yeah I prolly won’t ship them as much or just hc my own ages. As of rn I don’t think there is a real reason of why Rougamy is a “problematic ship”
