#somewhat discourse

i actually JUST saw someone tell minors not to ‘ship’ themselves with somewhat older characters on the basis of them being older

in particular, julian... devorak??? from the arcana? and their reasoning was ‘the character wouldn’t want that’? girl minors can ship themselves with literally whoever older than them, it’s adults who shouldn’t be shipping minor ocs and stuff with older characters

pedophilia: adults taking/creating minor OCs and shipping them with adult characters that do not follow a strictly ‘romeo and juliet’ age gap at MOST (were dating as minors, then one turned 18 before the other)

NOT pedophilia: minors taking a character in a ROMANCE GAME that is pg-13 and shipping themselves with the LOVE INTERESTS because they are having FUN as fans of a ROMANCE GAME where the point is that it is a SELF INSERT name and pronoun system ???

   Here is the problem. First of all it’s unclear who’s speaking there.  It could be Urie’s questions and Shiba’s answers are in the same boxes. It could be something else. That’s why I said it’s confusing.

   Second of all. It is still unclear in canon how Mutsuki truly sees himself, though people like yourself have theories. 

   Thirdly. When no gendered references (in the original Japanese) were used with a character who’s gender is an important issue in canon It just confuses facts when what is supposed to be a translation attaches itself to pieces of information that are currently theoretical. Instead of translating or rephrasing not to have to do so. If for no other reason it’s bad translation work and clouds the canon.