[ SECRET POST #3053 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3053 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Kid (Charlie Chaplin)/Starsky & Hutch ("Gillian")]


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03.
[Network]


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04.
[Sci-Fi/Fantasy]


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05.
[In Plain Sight]


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06.
[Captain America: Civil War]


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07.
[Samurai Warriors]


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08. https://i.imgur.com/Tr3NZUD.jpg
[NSFW image (shirtless 16 year old? girl), discussion of underage sexuality]


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09.
[Joss Whedon]
















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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/2qwzAFA.jpg
[Samurai Warriors]

Transcript by OP

[fscom]

IMAGE: A picture of two characters, Hanbei and Kanbei, from Samurai Warriors on a pleasant gradient background.
TEXT:
Somehow, inspite of having never touched the game, I ended up shipping them.
WTF self! Hanbei looks 12 and Kanbei looks 46.

[blitzwing]

I have also never touched this game, but now I'm curious about this pairing. Is it at all popular?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know! There's some fic and art for them for certain, and they have a character song together (which is what dragged me into it). Having not touched the game, I haven't really touched fandom much either.

not op

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't speak for the popularity relative to other pairings in the fandom, since I mostly stay in the corners that I'm specifically interested in, but: Hanbei has been consistently landing in the top ten for character popularity polls since he was introduced (among ~50 characters), and while Kanbei doesn't seem to have as much of a fandom on his own, he is all over the Hanbei fanworks, so the pairing is liked well enough.

[herpymcderp]

In no universe does anyone in that pic look either 12 or 46.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I thought maybe 19 and mid-50s. But it's impossible to tell age from the character design of some games.

[herpymcderp]

If it's a Japanese game, yeah. 19-25 for the younger guy and mid 50's just for the fact that the older guy actually has facial lines and grey hair.

[(Anonymous)]

There's one easily missed line of dialogue in one game establishing that their ages are the same relative to each other as the historical guys they're based on, i.e. Hanbei is 2 years older than Kanbei.

But as anyone who's played Dynasty Warriors can also tell you, Koei gets really weird about ages in their games. It's like they just kind of come up with a character design they think looks cool, and then throw it out there without any consideration for the amount of time that's supposed to be passing, so you get people in DW who could possibly pass for younger than their own children, or that one story mode where everyone stays the same age except for a single NPC who ages like 40 years over the course of the story.

tl;dr, I'm in this fandom and I ship this but YEAH, IT BUGS ME TOO orz

[(Anonymous)]

The comment about ages made me recall like: "hasn't there been some dialogue in games about these dudes ages or something along the lines: 'the other one looks considerably older than the other but actually they are the same-ish age'?". Thanks anon, for shedding light to my uncertain mind before I even got to asking :D

I don't ship them, at least much, but my roommate who years back introduced me to Koei's Warriors games ships Hanbei and Kanbei like it is hot.

I've never been bothered by characters not really aging in these games, and if I were I'd probably solve it for myself by reminding myself that these are not exactly that serious games, or at least that the portrayal of anything and everything in them is probably not meant to be realistic anyway.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I. Just saw that I made a typo. Don't make secrets at 4am, kids.