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Well, to be fair, when it comes to ageless characters, they're usually not "old" in the same way that normal old people are old. They usually don't think, behave, or deal with the things that actual old people deal with. And they're often SO old - hundreds or thousands of years - that any notion of old/young becomes kind of irrelevant compared to the differences in the very nature of the characters' inner psychology - if that aspect still works in their relationship, the age difference doesn't really mean much.

Side note: I forgot those actors ever looked that young! SMG looks like a different person.

Yeah, boy, wasn't she like 19 in season 1? Makes me feel old.

i don't really count supernatural reasons towards being old

i mean edward cullen is suppose to be hundreds of years old but he's still going to high school... just because he was alive all those years doesn't mean the gained mature and experience that comes with age are there.

...I just realized how depressing it is that Edward is going to high school.

I've had nightmares before about having to go back to high school due to some sort of stupid error.

How does a vampire do it??

Did he have to be in high school? I never read/saw Twilight, so I don't know if there's any explanation for why he's in high school and not identifying as a young-looking adult and doing something else. I assumed he just wanted to go to high school for shits and giggles, which is kinda weird.

I *think* he also attended college a couple of times? I haven't read the books, but I got the impression that the Cullens would move to a new place, enroll the "kids" in school at the youngest age they thought they could get away with, and then move away once they'd reached the point where their not aging would become obvious.

I get moving around, it just seems odd to be like "Okay, you get to go to high school and take trigonometry for the tenth time."

Apparently, high school is just the best place to troll for hot, codependent chicks.

To be fair, his brain is stuck at the biological age of 17. Brains still have some developing to do at that age which will never happen in his case.

wouldn't that be true of all non-aging characters? brains continue developing your whole life. so it could get stopped physically at any age.

Yes, but there are other aspects of brain development, IIRC especially the frontal lobe, that "finish" developing to maturity around age 25. That's not to say the brain doesn't keep developing in other, less obvious, ways all your life, but it's not quite the same and it's not quite as rigidly limited as pre-25 brain development. 17 year olds CANNOT, physically, have brains as well developed as a 25 year old (barring developmental delays and disabilities that is). That's not to say a 17 year old's behavior and intelligence can't be more advanced and mature than a 25 year olds in some cases, but their brains are still incomplete in a way 25 year olds' brains aren't, barring disabilities.

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I wouldn't call that shallow. Maybe a little goody-two-shoes, but not shallow.

I love May/December romances, especially when the actors look the age difference. But, I mostly like it when it's treated as an age difference. Movies where a 50 year old guy gets the 20 year old girl because Hollywood's standards are fucked up and nothing is said about the fact they're that far apart in age doesn't hit the kink for me.

But student/mentor or 50/20 where they're shown coming from different perspectives - catnip.

Same!

Autumn in New York (with Richard Gere and Winona Ryder).

Seems to hit your kinks, hit mine up for sure. Damn. Good movie, but prepare to cry.

I'm kind of the opposite. I'm fine with pairings where one character is older and looks it, maybe because I feel like the older character isn't hiding that they're older. I mean, if they're thousands of years older and look fifty or something it would still be a big adjustment for the younge character, especially if there was a chance they'd age and die while their partner stayed the same. And it's not like I don't like pairings where characters are the same age or close and look it. Just if one is older and hiding it.

I don't mind it either way.

Lol @ Buffy/Angel being called May/December when they're more like May/Ming Dynasty.

Qing dynasty, actually.

history buff detected!

It squicks me majorly. But I'm weird and like writing geezer vampires who whine about how things were PERFECT back during Rome and EVERYTHING SINCE IS TERRIBLE, who struggle with things like fax machines and computers.

But I worked with old people and have a weird love of writing old supernatural characters who actually ACT crotchety and old and rather bemused at how the world has changed around them without them wanting it too.

Yeah, one thing I liked about Anne Rice's vampires was that eventually some of them would just get old mentally and give up, but it really depended on personality. Some were around from prehistory, some didn't last 100 years.