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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-08-21 06:50 pm

[ SECRET POST #3883 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3883 ⌋

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[personal profile] morieris 2017-08-21 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sonic doesn't look like a real animal."

I like how you said this like it made it less awkward and odd.

(Anonymous) 2017-08-21 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
My only problem is that he *looks* like he's made of plastic or something. I mean, I was playing Mass Effect just last night, I have *no* problem with wanting to bone an alien - he just doesn't even look like a living being!
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[personal profile] soldatsasha 2017-08-21 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, this is what bugs me about it. It's not that Sonic isn't human, it's that he doesn't even look like something that should be alive in the same universe as that girl in the picture.

I mean, he has one giant weird almost-split cyclops eye. He's bright blue. He's got noodle limbs. That's fine for a toony universe or shipping him with a toony character (like Princess Peach, for example). But stick him with a semi-realistic human and it just becomes weird and imo viscerally off-putting.
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[personal profile] ketita 2017-08-22 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, same here. The first instant I saw that image, I thought it was photoshopped.
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[personal profile] nightscale 2017-08-22 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Same here am I'm into human/non-human ships, but the clashing designs are what puts me off with this, not that he's a blue sapient hedgehog person.
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[personal profile] 4thofeleven 2017-08-22 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
What makes it extra weird is Dr Robotnik's in the game too, with his usual look - so you've got cartoon humans and realistic humans coexisting and apparently being considered the same species, and it makes my head hurt.

(Anonymous) 2017-08-22 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
That doesn't look like Susan Crushbone.

(Anonymous) 2017-08-22 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
"She's actually 500 years old, she just looks like an underaged girl, so it's all good!"

(Anonymous) 2017-08-22 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Interview with the Vampire is the ONLY example of this trope I can think of that has the "looks super young but is actually Way Older" character actually ACT THEIR AGE. All the other examples I can think of have the character acting the age they look like, which no one ever calls out of finds weird, that this supposed 500 year old dragon elf or whatever who looks 12 ACTS 12, yet is also super sexy because 500 year old dragon elf. Who looks and acts 12.

The only other example of this trope I've seen which actually talks about it in-canon is in some urban fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey from the 90s, in which a "low elf" character specifically states that her kind, unlike the "high elves," stays in late adolescence mentally and physically forever once they reach that stage of development. This is portrayed as kind of weird and sad from the perspective of humans, who grow and mature out of being able to relate to their low elf friends, but also Just How Things Are for this particular strain of elf.

(Anonymous) 2017-08-22 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Vampire Chronicles did it and it was *fucking creepy* as it well should be. I don't mind the opposite when it's obvious that they're stunted and immature and can't ever grow, but I hate the "young and sexy but wise and old" trope.
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[personal profile] fishnchips 2017-08-22 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Both Count Cain/God Child and Bacccano!! had rare male versions of this trope that worked well. Shingeki no Bahamut had a female version (immortal but childlike necromancer who acts a lot like a grumpy old hag most of the time).

(Anonymous) 2017-08-22 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'm more concerned with that girl's completely fucked up neck