[ SECRET POST #3883 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3883 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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)]

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.

[fishnchips]

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).