[ SECRET POST #4171 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4171 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom]

05. https://i.imgur.com/mXJTopl.png

[(Anonymous)]

Boy. Wait until my secret that is the opposite of this comes up.

[(Anonymous)]

She acts like she could be anywhere from 16 to 30. But she looks like an adult. So I don't see why some would think she was a 16. Especially considering how old her parents and brother is.

[(Anonymous)]

idk she totally comes off as about 20-21 to me, but then again, I'm old enough that everyone between 16-25 pretty much blurs together.

[(Anonymous)]

Her stupid meme jokes sounded exactly like the sorts of things my university friends would say, I definitely thought she was about 21. But yeah like anon above me said, easily see her anywhere from 16 to 30

[(Anonymous)]

The only "accidental" in Ross/Shuri was that I was shipping Ross. I did not expect to find Martin Freeman shippable in this movie but here I am.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm 23. The actress is 24. I would definitely have thought she was in my age cohort if it wasn't for the fact that I saw people talking about her being a teenager before seeing the movie.

[(Anonymous)]

She looks and acts like a college student imo.

[(Anonymous)]

So a woman in her early twenties who looks, sounds, and acts like she's in her early twenties is read by audiences as being in her early twenties and you're annoyed? That's some dedication right there.

[(Anonymous)]

I was flabbergasted to see the first "Shuri.Is.16.Shipping.Her.Is.Gross" posts because when I watched the movie I absolutely saw her as early to mid twenties. I work with teenagers and she doesn't look or act like my 16s at all.

[el_regrs]

I could buy that she was a teen, but maybe 18 or 19. I wasn't expecting 16. Then again, I don't ship her with Ross so w/e.

[(Anonymous)]

The actress is twenty four.

Why the hell would people not read her as being that age?

[(Anonymous)]

It's fine that you feel that way. It just shows you're used to Dawson Casting and you don't know any real teenagers.

[tabaqui]

Wow, no. She does not come off as a teenager (we'll say it's because she's a super-genius) *at all*. I had zero clue the character was supposed to be 16 until it was mentioned on here, so.....

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like I'm the only person who found her to be kind of annoying and didn't want to ship here with anyone. (Although I find Martin Freeman kind of annoying as well.) People can ship who they want to ship but yeah, I'm with OP. I do find it odd that people want to justify shipping at sixteen year old with a man in his mid-forties but whatever. It doesn't matter to me that the actress is 24, the character is 16.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, you're the smartest and most morally sophisticated. I bow to you.

[meredith44]

I didn't/don't ship her at all, so it isn't influenced by that, but like others I read her as college age, so 19÷22 or so, based on her behavior. Looks-wise I see her as early 20's. She doesn't read 16 to me at all. The 15-16 year olds I've interacted with act so much younger.

[(Anonymous)]

I think she's pretty obnoxious but she looks mid-twentiess. Maybe early 20s. It never occurred to me that she was a teenager, but that makes me hate her even more. I hate illogically SUPER INTELLIGENT characters, but illogically SUPER INTELLIGENT children are even fucking worse. So she invented literally everything in Wakanda and she's not old enough to buy porn? fuck her (not literally).

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen thus and don't care about this fandom issue, but it can be easy too forget how young real teenagers look if you aren't around real teenagers much and are used to TV/movie teenagers.

[(Anonymous)]

I genuinely thought the character was in her early 20's until I saw tumblr fanart/meme's saying she's supposed to be the same age as Peter. I don't know if that's a fact but it seems generally accepted.

I know Tom Holland is in his 20's but he's got that baby face that makes it easy to buy him being a teenager. Maybe that's because we're explicitly shown him in high school whereas there is no such context for Shuri.

[(Anonymous)]

As a 40 year old - she seems like a college kid to me. And I hang out with both teens and college age kids thanks to my job. If you want good 'teen' casting? The current Spider-man and company. Those look and act like teens. Shuri? Looks her age. Which is early twenties. Acts like a college level genius and is surrounded completely by other adults which gives her no room to interact with anyone her fictional age to bring out the fact she's supposed to be younger. You think she looks sixteen? That - there's no way to say this gently but it sounds like you might hang out more with fiction than actual people.

[osidiano]

I laugh when people bring up her dynamic with her brother as proof that she is supposed to be a teenager. Like, those people are obviously only children who have never watched themselves revert to obnoxious 12 year old behavior around their older siblings. It is a real and embarassing phenomenon that never truly goes away.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't ship her with anyone, but not because I read her as too young. I thought she was supposed to be in her early 20s til Marvel Twitter (I think that's where I saw it) said otherwise. Her being 16? Never would've thought it.

[(Anonymous)]

Shuri reminded me of me when I was 15. Nerdy, hyper, obnoxious black kid, lol. Regardless of the fact that her actress is in her twenties, I think people subconsciously age up black kids/teenagers, especially females; along with Latina girls, they end up being hypersexualized by people when all they are trying to do is just exist. I was catcalled at the beach when I was 12 years old and wearing a rather tame tankini; luckily my father was there and put the fear of God in those gross ass old men.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you seen any teenagers lately? They look like children (unless you're a teenager too). Shuri looks exactly her actress' age.