[ SECRET POST #4775 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4775 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

*deep, deep sigh*

...same
my god I'm so tired of thinking about teenagers battling for their lives. why can't i get into more fandoms with adults.

[(Anonymous)]

...Because you too want to pilot the giant robot and there are vanishingly few stories where random 30+ year olds get handed the keys to the Gundam?

[(Anonymous)]

Mm. That, and I haven't done anything interesting since I was about 12, so that's always the time my nostalgia swings back to.
*jazz hands* long-term depression!

[(Anonymous)]

Oof. That bitee.

[sparklywalls]

I get it. When you're a child (or still close in age to childhood) the thought of having a heroic part in a story (even if it's sacrificial) kinda appeals because most kids fantasise about having an impactful role in something big. Not necessarily dying but certainly being put under immense pressure and being tested. Only with heroic fantasy stuff though, if it was a real life event depicted for example it was much more harrowing.

But as an adult that's off-set against the "that's messed up!" feeling, especially when it's ultimately so needless a sacrifice. I also am not and don't consider myself "old" by any stretch but am definitely at the point in life where anyone younger than me (especially if it's 10+ years) dying, fictional or real, feels especially unjust.

Although having said that about the childhood thing, even in idealised media I don't think I ever really "liked" seeing kids end up suffering or worse killed in TV and film. It's just you could fall for the romantic heroism a lot more easily.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, agreed. i liked those kinds of plots as a kid, because i was in the correct age-bracket, but as an adult i'm just a little put off by the notion of 13+ kids risking their own lives.

they should be playing with lego/having fun!!

not that i'd stop those stories being written but i engage less and less with them the further i get away from being the same age.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty hyper sensitive to shit like this, myself.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm fine with it when it's meant to be fucked up, like the Hunger Games, or some iterations of X-Men, but when it's supposed to be just fine and dandy in-universe...no. It's not okay.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000000

[sabotabby]

I loved it when I was a kid and now I'm like "NO WTF NO YOU SHOULD BE IN SCHOOL YOUNG PERSON!"

[(Anonymous)]

If the character’s youth, and the injustice of their experience, is not part of the whole point of the story, then I agree. OTOH, some of my favorite stories are stories that involve young people having to take on things that are far, far too harsh and complex and dangerous and mature for anyone their age (or anyone, period) to rightly have to take on. As long as the recognition of that injustice and cruelty is an inherent part of the story. As long as the story is clear on the fact that they’re a fucking kid, and it’s horrible that they have to do the things they do.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is one of my all-time favorite shows for just this reason. That flashback scene where John is sleeping with a rifle, and he’s let go of it in his sleep, and Sarah looks at him sleeping and then gently moves his hand back onto the rifle just absolutely kills me.

Or the fact that the first time John ever see’s a girl’s naked breasts, she’s a robot, cutting herself open and asking him to put his hand under her breastplate to see if she’s broken or safe. Instead of a giddy, nervous, fumbling “first time” experience, he gets that.

It's fucking heartbreaking, and it's meant to be.

[(Anonymous)]

But those stories are made for kids, who love them. They're fantasies where someone their age can be the powerful hero. Being uncomfortable with them as an adult is fine but that's not because the work is bad or wrong, it's because you're not the target audience anymore.

Personally, I'm still fine with those stories because most of them are blatantly unrealistic and a kid doing that stuff is an acceptable break from reality. Magic and space battles in giant robots aren't real anyway so the fact that it's kids doing it in a story isn't much of a concern to me. And the age of the protagonist is usually not on my mind anyway, they could easily be in their 20s but because it was aimed at kids the writers decided to state somewhere that they're 14.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, I don't like kid heroes going into danger anymore either