[ SECRET POST #5352 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5352 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If you add the stipulation that the older woman is a brooding villain and the younger man is the idealistic hero, I'm right there with you. Think genderflipped Reylo. Unfortunately, I don't know of anything that's actually like this, but I want it.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't know I wanted this until now, but sadly, I can't think of a single example like that.

[(Anonymous)]

I know the pairing has as many haters as fans, but I love Belle/Rumplestiltskin from Once Upon a Time.

I was never big into Emma/Regina ... and then my brain went "why has no one written Queen Snow and Prince-Consort Charming having to ask long since defeated, bitter FTL exiled Queen Regina for magical help, offering gold, jewels, etc, and getting "I don't need gold... I need a maid. Your daughter will do," in answer.

Cue Swan Queen, Skin Deep/BatB style.

But I want to read it, not write it.

[rudehannibal]

I don't ship rumbelle or swan queen (but I've written both?) but I would read the SHIT out of this idk...

[(Anonymous)]

Edea and Seifer from Final Fantasy 8?

I could have gotten behind that if Edea's, er, canon love interest isn't pretty adorable. Seifer does have that "romantic dream" - though unfortunately becoming that particular sorceress's knight makes him no longer a hero except in his own mind, I suppose.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I think there were a few moments in the first Mission: Impossible (1996) movie that flirted with this with Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and Max (Vanessa Redgrave).

I guess The Graduate plays into this some.

The Secret of My Success has a side plot like this (she's not the villain, but she's not entirely a hero).

There's also White Palace (1990), neither is really a hero or a villain, but Nora (Susan Sarandon) is more cynical and Max (James Spader) more idealistic, from what I remember.

[(Anonymous)]

Truth about The Graduate: Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft were only 6 years apart in age, and they were both in their 30s when that movie came out. That's why it's so unconvincing as a "predatory cougar" narrative to modern eyes.

OH NO a 36-year-old woman with a 30-year-old guy trying to play like he's 22.