[ SECRET POST #5369 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5369 ⌋

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


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeaaaah, and Daine is, what, sixteen or seventeen when they get together? It's... not great.

While I'm reading it, I dig it, because I dig Numair but as soon as I step out of Daine's pov and think about it uuuuuuuugh.

[(Anonymous)]

uuuuuuuuugh

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it only really works if you view it from the perspective of the younger person because otherwise hahahahah gross.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Oh, yeah, definitely. I first read these books when I was about 14 and I was ALL IN on the romance. Now that I'm hitting thirty? It hits a lot differently. I still love these books but I have incredibly complicated feelings on this pairing. I loved Daine and Numair as a kid and shipped them hard. As an adult, I go 'wtf Numair, I don't care how much she wants you, shut her down, that's gross', but there's always a part of me that's weirdly fond of the ship anyway, just because when I was Daine's age, I was totally on her side of things.

[(Anonymous)]

This is me. I hadn't thought about this series in forever, but yeah, looking at it as an adult, it's pretty skeevy on Numair's part.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I'm not knocking you for it. Sometimes we all get to know a beloved story a little differently as time goes by, but some things still remain enjoyable and fond even now.

[(Anonymous)]

I read Kel's books first (backwards, I know) so my first impression of Daine and Numair were as established adults who loved each other very much, and I thought nothing of it at the time and thought she sounded cool. By the time I actually read Daine's books, I was much older and going "Wait, he's HOW old compared to her? What?" and couldn't get into the ship at all.

Then again, the number of books I've stumbled across with that type of pairing in this genre...can't say it's that surprising, just not what I'd expected in my head.

[(Anonymous)]

Comment OP here, and I get that. I'm pushing 40 now and if a 30 year old dude I knew IRL was claiming to be in love with a 16 year old he'd been tutoring for three years I'd flip the fuck out and report his ass, and I can't imagine being attracted to a teenager myself. Ew. I wasn't attracted to them when I was one.

I figure it turning out okay is as much a fantasy as the magic and talking to animals and so on.

Even as a young teen I would've been creeped out by a 30 year old saying he loved me, maybe especially a teacher.

I love(d) the idea of older man/teen or barely out of teens girl, but I also loved reading wilderness survival stories, but had no desire to actually have to keep myself alive for months or years in the woods.