[ SECRET POST #6357 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6357 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

to me they look so much like kids that I personally don't and can't ship them.

I watch next to no animated media at all, so that's probably part of it. I probably parse animated media more loosely due to lack of practice. The intended age of an animated character is not one of the points my brain seems to think it salient most of the time. Or maybe it's just that my brain decides assigning age to a bundle of animation feels so innately arbitrary that it's not really important unless the narrative itself makes it a sticking point.

With ATLA specifically, it's not so much that I forgot they were young, as that I forgot to think about their ages as relevant to who they were most of the time.

The question, "Would I ship Aang and Zuko," makes me think about the Cain and Abel template, and similarities with other ships in my lexicon, and the dynamic of their interactions in canon, and what it would mean to each of them and their opposing Life's Missions to feel confusing and inconvenient things for each other. It doesn't really occur to me to think, "Aang's twelve."

(I don't actually ship anybody in ATLA, for the record. I flipped through my mental rolodex of potential pairings and none of them clicked. But age wasn't really a factor in that, one way or the other.)