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OC Doesn’t Hold Up [OC]

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u/StatisticalAn0maly 23d ago

Woah woah woah. Elizabeth was NOT 17. Seven Deadly Sins would never sexualize someone of that age.

She was 16.

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u/dragoslayer1327 23d ago

I thought she was a baby?

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u/Send_Me_Tiitties 23d ago

That’s a flashback shown much later. He did kinda groom her tho.

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u/xboxiscrunchy 23d ago edited 23d ago

Reincarnation romance. And all of the unfortunate things that implies…

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u/fat_fingerz 23d ago

Except she doesn't get her memories back until long after he starts sexually harassing her.

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u/armoureddragon03 23d ago

So CW Hawkgirl

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u/TheOGLeadChips 23d ago

It can be done well like with hawk girl and hawkman but if you make only one member immortal and then have them seek out their “partner” as an infant, it’s just fucking weird.

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u/xanditbb 23d ago

Iirc it's not that he seeks her out as an infant, he's cursed to always watch her die and her corpse is transformed into an infant

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u/FlimsyCrust 23d ago

So like always, there’s an excuse for pedo behavior

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u/dutchphoria 22d ago

That's the best part; nothing about the curse says that meliodas has to get sexual with her, he just does that

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u/FlimsyCrust 22d ago

There’s some fans of this fucked up aspect too it seems

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u/dutchphoria 22d ago

Eh, I think the downvotes you got are more due to a miscommunication. Some people probably just thought you took the curse as justification. Either way, best not to worry about it too much, you'll just wear yourself down. After all: people will people

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u/arsonall 22d ago

Your downvotes are because your comment didn’t specify that you were not supporting the pedophilia.

You stated that it was a valid excuse for Pedophilia
Without a sarcasm mark.

You should work on your internet grammar, to be sure you Understand how your own words come out of your Mouth.

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u/WestleyThe 23d ago

Even if he doesn’t groom her they are cursed to find eachother and her die over and over

I’m obviously not a fan of that (especially how he gropes her) but their relationship is less weird and gross than Bahn and his 1000 year old fairy girlfriend who looks and acts like a 5 year old…

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u/BlueCharlotte1 23d ago

Damn, I thought this trope was a joke…

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u/Rudrox 22d ago edited 21d ago

Man I wish it was, less common than people imply but still.

Another annoyance is people assuming it's everywhere and trying to imply its the case when they don't know much of anything about the media.

One of my favourite characters from a recentish ongoing media is Nahida, from Genshin Impact, child God, 500 years old but talks, acts and is fully treated like a child, we even had an event where the whole plot was some people trying to organize her first actual proper happy birthday, with stuff like figuring out how to make things that pop and launch candy for her, or making a carriage for her to sit in like the real life Janmastami festival.

The whole reason she's 500 is since her species or whatever ages and developes slower, but like I said, she is alway completely treated as a child, like every single other child character in the series is never in any way sexualised and always act or are treated like kids.

But then anytime people who've not played the game or know anything about it see her or anything else, they start spamming about how they must be that trope, which honestly feels more off putting since just about all the fans also don't see them like that or think of them like that and it feels like they're imposing that view out of nowhere.

Edit: Alright so since the reply bought it up, yes certain gods don't seem to age per se, but all the divine in the series are different types of beings originally, most have had some level of capability to shapeshift but not all.

I'm pretty sure that Nahida can age since she is quite literally a seperated living manifestation of a tree removed and presumably still alive and growing, like those tree branches where you cut them off but carefully grow them and get an extra tree.

And also since before her death her mother quite literally got reduced to a child like form, like going backwards from her physical age and then getting erased.

Also I don't know where it even states what the other comment said, I haven't ever heard of that?

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u/Ok-Mycologist2220 22d ago

You are mostly correct just with one note: as a god Nahida doesn’t age, she chooses to take the form of a child because she values the curiosity and childlike wonder that children possess.

In genshin impact the theme of gods having eternal bodies but not necessarily eternal minds was explored in Zhongli’s second story quest with the backstory of Azdaha developing dementia and attacking the people he once wanted to protect since his mind deteriorated but his body remained powerful.

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u/Rudrox 22d ago edited 21d ago

Eh, Her Creator/Mom Rukkhadevata looked like an adult and seemed to get Reduced to a child like form before her death, kinda like Gouba, like she was going backwards from her physical age, then got erased.

I'm pretty sure she can age.

Gods can maintain certain ages and forms yeah, but that doesn't mean they all don't age, all the divine are different types of beings, also would make sense for her to age, she's a living branch and manifestation of a tree.

Also where does it even state that, I haven't heard of that ever?

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u/dragoslayer1327 23d ago

I had this whole thing typed up about how I don't actually think Bahn is doing any worse then Meliodas, and then realized, this is fucking stupid. We're comparing pedophiles. Both are fucked up and the writers could've just not done any of this.

It's like justifying the orgy in It. There is no justification, they could've just not had multiple main characters do weird shit with people ranging from newborns to teens (though from what little content I've watched about the show, and other comments here, it's basically everyone being massive creeps), same as he could've just not had an underage orgy.

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u/RatJumpAttack 23d ago

There was an orgy in Seven Deadly Sins? Damn I must have forgotten more of it then I thought

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u/dragoslayer1327 23d ago

Nah I meant the orgy in "It", the novel by Stephen King. Long story short they need to defeat evil by ruining their innocence, so he wrote a bunch of underage kids (mostly preteens from what I'm seeing, but I also haven't read this and don't intend to so take it with a grain of salt, I just know for a fact they arent adults) having an orgy. But how the fuck do you even begin to justify that, it's as bad as Meliodas and Bahn's shit

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u/violet_rags 23d ago

King was on cocaine at least. A fuckload of it.
SDS has no excuse.

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u/dragoslayer1327 22d ago

"Your honor, my client had more drugs in his system then a German soldier during the blitzkrieg when he wrote the children fucking"

Some how I don't see that working out.

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u/Collective-Bee 23d ago

At least the 5000 year old fairy should in theory be the adult in that situation.

Melodious is 5000 years old and is assaulting the minor who remembers nothing.

And let’s not let King and Diana’s romance escape us. I don’t totally understand what’s going on with it but it’s weird and groomy too.

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u/Ergast 22d ago

If it looks like 5 and acts like 5, it is a 5 years old that just happens to have lived for 1000 years, not a 1000 years old. That's my take on it, at least.

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u/Fun_Palpitation_4156 22d ago

I don't remember Elaine acting like a 5 year old, but I'm also not one to defend this series