>>57807806>I never considered it for a second crushing on May as a kid, and I still like her as an adult, since she’s not real her age is of no consequence to meanimation doesnt "age", but we do. I'm pretty sure all the people that ship or retain crushes on fictional characters do so because they got those feelings at a formative ages, and were around abouts the same age if not younger than the characters they attached to. And when looking at those static characters, our attached brains go back to the nostalgic time when we met them and had our experiences with them and formed those feels. A 30 something year old guy who's talking about a 15 year old girl from a 20+ year old anime was probably watching that cartoon before he hit puberty, and he's just remembering his first crush/unrequited love.
I had a crush on Misty before I even went through puberty. She will always be my first crush/love/
whatever.it just seems weird on the outside because she doesn't age. But also, the age is meaningless. She's a cartoon and just represents the character. I don't see how people can't understand this concept
