>>55272607How to explain it...
Adulthood is not an on/off switch, girls don't wake up one morning ready to breed. There's a process and hebe is the early stage of that process. Being hebephile is not exactly the same as being a pedo, but it walks over the line. It's still taboo because those girls aren't mentally ready for a sexual life, but maybe at a very basic animal level some men are wired to find it attractive. Personally I like them a bit more developed -what's called ephebophilia, and pretty much means 15-17 years old-. Societal boundaries aside, I think most healthy males are ephebophiles. Some ethnicities (re. Asians) carry on hebe/ephebo traits throughout adulthood and they must have evolved like this for a reason.
That said Lillie's design, specially her 2.0 version, is more ephebo than hebe -she's considerably taller and more stylized than her peers, and her shapes are more womanly than your typical 10-11 year old MC. In Masters she has bigger tits than her own mother, which doesn't say a lot to be fair. However her age is 11-12 which is unequivocally hebe. I don't know what was GameFreak thinking with this.
