BlackHeart Biohazards

sorry for charging right back in “and another thing!” style but uh. honestly i miss when character ages were interesting little factoids and not a determination of what’s “allowed” to exist concerning them. and i hate how as a result character ages are getting shoehorned in where they don’t belong. like, even as a little kid, i have never once thought of my pokemon player character as anything but my own age. i started playing well before i was ten, and i just pretended i was given special permission or whatever. and i’ve always done that. and it snaps me out of the narrative so fast when the games have an obligatory moment where an npc drills it into your head that you’re eleven or ten or whatever. the only times i don’t think of the character as my own age is when the player character turns more into an oc than a self-insert, in which case they receive a set age, usually over 18 for my own personal comfort. i have issues about being mistaken for a child irl, so perhaps i’m just oversensitive about it. but we always have seen trainers of all types, of all appearances, of all walks of life. and i really wish they’d drop the “you ARE eleven because i said so” stuff. i’m an adult and so are my friends and if i want to kiss the enemy leader i am allowed. let me have this game freak. :c (this argument isn’t all about self-ship or shipping, but i have seen too much stupid shipping discourse in pokemon for it to have nothing to do with it lmao) like, if you want to think of them as ten because tradition, or as a kid because you’re a kid or on a nostalgia trip, sure! that’s fine! whatever reason you have is fine! but i’m just. so tired, man. i’m fuckin tired!