(Anonymous) 2022-10-03 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
i thought they were technically hundreds of years old because they're the spirits of swords in that canon

(Anonymous) 2022-10-03 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
it's the same rule as the "actually a 1000+ even though they look like a child and act like a child so it's fine it isn't really bad". midare acts like a child and looks like a child. they're a tantou and were there for shotabait. they don't physically look 17-21

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
i wish i had caps of gsai saying they didn't understand how none of the other swords had canonly "run a train" on (gangbanged) midare yet

ethics of rping shotabait aside

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
i googled the character to see if it was really that nasty, and i actually underestimated how nasty it is

if i'd seen that in the plurk of someone on my tl it would've been an instant remove

ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
so gsai obviously just wanted midare fucked and was going to go to any lengths to get it. got it. i don't care what you want to play but don't lie and say midare physically looks 17-21 because he doesn't. the tantous don't. don't put that on people

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
yep, not disagreeing with any of that.

my comment (which i admit i can't back up with proof) was more to underline gsai's thirst for this character getting railed. the bad part is still saying midare is physically within a certain age range when he actually isn't.

at the time i had no idea how midare actually looked and behaved in canon bc i'm not into swords, so it was easy to brush off

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
i wasn't arguing with your point at all or thinking you were disagreeing. sorry bad wording. just meant it more to mean that you gave me proof that what i thought was going on definitely was. sorry for the confusion, anon.

but yeah if you don't know swords then its easy to not even think twice about what he's putting forth. as someone who knows the canon it really stuck out to me and made me uncomfortable that he was trying to sneak this shota into smut without someone else realizing what was going on

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
my bad for the confused wording on my end too! it's all good.

but yeah, as someone not canon familiar and who didn't bother to dig deeper, i figured midare was just short and more on the femme side of things, not child-coded or shota or whatever else. yeesh.

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
okay i just went and looked this character up because i was curious and are we talking about two different characters or something? because the one i'm looking at looks to be maybe 14-18, not "child-coded" or "shota" at all. they look like a character you'd find in a typical series set in junior high or high school.

they're definitely not 21 but they're also not a young child either.

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
this is your brain on really shit anime

also there's a huge difference between 14 and 18, but i guess that goes under the really shit anime thing

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
as a shota-enjoying weeb i can confirm that anime brainworms make it easier to believe the character is a teenager, but they are not "physically 17 - 21" by any stretch of the imagination

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
da, but to me midare looks a lot like saber from that fate series and isn't it widely agreed that she's a short adult?

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
saber's meant to be physically 15

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
do you think fate is not a really shit anime

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
da but i mostly think of fate as a video game

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
https://touken-ranbu.fandom.com/wiki/Midare_Toushirou/Gallery?file=Midare-Kiwame1.png

if someone showed me this i would think it was a character from an idol anime and aren't they usually around 16?

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
idk but as someone who doesn't watch idol anime that character looks about 12 to me

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-05 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
they're so slim and twiggy and young that they look 12~15

like, the chosen aesthetic is very obvious

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
i can give you 14 but 18?? also there is a huge physical difference between a 14 and an 18 year old. also between what people could be comfortable about

which is the whole point

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah but that's not shota by any stretch of the imagination

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
https://imgur.com/a/ku0oOMx

so what is this? a shota can be 14. it matters on how they look and midare fits that look because that's the point of the tantous—they're shota bait

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
he looks 15 at best. which is fine if that's the fictional cartoon character smut you're into but let's be honest about it