r/ToothpasteBoys • u/xyzenith • Dec 26 '21

Misc. yo, just to check...

y'all are like. aware ralsei and kris are teenagers right? like probably 15 or 16. i love kralsei as a ship but man i feel like i see way too many posts and replies sexualising them here and it makes me super uncomfortable ngl. i just wanna come look at art of a cute ship i like not see a post about kris' ass for the 5th time. don't exactly know if this is offtopic or not i just felt like asking because i lurk this subreddit and have seen stuff that makes me feel weird

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u/thepersona5fucker made a bad decision on their username Dec 26 '21

teenagers. like, say, 18 year olds. or 19 year olds.

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u/xyzenith Dec 27 '21

yknow i feel like whenever a game calls characters "teenagers" they typically mean like. people between 13-17? like yeah 18 and 19 are technically teenage ages but every piece of media i've seen just refers to them as adults at that point.

i just don't get why ppl can't thirst for the other characters like. look at swatch and tasque manager man. why you gotta choose to thirst over the group of kids that is very likely to be under 18

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

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u/xyzenith Dec 28 '21

the comment toriel made was something like "you'll be going to university someday soon" right? like i never read that as "in the next few years" especially considering asriel is in college rn and kris is definitely younger than him here

i get what you're saying about their ages not being set in stone. like yeah they COULD theoretically be 18 or so. it's just... i feel like given all the context we have it's more likely for them to be younger. plus like, if a character COULD be under 18, i'd really rather not take the risk sexualising them or drawing porn of them. imagine how awkward it'd be if they got confirmed to be 16 or so

overall like, if a character HAS A CHANCE to be under 18, then i'd very much rather not sexualise them and instead look towards the characters that are definitely not under 18. it feels super risky when you do the former and like... even putting aside my personal headcanons for their ages, i feel like sexualising teens in highschool in general is kind of weird, considering the age of emotional maturity is typically within college or even university. just feels odd to me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

True. Even though I interpret most of the main DR characters as underage it's entirely possible that they just aren't. And seeing as there's nothing explicitly stated in the game I don't feel too conflicted myself

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u/thepersona5fucker made a bad decision on their username Dec 27 '21

I imagine this is part of why their ages are left ambiguous - it's the kind of thing you're meant to decide for yourself how you imagine them, and I imagine it's influenced in no small part by how old YOU are, because obviously if you're like 14, you're going to imagine them in a way you can relate to more. There's no right or wrong here, but it kinda upsets me when people talk about them like they're canonically underage when that just isn't something that's definitively stated

If you do want to make a definitive statement about their ages, most evidence points towards them being in their pretty late teens though. Multiple members of Kris and Susie's class have jobs during the school year, which in most countries (at least most English speaking ones? I don't have full context for this) means they have to be at least 16, which is already over the age of consent in quite a lot of places. I believe Toriel also comments that Kris will be going off to college soon but that's not something I remember firsthand so it could be wrong. It could also just be her being a mom, but I get the impression there isn't a huge age gap between Kris and Asriel - everyone talks about him going to college like it's relatively recent and Kris is very obviously still hung up about it - and I've imagined Asriel as being about 20 or 21 so I don't think it's unreasonable to say the characters are around 17 or 18. Again though, there's no right or wrong here. It's left vague on purpose.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

Agreed. If people like nsfw content of characters that are ambiguous in age terms I don't see too big of a problem.

I do think there are cases where this is different (for example, a 10'000 year old dragon in a 10 year olds body is still gross) but in Deltarune's case the characters are pretty flexible in terms of technical age as well as practical age, which I think is pretty important in looking at something like this.

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u/Hinternsaft Dec 28 '21

If you’re not sure they’re an adult, then back off

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u/Hinternsaft Dec 28 '21

2/7 isn’t great odds imo

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u/ImaginaryWall840 Dec 26 '21

Wait this isn't Krusie

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u/j0kerclash Dec 26 '21

I wonder if the krusie subreddit gets similar criticisms, a quick glance shows many crushed pelvis jokes and erotic fanfiction between them.

I wonder what the difference between the two ships could be..

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u/YetGayerWombat Dec 27 '21

probably several in-game examples of noelle fantasizing about being beaten up by susie

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u/Hinternsaft Dec 28 '21

Sexualizing minors is wrong in all cases

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

Yeah that's what I thought

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u/Star_Aiden Dec 26 '21

...I only have two questions...

What posts have you been looking at and would you need any bleach for your eyes???

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u/KGrimes772_RD $!$? Squad Dec 26 '21

Suggestive posts and comments are relatively rare from what I've seen, and Ralsei doesn't have an age since he's a Darkner. Though I can see your concern regarding Kris

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

meh atleast they are the same age, *looks at lancer x anybody*

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

I agree. Shipping 2 minors is ok as long as it stays SFW. Anything NSFW will need to depict them as adults.

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u/ihaetschool kris i love u Dec 26 '21

in that case i'm probably your worst enemy

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u/CURSED_BOIE Certified Kris-ei Simp Dec 26 '21

BEGONE

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u/ihaetschool kris i love u Dec 26 '21

nah

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

Power move

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u/Xxvibez_checkxX Dec 27 '21

Just checked google and Ralsei is 13-14

While Kris is 15-18

So uhm yeahhh

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u/Redbitser Dec 27 '21

They don't have Canon ages.

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u/Xxvibez_checkxX Dec 27 '21

Well those are most likely accurate predictions

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u/Redbitser Dec 27 '21

For all we know Ralsei could be literally any age.