Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24100805-20160201152915/@comment-26277897-20181009230155

Rafip wrote: ''Because shipping reasons. It’s inevitable in every fandom.'' Yes, I have heard about such activity amongst the fandom and I assure you it is evitable. You only have to have the will to not to do it, it's that simple. Anyway, you have said an interesting thing: shipping as actual reason for making children a non-binary hetero/homosexuals, is that correct? Also, do you people approve "shipping" children? Is "shipping" the reason you would to call Chara and Frisk a non-binary hetero/homosexuals? Is there another reason for that Mr. Freddy Fanatic, Athenian200, MagomaevaAmina, RainTheFan-Person, PublicMinority87? Well, for me, no, I actually don’t ship them with any characters, I just simply meant how in every fandom, there’s always at least one person who does it (besides, a good deal of fan art ships them as aged-up characters, but that’s besides the point). But anyway, what I meant was kids having innocent crushes, without really knowing anything, not actually engaging in sexual activities (which is what I meant by “basic level” of romance). Hopefully I didn’t offend you, that wasn’t my intention. To be more specific, I’m not saying that they necessarily do have a sexual orientation at that age, just that they’re able to understand love to an extent without being able to feel it themselves, in the sense that they can go “aww, that’s cute” instead of “eww, gross.” In other words, children’s reactions to love aren’t always negative.

Also, puberty can start as early as 8-9, so it’s not like physical attraction is impossible (though they’re likely confused by it), though I don’t mean to encourage shipping them with characters that are too old for them, or for children to actually partake in such activities.