Am I allowed to find Dawn attractive?

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I know she's 10, but she doesn't exactly look it... When I first saw her, I thought she was about 16, and one of the hottest female characters so far. But now I know she's 10, and I feel... creepy. Especially as I'm already a fan of lightrockshipping (Dawn x Brock) and Brock's supposed to be about 21 now, right?

Is this okay? Are there any other people who feel this way?
 
I don't think you should worry about it. For one thing, as you noted, she doesn't look like a 10 year old kid, and for another thing, I know there are plenty of other people who find her attractive. Some people even have crushes on her. So I don't think you should feel bad or creepy about it. And as far as the Brock/Dawn thing goes, plenty of people ship characters with age differences together all the time, so I wouldn't worry about that either.
 
*Was going to not touch the thread at first, but after seeing Cascade's post, decides to say something*

Eh. Some people would tell you that it's wrong to like/have a crush on/Fangirl/Fanboy over certain charactors, but I say it's just fine. I like quite a few of the boys on pokemon myself.

*Thinks of Kenta*

*Fangirl squeal*

*Faints*
 
I know, I was really annoyed in the new DP animé when she wears that tiny little skirt, and there are so many opportunities to see *up* it but it's always just out of view... That's 54 episodes I've seen so far, and not one flash.

I never liked Misty or May that much... or any other Pokémon character, with the exception of James (apparently I'm not the only one, either!) But Dawn is definitely hot.

Habunake, no need to do that.. :D
 
Watch "Steamboat Willies" and the scene where she jumps on Mantine very carefully.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Anime characters are different to real-life people... not only do they often seem more mature, but they are animated people.
 
It's fine.
Unless you go around hitting on underage girls on a regular basis, there's no harm in it.
 
Dude, are you new? This is the Pokemon fandom, people here find 10-year-olds attractive all the time.

Which makes me feel out of place. I'm into James, and he's not underage. =/
 
Snake Bandage said:
Dude, are you new? This is the Pokemon fandom, people here find 10-year-olds attractive all the time.

Which makes me feel out of place. I'm into James, and he's not underage. =/
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Yeah I'm new, and I'm not a dude, either ;) Pokémon Fandom is great... and you're not out of place, I'm more into James then I am into Dawn, I don't care how old he is! XD
 
Kristow said:
I'm more into James then I am into Dawn, I don't care how old he is! XD
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I mostly like the boys my age, but liking older charactors isn't a big deal...

*Gathers Fearow, Dodrio and Minun plushies and huggles them at the same time*

What? Me likey the pokemon rangers...especialy Spencer and Lunick...
 
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Kristow-san, it's perfectly alright to find Dawn attaractive...i think she's freaking adorable. ^^ Anime crushes are quite all right; it seems that a number of people in different fandoms get them. I dunno why, of course, but I'll be damned if i question it when I engage in it myself. ^^

and there are weirder things than shipping Dawn with Brock. Trust me. ^^
 
If you were imagining older characters (Jessie, hunter J, Rhonda) as 10 year old girs and finding them attractive, THEN that'd be a concern. They shoulda made Dawn Ash's age for the sake of Pearlshipping.
 
I think it's alright to find a character to be adorable...but attractive? No.
 
There's only one girl for me...

...and she's real.

Unfortunately, she is as unreachable to me as these fictional piece of ink and animation are.

:(

Alas, fellow Bulbagardeners, even the darkest hearts such as myself ultimately long for compansionship of someone! Let this be a lesson to you all, that even the coldest heart of ice can be penetrated by the burning of a wonderful women. And alas, fellows, for some that burning sensation will come from a character with no will of their own and whose entire life is dictated by a board of likely 4-5 middle aged Japanese storyboard artists and script writers, given life by the likes of Kinoshita and Iwante, and ultimately voiced by some obnoxious Japanese women who has some overly cute name or spells everything out in CAPITALS and occasionaly taunts the fanbase of the character she plays with crpytic blog posts that are blown out of proportion from online watchers whose copy does not include the live action trivia segment which is what said voice actor was referring to. In the 4th century BC, the Greek philosopher Plato argues that love, in a way, directs the bonds of human society. In his Symposium, Eryximachus, one of the narrators in the dialog, states that love goes far beyond simple attraction to human beauty: It occurs all throughout the animal and plant kingdoms, as well as all throughout the universe. Love directs everything that occurs, in the realm of the gods as well as that of humans (186a-b).

Eyrximachus reasons that when various opposing elements such as wet and dry are "animated by the proper species of Love, they are in harmony with one another . . . But when the sort of Love that is crude and impulsive controls the seasons, he brings death and destruction" (188a). As it is love that guides the relations between these sets of opposites throughout existence, in every case it is the higher form of love that brings harmony and cleaves toward the good, while the impulsive vulgar love creates disharmony.

He concludes that the highest form of love is the greatest; when love "is directed, in temperance and justice, towards the good, whether in heaven or on earth: happiness and good fortune, the bonds of human society, concord with the gods above- all these are among his gifts" (188d).

A javelin throwing competition at the Heiva Festival in Papeete – an activity that facilitates social bonding

In the 1660s, the Dutch philosopher Spinoza writes, in his Ethics of Human Bondage or the Strength of the Emotions, that the term “bondage” relates to the human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions. That is, according to Spinoza ‘when a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune.’

In 1809 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in his classic novella Elective Affinities, speaks of the marriage tie and by analogy shows how strong marriage unions are similar in character to that by which the particles of quicksilver find a unity together though the process of chemical affinity. Goethe’s novella, in its time, was regarded as treatise on chemical origins of love. Humans in passionate relationships, according to Goethe, are analogous to reactive substances in a chemical equation.

Alas, Bulbagarden, it is a cruel fate for us anime fans.
 
I hate to break this to some people, but these are cartoon characters.

Go and find some real people to masturbate over. Or, preferably, get them to do it for you.
 
Hey now, let's not be so harsh.

First, I sincerely doubt anyone masturbates over Pokemon characters. At least I hope to God they don't. Second, how is having a crush on a cartoon character that much different than having a crush on a celebrity? You've got just as much chance of getting with them.

Look. I will admit to being a huge James/Sebastian fangirl (and often do anyway). Because those two characters are attractive to me. I REALIZE they don't exist, and I REALIZE they're cartoon characters. However, they also match what I find ideal in a member of the opposite sex. Therefore, I find them attractive.

Really, as long as you don't let it go too far, I don't see how there's anything wrong with having a crush on a cartoon character.
 
Neku said:
Second, how is having a crush on a cartoon character that much different than having a crush on a celebrity? You've got just as much chance of getting with them.
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For one thing, a celebrity is at least a real person. Well, technically anyway considering some of them. :p

What is there to find attractive about a 2D drawing?
 
I bet if I said what The Doctor said I'd get infractions.

You don't have to look any further then our own Club Forum to see some truly creepy-ass worship of fictional characters.
 
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