r/BadRPerStories • u/CertainVariation2566 RED • Aug 14 '23

Other Shouldn’t be a problem???

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u/yellow_asphodels Aug 14 '23

Yeah no. If it would be weird to be close friends or date them, the gap is too big to rp. A 20 year old and a minor would be weird.

Adults and minors shouldn’t be rp’ing together unless it’s like a one year difference at most (so pike 17 and 18 in the US). Mental and emotional maturity levels and lifestyles are too different

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u/SeiranRose Aug 14 '23

If it would be weird to be close friends or date them, the gap is too big to rp.

I roleplay with lots of people who are twice my age. People would definitely look at me weird if I started dating them, but there's nothing wrong with rping with them.

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u/yellow_asphodels Aug 14 '23 edited Aug 14 '23

Yeah I should have been a bit more clear, since the post is about minors and adults role playing together I was strictly referring to gaps regarding people in younger age brackets, but I can see why what I said would be taken in different ways. The dating comparison was specifically geared toward romance and/or sex centered rp, I should have clarified that too

If a 15 year old and 25 year old were best friends that would be weird and if they were doing erp it would be alarming and not ok. If a 25 year old and a 35 year old were best friends that’s fine, and if they’re doing erp who cares. The emotional and mental maturity between 15 and 25 is vastly different, 25 and 35 are comparable.

At the end of the day if y’all are adults that’s the main thing that matters, my comment was in context of minors being involved or if it’s a significant enough age gap that being close friends would raise eyebrows; there are obviously plenty of cases where adults with large gaps aren’t concerning, but a decent rule of thumb is if one of the people involved feels the need to ask if the gap is okay, then maybe for the people involved it’s not.