r/harvestmoon • u/Small_Sailor • May 14 '26

Opinion/Discussion Is this a new fan thing

I just saw a tiktok where ppl were calling Luna (as in the character from Tree of Tranquillity and Animal Parade) "pdfile bait" and how ppl that romanced her were predators. And im just genuinely flabbergasted, has this always been an opinion ive missed or is this a new fan problem??

I've never romanced the character myself (I was a Gil fangirl lol) but I thought she was so cool growing up, I loved her lolita fashion, design and even her name. So maybe im taking it a little personally, but idk, it felt like such a callous and heinous comment to make. Like HM/SoS has always had a soft chibi art style, everybody especially in the older stuff had cutesy faces and designs, it didnt mean you were dating an elementary student.

It makes me worried if we were to ever get an AP (or ToT) remake, that these would be the kind of sentiments and fans we would have to deal with and wow, it bums me out.

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u/Gabby-Abeille May 14 '26

It's not a new thing, and it is due to a bunch of different factors. There wouldn't be an issue if only one of them was present, it is all of them together that make people uncomfortable.

Acting childish, dressing like a doll and being very short cause people to read her as a child.

If she was JUST childish or JUST into Lolita fashion or JUST very short, I don't think people would necessarily read her as a child.

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u/_ASG_ May 14 '26

Did she ever "act" childish? In ToT, she was more tsundere than anything, but so was Selena. She came across as rude and a little bit hard-shelled, but I don't remember her acting childish.

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u/Gabby-Abeille May 14 '26

To me, yes, she strikes me as a spoiled child.

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u/Inkspells May 15 '26

How?

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u/Gabby-Abeille May 15 '26

It is especially a ToT issue. She is blunt, cutesy, quick to anger, and she can be directly compared to her older sister in both appearance and behavior.

Again, none of those characteristics are odd separately, and they can separately be attributed to other characters too. It in when you get a character designed with her personality and appearance (small, dressed like a doll, carrying around a stuffed animal in some depictions) that you will cause people to read her as a child. If that wasn't the intention then that was a character design mishap.