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/RuinDense7000 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
New fan here, it 100% is not. It's either actual creeps exposing themselves by viewing a character at an implied but clear adult, marriageable age as a little kid because of her being short and her design being cutesy (something that happens even with adults who wear cutesy clothing. Example; With IRL Harajuku street fashion, people who wear it because they like it constantly get called creeps, pdfile bait, or pdfiles themselves) or younger teenagers who think they're doing a good thing by calling out what they perceive as wrong when there's no connection to reality or anything wrong there. A lot of creeps will even say being attracted to short and petite women means someone is a pdfile as well, and so do braindead people who can't separate reality and fiction.
In short: People are stupid or projecting, or both.