#and yes I have seen people do it to IfaRon too. despite it im pretty sure being implied they're both about the same age.

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I feel like this fandom has this really weird thing with infantalizing Ororon. To a point where whenever people see ships with him .. it's somehow a proship. He's probably one of the few characters who has his age group flat out told to you, that he's in his twenties. How far along? Unknown. But he's a grown adult. He's also old enough to drink, according to his character stories, as Fatui soldiers check first before giving him Fire Water, which since he was allowed two cups of that .. obviously he's not like, fifteen. 😀

I see it especially in CapiRon fanart on Pinterest, also on Tiktok. Where everyone is freaking out or saying wild things about family and age as if the pairing isn't essentially Natlans own version of Zhongchi. You know. ..the ship with the immortal god and a twenty something year old! Which is almost literally what CapiRon is! The two characters never explicitly call each other family, so you can't really claim its canon (Ororon would call him gramps if that was the case - but he actually refers to him by title. Captain), and it's explicitly only mentioned as found family when Captiano is paired with Mavuika, so Ororon falls into a son role despite not looking at either person as family. There's nothing wrong with that headcanon! If that's your thing, that's your thing, but people are legitimately trying to convince me they're canonically found family. The only two people he sees as found family seems to be Citlali. Possibly the Traveler, but I'm not positive on that (as those are the only two characters he gives family titles to, as far as I'm aware. It's Granny Citlali, and Granny Lumine / Gramps Aether).

I feel like this stems from people seeing his personality and somehow equating it with him being childish when he's not. He's not childish. His entire storyline is about his fear of being nothing, of having nothing, about how he's afraid he has no real purpose going forward. He's not suddenly an infant because he's a little socially odd, or because he talks to plants. He's socially odd because that's just how he grew up. He grew up understanding his feelings in specific ways. He grew up understanding life in specific ways.

Ororon isn't a child. He is a grown man with his own thoughts and problems, even if he doesn't communicate them in a way that makes sense to other people. That doesn't make him less of an adult. An Immortal/Mortal pairing isn't illegal as long as both characters are actually both physically and mentally grown adults, it goes into really questionable territory when the immortal was heavily involved in the mortals childhood in my opinion though (cough cough that Oceanid during the Poetry event). Which. Doesn't happen with CapiRon.