#overall its a gray area ship because lumine is PHYSCIALLY whatever age you want her to be

[musubiki]

im curious, isnt Lumine 15 and Childe 20??

ive seen people say that but heres a couple things!!

1) theres no real canon ages (the only explicitly stated one is venti being like 500+ or whatever, and lumine/aether being 500+)

2) the whole “lumine is 15!!” argument came from the fact that mondstadt is inspired by germany, and while in mondstadt venti says lumine is “underage,” but visual/regional inspiration doesnt mean mihoyo took up the laws from germany too!! if youre making a game IN china, the laws inside said game will most likely follow the laws of china, where the drinking age is actually 18!!

2.5) (and this is also confirmed in the comic ive heard, where at dilucs 18th birthday they get him his first drink and it says something about him finally being an adult or something). so i think shes more like 17(physically)!! (but again, the traveler is 500+ years old so....if teenage body 500 year old venti can down 37 drinks, so can we) (of course it could also be venti KNOWS we’re super old and is just harassing us for fun as usual)

3) point #2 also reminds me of that scene in GSNK where creators can get in trouble for breaking laws in their creations, (the episode where he had to give the delinquents juice and lollipops instead of drinks and cigarettes), which is another reason mihoyo would probably just implement the laws from china to be safe. 

4) ive seen people say she LOOKS young, which is kind of a bad argument because theres only 3 sizes of playable character model to choose from, also short people exist. amber was drinking in jeans quest and she literally has the same look and build

4.5) edit: another point on “looking young” - in childes story, childe is stated to be the youngest harbinger in fatui history. hes #11, scaramouche is #6. Assuming childe is 19-20, this makes scaramouche AT LEAST 20-21. hes probably older, since there are 5 whole harbingers between him and childe, most likely some time passed between when he became a harbinger, and when childe became a harbinger. yet, he also has the “young boy” model. so another example of looks ≠ age.

5) again, the only canon age we have for lumine is 500+. (or whenever that bigass war was a long time ago at the very least), and most chilumi shippers see the age gap as 17 lumine 19 childe, which is actually very realistic and other ships like xiaolumi, lumine/zhongli, or literally any other lumine ship thats not, like albedo or something, go without hate so you know what!! just do whatever you want!!!

i personally also see it as 17 lumine, 19 childe so thats what im going with!!!!!

(also sorry i hope this doesnt sound like im yelling at YOU, its just a lot of things ive been thinking about whenever i see people bring up the “age gap” argument!!! )

EDIT: I FORGOT THAT IN DAINSELFS QUEST SHES WALKS INTO THE BAR AND THE GUY IS LIKE “oh, apple juice for you?” and she mugs on about “another day, another lack of alcoholic options” implying she SHOULD be able to drink but other people just think shes too young!!!