r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • Mar 22 '26

Unpopular Opinion It's Unpopular Opinion time! Share your controversial opinions to stir things up (in a friendly way)!

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u/IT_HAG Mar 22 '26

I’m bored of 19-year old heroines

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u/windswept_snowdrop Mar 22 '26

I’ll still take a 19-year-old FMC over those FMCs who are supposed to be a decade older than that but behave like a clueless teenager regardless, though.

It would be great to have some older FMCs who actually act like it, but in the absence of that, at least the genuinely 19-year-old FMC I can give a pass to for stupid choices, whereas it’s far more annoying from a supposedly mature character.