Snowflake Challenge #2

In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom.

Oooo man do I have a manifesto in mind. This is regarding best boi Edge, the prince Edward Geraldine, the ninja with dashing looks and mystifying skills---

I digress. The amount of times I've seen people in forums call him a pedophile for crushing on Rydia?!

Best boi Edge is not a pedo.

The entire basis I've seen of this argument has been that Rydia is canonically 7 years old. This is incorrect. Assuming a calendar year span revolutions of the sun like our world, she has chronologically lived through 7 revolutions of the sun, but when she went to the Feymarch (or the Summoned Lands depending on the version you played), she aged up. She cannot age up physically without aging up mentally, either. I have no idea where the basis for this thought came from either.

How would it have worked? 

How would she have had the grace to forgive Cecil for destroying her village, facilitating the genocide of her people, and killing her mother right in front of her if she was not mentally aging, either?

I could maybe grant some leeway based on the following cutscene line Edge says on the Lunar Whale:
 

"This is work for grownups. You just wait for us back here."
 

 

Here's my rebuttal: everyone else had met her as a child, and there's a whole side quest that can occur where you travel to the Feymarch with the final party. It's almost impossible for Edge to not have known her background by this point of the story, and he could've used it as a sore spot to get her off of the ship, especially considering how fast he could get under her skin and how fast they devolved into spats. Side note: when Leviathan sees Rydia in the Feymarch, he calls her "a fine young woman." The Eidolon who raised here off screen, arguably the only being who may know how old she actually is, thinks she's grown.

Therefore, Edge is not a pedo.