
Mental maturity is acting like fictional characters have to be the embodiment of perfect human beings with healthy relationships all the time. Some stories are just fucked up and are about fucked up people. People here need to stop treating fictional stories like they're fucking bible preachings. hypocritical people probably jerked off to shit like fifty shades and be a fangirl of pedophilic twilight and take moral stances here

Twilight is gross and predatory. There's no reason someone over a hundred years old should be trying to get with a girl in high school regardless of physical appearance. Edward's gross.
I've had people try to defend it like "oh well he was turned into a vampire at 17 and that's where his brain development stopped so mentally he's the same as Bella."
But here's the thing. Say someone gets a traumatic brain injury at 17 that makes it so their mental maturity stagnates at 17 and their brain stops developing. That person still ages. So eventually this person turns 50 and starts dating a 16 year old. It doesn't matter that his brain stopped maturing at 17, he's still 50 fucking years old! And even if his mental age has stagnated, there's also a huge difference between life experiences. And no one would care that his mental age is still 17, because it's creepy no matter what for a 50 year old to be dating a high school student. But when it's a hot vampire who still looks 17 despite being over a hundred, everyone is okay with it.

If the 31 year old acts like a 16 year old and looks younger, you wouldn't mind? Gtfo of here with your hypocrisy. Edward's age is the LEAST of his problems with that clumsy chick. Dating him is being necrophilic bruh...that plus the fact that he's an obsessed controlling stalker who is 100+ her age...fuck
People here talking about 17 and 31 age gap and calling it pedophilia...meanwhile they all probably liked twilight at one point where the age gap was more than 100 years hahahahaha good one guys.