@legendofcarl replied to your post “Me in HighSchool: Demauria will be 17 and Riivar will be 30ish, that’s…”

Age differences is one of those finicky things when it comes to creating a relationship between two characters. Especially if you’re going into supernatural entity territory i.e. a centuries old vampire with a younger partner.

Oh yeah that is definitely one of the trickiest things to balance in such stories (makes me glad that 100s of yrs old Raven and even older Saka are not placed in such an equation or I’d have an aneurysm; they stay single for the end of their lives and I’m relieved that they are so).

That’s not even factoring in other complications like experience (something I need to balance especially carefully with Dema/Riivar); A sheltered inexperienced rural bumpkin x a very experienced urban expert are a coupling that has to be written very carefully if one wants to write it as a healthy relationship; it could be far too easy to have the experienced character take advantage of the inexperienced character, and as this distinction is moreso written improperly vs properly in the majority of media, it can be quite a challenge to do it right.