Or possibly teenagers should not be doing this

[beccaelizabeth]

I am reading Teen Wolf fic again
and I'm hitting that problem where
instead of seeing grand adventure
I am getting very annoyed at the adults
because none of this should be the responsibility of people
that
young.



Like they're people that think Derek is an adult and I have read nothing to suggest that's usefully the case in the canon timeframe.

High school kids trusting a college senior
just makes me want to find some actual adults and Yell until they fix it.





This is a problem with stories
because so many are about coming of age and coming into your power and so forth
that people I would consider the responsible adults
(ie, my age)
are either clueless
evil
or dead.


... the ones that offer to help are pretty much always evil eventually, because at some point the youngers are going to outgrow them, and this somehow involves rejecting them?



We have screwed up models.



I mean, how would story work where the youngers have appropriately sized responsibilities, and backup, and a community to reach out to, and accurate information, and *choices*?

I don't know cause I'm not thinking of any right now.

Some of the comics sometimes, maybe, ish
but movies and TV do not play the same game
and legacy heroes are not the same shape at all.



So I'm just
angry
at adults in like
every
story.


*sigh*




This is not going to work out well for my reading.