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== [[Fanfic]] == |
== [[Fanfic]] == |
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* Detians in ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' can sometimes, if their immortality is activated by traumatic injury, be frozen in their current ages. This is called Edgerton's Syndrome, after the guy who took high-speed pictures of fast-moving objects, freezing the images forever in time. |
* Detians in ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' can sometimes, if their immortality is activated by traumatic injury, be frozen in their current ages. This is called Edgerton's Syndrome, after the guy who took high-speed pictures of fast-moving objects, freezing the images forever in time. |
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* Most people agree that the teenage years suck. Now, imagine if you became undead while a teenager, and were more or less stuck that way forever. This is what happened to Adrius, a Forsaken teenager encountered in ''[[ |
* Most people agree that the teenage years suck. Now, imagine if you became undead while a teenager, and were more or less stuck that way forever. This is what happened to Adrius, a Forsaken teenager encountered in ''[[Travels Through Azeroth and Outland]]''. |
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* Bit of [[Fridge Horror]] used in a few ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' fics. [[Moe Anthropomorphism|Nations]] only age when their countries develop; the Italy brothers were stuck as prepubescents for two hundred years when under the thumb of Austria and Spain. In the 21st century, Sealand is personified by a twelve-year-old boy. He is eternally optimistic about his future, hoping to grow up and become a great empire, but since he has an official population of four people and his "land" is an old [[World War Two]] fort, this is unlikely. His human name is Peter, which may or may not be a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Peter Pan]]; either way it's been used as such in fanfic, since he'll presumably be twelve forever. |
* Bit of [[Fridge Horror]] used in a few ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' fics. [[Moe Anthropomorphism|Nations]] only age when their countries develop; the Italy brothers were stuck as prepubescents for two hundred years when under the thumb of Austria and Spain. In the 21st century, Sealand is personified by a twelve-year-old boy. He is eternally optimistic about his future, hoping to grow up and become a great empire, but since he has an official population of four people and his "land" is an old [[World War Two]] fort, this is unlikely. His human name is Peter, which may or may not be a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Peter Pan]]; either way it's been used as such in fanfic, since he'll presumably be twelve forever. |
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* [[Truth in Television]] example: ''[[Series/Law And Order Special Victums Unit|Law And Order Special Victums Unit]]'' did an episode about a young woman, chronologically an adult, whose [[wikipedia:Turnerchr(27)s syndrome|rare medical condition]] kept her permanently looking about 11 years old. Her consensual relationship with an adult man caused a lot of [[Squick]], the more so in that he's implied to be a pedophile who only likes her ''because'' she looks prepubescent. Her parents, naturally, want him busted for rape because they think of her as a child. |
* [[Truth in Television]] example: ''[[Series/Law And Order Special Victums Unit|Law And Order Special Victums Unit]]'' did an episode about a young woman, chronologically an adult, whose [[wikipedia:Turnerchr(27)s syndrome|rare medical condition]] kept her permanently looking about 11 years old. Her consensual relationship with an adult man caused a lot of [[Squick]], the more so in that he's implied to be a pedophile who only likes her ''because'' she looks prepubescent. Her parents, naturally, want him busted for rape because they think of her as a child. |
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' briefly featured a child vampire known as The Anointed One. |
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' briefly featured a child vampire known as The Anointed One. |
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* ''[[Being Human]]'''s third season had an episode with a forty year old vampire who was still stuck as a teenager. He had been taken care of by his family, but when they died of old age he was left alone to fend for himself. Complicated by him still being mentally 14 as well as physically. |
* ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'''s third season had an episode with a forty year old vampire who was still stuck as a teenager. He had been taken care of by his family, but when they died of old age he was left alone to fend for himself. Complicated by him still being mentally 14 as well as physically. |
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