Dawg call me crazy but there is like a difference between just making an AU to age up certain character and an AU where certain characters are aged up because thats accualy apart of the story and it's continuity and there night and day scenarios
"Cuphead and mugman are children in the og game" yeah pretty much everyone agrees on that, they were either teens or kids
But thats apart of the continuity in most AU's- like in most places people agree that the game happened years ago and the cup brothers are now adults, while it does open different shipping options it's rarely done just for that like are you hearing yourself?
Most AU's explore their story further that way, if you look at the game as their backstory there is alot to unpack there, and what happened to the devil after they defeated him? Like it's the devil they didn't beat his ass for good something must have happened further down the line like are we gotta explore that??
Alot of the time they still work for the devil if the game happened years ago what are they doing now? Are they still send out to kill people who haven't returned with the contracts? What happened to the elder kettle? How does inkwell look like now?
What people do with the cup brothers is expand their characters and that includes making them age as the story goes, what yall are getting pissed at is the equivalent of a character in a book series not staying 16 forever and aging as the story goes witch is 10x weirder and if youre Gross enough to suggest bendy staw is a proship????? Yeah dude youre insane.
I don't even ship bendystraw! And I view bendy as a grown man, but the thing about him is his age is almost painfully up to interpretation like- in the games he's depicted as very young- in the shorts it's ambigous- in the comics again it's ambigious does anyone remember how much of a debatę it used to be before everyone and I mean EVERYONE agreed he's beasicly ageless so debate is useless and interpretations are the way to go?
Some of yall need to man up say "wow i dont like that thing it makes me uncomfortable" block the tag, block the people then move on because youre just making shit up to make yourself feel better then others

