"You'd make a great sub" is a strange thing to say to a person.
Is Leto still underage? That would make it even stranger.

phd_in_feeling_bad said:
"You'd make a great sub" is a strange thing to say to a person.
Is Leto still underage? That would make it even stranger.

Ya, this is going a little off the end of realism for me. However, in regards to the underage thing, yes, he is, but I don't remember or know if it said at all when Damon graduated in regards to Leto being 16. If Leto's 16--which he is in this case--then he's probably a Sophomore. It's possible that he's a Junior at this point, depending on when he was born, but I have no way of telling. In either case, if Damon just graduated, as it was stated that at some point Leto and Damon were in high school together, which would mean that the furthest they could've been apart was Leto as a Freshman and Damon as a Senior, then the age different is not that far apart--nowhere near what Leto's and Reth's is. In a lot of states in the US, from what I'm told, if two people were to become a couple where one is a minor and one is a legal adult, but the age difference is within 2-3 years, it's possible that a court would find it perfectly acceptable, as long as anything done between the two is allowed by the minor's consenting parent(s). Also from what I'm told, in some states, two minors are allowed to have sex if both of the minors' parent(s) are consenting. However, the relationship needs to be clear and more often than not the minors need to be upstanding members of society (good grades, no criminal record, active volunteers, that sort of thing). It's not uncommon that a couple may be more than 2 years apart. My parents are 4 years apart and they had been dating since middle school. I don't know anything about their sex lives beyond them having me and my siblings, but I know that they still dated and no legal action was ever pressed against them. So it's very possible that Leto and Damon could be considered a couple without Damon running into legal trouble, simply due to the very, very small gap in their age difference and the fact that they both went to the same high school and knew each other in high school. They're also volunteering to help out natural disaster victims. Given the information we've been given, Damon must've been VERY successful in high school, and if Leto is also quite successful (getting good grades), then I really don't think anything would come of them becoming a couple.

Of course, this varies state-by-state and judge-by-judge, so I really could not tell you what would become of it in this author's world.

phd_in_feeling_bad said:
"You'd make a great sub" is a strange thing to say to a person.
Is Leto still underage? That would make it even stranger.

This was a conversation I had with the guy I was assigned to during the disaster relief deploy. While it may seem odd, it happened (I can't remember the convo that lead to us talking about kinks, but it wasn't a sexual convo to begin with). Nothing came out of it, as I am married... If I hadn't met him, then Damon wouldn't be in this comic and there would be worse outcomes for Leto overall...

whowillremember said:
Ya, this is going a little off the end of realism for me. However, in regards to the underage thing, yes, he is, but I don't remember or know if it said at all when Damon graduated in regards to Leto being 16. If Leto's 16--which he is in this case--then he's probably a Sophomore. It's possible that he's a Junior at this point, depending on when he was born, but I have no way of telling. In either case, if Damon just graduated, as it was stated that at some point Leto and Damon were in high school together, which would mean that the furthest they could've been apart was Leto as a Freshman and Damon as a Senior, then the age different is not that far apart--nowhere near what Leto's and Reth's is. In a lot of states in the US, from what I'm told, if two people were to become a couple where one is a minor and one is a legal adult, but the age difference is within 2-3 years, it's possible that a court would find it perfectly acceptable, as long as anything done between the two is allowed by the minor's consenting parent(s). Also from what I'm told, in some states, two minors are allowed to have sex if both of the minors' parent(s) are consenting. However, the relationship needs to be clear and more often than not the minors need to be upstanding members of society (good grades, no criminal record, active volunteers, that sort of thing). It's not uncommon that a couple may be more than 2 years apart. My parents are 4 years apart and they had been dating since middle school. I don't know anything about their sex lives beyond them having me and my siblings, but I know that they still dated and no legal action was ever pressed against them. So it's very possible that Leto and Damon could be considered a couple without Damon running into legal trouble, simply due to the very, very small gap in their age difference and the fact that they both went to the same high school and knew each other in high school. They're also volunteering to help out natural disaster victims. Given the information we've been given, Damon must've been VERY successful in high school, and if Leto is also quite successful (getting good grades), then I really don't think anything would come of them becoming a couple.

Of course, this varies state-by-state and judge-by-judge, so I really could not tell you what would become of it in this author's world.

Yup.

The fact that they went to highschool together would also turn in their favor. Courts do actually look at the age gap to judge how inappropriate the relationship is when it comes time to pass a ruling, given that there's been unlawful behavior. No court would go out of its way to convict Damon unless he either does something bad to Leto or if Leto's parents want to press charges against him.

I think I read a while back that California tends to far more severely punish those who have a 30 year advance on their victims, which is mega understandable.