But in reality the age gap is not "that" big. Even if we're talking in the real world. It's 9 years. Maybe the only icky part is that she's young and that all of the marriage parts started when she was young. But if we think it like if she was 20-22 and he was 29-31 it would be better looking on paper or saying it out loud, but it's still kinda the same. The age gap won't go away even when she'll turn 30.
It’s a period piece, so the age gap isn’t that surprising. That said, the ick of an 18 year old marrying a 27 year old is more a maturity thing since they are both adults and, in this case, Tia has already lived more than her 18 years so she’s only an 18 year old in body and not in mind.
Yeah, it really wouldn't have changed the story at all to have her be a bit older. Even if there's in-story reasons for the age gap to exist it doesn't change the fact that the author chose to write it like that in the first place.
Honestly I didn’t know that there’s such a huge age gap between them two. Couldn’t she have been a little more grown? I mean, she just turned 18 and he’s already 27…they could’ve at least made her 20
And I feel like the mother Miralia is a really good villain/character. She also schemed to get where she’s now. Like mother like daughter.