Was Cosette the first loli in literature ?

Was Cosette the first loli in literature ?

Let me explain. I don't mean "loli" as young girls seducing men (she doesn't) but a young girl character only to trigger protective instincts for the male reader and untold sexual attraction as she grows up into a beautiful (and still very young) lady the reader is supposed to desire.

Young girls are kinda rare in old literature. Greeks never talk seriously about female children younger than 15 (making them adult at the time), Medieval times only use them as character to teach actual young girls (and tell them to not go near "wolves") and modern times just don't use them in stories.

But suddenly, with the 19th centuries, kids and especially young girls become a subject, a bait for men to protect or even sacrifice for them. It's something we can still notice in recent movies, young girls characters are made from a MALE point of view. When reading les Miserables, you're supposed to hate the Thénardiers, kidnap Cosette from them and keep her for yourself. She's not a character in herself, she's just something you want to possess.

How do you explain the birth on this kind of character during that time ? How do you explain the success of it even today ? Are we all hephebophiled ? Are all writers ?

Girls aren't real

>liberal detected

Fuck off, you mentally ill degenerate piece of shit

This, Les Miserables was just fiction OP.

Who are you quoting?

Yeah, so ? I'm talking about the use of young girls character for "baiting" men readers into reacting. They can be fictional or not.

Think about it, you read a newspaper saying: teenager commits suicide. Your first reaction will be probably "meh, happens all the time". Then you read it's a cute blond 11yo girl with perfect white skin". I bet my left nut you will read the whole article and probably rage about her abusive parents pushing her into suicide.

We are not neutral leaders, young girls became a convenient plot device. Like a certain lord burning his cute daughter to get victory, you can support him afterward. But when he previously burn a shiton of people, you couldn't give a fuck.

I'm gay so fuck thots lol

bruh hugo did not market his novel with cosette lmao

I'm not really sure about that. She became a very emblematic character, even more famous than Valjean at some point. Maybe only later I admit.

It's literally just you. Children characters are always either used to relate to kids their age or as a coming of age troupe.
It's only anime where they become sexualized, become 10,000 year old vampires or alchemists, and get used as love interests for the main character to 'protect' as family.
S.CRY.ED did that with their loli character, and the entire time she wanted the MC to see her as mature but she's only 14 and he's too busy punching people to care.