as i was saying, to my familiarity with younger characters since i watch a lot of anime, and with her being the first carmen who's younger than me rather than older, so she doesn't have the mom/older sister figure baggage.
Something just dawned on me. You know how we went from two digit years to four digit years because of the Y2K bug? In like 9K years we'll have to go to 5 digit years to combat the problem again