Disclaimer: grooming is the act of psychologically manipulating a
CHILD in order to sexually abuse them.
So lets say in an alternate universe (asking for a novel a friend of mine is writing), so the MC is 18 and he is in a store a friend of his runs, and a 10 year old girl enters the store with her dad, who looks like Jack from Breaking Bad, somehow his daughter is really cute, she has very thick neck-length jet black hair, green eyes and a little bit of freckles (she is also white) and her face is extraordinarily pretty.
So the MC (who isnt attracted to her by this point because she is 10) realizes she got great genetic potential ngl, and thinks she would be very pretty and he might feel attracted to her when she is 14. He also lives in the same dimension where girls who are same age as her act this way on social media:
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVqN-3ONJX0/?utm_medium=copy_link
So our MC, who is 22 at the time, plans to shoot his shot and talk to this foid once she is 14, around the age when he would be comfortable talking to her and feeling attracted to her. While you must ask
"why isnt he waiting till she is 18"
Well let's just say our MC wants to marry her for some reason if things went nice between them, and he wouldnt want to marry her after she fucked about 30 different Chads, our MC also believes that if a girl gets a taste of one Chad, he will be on her mind forever and she would never truly love anyone else.
So our MC (22) talks to that girl who is 14 at the time in order to get to know her,(our MC also believes in the importance of personality and wouldnt roll with a girl with a shitty personality) so yeah they get to know eachother and they like hanging around eachother.
Note: my friend who is writing this novel just informed me that they wouldnt have sex until they are married (if they do get married),most they would do is hold hands or kiss (but only if the girl initiated.)
So fast forward a couple months, or a year or two, (whenever our MC is ready)
Our MC proposes to her and she accepts, so then our MC asks for her parents's blessing and they accept. So yeah then they have sex or whatever married virgins do.
So anyways what i am asking is, is this grooming/immoral in any way?
because as an agecuck myself id tell my friend not to write this novel if it was
Note: everything mentioned here is legal in the fictional country our MC lives in.