[ SECRET POST #2588 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2588 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Edward can't grow up physically, yeah. But what's stopping him from maturing emotionally and intellectually? If you've had several lifetimes to accumulate learning and life experience, you should be smarter, not dumber.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of growing out of teenage dumbness is about learning and thinking, to be sure, but it's also a matter of physical changes in the brain that would still be only partially complete at the age he was when he died. Edward is still mentally a teenager, just a really really old one.

[(Anonymous)]

That's going to be a factor, but that's not really a good explanation for why he's still mentally 17. It's not realistic to imply a 100+ years makes no difference at all in one's maturity because BRAIN CHEMICALS. There are teenagers who manage to behave and think more maturely than either Bella or Edward. There are adults who are even more immature than those two.

[darkmanifest]

He's too busy self-flagellating over whether or not he has a soul anymore and invading people's mental privacy for anything so mundane as maturity.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, lack of the brain growth that usually comes in early to late 20s? Retaining knowledge isn't an infinite thing, either, so eventually he'd have to forget things to learn more. Being an immortal teenager would royally suck.

[(Anonymous)]

Retaining knowledge isn't an infinite thing, either, so eventually he'd have to forget things to learn more."

What? Yeah, retaining knowledge isn't permanent, but you can't delete stuff off your brain and suddenly have more downloading capacity. It's a brain, not a hard drive.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't say it was deliberate, but forgetting happens? The older you get and the more information you have to process, the harder it is to recall anything. It's called interference theory, and I think it would have a lot more basis for immortal teenagers than your average person.

[blunderbuss]

Exactly. I understand why, for example, the Beast from Beauty and the Beast is an immature little asshole at the start; because he was a spoilt kid turned into a monster that prevented any kind of human contact.

Edward though? He's lived through the most active and world-changing century in history. He could have been a vampiric Forrest Gump, seeing all these amazing events and changing as a person because of it.

Even if he's stuck as a teen, he'd sure as hell should be a mature and wise teen.