User blog comment:GreekTelepath/Why Margarita's Sixteen/@comment-7342272-20150119221639

I kinda disagree with your reasoning on why it's better that Margarita is 16 instead of say, 20.

When an adult (or even young adult) has the mindset of a chld, it's almost scary. When I say this, APH Russia comes to mind (kid in a powerful body).

A grown up with the ability to access poisons and medicines while thinking she's making everything happy and okay. So disconnected from reality and absorbed into her little fantasies, she flat out admits to killing them yet still thinks she's spreading joy. It's almost like she has no grasp on the concept of death, therefore she feels nothing when she kills.

That's like making a five year old the president. Something is going to go very wrong.

A childish adult who needs to wake up and face reality is sad. A childish adult who can kill whoever she pleases without guilt or facing reality is scary. Just like how pitiful yet atrocious, and selfish Eve Moonlit was. A bit like a fall from grace.

It's scary because instead of being reasonable, they have no common sense, or at least block it out like a kid would.

Age has little to no impact on intelligence, at least in Margy's case (merely a four year difference between preferred ages). If she was 20, obviously she'd be 20 and the story wouldn't change a bit. At 16, she could have called for a divorce. At 16, she didn't. At 20, she could have called for a divorce. At 20, she could have also not called for a divorce. (If she divorced, then there'd be little to no reason for her to kill Kaspar)

A character's current age does not change their personality (doesn't count when it's, ex., Riliane was 14 then when she became a nun and she became really nice cause she learned her lesson and matured) Margarita is one age throughout the story, 16. If she would 20, she'd still be Margy in denial and NOT snap out of it.

...Though to be fair, someone nearly my age (15) who has the ability to kill whoever she wants is just about as scary.