Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.218.70.24-20150317164438/@comment-24113789-20150413035534

Okay all this talk about how "normal teenagers" act is really long so I'm just just gonna jump in again and give my opinion on Ruby's "maturity". I don't think she's immature. She's energetic and cheerful, but that is not a bad thing. I acted pretty much exactly like Ruby when I was 15, so much it's weird, but I've been told for as long as I can remember by adults that I was surprisingly mature, and I come from a community of really mature teenagers. Yes, we live in America but that doesn't make us inherently more childish, thank you very much. Maybe the culture is different from yours, but it's not worse.

Also remember that the writers of the show also live in America, so their idea of "normal people" might be different from yours if you don't live in America.

Ruby is innocent. She hasn't gone through the harsher thing of life. She's never been corrupted or torn apart. That's called being happy. It's not the same as immaturity.

I will agree, however, that she's not prepared for the hard parts of life; when it first hits her it might rock her world. Or she might adjust just fine like I did. Given her choice of career and her theme song, my bet's on the first one. So she is definitely inexperienced, at least for her universe. But I've known 25-year-olds less experienced than Ruby, so that might be a little unfair too.

Mostly, it just seems out of character for Taiyang to tell Ruby about Yang's mother; I think Ruby would handle it just fine if he did. I mean, she didn't blink when Penny told her she was a robot.