It's possible to have a not at all naive, and already well developed character being introduced to a magical world, and I'd think they would be more fun, but the tabula rasa effect is probably a feature, not a bug for a lot of readers. They can make her anything they want.
I'm a YA kind of girl, which does mean that there are certain kinds of lack of experience that are expected of heroes and heroines in those works. And sometimes they act stupid, because even smart people sometimes do. What gets me, is why the same pattern persists in a genre doesn't require that pattern.
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Date: 2011-07-18 05:52 pm (UTC)I'm a YA kind of girl, which does mean that there are certain kinds of lack of experience that are expected of heroes and heroines in those works. And sometimes they act stupid, because even smart people sometimes do. What gets me, is why the same pattern persists in a genre doesn't require that pattern.