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I knew someone was gonna bring up old Alexander. 
My answer would simply be that he was clearly a very rare and exceptional individual. ASoIaF seems to have a few too many exceptional kids. |
But they
are exceptional! They descend from exceptional parents (I don't know where you stand on the nurture-nature debate, but I lean heavily toward nature when it comes to
OCEAN personality traits), and in many cases have received exceptional education/training. Plus the quite exceptional life experiences that I've mentioned earlier.
Besides, it stands to reason that exceptional kids will turn out to be main characters. Remind me why there's no chapter for, e.g. Big Walder...
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Also, what do you mean by the g factor? I'm not familiar with that term. The only thing that comes to mind is g-force...
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g-factor. Its a
general intelligence factor, which correlates to IQ.
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True, but they are fewer and farther between than would be reasonably expected from teenagers.
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Average teenagers, maybe. But not exceptional ones. See above.
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But Dany at the start of the series is thirteen. Thirteen! I find that hard to swallow. I'm just gonna go ahead and keep pretending that she's ten years old than what she is.
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Dany doesn't really assert herself until the end of the first book. And by then she has gone through a
lot. It was either adapt or die, and dying would make for a very poor story
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But it's not just the Stark kids. Yes, Joffrey was a jackass, but in some ways even he seemed older than his years. Not in terms of wisdom or such, but even his malicious and cruel streak suggests maturity. An evil sort of maturity, but still.
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Joffrey is a psychopath. And these guys start early
