How would a child with a thousand years of experience behave?

Here's one to ponder: what would an immortal eight-year-old be like after one thousand years?

In most stories involving immortality, the immortals are fully formed adults. When those stories do involve children, often those children are effectively presented as fully formed adults with the body of a child, or they are presented as being "frozen in time," that is, even after a thousand years they still act, think, and behave like a regular child.

But a thousand years is a long time. They'd inevitably see some crazy stuff and have to work through it, sometimes alone. And the brain of an eight-year-old is physically incapable of certain reasoning.

So: how would the wisdom of a thousand years manifest through such a physically underdeveloped mind?

If this concept has been explored anywhere, I haven't seen it and please let me know. I can't quite figure out the right Google phrasing to find anything worthwhile.

posted over 6 years ago

Aldaine‭

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