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It's not just his naivety that lead me to say that, though it's one of the things that support it.

If I leave everything else aside, let's decompose his emotional growth: As far as we know, Baam suddenly woke up in a cave as essentially a tabula rasa, and it was only when Rachel came to the cave that his growth officially began by learning basic concepts. We don't know how exactly that lasted, but Baam's reminiscence suggests that it hadn't been very long (i.e., less than a year) before they entered the Tower. They have been climbing since then for less than 10 years (it should be about 8 or 9 years now), and he's been relatively stagnant for a lot of that time. All in all, the upper limit I would accept for gauging Baam's (mainly emotional) maturity is about 12 years old, and that's still closer to a child than to an adult as far as I'm concerned.