I've noticed that one of the biggest problem with Emma's writing is that, the writers think kindness immediately means naivety. it's as if they're trying to show how pure-hearted Emma is by making her naive as fuck. like look how sweet and innocent she is, she would never want to harm anybody and that's why she won't expect to be scammed in like 5 minutes from now. ok, I get it, when you are giving kindness, you expect kindness in return, but the way they're linking a positive trait with negative trait is annoying.
A person can be kind and pure-hearted and also absolutely kick ass, be smart schemer, physically strong, stand up for themselves and see through the lies of others and whatnot. And while Emma does have moments where she's a badass, writers still insist on her on being naive, inexperienced, slow and clumsy. I've noticed this is often for the sake of romance with love interests. such as Emma clumsily tripping and male lead catches her, creating a romantic tension or Emma naively putting herself in danger and male interest coming to her rescue. sure, romantic tension is great but clearly no one enjoys repetitive themes that's justified by the MC being too dumb, too clumsy, too naive.
Another thing I noticed is that writers sometimes purposely make Emma ask naive questions so they can explain more to us. for an example: "the peace treaty Obsidian signed isn't trustworthy." "Oh so they still possess threat to us?" yes. yes, when a peace treaty is not trustworthy, it means there is no guaranteed peace, hence the threat is still here. we know this but for some reason, Emma still asks the second question, which writers use to widen their explanation, which is sometimes unnecessary and can come across as annoying. like, you can trust your readers to put two and two together, you know? no need to make the main character purposely naive just for this.
These traits also fail to portray that she represents a rabbit, because rabbits are highly intelligent, very cautious animals and have strict boundaries, they're quite complex and definitely not simpletons. So like, where did they get an idea from that just because she was a prey animal, she couldn't be planning for world domination because for all I know, many rabbits like to cause trouble and would definitely aim for world domination were they humans. (do you hear that, Gilbert?)
