Like Sheldon Cooper or House M.D is gifted or even Monk as reminded to me tonight I want to make a super genius type character. I saw this a segment on Australia's 60 Minutes and, made me want to develop a gifted character. It might mean having a team of writers, so, I'm hoping to maybe get other experts on board to make sure this character is gifted. Like Sheldon Cooper's bit of knocking on something saying the name 3 times, or Brick's way of repeating words to himself from The Middle, what OCD might such a person have? A gifted person, like, super smart. I want them to be an adult, and, why not a woman? Monk, House, Sheldon, Brick; All male, why not a female, that Taxi Actress in that video who inspired me is a woman, why not have a character with super memory and make it a woman? Or maybe not super memory, but, a way of seeing things and being gifted and brilliant for it, people understand their quirky behavior, like John Nash.
Now I have some questions , what kind of intelligence does your character have? What flaws does he have?
Super intelligence, like, brilliant, like; so intelligent I might need a team of writers devoted to researching intelligent things for this character to say. Flaws? I'm not sure what flaws exactly, but I'd imagine OCD or some personality quirk/flaw that their overwhelming genius justifies this flaw to people in their professional and social life putting up with, since my genius is so good at what they do/respected in their field. Like Monk or Sheldon Cooper or even Brick from The Middle. Someone's who's gifted, but also has OCD I'm leaning towards.
I see two things; this idea's already been done & there's room for a woman/female. Every example I can think of in fiction are all male, and one inspiration from real life/documented example that inspired me to want to write a gifted character, is female, an actress from the TV show Taxi, although, the actress as far as I'm aware doesn't have any personality flaws, which my character might need to have for entertainment value, I'm leaning on just making it a female typical OCD genius. If I was to make the lead female, she could be protected by co workers/friends from people taking advantage of her... Like, she'd be smart, but naive perhaps.
I see Sheldon Cooper is received by audiences for his interests like Science Fiction fandom. Monk gets to display a baby sat sheltered lifestyle riddled with OCD. House M.D, gets by by being rude, troubled, less than nice. I want my Heroine character to need to be saved, so they will be vulnerable, and I'm going to need her to like something, anything, maybe something so basic as the colour pink, and use pink to symbolise her eccentricity, and she could be a hoarder maybe or, maybe more believable, the opposite, a neat freak. So whatever it is, if it's pink, she'd want to collect it/have it? IDK
"If I was to make the lead female, she could be protected by co workers/friends from people taking advantage of her... Like, she'd be smart, but naive perhaps.", "I want my Heroine character to need to be saved, so they will be vulnerable" You can make her an unpleasant person at first, but in the past, she used to be naive. Or she is naturally a person that likes to control others, to the point making her co workers feeling vulnerable, and this implies her taking advance of them instant.
Two other examples you missed: 1) Sherlock Holmes - the recent series which may or may not be still on (female Dr.Watson) 2) Bones - the female lead character, Bones, is a forensics specialist. She is extremely smart but has no social skills. Despite this, she ends up marrying an FBI agent with whom she works.
I like Holmes and Bones, but, to me, Holmes is a violin playing opiate addict with an obsession for knowing London. (Like, what's in that pipe, because I doubt it's tobacco) - and I think Doctor Watson was his supplier and his friend. Bones, I like for the actor from the same county as I know in America near Philadelphia, and have never noticed Bones the character as being odd.
I wonder if we are talking about the same character. Bones often relied on her friends to supply her with the correct social responses. She was not devoid of compassion but had to think harder and ask how to respond. Her childhood was isolated between science and the inability to empathize. Why do you think he turned to opiates? He was unable to cope with the feelings and situations into which his genius pushed him. Watson was not his supplier, she was his life coach so he would not need to rely on opiates to manage. Holmes' focus was on his intellect. He had no interest in other people except as pieces of a puzzle. He learned and evolved as the show progressed. BTW, I never saw a pipe on that show.
I always drag the subject into Sci-Fi "a priori", so I guess you mean a superintelligent character like the guy in "Limitless" movie/series or in the short novel "Lysergically Yours". 1) Internal Inference Clock, faster than actual computers. 2) Unlimited memory: images, scents, sounds, info. 3) Perfect application of Probability Laws. The all-in-one set that makes him a Laplacian bad ass who mocks determinism. Is this the idea?
Yeah, I can't remember the name of it because it only lasted one season... but there was a show about a woman who remembered everything and was using it to solve a crime....
