[ There are very few incidents for him to show his secret natural intelligence in here, because he's very much not school-smart or tech-smart, and this place asks for a lot of those instead. This is also how canon is, it's just like. You can tell he's got a good brain but it is woefully underused. ]
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You can still have that.
Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.
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Wh--that doesn't make any sense!
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Yeah it does. You'll figure it out.
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Hmph. I don't see why I have to fake the emotional competence of a brick just to suit your delicate sensibilities.
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Oh, you don't have to, but you'll have to deal with the labels I give you in that case.
[ Granted, he would call any amount of actually good people stupid, because he's like that. ]
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