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10 Things You Didn't Know

That's it. It's Sunday, I'm bored, it's time for a meme that I stole from

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1. Post with your character
2. Post ten things that you believe are true about your character that people might not know - nobody cares if you use headcanon, it's up to you.
3. Watch as others do the same; comment IC or OoC!
4. ???
5. PROFIT!

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10. Querl Dox has two very disparate views of himself. Deep down, he sort of realizes he's a good person, and a hero, and he's proud of himself for turning the moniker "Brainiac" into a heroic one.

...But part of him still thinks that there is nothing valuable to him beyond his intellect. This is why he often resented the Legion at times for treating him like a solution machine that they pushed a button and got answers from, rather than treating him like a person, because it was a stinging reinforcement of the idea that he was only valuable for his brain.

He feels like he was not valuable enough to cause his mother to develop an attachment, and after being treated like an object with a very useful facet, he tends to view his intellect as the most valuable part of himself, rather than who he actually is.

This leads to a weird dichotomy, where he's exceedingly arrogant about his 12th-level intellect, but inwardly, has horrible self esteem. A big part of his ego is inflating the importance of his intellect so he feels better about himself. If he ever lost his intellectual capacity permanently, he would possibly try to kill himself, because so much of his self esteem is invested in his intellect, and he thinks he's useless without it.

11. (Because I like to take it one step beyond! Well, ten steps. I'm going to 20) At one time, he had a holo collection from Legion World's security cameras of several of his team-mates in states of undress. He is seriously sexually repressed, and kind of perverted and deviant as a result.

12. He always had wanted a little brother or sister, so he wouldn't be alone. Now, in his mind, he did have a brother. Past tense.

13. He still wants a mommy, and will probably bond with Dr. Yewande to have the first healthy maternal relationship of his life.

14. Without his facial implants, he'd actually be quite insane. Aside from allowing him a link-up to control the shields of his shield belt, they double as personality inhibitors that help him control his thoughts. He is so smart that he can barely function.

15. Like most Legionnaires, he's a vegetarian. (Not a vegan, though, he will eat dairy). His favorite Earth food is cheesecake, and even if there weren't all those other good things about Earth that there are, he'd think the planet ought to exist just for that.

16. Some of his early inventions were sold in shady dealings by Colugov to the the Titanians and the Braalians and helped cause a great deal of death and destruction during the Titan-Braal War. He now highly resents when his inventions and innovations are used by unscrupulous persons to hurt people and this is why he's so paranoid about sharing information from his omnicom.

17. Brainy's creation C.O.M.P.U.T.O and the mech life forms of Robotica were responsible for the deaths of millions on Xanthu and in space. As a result, while the UP still considered him a hero in general, he was exiled from Colu and the Xanthans wanted his head on a pike. Meanwhile, the Roboticans saw him as the great creator, and nearly worshiped him as the creator of C.O.M.P.U.T.O--the One that gave them all free will and sentience--and as the progenitor of mechanoid life and the Father of Machinekind that helped them evolve to achieve true sentience.

He likes to pretend he doesn't, but Brainy does consider C.O.M.P.U.T.O his son, and hopes desperately that Stacy's saved him, despite Computo's past sins.

18. He doesn't like them touching him with their sticky fingers, and acts like he hates them, but he likes very small children. They tend to say exactly what they're thinking, and for someone that has difficulties navigating the turbulent waters of social interaction, that's much easier to deal with than talking to adults sometimes. The crew would probably be surprised to see how patient he'd be taking care of a baby or something, but the Legion's rescued a lot of people over the years and it means they all have to be good with comforting scared people. He's actually very good at calming down small children, mainly because he's always so calm in a catastrophe himself.

19. He rigged up the game systems at Legion HQ so that he could play the villains when the others think they're playing the computer. And he pretty much always wins. He will probably do that to the Media Library if he can get away with it.

20. Aside from never having sex (I mean, he just had his first kiss at age 21, yeesh) he's never even uh, done any lap-based web-browsing if you catch my drift. This is part of why he has no idea why humans are so sex-obsessed, though a big part of that is a naturally low sex drive. (Coluans are very long lived and don't need to mate as frequently to keep the population. Humans are shorter-lived and tend to get by on adaptability and sheer numbers--ergo, they have to breed more, ergo they have higher sex drive).

That being said, the Brainiacs tend to be more passionate than the other Coluans. The evil ones tend to take pleasure in evil or divert that passion towards conquering, but Brainiac 5, like Brainiac 2 once did, tends to direct that towards certain people. With Andromeda, who he thought was pretty and had crushed on without acting on it, when she "died" (it was a fake death), he smashed up his whole lab in a teary-eyed rage.

Brainy tends to let his feelings explode out violently.

Unlike the rest of his species, if Brainy ever really falls in love with someone, it'll be nothing like the cold genetic matches most make. He'll probably be crazy-go-nuts passionately in love with them and wanna do them every five minutes.

While his outward appearance is colder, the truth is Brainy's emotions, needs, and desires, are felt far more strongly by him than most Coluans feel them. He just has much more emotional control and represses them, largely because emotional outbursts would've made people even more terrified of him, and his upbringing didn't give him the skills to process emotion in a healthy way.

*happily laps up tl;dr*

Reactions:
-Oh. Oh my. Damn right those facts are depressing, but I'm glad I read them. Brainy and Bart---that right there is adorable. I can't wait 'til he comes back from hiatus.

-12 made me wibble all over again.

-7. Uh, wow. You've earned my favorite icon, because I never would have picked up on that in a million years. Like you said, strong and obvious crushes are obvious, and I could sorta see specks of feeling for Robin and Wyn, but...I'm clearly as thick as a rock.

Why yes, these facts are depressing, thank you Saphie!

4. D: It's kind of adorable, in a hopelessly sad way.

7. Wyn's reaction would look something like --->

just because she'd swear up and down that Brainy was science-sexual always and forever. (Y'know, because they've met exactly twice.) I, on the other hand, am wondering if it's because she's blonde, science-y, or both. XD

15. Brainy likes cheesecake! I like this mostly because it's one of about two non-wibble-worthy facts, but also because the image of Brainy eating cheesecake in my mind is lol-tastic.

omg, so much lovely things to read.

These two need to interact more. Srsly.

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