shaili

i think Jude's astounding genius is really overlooked. Even in his monastery years when he had yet to hit a double-digit age he was rattling off the scientific names of plants like it was nothing. He had BEEN mathematically and logically blessed, and showed signs of that as soon as he started getting tutored. Even his very first abusers couldn't deny this. The fact that despite going through hellish extremities of genuinely every form of abuse out there he still excelled academically is so admirable -- because usually trauma like that irreversibly damages a person's, ESPECIALLY a child's psyche and memory. Jude had a million billion problems and not ONE served as a setback for his studies this man never uttered a complain ONCE regarding academics. This is a guy who got his mathematics degree from MIT and a law one from Harvard. A guy who started formal education when he was maybe 11. A guy whose pet peeve is, canonically, 'incompetent people'. A guy who skipped 2 full highschool grades and taught his 2-years-older friends complex calculus. Hell he even did their calc work for them. A guy who is able to hold meaningful conversations and intellectually challenge professors 3 decades older than him. Bro has favorite mathematical equations. He LOVES pure maths AND is fluent in LATIN and GREEK..? . Jude is ridiculously competent in so, so many other aspects too - cooking, plumbing, baking, playing the piano, speaking, SINGING, all while being very eloquent and empathetic btw. He is disgustingly overeducated and even worse, the most humble and nonchalant about it.