#smart characters

I love writing characters who are wildly intelligent. I, however, have the mental capacity of a shrimp. In other words, most of my characters are smarter than me— and I sorta just have to live with that.

There's just something so delicious about the smart, arrogant, dependable, always has an answer for everything, technological nerd, who is always right on top of everything, who the team relies on a lot, who is so confident in their abilities, and then they're sitting at their computer during an intense conflict trying to help their team and their surrounded by error codes and flashing lights and warnings and you can see the crack of "What the fuck" on their face as panic starts to take them over because no! This isn't supposed to happen! What's going on? Why can't I fix this?! Ugh, Penelope Garcia and Donatello from tmnt are the best representation of this-