GENIUS

Persona ​(Characteristics)

- Brilliant, amazing intellectual capabilities well beyond those of the people around him
- Orchestrates procedures, battles, conflicts, etc and bends them to his will 
- May use his considerable powers towards the benefit of others/ greater society
- Able to achieve, create, invent, solve, organize, plan with mastery 
- May be absolutely essential for the success of a larger endeavor/ mission/ journey
- Able to think and calculate based on a much larger picture that others can't see
- Puts aside personal biases and emotions to make a logical, rational decision

​Shadow ​(Dark side)

- Uses his intellect and talent for nefarious purposes
- Disorganized, scatterbrained, flaky, careless, all over the place
- Cold, calculating, heartless, immoral, manipulative, questionable in his practices
- Insufferable know-it-all
- Contemptuous, patronizing towards others, who he deems to be beneath him because of their inferior intellect
- May seek revenge from a Community that exiled, humiliated him for his intellectual pursuits
- Really difficult to forge a personal relationship with
- Closes herself off to emotion
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Examples

Harry Potter: Severus Snape
Film/ TV: Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock; Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones; Ava in Ex Machina (shadow)
Shakespeare: Iago in Othello (shadow); Edmund in King Lear ​(shadow) 

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