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Not your supergeniuses, but your very bright professional types. I've been playing one recently who is meant to be a bit bumbling and nervous, but who should still come across as perceptive and analytical, and have got feedback along the lines of "he doesn't seem that smart".

In all honesty I suspect, assuming that your canon is vaguely popular and you stand a reasonable chance of getting a response, that your best route would be to wait a bit and then slip in a comment and hope to get something tailored to your character.

This is DWRP. Half the time, other players assume you're playing your character stupid if you don't infomod the fuck out of everything so they're never wrong. Coming to a well-reasoned and logical conclusion that happens to also be completely wrong because you're missing a key piece of information because fairies or whatever is the province of dumbos, apparently.

You sound bitter, anon.

~~but i feel your pain and am kind of reassured~~

it's a tough thing to do in rp admittedly. are you having him take a lot of note of the other character's body language and stuff? you don't have to infomod or him to pick up on basic cues, or even just store the information away for later. with a bumbler that might be easier to show in introspection than action, but people don't mind that so much when it's actively focused on their character.

in general, really breaking down and showing a thought process helps loads

This. And if they haven't described their character's body language/clothing/whatever in the tag for him to analyze, I've found that writing about your character specifically looking for and taking note of those things will usually prompt a description in the next reply and give you all the material you need. Everyone loves writing about their own character, just give them an excuse.

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