...can you really get on the case of a shallow, obsessed character for being shallow and obsessed? I mean, Brainstorm seems to me like a one-trick pony both ICly and from what I've seen of his canon, with that one trick being "SCIENCE!!!1" with varying levels of explosion, so you're doing good with him. I also enjoy the CR we have going, though both of us need to pick that up a bit and have BS and Hain actually begrudgingly talking like we keep hinting at.
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