Mathemagician is, as the name implies, rather
fond of and proficient with numbers. He's a former high school math team champion and college statistics teacher, and currently a software engineer. He also has a bewildering array of other eclectic interests, many of which don't really seem to fit very well together.
Mathemagician has exhibited - or occasionally been somewhere in the vicinity of - the following tropes:
- Asperger Syndrome: Since his childhood was well before AS was known in the States, he was never formally diagnosed, although a psychologist friend recently confirmed that the self-diagnosis is likely accurate.
- Beware the Nice Ones: If you doubt it, ask the high school classmate who, thinking he was a wimpy safe-to-torment geek, spewed vulgar insults at his girlfriend. Fortunately, neither the window nor the classmate's head broke. Either time.
- Good With Numbers: The name kinda gives it away. Multiple prize-winner in math competitions. Thinks getting a score of 99% on a math test is a humiliating failure. Not quite as good as he used to be, though - anymore, he usually needs paper and pencil to work out cube roots longhand.
- Literal-Minded: Do not ask him "How are you doing?" unless you really want to know. His wife has learned to say "Will you please [do chore X]?" rather than "Would you like to [do chore X]?". He is more aware of this tendency than he used to be - which only means he can now intentionally play it for laughs in his Pungeon Master persona.
- Mouthful of Pi: Though actually more of a nibble than a mouthful; the most he ever memorized was 50 digits.
- Pungeon Master: Normally exercised only at home, with his kids. This is a matter of self-preservation, though occasionally he will punish friends and coworkers with it.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Seriously through high school; due to sesquipedaliophilia in college; now he mostly mostly plays it for laughs with his kids.
- Smart People Play Chess: In high school, anyway, where he was on the chess team.
