Hey, Mitheral? Sorry about raising this so suddenly out of nowhere, but I'm starting to find that Duncan's level and achievements are getting a bit too high for my comfort. 

I do understand that I did say that it was fine for Duncan to be a prodigy, but I did not expect him to have completed a PhD by the time he was fifteen. One PhD would have already been quite something, and completing more than one is even more unbelievable, in my opinion. Even as a prodigy, I should think that completing one PhD would have taken [i]at least[/i] two to three years? Or much longer, in fact. That would mean that he would have started working for his PhDs at age twelve or thirteen, at an astounding young age.

What also makes these achievements too high in my view is how you wrote about his constant abuse from a young age. I should think that this would have meant he might have had to miss school to recover, on top of the fact that you said in his bio that he was often bored-- meaning that he must not have been allowed to skip grades, at least not until later. 

I should also think that recovering from killing several gang members must have taken a while, and all that counseling afterward must have taken time away from his studies. 

I'm not sure when he changed hands to a foster family. But if Duncan would have changed to his kind family that allowed him to study as much as he liked at a younger age, it probably would have not been possible for him to defeat those gang members. 

I would like to ask if you are willing to tone down what Duncan has done. Some intellect is great and I think that it makes things more interesting for Darlene to be around someone who knows so much, but all these PhDs and degrees are making me uncomfortable.