What can I say about Percival Beal? He's the smartest man alive! He literally knows everything.
The trick with that was, making him not be a know it all. He's very relatable to the people he surrounds himself with. He is a licensed doctor, professor, psychiatrist, therapist, politician, engineer, mathematician, technician....the list goes on. His gift comes from the Soul Seed of Athena; you know, the Goddess of Knowledge. He was sent to bestow knowledge, create education and structure to the world to prepare it for the Messiah's coming. Percy has had many lives (most notably William James Sidis) until his final life (reborn in 1962) before the birth of the Kenny (b. 1978).
I created this character based on a teacher I had in 11th grade high school, Mr. Ealy. He was extremely smart but related to his students. He had a sense of debonair to him and always wore a smile. Percy took Kenny under his wing as soon as the latter's epiphany of his fate. He only had a short time to teach him the basics before the villain was aware of the Messiah's awakening. He created the Galaxy Lab to house all the knowledge he knows and it strengthens his powers. Each memory is a star in the manufactured universe. Being the conductor of electricity, he has an abundance of all forms of it there is; static, current, hydro and solar (he can pull down the sun-rays- book 5).
Although, Mother Nature can summon electricity to her side as well, she respectfully uses it only during storms that are created. Percy can pixelate in and out of form as a means of transportation and he gives Christian a form of this implanted in his left hand. I had fun writing The Host of Intelligence when writing dialogue between himself and his close friend Christian, or Kayla, or his Protector; Pierson. I didn't want to make him all powerful, but damn near close. I mean, he is protecting the Messiah! And training the Protectors to do the same.
I never gave a second thought to who I would have play Percy; Alexander Skarsgard.
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