Factive

  • Jack •••••, programmer for a vacuum-tube computer owned and operated by ConEd in NYC, b. 1910 d. 1950

Fictive

  • Wilbur Whateley, from The Dunwich Horror

Synpath/Fictionhearted

  • Teacher, from The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún (とつくにの少女)
  • Harold Finch, from Person of Interest

If These Tropes Appear You Might As Well Just Shoot Him

  • older brothers failing miserably to protect younger brothers that don't need protecting (except they do)
  • hideously complicated yet adorable neuroatypical father-daughter relationships
  • rejection by the US Army for service during WWII for medical reasons
  • massive room-sized computers and the teams that keep them running
  • programming informed by a near atomic-level understanding of the hardware and engineering involved
  • one foot in humanity and the other foot in monstrosity
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