Post by Dr. Sheldon Cooper on Mar 13, 2009 21:48:43 GMT -5
Name:Dr. Sheldon Cooper MSc, PhD[Shelly (by Missy (his twin-sister) and his mother), Dr. Dumbass (by Leslie), Sheldor The Conqueror (Age of Conan), Moon Pie (by his Grandmother "Memaw"), Dr. Whackadoodle (by Penny)]
Age: 28
What Show he or her is from:big band theory
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Personality:Sheldon possesses some qualities commonly associated with being a prodigy or one with autism spectrum disorder, such as an inflated ego, social ineptitude, a lack of empathy, intimidating OCPD, and his purely logical state, which often annoy his friends. As a corollary, it is apparent that he believes everyone else to be intellectually inferior to him, including fellow physicists and even Isaac Newton. Sheldon's eccentricities and snide remarks especially put him at odds with Penny. He not only fails to understand the simplest sarcastic jokes made by Leonard, but also regards Penny's sadness over her breakup with blatant confusion. That is not to say Sheldon does not have a conscience; he is simply more likely to do what is scientifically ethical (not donate to a "high IQ sperm bank" because his sperm will not guarantee high IQ offspring) rather than morally and socially ethical (break into Penny's home to organize her things). Sheldon is very obsessive compulsive and as a result has a schedule he must stick to (such as going to the comic book store on certain days, taking a certain path to work, eating specific food items on specific days, or knocking on the door a certain number of times while repeating the name of the person he is seeking with a particular frequency). He is a mysophobe who constantly worries about others touching his food and washes his hands "as often as he can". he is also quite the hypochondriac, and his access to Dr. Barnett only exacerbates the situation. He often rambles on about his imaginative ideas and theories, much to Leonard's annoyance, but does not listen to his friend concerning his (Leonard's) research. Sheldon cannot drive an automobile, and needs his friends to take him places; he feels someone of his intellect does not need to learn how to drive. He refuses to sit anywhere other than his designated spot on the couch or seats with sub-optimal conditions, such as cushion densities and light dispersion. Sheldon regularly reproaches Penny for sitting in his spot. When Sheldon is complicit in a lie, he exhausts all of his efforts to make it believable. He cannot stand to be interrupted, crinkling his lips with insane frustration when this happens like in the rare case when he does not understand something. He places "strikes" on someone if that person violates his imposed conditions. For the reasons aforementioned, his friends believe him to be crazy.
Sheldon has childish qualities that extend beyond even his friends' shared interests in comics, science fiction, computer and video games, and toys, as he must get his way (e.g., naming the Caltech Physics Bowl team) and needs his mother to care for him when he is sick. He is also seen playing ROCKBAND often with his friends and even Leonard's mother, when she came to visit. He enjoys watching Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, argate and Star Trek, and likes playing Halo 3 every Wednesday and paintball on the weekend with his friends. He is often seen with a red Dell XPS laptop with a large sticker on it. He dislikes banal Internet humor, such as "lolcats" and has a pronounced disdain for engineers, referring to them as both "semi-skilled labor" and "the Oompa Loompas of science". He also considers engineering to be "physics' younger, slower cousin". Sheldon is tall and thin (setting him apart from his shorter colleagues), with Penny saying he "looks like a praying mantis". He often wears vintage t-shirts adorned with superhero logos, among them the Flash, Superman, Aquaman, and the Green Lantern. He usually wears his shirts over some sort of sweater, and as part of his style, commonly wears plaid pants. His favorite character seems to be Batman. like Leonard, Sheldon embraces his genius fully and does not mind sharing details of his life that Leonard finds embarrassing, such as a common activity being Klingon Boggle.
Among the guys, he shows the least interest in women, leading to Howard hypothesizing that he reproduces through mitosis, while Leonard postulates he will someday emerge from a cocoon and sprout wings. Despite his apparent asexuality, Sheldon did inadvertently become involved in two separate relationships with women: One with Raj's date Lalita, and the other with Ramona Nowitzki. The former ended after dinner when Sheldon simply "went home", and the latter abruptly fell apart when Sheldon refused to share credit for a discovery. In addition, Sheldon has shown that he has a least recognized Penny's attractiveness, stating: "No one can be that attractive and that good at a video game (Halo)."
His family appears to be some cause of consternation for Sheldon: he has an extremely attractive fraternal twin sister, Missy, who commonly beats him up, and another unnamed sibling, both described as "dumb as soup". Sheldon becomes offended when he finds that his sister Missy tells others he is a rocket scientist; he apparently thinks the title is inaccurate, telling her she might as well say he is a toll collector at the Golden Gate Bridge. His mother, Mary, is a devout Christian whose spiritual beliefs are sometimes at odds with Sheldon's strictly-held beliefs in science, though she has the power to control him. His father passed away before the start of the series and is often mentioned as being an almost-redneck Texan. Though it is not mentioned when or how Mr. Cooper's death occurred, it is assumed to be close to the show's start, as Missy visits Sheldon to bring paperwork regarding their father's estate.
Bio:Originally from East Texas, he's a theoretical physicist and possesses a Master's degree and 2 PhDs. Sheldon conducts string theory research at Caltech. Because of his high IQ (of 187), he tends to question the theories of his colleagues, especially Leonard. Throughout the course of the show, Sheldon has switched disciplines from bosonic string theory to heterotic string theory and reconciled the black hole information paradox using a string network condensate approach. Like Leonard, Sheldon keeps a whiteboard in the living room for scientific theories and equations, most of which feature complex higher mathematics, such as virtual particles in quantum mechanics, or series of Riemann zeta functions. Sheldon has an overly extensive general knowledge as well, such as shown by his comments regarding the introduction of the fork into Thailand. As a side note, Sheldon does not seem to be able to tolerate alcohol very well, as shown that after drinking something alcoholic (which Penny described as: "Some virgin cuba libres that were a little very *friendly* personty.") he began to play the keyboard and sing Jewish folk songs
Sheldon was a child prodigy, starting college at the age of eleven(right after completing the fifth grade) and graduate school at fourteen. When he was a kid, he conducted experiments involving the height of stairs and deduced that if a step on a staircase is as little as 2 millimeters off, most people will trip (this resulted in his father breaking his clavicle). When Sheldon was twelve years old, he wanted a titanium centrifuge to separate radioactive isotopes. As a kid, he built a CAT scanner, a so-called "Death Ray", and a robotic arm made using his sister's Easy Bake Oven, which he modified. According to his mother, he also attempted to build a nuclear reactor at thirteen years old in order to provide free electricity for his town; however this failed after a government agent informed him that it was illegal to store yellowcake uranium in a shed. At age fourteen, he dabbled in lasers, resulting in his being sent to boarding school after the government took his laser away and hushed the college professor who witnessed the experiment. He was the youngest person to receive the Stevenson Award six months after his fourteenth birthday. Sheldon worked as a visiting professor in Germany at age fifteen and received his first PhD at sixteen years old, working on twistor theory. He then spent four years on his (second) dissertation, and has held his current job for three-and-a-half years.
Likes:Expressed in Personality
Dislikes:Expressed in Personality
Strengths:Theories, smartness (teehee...reba moment =P)
Weaknesses:sarcasm, humor, emotional problems, his mother, disorder
Roleplay Sample:see Miley
All information used from Wikipedia.com
