Charisma

Even though Alexander was physically a kid, he lived 20 years of Other Joe's continuing life and an additional four from him. When added up and if maturity was even quantifiable, his supposed maturity age is of a 24-year-old man!

He can't have his father scolding him in front of a lot of people. His panic and childish fright led him to try his best and optimized himself to the character he had intensively studied.

"Hey, what is happening to my grandson?!" Old Sullivan had no clue about what was happening, so he was a bit frantic.

"Relax, Dad! He's just getting into character!" On the other ha hand, Mark was sure that his son was slowly and surely synching into the personality he is about to portray.

"What?! I know that you and your artists like to pretend to be other people but how come this is much different?" Sullivan had a pretty sensible question as Alexander was just standing quietly on spot but he is somewhat oozing a different aura. "Is this black magic or something? Wait, aren't we filming about spirits and stuff?! What if he is being possessed?!"

"Dad! No need to cause panic! I am also not too sure on what is going on but aren't we past the point of questioning Alexander's peculiarities?" Mark was appeased while remembering that this kind of phenomenon was natural to veteran actors.

What was unnatural to him was his boy being able to do it while doing nothing.

Getting in true character was to portray and act to show and fool the audience that you are a different person. Alexander practically subverts that and wears it as if it is a tangible aura and charisma.

"As you say so?" Sullivan was finally calmed down, unaware of the analysis that was going through his son's head.

They joked that the boy would also do well in this field and was used to his unordinariness, so they readied themselves to not be too surprised. However, they were still left unaware of what was what when it truly happened.

Mark theorized that this aura of sorts had long been natural to his son. When he thought about it, even after his son was born and was growing up, they were used to being calm around him.

The feeling that the boy was the most sensible and cutest was always conveyed to them for the past years and they haven't even noticed its abnormalities.

A Creed such as Mark did not believe in some divine gift of charisma and wisdom that was bestowed to his son, however, he could pretty much find sources to supplement his son being born with that so-called charisma and smartness.

Wisdom and genius were natural to some people in history like the famous philosophers and scientists of history. Thus, Alexander being geniously smart was grounded and justified.

Charisma was unrecordable compared to smartness but there are still records of them being used exceptionally throughout the world.

Even though Mark thought it is just make-believe that is useful for movie-making, extremely charismatic people can also be traced in history.

They aren't the Einsteins or the Aristotles of science but the great leaders of ancient civilizations. Emperors, kings, conquerors, pharaohs and the like can lead their people with what Mark can only assume as charisma at the levels that even his son's current aura couldn't compare to.

To prove his theory even further, Mark can also use cult leaders as examples for being able to influence people with only their warped ideologies and influencing presence.

His son may only be the outwardly exceptional outlier of charisma in their family but he could also tell that his father has that kingly or cult leader influence deeply hidden.

Old Sullivan being able to achieve his level of business success must be due to his ideals and goals that affected his subordinates to coordinate with him.

As an old man, being able to convince other people to hand out their secrets regarding those filming technologies would really need some convincing ability to pull off.

As a busy director, he may not be too keen on his influence on people but he may or may not have unknowingly been exuding tiny bits of charisma to have been able to order around his crew.

The bottom line in all of this theorizing is that charisma may not be too evident but it is present. It could even be a skill that could be cultivated.

One thing is for sure in Mark's mind, it is that his son has an unbelievable headstart.

Alexander does not know about his father's overblown destructuring of charisma and outwardly aura as he was busy embodying what it takes to be the kid psychic, John Smith.

If he did, he would agree with most of those theories as they are being discussed and conceptualized in the 21st century.

What he wouldn't agree with was his grandfather's charisma being able to convince the secret owners to share it out. Granted, his grandfather may have charisma hidden in his unbelievably low-key outlook but Alexander could tell that the convincing ability was even more tangible than that.

It was his grandfather's money!

The boy would rejoice that he has this high level of aura and influencing charisma but what would really make him ecstatic is to have mountain piles of money... even more than his grandfather.

On that sidenote of probable events, Alexander was far from worrying about charisma and money mountains as he still has to film to tackle.

The three films are expected to finish within a rush of six months. Within that half a year, he had to make sure that the awkward father and son scolding did not occur.

It was going to be a long flurry of very busy schedule and it was not ideal to just stand there and get into character.

His optimization and conditioning period was finally over! The charisma debacle was out of Mark's mind. Old Sullivan was just waiting around for the other two to move.

Whether any one of them liked it or not, filming had to start and the Creed trio moved towards their own stations.