-1 Wait, Suzaku? An engineer? I thought he was supposed to be a dumb jock. (I know it's a lie, but it's not really believable…for a seventeen-year-old to be in the engineering corps, wouldn't they have to be a genius?)

Sorry, but why do you think so, hm? Yes, he's not genius, but he's not dumb at all. He's emotionally unstable and impulsive, but that doesn't make him stupid. If you're talking about trope "smart and weak + strong and stupid", no it doesn't work here at all.