Mary Sue Syndrome

[aerelm]

When you go nuts you have to go all the way, otherwise it'd not be going nuts but just being extremely bored. If you want everything you should literally mean it, otherwise the whole thing would just be pointless. They say some men want to watch the world burn, but frankly, that'd be a complete waste of good entertainment material. Being human means having the desire to have the whole world stand there and stare at you in amazement, and even though they say size doesn't matter, it really does when it comes to size of a man's ego. Needless to say, when a man with an already oversized ego all of a sudden goes nuts, it's obvious even from the very beginning that nothing good will ever come out of it.

The "perfect human" is an unstable concept as it changes with nearly every generation and sometimes even takes a leap to a whole different branch with every new scientific discovery or philosophical theory. So, just as one can say no one is perfect, one can also say that every single person who's ever lived has had the potential of being the "perfect human", and it was just the matter of being born in the right century with the right social status. Once upon a time they say gladiators were considered the image of perfect male, and no, I'm not talking about the ship but the type of clown-slash-warrior cross-over Romans or some other nation of the old earth used to entertain their royalty by tossing two or more of them in a pit and watching them beat each other to death with their bare hands and stuff like that. Some few thousand years later the concept of perfect male changed and shape into pretentiously intellectual types who wore round glasses, grew funny mustaches and started talking about basically anything and everything that could have an -ism sticked to its arse.

Now, what would be the perfect human in our age? An intelligent individual who's traveled the universe and made the right diplomatic connections, has access to seemingly endless resources, and of course has half a ton of cybernetic enhancements on him, preferably with an eye-patch and also with some wires and whatnot showing from under his clothes. That said, when a man of an already oversized ego goes nuts and wants it all, it wouldn't be much of a plot twist if he decides to become the perfect male, cause that's really the obvious choice for the man, especially when the man knows a certain doctor of sorts who's not bound to any moral standards and willingly does anything and everything long as the right amount of cash is sent his way.