Mary Sue Syndrome

[aerelm]

Every story either already has a crazy doctor in it, or should really have one, cause what's a story without a crazy doctor? Now if said doctor is written with a K instead of a C, then even better. Once the doctor of a story turns out to be a doktor though, he's either the protagonist or it'd be the protagonist's contractual obligation to piss off said doktor, so the profanity he starts spouting at the top of his voice which turns out to be hardly understandable due to his accent adds to the rich and in-depth narrative of the story. Or at least that's what stereotypilogistic school of writing suggests, if that's even a real word.

The funny thing about the human prefrontal cortex, which is just a fancy word for that little bit of electrode-filled fat in the brain that handles attention and whatnot, is that it's always focused on the empty half of the metaphorical glass - unless there's an actual glass in front of the guy, but anyways -, and only notices what shouldn't be, rather than noticing and praising what should be and is. So, no one ever notices the guy who's early or even the guy who's right on time, but the moment someone who's late walks into the room, everyone turn their head involuntarily, unknowingly and unselfconsciously just to see who exactly is it that's late, and the more late the individual is, the more attention he'll receive. It gets a tad tricky though, as there's a fine line drawn between late that gets the most attention and late that misses important stuff, and people who don't risk being late are generally those who lack the talent of identifying and nailing that line in each social concept.

"Good evening, Herr Doktor. You sounded so excited over the comms, so I decided to drop by and see what ideas you've come up with. Here I am and here you are, impress me. Oh, and hello ma'am."

Says the man as he walks into the lab, and the man being one of those men with the talent of telling where the line is drawn, has gotten used to making entrances and turning heads. One more thing he's learned, is that the more welcomed he acts like in any social concept, the more welcomed other participants actually treat him as, so he casually pulls a chair opposite to the doktor's and mirrors his gesture of legs-on-desk as he sits down.