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Sarcastic: Hah! *Pointing at Jane* See? Time-delayed stuff in the lemonade! "The Nerd Response" holds! Given a simple, fairly mundane task, Mad Scientists will almost always complicate it.
Ryan: Sarcastic, when you asked to borrow my goldfish for a visual aid for this, I didn't expect it to get abducted and genetically modified.
Sarcastic: Er, sorry Ryan. Want me to try and fix it?
Ryan: No, I'm EXCITED. Now I get to try and figure out what she did to it.
Sarcastic: Well... try to avoid losing a finger.
Sarcastic: Anyways, on with the presentation, I suppose. Most Mad Scientists generally don't work alone, and they also tend to imprint on other people around them. This is called "Minionization", which is a silly way of describing the effect where people who exist around a mad scientist will naturally become accustomed to their behavior and, eventually, come to display Mad-like behavior on their own. *Looking at Jennifer* This is what most behavioral psychologists who study Mads would use to describe Claire's behavior, by the way. It's a theory that was first proposed after the Tinasky research on an adult un-active Mad was published, mainly to describe how a largely ordinary man became adapted to living with an evil biologist so quickly
Ryan: Wait, wasn't the ordinary man in question a latent Mad Scientist anyway? That's hardly a valid test subject for "Minionization." It seems to me like what they need is someone who is just innately sane.
Sarcastic: You've got a point. The ideal test subject would be someone who ISN'T genetically Mad, but grows up around Mad Scientists and their inventions all their life. Observing them for Mad-like behavior after so many years alive would be a good way to see if the "Minionization" theory is true or not.
Ryan: So, someone like this "Claire" girl you've mentioned?
Sarcastic: Even if she is a viable test subject, there'd need to be a control. Someone who was genetically Claire but grew up in a fairly "normal" environment comparatively.
Ryan: So basically it'd be a Nature Vs. Nurture test.
Sarcastic: Yes. For science.
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We've learned a lot, but this still isn't going to be easy. But I don't think the elder star's confidence in us was misplaced. I know we can do this! We'll set things right! ...somehow.
"There is a fine line between a good King and a Despot. A King is best when His subjects barely realize that He exists. When His work is done and His will is fulfilled, they will say, 'We did it ourselves.'"
-Xin Yun
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