He wanted to help people, but the staff just couldn’t handle having a 14 year old colleague. The disrespect was never overt, not at first, but by the time Dr. Howser’s late-teen hormones had really kicked in, his disdain for his so-called colleagues’ inability to treat him as a fellow practitioner had maligned into a deep hatred of inferior, inflexible, unenlightened minds.

Thus, with his residency complete, Dr. Howser disappeared, and Dr. Horrible became manifest.

How could I have been so blind? The feelings I had for his dark-haired friend were a crush.

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