I think there's been a desire to say this aloud for years, almost since it happened. He was thenerd's dream, right down to a duplicative moveset, a kind of single-minded genius, in the same way some random kid who runs a food truck selling his versions of ethnic originals is
That's exactly right. He was even an ersatz muscle man, like Billington, totally "self made" through science since neither was going to be big or strong otherwise (though Billington was slighter, naturally). What nerd wouldn't love someone in whom all the nerd fantasies come true
