Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Sex, Substances, Sin, Salvation ❯ II - F - Bad Habits - Wufei's - Correcting Others with Personal Opinions ( Chapter 14 )

“Sex, Substances, Sin, Salvation” - a GW fanfiction manifested via madness

By Masamune Reforged

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Disclaimer: Don't own any of the characters, they are the property of Bandai, Sunrise or someone else, but not me. I use them for no-profit whatsoever, but for entertainment's gain.

Warnings: Yaoi (mainly 1x2 and 3x4, lemons indeed) cursing, drug use, violence, angst, insanity, cameos, AU, lunacy, sanity.

 

Part F of “Wonder What's Next”, Page II in the s4 arc

Bad Habits -Wufei's - Constantly Correcting Others with Personal Opinions

Wufei's POV

 

“blah blah blah ...and that's why-”

 

“No. You're wrong.”

 

The other person stops. They look at me, sometimes mad at being interrupted, sometimes stupidly.

 

“The reason the cloroxide molecules don't coalesce with the artificial blood cells created by the Rothlisman Technique is because the white blood cells in the host identify the blood as a foreign invader, and then-”

 

“Wait a second.”

 

During almost any correction, the person being corrected stops the other. Sometimes it's to interject with a counter. Sometimes they just want to reassert their original, incorrect notion. Other times they are just too confused or overwhelmed by the weight of the correct statement.

 

Either way, I hate being interrupted when I'm correcting somebody...

 

“Just listen,” I try to say, but the fool continues...

 

“Wait a minute, I read that study too. That was from the Düsseldorf Institution's study, right?”

 

“Yes...”

 

Honestly, they think they have the same understanding I do just because they read the same article...

 

So, grudgingly, I must acknowledge their pithy attempt to assert their obviously lacking knowledge of the subject. Its lacking is obvious, because if it wasn't lacking they wouldn't need to be corrected in the first place...

 

“But the more recent study from Cornell University says that the cloroxide molecules actually do go through the coalescing process up until the fourth stage of bonding. But then the treatment from the chemotherapy is what-”

 

“Artificial blood from Rothlisman infusions don't have any negative effect with chemotherapy patients.” I shake my head. What an idiot... “That's been proved a long time ago.”

 

“But none of those transfusions involved heavy cloroxide amounts!”

 

“Yes, obviously. Otherwise the problem wouldn't exist...”

 

“Well, then it's because...”

 

And so the bickering goes on, a real waste of time.

 

Now, don't get me wrong here. I'm not arrogant (although Meiran always insists that I am...), and I don't honestly think I'm better than anyone else. We're all the same components of bone, ligaments, muscle and bodily fluids. The real difference boils down to how we use the gray matter in between our ears and the superficial characteristics of our bone structure and on our epidermis.

 

But, it's a true fact that when two minds, two people, meet, one of them is going to be superior to the other. One is going to know more about concentrated cloroxides in blood infusions than the other one does. > or < - greater than or lesser than, and sometimes, on the rarest of occasions, equal to, although that is truly a once in a lifetime match.

 

Now, I don't think I'm necessarily that much smarter than everyone out there. There are plenty of people who know more about particular subjects than I do; I admit that, I'm not arrogant... But, when you've been privately educated by some of the best personal instructors from a young age, and in my case that was two years of age, and then go on to have top marks at the nation's most lofty private high school, and continue further to receive a full scholarship at a foreign university where you engage (and sometimes correct) the professors and work in state of the art labs and classrooms...

 

No... perhaps rambling on about my educational history is bordering on the arrogant... Indeed, such a background is not synonymous with success or abundant knowledge. However, upon combining this fortuitous tutelage with a zealous desire- no, passion is more fitting- with a zealous passion to cultivate and enlighten oneself, that is the personal edge I can claim in my correction of others.

 

Indeed, as Meiran likes to say (even if she is scoffing at me...) I am a scholar, first and foremost. The hours spent devouring research manuscripts and comparing various studies, beyond that laconic effort required for satisfying course work, that I personally persist at and insist upon, that is my edge. The days cooped up in laboratories and using the utmost discernment and deliberation in composing experimental compounds and mixtures, that is my edge. This, and again it can only sound right in my mind phrased as such, this impassioned zeal is my edge.

 

But I do not just use this edge solely for my own. It would be as ludicrous as discovering the key to Unified Theory and keeping it to oneself! No... no... I have not reached the summit, not yet... not yet... I have yet to reach that peak in my own endeavors where I can confidently bring them to others and assert that my theories are truth... It would be arrogant of me to think that, at least at this point... No, I do not make that assertion, although it remains the goal that I strive towards.

 

One day I will be able to make the true declaration of my hard-earned accomplishments, and I will silence the ineevitable, foolish opposition with the finely honed temperment of my edge.

 

Although... in the mean time, to hear others spout nonsense and error with ignorant sincerity makes is not something I have restraint for... nor should I...

 

“I told you already! The criminal justice system can't be any more effective on violent spouses without infringing on constitutional and ethical rights!”

 

I have to correct them again.

 

Why don't people just accept the corrections that more intelligent people offer to them?

 

“No. He obviously dropped the ball because he's not focusing on the game right now.”

 

Why is everyone so bent on maintaining some kind of pride or infallible image?

 

“No. It's obviously because...”

 

-end Bad Habits - Wufei's - Constantly Correcting others with Personal Opinions,

Part F of Page II in “Sex, Substances, Sin, Salvation”

Next: Significant Others - Duo's - Solo Forgoet

 

Note: I don't know shit about science. All that babble is totally made up.