Ghostbusters| Dr Egon Spengler| -033 Traitor
Title: Traitor
Fandom: Ghostbusters
Characters: Dr Egon Spengler
Prompt: 33. Traitor
Word Count: 180 words
Rating: G
Summary: Dr Egon Spengler is regarded by many fellow men of science as a heretic at best, a traitor at worst.
Disclaimer: I am not Dan Aykryod or Harold Ramis. So unfortunately, Ghostbusters is not my creation and I have no claim over it. But wait, you knew that already.
Notes: This Egon will be partly based on the script notes which name him an egghead, and yet that isn’t exclusively true because he has nuances based on the portrayal of Dr Egon Spengler by Harold Ramis in the movie. As a result, this will be adjusted.
Dr Egon Spengler is regarded by many fellow men of science as a heretic at best, a traitor at worst. What could be worse, they say, than such intellect being squandered on superstitious, mystical, fraudulent and quite unscientific studies?
He has always been rather furious at those claims- to Egon, the greatest traitors to science are those who presume they know everything and leave their minds closed. After all, he doesn’t just believe in anything- he keeps an open mind but insists that investigations should be carried out following the proper scientific method.
And that should be sufficient, as the pioneers of the past were satisifed in the same way- turning what was seen as previously supernatural and divine such as lightning to understood applied knowledge.
Egon the traitor was exonerated when the Ghostbusters defeated Gozer and then Vigo the Carpathian, but only in part. To the blind men of science, he was still a traitor to the pure worlds of science, chasing will-o-the-wisps.
Egon wishes he could say that doesn’t bother him, not even a little.
But it does.