Ghostbusters| Dr Egon Spengler| -028 Cage
Title: Cage
Fandom: Ghostbusters
Characters: Dr Egon Spengler
Prompt: 28. Cage
Word Count: 199 words
Rating: G
Summary: Egon learns that some are gilded cages. And despite the jewelled gold that ornaments his cage, he learns that freedom is the highest price of all.
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.
Egon remembers the day the offer from MIT came in just a little too clearly. He remembers the viceral excitement he feels as he scans the paper again, again and again.
The type says what he needs to know. His scores have been immaculate, particularly those in physics and math, and he sees his application has been accepted.
What Egon remembers just as clearly: the vivid feel of every nuance of the cage that MIT is. His studies take him nowhere near an interest he has- he once thought he has nothing but underlying interest in the supernatural. But more and more, as he devours the physics challenges with ease, he realises they just aren’t enough.
And they just aren’t what he’s looking for.
When his professor chides him for the time he wastes on useless childish pursuits, Egon tries to be a good student. But it is too easy, and he soon comes to realise he is in a cage. A beautiful, gilded cage, but a cage nevertheless.
And when he graduates at last, he immediately applies for Colombia University.
He leaves the gilded cage, but enters one of his own devise. And therein lies all the difference.