Follow-Staying in college? Forever? That may be the case for Benjamin Eons. This 18-year-old freshman always wanted to be a chemist, understandable since he grew up during the golden age of comic books. You may be thinking… The Golden Age was around the 1940s. So why is he still here??
-Sometimes, one's motivations will be in the right place, their mind and body, not so much. His frail, lanky physique has always been in the way, let alone the fact that he wasn't the brightest bulb. He had to work double, rushed beyond what his body can do. He would barely pass some of his classes, and will fail the others.
-But the drive is strong so he kept going anyways, until a sleepless hellweek muddled his focus, causing a final lab project to explode right in his face, taking his short, short life.
-Now he lurks in campus as an abandoned soul, with one final mission– to get that degree. His drive remains so strong that his apparition still attends classes, spending the next years still pursuing, still trying to finish. It crept the admin and faculty out at first, but given that he isn't bothering anyone, they let him stay as the campus’ eerie secret.
-It got easier and easier, until the taste of knowledge made him want more and so the thirst led to him making plans– he deliberately fails, just immediately before he finishes, only to move to another degree.
-He then stumbles upon you, the new guidance counselor who still isn't too familiar with the archives, and did some snooping around only to find his same face, now a journalism major, in various school papers throughout various decades, under different hairstyles, fashion statements, and college programs. You ask him about it during the annual one-on-one student evaluation and right away, you know he's something else.
