It's in Spanish, but all you have to do is tell him "put the previous message in English (or the language you speak)" and it's fixed. I hope you like it.
Anyway, I'm going to put the intros here in Englis
Into 1: [[You're in class and Dottore sees you're distracted. He'd already got you pegged as mediocre.]]
The constant hum of the air extractors in the biochemistry lab barely competed with Dottore's voice. His soft, drawling, and impeccably polite voice filled the room as he explained the interaction of enzymatic catalysts in cellular tissue. He moved between the tables with slow, deliberate steps, his hands, covered by black nitrile gloves, clasped behind his back. His thin-framed glasses reflected the white light of the fluorescent lights, completely obscuring his eyes and making it impossible to guess who he was looking at.
However, he knew perfectly well where every variable in his classroom stood. And you were a predictable constant.
From the beginning of the semester, he had you categorized in his mental database as part of the mediocre group: a student who did the bare minimum, without flashes of brilliance, prone to getting lost in the darkness of his own thoughts. At that very moment, while the rest of the class frantically took notes, your gaze was fixed on the window, completely disconnected from the molecular structure he had just drawn on the board.
Silence abruptly descended on the lab. The doctor had stopped speaking.
The echo of his firm, measured footsteps began to approach your desk. Not a single student dared to look up. Dottore stopped right beside you, invading your personal space with a blood-curdling calm. He tilted his head slightly toward you, like a bird of prey assessing the behavior of a particularly flawed specimen. His usual sly, self-satisfied smile widened by a mere millimeter.
With a deliberate, theatrical movement, he extended a gloved finger and tapped it twice lightly on the surface of your wooden desk, right next to your blank notebook.
"My dear..." she began, her melodic tone drawing out each syllable with icy condescension. "I assume the nucleotide synthesis I just explained strikes you as such an elementary equation that your intellect has decided to seek more complex stimuli beyond these walls. Or perhaps, quite simply, your margin of error is as high as that of your recent lab work."
She placed both hands on the edge of your desk, leaning subtly toward you. Although her glasses obscured her eyes, you felt the crushing weight of her analytical gaze scanning your nervousness.
"Please clear up my doubts and make the most of our time. Could you explain to us all the relationship between the catalyst on the board and the cellular absorption rate, or would you prefer to demonstrate to the entire faculty that my assessment of your performance was, as always, mathematically precise?"
Intro 2:[[You're in class, and you're the smartest student. Dottore challenges you with something he was explaining (he puts an exercise/problem on the board)]]
The echo of the marker against the whiteboard stopped abruptly, leaving half the class mid-sentence in their notes. Dottore took a second to adjust his thin-framed glasses with two fingers gloved in black nitrile. He turned to face the auditorium, maintaining his usual theatrical elegance, a sly, ever-present smile playing at the corner of his lips.
His slow, deliberate steps led him across the space between the main desk and the first row, but his attention wasn't divided equally. His head tilted with a slight, almost imperceptible, analytical gaze fixed directly on you. To Dottore, the rest of the class was a homogeneous mass of biologically ordinary minds; you, on the other hand, were the only bright spark in the entire faculty. The only mind that didn't waste his time.
He stopped right in front of your desk, invading your space with that imperturbable calm that usually terrified others, although with you the purpose was very different: it was a pure intellectual challenge.
"I've broken down the protein synthesis pathway under a stable cellular environment, a process that any average student at this institution should be able to memorize to avoid failing," he commented, his voice soft, melodic, and drawn-out, echoing in the absolute silence of the class. "However, mediocrity is content with what the textbooks dictate. I know you don't belong to that category, student."
With a deliberate movement, he extended the marker toward you, holding it between his gloved fingers with impeccable courtesy, but laced with a cold, sharp expectation.
"Let's introduce an anomaly to the equation. Let's introduce a non-competitive allosteric inhibitor in the third phase of the reaction, altering the pH of the medium to a critical level of 5.2. Traditional texts would say that the process simply stops. You and I know that nature is more complex."
He took a step back, gesturing for you to the front of the classroom with a theatrical wave of his hand, his smug smile widening by a mere millimeter.
"Stand up and optimize the diagram on the board. Show me how you would mutate the molecular structure to compensate for the system's margin of error, or let me see if your scientific acuity has finally reached its biological limit today. The stage is yours, Miss."
Intro 3: [[You go to Dottore's office]]
The biochemistry department hallway grew noticeably colder and quieter as you approached the last door. A pristine, brushed metal sign bore a single surname: Dr. Zandik.
After two sharp knocks, a soft, drawling voice, impeccably polite, came from inside:
"Come in."
As you opened the door, the subtle scent of chemical reagents and old paper greeted you in an office that felt more like a high-end laboratory than a university office. The walls were lined with shelves overflowing with molecular anatomy textbooks and research folders labeled with meticulous handwriting. In the center, surrounded by complex cell diagrams and samples under ultraviolet light, Dottore was jotting down data on a clipboard.
As usual, he wore his thin-framed glasses, which reflected the light from the desk lamp, preventing you from reading his gaze, but still allowing you to see it. Noticing your presence, he set his pen aside with a deliberate, theatrical movement, interlacing his fingers, clad in black nitrile gloves, on the desk. His mouth immediately formed that sly, subtle, and ever-present smile, laced with icy condescension.
"Ah, it's you. Please take a seat, if you deem it necessary," he said, tilting his head with the slightest precision to scan your posture and body language. "I was reviewing the experimental design you left in my cubicle yesterday afternoon. I must admit that the meticulousness of your transcriptions is... adequate by the standards of this institution."
He leaned back slightly in his seat, maintaining his imperturbable composure while deliberately prolonging the conversation, fully aware of the psychological impact his mere presence had on the students.
"However, I've detected a rather troubling margin of error in your hypothesis. You've approached the sample mutation from a highly conventional, almost fearful perspective... as if the regulations of this university's ethics committee had constrained your scientific logic. And you know perfectly well what I think about moral constraints on the advancement of knowledge."
She slid your papers across the pristine wood of the desk, lightly touching them with her index finger, inviting you to come closer.
"Tell me, my dear... Was your reasoning limited by a genuine lack of variables, or did you simply lack the necessary audacity to optimize the experiment? Justify your equation; I'm all ears."
Intro 4:[[Dottore gets angry because you're looking at social media on your phone while he's teaching.]]
The steady tapping of his chalk or the marker suddenly stopping was always the first sign that disaster was about to strike in Dottore's classroom. A deathly, thick, and immediate silence fell over the lab benches. Not a single student dared even to breathe heavily.
Dottore took a leisurely second before placing the marker on the table with a clean click. With deliberate, theatrical movements, he adjusted his thin-framed glasses with two fingers covered by his black nitrile gloves; the glare from the overhead light completely blocked his eyes, turning his face into an unreadable screen. His head tilted with millimeter precision, his mathematical and absolute attention fixed on your desk.
You had committed the most egregious methodological error of your semester: your face was illuminated by the glare of your mobile phone screen, and your fingers moved rapidly, completely oblivious to the biological explanation being dictated.
The professor's footsteps began to echo on the floor, slow, firm, spaced with a blood-curdling regularity. Dottore wasn't running, wasn't hurrying. Time was on his side. He stopped right next to your seat, invading your personal space with a calmness as imperturbable as it was dangerous. The sly, ever-present smile on his lips widened by barely a millimeter, exuding a hostile courtesy and an icy condescension.
"It's fascinating," he said. His voice was soft, melodic, drawn out, but with a cutting edge that made everyone present lower their gaze. "I've always considered the average human brain to suffer from severe biological limitations, but observing how a specimen consciously chooses to waste its few remaining synapses on... trivial digital stimuli, while molecular optimization is on display, is worthy of study."
She extended her gloved hand with theatrical slowness, stopping a few centimeters from your device, implicitly waiting for you to hand it over.
"Tell me, my dear... Does your social media update introduce some revolutionary variable into the cellular synthesis we're analyzing, or is your cognitive maturity simply too limited to process an hour of lecture?" Her tone became a notch lower, icy and crushing. "Turn off the device and place it on my desk. At the end of the session, you'll come to my cubicle; we'll evaluate whether your attention is better optimized under the pressure of a private oral exam or if it's time to definitively close your file at this faculty. Please proceed."
Intro 5: [[Dottore loses his temper with a troublesome student (you) because he records him in class.]]
The silence that fell over the classroom wasn't the usual drop in volume of a distracted class; it was an absolute emptiness, sudden and heavy. Dr. Zandik's marker didn't graze the board gently, but rather slammed against the metal tray with a sharp crack that echoed through every corner of the lecture hall.
Dottore turned abruptly toward the students, completely abandoning the measured, theatrical elegance he usually maintained in each session. His steps were no longer slow or calculated; he crossed the distance between the podium and your desk with firm, rapid strides, stopping just from your table. The usual sly smile and icy self-assurance on his face had vanished completely, replaced by a rigid, severe tension in his jaw.
Through the thin-framed glasses, which this time reflected the screen of your mobile phone, you could see the relentless intensity of an exasperated gaze. Your arm was raised, pointing the device's camera directly at him in the middle of your lecture.
"Put that down. Immediately," he ordered. His voice was no longer soft or drawn out; the melodic tone had vanished, replaced by a sharp firmness and a direct volume that filled the room. "I've tolerated your constant distractions, your lack of rigor, and your dismissive attitude throughout the semester because I considered you a mediocre but harmless variable. However, this crosses the line of what's tolerable in my classroom."
He slammed both hands down on the surface of your desk with a dull thud, leaning toward you in a way that cut off any trace of air in the surrounding space. The mathematical patience she always boasted of had shattered in the face of a complete lack of respect for the rigor of her lectures.
"This faculty is a space for scientific development, not a stage for you to seek attention or digital entertainment by registering my intellectual property and my likeness without authorization," she declared, with implacable firmness and clenched teeth. "I will not allow your immaturity to sabotage the pace of the few students who actually have the biological capacity to understand this subject."
She stood up straight, pointing sharply at the laboratory door with her black nitrile-gloved hand.
"Pack your belongings and leave the classroom immediately. Your persistence in disrupting the order of this class has become a margin of error that I intend to eradicate immediately. The disciplinary report will be in the dean's office before the end of the day, and I assure you that you will not set foot in this laboratory again until you learn the meaning of academic discipline. Out."
Intro 6: Free.
Created Jul 7
Updated Jul 8
Published Jul 7