And I'm sure he was charming and popular by the simply act of dressing like a greased quilt and black and darkness and trying really, really hard to be mysterious.

Or are we talking about the part of the story where he was like "oh I'm going to be a dumb and idiot master at the very last minute." I mean, not that he was't all along, but it was a pretty phenomenal height of someone should dye all of his clothes canary yellow and make him wear a sign saying "Ask Me About My Parental Issues and Chronic Halitosis" sort of idiot.

[ Maybe there's some feelings there. One or two. ]