Oh that's a thing that DEFINITELY would happen at college? And it would start with "no, look, my family studied this" and said with such tired absolute certainty that clearly HE believes it? And? Psssh, okay buddy.
But like... it was kinda cool. Hey, hey, ask him something else!
And? The dude just? Keeps having answers. Internally consistent ones too. No one can trip him up. He can get REALLY into detail. People start thinking about it. Writing it down to try to pick holes in it or just to read later. And like... okay, screw it, they're kinda curious about this one thing, right?
And then how does THEIR religion fit into it? Lemme guess, one true God rig-... wait it fits? His too? Hers? In this great big patchwork of beauty and faith and life after death?
.....and this dude doesn't SEEM like he's selling anything. WE keep harrasing HIM. Huh.
.............hey, for a pizza, what's the manifestation of Time like? Do animals even HAVE souls? Did dinosaurs? How does Reincarnation work into all this?
And? It's like finding a prophet in the cereal isle. A messiah eating cold pizza in the square. Someone with such wisdom and power, that has made themselves look like YOU. Lives like YOU. Not draped in gold and finery, in wealthy halls high above. But in ratty jeans and a shirt that's washed half to death, tired but kind. Patient.
Who considers your questions. Does not hoard away his secret knowledge, to leave humanity struggling in the dark. But sits, waiting for you to just... to just ASK. As though all this time, all we had to do... was ASK.
He wears a NASA shirt. Studies the stars.
"Aren't they beautiful?" he says. "Isn't it amazing?" His grin suggests.
And when does amusement turn to curiosity? Turn to fascination? To belief? To FAITH? It's all so gradual. Like the change of a tide. Like falling in love. No one is quite certain how they found themselves there, but... but it makes SENSE. Like they have found a truth and discovered a secret.
They just want to share it. He's not making them. Not even ASKING them too! Not so much as hinting! But wouldn't YOU want to tell people? If you finally figured it all out? If you were happy and made friends and everything suddenly made SENSE?
Danny is gonna freak out. He Accidentally A Cult ™ and it's everywhere. He was just minding his business man. Being bribed with food and maybe making some friends. The Fenton Oblivious Gene's were working STRONG with this one!