A nondescript man says to the audience “the best thing we ever did for our town is putting someone with a storm fetish in our emergency alert center”
Sat at a desk, wearing a headset and reading from a monitor, a character whispers to themselves “oh fuck a storm”
They begin quivering and biting their lip. “Category 5!?”
Outside, a speaker blares “uuuuuuuuuuuooooooh” in the storm fetishist’s voice.
I’ve heard this idea before, but it was related to plumbing, but it could feasibly be anything a person could hyperfixate on. You’ve got people in this world that find the most boring, mundane, and sometimes straight-up bad tasks the most riveting thing they’ll ever experience. Instead of nurturing that with training and a job, the square peg gets shaved down enough to fit in the round hole.
Reminds me of a YouTube channel. Guy is the most positive (and Australian) plumber. Makes it very amusing to watch.
Drain Addict?
My priest is like this. Bring up some niche thing from Church history and he immediately begins infodumping, recommending books, if not fetching them from a library to show you.