gothicmarshmallon - Space Cadet

Space Cadet

Someone who is not like you.

They aren't quite stupid, and they aren't quite insane, but they lapse into non sequitur a lot and are strangely oblivious to things that everyone else takes for granted, such as whether it is okay to turn their suitemate's room into a landfill and board it up. They are still, somehow, able to function day to day.

Sometimes also called "Space Case" or "Cloud Cukkoolander", or plain old "Strange".

One mark of a Space cadet is when, 90% of the time, you think they are just plain nuts, but 10% of the time, you suspect that they are in fact the only truly sane person there.

In other words, a space cadet has massive knowledge and understanding of the workings of the universe... too bad it's not the one they live in. In any event, they can be oddly endearing, if not downright awesome.

On rare occasion, they may become Bored With Insanity and become more normal. If this happens, sometimes it sticks, and sometimes a "we want our Cloudcuckoolander back" movement, subsequently getting bored with sanity too, or some other means of inducing insanity will make him or her a space cadet again (since, after all, Status Quo Is God).

They may dress however the hell the want, and are strangely oblivious to cliques and things. Music-wise, they are likely to get songs stuck in their head and then forget the lyrics. At the same time.

Info from TV Tropes and edited by me, last paragraph is mine, picture from deviantart.