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[oculusriffs]

TG: this is going to be fucking stupid isnt it


[want to get in touch with Dave? you can leave a TEXT, VOICE, or VIDEO message — or alternatively, he shouldn't be too hard to track down in person. it's a hunk of junk space house. in space. he's around here somewhere.]

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[oculusriffs]

[HAJIME!!]

do you want the real answer
or do you want an answer in the form of an 80s pop song

[hopefragment]

the real answer is fine

it's something i've been wondering about for a while now, i just never thought of actually asking

[oculusriffs]

im wearing them ironically

[that's ... the real answer ... apparently...]

[but a minute later he aims to clarify.]

have you seen the remake of starsky and hutch
with ben stiller and owen wilson and snoop dogg

[hopefragment]

ironically

[Please imagine Hajime's incredulous, tired expression.]

uh, no, i don't think i've seen that.

[Honestly, he's never heard of it. Either it's unique to Dave's Earth, or it just wasn't big in Japan.]

[oculusriffs]

yeah
ok well
its pretty much your typical buddy cop movie
except made a couple light years more hilarious because snoop dogg is in it
hes like their informant on the inside you know
bein all informative and hilarious and shit
anyway one of my best bros from home gave me the shades for my birthday
theyre actually from the movie
they once sat on ben stillers really weird face
my bro meant it as a joke but the jokes on him
because theyre actually the best fuckin thing ive ever owned

[hopefragment]

[Hajime would have been satisfied with just "my friend gave them to me for my birthday" but instead he's treated to an explanation of the rebooted Starsky and Hutch feat. Snoop Dogg. He's learned something today.]

oh cool, so they're a real movie prop?

wait, doesn't wearing sunglasses inside make it kind of hard to see?

[oculusriffs]

pretty much
and nah its not bad at all dude
ive always worn shades not just this pair
first pair was a pair of pointy shades like my bros

[hopefragment]

oh, so it's a family thing...?

[Wait, hang on. Pointy shades... a bro...]

oh, are you related to dirk?

[oculusriffs]

[oh ... man, you know how Hajime is weirded out by basically everything Dave does or says? that's probably the one question he's asked so far that has the weirdest answer yet.]

["yeah, we're related. yeah, he's my age, and yeah, if complicated situations uncomplicate themselves, then i'd call him my bro. but if you wanna get technical, i guess, he's really my dad. and also, my best friend who gave me the shades scienced us all up in a lab on a meteor in the middle of space, and then i rode down to earth on a pony on another meteor.

"the pony didn't make it."]

yeah
didnt know you knew him

[hopefragment]

[Thanks for sparing his brain that bit of fuckery. That would be a lot of him to try to absorb.]

only sort of. we haven't really talked much, he seems kind of aloof.

[It's the lack of facial expressions that gets him. Same with Dave. What do y'all have against using your faces??]

it must be nice having family around, huh?

[oculusriffs]

yeah thats normal

[it's one of those things, one of those similarities to the version of Dirk who raised him that Dave can pick out immediately. it's why he's confident in saying that it's normal.]

[it's one of those things where they're completely different, too. because Dirk isn't completely impossible to read, if you spend enough time with him. Dave certainly couldn't say the same thing about Bro.]

[shit's confusing.]

its alright though i guess
we never actually met each other before coming here

[hopefragment]

oh, you guys were separated? i'm sorry, i didn't realize

man, what are the odds of that, though? running into someone you're related to, but never got to meet before. that's some weird kind of luck

[oculusriffs]

dont worry about it
separateds not really the right word for it anyway
its more like
youve heard people here talking about all the different versions of earth theyre from right
same deal for me and him

[that's not ... too weird, right. he tried to make it as familiar sounding as possible.]

i guess its pretty lucky if you put it that way
i dunno
im just used to knowing that shits happening exactly the way its supposed to
unlikely or idiotic or unfair as it might be

[hopefragment]

[...]

uh... right. ok

[He doesn't understand at all, but his brain hurts from trying to figure it out so he's just kind of leaving it as "they're related it's fine."]

"exactly the way it's supposed to"... what, like some kind of religious thing? being watched out for and stuff like that?

[oculusriffs]

[one day the weird's gonna catch Hinata. and it will, in turn, probably weird Dave out.]

nah i dont do religion
its more of a literal thing
i dont know shit about the future nor do i have control over what people do or the decisions they make
but its always been really obvious to me when something that isnt supposed to happen does

[it's hard to mistake a doomed timeline, a splintered existence where something went awry, where moving forward was no longer an option. but he's purposely leaving that vague, and also leaving out the part where he could know the future if he wanted to.]

[that comes with its own set of problems. it always does.]

i guess what im saying is
you can make a choice or do something that you either hate or wind up regretting later
or something could happen that you cant explain
but if shit keeps moving forward the way it always has
then its safe to assume your choices were the right ones regardless of your feelings on them
and youre meant to go through the stuff you do as a means of reaching a place where everything works out
never really makes bullshit any easier to accept
but it is a way to process it

[hopefragment]

[Hajime has to sit back and reread that a few times to try to understand it.]

i guess that makes sense since you can like... time travel? or stop time?
whatever you did back when. you know

thanks for that again, btw.

[oculusriffs]

[it's not a thought process he shares willy-nilly, either. and it means there's a degree of trust that he has in Hajime, aside from the fact that he straight up knows about the time travel thing already.]

i can do both those things yeah
but i already told you its fine dude
dont worry about it
or im gonna have to start charging a tax every time you thank me

[hopefragment]

right, right. i guess there's extra tax if i apologize for it, too, right?

seriously, though... how did you learn you can do that? and... if you make a choice and you find out it's the wrong one, can you just go back and fix it?

[oculusriffs]

right its double if you apologize

its a really long and quite frankly really fuckin stupid story
i dont mind telling you if youre really curious
just might be better told in person

[there are a couple of reasons why he suggests that. one of them is just out of a desire for privacy from whoever might be digging through unencrypted messages. another reason is because he'd like to see Hajime's reactions in person.]

thats the general idea behind it yeah
but going back and fixing a wrong choice implies makin some pretty drastic changes to the timeline
and changing things outside of a normal stable time loop like that always has consequences