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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]

gross
this entire conversation is making me want to take a shower

[Dave "you smell like if someone took a dump on a butt" Strider. there's no way he's ever been any better, especially after spending three years on a meteor like he did.]

nah its another present from the christmas spirits
uh
actually
this is kind of out of the baseball field or whatever
but you havent seen a guy with a hat and pointy shades around right

[ryuji]

Maybe you should? Give the bung a car wash

God this is like encroaching the space of grossness even I can't deal with.

[Embrace the bung.]

Guessin' you're talkin' about the ghost of Christmas past at this point huh

Nah, you're the only shady guy I know on the station

Wait

Shades-guy

Why what's up

[oculusriffs]

[THIS IS SO GROSS WHY ARE THEY SUCH GROSS TEEN BOYS.]

nothing i dont think
just found something that belonged to my bro
wanted to make sure

[he could leave it at that. but leaving it ambiguous sort of implies that he would actually want to bump into his guardian, three years removed from his influence, having finally realized just how wholly unloved he was the first 13 years of his life.]

[he isn't really sure whether to put a warning here, or to just say something else in a way so Ryuji might still understand. he does remember the ramblings — or at least, he's pretty sure he remembers the direction they were heading, before the subject was abruptly changed.]

wouldnt worry about it anyway
its more likely just ghosts pulling their usual shit
probably think theyre fuckin hilarious

[ryuji]

[Sometimes you just have to make sure your friends are on top of cleaning their asses.]

There's a ton of people on this station, if someone you were related to showed up wouldn't he like... wanna find you? I dunno, I'd ask around just to make sure.

[Just as he hits send on that last text he gets to thinking that it might not be an actually wanted reunion? Is he getting better at reading Dave?]

The ghosts are probably just drumming up old shit from our pasts to get a rise out of us or make us more vulnerable enough to feed off our negative energy or something

I dunno

Either that or they're really effin' socially inept and think they're helpin' us if that's what they kinda think is helping anyway

Callin' bullshit on that one though

What'd you get?

[oculusriffs]

[he is, indeed! there's an art to it, probably — and the next set of messages all but confirm the leveling up in Dave-reading that Ryuji's done.]

it was a comic
my bro spent most of his time on a bunch of different uh
enterprises
comics bein one of them
they were all part of this steely hyper ironic bro ninja code thing he had going
so the humors hard to explain
mostly because i dont fuckin get it either

[it's the most he's said to anyone about his bro, outside of his friends from home. it's even more than what he'd explained to Dirk, the one person who had the right above anybody else to hear about it. Dave had been too chickenshit to.]

[but, it also speaks to the level of trust that Dave has in Ryuji.]

probably wouldnt hurt to save it for a day the ghosts really deserve it
just flush it right back to sender
well make a holiday of it
clog the toilets with anything were given that isnt worth keeping

[ryuji]

[Score! +100 xp in understanding the between the lines text that Dave plays around with. Only a million more levels to go. Except, even if it's a level up, he's not so sure that's a particularly good milestone, this one.]

I have no clue what a hyper ironic bro ninja code is but it sounds kinda lame. Most of the shit you come up with when you're a kid kinda is anyway but judgin' how you have one the best senses of humor around, if you didn't get it it probably wasn't funny

And dude, of course, if you don't want that shit around, just dunk it. Send it right back to the Ghost North Pole where they got all these middle aged elves workin' on sending us care packages with big giant "screw you" ribbons tied all around em

[oculusriffs]

[whoa. Ryuji, sadly, is not in the same room as him, so he's missing the way Dave pretty much just lit up like a fucking Christmas tree, to continue the metaphor, at the compliment.]

maybe youre right
sending bad presents right down the shit shaft is pretty cathartic
at least
in the experience ive had with it so far
it is when youve got an accomplice

[ryuji]

Whoa you need to calm down sir

Those are the type of words a dude can get sentimental over

[oculusriffs]

what
im allowed to feel nostalgic over burrito toilet funerals all i want
thats basically our thing now isnt it

[ryuji]

Not that I'm opposed to it but shit, outta context that sounds really effin' sad and kinda lame

But, y'know, if it's our thing then yeah I guess that fits too

[oculusriffs]

dont take it out of context then
just roll with it

[like a ... like a burrito. god this is so far out in lame territory that nobody's even had a chance to name the landmarks yet.]

[Ryussia sounds good.]