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[oohforeshadowing]

Let me get back to you, darling.

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[hauntedcalamari]

[He's never been great at getting the recalcitrant to follow. Oh, well.]

And then it starts to drag a little?

[oohforeshadowing]

Thus returning us to the very beginning of this conversation, darling.

[And the mention of constant, worrying boredom.]

[hauntedcalamari]

The first time I was here I definitely let it get to me. Nothing really ever seemed to change. After I got over being alive, I kinda just coasted. Kinda sucks that it's even possible to be bored in a magic spaceship.

[oohforeshadowing]

That's inevitable, darling. Boredom, however, rates above several forms of excitement.

[hauntedcalamari]

Yeah, but with their absence comes the terrible responsibility of keeping yourself busy.

[oohforeshadowing]

Do you think I'm just laying around all day? For shame, warden. I'm gainfully employed.

[hauntedcalamari]

Gaining what?

[oohforeshadowing]

The inherent satisfaction of a job well done.

[yeah no they'd just be even more bored without it]

[hauntedcalamari]

That and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee.

[oohforeshadowing]

I don't know what a buck is, but I've been getting my coffee for free the entire time I've been here.

[hauntedcalamari]

I thought the idiom would translate pretty straightforwardly is all.

[oohforeshadowing]

Yes. I'm being facetious.

But I'm also being entirely serious, because there is absolutely no real value in doing anything here.

[hauntedcalamari]

Yes, I was agreeing with you. I mean, mostly. I'm alive and can spend a whole afternoon touching plants.

[oohforeshadowing]

Are you....trying to distract me with pity?

[hauntedcalamari]

I'm trying to commiserate with empathy, but they do look mostly the same.

[oohforeshadowing]

Trying. I can't empathise with something that deeply pathetic.

[hauntedcalamari]

The weird dead guy stuff I'll take to the other ex-ghosts onboard. I meant the part where it's boring here.

[oohforeshadowing]

Too late. You have absolutely disclosed weird dead guy stuff.

Well, if there's nothing else to gain from this conversation...?

[hauntedcalamari]

Not interested in becoming less bored brainstorming?

[oohforeshadowing]

With you? Not really.

[hauntedcalamari]

The plant touching thing is entirely a having been dead side effect. For the record.

[oohforeshadowing]

Understood.

Please understand my concern that it may have leaked into your ability to brainstorm what a normal person might find stimulating.

[hauntedcalamari]

I don't really aspire to normal. I do have more than the average experience spinning my wheels someplace nothing ever changes, though.

[oohforeshadowing]

You're starting to sound a little needy, darling.

[hauntedcalamari]

[And here he's supposed to get defensive or try to prove he's anything but. Not that he thinks DT is hiding anything actively from him. He's not that significant. Probably they'll just think it's funny. But years with Klaus do give one a bit of an edge with this sort of play.]

Duh. You get some serious complexes when you don't exist for fifteen years.