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[oohforeshadowing]

Let me get back to you, darling.

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[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.

[oohforeshadowing]

[DT doesn't really think he's supposed to anything; they're still getting the shape of him. This is a pleasant surprise, regardless, and their soft laughter illustrates as much.]

Poor ghost baby.

[hauntedcalamari]

Imagine only talking to Klaus. Ever.

[oohforeshadowing]

We never met, I only found out what he looked like through the network. Still, he seemed like a treasure to me.

[hauntedcalamari]

He's a... brother.

[He debates asking about Double Trouble's experience in that area and decides it'd probably be too personal for the conversation.]

So I'm not going to tear into him. But. Point is. I got here kinda overwhelmed and I continue to be very easily impressed sometimes. But once being able to order whatever crazy cabin you want wears off, it kinda rings a little hollow.

[oohforeshadowing]

Alright. So, what might you recommend?

[hauntedcalamari]

Small picture, come to karaoke sometime.

[oohforeshadowing]

Ugggghhhhh. Your small picture is hideous.

[hauntedcalamari]

It's semi-metaphorical karaoke.

[oohforeshadowing]

Mm. Are you semi-metaphorically trying to help me, or do you just want someone to hang out with?

[hauntedcalamari]

The karaoke represents trying dumb things for their own sake and not standing on a limiting sense of dignity when you're already feeling stuck. I also enjoy having people to hang out with.

[oohforeshadowing]

This sounds suspiciously as though you are 'disrespecting my hustle'.

[hauntedcalamari]

If your hustle was up to your boredom we'd have had a different conversation.

[oohforeshadowing]

I wasn't presenting it as a problem for you to solve, warden. I'm fine.

[hauntedcalamari]

It's a problem that exists. That's a good enough reason.

[oohforeshadowing]

According to you. Have any good ideas?

[hauntedcalamari]

I could list fun activities like I was trying to sell you on a cruise, but it'd help to know what you do for fun when you're not on the strangely dull space adventure.

[oohforeshadowing]

What does anyone do around here? I read, I exercise, I gently bully people who show up in the communal wardrobe and won't broaden their horizons. I attend movie nights sometimes.

[hauntedcalamari]

Which is why I didn't try reading you a list. It takes about twenty minutes to figure out the recreational options around here. What would you do for entertainment given... not the barge?

[oohforeshadowing]

If not the Barge then that's an irrelevance, darling. I'd be working, or, I'd be looking for more work. The thrilling life of the self-employed artist.

[hauntedcalamari]

Strangely enough, also basically the life of a teen super hero. But you know enough about what you like to prefer cabaret to karaoke.

[oohforeshadowing]

I prefer variety. Cabaret versus karaoke is like a novel versus one badly plagiarized chapter, darling.