WEEK ZERO: FRIDAY, 10PM, THE POOL
[ should dirk choose to take dave up on the haphazard offer, he'll find the fourteen-year-old knight of time sitting crosslegged by the pool shed, his back leaning up against it. he has a monogrammed innsmouth motel paper pad and a red pen he got somewhere and is doodling to keep himself from freaking the fuck out. just shitty comics and random asides. he's kind of hunched over it, but.
dave also apparently found a wristwatch somewhere, though it looks like it's from the 1950s, so that's new.
he will pause in his mindless doodling when he hears anyone, eyes flicking up (he has not taken the shades off), and speaks in a much more measured manner than he ended the last conversation: ]
Sup. [ like he didn't snap at dirk or spend the rest of the day dreading a thing he legitimately offered. no big deal. ]
dave also apparently found a wristwatch somewhere, though it looks like it's from the 1950s, so that's new.
he will pause in his mindless doodling when he hears anyone, eyes flicking up (he has not taken the shades off), and speaks in a much more measured manner than he ended the last conversation: ]
Sup. [ like he didn't snap at dirk or spend the rest of the day dreading a thing he legitimately offered. no big deal. ]

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at random fucking hours dave could never predict. ]
I'm pretty sure he must've fed me when I was a baby?
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He...didn't always ignore me. He monitored me.
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[ that part could sound almost nice except they were frequently like, comics about accidental murder and also the notes were usually "roof now". ]
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[ like. dave doesn't? but it is possible dirk might. ]
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[ he digs in his pocket and produces another red pen.
he...
he apparently was not joking? about having 200 red pens? what the fuck did he spend his day doing. ]
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How were there that many specifically red pens? Also, why did you bring, like, ten?
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[ BUT...WHY 200? ]
And in case somethin' happened to one, I guess?
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I have some dentures, too.
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On you?
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Yes?
[ he like. takes them out and clacks the two teeth sides together. ]
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THIS DAY HAS BEEN TOO MUCH AND DAVE IS CLACKING DENTURES WHICH WERE IN HIS POCKETS JUST BECAUSE HE
he bursts into laughter because what the fuck]
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what ]
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Yeah he has nothing he's just going to stare awkwardly and embarrassed. It's fine.]
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uh. ]
...But anyway I have pens if you want....me to draw the thing...
[ he stares at the dentures in his hand and tbh he grabbed them because he found them funny, but so far until this moment no one else had either.
he still sounds mostly stunned ]
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[a pause and then suddenly]
You recognized what my tattoo was.
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Yeah? I quoted the comic at you earlier, too, but you just freaked out.
[ "the dead dave pile doesn't stop from getting taller"
"the sports pile doesn't stop from getting taller"
same diff. some of the scattered pages have what looks like some sbahj scribbles, too, though dave didn't bother to collect them all as he starts trying to sketch in what he remembers. ]
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[He did a little freak out.]
So you did it as a comic. [A pause.] My Bro did it as movies. If there were comics he didn't leave them for me.
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson were the leads.
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[ HE...STILL HASN'T DECIDED HOW HE FEELS ABOUT DIRK but dave has managed to even out and tune out his feelings like he sometimes does to focus on the here and now. the feelings that were distracting, anyway; he's still There, but.
this has not stopped being surreal or jarring. doodling sort of helps. ]
Who was Geromy?
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Donald Glover. After his assassination, my Bro stopped including Geromy in the films.
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im literally just going to steal from canon
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yeah i did
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