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You can text me when you feel lonely?

[ it's. equivalent. no it's not but maybe it is okay. he wants to be reliable, at least for the people he loves. ]

Eh, I didn't have plans really? Oh, I guess like. More insect surveying.

[ which he has never once mentioned to dirk so "more" seems like a questionable qualifier. ]

You?

[splinten]

Okay, I will.

[It may not be equivalent but it is fair. It occurs to him that maybe, he needs to let himself rely on others more.]

...More insect surveying. It was not known to me that there was any.

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[ dave relaxes a little at the agreement. ]

Well, yeah. We've done tons of animal life surveying but little to no insect surveys.

[ and dave...apparently? decided that needed to be corrected without any sort of input? why dave ]

[splinten]

[...]

Huh. Are you enjoying it?

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[ A SHRUG. there is probably some hidden motive here but ??? what the fuck could it be. ]

It's interestin'? You can come with if you want, but I am assumin' you have other shit on your docket. What're your plans?

[splinten]

Shovin' characters onto computers and makin' metal do stuff.

[Programming and robotics. But he's being weird.]

We can pick a day for fraternal bug hunting.

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Sure, if you actually think you're interested. What day are you free?

[ he has to mentally pull up his plans for this. ]

[splinten]

Every day except movie nights.

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So you have no plans with anyone else this week so far?

[ or is dirk like WELL NOTHING I CAN'T RESCHEDULE ]

[splinten]

Not really. All my future plans are in a vague state of 'eventually, whenever.' Most of my things are improvised.

[But Dave seems to like having dates and times locked down for things so Dirk likes to offer them to Dave especially.]

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[ it's because...specific times means it'll actually happen and dirk will be there and not...somewhere else...look bro hated spending time with dave

beyond the whole

monitoring him thing which does not count? ]

Uh, I'm free tomorrow?

[splinten]

Then we just need to know the best hour for finding bugs.

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Or we could just go when the fuck ever and realize different bugs like different times?

[ dirk wing it for once ]

[splinten]

You usually prefer to set times for me.

[DIRK WINGS MOST SOCIAL THINGS. Dave gets chosen times just for him.]

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Oh, I'm a moron. You meant like an hour. Uh. One pm?

[ he MISUNDERSTOOD and thought dirk wanted to just block out a day together. ]

[splinten]

[Was that not the point. Hm. Dirk is considering this now that Dave thinks he is an idiot. Dave thinking he has BEEN an idiot is usually the moment when Dave is in fact in the act of committing idiocy.]

I meant an hour to start. [And then, like, not necessarily end.] How about we begin at 6AM? We can start crepuscular and move through the varieties.

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Oh. I figured, uh, whenever we woke up and ate or whatever we could just...go after?

[ so he wasn't worried about the time when he was under the impression it was a full day thing. which...he wasn't wrong about apparently maybe???? please advise dirk ]

If you mean like a full day thing, and not just an allotment of time thing. Which both things are fine so?

[splinten]

I meant a full day thing. If that's the case, we'll just do when we wake up, yeah.

[This was unnecessary silliness but at least they clarified it?]

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Oh, ok. That's...how I meant it too?

[ before backtracking when he thought dirk didn't mean it that way, because actually asking someone for an entire day might be Too Clingy. ]

So, pretty early in the morning probs.

[splinten]

Sounds good to me.

[He gives Dave an affectionate hair ruffle. This is important in the hug because at a certain point Dirk runs out of ways to increase proximity to Dave so ?? this is it.]

I'll pack food, you handle drinks?

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[ the problem is dave's reaction to hair ruffles is either to take it or to automatically try to mess up dirk's hair sans warning which he does now? dirk? ]

That's a lot of trust you're puttin' in me, assumin' I'll pack oj in addition to aj.

[splinten]

[No he's going to try to catch those hands! even though it's first thing in the morning so who cares if his hair gets messed]

I trust you with everything but my good hair days.

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[ ok then > execute hug command and > initiate sibling wrestling match ig enjoy that ]

You should absolutely trust me with those too? I'm a very trustworthy person, I know how you style your dumb anime hair?

[splinten]

That doesn't mean you'll do it?

[Well this is dumber than before, now.]

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I've fixed your hair before!

[ directly after...messing it up......................... ]