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[keepsthefire]

"Yo. Okumura here. Missed your call, so leave a message or whatever..."

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[ghostboy]

RIN THE ROBOTS THINK I'M MY DEAD SIBLING

HELP??

[keepsthefire]

wat

[ghostboy]

they think ghost me is actually the ghost of some dead twin brother i don't actually have

i'm freaking out and this guy won't stop talking

[keepsthefire]

wwoooooooowww...

and i thought i had problems jfc

[Way to sympathize, Rin.]

[ghostboy]

rin?? NOT helping!!

help me out, here, what am i supposed to tell him! he says that i'm in denial and that i'm not actually coping with my loss! which i'm not, because that brother is actually me!!

[keepsthefire]

see this is a good moment to actually use what i said about telling the truth

if you actually showed him youre the same person and asked them not to make a big deal over it theyd probably be a lot more understanding

[ghostboy]

uh no, i actually kind of don't think they would

this robot was collecting data on birds here when i met him, and that means he's probably some kind of giant robot scientist. saying 'hi i'm actually a freak unnatural paradox between life and death, please don't experiment on me' isn't something that works on scientists!!

[keepsthefire]

yeah but lying isn't doing you any good either

[ghostboy]

yeah well it's kept me out of my parents' lab this far, and it's better than any of the alternatives!!

[keepsthefire]

then what do you expect me to do? id just be a target for them too if what youre saying is true

[ghostboy]

*And this is a weirdly lonely reminder that Rin isn't Sam or Tuck. Homesickness stabs at him with surprising ferocity, and he can't quite force all of it back the way it came.*

dude i wasn't saying throw yourself under the giant robot bus for me, i was asking for advice on what to TELL him.

he sounds like he's calmed down a little, so it's getting to be kind of moot at this point.

[keepsthefire]

[Sorry, Danny. He is trying, though. Sort of.]

man i dont even know like how the hell does anyone deal with this situation its not like dealing with giant robots is NORMAL

... id offer to talk to them but i really dont know what to say any more than you do outside of just admitting the truth

or giving them someone else to focus on???

[ghostboy]

if i see anyone else he can go worry over that i don't think could get experimented on i'll think about it

meanwhile maybe ignoring him will work better this time

idk, he thinks i'm 'coping' now, ish

[keepsthefire]

man i hope so

its not like i want you to be experimented on i just dont really have any other advice

[ghostboy]

don't worry about it, there's not exactly a manual out there for 'getting out of awkward how-did-this-happen conversations 101'

otherwise i'd own it and be following it like crazy, trust me

[keepsthefire]

if that existed i would have been using it for like ever

though that probably wouldn't fix most of the conversations with my brother

anyway let me know if you need any help later ill try to do something

[ghostboy]

will do, i get the feeling that this probably isn't the end of it.

later.