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[He's certainly not complaining- usually when Egon does something stupid, he can only really talk about it with Janine, Winston, or Ray.

Venkman's only got Ray in this universe, and Ray tends to take Egon's side when it comes to incredibly idiotic science misadventures. It's nice to have someone else who actually recognizes that Egon isn't always the "smartest" of the 'busters.

... Plus, he's glad to hear from Lena, anyway. He's been a little worried since the shadow incident over the weekend.]

stubborn AND stupid AND smart. no idea how he does it

so: whatd he do this time, how bad was it, and do i have to make him apologize

you know how i was all shadow ghost-y during that crazy weekend
he said to my face that old "magic is just science we don't understand" crud
like
to the glowing blue shadow

i told him i could do magic too
(specifically that i once lifted a train car without even touching it)
and he was still babbling about science

ughhhh

i cant totally blame him for that one because he did literally prove that ghosts and a ton of other supernatural shit are real with science buuuut

i can still blame him for being a dick about it and also not understanding that different dimensions have different rules

also once we dealt with a leprechaun curse that could be broken with a four leaf clover and egon insisted on dealing with it with science and went off alone and nearly got himself killed by lions

... then again, that was the other egon. but theyre basically the same

wait wait wait wait
hold up
other egon???

there's MORE of that guy?
how are you not totally crazy???

oh fuck right most people dont know

yeah theres at least two, maybe more. this egon is from a totally different dimension from me and ray. my universe's egon is blonde and has a pompadour

[Obviously, that's the most important difference between the two of them.]

we basically have the same history together, except we're all almost ten years older in egons dimension for some reason? and we look different, and a lot of events tend to follow the plot of the shitty movie adaptation of our lives. its Weird

oh my god
just when i thought he couldn't get any worse
a pompadour, really????

... that's super weird
i mean i'm mot doubting alternate dimensions or anything
there's enough i know about crazy magic that stuff like that seems normal
but it's just weird.... y'know. hearing about it actually happening to people

yea like

hold on

[A few minutes pass. After a while, Venkman sends the following piece of... Uh. Art?]

it looks like this

and believe me i get it- its definitely weird. it took some time to adjust and we still keep figuring out differences between our dimensions or remembering stuff we haven't told him

but its also... not really weirder than most of the stuff weve dealt with in our line of work. like on a scale from "getting kidnapped by vampires" to "dealing with the guy who sold his soul to get rid of chickens", this is kind of around the area of "giant marshmallow god destroying new york".

... so not that bad, comparatively

.... is that a mullet too???
wow
that's so embarrassing even i'm feeling second-hand embarrassment right now

... okay so you can't just reference that stuff and not give me deets
what was UP with that dude who sold his soul to get rid of chickens???

like those other two sound pretty normal for the stuff my friends get caught up in
but THAT one sounds like A Story

not a mullet more like a rattail

[It was the 70s and 80s. Sometimes people made stupid fashion choices.]

chicken man was wild, kid. he went fucking crazy over how much he hated chickens, summoned a demon, sent all the chickens to an alternate dimension, then sent US there too when we tried to figure out what happened

then the demon he sold his soul to told us "hey im a laughingstock now among demons because of this chicken dude, please help" so we built robotic chickens to trick the chicken man into bringing the real chickens back

it was a weird day.

that's just as bad!!!

[Lena's a dirty millenial so there are definitely some pretty questionable fashion choices in HER generation, but that....! That's just embarrassing!]

honestly i'd feel bad for that demon too
like how do you TELL that to your demon friends
you're talkin about all the souls you collected like they're some kinda weird trading cards
and then you say "yeah and THIS is a dude that just REALLY hates chickens"
i'm surprised he didn't get kicked out of hell for that

see, now THAT'S the kind of stuff i can totally get into
not all this "let's experiment until your head blows up from psychic shock" stuff egon blabs on about
good ol stupid adventures are always a fun time

listen

it is bad but i love him

[Venkman has taste but sometimes you have to throw that taste away because your partners think pea soup green is a good color for a tuxedo.]

the worst part is he tried to hide it but some imp ratted him out and screwed him over

like he KNEW that shit was unrecoverable

i'd say like half their experiments back home are dumb stuff like that and half are stuff like egon trying to drill a hole in his head

...

......

.........

Please tell me you're joking. What exactly would he try to prove with that?

[It might just be Venkman exaggerating, but Lena also wouldn't doubt Egon attempting to do something stupid like that for SCIENCE!!!]

i wish i was screwing with you but at the end of the day im the one who had to come home and yank the power tools out of his hand and confiscate them from our apartment

something about the spiritual side effects of trepanation and possibly implanting a metal plate to prevent unwanted psychic interference. i think. i gotta be honest kid i didnt pay much attention to his explanation i was too busy being terrified

Oh my god. Are there even words to describe how dumb that is?

[She's pretty sure that kind of stuff is quack science, but bringing that up to an actual scientist is probably asking for trouble, so she keeps her mouth shut for now.]

Do you, like... have to monitor what Pokemon he catches? 'Cause man, if you have to keep him away from power tools, I wouldn't trust him around half the stuff I've seen here.

it turns out theres some guy here who put a metal plate in HIS head for similar reasons and ever since i found that out ive been praying they dont talk about it

not really- i mean, hes a grown adult and we cant actually die here, im not gonna mother him 24/7 if he wants to do something stupid with his pokemon that cant actually kill him or hurt someone else

but i will absolutely mock him for it afterwards

back home there was the possibility of him getting himself killed but he also knows the equipment he and ray built way better than me so i just sort of trust he usually knows what hes doing

and then have a heart attack when it turns out he doesnt. like every time we do something dangerous and life threatening and i ask him "egon how'd you come up with that" theres a 1/5 chance he just crossed his fingers and hoped we wouldnt all die when we followed his lead

shit's stressful

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