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oh dont worry

thats the plan

you dont think i'd let him complain forever do you

I am usually acutely aware of your intentions, yes.

How is Winston, by the way? Is he from your dimension, as I suspected?

i dont exactly try that hard to hide my "intentions" anyway ;-)

he is. or if he IS from another dimension, it's pretty damn close to mine and ray's. no wildly different hair or eye colors and he remembers the same busts that i do

[Theres a bit of a pause between messages.]

too bad we couldn't quite pull off a 50/50 split of dimensions huh

[It takes...a little longer for Egon to reply to this.]

There's still Janine. And Dana, though I wouldn't want either of them to be caught up in the dimensional shift.

what you think janine and dana wouldnt have the time of their lives here

no more dealing with our bullshit as an underpaid secretary and no more demons in refrigerators

permanent vacation time with cute animals without the threat of death

That's true. Dana might have to deal with other monsters in her refrigerator, though. Rotom can possess electronics, after all.

I doubt Janine would bother working with us here unless she was particularly pressed--she would probably enjoy some time by herself.

Just don't invite Louis Tully.

you think dana would be pissed if she found out i named my hellhounds after zuul and vinz

and yeah i may poke fun at janine but yea she definitely deserves a break from us for a while. i guess if we set up shop here as ghostbusters again we'd have to find a new secretary. thats a scary thought

oh christ no. i havent seen louis in years

dont even make me think about him showing up in this place that's horrifying

I wouldn't know. I would personally find it fascinating.

I'm not sure if anyone else is qualified enough to fill Janine's position.

I have unfortunately seen Louis before I arrived to this dimension. He keeps lurking around the firehouse in the hopes of getting Janine's attention.

So far, he has not been successful.

therein lies the problem. theres no replacement for janine. no substitute. she's janine. cant improve upon that

im sure theres a couple suckers in this place who'd be willing to try to fill those shoes, though

... hes doing what

Exactly what you'd imagine him to be doing.

the guy cant stop chasing after lesbians huh

lord

i think i'd rather see that vigo guy show up here than louis. maybe then we could all figure out what the hell his baby plan endgame was

Apparently not.

And I'd rather he didn't. Even if his plans seemed convoluted and ultimately useless, he still held a significant amount of power and could easily overpower the whole of Manhattan, if he wanted to.

Granted, he doesn't have any access to the psychoreactive slime here, so perhaps not.

[When is Egon going to learn to stop mentioning the slime. When.]

either he shows up here de-powered and de-fanged and completely unable to do anything but get beaten up by preschoolers with rats and pigeons, or he shows up here with the mood slime and you get to do repeats of certain experiments ;-)

id count both of those as a win

[He'll never learn as so long as he isn't allowed to drill holes in his head.]

I suppose Ray and I will simply not finish our trek to Viridian. You and Winston can do as you please. Within a week you'll be complaining and asking us to come join you.

oh really

You wanna be the one to tell ray that?

because you started this message complaining about how pissed ray's been that he hasnt gotten to see winston yet

Then it will be just me.

[Don't test him.]

and then you dont get to see winston

and i'm pretty sure the three of us going off on our own and leaving you the odd one out is the last thing you want, isn't it.

[It's hard to get a read for tone over text, but that sentence feels infinitely more serious than the rest of this conversation. Hello Egon you've fallen into his psychology trap.]

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[Egon knows exactly what Venkman is pulling here, but that doesn't mean he has to like it. It also ends up cutting a little deeper than Venkman probably intends, but hell if Egon is going to say anything about it.]

No.

[There's a pause between texts.]

Winston would complain.

yeah. winston would complain

because he loves you. even if you're not the same egon he knew back home, and even if he hasn't met you yet

and you love him.

[It's early February all over again. It's Venkman's stupid half-buried insecurities related to Bill Murray again. Except Egon's even worse about emotional shit than Venkman is.]

[Egon wants to ask something along the lines of, "but how do you know?". For all the probable certainties in the world, there are an equal amount of uncertanties. But that'd be opening up a can if worms he's not willing to open at any time. He'll just put the can neatly in its pre-labeled box and tuck it in his mental filing cabinet. It would be irrational to worry about such inconsequential things, after all.

The day all those cans get set loose is the day the apocalypse begins.

It takes him another few minutes to respond.]

Yes. Ray would complain as well. And both of them would eventually get you to retrieve me, with time.

It occurs to me that I haven't actually informed Winston of my appearance.

[By virtue of being himself, Venkman intermittently strolls up to that cabinet and violently shakes it in the hopes of dislodging a few of those cans of worms. Occasionally, he succeeds and opening up one or two as they crash onto the metaphorical floor. And usually, they're tucked away neatly again within minutes. That's fine. He's not stopping any time soon. He's spent fifteen years on this task- what's another fifteen?]

i told him a bit of what to expect

namely, that you're still egon, just with a different hair color

shockingly, that knowledge didnt dissuade him from wanting to see you

[Something in the back of his mind reminds Venkman of how much he'd despise the thought of his hair color being the only difference between him and his alternate self. He puts that thought on his own mental cabinet of "shit we're not unpacking today".]

[Good thing that Egon doesn't seem too bothered by that. Being self-aware isn't exactly a trait that Egon is known for.]

Ah. Thank you.

I greatly look forward to seeing you both soon. If you have the time, could you ask Winston for a cheek swab sample? Maybe some scans to record his neural oscillations?

Actually, don't do that. I'll do it when I get there.

[His temporary sadness is immediately overridden by his innate curiosity of other dimensions and the strange things that occur due to this dimension being a sort of nexus for other worlds. Egon knows how to handle himself. Most of the time. It's why he's survived this long.]

i know you will you fucking nerd

im not making any promises that i wont cross contaminate the samples by making out with him before you swab him though. you cant stop me

[i hate that i had to look up whether or not kissing could skew a dna sample for this.

As for Egon and Venkman's various Alternate Dimension Issues, it seems those will yet again go completely unresolved.]

[It's fine.]

I'll keep that in mind. Though I doubt I'll be obtaining a sample immediately after you were to kiss Winston.

Ray and I will see you soon.

just saying im pretty sure you wont have a lot of opportunities to swab him without any cross contamination risk for a looong time

because im kissing him at every single opportunity

if that wasnt obvious

... love you too spengs. see you soon

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