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[Egon pauses, then straightens up a little bit.]

My name is Dr. Egon Spengler. I...believe you spoke to me about meeting up along Route 29.

[His face flushes red. His thoughts are going a mile a minute and it's taking all of his brainpower to try and actually get words out of his mouth.]

I have...reason to believe that we know each other. From different dimensions. Which would explain differing appearances.

Egon?!

[Ray has to take a few moments to process this, both realizing that the man he's been traveling with was the guy he was looking for the whole time and that apparently parallel dimensions exists? This is a lot to take in after just waking up.

Soon, however, Ray flings his arms around Egon in a hug.]

Egon I was worried sick about you!

[Egon lets out an oof as he gets tackle-hugged. A small smile makes its way onto his face--hell, he's actually grinning right now as he wraps an arm around Ray.]

I'm glad to see that you're safe, as well. [Man, he's kicking himself for not putting two-and-two together earlier. But at least he's no longer worried about having left Ray in the snow.] Now, ah, if you'll excuse me, I have to tell Peter. I'm sure he's worried about us.

[and he sends peter the following message after about, like, five minutes of silence:]

I have discovered that the man who I am sleeping with is, in fact, Ray Stanz.

Also, parallel dimensions exist and I believe that I am from a different dimension than the two of you

[So like

Venkman's been growing increasingly concerned over the last few minutes

he's sent a few confused followup messages to Spengler, mostly consisting of a multitude of question marks

When Egon finally replies, Venkman's initially relieved- then confused.]

Spengs did you not recognize your own partner until I reminded you what he looked like?????????? do i need to give you pictures of us so you can cross reference them??? what???

what do you mean "different dimension from us"???

A picture might explain it better.

[A really blurry and dark photograph is sent to Venkman, but there are two obvious people in it. The first is Ray in his dorky Pikachu sweater, smiling sleepily. The second is someone Venkman doesn't recognize--a man with tall hair and glasses. He looks like he's smiling...sort of? He also looks like he's filled with existential dread.

Have fun with that.]

Would it be alright to add Ray to this conversation?

WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO YOUR HAIR

I'll take that as a yes.

[Ping! Ray is in the conversation now. While they're cuddling in the bed. Don't worry about it.]

As far as I am aware, my hair has always looked like this. Please describe to me what you would expect me to look like.

You had blonde hair in our world!

[Sorry this is a voice chat now.

Ray glances at this Egon's lips before continuing]

I think your lips are a bit smaller, too.

oh my god ok

egon im just gonna call you alright

[And he does! When Spengler answers the Pokegear, Venkman hears Ray's reply, and speaks up himself.]

Yep, lips are different, but the hair- good God, your hair's usually blonde and swirly and no one knows how the hell you get it to look like that. You still have glasses, uh- you look-

You look so different? What the hell is going on here?

...My lips?

[He sounds somewhat bewildered by this--of all things to take note of....

Okay, so, uh--that's Venkman's voice? That's Venkman, right? Because he sounds like Garfield. Not that Egon would ever say that out loud. He clears his throat.]

As I said, I believe that you two are from a parallel dimension. Which means that I am also from a parallel dimension. The fact that I had no idea who Slimer was, but you knew how I had previously talked about how God would take the form of a giant chicken. The fact that I did not recognize Ray despite us being such close partners over the years.

[He coughs. That actually probably was just a lapse in his judgement.]

You also didn't remember when I talked about the Christmas ghosts!

[He hugs Egon a little tighter, as if showing his support.]

But that's amazing! We've always wondered about the possibility of parallel dimensions, but now we have proof of it!

... Well, the other Egon and I, but I'm sure you have too!

Ray, really happy for you and you feeling validated or whatever here, but I'm still a little frazzled from realizing I've been talking to an alternate dimension version of one of my boyfriends this whole time-

Oh my God, are we even dating? Do you even remember when I kissed you for the first time at that college party? Is it considered cheating if I've been flirting with an alternate dimension's version of my partner???

[Venkman's priorities are great thanks for asking]

...I have spoken to my dimension's Ray about parallel universes upon many ocassions.

[Egon leans against Ray, trying not to lose his goddamn mind here about literally everything going on in this situation.]

I-- [CLEARS HIS THROAT] Uh, yes to both--um, dating questions. Back in my dimension we were all--I, I don't know about the cheating thing.

[As he talks, his voice lowers to a murmur. Jesus Christ, he can feel his face turning red. He sinks lower in his seat, trying to lie down on the bed next to Ray.]

Edited 2018-12-27 05:37 (UTC)

[Ray happily makes room for him before he speaks up.]

That's an interesting moral quandary! [He says, as if this is just a hypothetical question.] If the personalities emulate each other enough and you were already dating each other in both dimensions, then it stands to reason that it's not cheating. However technically, your partner did not consent to it, so it's a tricky situation there.

Ok. Egon, if you knew your version of Peter Venkman was flirting with an alternate dimension version of yourself, would you be cool with it?

[this is like the closest he can get, so]

[Egon pauses.]

...I would think so, yes. You two are very similar in personality, if not identical. The same with Ray.

[He turns to Ray, looking somewhat apologetic.]

...Sorry for not recognizing you before.

Don't worry, I didn't recognize you either. If I hated you for not recognizing me I might as well hate myself for doing the same!

But this is great! I wonder if there is anyone else here who's experienced parallel dimensions like we are.

Ok, great. Because you're pretty handsome; I mean, you're no OUR-Egon, but I can see why the other Venkman liked you.

... I heard from some girl that some people who get dragged back to their original worlds come back here later on with no memory of it; she said she thinks they're coming from different dimensions. If so, this kind of proves that theory's valid, huh?

...Thank you?

[Venkman can't see it, but Egon's face is a brilliant red right now. Ray can probably see it, though!]

I spoke to someone earlier who believed I had previously been in this dimension, despite me having no memory of this incident. This likely points towards another "version" of Egon having previously been here, though I doubt he made very much of an impact, as only one other person recognized my name.

I recognize your name!

[He's joking, really! Ray picks up how Egon's face is heating up and nuzzles him lightly.]

But I can't believe our Egon arrived in this dimension before us! It's a shame we weren't able to see him here

Two Egons in one place? Now there's a thought.

Hard to think of any version of Egon not making much of an impact. I'm sure he spent the whole time questioning people about the fungi in this universe, and they just did their best to forget.

[A small smile appears on Egon's face as he leans against Ray. It does feel a bit odd to be sleeping with an alternate dimension version of one of your partners, but...it's. Probably fine.]

Thank you for reminding me of my next line of research into this world. [Said in an incredibly dry tone.] I'm sure that Ray would like to look into it, as well. I have a growing list of topics I would like to look into, which includes researching the source of meat in this dimension.

[The mystery meats are very important to his research regarding fungi being the future of food.]

...Speaking of research, I would like to know when is the next time we expect to see you in person. Or, first time for me, I suppose.

[It's fine darker haired-Ray will never know/will probably be 100% down with this.]

Oh yeah, I've been wondering about how stuff like that too! It seems like this culture heavily frowns upon consuming Pokémon, not that I blame them since they all seem to possess some level of sentience, but they do seem to sell some sort of unspecified meat in most stores.

The whole "mystery meat" thing is almost enough to make me go vegetarian.

[He pauses.]

Almost.

And I knew it wouldn't take you long to start looking into stuff like weird fungus- that's why I went ahead and did some digging myself. I saw someone at a party on the ferry the other night with a giant walking mushroom. Apparently, there's a few little monsters like that.

["Did some digging" = "saw something and thought of Egon"]

That would make the most sense. I have also found out that they do not shy away from using what we would consider to be animal products, in general, such as wool or eggs.

Oh? If you see that person again, please ask them what species of Pokémon it is. I will add it to my list of Pokémon to capture and contain. Did you know there's a Pokémon that resembles a cell undergoing mitosis?

[It's been in the works ever since Botan showed him so many goddamn ghost Pokémon. He's so fucking excited, though you could never tell from the tone of his voice.]

Venkman, when you have the time, you should meet up with Ray and I to compare notes about the creatures we have encountered.

[And also it would be nice to see him in person and actually cement the fact that he's from another dimension.]

Edited 2018-12-28 02:22 (UTC)

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