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[dorkypantsuit]

CHANNEL FREQUENCY: 101.11011
DESCRIPTION: Basically he is always on the radio being obnoxious and looking for work. He will not apologize for talking nonstop to you.

MAIL BOX LOCATION: On the Ladder to Nowhere by his trailer door.
DESCRIPTION: A large kitschy maneki neko bank. Just slip your letter into the hole on the back of the cat's head.

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[dorkypantsuit]

[Of course he did.]

..This isn't your fault, you know that. Right?

[dontpokethat]

Yeah. I know.

[It may be because of him, but he does at least realize it's not his fault.]

...How're you doing, by the way? I hope you didn't get too... affected by all that.

[dorkypantsuit]

By what?

Worrying about you?

[dontpokethat]

I mean... well, the mushi for one thing, but I don't want you getting too stressed out, either.

...I guess I'm asking how you're doing.

[dorkypantsuit]

The mushi didn't... Bug me a lot.

[He can't even find the pun humorous though. These last few days have been kind of a nightmare.]

I just... Don't like it when the Ringmaster has to get involved.

Her sense of justice is different than ours.

[dontpokethat]

Me neither, honestly. Would've been better if we could have resolved this on our own.

[dorkypantsuit]

I guess... It's just not always possible.

[Though seeing RM in her wrathful judge mode rankled him badly. Too close to a troll's sense of judgement for his liking.]

...Doing things the human way is enough most of the time though. I guess I'll just have to be happy with that.

[dontpokethat]

...Guess so.

[He can't say for sure what 'the human way' would mean here, specifically - or, more to the point, what the alternative would entail. But he can guess from context that he'd probably find the 'human way' preferable.]

Doesn't mean we can't wish things had worked out differently this time, though.

[He doesn't even know all the details yet, but... if the Ringmaster got involved, he can't imagine the results are very good for Foster.]

[dorkypantsuit]

I know...

[Everything just felt gloomy and hopeless lately, and this incident hadn't helped. Of course Joker's weird behavior was weighing on him as well.]

[Really most everyone he knew was miserable because of one thing or another lately. It was getting harder to be cheerful for the newbies lately. Unfortunately as far as solutions went Psi didn't have many thoughts.]

I...

[He doesn't even say it to Ginko, his hand not holding the button on his radio firmly enough for the words to come through. It's something he normally wouldn't say to anyone, but he'd decided to give Ginko a kind of moirail test run as it were, and this was definitely the kind of thing he'd tell a moirail, if he had one anyway.]

I just wish there was something I could do to help.

[dontpokethat]

...Nobody can help with everything. It's not your fault.

[That sure is a thing for Ginko of all people to be saying. But right now, it's all he can think of.]

[dorkypantsuit]

Yeah, but that doesn't really make me feel any better.

[dontpokethat]

[...Well shit. Ginko winces a little.]

Sorry.

I don't know. At least it... it didn't end as badly as it could have.

[dorkypantsuit]

[Grim sentiments.]

Why are you apologizing? You didn't do anything wrong.

[dontpokethat]

Well, I... [He laughs. Sort of. It's... kind of like a laugh.] I know this might sound ridiculous, after what I just said, but-- I wish I could help you more. I don't... I don't know what else to say.

[dorkypantsuit]

[It's silent for a moment as that sinks in, and then he laughs. It's an actual real laugh.]

So me feeling bad about not being able to help made you feel bad about not being able to help me stop feeling bad for everyone else feeling bad?

[dontpokethat]

[--Oh, hey, he's... laughing? That's... that's actually a really nice change.]

I... yeah, I guess so. But when you put it that way, it sounds even more ridiculous than it already was.

[The smile in his voice is probably audible, even through the radio.]

[dorkypantsuit]

[That Ginko seems to sound less gloomy makes him smile even more.]

How could it sound more ridiculous.

[It was already the most ridiculous thing he'd ever heard.]

Maybe I should apologize to you instead for making you feel bad about me feeling bad about other people feeling bad!

[dontpokethat]

[That noise he just made sure was the closest he's gotten to laughing in a while. Ginko presses his hand over his face, making his voice come out a bit muffled.]

Please don't do that, this is complicated enough already.

[dorkypantsuit]

If you're sure.

[Such a stupid conversation this had become. But at least they're both smiling.]

Thanks... For letting me know what happened.

[dontpokethat]

Ah... no problem. Would've told you earlier if I'd actually had a chance back when I felt like shouting, but... close enough.