OPEN } i'm gonna set things straight again, i'm gonna prove them wrong

[krmvgivv]

Who: Dipper Pines and YOU
Where: Out and around the hot springs
When: at night when the GHOSTS are out
Rating: G for GHOSTS
Summary: Dipper can't relax like a normal person, so he's out hunting GHOSTS!
The Story:

[The hot springs are all very nice (if a little more naked than Dipper is comfortable with in his swimming), but he's way more interested in the rumors that this place is haunted. His last ghost encounter didn't go so well, but he knows a lot more about ghosts now. He knows a lot more about everything.

Well, possibly not about the yukata. He's definitely wearing it wrong, and he's got his shorts on underneath. It feels weird otherwise. Well, weirder. He'd really prefer a shirt.

But it doesn't matter. He's ready for any ghosts that come his way. He's got anointed water, he's got a sensor to try and catch ghostly readings, and he's got his journal. Time to set a few traps and hope he can catch the ghost by the time the event ends. Sure, it means not sleeping much, since obviously nighttime is when ghosts are most common, and it means not enjoying the relaxing vacation but, well, vacations aren't nearly as interesting as ghosts are, and it's not like he was sleeping anyway. Slumber parties are the worst, even when it's boys, not girls.]

Comments

[singloversing]

[If Wirt shrugs anymore his arms are going to fall right off his shoulders.]

I mean...probably, I guess? I dunno. How they were moving around didn't really change that they were moving around when they should probably be dead in the ground. What would I even do with that information anyway? No, I just...we only tried to ask about leaving and they just tried to make us stay. We got arrested by their giant pumpkin...leader...thing, f-for trespassing and stepping on crops and had to do manual labor to work it off - like, digging up their friends and stuff. As soon as that was done we got out of there, ASAP.

[All of this is said, of course, as though this is a perfectly reasonable course of events and not something fantastic and odd.]

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper just stares at him. He cannot comprehend this much indifference.]

I mean, are giant pumpkin grave digging skeletons common in your world?

[singloversing]

Well, no...not at all, actually. But we were, um--

[How does he even begin to explain the Unknown? He's still not really one hundred percent sure if it's another world or if it's just kind of always been in the woods and he never noticed before. Besides, the whole thing sounds bonkers.]

...it's complicated?

[krmvgivv]

[Oh, that's the part that sounds bonkers. But the pumpkin skeleton cult? Totally normal. Sure, Wirt. Sure.]

How complicated can it be?

[singloversing]

Uhhh. ...Pretty complicated?

[But it sure sounds like he's not going to get out of it now. So, he takes a deep breath.]

My brother and me, we uh. We were walking home and then we kind of...got lost in the woods? Everyone we've run into calls it the Unknown? But I don't...I'm not really sure where it is. Or what it is, I guess? Obviously we wouldn't know where, since we got lost, but...I'd never seen any weird stuff until that happened. And that's where we were before any of us came here?

[A beat.] I...don't really talk about it, because it all sounds crazy bananas.

[krmvgivv]

Considering we're currently in a world that's from a storybook, I think the bar for crazy bananas has been raised pretty high.

[singloversing]

...I guess so. [Actually, that's been pointed out to him before, but he keeps defaulting back to "wow, that sure sounds crazy. Don't talk about it or you're going to sound like a crazy person."] And all kinds of weird things happen here too. I always forget people are probably kind of...I don't know. Used to it by now?

[krmvgivv]

...so just making sure I have this clear. You didn't question the skeleton pumpkin cult at all but you think people living in Wonderland are gonna question your weird Unknown place and think you're crazy?

[Dipper will never, ever understand Wirt.]

[singloversing]

I...um. W-Well, when you put it like that...I guess it does sound kind of dumb.

[He won't meet Dipper's eyes but he crosses his arms, clearly embarrassed to have it pointed out to him.]

[krmvgivv]

[He rolls his eyes.] I'm just saying, you could question things a little more. Or at least think about them.

[singloversing]

[Embarrassment turns pretty quickly into an annoyed pout.] I do think about things! I just...I don't know. Nevermind.

[He can't really put it into words, and he's not really in the mood to try now.]