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[krmvgivv]

Hey, you've reached Dipper! I'm not here right now, but leave a message and I'll get back to you soon!

...

But if this is paranormal-related? Hang up now, call back, let it ring exactly twice, then hang up again. Don't leave a message. I'll get back to you even sooner.


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[singloversing]

Oh heck no. No way. That's like painting a target on myself. Even if he really is sorry about stealing my hat, he's still a jerk and I'd rather just not.

[Did you really expect a different answer, Dipper? Really?]

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[krmvgivv]

[...he really shouldn't have bothered asking.]

Oh come on. Was he really that scary?

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[singloversing]

Yes! He had these weird telekinetic powers and he lifted my hat off my head without even touching me!

[There's a pause between that message and the next one as something dawns on him.]

...I feel like I forgot that part the first time around. Did I mention that already?

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[krmvgivv]

[What...]

No! That sounds pretty important!

[And the thing that worries Dipper is that he does know something that can give a person telekinetic powers.]

How did he do it? Was there a sort of blue light?

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[singloversing]

Yes! He touched this blue pendant and there was blue light and he just lifted it right off me!

[These are all things he probably should have said immediately, but he was too panicked about being trapped on the Mirror Side of the mansion at the time.]

Why? Do you know what that was?

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[krmvgivv]

Yes. Bad news.

[Mabel broke Gideon's magic bolo tie, which was definitely a good thing, but it means he doesn't know that many details about what it is. Just that mirror Dipper is into some bad stuff. Anything that has to do with Gideon has to be bad.]

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[singloversing]

[There's a more significant pause between that text and the next one Wirt sends, as Wirt tries to decide if it's too much sass for a written (text...ed?) message. But then he decides that no, they're at that level of friendship.]

Any chance you could be a little more specif-

[Nope. Nevermind. Delete delete delete. The only message that goes out is:]

How is it bad news? What is it?

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[krmvgivv]

[Wirt you are a loser.]

Something one of our enemies used. Breaking the pendant should take away his powers.

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[singloversing]

[THANKS, BUDDY.]

But how can anyone even get near him when he can control stuff with that pedant? It's not like he's going to just take it off and leave it somewhere.

[Sounds pretty hopeless to him.]

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[krmvgivv]

You've got to trick him. But he's me so that's gonna be really hard.

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[singloversing]

But isn't he also not-you? If he's hard to trick, wouldn't that make you easy to trick?

[He couldn't let that one go. Not when Dipper walked right into it.]

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[krmvgivv]

[Rude. Dipper's super hard to trick, excuse you.]

That's not how mirrors work. If we were opposites in every way he'd just be Mabel.

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[singloversing]

Well yeah, I guess so. But he still has to be kind of different or else he'd just be a perfect clone of you or something.

[And that's obviously not the case, with his evil magic amulet and all that.]

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[krmvgivv]

[....man, Dipper misses Tyrone.]

Obviously he's different from me. I wouldn't have stolen your dumb hat to begin with.

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[singloversing]

I feel like we're kinda going around in circles? He's still super different from you so it would probably be better to assume he's nothing like you until we know otherwise. Safer, I mean.

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[krmvgivv]

You really aren't getting the concept of middle ground, are you?

Anyway, it's never safer to assume he'll be dumb. Better to be overprepared than underprepared.

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[singloversing]

[He understands middle ground!! But, this is kind of exhausting to argue, so he just concedes like he always does.]

...Right. I guess so.