ACE

[foreverphantom]

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[selfimmolation]

Always have. What about you? Got any goals past ghost hunting, or was that always the dream?

[foreverphantom]

Mmmm.

I...wanted to be an astronaut, once.

[selfimmolation]

[

very clear wassat face ]

An astronaut... is...?

[foreverphantom]

Like...a sailor, but instead of exploring the oceans, it's exploring the stars.

[selfimmolation]

Woah. [ :o ] That's cool. Why'd you stop wanting to be one?

[foreverphantom]

...other things got in the way.

[selfimmolation]

[ hmmm. ]

If they weren't, would you still want to do it?

[foreverphantom]

[ he pauses, thinking deeply and staring up into the sky ]

I haven't thought about it in a while. But...yeah, maybe.

[selfimmolation]

So what is it that got in the way? The ghost stuff?

[foreverphantom]

For starters, yeah.

[selfimmolation]

So nothing you could just drop to go for your real dream?

[ im sorry that following your dreams is so important in one piece that i have to go danny become an astronaut danny ]

[foreverphantom]

I don't exactly meet the minimum qualifications anymore.

[selfimmolation]

There's qualifications?

[ imagine having to be qualified to do something instead of just taking a sailboat out and hoping for the best ]

[foreverphantom]

Yeah, generally people want to make sure you're qualified to be driving the rocket that costs more than the combined net worth of several countries.

[selfimmolation]

Sailing in space is sounding less and less like the sea now. [ i need you to understand ace does not know this but a man did go to the moon using a regular ass ship in one piece. anyway ] So what qualifications do you lack? Can't you just... train for those?

[foreverphantom]

[ help, one piece

anyway danny just sighs ]

You can't train things like your heart rate or your body temperature.

[selfimmolation]

... Your body temperature is wrong?

[foreverphantom]

Yes.

[ beat. ]

...I think. I haven't checked since...a while ago. But it's probably still wrong.

[selfimmolation]

[ ... touches danny's forehead like he can tell ]

[foreverphantom]

[ okay well danny will pull away from the touch when he does this, but for the moment that ace does make contact with his forehead he feels...

like a totally normal temperature!!! ]

[selfimmolation]

Sorry, my bad. [ sometimes you are used to everyone you meet having no sense of personal space ] But your temperature seems normal to me?

[foreverphantom]

It...does?

[ feels his own forehead. he has no idea how to gauge his own temperature like this.

so he presses two fingers down on his wrist for a moment, and then under his jawline. ]

...huh. Oh, that's weird.

[selfimmolation]

Huh, hey, maybe it got fixed and you can be an astronaut now!

[ that is not how that works. ]

[foreverphantom]

I think it's just a side effect of whatever this place is doing to mess with our powers.

[selfimmolation]

Ugh, I keep forgetting about that.