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[the chorus of blondie's CALL ME, sung extremely poorly but with great enthusiasm]

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Hey —!!

[MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!]

[there's no amount of flailing that he could do here that could save him — though that's partly because he understands something he wouldn't have even a year or two ago. sometimes, people are physically affectionate, and that manifests as not-noogies, and there's not really anything Dave can do to stop it.]

[it's kind of nice, actually. he didn't really grow up having people in his immediate vicinity care about him, so. it's nice. and even though he puffs up like an angry bird, much like his bird hair is already mussed up, he doesn't really mean it.]

You're right, though. Those 100 Faebucks are basically yours.

[protegge]

[Mista's not at all booksmart, but he makes up for it by being pretty people-smart. If Dave actually fucking hated being touched, he'd back off. It's not like Dave would be his first prickly friend or anything. Before the Bureau, pretty much all he had was prickly fucked-up weirdos for friends; this is pretty comforting, actually. And Dave isn't about to unleash a deadly neurotoxin on Mista if he jumpscares him, so this is in a lot of ways a huge improvement.]

[All that said, once the not-noogie subsides, he relinquishes his grip into a loose Bro Hug, easy to wiggle out of and punctuated by a light thump to Dave's opposite shoulder.]

He's a good guy. You're pretty lucky.

. . . You guys need a fuckin' break, though, seriously. [Can he somehow orchestrate a long weekend mini-vacation for Dave and Ryuji because if so, Lucretia, he wants to talk.]