You know the feeling of growing up and suddenly your friends are married and having kids and moving on without you? I think Brain probably feels that but times 1000
brain’s about to get in trouble with whatever stuffy local authority’s in place for saying only ‘ephemer’ as opposed to ‘master ephemer’ because they see eph as being some sort of deity or whatever and he’s gonna be like ‘I Personally Knew The Guy. I watched him light his microwave mac and cheese on fire because he forgot to put the water in it on multiple occasions. you’re descended from him? that’s cute. he and i once rode in a shopping cart downhill and crashed into the fountain together. we had a warrior’s bond. with all due respect i’m not doing the whole formalities thing for him’