Childhood ghost!Dave would also mean that when Klaus jumps into the 1960s (both times) he wouldn't have ghost!Dave keeping him comfort. Also as soon as Klaus sees living Dave on the bus in Vietnam, everything would finally fall into place. Klaus knows from the start Dave will die (and probably has all these inside jokes with ghost Dave in the future). It's like watching a horror movie and knowing the protagonist will die if they open that door. This would make such a good fic imo
OW god this is SO painful
theres two versions here and I can’t decide which one I like mostÂ
in the first one they get to know each other as klaus grows up, but dave doesn’t tell him that they’re future boyfriends bc he doesn’t want to change anything and doesn’t want to ruin klaus’s ability to work out his sexuality for himself. he can only do so much for comfort but he still manages to look out for klaus (as long as klaus is sober enough). it gives me lowkey time traveller’s wife vibes but gayer and way more tragic.
alternatively klaus never let himself get especially close to ghost dave bc he was so afraid of his power, and then once he gets to know the real, living dave he regrets it so much bc he could have had longer with him if he had known, and that makes the grief so much worse. he wasted all those years by fearing the ghosts.
idk which one I’d want to read more but both of them are painful and would 100% make good fics that part of me wants to write.
