There have always been musicians playing at the subway station; the has-been's, the wanna-be's... They've been there for as long as you can remember. But one day, when you are about 20, you finally hear something fantastic: a keyboard, played by none other than a certain John Egbert. JohnDave, DaveJohn, Hammertime, Pepsicola

John has a disease that is incurable and he is dying slowly, Dave is there with him up to his last moments. Character death.

It didn't matter how hard you tried; how loud you tried to scream, to cry, to beg; how much you strained on the vocal cords you were convinced didn't exist; how often you prayed to every deity your young mind could imagine; you couldn't speak. Not even so much as utter a sound. And to make it worse, it was lonely. But then John Egbert works his way into your life. Mute!Dave