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[pummelling]

[The camera clicks on to Maya waving wildly in the halls of Oska. Jin is also in the room, standing… awkwardly off to the side, having clearly been strong armed into all this mess by the camera woman herself]

Hey guys! Especially new people! Jin and I are gonna do a virtual tour of Oska so you guys know where everything is!

[jin gives a half-hearted wave to the camera, he was trying to go to the library maya please let him live?????]

So here’s a door, and here’s a wall, and here’s--

[The camera tilts around, showing-- a ladder propped up against a wall, and she’s immediately distracted]

Hey, it’s a ladder!

[Jin, just visible in the background of the shot, turns to the camera with an eyebrow raised]

Actually, Maya, that looks more like a stepladder than a ladder.

[Maya’s been through this song and dance, so she just puffs out her cheeks a little bit!] So? What’s the difference? You need to stop judging things based off of narrow-minded cultural assumptions!

What’s so narrow-minded about it? There are clearly steps on it. It’s a stepladder. There’s a difference.

[oh no the ladder discourse] I’m telling you, it’s the same thing! Don’t get weird about this!! [like Phoenix did smh]

You’re the one who’s getting weird about this, they’re not the same! [does he actually care this much? Is he just arguing to prove a point? ARE THEY BOTH JUST TRYING TO PROVE A POINT………]

[Maya puffs her cheeks out like an angry hamster. Obviously, this is going to get them nowhere. She has to defeat him another way--]

You! Hey, you! [She points at the camera, yeah, she mean you, bub] What do you think it is?

[And thus the discourse begins… Is your character Team Ladder, or Team Stepladder?]

Comments

[feytality]

Hey, you're the one getting all worked up about this. I just wanted to leave it at ladder!

Keith and I get it.

[Keith made a mistake]

[pummelling]

[he sure did]

...Fine.

Guess I'm outvoted. But have you really won if Keith's on your team?

[feytality]

[for nOW..... ]

Aww, he's not that bad! He just needs to watch some TV. And work on his facial expressions.

[He...lping...?]

[pummelling]

I don't think working on your expressions helps if that's just your attitude anyway.

[He would know.]

[feytality]

[Making the cutest face possible:] You two might have a little in common that way.

[this is equal opportunity roasting going on here]

[secondnature]

I'm right here!

[feytality]

Hey, I'm sticking up for you!

[sort of.....???]

[pummelling]

Yeah. Be nicer to your teammate.

[feytality]

I am nice! I said he needed to watch TV! That's important life advice!

[pummelling]

I meant him. As for the advice, I think you'd both be better off watching less.

[feytality]

In that case, you're right about him being nicer and horribly wrong about watching less TV.

[pummelling]

Says the person glued to the magitek's TV app 24/7...

[feytality]

I think you mean, says the person with awesome taste and limitless streaming possibilities!

[secondnature]

It doesn't really sound like it.

And my facial expressions are fine.

[feytality]

Hey, if you went all in about team ladder, then I'd have more good stuff to say about you!

Oh, really? Let me see... five!

[secondnature]

That sounds like blackmail. I don't care.

[A beat later, he adds:]

Why should I?

[feytality]

How was that blackmail? [You're already on Team Maya, Keith, gosh, we've established this] I'm just saying I'd have more nice things to say about you if you were nicer to your important teammate!

As evidence! Right now, you're still at one. C'mon, Keith, I know you can do it!

[secondnature]

I'm done! I never voted. I'm done. Are you happy? I'm done.

[feytality]

No, I'm not happy! I wanted us to be a united front! And to see your facial expressions---

[squints at his face through the Magitek]

Heeeey, that's 1.5, not bad!

[secondnature]

[Abruptly cuts the feed.]

[feytality]

[Maybe five expressions was too much for him..... he must have been overwhelmed by all his strong, buried, Team Ladder emotions.......]

[secondnature]

What?!

[pummelling]

[MUFFLED OFF-SCREEN LAUGHTER FROM MAYA'S JEWELCOMM............ ]