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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

[secondnature]

Connection? What are you even saying? We're not connected by anything!

[feytality]

By our burning desire to see ladders treated equally, unburdened by the word "step"! To stand up against all Jins and Nicks in the world, making a fuss about nothing!

[secondnature]

No one cares about ladders that much.

[feytality]

[suddenly, very seriously:]

...You'd be surprised.

[secondnature]

[Aggravated sigh:]

No one should care about ladders that much.

[feytality]

Yep, definitely agree with you there.

[because ~~~they're on the same team~~~]

[secondnature]

Then why are we having this conversation in the first place?

[pummelling]

Guess you care about ladders more than you thought.

[secondnature]

No, I don't!

[pummelling]

And yet... You're still here.

[secondnature]

Ugh, fine! But I never voted!

[feytality]

'cause Jin's making a big deal of it? And... well, you are too, 'cause you're making a big deal about how much you don't care.

[secondnature]

That's because you told me what I was thinking!

[feytality]

I saw it on your face! [no she didn't] The feelings you couldn't express!

Soooo, are you saying you're on Jin's side, then?

[secondnature]

I'm not on any side. I'm just done.

[feytality]

C'mon, you responded, you have to take a side.

Or did you just respond 'cause you like arguing?

[secondnature]

[Definitely the latter.

But he's also done!!!]

[feytality]

[Alas, Keith disconnected as he connected.....]

[.... on Team Ladder]