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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

[catphishing]

You can call it either.

I don't get why you guys are making such a big deal out of this.

[feytality]

He's the one who started to make a big deal about it! I was just trying to do our virtual tour!

[clearly, Maya had no part in this]

[catphishing]

But you did kind of over react after.

[pummelling]

Exactly! I'm just differentiating between the types of ladders, so I was right, in the end.

[thats not what he said jin]

Let's get back to the tour now, shall we? Maya, we're going to the training room next.

[catphishing]

That's not what I said.

[He regrets getting involved in this...]

[pummelling]

[IGNORING THEM BOTH AND ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE!!!]

It's over this way--

[catphishing]

I still don't understand why you're so worked up over being right about a ladder.

[Come on, Jin. Learn to chill.]

[pummelling]

It's about proving a point. And scientific accuracy.

[never.]

[catphishing]

If you were being scientifically accurate you'd say it was a stepladder, a subtype of the ladder family.

Implying they're totally different things actually makes it less accurate.

[pummelling]

That's basically what I said, anyway.

[no it isn't.]

[feytality]

No it isn't.

[pummelling]

It was close.

[it really wasnt.]

[feytality]

It really wasn't.

[stop plagiarizing bracket text, Maya]

[feytality]

Yeah Jin, don't put words in his mouth!

[MAYA JUST DID THAT, THANKS] He's Team Maya, just like Keith!

[feytality]

It's because.... [SUDDENLY SERIOUS.... ignoring Jin] Back home, my assistant, he's... he's just like this. He gets hung up on every detail. He argues about semantics, and ladders. He judges things based off of narrow-minded cultural assumptions.

I just didn't want to see it happen again, to an innocent ladder!

[catphishing]

That's definitely annoying, but I don't think the ladder cares about cultural assumptions.

[Why are you so weird, Maya...?]

[feytality]

[she was born like this]

So!? Just because it's an inanimate object means we shouldn't care about mislabeling it?! How would you like it if someone called you an olive?

[these things have nothing to do with each other but okay]

[catphishing]

[What.]

It's not mislabeling it. Both are accurate.

[Also let's be real. He absolutely got called an olive in grade school because kids.

...and that one time Connor pretended he was his ex-girlfriend Olive, but he doesn't know about that.]

[feytality]

Yeah! So I'm still right, he's just making a fuss out of nothing.

[see, he of all people should understand.... ?????]

[catphishing]

Yeah, he is. But he's not the only one overreacting here.

[Why is he even trying?]

[feytality]

I'm just trying to defend the integrity of ladders! Don't lump him in with me!

[it's totally different, okay]

[somehow]

[catphishing]

I give up.

You're both as bad as each other.

[pummelling]

I'm not worse? I'm insulted.

[catphishing]

I hope you're kidding.

[feytality]

He's way worse! Even he admits it!