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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

[unholey]

[Flatly:] It's a ladder. Specifically, a stepladder. You're speaking generally, while Jin is using a particular term.

[feytality]

Yeah! So I'm right, and he's getting worked up about nothing! Tell him, Fugo!

[they'll never let him escape this]

[unholey]

If you keep putting words in my mouth, I'm going to officially side with Jin for no reason other than spite.

[WOW, FUGO]

[pummelling]

[Jin's not gonna add anything to that, but the face of VINDICATION he's got on is really all that you need tbh.]

[feytality]

That's not fair! He's doing that, too!

[unholey]

Jin's trying to bully me into voting one way or another. You're cherrypicking. Why does this have to be such a big deal?

[feytality]

'Cause he made it one! I was happy to just keep giving the tour, but nooooo.....