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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]

How can there be a side when neither of you are wrong? Why can't you just settle this by yourselves?

[pummelling]

Don't blame me: I would've. She's taken it further. There's no use trying to go back now.

[Also, he doesn't want to lose an argument, so like hell is he gonna stand down....]

[feytality]

You started it! Just admit you like arguing, and you took on the wrong girl!

[Fugo made a mistake]

[unholey]

She took it further, yet you're the one who can't resist having the last word. You both like arguing.

[Why did he pick this hallway. Why didn't he just keep walking. Now he's stuck, between a buff guy and a nosy girl. There's no escape.]

[pummelling]

Oh, c'mon. I'm not the one who asked the whole team.

[yeAH FUGO TELL HER!!!]

It's not that I like arguing, it's that I'm right.

[feytality]

I just wanted to put an end to this! First Nick, now you... when will the ladder discrimination end?! When will a ladder be free to just be a ladder?!

[pummelling]

For the last time, I'm not saying it's not a ladder! It's a stepladder and a ladder.

[LET HIM LIVE.]

[feytality]

Ooooh, now you're changing your argument 'cause you're losing! I see how it is!

[feytality]

Look, I just.... it's happened before, this ladder discrimination. I don't want to see it happen again.

[sad AA music in the bg]

[unholey]

Ladder discrimination. [What the hell.] Are you serious? Aren't you giving a tour, or something?

[feytality]

I'm trying to! If you help me settle this guy down and leave this poor ladder in peace!

[PLEADING LOOK]

[pummelling]

The only thing that needs to be settled is the fact that I was right.

...

And that we have a tour to finish. [don't trust her fugo!!!!!!]

[feytality]

[KEEPS MAKING THE PUPPY DOG EYES AT FUGO]

Once he finally sees how wrong he is... we can do the tour.