video; un: steelsamayarai

[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?]

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un: what; i'm here at sipp's request; voice

[bladefaire]

Cease this racket. It's maddening to listen to.

[ you're making the old technologically-inept man mad!!! ]

blows kiss at lonkyu

[pummelling]

You can turn off the jewelcomm, or stop listening to it.

Or you can tell Maya that proving me wrong is useless.

;*

[bladefaire]

[ honestly he would turn off the jewelcomm buuuuuuuut— ]

I don't know how.

[ LUCINA DIDN'T TEACH HIM THAT YET ]

[pummelling]

[...]

You just, y'know.

Think at it to stop.

[it's magic idfk]

1/3

[bladefaire]

[ whoa really ]

Does it really work like th—

2/3

[bladefaire]

[ HELLO SILENCE







what a beautiful sound, he missed you so ]

3/3

[bladefaire]

[ but okay, he should probably at least try and say thanks or something

BACK ON IT GOES. ]

.....Thank you.

[pummelling]

That's what I'm here for.

[you did your best, lonk.]

[bladefaire]

[ he finds that hard to believe, tbqh ]

Then why are you arguing about the correct classification of ladders?

[pummelling]

Why are you and Maya all still getting on me for the stepladder? My argument was solid.

[jin thats not what he was asking]

[bladefaire]

[ sorry jin, he's defaulting to team ladder ]

Because it's clearly a type of ladder.

[pummelling]

[SIGHS HEAVILY AND RUBS HIS FOREHEAD]

[feytality]

I KNEW you were team ladder!!!

[she's so proud of you, woman-hater]

You might have bad taste in genders but you've got your head in the right place for ladders!

sorry val

[pummelling]

....Wait.

So he's--

[feytality]

[Helpfully:]

He hates girls, or so he keeps telling me. He dropped me on my face the first time we met.

[because she fell on him due to being stupid.... she's just going to conveniently omit that part]

[bladefaire]

[ DON'T NONCON HIM INTO SAYING THESE THINGS anyway he's gonna imnmediately backtrack. ]

I never said that. And I do not have bad taste in genders.

[feytality]

[HE KIND OF SAID IT!!]

You did though! You called it a ladder!

If you really don't like girls, then it's bad taste.

[but since she's eavesdropping on his other convo the little hamster in her head is running]

:*

[feytality]

Soooo, you're saying you hate Jin's racket more than you hate girls!

TEAM MAYA!!

[that's not it at all but she's still gonna Maya]

[bladefaire]

[ what even. ]

You were also part of the racket. And I still hate girls more than I hate your noise.

[feytality]

No way! He's the main source of the racket! He started it!

Y'know, I'm still not over your whole "hates girls" shtick. There are a lot of girls on this team, and we have to work together a lot. What are you gonna do if you have to team up with a lot of chicks?

[bladefaire]

I won't.

[ SAID LIKE HE ABSOLUTELY WILL REFUSE TO, what a stupidly naive man. ]

I'll work by myself.

[feytality]

What iiiiiiif, you're about to die, and the only person around to help you is a lady! Whacha gonna do then?

[bladefaire]

Then I would find a way to not die using my own abilities.

[ good luck, Maya, he's not gonna budge on this ]

[feytality]

[yeah, she can see this is going nowhere fast.... he will just have to be knocked down a few pegs and learn the power of friendship with girls]

[she's going to change her tactics]

Well, when things get tough, I'll be there to catch you this time!

[bladefaire]

[ She tries so hard!!! And yet he still pushes her away, rip. ]

Don't.

[ AND THEN HE HANGS UP BECAUSE THEN HE GETS IN THE LAST WORD, HAH. (Yes, he is in fact a huge child.) ]