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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?]

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just according to keikaku

[spacerhyme]

[ wow? maybe he's serious, you jerks.

totally affronted: ]

I did not!

You were both wrong, sorry, get over it. And after you lot've spent so many years trampling all over it without ever once apologizing, I think you ought to respect its wishes.

Or I'd watch your step next time, if I were you...

[ trails off ominously. as he gives the ladder a friendly pat. ]

translator's note: keikaku means plan

[feytality]

You've got a pretty good imagination, sidekick! That's part of why I keep you around.

[But Maya seems to be satisfied by this answer, so she's going to go take Twelve's arm]

Okay, Mr. Champion of Stewarts, you've made your point. To the tour!

[spacerhyme]

[ he was gonna say something, but she's got his arm(!)

he immediately extracts it. ]

Not that. Just lead the way.

[feytality]

Not a touchy feely kinda guy, huh? Okay, let's go! C'mon, Jin! It's tour time!

[they both get to be dragged along]

[pummelling]

Hey, you know it's usually frowned upon to manhandle stra-- whoa!

[Not even Jin's a match for the unstoppable juggernaut that is Maya Fey.... look at this tiny girl dragging two grown men by the arms.]

[spacerhyme]

[ he's keeping his hands in his pockets, thanks!! ]

So, where to first?

[feytality]

He's not a stranger. He's my sidekick! Pay attention, Jin. [just Jin can get dragged...... somehow, from a girl who probably weighs less than one of his biceps]

The most important part of the castle! The kitchen!

[spacerhyme]

[ looks at jin, shakes his head. there's a hint of pity in his expression: no one deserves to be dragged around by a tiny child like that. ]

Not really. I'm the Doctor.

[ but he brightens up at the second bit. ]

Oh, good, I was feeling a bit peckish.

[pummelling]

Sorry, Doc. She's touched in the head. Humor her.

[He was nice to her all of once, and this is the price he has to pay......]

Don't get too excited. It can get frustrating looking for food that even resembles what's from your home world: it took a friend and I months to find anything resembling something as simple as plain white rice, and even then we had to put in a request for it.

[spacerhyme]

[ ...his expression turns wry. like the notion that he might miss his home planet's cuisine is funny, privately. ]

Don't get excited? I've been traveling the universe so long, I'd almost given up hope of trying anything new again.

[ maybe a slight exaggeration, but still! ]

[feytality]

[she imitates Jin when she thinks he isn't looking, but is way more interested in the Doctor's reactions to food]

A food adventurer, huh? Were you just worldhopping to try out new foods or something?

[spacerhyme]

I was worldhopping to try new everything! [ duh? ] You don't really know a place until you've sampled the local fare.

...Unless the locale fare is incompatible with your metabolism, or has lots of nasty rows of teeth and tries to eat you back. That happens more often than you'd think.

[feytality]

That sounds like a nightmare! Food's meant to be eaten, not to eat.

[truly, a horrifying prospect]

But you know, I kinda dig your style, Mr. Doctor.