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[cullscuttlefish]

[There is one - surprisingly; she's generally calm and nice - angry Feferi appearing on the video feed. She is fed up and she doesn't care who knows.]

Very funny. Let's all make fun of the people from a different planet who happen to type differently. I don't make fun of your accents or your slang or the things I don't understand. Is it so hard to extend the same courtesy?

I don't think anyone's more or less special or lacking or anything because of how they talk or how they act or what place they have in society. But I am fed up with all of the things on the network that make us out to be freaks. It feels bad. It feels really, really bad.

I'm willing to try and type differently if that helps, but is it really so much to ask to have a little common courtesy?

I'm sorry if this comes off as a 'hussie fit' or whatever the right Earth term is. I'm not normally like this, but this is really upsetting me.

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[truthsnomiracle]

A... unique adaptation, to be sure. Traditionally, Earth's cultures have favored readability in text. When we first invented real-time communication over a distance, it was voice-based, so there was no need for additional cues. However, this also meant that people wrote less; additionally, the invention of radio and then television led to people reading less as well. As a result, those whose livelihoods didn't significantly involve the written word became less respectful of it. By the time the Internet was invented, few of the youth of the era who came to populate it saw the point of comprehensibility in text. [Yeah, this guy's grumbling by the end.]

Unfortunately, mythology has never been an interest of mine, and my mentor additionally had little respect for the value of most fiction.

To return the favor of introduction, I'm Miles Edgeworth.

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[cullscuttlefish]

[She listens, and if she'd had a pen and paper handy, she would be taking notes. Feferi is nothing if not an engaged listener.]

That's really interesting, Mr. Edgeworth. We still have books and journals and such back home, but a lot of people ignore them. I always liked it in the big library, though. I kind of had to learn a lot of history because of where I was in society, but I liked it.

Why not fiction?

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[truthsnomiracle]

You do appear to be rather extravagantly adorned. [...says the guy in a top-quality burgundy suit accented with a cravat and a small pair of cufflinks with some sort of fancy design on them.] What sort of position was it?

He believed in keeping one's feet planted firmly on the ground, a position I never saw a point in challenging. To his mind, fiction was only of any use in understanding the behavior of those influenced by it.