❤️‍🔥Azkalita: ok so what's the actual issue then
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: with doing your routine while i play break the targets
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: (do you think they'd let me cast break the targets to the soundsystem)
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: if it's just that you don't wanna hang out i super respect that except for how it's kind of my job not to

LeeTae-gun: It is not, yet, your job to do anything related to me at all.

❤️‍🔥Azkalita: you are a very funny man lee tae-gun-nim
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: fiiiiiiiiine i'll practice with minime
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: even though we're not compat AT ALL and i'll be knocking myself on my ass the first time i work w you

LeeTae-gun: Call me sunbae-nim.
LeeTae-gun: Who's "minime"?

❤️‍🔥Azkalita: yoomin
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: also i've heard telling your female coworkers to call you sunbae is a little sus are you sure you wanna go down that road

LeeTae-gun: Very well. Lee Tae-gun-nim is acceptable.

❤️‍🔥Azkalita: pleasure doing business with you sunbae

Aaaaaand time for swimming. No screens in the pool!

LeeTae-gun: Pick one of them and stick to it, please.

is the message waiting for her when she's out of the pool.

❤️‍🔥Azkalita: literally why would i do that
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: listen gunbae i resp
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: that's a lie i do not respect you or anyone else on the planet but as you can see it is not specific, it's a symptom of the many cool and sexy ways in which i am a fundamentally broken person
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: but this in particular is at best incidentally one of the ways in which i disrespect you and also everyone else in this great nation
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: mostly it is just that if i have to call everyone around me the same three-plus-one syllables all day long or the two qualifying bonus syllables i will and do go completely batshit insane
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: honorifics lose all meaning when you use the same one all day every day
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: if you want i can call my old roomie and see if she can work up a mod for your chat client that makes whatever crime against hangul i have called you most recently look like it's something acceptable
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: but peace is not and was never an option
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: ask literally anyone in the office in a week and they will confirm this is Not about you

Once again it takes him a while to respond.

LeeTae-gun: Do you not call people by their names?

❤️‍🔥Azkalita: i assign nicknames as a first resort
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: if somebody hates all of them i make do with swapping around available honorifics as much as humanly possible but it's annoying
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: nicknames are like the only part of my culture i actually like man
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: if president marcos was here i'd
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: well i'd kick him in the dick, he sucks
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: but i'd call him bongbong while i was doing it
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: not marcos-nim

LeeTae-gun: Then the nickname I want you to use for me is Lee Tae-gun-nim.

❤️‍🔥Azkalita: i will tolerate sunbaenim if i get to call you gunbae when you're not in the room

It takes him a few more minutes to respond but this time it's the "I have no fucking clue how to respond to this" kind of pause rather than the "I am throwing myself into the maws of danger" kind of pause.

LeeTae-gun: That is acceptable.

❤️‍🔥Azkalita: fuck yes. you are a gentleman and a scholar sunbaenim

She's not getting a response to that.

❤️‍🔥Azkalita: guess who extracted VITAL STRATEGIC CONCESSIONS
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: from GUNBAE

yoo-min-max: might need you to unpack that one for me babes

MODERATOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Please do not refer to other Guild members by terms of endearment. 

❤️‍🔥Azkalita: minime. who do you know who has "gun" in their name
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: and also a preexisting nickname that i have mentioned kinda sucks ass
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: and who i might be gloating about extracting concessions from. specifically on my unrelenting crusade against the korean naming system

🔨hold-it-together: Who is this person and why are they so excited about destroying our language

🍸nomu?: ok but is this like a personal-only privilege
🍸nomu?: can I call him gunbae

🚫do-not-jin: I'm honestly at a loss here
🚫do-not-jin: it seems like you got his permission for it??? but like
🚫do-not-jin: congratulations your butchery of the Korean language has gotten the chat mod stumped

taegun fan no. 1183: does she get like a prize for it or

🚫do-not-jin: we've only just met and yet I am certain that she will consider my current all-consuming feelings of anticipatory dread to be a reward in themselves

❤️‍🔥Azkalita: i don't know if he'll go on the warpath if it spreads, i just know that i personally am immune to diplomatic consequences as long as i call him sunbaenim to his face
❤️‍🔥Azkalita: also yes no reward could be sweeter than adminfear

yoo-min-max: why is it a problem? if tae-gun is ok with it it's fine, right?

🚫do-not-jin: yoo-min, there are as many as several things people can consent to being called that would not fly in this chat

taegun fan no. 1183: ur such a spoilsport sometimes

🚫do-not-jin: it is literally my job to be a spoilsport I don't know what you're expecting of me