[If Elliot wasn't a dumb prickly hedgehog, Oz would have been much slower to befriend him... So honestly the only one his hedgehogging is working against here is himself, okay. NOW HE'S STUCK WITH OZ. FOREVER STUCK. EVEN IF HE'S A RUDE SHIT CHEATER...
Which Oz will dutifully call him out on:]
Do the countdown with some warning next time!!
[He sputters it out over a mouthful of deliciously chlorinated water, and then pushes off to follow suit. At least Elliot does some semblance of an arc... In Oz's attempt to close some of the distance, he literally just throws himself into the water as far out as he can make it.
Which obviously isn't conducive to fast swimming?! He wasn't thinking this through... So Elliot will definitely be getting another point ahead of him this round even though Oz is much closer on his heels this time, and he slaps his palms flat against the tile when they get back to the starting blocks.]
First to three, right?!
[CONCEIVABLY, HE STILL HAS A SMALL CHANCE OF WINNING...]
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Which Oz will dutifully call him out on:]
Do the countdown with some warning next time!!
[He sputters it out over a mouthful of deliciously chlorinated water, and then pushes off to follow suit. At least Elliot does some semblance of an arc... In Oz's attempt to close some of the distance, he literally just throws himself into the water as far out as he can make it.
Which obviously isn't conducive to fast swimming?! He wasn't thinking this through... So Elliot will definitely be getting another point ahead of him this round even though Oz is much closer on his heels this time, and he slaps his palms flat against the tile when they get back to the starting blocks.]
First to three, right?!
[CONCEIVABLY, HE STILL HAS A SMALL CHANCE OF WINNING...]