trusthell | Take Responsibility.

The time allotted for investigation this week is a bit longer than normal - not due to anything done wrong on the part of the Apprentices, but perhaps due to a basic understanding that two corpses are going to be decidedly more difficult to handle than one. However, at the end of the time period you've been given, the elevator is waiting for you, as cold and sterile as always in its journey up to the courtroom; you're down to almost half of your original number, and if anything is going to indicate that this shows no signs of stopping, it's probably this week.

The deceased have had three more join their numbers since you were here last - Gold, Varric, and Viktor's portraits have been greyed-out and set atop their spots in the podium circle, the podiums themselves draped in black fabric.

As always, the lectern above stands empty.

Whether he's with you or not, however, once everyone has found their place in the circle, the Wordsmith's voice can be heard throughout the room.

"Welcome back. Two more Apprentices are missing from your number today, and I have little doubt that weighs heavily on your minds. Balanced and Capricious have been lost to you, so that the guilty may have a chance to leave the academy and possibly even gain something otherwise impossible to attain.

If you wish for your fallen Apprentices to receive justice in death, then you know what to do: yet again, hold the guilty accountable."

Sixteen Apprentices remain. However many leave here at the end of the day has yet to be seen.

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I'm a demon, demons destroy and kill everything in their wake.

Oh, be quiet.

[ so, so wrong. ]

Hanyuu is a demon and she's nothing like you--people I know from back home have those sorts of qualities, and yet--and yet, they choose not to.

Edited 2017-02-25 20:43 (UTC)

Ori...hime...

[ HANYUU DEFENSE SQUAD IS HERE. ]

What you are has nothing to do with anything. You killed Viktor-san and Varric-san, and used Killia-kun as a scapegoat because you yourself are a coward!

[...Her eyes slip back to purple. The grip on her podium wanes. Only Elda and Lusamine would be close enough to see shallow claw-marks on it, where her fingers were.]

[...]

Says who?!

[ Okay, so she was selfishly leaning on Hanyuu for a long while there after he initial laugh, but now she leaps up on top of Gold's Podium to shout at him while balancing on there ]

You shut your mouth! Your other self told me not to judge people based on my standards, but I'm going to tell you something! The devils and demons here have been considerate and kind! Someone who kills people because it's fun is nothing like them!

No, that's because you choose to kill everything in your wake. Demons, spirits, whatever they're called in your world: they're just people, trying to live out their lives. If you're going to be a murderer, at least be honest about your actions.

Man, buddy, watch you don't cut yourself on that edge.

[ That almost gets an amused snort. This is what being an overlord is all about tbh.]

That's not true!

[ that gets her to snap out of it, a little. ]

Hanyuu has been nothing but kind to us all! She would never do a terrible thing like this! Don't go blaming your being a demon for your cruelty!

She's just as weak as he is. It's the law of the Netherworlds, the powerful beat the weak.

If we hadn't followed that we would have died a long time ago.

[ Elda's fury is in no way abated, but now she smirks. ]

To bad you're going to die now, huh?

We'll see about that. I'm a lot stronger than he is.

Good! I look forward to it!

[ And that's all she needs to say, her eyes predatory as she leaps back to her spot. And she heads back towards her own podium in preparation for the voting. She's so done with this clown. ]

Do you even know what is going to happen next?

You can't escape it. [She smiles.] The shadow will get you...how fitting. You fought against Void, and yet...that will be your fate.

The law.

[That earns a derisive snort.]

It seems you and I come from similar worlds. But what I've learned here, what I'm sure Killia has learned here, is that some rules deserve to be broken!

We stood atop Cryoblood as Tyrant Overlord Killidia for hundreds of years and enjoyed it, there's nothing wrong with it.

[ So that law is fine by him.]

And now you're going to die. Your law is worthless.

Are you kidding me? Fucking Cryoblood!?

[HE LIKE

OKAY HE DIDN'T KNOW KILLIA THAT WELL BUT THIS SUCKS ANYWAY

BUT HOLY SHIT HE'S LOSING IT]

What?

Did you sit on like. A throne of skulls surrounded by the impaled bodies of your victims or something.

With everything on fire.

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No!

She's not the weak one here--Hanyuu's endured so much, and she's come away stronger for it! Calling her weak is a grave mistake!

You're right. The powerful definitely beat the weak.

You've certainly been beat, Tyrant Overlord Killidia.

Edited 2017-02-25 20:57 (UTC)