THE TRIAL

[idolpro]

Who: Idols: Courtroom Edition
Where: Day 68, Morning
When: Soon after the hellscapification intensification

[ the alarm on your phone goes off: a game. do you really want to go to the Game Tower, now?

well, you don't get a choice. it's like the floor drops out from underneath you, a wrenching feeling in your stomach as you fall through what ought to be solid floor but now is permeable. you fall.

and land on a platform.

You're in the Game Tower, you can tell by the view outside the windows. but the floor you are in has been cleaved down the middle into two halves. a black abyss separates them, too wide to cross though you can see and shout across. each half is, recognizably, a bastardization of a courtroom. avante en garde, pep!pep!, WILD CITY, and ☆ZRAEL occupy one half; AlcheME!, Taisho Roman Revolution, sensitIV and future is now, the other. For those that were monochrome or silhouetted, you'll find at your feet an accessory for your unit-- in this moment, putting it on will center you. It may not do much for your physical condition, but your mental clarity and emotions will return the moment you don it.

raised above the rest of the courtroom, a good sheer second floor balcony above the two halves is the long desk of the presiding judges, Heart Soldier Senshi and BAD END=DEAD END. Exael and Mukuro are nowhere to be seen.

Court is now in session. ]

[ OOC: Please only tag into the mingle and your specific trial. You can watch the other trials, and yell in the mingle thread, but you cannot interfere in the arguments between teams in the trial threads.

TRIAL HEART SOLDIER SENSHI presides over:
avante en garde, pep!pep!, WILD CITY, ☆ZRAEL

TRIAL BAD END=DEAD END presides over:
AlcheME!, Taisho Roman Revolution, sensitIV, future is now

Each unit has three hours to make their cases. ]

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Still monochrome and now quite semi-transparent especially in this lighting]

I see. So we'll end this whole ridiculous facade with a mockery of justice. How fucking fitting.

[Looking around for the rest of his unitmates (and who's showing up from the other units)]

[nohalation]

[Just gonna find herself sitting with the rest of the team, thank u.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Do you get what they're trying to do?

[nohalation]

What is it?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Create conflict between the units.

That's why today instead of hosts, we have mindless puppets.

[nohalation]

. . . . . . . I see.

[rollplayinghouse]

Looks like they need to find some scapegoats.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

How convenient that all of us are here to provide.

. . .

Though I find the unit divisions interesting. Let's see if the judges play favorites.

[rollplayinghouse]

They're all still under demon influence, so I'm not sure how much they'll be willing to forgive. If anything, it will be a bit difficult to argue against having conflicting loyalties.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Does this change your convictions from before?

[rollplayinghouse]

No.

[scarvedforlife]

What has even been happening to put us in this position?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Bad ratings are a crime in reality TV apparently.

[scarvedforlife]

They should've put that in a contract then.

Got your thoughts together yet? Are we going all in or out on this?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'm pretty fucking sure I made my intentions known at the end of the last game. Shouldn't I be asking you that?

[scarvedforlife]

On the one hand I'm more than ready to out talk anyone who wants to try getting into an argument with me. On the other, the thought of going along with their whole 'prove your innocence' shtick feels gross.

[syncintohell]

This is not the field on which I wished to face you.

[ Arms folded, tense. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Are you fucking kidding me? This is the exactly the field where I'd want to face you.

So don't give me anything but you're fucking best!

[syncintohell]

[ takes the cue, reflexively. One theatrical bastard to another: ]

Kakaka! So even now, you find this desire within yourself! I wonder— are you truly acting your unit's best interest now, or for the sake of your own ego?!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Excuse me! Did you not get the memo? We're on the fucking mad scientist unit.

The only things we care about are data, the pursuit of knowledge, and our own fucking egos.

[syncintohell]

I think it is you who did not get the memo! Our trial is not that of Heart Soldier Senshi's— the accusation is not that of image! Rather, it is of sabotaging our own unit's well-being, for the sake of divided loyalties! Are you more loyal to ego than your own unitmates lives?!

[ Ace Attorney pointing, like no one ever taught him that was rude ]

[neigh_sayer]

[jeezus!!!]

Well, you're see through, but I doubt you'll be transparent about taking this on, right?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Good one, Gremlin.

But I'm not sure that only clever words are going to be enough to pull you through this time.

[neigh_sayer]

If it's not then I'm really fucking bad at my shtick. But at least this should be a cinch for you guys, right?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Worried about us, C? We're perfectly capable of holding our own. As I see you are holding yours.

Let the best debater win.