[Open] Mock Trial in Mallowhallow

[allseeingtongue]

Who: Terezi Pyrope and whoever drops by....
What: The alien troll girl is holding a ferocious trial. Apparently the plush rabbit has mortally offended the velveteen beetle....
Where: Mallowhallow
When: March 8th

Within the plush confines of Mallowhallow, Terezi Pyrope is holding court in front of her brightly-coloured pillow house. It mostly seems to be made of red pillows. Arranged in a jury-row is a line of stuffed animals in varying sizes and shapes. Several are plush scalemates. A lone blue plush rabbit sits in the position of the accused. A purple-and-green velveteen beetle sits watching. Perched high on a tower of pillows is a large red lobster.

Terezi, wearing her black Libra T-shirt and black jeans, is pacing before the accused and addressing the lobster in a loud voice, obviously in full swing and enjoying herself.

"Yes, Mister Azure Longears, we have brought you here today to accuse you of most foul slander! Mister Violetcarapace has brought forth the complaint! It is written here in most revealing, distasteful language!"

She whips a piece of paper from her pocket and slaps it down in front of the rabbit, dropping into a kneel, cane slanted out sideways. She grins at the hapless rabbit, all razor teeth and murderous glee.

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".. Ah."

Loki watches with rapt attention, stroking his chin with his gloved fingertips, his narrowed green eyes sweeping over the most plush of gathered courts. How very much he is learning about this Alternian empire! Terezi upends the jury, and Loki walks a slow circle around the gathered, stealing up behind the accused just as she whirls on him.

Very carefully, he leans down and places his hands upon the plush rabbit's squishy little shoulders. Because he's Loki, and doesn't care about what his honorable lobsterface has asked, he does what he wants. And furthermore, he isn't human. Loopholes.

"But have the ladies and gentleman of the jury considered all of the evidence? From what I hear, you offer only hearsay! Where is your proof?"

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Terezi leaned over and tapped the papers in front of the rabbit: she had thrown them there earlier. "Here is the proof! These documents hold the most deliciously crass correspondance containing these foul lies!"

The sheaf of paper was utterly blank.

[whoshotsherlock]

"How can you be so sure that proof is genuine, though?" Greg interjected, obviously not caring that the paper was blank. It was all pretend, of course.

"Evidence can be tampered with before it ever gets to the stage of being processed, let alone to the court room. What if the documents were forged by another hand?"

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Terezi turned to face him, and grinned her biggest, widest, most predatory grin.

"Mister Greg, the prosecuting legislacerator does not care about the written evidence! She's blind!"

Terezi threw back her head and cackled. Oh it was one of her favorite ploys - the trial was already come to a conclusion, anyway. It had been set before the audience had started, as was usually the case. When a legislacerator was set on the case, she tracked the offender down relentlessly, gathering her own evidence through her own investigation.

"He is most guilty! I can smell it on him, the foul blueberry stench of his lies! And I can smell the truth! And he shall be executed immediately!"

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The trial, it seems, is over regardless of the thoughts of the peanut gallery - and what a shame that is, for Loki was only just beginning to enjoy himself! But Terezi herself is interesting enough on her own, and there is also this other questionably intelligent man here, and so he assumes that there shall be no lack of entertainment.

His hands are already upon the blue bunny, and so Loki plucks it up with a pout, his lower lip stuck out, and holds it aloft.

".. but he is so cute!"

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"But he is guilty!" Terezi countered, still in her persona. "Cuteness does not divert true justice!"

She grinned, and moved closer, leaning over to tell Loki, quietly, "But if you are still inclined to sympathize, you can try your luck with His Honorably Tyranny after and rescue the corpse from being eaten."

Not before the hanging, of course, but after. The guilty party must not be allowed to live! Terezi grinned brightly at Loki.