Taking Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

And a while after that strange, dark floor is accessed, after you've had time to look things over and get some idea of what's happening...well. There won't be any sort of official announcement to tell you to get downstairs, nor will there be a personal invitation for you to do so. Instead, the doors at the end of the corridor (were they there before? You find that you don't remember. It doesn't matter anymore, though-) slide open, as they always do, and the elevator ride to the courtroom is probably the first familiar thing that's happened all day. It's smooth and quick, though it seems to take a bit longer than it usually does. And when the doors open at the end of the line, the courtroom looks different. The dark, weirdly cylindrical room is largely the same in and of itself, but the usual twenty-seven podium circle is gone; instead, there's a smaller setup in the center of the room - ten podiums total, and you'll likely find the way your spots have been distributed to be very familiar indeed. Of further notice is the balcony - there's a structure that wasn't there before in view of the courtroom, situated high above, barred-in by a railing that'd probably be at about waist-height on your average person; there's no one up there just yet, however. There are so few of you now. It seems that today there are no speeches to give; maybe the Kingmaker is absent, maybe he just doesn' have anything to say. Either way, however, the implication in the fact that you're here at all is clear. For one last time, make the guilty take responsibility.

Comments

[kingmakereffect]

That depends. Are they as pointless as most of the others you've asked?

[captainobnoxious]

No, no, these have a point.

A point I was kind of mad about before, but you know what? Could be pretty useful, seeing as what I know about you already.

[Black might know where she's going with this, seeing as he's doing it himself now.]

Glory told us she's basically made up of the memories you have. And I've talked to you and her a fair amount in the time we've spent together, so it's just about that. Would you personally consider it pointless to ask?

[She's giving him a fair chance about it. She'll probably ask anyway.]

[kingmakereffect]

Go ahead and ask. You might not get any answers though.

[captainobnoxious]

That hasn't changed since the first time I called you, darling -- I don't expect it to change now.

[Okay.

What first.]

Did Ambitious hurt a friend of yours?

[kingmakereffect]

Technically no, unless you count being put in a murder game.

[captainobnoxious]

I would count it, yes, since plenty of my friends have been hurt like that. Am I right in saying that he ran your own, then?

[kingmakereffect]

Yes, he did.

[captainobnoxious]

It's no surprise you hate him, then. Seeing how we've all turned out too.

[And why he was so offended about the question of if he was working with that stone wall.]

Did you have someone you loved in your game? Glory talked about their own a lot, so. It was a point of bonding for us. Since we do stupid things for people we love.

[kingmakereffect]

I already told you, that would have been weird.

...But I guess that's close enough. I did something stupid too.

[captainobnoxious]

Like kill a lot of people when he died? Let others feel the pain you did?

[kingmakereffect]

I wouldn't put it like that. I didn't realize it until later.

[captainobnoxious]

[This is like, baby steps getting someplace. At the very least, she's getting stuff out of him, and that's fine enough.]

That it was stupid, I'm guessing? Most people don't realize in the act when something's dumb. They just think they're in the right for it.

[kingmakereffect]

Oh, I wasn't in the right for it. I never thought that. I did it because I wanted to.

[captainobnoxious]

Because stupid things for love or whatever. Born crazy. Whatever you want to pin it down to, sweetheart.

Anyway. You told me your friend didn't have a title once, so... really, I'm kind of curious if it's the one we know as Glory right now. She doesn't have a title either. It's the name you gave her. Them.

[... Because if she's a program, she can change her gender, right? Right.]

[kingmakereffect]

What? No. I didn't name her that.

I told you he didn't have a title because I didn't want you using it.

[captainobnoxious]

She named herself that? Good name.

[Good name.]

Would you be willing to tell me... tell us, I guess it is, what his title is now? Or at least if it's from the pile of files we've got there.

[kingmakereffect]

She didn't name herself.

You have a pile of files. Do you really need to rely on me to work that out?

[COME ON DO YOU REALLY THINK HE'S GOING TO HAND THAT TO YOU]

[sleepingkogoro]

We'll have to take that as a 'yes'.

[Now Mouri speaks to everyone else]

Hmmmm...

[There were pictures there]

Somehow Pretentious sounds like the type of guy that would deface a picture because he hated that person. Visionary, was it?

[goodforsomething]

Yeah, did ferret guy fuck with your friend? 'Cause he looks like the type.

[captainobnoxious]

Who named her?

[... While she looks through the files. Even if it's just titles, someone that wouldn't get along with the title Pretentious unless by circumstance...

the fuck do half of these words mean

black help she's giving you a look please define these

the guy half]

[garudynamic]

Maybe she already had a name? I mean, there might be a base person she was patterned after. Someone in these files?

[notjustawriter]

"Glory" sounds a lot like "Vainglorious", don't it?

[sleepingkogoro]

Spirited is the one who looks most similar to the Glory I saw as a hologram, but the clothes were different and she wasn't exactly the same person in this photo.

I don't think it is likely Glory took the appearance of one of those people.

[Speedwagon may have a different opinion, though. He's the only other person who ever saw Glory]

[penduli]

[ ...okay.

Let him write them down on his heart balloon'd page then, then tear it out to pass over to her. ]

Revolutionary - a person engaged in political revolution, or someone/something involving or causing a complete/drastic change
Clandestine - something kept/done secretively, usually b/c it's forbidden/taboo
Gregarious - a person fond of company/someone who's sociable
Torrential - rapid & heavy rainfall/water flow
Timeless - not affected by passage of time or change of fashion
Intuitive - instinctive basically, someone who's intuitive follows their gut w/o conscious reasoning. also refers to things that are easy to use/understand
Visionary - someone who think about/plans for the future w/imagination or wisdom
Persevering - gerund of persevere, which is continuing to do something even when the odds are against you. like us now vs. km

[notjustawriter]

[They've got a hell of a lot of titles to search through now, though Gabriel doesn't really want to play twenty questions right now.

He does manage to look very curious despite not saying anything.]