04 | D4Y | 4UD1O -> V1D3O
So, what do you have to say for yourself, Senator Lemonsnout?
[Sounds like someone's in the middle of an interrogation, and what an interrogation it is.]
These scalemates have recorded you hoarding their money and prized possessions in taxes, and never returning anything in kind! While they have starved and tried to survive, you have lavished in your wealth and haven't shared any of it. You are a tyrant, as the entire courtroom can clearly see.
[Switching to video, what you can see looks like the inside of a room, from the hollow of a... tree? At least that's what it looks like. On the wall are horribly shitty chalk drawings of a courtroom, complete with audience, jury, and the grand master judge.
In the middle of the room stands Terezi, holding her cane in one hands, and leaning over a chair and glaring down something in it. As the camera pans down, it brings to view a small, yellow dragon plushie, complete with snout and sewn on button eyes, sitting as if in an interrogation.]
I see. The silent treatment.
[She kneels beside the stuffed animal and grabs it by the nose, the toy letting out a 'squeak' in protest. Following this, the troll girl sniffs the dragon, and then proceeds to lick it, grinning all the while.]
You may be quiet, but I can tell you reek of deceit and lies. Your lemon-ey goodness can only save you so much, Lemonsnout.
[Terezi stands again, and walks behind the chair to face the wall, smelling the drawings on there. Her tongue licks the doodle of the judge, and she smirks, whirling back to the dragon plush.]
The judge has called for the concluding statements! Confess to your evildoings, Senator. The jury wants to hear your pleas.
[As always, the toy remains silent, but the troll legislacerator paces, turning her head as if listening to something. After a few moments of silence, she pauses, crossing her arms.]
The jury has decided. Three say 'not guilty,' three say 'guilty.' A tie. Fine, we'll let the coin decide how to end this.
[She takes a coin from her pocket, and as she turns it to show the toy, we can see both sides are heads, but one of them has a scratched out eye on one side.]
Heads, you'll be hanged. Tails, and you'll be free to live another day.
[The coin gets tossed, and the plushie seems to sweat out its own fate. Up up up, until it finally reaches its highest point, and falls back down. Heads and tails keep flipping back and forth consistently, so it's difficult to tell where it will land, and on what side.
Finally, it lands, and rolls around the floor, toppling over to reveal that the verdict is tails. For a moment, all seems well and totally relaxed, and the dragon seems to sigh in relief. Until it notices Terezi is still smiling. And chuckling.]
Yes, Senator? [A pause.] Coin? What coin? I don't see a coin.
[There's a yoink and the plush's nose is smushed against her face.]
After all, how could the prosecutor see anything when she's blind??
[With that, she grabs the stuffed toy, and ties a noose around its neck. Then she takes the other end and ties it to a pole in her room, and tosses the dragon out the nearby window, to hang.]
Another case closed. Well done, legislacerator, the courtroom is now adjourned.
[Sounds like someone's in the middle of an interrogation, and what an interrogation it is.]
These scalemates have recorded you hoarding their money and prized possessions in taxes, and never returning anything in kind! While they have starved and tried to survive, you have lavished in your wealth and haven't shared any of it. You are a tyrant, as the entire courtroom can clearly see.
[Switching to video, what you can see looks like the inside of a room, from the hollow of a... tree? At least that's what it looks like. On the wall are horribly shitty chalk drawings of a courtroom, complete with audience, jury, and the grand master judge.
In the middle of the room stands Terezi, holding her cane in one hands, and leaning over a chair and glaring down something in it. As the camera pans down, it brings to view a small, yellow dragon plushie, complete with snout and sewn on button eyes, sitting as if in an interrogation.]
I see. The silent treatment.
[She kneels beside the stuffed animal and grabs it by the nose, the toy letting out a 'squeak' in protest. Following this, the troll girl sniffs the dragon, and then proceeds to lick it, grinning all the while.]
You may be quiet, but I can tell you reek of deceit and lies. Your lemon-ey goodness can only save you so much, Lemonsnout.
[Terezi stands again, and walks behind the chair to face the wall, smelling the drawings on there. Her tongue licks the doodle of the judge, and she smirks, whirling back to the dragon plush.]
The judge has called for the concluding statements! Confess to your evildoings, Senator. The jury wants to hear your pleas.
[As always, the toy remains silent, but the troll legislacerator paces, turning her head as if listening to something. After a few moments of silence, she pauses, crossing her arms.]
The jury has decided. Three say 'not guilty,' three say 'guilty.' A tie. Fine, we'll let the coin decide how to end this.
[She takes a coin from her pocket, and as she turns it to show the toy, we can see both sides are heads, but one of them has a scratched out eye on one side.]
Heads, you'll be hanged. Tails, and you'll be free to live another day.
[The coin gets tossed, and the plushie seems to sweat out its own fate. Up up up, until it finally reaches its highest point, and falls back down. Heads and tails keep flipping back and forth consistently, so it's difficult to tell where it will land, and on what side.
Finally, it lands, and rolls around the floor, toppling over to reveal that the verdict is tails. For a moment, all seems well and totally relaxed, and the dragon seems to sigh in relief. Until it notices Terezi is still smiling. And chuckling.]
Yes, Senator? [A pause.] Coin? What coin? I don't see a coin.
[There's a yoink and the plush's nose is smushed against her face.]
After all, how could the prosecutor see anything when she's blind??
[With that, she grabs the stuffed toy, and ties a noose around its neck. Then she takes the other end and ties it to a pole in her room, and tosses the dragon out the nearby window, to hang.]
Another case closed. Well done, legislacerator, the courtroom is now adjourned.