[ it's a little reluctant, but he nods. god knows he still feels bad enough about ben... but he can't get so bogged down in regrets about things he did or didn't do before that he fails to do the things he needs to do now. ]
...Hey, uh... while I'm thinking of it, can you give me your opinion on something?
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I mean, I don't have a question, just... I need an opinion on literally anything.
Yeah, that's why it made me think of it! I just don't know if that counted or not since it was more of a mutual conversation than me just listening to you? Ugh, these requests are hard.
[ fucking gemini ]
Uh... Lup gave me her opinions on law, so I guess you could do that? Or... I don't know. You can tell me why you think big swords are the best weapon or something?
[ sebastian asking how the law can be corrupted from an ace attorney franchise is
so funny. baby. ]
... Like using their power to pin their own crimes on someone else. Creating laws that oppress people who go against them just because they can. Shit like that.
[ he wants to indignantly argue that stuff like that would hardly ever happen (while aggressively not looking at his father who is definitely a perfect upstanding citizen who couldn't possibly have been in the middle of doing EXACTLY THAT when he was taken hostage) but—
right. he's not supposed to be arguing. SIGH. ]
I-I see...
I don't... think that happens very often, but I, uh... I guess maybe it might happen sometimes...
W-well, in my world, the people enforcing the laws are people like me and Justine and my pops!
...But... there was that police chief and that one prosecutor who got arrested for murder a while back... a-and that cop who was a thief or something...
Uh, well... when a crime is committed, the police arrest whoever did it if it's obvious, and if it isn't, then they do an investigation that's overseen by a prosecutor like me to find the culprit!
Once they know who did it, that person gets held at the detention center until the case goes to trial. Then in court you've got the prosecutor there to show the evidence and convince the judge of their guilt, and a defense attorney who tries to argue that the suspect didn't really do it. And the judge listens to the arguments and then gives a verdict!
There's, like, another level after that, but usually the verdict doesn't change. So if the judge says they're guilty then they go to prison. ...And sometimes get executed, but that kind of depends on the crime and a lot of stuff.
So places like this are stupid because you're supposed to do the investigation and already have your culprit figured out before the trial ever starts!
Well... usually they find the real culprit out during the trial in those cases? They've usually been witnesses or whatever... but then yeah, the original suspect gets a not guilty verdict and then the other person gets their own trial.
I mean— the original one almost always is guilty! It's not like we're picking names out of a hat or something, we're looking at evidence like fingerprints and stuff to figure out who did it!
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...Hey, uh... while I'm thinking of it, can you give me your opinion on something?
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I mean, I don't have a question, just... I need an opinion on literally anything.
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... You need to hear someone say their opinion about anything? [ he's. clarifying because that's a weird task if that's what this is ]
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[ sort of. but now that he's being asked for an opinion he has no idea what to share? ]
... At least give me a subject.
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[ fucking gemini ]
Uh... Lup gave me her opinions on law, so I guess you could do that? Or... I don't know. You can tell me why you think big swords are the best weapon or something?
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[ but. ok. the law. he pauses ]
I guess I'm technically a wanted man twice over. Laws are made by people in power, so it's easy for something like that to be corrupted.
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so funny. baby. ]
... Like using their power to pin their own crimes on someone else. Creating laws that oppress people who go against them just because they can. Shit like that.
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right. he's not supposed to be arguing. SIGH. ]
I-I see...
I don't... think that happens very often, but I, uh... I guess maybe it might happen sometimes...
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...But... there was that police chief and that one prosecutor who got arrested for murder a while back... a-and that cop who was a thief or something...
...Hmm.
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But I guess... maybe... that's possible, with some people...
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Once they know who did it, that person gets held at the detention center until the case goes to trial. Then in court you've got the prosecutor there to show the evidence and convince the judge of their guilt, and a defense attorney who tries to argue that the suspect didn't really do it. And the judge listens to the arguments and then gives a verdict!
There's, like, another level after that, but usually the verdict doesn't change. So if the judge says they're guilty then they go to prison. ...And sometimes get executed, but that kind of depends on the crime and a lot of stuff.
So places like this are stupid because you're supposed to do the investigation and already have your culprit figured out before the trial ever starts!
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