[MOSEYING OVER wherever Totty is. Maybe they can be hanging with the butterflies or out on the flight deck. He hates being cooped up for so many hours...]

We were pretty close to getting a tie. I wonder if that's an achievement.

[ coffee on the flight deck is his usual post-trial routine, yeah. ]

Probably not unless it's an actual tie. Getting it wrong has definitely got to be one, though.

I heard that was the case with the blonde woman, but I'm assuming not.

[A little shrug. At least they'll get it now...]

Orchestrating a tie would be nigh impossible, anyway. That was just a stroke of luck and they still got in the way.

[SIFFRIN.]

Yeah, I'd thought it was too, but since the phrasing of the verdict actually changed this time...

[ makes his feelings about last weekend a little less complicated, at least. ]

...You know, they apparently did it purely by accident in the space game. Got both killers in a tie.

[Just nodding... ROXANA YOU REALLY PLAYED EVERYONE absolutely hilarious.]

Oh? Well, that does sound like an iconic moment, but one that would be difficult to recreate...

Yeah. Honestly I think the only way it would happen is by chance, since if you actually planned it out you'd probably have someone lie about how they were voting to swing things the way they want.

It would only take a single person in that scenario, after all...

[He could be that one person! He's so mercurial! He might just fuck shit up for funsies!!]

Well, we'll see how things go. Shame about the panic tailspin, though. People truly work themselves up over nothing at all.

[ he could also be that one person if he liked one of the people they were voting on more than the other... ]

Yeah, if evidence comes out that points to you in the last half hour you're just kind of fucked unless you can refute it convincingly.

[:handshake: sometimes you make choices...

There's a little quirk of a smile.]

There wasn't even any evidence against the target of the hour, though, was there? That princess herself said as much. But because no one had anything concrete to latch onto, they latched onto the one thing they did have: a name. Funny, considering they weren't even a match for the hand.

[THE ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE THEY DID HAVE.]

Everyone started leaning toward that whole team at the end because of the orange glitter thing, and then they were the person on that team who seemed to be acting off and had a questionable injury.

[ never mind the fact that the glitter and hand were the same case so not matching the hand size should have taken them off the glitter suspect list... and of course oocly dw did NOT fucking help because we couldn't even reload threads to look at evidence again :meowno: ]

If there's something on you specifically that's suspicious, that makes it look like you must be guilty of something regardless of what other evidence shows, and people are more willing to vote for someone based on that than take a one in eight chance on picking the right person out of a pool.

[DW REALLY SAID DIE ABOUT IT THIS TRIAL MY GOD.]

It wouldn't be such an irritation if they didn't get so hand-wringing and guilty about it afterwards. If you make an idiotic choice, you just have to live with the consequences. Rather, if you're going to make choices based on little more than a hunch or someone pointing fingers to the smallest scrap of anything suspicious, you should be ready for those consequences from the start.

[But he shrugs because he truly doesn't care, his ass doesn't even vote right.]