002 | Voice

[purgation]

[This communicator has been hacked.

Attached to the broadcast is the alias LUNATIC, a name some of you may have come to know by now, though most of you will not have. Not to worry, of course. There will be plenty of opportunity in the future...]

I have been watching.

[The speaker's voice has been manipulated to sound both artificial and faintly hollow.]

There are sinners in your midst. [You know their names, don't you? Perhaps some of them even spring to mind: Lucifer, The Manipulator, Annie Leonhart, Reiner Braun, Bertholdt Hoover...and so on. It's possible you even sympathize with some of them, though it's clear the speaker does not.] You answer their crimes with rewards of friendship, forgiveness...and freedom.

Foolishness.

[What follows is clearly exasperated, but spoken in such quiet tones that it forces listeners to be all the more attentive.]

As expected, heroes...your idea of justice...is weak.

But that is why I have come.

[The speaker pauses, perhaps for dramatic effect, for when he begins again there is a certain zealousness to his tone.]

My name...is Lunatic.

[Do not mistake him for a hero.]

I will strike down the evil that has arisen. For the wicked ones...there will be no escape. The time for them to atone for their atrocities is now.

They will hear the voice of Thanatos.

[Those listening closely may hear the crackling and hissing of flames in the background...it grows louder and louder before the communication is suddenly cut and the line goes dead.]




[OOC: Please note that icon links have been broken. This broadcast in no way reveals the connection between Yuri and Lunatic.]

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[purgation]

What do you think?

[He can't troll Edgeworth while he works with him. Making up for lost time here.]

[glassinine]

...That seemed to be what your comment indicated. Yet that figure never had any theological connections with matters of evil, of justice, of guilt or innocence. Is that not the case?

[purgation]

That is not the case.

[He likes to talk, but dammit, Edgeworth, he's not doing your research for you. Consider the offer for directions still standing.]

[glassinine]

Then please do explain it to me. I know my myths well enough, but I have always thought that death was seen as a merciless, indifferent figure - not one that was capable of judgment. It seems that there is perhaps something I do not know.

[purgation]

Death is the final judgment.

And one who guides souls from life into death must be merciless and indifferent.

[glassinine]

But death is no judgment at all. Death comes upon all, without view to their deeds or character; judgment, however, falls only upon those who have done wrong.

[purgation]

Mankind is born with the capability to sin.

In death, everyone must be judged.

[glassinine]

But by extension of that philosophy, justice has no place on earth. If justice is an inevitable consequence of death, what point is there in ensuring justice in life?

[purgation]

Untrue.

By extension of that philosophy, justice as a whole knows no bounds.

When the wicked commit their atrocities, they shall hear the voice of Thanatos, and it is I who will carry out their sentence. But for those left alive, for the good who still walk the earth, a different kind of justice is required.

That brand of justice should be just as unwavering, but less severe.

[glassinine]

Forgive me my bluntness, sir. But that is nonsense, and dangerous nonsense at that.

[purgation]

That is your idea. I follow my own code of justice.

[And that is, as they say, that.

With a decisive CLICK! the line goes dead.]

[glassinine]

[gdit now stalking ALL THE REST OF THIS]