094: `Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! – prophet still, if bird or devil! –
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“Can’t prove it was me” I always assumed that Angels/Demons just magically knew a person’s guilt/innocence. Otherwise we would have to get Ken Ham as a judge. “Did you see the Mr. Stabby kill those babies. No, then he is totally innocent of all charges except spilling cherry cola on his shirt.”
And shouldn’t he be getting grief for not starting more fires?
It reminds me of a (boring) TV show diving comedy / legal drama. After the apocalypse in present day so the up and comer new Angel Lawyer is on the scene but has to go up against the newest female demon lawyer Lucy. If the person is Abrahamic they are assumed innocent until proven guilty, and if they are not Abrahamic they are assumed damned until proven otherwise. As a result Angel Lawyer switches between prosecutor and defendant as needed.
Rather than focus on murder it all petty crimes and Heaven is just slightly nicer than Hell.
Yea…. it kinda sounds cool but sucks as there are no cool defendants.
Omg. Is this actually a thing or did you just make it up on the spot?
It is a thing in that I made it up. I made it up like 10 years ago and would flesh it out every once in a while during car rides. It was so bare bones that I never even wrote anything down.
Go from live action to goofy The Simpsons style cartoon.
Though thinking about it now setting it after the Apocalypse is stupid. Best to have it set in present day. And instead of going to Heaven/Hell have it so that if the client gets a good verdict they get come back alive to continue to be good/evil. Everyone who dies in the show dies due to stupid nonsense (crushed by piano, eat 2 whole pizzas, that pitbull looks friendly, look ma no hands).
And they can call in witnesses where the witnesses are other dead humans/animals who are borrowed from Heaven and not so bad Hell.
Maybe make it not just a courtroom drama, but also a crime drama. Go the full Pheonix Wright where Angel Lawyer has to non-corporeal-ly investigate a crime scene, figure out what happened, and then defend/prosecute. People who are revived get their memory wiped but have a changed personality.
The main problem persists in that instead of having legal laws you have moral laws and that would get boring and crazy preachy super fast if done poorly. And the show doesn’t really have a demographic.
OR….. if the client was a jerk and Angel Cop manages to make them atone for their bad stuff while dead then it still counts as a win for heaven and the revive and become better people.
I should play Phoenix Wright and watch Monk.
Dude. I can see why you found it flawed, but clean it up and I’d totally read it, it’s really interesting.
so…i´m guessing orev+zev are some kind of parole officers among the demons? i´m wondering though, whats the punishment for breaking parole, getting banished back to hell? and what would´ve happened if hugh/orev hadn´t gotten out of that burning building in time, would the fire had ‘only’ killed hugh, or does the demon die too when the host does?
most of all though, after meeting this jerk i´d say that at least roberts possession was not consensual…whereas hugh and mary gave the vibe that they´re peacefully co-existing with their demons.
:DDDD Your guesses are correct, and your questions are all things I’m hoping people are asking themselves right about now. Thank you for showing me my writing has been successful in this regard so far X3
I also hope I will be answering all of those questions at one point or another in the story (though some of them may take a while), but I’d like to direct your attention to my new Patreon Q&A segment if you want them sooner ;)