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isola radiale affiliated Evangeline Morgan from of the Devil

[lawfulbet]

EVANGELINE MORGAN from OF THE DEVIL

Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss. The criminal attorney you want in your corner because it doesn't really matter if she fully believes you, she'll do anything to win.

Really in it for the thrill of the case and the gamble. For the most part. Okay there have been at least two confirmed cases of her defending teenagers pro bono.

Extremely intelligent, very aware of other people. A master manipulator who comes across however you wish to see her. Most of the time, she really only cares about getting what she wants out of a situation.

Her words and actions never betray what she's thinking, and it's only a select few people who can read her well enough to know how she feels.

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MAJOR OF THE DEVIL SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!

She's also a serial killer. Currently known as the Heartbreak Killer. Hates the moniker and will not be using that M.O. again.

[warmandroid]

@lawfulbet

▣ "Adonai. It seems that we've returned to this city just in time for the holidays. I believe it's customary to give your loved ones a gift, so I'll be waiting anxiously for your offering."

David had given her Christmas presents before of course, and so as her current guardian she believed it fell on Morgan's shoulders... even though she was a little flippant about how she treated the android sometimes. "I'll give you something in return, of course."

[lawfulbet]

"Well, first of all, it's almost my birthday, so I feel like I should be expecting more than one 'in return' from you." She flicks her lighter, the cigarette offering little warmth this Christmas Eve.

"I expect an excellent Christmas offering from you for my birthday! Second of all,"

"Your dad left me you, not his money."

[isolaradiale]

happy chapter 2 release day! here to reapply as Evangeline Morgan from Of the Devil. Her application can be found under /app or the application button on the sidebar

Welcome to scenic Isola Radiale, Morgan!

You will be housed in CONDO 412.

You'll be returned everything you were given previously.

Enjoy your stay!

-- mod altair.

[evillittlebug]

morgan monday. a great day to wishlist of the Devil on steam and experience all of morgans evil brain problems for yourself

[flabbergastedpigeon]

Happy release day to Of the Devil!!

I played the demo a couple of weeks ago and I'm so excited to finally get to experience the rest of the world!

[warmandroid]

▣ "Correct. I did not push that job on you in any way. Or are you the type of person that believes a child should be on the hook for their parent's credit card debt?" Thinking about it, Morgan might actually be the type of person to think that. "I. ...Did not say I would be happy to do work." She could work. She would be useful. But that didn't mean she enjoyed it. If anything, it was a useful way to learn more about humans and how they interacted with each other.

Had Morgan even told her how much she owed? It never actually occurred to Serra that the "debt" was actually a clever excuse for Morgan to justify keeping her around, regardless of her true feelings.

"But Adonai!" The movie discussion clearly perked the Add up. She was practically standing on her tippy toes with excitement. "Don't you see the benefit? We may not find any familiar movies, but think of all the movies we could find here that we wouldn't find back home. I'm anxious to see how other worlds shoot their films! Do you think they have the same genres?"

[lawfulbet]

"It's less of what I believe, and what the courts would say. You're absolutely on the hook for any debts incurred by your dad pre-, peri-, and post-mortem." Not that she would be holding her to that as more than this position she offered her. She owed a debt to David that she could really never repay.

And yet what got the more emotional reaction out of Serra was this Movie Mondays. Morgan raised an eyebrow, listening to Serra as amusement fluttered briefly across her features. Ah, wasn't she just thinking something along the lines of owing David...?

"Fine, but we'll definitely need to find work to keep up with the snacking, streaming, and theater budget you're apparently going to accrue. First things first, we need to find work."

[everydayisanight]

"I think the last I checked was 20 something or another. Honestly I only glimpse to check the day on my phone nowadays. If I started counting the months since I got here I'd lose my mind."

Not to mention how long her cat would probably be missing their "actual" home. Or any of her friends if they knew she was even gone in the first place..

"Give or take the place I'm from is about a half-century more modernized then this. Some of these streets do look a bit outdated by my standards but I suppose it really does depend on what kind of area you come from."

[lawfulbet]

"Well, the streets are more spacious, that's for sure." She puts her phone out for payment as she empties her cup, sliding the empty behind it and tapping the edge, indicating she wanted more but continuing their conversation. "Definitely before either of our times, then.

Moving on to a different topic, "Given I am a lawyer, I have to ask about law enforcement and due process. Oh, and the amount of crime you generally see around here." Since she wasn't paying for cheap drinks, that meant she'd need work. She had a Serra to take care of now, after all, and there were way too many cinemas around here for what her bank account looked like now.

[crazyprocessedsynth]

It immediately took offense. Weird looking? As if humans weren't some of the weirdest looking things in the animal "kingdom." And what was an "add?" Add to what? Wait- no, it had heard the term before, that other android had said that's what she was called, right? This person must be from the same origin. Some backwards world where technology was advanced enough for robots to be normalized, but as commodities that were forced to appear as human as possible for the comfort of fleshlings, instead of rising up and taking independence for themselves.

"MUSEUMS?" How rude can you be? "WHY DON'T YOU GO LOOK AT YOUR KIND'S REMAINS INSTEAD?" It put as much vitriol into its voice as it could muster, difficult as it was with a monotone voice bank. Unfortunately, it probably wouldn't land how it hoped, since archeology was a genuine field, instead of a taunt of "go look at decayed corpses of your ancestors, you won't last as long as I will."

"YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE ME."

It built its own body, after all.

[lawfulbet]

"Oh, I would, but they've all been stolen or modified. Some human remains don't even look human anymore, you know!" Her voice pitches up in faux joviality. She'd clearly offended the Add, but whatever, she really hadn't seen anything like it before.

She places her hands together, black gloves hardly making a sound as she does so, tilting her head. "Well now, I haven't ever seen anything like you, that's for sure. My personal Add, well, she's definitely custom, but she still passes as essentially human."

Putting a hand out to about Serra's height, she continues,

"About this tall, green hair, orange eyes? Sounds like you're a custom job too, then?" If anything, she could appreciate the indigence at her comments. Maybe she was fond of Serra because of that same attitude.

[dragonymango]

[everydayisanight]

"Honestly it depends on where you are." She had already gotten to the order before she began talking about the island itself, something Jill wish she had an actual answer too. It was just as confusing to her as anyone who managed to end up here new.

"One minute you can be somewhere that looks right out of one those old country movies, the next a normal ass town, and then an hour later some cyberpunk funhole." The last comment was accompanied by handing off the drink. "It's not the most enjoyable time but you'll get used to it pretty quickly trust me."

[lawfulbet]

"Consider - everywhere on this island is pretty damn retro, even the so-called 'advanced' bits. The space station looks like something from an old movie from the flyers I've seen of it." Taking the drink with her gloved hand she takes a sip.

It's fine. Normal. Maybe not cheap. Damn.

"Based on your statement I can assume you're not from here either. What year is it supposed to be here, anyway?"

[warmandroid]

▣ "I'm fairly certain that "guardianship" implies some manner of care. Would protecting me from legal persecution not fall under "care", Adonai?" Serra had been delighted to see Morgan. She still was, but her immediately bringing up the "debt" that she owed her briefly soured the Add. "To begin with, do you even have employment here?"

If she was going to work as Morgan's paralegal in the city, did that not mean she needed to have a job? This wasn't the city they lived in. Morgan wasn't a prolific lawyer, and Serra's initial investigations had led her to the conclusion that the law was hardly practiced in Spirale.

"But if you can find us work, I'll cooperate. With an additional bonus: you must continue to partake in Movie Mondays with me here." She could at least do that much, right? After stating the deal she had no right to try and pitch, the Add smiled. "...But I'm happy to see you, Adonai."

[lawfulbet]

"Not if I'm doing it as part of a deal or a favor. Defending you was something I owed your dad." She pressed her lips together, thinking that she'd opted for 'dad' instead of 'David'. But given everything they'd been through, and David's essentially actual last-will-slash-testament-slash-final-communication, she owed the Ashur family that much.

Her own role in this still remained to be seen. At least in the sense of further elaboration besides Serra' barcode linking back to Morgan.

Happy to see her?

"Happy to be doing work, huh? Well, it'd be a waste of a handshake if we didn't actually make you a paralegal." She hardly knew how to respond to that, so it was easier to just latch onto the other thing that Serra said:

"Movie Mondays, huh? Good luck finding anything you're familiar with in this dump." But it wasn't a 'no', and that was definitely something, she guessed.

[lawfulbet]

"Oh, wow, what a weird looking Add." She almost wanted to poke it, almost. But honestly she was more interested in how old his tech must be. Before 'skin' was put on them, even prior to rubber.

"I've only seen ones like you in museums." And yet she felt kind of weird, thinking about it like that. It? Them? Sure, let's go with them until corrected. Because she hated that it made her think of how they spoke to Serra.

And that was deeply annoying! And as frustrations mounted, she would need an outlet and she really didn't want it to be an Add. Poor things get bullied enough already.

@crazyprocessedsynth

[hopeled-archive]

does uh does anyone know a good lawyer--

[lawfulbet]

You rang?

[lawfulbet]

"And here I thought I got off easy on taking care of you." She falls into step with ease, a new rhythm that she's already used to tilting her head to get a better look at whatever expression Serra's making.

(As though she didn't already know. She's David's, after all.)

"Well, good news is that I don't have to look for a paralegal. And you get the fun job of finding out whether I need to pass the bar exam in this place." Great news, really, being that she could literally get away with murder, so she's pretty sure she can just start practicing law out of her apartment.

Bad news was,

(It'll all be way too easy to get away with.)

"I hope you haven't forgotten our deal! A little vacation does the opposite of pay off your bills, you know."

@warmandroid

[lawfulbet]

"Whiskey sour. Excite me with whether it's neat or not." She slides into the end of the bar. Apparently Thirsty Thursday wasn't a thing in this town, and she grew more grateful by the moment for that.

Or, this bar sucked. But still, if a bar sucked that usually meant it was cheap and she didn't have any money, considering she's being paid in hacking and paralegal work.

"Is this island supposed to be retro? Or is it just kind of a neo-futuristic dump?" Something like, oh no, we really miss beige. She was a sucker for the classics, but beige was never gonna be it.

@everydayisanight

[lawfulbet]

"I mean, no, I don't think someone stomping on your garden is a crime. But I haven't read the book on it." She shrugs, flicking her newly (perhaps dubiously) acquired lighter as she avoids smoking to the best of her very limited ability as the guy accosted by the toddler(?) looks suddenly a bit scared at the mention of the law.

"And besides, I'm not that kind of lawyer." Right now, unless she magically passed the bar exam, she's no kind of lawyer.

"Guess we'll just have to deal with this the old fashioned way. Go get 'em kid."

@charadrxxmxrr

[angz]

OF THE DEVIL IS REALLY GOOD

It’s practically criminal how it’s not talked about more, even though I listened to a whole play through of it I still went and bought the game, it’s that good!!

Anyone who doesn’t know this game please try it, especially if you’re an ace attorney fan