thedreamisdead: (Beeny Serious)
America Beeny ([personal profile] thedreamisdead) wrote in [community profile] thelegion 2017-04-15 10:23 pm (UTC)

[She snorts.]

Hey, people like to watch it. And it's highly choreographed. Honestly, from what I've seen of the fandom here, no one's got the imagination to make it far in anything except the singles.

[Citizen Dix retired ages ago, however. From what she remembers, chronic impotence. Shame. She's not sure how Mega-City One will do in the Olympics without his skilled touch.]

A Judge can't bother. Our entire life is devoted to our job. Anything else is a distraction. [She shrugs at the screen.] You once mocked me for saying that I was the Law. But there's nothing else for me.

[She glances off-screen, flipping through the pages of that book. Dredd's Comportment, she'd called it. She holds it up to the camera for him to read, tapping one specific line.

"A Judge must totally devote himself to justice and the rule of the Law. A Judge has no life of his own. He does not indulge in social contact. He has no income and no personal property beyond that required to carry out his normal duty."
]

I am the Law, Mr. Baldwin. And I'll never have anything else until the day I hit Resyk or take the Long Walk into the Cursed Earth.

[Even the reforms she hopes to bring can't change everything in her lifetime.]

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