Minerva Mastermind Speech
I’m not sure if I’m going to be using Minnie for anything else, so for a fun little thing while we wait to see the dead mastermind, how about the down to clown mastermind? (tw for stabbing, depression)
And suddenly, the trial had come to a screeching halt. All of the angry voices, all of the accusations, they all ended as abruptly as they began. The last vote was tallied, the response was overwhelming. Despite all the indifferences that the mutual killing had bred among you, you had come to a clear and decisive decision on one factor: Minerva LaFleur had been the orchestrator of this madness.
Yet, it was not what appeared to be a madman who was at the forefront of all of this. Through the entirity of the accusations, though Minerva had been stirred to partial anger if only by the nature of the accusations, her expression had mellowed once before, as if this was nothing, that she felt nothing. And then, a sound. Her palms met against one another to produce a sincere clap, she was applauding you all in your efforts to band together and catch her. But...this was sincere, there was no hint of malice or sarcasm behind the expression, nor in the features of her face.
“Congratulations, you have graduated,” the clown woman smiled to them.
This...this still made no sense. She was the mastermind? But for what purpose, what cause did she represent? She had always been so non-confrontational, so peaceful, what stirred her to commit the biggest grievance against the human race to you, a mere high school student?
Though none spoke this concern, the hivemind of the juggalos seemed to creep into your mind, dissecting your thoughts. She dismissed them with a wave, and another smile.
“Now, now, we shall have time for questions later. Come, you must be weary from your journey,”
And gathering her skirts, Minerva twirled on her toes and retreated to the back of the courtroom, towards the door which opened only for murderers. How fitting that it snapped open for her. With an ever innocent smile, she beaconed for the rest of you, and you must be crazy to have followed her.
But inside the room was not set up a ritual for bloodspilling, instead it was a quaint sitting room, complete with comfortable plush couches for everyone and table overfilling with tea and snack cakes. Minerva took a seat at the front of the scene, her chair looking more akin to a throne than anything, and the way she commanded herself upon such a seat seemed to fit.
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“Wherever should we begin, we know you are all expecting much from us. Hmm, well you must have read the papers, yes? You know the experiment has been going on for oh too long. Now, did anyone manage to unearth the secret of our experiment?”
No response.
“Oh dear, but don’t think poorly of yourselves, just finding our identity is worthy enough as a passing grade, the rest is extra credit so to speak. Ah, so we will have to start at the very beginning,”
“Much is known about our work to you all, even before you knew we conducted such experiments, you knew we worked to instill peace among our children. But peace from what? Well, not all is well among our flock, you see. Some have strayed, stained themselves with blood. Many of our flock resemble wolves rather than the purity of sheep. And yes, even our blood was among the spilled, and the children rebelled against their all-loving mother. But, divinity comes when you least expect it,”
“You see, in our hospital room, despair began to creep into our mindset. It infected everything we thought, everything we were. It was...disgusting. But, it came with a gift, for no darkness is without light. We...simply stopped. It was magical, for all too long we were in limbo, in stasis, in...emotional apathy.”
“But we couldn’t contain our mind in Nirvana for too long, just as Icarus soon pummeled from the sky as he soared to the sun. But the effect was not lost, dear ones, and it was a beautiful development to have. Our experiments began not long after we enrolled in Hope’s Peak, and others came to our side to help in our divine work. You see, dear ones, this was the next step, this was to be humanity’s next evolution. A world without pain, without fear, and without bloodshed.”
