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Everything so far is great!

There is one thing I'd like to point out though (obviously spoilers), it's certainly not a story-breaking plot hole, and I wouldn't even be surprised if it's intentional, but I still feel like I should mention it:

The MC has some evidence that could arguably suggest that if he isn't innocent the prince would likely be involved too, it's far from definitive proof, but it's definitely there:

most motivations someone might have for killing a king would also apply to killing the rest of the line of succession

when he was outside after ball incident the MC would've had a good opportunity to approach the prince in a situation where there would likely be no witnesses, he could escape if there were witnesses or the attack went wrong, and he wouldn't be particularly suspicious if he was caught approaching the prince as long as he wasn't visibly armed, and while no one witness can confirm this, the prince could confirm his own presence, Lyall could confirm that the MC was there, and the MC knowing the prince was there (and what he was doing) would confirm that this was at the same time

DraBanshee2 years ago(+1)

Probably some spoilers but I think there is 3 major things that MC can literally say to prove his innocence: (Spoilers)

- 1: Even if he was on the scene of the tragedy, he was way to clean to be a culprit you would imagine if MC did it why is he too clean?

- 2: If they checked the body for Rigor Mortis and Wounds. It would be helpful I even imagine it like a Danganronpa Trial where the MC was to prove his innocence by saying: "If any of you had checked for the time of death you would notice that was before I entered the room".

- 3: Them the fact that the MC was literally sick? and there was many at list 3+ that can affirm that is in fact correct due to the fall. And the fact even on the day of the tragedy the MC wasn´t feeling well would be enough prove to his innocence if the above wasn´t checked. Sure, he only did feint when saying what he had dreamt the day before. But even thou he wasn´t in a good shape to commit the tragedy...

With that I probably have proven the fact that if the MC was smart, he would probably survive the trial without being executed, it probably would be fun that you´d have like multiple choices and had to select like: (A: Sick | B: Weapon | C: Lack of Blood on Clothes)

Sure, it would be tedious but basically if done correctly would be awesome. I´m basically just wishful thinking but if needed I could make a small example.

atmac2 years ago (1 edit)

I just wanted to reply to this to explain some things.

You can stab someone and get very little amounts of blood on your person. It's a very possible thing to do and most of the time the problem for the culprit stems from the amount of blood they get on the floor or area around them. That's only if they're trying to hide the body though.

The idea of Rigor Mortis wasn't discovered until the early 19th century. Back then they had very little to go off of when it came to understanding death.

The fact that they were feeling ill doesn't excuse anything either.

Not saying that they're completely and perfectly framed, but trials back then were never fair and a person of his status would most likely face severe punishment.

I'm also not saying that the MC has no way out of this. They can play their cards, but in the end it's all up to the court whether they choose to believe him or not.

DraBanshee2 years ago(+1)

Oh! Right if are considering the time frame would be correct the fact that the lack of knowledge about death. (Possible Spoilers)

At first, was a bit confusing was since I´d thought there would be like a lot of blood splatter (if it was by a slashing weapon but if it´s a piercing weapon there would basically just be a hole with little blood splatter but then I´d would open another can of worms that I don´t want to open it...).

Then yeah regarding the fact the court yeah that would even be hard to convince people due to the fact that MC was basically a political pawn.

Anyways thanks for explaining the lack of blood. Keep up the good work. :D

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