"The petitioner was raised in an environment that went to extreme lengths to hide the wonder and value of Chaos from her, and she still followed her passion over law on key occasions anyway! Yes, she wasn't as interesting as she could have been, and yes, she mostly stuck to the habits Osirion pushed on her, but at the end of the day, when it really mattered to her, she did the Chaotic thing. As for moral alignment…"

The protean shrugs with two of its limbs, the interplay of fire and water in them losing some coherence and splashing the floor with water that subsequently disintegrates. "I'm not seeing a ton of interesting stuff there, Neutral seems plausible to me."

Aaah she may have made one or two remarks about going to the Maelstrom but she would Rather Not.

"Nirvana representative?"

"Thank you, your honor. While many questions have been raised regarding the petitioner's systemic alignment, everyone we've heard from thus far thinks her moral alignment is obviously Neutral. I disagree. In re Nysima suggests that separating a child from her mother is an Evil act, and In re Pratt suggests that moving children from caring family to institutional environments is Evil. The petitioner took action to prevent both of these, which I believe constitutes a Good act. Precedent suggesting that preventing harms to oneself is Neutral is not relevant here, because these acts were intended to prevent harms to a third party. In terms of systemic alignment, it's plausible to me that a lot of minor Lawful acts and a few major Chaotic ones add to Neutral."

"Yeah, they were going to make like she was an orphan and she wasn't! - I want Axis though -"

The agathion glances meaningfully at the azata.

The azata shifts in hue a bit.

"Abyss representative?"

"Anybody can obey a law that doesn't inconvenience them. So she never burgled a store or killed a man, so what? She also didn't set off Fireballs in city limits - it just didn't come up. When something did come up, she snuck off with a man against her society's better judgment, and kidnapped the baby from a temple that might have been able to raise her - say, to adulthood -"

"That wasn't my fault!"

"So, when the chips were down, she ditched what law she'd been given and did what she felt like instead. Didn't even go home to her family once the baby was no longer a going concern. And prostitution isn't illegal in Osirion, sure, but it's not normative either - and it's not harmless. If she didn't spread any diseases that's hardly to her credit, if she didn't ruin any marriages likewise - if she didn't get pregnant, again, and wind up getting the baby killed on top of herself by taking a violent customer, likewise -"

"Chaotic evil. We have plenty of room for selfish sluts who just want what's theirs and maybe some extra on top."

Is this allowed???? Why is this allowed?????

"A mother's love is all well and good but it was very much self-interest. The baby was fine. Temple-raised orphans grow up to be credits to their societies. Prostitutes' kids are just street urchins. If she loved that baby she'd have left her where she was placed by smarter more responsible relatives."

This demon is behaving amazingly well so far. She's paid any attention to the case and is trying to make a coherent argument and is not trying to take a nap or deafen her fellow representatives with screams or destroy the furniture. The nosoi has zero complaints.

"Elysium representative?"

"I believe this petitioner is likely of Neutral or Good moral alignment. In addition to cases like the Nirvana representative mentioned, In re Longroad establishes that using stealth to reunite families is both Chaotic and Good, even if you feel significant personal kinship with those families and they undergo some risks during that process they would not otherwise have undergone."

(This is a terrible cite for arguing that the petitioner is chaotic – Laria Longroad was a Bellflower who systematically worked to oppose Chelish law, while the petitioner did nothing of the sort. However, the petitioner outright says she wants Axis. And, well, she might be wrong about that in the long run, but she might not, and it's her place to decide, not his.)

"Longroad? Really?"

"Longroad felt significant personal kinship with the people she rescued! Still counts as Good."

Why is she conscious for the part where they are referring to things she's never heard of.

Fair Trial Act requires it and petitioners sometimes have useful insight.

"Longroad systematically and purposely acted to oppose the interests of her state and its god. This petitioner did not."

"Additionally, the test the Abyss representative proposes actually argues in favor of the petitioner's Law. The petitioner was aware of the existence of expensive treatments capable of mitigating or curing disease. In her work, she was often in the presence of customers who were distracted and not fully clothed, when their clothes may have contained coin. The petitioner at no point attempted to take advantage of this to illicitly acquire funds to purchase such treatments, and not because she didn't care about her child. Thus, in addition to the petitioner's lifetime of casual Lawful acts, we also see that she sometimes adheres to the law even in high-stakes situations where she might have benefited from breaking it."

She would have gotten SUPER FIRED and also probably sent sans baby to a convent if she'd ever tried it! She did try taking Khatijah to the Sarenrites once since she couldn't afford an Abadaran but the walk there seemed to make her worse so she only did it once and they were out of remove diseases when she got there.

"Furthermore, we generally hold that sincere regret for an act of passion mitigates that act's effects on alignment, especially if the petitioner takes steps to avoid repeating the action. This standard is established in the Atonement Convention."

The arbiter turns to Rabiah.

"Rabiah Hadiqa, please describe for the court how you feel about your interactions with Khatijah's father, and what actions you took after those interactions."

"- uh." Man she hopes the arbiter actually thinks she could make Axis and is trying to help, and isn't just here for some other reason. "It was stupid, my lovebird dumped me and I just kind of got stupider and stupider about it till I thought, maybe if I go make out with this foreign adventurer, it'll be just that, and then it wasn't and I hate him and when I got home I had Yahiya go look up whether it counted as rape and it didn't so I figured, well, if that's what happens when I'm stupid I should be less stupid, and I went and came on to half the girls on the block till one would give me a go and I wasn't alone with any boys after that besides like my brothers."