Master of the Court


 * For other uses, see Master of the Court (disambiguation)

"Convict him, convict him, convict him anyway! Start trial! Convict! Death!"

The Master of the Court is the awakened vessel of Sloth. She acts as the judge of Evil's Theater, sentencing trespassers to death. She is also referred to as the Clockworker's Doll, the Director Doll, and the Judicial Doll by the inhabitants of the theater.

"Daughter" of Gallerian
While gathering the vessels of sin, Gallerian Marlon collected and became attached to the Clockworker's Doll. At this time, the doll awakened and the widower refered to her as his "daughter". She returned the favor by calling Gallerian "father" and sometimes sang for him. She did not have the ability to walk and was confined to a wheelchair. Concerned, the Doll's "father" comforted her by decorating her room with his collection.

Gallerian confined the doll insider her room and she was left unaware of the outside world. However, she was content because of the love and affection her "father" showed her. As a result, she had never been taught anything about the outside world. Every now and then she heard laughter coming from the vessels of sin, telling her they were all the same.

During the Levianta Civil War in EC 983, Gallerian's mansion was burned, killing Gallerian and burying the Clockworker's Doll. She was later recovered and brought to Gallerian's Theater with the rest of the vessels of sin by her "father's" closest friend: Ma.

Gallerian's Theater
Severely burnt by the fire, the Clockworker's Doll was attached to the inner workings of the Theater's clocktower to sustain her life. Sometime afterward, she began singing the Clockwork Lullaby, attracting curious visitors to the theater who seeked to attain Gallerian's legendary fortune. in EC 990, the deteriorating gears broke down and the clock stopped, threatening her life. Due to GEAR's sacrifice, the Clockworker's Doll's life was secure and the clocktower continued running.

With the powers of the Marlon Spoon now transfered to her, the Doll's burns were healed and she gained a new vigor. Succeeding Gallerian on her own accord, the Director Doll took on his title as the new Master of the Court. With Ma's encouragement, the Master of the Court decided to pursue Gallerian's plan of creating utopia by gathering the Seven Deadly Sins and send all of humanity to Hell, where it is proposed that this "utopia" will take place.

Using her power, she put on trial all visitors who got past the Master of the Graveyard and would quickly find them guilty, sentencing them to death. After Gammon Octo managed to infiltrate the Theater in an attempt to steal the Venom Sword, he was captured and put on trial. The Judical Doll quickly convicted him and had him prepared for execution but the Waiter intervened, convincing her to spare Gammon by using him for chores as the "Gardener".

When Gammon made his vision known, the Master of the Court didn't give it much attention. Despite this, she questioned whether it was him or Ma who was right about the result of her father's plan. She eventually decided to continue with their plan for utopia and disregarded Gammon's dream. With the entity Irregular inside her "womb", she treated him like her unborn child and sang to him the Clockwork Lullaby to heal him in preparation for his rebirth.

She called the inhabitants to a "trial" meeting in EC 998. Searching for the vessel of Wrath, the Judicial Doll questioned Ma about the location of the vessel with Ma responding that it was in the possession of the Master of the Hellish Yard. Later during the meeting, the Judicial Doll decided to organize the information and gave the Cursed Gardener permission to speak about his reasoning for coming to the theater.

Personality
Due to being confined to her room while in Gallerian's possession, the Master of the Court is naive about the outside world and has a limited perception of right and wrong. For those same reasons, she never saw Gallerian's corruption nor the reasoning behind their home's destruction. As a result, she struggles to develop a moral conscience when confronted with determining right and wrong.

She also shows concern when replacing her father as judge and questions the morality of judging intruders and executing them, as well as Gallerian and Ma's ultimate plan of sending them all to hell. Despite this, she accepts her role willingly and swings her gavel anyway. Her naivety makes her impressionable, Ma's claims of turning hell into a utopia easily manipulating the doll to finish Gallerian's collection so she can see her father again.

She shows an enormous adoration for her "father" and the two mutually loved each other as parent and child. After his death, she looked towards him for guidance as she struggled with what to believe: MA or Gammon's claims about her planned "utopia".She shares a similar love and affection toward her own "child", Irregular. In contrast, she appears to treat the rest of the theater's inhabitants somewhat coldly.

Skills
GEAR's sacrifice rejuvenated the Director Doll and gave her the capability to walk as well as granting her the powers of the Marlon Spoon. As a result, she wields the powers of both Greed and Sloth.

Appearance
The Doll was shaped in the image of the "Original Sin". Because of this others have often compared the doll to Eve Moonlit. The doll had green hair, which gained a stronger blue hue after gaining the Marlon Spoon's power, and blue eyes with pale skin. Her standard outfit was a long blue, frilled dress with a tall white collar and white cuffs. While in Gallerian's tenure, the doll was dressed in a variety of outfits consisting of a skirt and blouse adorned with various ribbons, laces, bows, and flowers. She was also confined to a wheelchair due to her mobile disability.

Connections to Other Characters
Gallerian Marlon: Her "father". She was found by him and taken in to live with him as his "daughter".

GEAR: Her caretaker in Gallerian's Theater. GEAR saved her life once when the clock threatened to shut down. However, contrary to her views, he seems to believe there will be nothing left when the end does come.

Gammon Octo: She almost sentenced him to death had the Waiter not intervened. Gammon and the Master of the Court have conflicting views about what will happen on the end day.

Irregular: He dwells inside the Master of the Court's womb. She treats him with motherly love, assuring him that his time will come. She thinks of him as her unborn child.

Ma: The Master of the Court refers to her as the "Sorceress of Time". She asked Ma about the whereabouts of the last Deadly Sin, Wrath. Ma replies that she does not know but believes that it is most likely in the hands of the Master of the Hellish Yard.

Irina Clockworker: The doll's creator.

Eve Moonlit: Irina used Eve as a model.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * A clockwork doll is immoble unless you "wind" it up, relating to Sloth's connotation of laziness.
 * Sloth's original form, The Wind, forms a wordplay with the action required to operate a clockwork device.
 * Hatsune Miku's family name sounds similar to the japanese word 発明 (hatsumei) meaning "invention"; this wordplay possibly connects to the Clockworker Doll's artificial origin and to Belphegor the patron demon of Sloth.
 * Master of the Court's relation to the Court is connected to the event of Judgement in Hieronymus Bosch's The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.

Curiosities

 * The Clockworker's Doll, ironically, is the first vessel to awaken despite being the vessel of Sloth.
 * She is the only awakened vessel of sin with the powers of two of the Seven Deadly Sins.
 * While Gallerian states that the Clockworkers Doll is unable to walk, she is shown standing several times in the PV for Miniature Garden Girl. This is likely a consistency error.
 * Tying her with the sin she represents, the doll usually is depicted "sleeping".
 * Her profile on the Evils Kingdom website suggests her disability is due to the leg joints being composed of a weaker material than the rest of the doll's body.

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