You Are What You Judge

by TharaCorleone

It's a new year of Clint City's Got Talent, with new judges and a new policy where only the non-clan public can take part. However, showbusiness is never that straightforward and the judging panel gains a member with a hunger for more than talent. But how will his judging experience go? And will a worthy winner be picked this year?

1. Prologue

The very moment that the winner of Clint City's Got Talent 2012 was announced, around 7 million jaws felt themselves gape open, with Colin's gaping most of all. Had this what talent had become, or the level that Clint City had allowed themselves to drop to? They hadn't wanted to vote for it, but they had felt this strange fascination overcome them as they picked up the phone to allow this violation of nature another chance to shock them.

Too disgusted to pay attention to the victory speech, Colin leant over to Stella and spoke in hushed tones to avoid prying ears. However, the camera once again never missed a beat and the Upper could be seen to say "Next year, we're strictly sticking to the neutral public." It was obvious that Colin blamed the devil-may-care attitudes of the clans, hence why they entered with their own weird and wonderful. Except that night, it had just been weird.

In the space of twelve months, however, it would seem that Colin would not only have a new audition policy, but a new set of judges; he himself had new projects and commitments to oversee, Stella was in the midst of writing her second album and Igor was currently in the hospital after a playful magic trick with Ironfield had gone horribly wrong. But commitments and confinement were never anything that Colin had worried about, and he was sure as sure that his new panel of judges would attract just as much, if not more auditionee attention.

But, unfortunately, nothing in showbusiness was ever that simple or straightforward...