On the other hand, it is apparently possible to CHEAT at clock judgement thing. Like Aranea did. It won't make you unbeatable (and even if you manage to avoid death EVERY THINGLE TIME you still can be defeated tho) since Aranea was still permakilled. But you can fool the clock (it can be confusing tho with clock being both the thing that judges and a REPRESENTATION of judgement that merely indicated process...). It's more like not every attempt at cheating is success.

I mean, Aranea didn’t cheat it for herself though, it was Jade’s clock to land on Just, and even then, much like Jack smacking Vriska’s, it’s a tad ambiguous whether they actually had any say on the outcome! Vriska’s death was definitely a Just one, and Terezi had seen the outcome in her Mind’s eye, she knew she’d stay down. The Jack moment adds a bit more tension and leaves the mechanics of the Clock itself ambiguous. Aranea’s SEEMS like she manipulates luck to make Jade’s count as Just, too, but- Jade’s Just Death fits to a T with Scratch’s description of a Just Death. It’s much more likely she was stating how lucky she was to have been considered the ‘Hero’ slaying someone corrupted, given her means are still pretty fucked up. Both those deaths aren’t exactly weird, even if they weren’t manipulated you could’ve still easily seen them land on Just.