"It seems you've had quite a life..." - Ema Skye, 6-5 Day 1 Investigation

I just finished Rite of Turnabout and I feel like I’m losing my mind

some of my favorite one-off ace attorney characters!

are nahyuta or any of the other khura’inese characters in this au? i like them a normal amount

yep, they are! nahyuta and dhurke are swapped! it's been a while since i've thought about aa6 in any capacity for the swap au bc, let's be real, it's so hard to piece together LMAO ORZ

it's such a swerve to go from miles, klavier, and simon to "OH IT'S APOLLO TIME NOW!!!!!!!!" in the au WHEEZES so i did think about making aa6 like, swapollo's version of an investigations game just so it'd make sense that he gets the spotlight this time.

and yea, nahyuta and co. are here (i unfortunately don't have a design for rayfa yet :^[) but from what i remember, i haven't actually like, solidified their lore in the story bc again, it's very difficult to do (i just like drawing and character design why did i do this orz) DFGHD but yea. somehow, he left khura'in and went into japanifornia with a semblance of a plan in hand and if he could, find his long-lost brother :'^)

i did think about nahyuta approaching the eaa being one of the first things he did (reasons tba pftt) but the idea that he's your co-counsel in the 6-2 is really fun! i do remember switching out the prosecutor in this case to apollo, just for the added trucy angst (bc she still is the one who gets accused in this), and bc of "uh oh what's this!!! my long-lost sibling on the other side of the courtroom!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!"

as for dhurke, i haven't built a lot of lore stuff for him yet (bc i cannot remember aa6 lore very well DFGHD) but just. the switcahroo trick of him being gone the whole time? very fun. you know who else had a switcharoo moment in aa6? hey hold on, why is nayna not here in this au?? why is dhurke's hair lavender????? anyways :^]

i think about them (lead defence athena and weird girl klavier) everyday

If there's ever an AA7, I would want the tutorial case to be Kristoph Gavin's first case, defending a teenage Apollo Justice on a murder accusation. This is before Gavin went for the forged evidence route, but he's still clearly ruthless and very much pissed that he's stuck defending this dumbass teenager in the middle of an edgy phase as his first client.

In the first part of the case, Apollo is incredibly cagey about where he was and what he was doing during the murder, so Kristoph has to drag it out of him. Turns out, he was trying to get an illegal tattoo (the mark of the Defiant Dragons, actually), with a faked ID and everything, but only got the outline done when everything went down and the artist tossed him out of the shop, since they didn't want to get done in for tattooing a minor. It's why Apollo's all hunched over like a scowling delinquent since the tattoo is on his back, and since getting arrested, he hasn't been able to care for it properly, so it hurts like hell.

Somehow, it ends up being a key part of the case and helps find the true culprit. Apollo swears to Kristoph that he'll clean up his act after being acquitted. And cut to the official start of AA7 cutscene, Apollo's putting back on his shirt, a fully done in Defiant Dragons mark with playing card and Khura'inese design motifs all around it on his back

New headcanon just dropped! Apollo sometimes braided Nahyuta's hair when they were kids. He learned to do it on his own when Apollo left, but now that he's back, Nahyuta prefers him to do it.

silly doodle of klapollo watching hunterxhunter on a tiny loveseat

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🎨🖌️ a collection of color palette requests from the bird app! >:^Dc

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Just finished this case it was very fun!!!! I love having Simon as an assistant he's great. Thank you for clowning on Nahyuta Simon somebody really needed to do that. Also Uendo, Patches Kisegawa and Owen's animations are awesome, I loved this character!

This case was a nice little break before the hell that is about to rain on Apollo from what I've seen of the next case 💀 poor guy really needs a break

What did Capcom mean by this

Apollo Justice is NOT fine

Honestly I’m not surprised that Maya did that

yayayaya hi

royal siblings shenanigans