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rivalsforlife · 3 years

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Ace Attorney 20th Anniversary Character Poll (and how to participate in it!)

Hey there. If you haven’t heard the news, Weekly Famitsu Magazine (a Japanese gaming magazine which has, historically, been where many new ace attorney games are announced) is going to have an article releasing on October 21st featuring Ace Attorney for the upcoming 20th Anniversary.

This is pretty decent news, I think, though we don’t know yet if there’s going to be a new game announcement or any other sort of news. What is confirmed is that they’re going to run a fan poll where you can vote on your favorite characters, cases, and Payne hairstyles, among other things.

This does not ask for personal information, and as far as I can tell, you don’t need to be in Japan to respond. The poll is, however, solely in Japanese, and I assume they’re expecting answers in Japanese as well. I took the liberty with the help of google translate to attempt to make a rough translation of the poll, and you can follow along with this and fill it out yourself if you wish! Keep in mind this may not necessarily be extremely accurate, because google translate, and if anyone knows better than I do, please do correct me!

The poll closes September 30th 2021 11:59 PM Japan time - so there’s not a lot of time to fill it out!

Here’s a link to the poll. The questions are under the cut.

Also, keep in mind that this will address characters that appear in all of the games, though no major plot spoilers are present.

I recommend using google translate on the webpage if you can, it makes things a bit easier to navigate. I didn’t put the Japanese phrases next to the translated answers, since there was no option to copy+paste, so it would take up too much of my time - I can if someone really wants me to, though. Don’t solely rely on google translate though, as sometimes it will do things like translate “Naruhodo Ryunosuke” to “Phoenix Wright”.

As well, for some things like character responses, you may want to double-check their names on the wiki, just in case I got something wrong (which is quite likely.)

Here’s the translation:

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The weekly Famitsu November 4, 2021 issue (released October 21, 2021) features a special article on "Ace Attorney," which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the series! Among them, we will carry out an “Ace Attorney” series fan questionnaire. Please answer whatever questions you can.

There are 20 questions in total. If it takes too much time to fill in, the input may be reset, so if you feel that your answers are going to be long, we recommend that you prepare a separate text and copy and paste it.

Please note that answers to the questionnaire may be excerpted and edited and introduced in the weekly Famitsu, Famitsu.com, and other media operated by our company (KADOKAWA Game Linkage Co., Ltd.).

* In the page, "The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures" may be described as "Great Ace Attorney 1", and "The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve" may be described as "Great Ace Attorney 2”.

The deadline for responses is 23:59 on Thursday, September 30, 2021.

QUESTION 1

ペンネーム（必須）

(Pen name (Required))

This is a free response question, so answer whatever you want your pen name to be.

QUESTION 2

性別（必須)

(Gender (Required))

This has three options, which are, in order: Male, Female, or Prefer Not To Answer.

QUESTION 3

年齢（必須）

(Age (Required))

The options are, in order:

Under 10

10s

20s

30s

40s

50s

60s

70+

CHARACTER QUESTIONS

QUESTION 1

Q1.『逆転』シリーズの中からもっとも好きなキャラクターを教えて！(最大3名まで記入可)

“Tell us your favorite character in the Ace Attorney series! You can fill in up to three people.”

The following questions have a small free response box where you can put in the character’s name. Underneath that, in the larger free response box, you explain your reason. I’d recommend going onto the ace attorney wiki page of your favorite characters, going to the “names in other languages” tab, and then copy-pasting that name in there. If you’re avoiding the wiki because of spoilers right now, you can either send me an ask asking for the name and I’ll try to get back to you asap, or ask a friend who is not avoiding it.

You don’t *need* to fill out the explanation section if you’re not confident in your Japanese and don’t want to risk it being thrown out if it’s in English. You could try google translate, but keeping it simple would probably be best, otherwise it may come out weird.

QUESTION 2

Q2.『逆転』シリーズで好きな弁護士は？(メインキャラクター編)

“Who is your favorite defense attorney in the “Ace Attorney” series? (Main character edition)”

This is a selection box where the options are, in order:

Phoenix Wright

Mia Fey

Apollo Justice

Athena Cykes

Ryunosuke Naruhodo

The free response section below asks for you to give “A word on your favorite point”, which… I have no idea what that actually means. Sorry. Someone who actually knows Japanese, get back to me on that. It may be explaining why they’re your favorite, or it may be ... talking about pointing, it’s hard to tell with this series.

The next few questions (3-8) follow a similar format with the question then free response, so I will focus on the questions for each one.

QUESTION 3

Q3.好きな弁護士は？(サブキャラクター編)

“Who is your favorite defense attorney? (Minor character edition)”

This is another selection box where the options are, in order:

Marvin Grossberg

Diego Armando

Kristoph Gavin

Raymond Shields

Calisto Yew

Kazuma Asogi

Ryutaro Naruhodo

Gregory Edgeworth

QUESTION 4

Q4.好きな検事は？

“Who is your favorite prosecutor?”

Selection box options are, in order:

Miles Edgeworth

Winston Payne

Manfred von Karma

Lana Skye

Franziska von Karma

Godot

Klavier Gavin

Gaspen Payne

Simon Blackquill

Nahyuta Sahdmadhi

Ga’ran Sigatar Khura’in

Sebastian Debeste

Taketsuchi Auchi

Barok van Zieks

Zacharias Barnham

Darklaw

Flynch

QUESTION 5

Q5.好きな相棒キャラクターは？

“Who is your favorite assistant character?”

Selection box options, in order:

Maya Fey

Pearl Fey

Larry Butz

Ema Skye

Trucy Wright

Rayfa Padma Khura’in

Kay Faraday

Susato Mikotoba

Herlock Sholmes

Iris Wilson

QUESTION 6

Q6.好きな依頼人は？

“Who is your favorite defendant?”

Selection box options, in order:

Larry Butz

Will Powers

Maggey Byrde

Maximillion Galactica

Matt Engarde

Ron Delite

Terry Fawles

Iris

Wocky Kitaki

Machi Tobaye

Vera Misham

Juniper Woods

Damian Tenma

Solomon Starbuck

Ahlbi Ur’gaid

Bucky Whet

Dhurke Sahdmadhi

Ellen Wyatt

Magnus McGilded

Soseki Natsume

Gina Lestrade

Rei Membami

Albert Harebrayne

Espella Cantabella

(Yes, I don’t think Turnabout Reclaimed is on here, for some reason. Neither is Zak Gramarye.)

QUESTION 7

Q7.好きな証人は？

“Who is your favorite witness?”

This is just a free response, since there would be too many options. Again, find your favorite witness and copy+paste their name in Japanese into this.

QUESTION 8

Q8.好きなマスコットキャラクター、動物は？

“Who is your favorite mascot character or animal?”

Selection box options in order (there’s A LOT, and I’m uncertain on some, so be prepared) are:

Steel Samurai

Mr. Monkey

Pink Princess

Evil Magistrate

Missile

Polly

Blue Badger

Trilo

Regent

Nickel Samurai

Jammin’ Ninja

Mr. Hat

Widget

Bum Rap Rhiny

Phony Phanty

Taka

Clonco

Ponco

Orla Shipley

Rifle

Sniper

Shah’do

Plumed Punisher

Sergeant Buff (the helicopter)

Proto Badger

Pink Badger

Bad Badger

Steel Samurai Daddy

Pink Princess Mommy

Rocky the Polar Bear

Patricia Roland’s white fox

Sirhan Dogen’s dog Anubis

Money the Monkey

Jezaille Brett’s swan

Astique the Elephant

Darka the cat

Wagahai

Toby

Usalock (Herlock rabbit)

Kumaris (Iris bear)

Chunosuke (Ryunosuke mouse)

Nyasked Disciple

Usato (Susato rabbit)

Hedgina (Hedgehog Gina)

Nyasogi (Asogi cat)

Nyan Zieks (van Zieks cat)

Eve the Cat

Constantine the Dog

Mr. Blue Badger (the Blue Badger of PLvsAA I assume?)

[can’t believe they put the parent versions of steel samurai + pink princess in there but not the iron infant?]

QUESTION 9

Q9.キャラクターの仕草(アニメーション)で印象深いものとその理由を教えて！(成歩堂龍一の滝のような汗、成歩堂龍之介の泳ぐ目、御剣怜侍の礼など)

“Please tell us which game has the best character animation (Phoenix Wright’s sweat, Ryunosuke Naruhodo’s darting eyes, Miles Edgeworth’s bow, etc.) and why?”

Selection box options in order:

Ace Attorney 1

Justice for All

Trials and Tribulations

Apollo Justice

Dual Destinies

Spirit of Justice

Ace Attorney Investigations

Ace Attorney Investigations 2

The Great Ace Attorney

The Great Ace Attorney 2

Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney

Then in the free response portion you can talk about your favorite animation and why it is your favorite. If you think you can do that. I just put in my favorite by searching up the character name and trying to google translate the pose, which may not be effective, but you can give it a try.

QUESTION 10

Q10.好きな“珍名”キャラクターを教えて！(小中大、星威岳哀牙、コゼニー・メグンダル、ジョバンニ・ジコールなど)

“Please tell us your favorite pun name! (Redd White, Luke Atmey, Magnus McGilded, Carmine Accidenti, etc.)”

First you select the game it’s from, I think, which are in order:

Ace Attorney 1

Justice for All

Trials and Tribulations

Apollo Justice

Dual Destinies

Spirit of Justice

Ace Attorney Investigations

Ace Attorney Investigations 2

The Great Ace Attorney

The Great Ace Attorney 2

Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney

Then in the free response you give the name. Again a situation of finding the character you want on the wiki and copy+pasting the name into there. This might be a little odd because of the pun names being different in English and Japanese, so proceed with your own discretion, I guess. (For instance, if “Rei Membami” is your favorite pun name for some reason, this would be very odd because “Haori Murasame”, her original name, is not a pun... looking at the name explanation sections on the wiki might be a good idea. If you’re totally not sure, you can pick one of the examples.)

GAME QUESTIONS

QUESTION 11

Q11.印象深い事件は？(最大3つまで記入可)

“Which is the most impressive case? (Up to three can be entered)”

They follow the same pattern of “enter a case” and then “explain why”. Again, you don’t have to fill out the explanation if you don’t want to.

The order of the cases is:

The First Turnabout

Turnabout Sisters

Turnabout Samurai

Turnabout Goodbyes

Rise from the Ashes

The Lost Turnabout

Reunion and Turnabout

Turnabout Big Top

Farewell, My Turnabout

Turnabout Memories

The Stolen Turnabout

Recipe for Turnabout

Turnabout Beginnings

Bridge to the Turnabout

Turnabout Trump

Turnabout Corner

Turnabout Serenade

Turnabout Succession

Turnabout Countdown

The Monstrous Turnabout

Turnabout Academy

The Cosmic Turnabout

Turnabout for Tomorrow

The Foreign Turnabout

The Magical Turnabout

The Rite of Turnabout

Turnabout Storyteller

Turnabout Revolution

Turnabout Visitor

Turnabout Airlines

The Kidnapped Turnabout

Turnabout Reminiscence

Turnabout Ablaze

Turnabout Target

The Imprisoned Turnabout

The Inherited Turnabout

The Forgotten Turnabout

The Grand Turnabout

The Adventure of the Great Departure

The Adventure of the Unbreakable Speckled Band

The Adventure of the Runaway Room

The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro

The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story

The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney

The Memoirs of the Clouded Kokoro

The Return of the Great Departed Soul

Twisted Karma and His Last Bow

The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo

On a Dark and Stormy Night

English Turnabout

Mysterious Labyrinthia

The Fire Witch

The Great Witch

The Golden Court

A Taste of Despair

Secrets of the Underground Ruins

The Story's End

The Final Witch Trial

The Last Inquisitor

The First Story

Since that is a LOT to navigate, use the Japanese to help you. The games are laid out pretty simply: if you know the game and case, you can find it pretty quickly. It goes mainline -> Investigations -> TGAA -> PLvsAA. Mainline Ace Attorney games are 逆転裁判 followed by a number corresponding to which entry it is, with the exception of the first game (which is first on the list anyways). Investigations games start with 逆転検事 and followed with a 2 for investigations 2. Great Ace Attorney starts with 大逆転裁判 with a 2 for Resolve, and Layton vs Ace Attorney is レイトン教授 VS 逆転裁判. After the game title you can find the case number.

For some reason, Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice’s DLC cases don’t seem to be on this list. Sorry if those are your favorites. Maybe yell in the free response box about that.

MISC QUESTIONS

QUESTION 12

Q12.触ってみたいのはどれ？

“Which of the following do you want to touch?”

The options are, in order:

Phoenix Wright’s Spiky Hair

Miles Edgeworth’s Frilly Cravat

Apollo Justice’s Sparkling Forehead

Dahlia Hawthorne’s Fluttery Butterfly

Lotta Hart’s Fluffy Hair

Kazuma Asogi’s Fluttering Headband

Golden Professor Layton

And there’s an option for “other” below.

QUESTION 13

Q13.食らってみたいのはどれ？

Google translate says this is “which do you want to eat” - I think it’s more like. “What do you want to be hurt by?” or something.

The options are, in order:

Oldbag’s Ray Gun

Steel Samurai Spear

Edgeworth’s Salary Assessment (aka a salary cut)

Franziska von Karma’s Whip

Godot’s Thrown Coffee

Simon Blackquill’s Finger Sword

Justine Courtney’s Extending Gavel

Susato Takedown

Barok van Zieks’ Heel Drop

And then you have a free response section to explain why... if you want.

QUESTION 14

Q14.以下の中で味わってみたいものはどれ？

“Which of the following would you like to taste?”

The options are, in order:

Dee Vasquez’s T-Bone Steak

The Cough-Up Queen’s Lunchbox

Godot Blend No. 107

Jean Armstrong’s Authentic (?) French Lunchset

Victor Kudo’s Birdseed

Detective Gumshoe’s Weenie Bento Box

Violetta’s Tea

Coldkiller X

Guy Eldoon’s Salty Noodles

Whet Noodle’s Soba

Dane Gustavia’s Candy

La Carneval’s Beefsteak

Van Zieks’ Holy Grail

For some reason they don’t offer you the option to justify your choice with this one.

QUESTION 15

Q15.ハシゴ派？　キャタツ派？

“Ladder or stepladder?”

The options are “ladder” and then “stepladder”. You have the option to put something else if you’re a heathen.

QUESTION 16

Q16.好きな亜内一族のヘアスタイルは？

“What is your favorite Payne Family Hairstyle?”

Options are:

Ace Attorney 1 and 2’s “73 hairs”

Ace Attorney 3’s full set of hair

Ace Attorney 4’s “hair only on the sides”

Ace Attorney 5 and 6’s Gaspen Payne Hair [idk what this actually says sorry]

The Great Ace Attorney 1’s chonmage

The Great Ace Attorney 2’s “sprout of hope”

Then you can put in a word about your feelings about the Paynes in the free response.

QUESTION 17

Q17.好きなBGMとその理由を教えて！

“Which is your favorite BGM and why?”

This is a free response so you’ll need to track down the song name itself… good luck with that. Then you can explain why in the free response section… even more good luck with that. The wiki does have the soundtracks of the games in English and Japanese, I believe, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find.

PLAYER MEMORIES SECTION

QUESTION 18

Q18.『逆転』シリーズで泣いたことはある？　それはどんな場面？(※何度も泣いた人は、もっとも泣いたシーンをお答えください)

“Have you ever cried during the Ace Attorney series? If so, at which scene? (* For people who have cried many times, pick the scene you cried at the most.)”

The first option is a “yes” or “no” for if you’ve cried or not.

The second option is again picking a case, which I don’t feel like writing out again, but it’s in the same order as in question 11. Then in the free response you write what scene you cried in with that case. You could try finding the dialogue - this thread https://forums.court-records.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29682 has a place to download the dual japanese and english scripts for most games except for aai2 and the great ace attorney games. For those ones... good luck.

QUESTION 19

Q19.開発してほしい『逆転裁判』グッズはある？(逆転裁判凡例つき六法全書とかなるほどくんのヘアワックス、考える人型の彫像時計など)※グッズ化が実現するわけではありません。

“Do you have any “Ace Attorney” merchandise you’d like us to develop? (Ace Attorney-themed law books, Phoenix Wright’s hair gel, a clock shaped like the Thinker statue, etc.) *This does not mean it will be made into merchandise”

This is a free response section, so good luck explaining, again.

And finally:

QUESTION 20

Q20.開発スタッフに向けて、お祝いのメッセージをお願いします。

“Give a congratulatory message to the development staff!”

If you don’t know what to put here, you can just copy and paste the following:

20周年おめでとうございます!

Which just says “Congratulations on the 20th anniversary!” I think. If I got it wrong, it’s hopefully not horrendously offensive. If you tried to type your answers and have no confidence in your Japanese, you can input “日本語は話せません”, “I don’t speak Japanese”, though they may have figured that out already.

And with that the survey is done and you can submit! We’ll see the results in October. Thanks for following along!

#ace attorney #this'll definitely be interesting. hope this is accurate!

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wardencommanderrodimiss · 6 years

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Byllshit Defense AU thought of the day:

So my ship of choice in this universe is Fran/Ema, but they end up having an on-off relationship through the seven year gap - they date from JFA era, when Fran is 18 and Ema is 17, for about 4 years. The last of those is long-distance while Ema is studying forensics abroad - because I feel like Japanifornia has 0 good forensics programs because it’s a garbage pit - and between distance, Ema dedicating herself to studying, and things imploding for Fran at the Prosecutor’s Office - UR-1 would be somewhere around here and once Simon and Athena are cleared but the Phantom has escaped, Fran dedicates every scrap of spare time she has to helping Simon try to track him down - it doesn’t work out for them. Ema comes home for a visit when Lana is released from prison and it’s during that time that she and Fran have a talk where they agree to end their relationship.

They stay friends, stay in touch, hang out whenever Ema comes home to visit, Fran is the shoulder to cry on when Ema fails her exam, and eventually Ema comes home for good, after that garbage with Phoenix and Kristoph comes to a head in April.

But then they’re both, like, not good at emotions and feelings and conversations thereof, they’re both closed off and stubborn on a good day, and so even now that Ema is back for good they just fuckig don’t have a conversation about where they’re going from here, whether to date again, they establish absolutely nothing, driving everyone else in the family/friend group crazy.

The first person to go “fuck this I’m doing something about this” is actually Klavier. He knows, by way of some complex series of events, that Ema has a heart next to Fran’s name in her phone contact list, which doesn’t really merit a huge notice until he also witnesses Fran and Ema interacting and how brutally awkward it is.

“What is it between you two anyway?” Klavier asks Franziska one day.

“None of your business, fool,” says Franziska, who might be friends with Klavier now but she hates discussing her personal life with anyone, up to and including her own brother.

“They dated for a while and ended it with everything still unresolved,” says Simon, who knows shit like this for everyone in the office but only cares about it to use for good and not evil for like four people.

“Who told you that?” asks Franziska.

“Assuming I needed anyone to tell me,” says Simon.

(Athena overheard a phone conversation between Franziska and Ema and she was just immediately like “there’s a lot of unresolved love and sadness between Ms von Karma and the other woman she’s talking to” and Simon filed that away and combined it with other pieces of information he knows and put it all together. Also, knowing Aura, he can spot a lesbian trainwreck when he sees it.)

So Klavier kind of wants to do something about this, as a favor to both Franziska and literally everyone else because this is getting painful for them all, it’s a bit of an obstacle to having a functioning Prosecutors Office friend group, and I honestly believe Klavier’s probably a hopeless romantic at heart, and also his own life, not to mention his love life, is a fucking mess so he’s gonna go meddle in someone else’s.

Phoenix learns of this via Trucy, when Klavier asks her about Ema and Fran, and immediately signs on. Part of it is simply that he loves Franziska and wants to help her out with this, and Ema is his friend as well, and the other part of it is that trying to facilitate an honest conversation about feelings between Fran and Ema is an excellent way for Phoenix to avoid having an honest conversation about feelings with Miles.

Trucy joins the team because she thinks Aunt Fran and Ema are cute together, and rounding out the main conspirators is Pearl, the hopeless romantic.

Miles comes into his office one day and finds Phoenix sprawled on the couch, Klavier on the floor, Pearl on the back of the couch, and Trucy with a poster board and an easel. “What is going on?” Miles asks. “Why is there a prosecutor here - why is Prosecutor Gavin here?”

“I’m here to hook your sister back up with her ex-girlfriend,” Klavier says.

Trucy at the easel gestures to the heading she has put down on the page, reading “the 17 point plan to get Ema and Fran back together or at least have them talk about their feelings even if at the end they decide maybe to not get back together”.

“I’m going home,” Miles says.

The rest of the family/friend group fractures into the following camps:

Team Stop Meddling and Let Them Sort It Out Themselves: Mia, Lana, Gregory, Misty, Miles

Team Shippers On Deck: Athena, Maya, Ray, Larry, Kay

Team What Is Happening: Apollo, Sebastian

Team Just Here To Watch The Shitshow When The Girls Find Out What You’re Doing: Diego, Simon

#bullshit defense au #long post #sorry am on mobile no breaks just text

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reaganwarren · 7 years

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A/N: Greg Lives AU even though I was gonna take a break because . . . god I want to write about Franziska helping Edgeworth get his ears pierced.

“Are you absolutely sure this is how you’re supposed to do it?” Miles asked, twenty-years-old and sitting in his mentor’s kitchen and watching a thirteen-year-old Franziska von Karma sterlize a sewing needle with a lighter she had found somewhere. Where did she get that, anyway?

“Absolutely,” Franziska said.

“. . . There’s not a piercing parlor or something?”

“Don’t worry, I’ll do it perfectly,” Franziska said.

“. . . I change my mind. I don’t want to.”

“Awww, c’mon. It’s just a little needle. And you’re the one who let enough time pass that Phoenix Wright went and got another significant other.”

Miles glared at her.

“I didn’t let time pass me by, I was busy being mentored by your father and trying to meet his expectations! I’m graduating an entire year ahead of schedule! That takes effort!”

“Excuses, excuses. Now, do you want to catch Phoenix Wright’s eye or not?”

Edgeworth stared at the needle in Franziska’s hand, now hot from the flame and probably not germ-infested as a result.

He thought back to the days of Diego Armando and the current days of Dahlia Hawthorne.

Both of them had pierced ears, though they didn’t seem to have much else in common from afar. Other than the fact that they seemed to take up a lot of Phoenix’s time - which neither of them had a lot of anymore, since Phoenix switched majors and Miles had Von Karma to impress. And with Dahlia being Phoenix’s girlfriend, now Phoenix had even less time.

It didn’t help that Phoenix and Miles tended to just keep getting on each other’s cases whenever they’d see each other these days.

Phoenix wouldn’t stop telling Miles to talk to his father, “you haven’t called him in months,” “why didn’t you go home for break” - the incessant nagging made the short periods of time they did spend together very annoying.

Granted, those were the times when Phoenix’s back pain wasn’t so bad that he was actually able to speak in anything other than pained sobbing.... It was a bit easier to think of the annoying conversations that the days where Miles spent most of the visit with Phoenix helping him inject his pain medication and holding him until he was able to stop crying, distracting him with talk of his life that Phoenix wasn’t privy to.

He hated seeing Phoenix being in so much pain.

It was all that damn Diego Armando’s fault.... It may have been Redd White who had shoved him, but Phoenix wouldn’t have been there if it wasn’t for Armando.

The anger burned in his stomach and fueled him when he was exhausted and stressed out to the max while trying to handle too many credit hours at a time in order to get ahead, in order to meet Von Karma’s expectations of him.

“If you want to be a prosecutor who can handle criminals on the level of Dracona Wright, then you have to be the best.” Von Karma told him this so often, it felt like it was every day. It was becoming a mantra between them. Something that kept him focused on his goal, even when he wanted to sleep an extra hour instead of waking up early. Even when he wanted to “accidentally” miss a boxing lesson with Von Karma. It motivated him to drink that nasty coffee instead, it motivated him to not just go to Von Karma’s boxing sessions but be early for them. It motivated him to stay on top of his classes and homework, even when it felt like it might be killing him.

The longer he kept this up, the less time there was for anything else.

He simply . . . had to prioritize which people he wanted to keep in contact with as he worked to be the best prosecutor he could be.

He made time for Phoenix, when Phoenix was able. He made time for Larry, who would officially be a member of the police force around the same time Miles would be graduating. Larry fully intended to be an officer Miles would be working with closely as a prosecutor. He ended up making time for Franziska since she lived with Von Karma when she wasn’t back in Germany, where she was already poised to become a prosecutor herself.

There just . . . wasn’t any time for his father. Especially since, at first, Miles had refused to speak to him when he learned he had hired Mia Fey at Edgeworth and Co.

He hadn’t talked - or even looked - at Raymond Shields in two years. He sometimes felt like he was still angry, but the rest of the time, he just didn’t have the time or energy to even attempt to reconnect.

There just wasn’t any time these days. Miles kept telling himself this. And it was true. He swore on it.

Even if there was an inextinguishable anger burning inside him, that wasn’t why. There just wasn’t any time for it.

He promised.

“If you’re sure this is how you’re supposed to do it,” Miles said, “then all right.”

Franziska smiled, then came closer to Miles and poised the needle right against his earlobe.

Miles’s grip on the chair he was sitting in tightened, and he squeezed his eyes shut.

The clack of a familiar set of heeled shoes could be heard entering the kitchen right as Edgeworth started to feel the tip of the needle against his earlobe.

“What are you two doing?” Von Karma asked as he walked into the room.

Miles opened his eyes, taking in Von Karma’s raised eyebrow.

“Piercing Miles Edgeworth’s ears,” Franziska said, taking the needle away from his earlobe.

Miles let out the breath he didn’t realize he was holding.

“Mr. Edgeworth, you’re aware they are parlors for that kind of thing, aren’t you?” Von Karma asked, a glint of . . . something in his eyes. Was he making fun of him?

“Papa!”

“I knew it! I knew you were lying!”

“You don’t need one of them when I’m perfectly good at piercing ears myself! I pierced Kay Faraday’s just fine!”

“And her father threatened to sue,” Von Karma said. “No amateur ear piercings under this roof, young lady.”

Franziska pouted. Miles breathed a sigh.

“Papa, take us to the parlor! Miles Edgeworth needs pierced ears!”

“I don’t need them, you merely made a good argument for them,” Miles said.

Von Karma watched the two of them for a long moment, seeming to consider the proposal.

“We’ll call to see if there’s an opening at Franziska’s parlor. If they do, then we’ll go.”

Franziska grinned with as much smugness a thirteen-year-old could possibly contain. Miles’s eyes widened in surprise.

“You’re - you’re really going to take me to get my ears pierced?” Miles asked.

“Consider it a reward for working so hard,” Von Karma said, not even looking at Miles as he dialed the number for Franziska’s parlor.

Miles didn’t know what to think about that. And he still wasn’t sure what to think even as they got in the car and Von Karma drove them to the parlor.

It was a lot less painful in the parlor than Miles had been anticipating it’d be when Franziska was prepping to pierce his earlobe with a hot needle. And the gold balls that would be his earrings for the first six months until his follow-up appointment went with the color of his suit.

Miles had pulled out his wallet, but Von Karma was faster.

“Sir - !”

“Don’t worry about it. You’re my pupil after all.”

The kindness was . . . odd. But this did mean that Miles now had money to spend on something else. Like food.

Miles caught himself checking the earrings every so often in whatever reflective surfaces he happened to come across. Now that he had them, he was actually surprised by how much he liked them.

He also kept imagining Phoenix’s face when he’d see them when they met up again.

He tried not to let his imagination run away from him, but the happiest day dreams involved him breaking up with that Dahlia Hawthorne on the spot for no reason other than Miles with ear piercings being hotter than her everything.

Miles of course also noted that Von Karma also had pierced ears. He always wore rounded blue sapphires encased in a silver-colored metal. While Miles had always known that Von Karma had worn them, now that he had his own ears pierced, he was now curious about it.

He didn’t ask right away. He waited a few days, until they were alone in Von Karma’s office. Miles set a stack of papers he had been asked to fetch on Von Karma’s desk. The sunset spilled in from the window.

“Prosecutor Von Karma?”

“Yes, Mr. Edgeworth?”

“What made you want to pierce your ears?”

Von Karma raised an eyebrow at him, barely looking up from his paperwork.

“What makes you want to know?”

“. . . Perhaps it’s a silly question. I don’t know a lot about Europe, but . . . here it’s seen as . . . odd. Men wearing earrings without there being a specific reason is a more recent development, isn’t it?”

Von Karma snorted, then continued looking at his paperwork.

“You’re actually correct. There was a sub-culture reason I got my ears pierced.”

Miles waited. Von Karma didn’t elaborate. Miles then turned to go back to where he had been sitting and working.

“It may not be a good idea to hold out for your little college friend to recognize your affections,” Von Karma said abruptly.

Miles froze in place, then turned around to look at Von Karma.

Von Karma looked up from his paperwork.

“Men like that never see what’s in front of them. It won’t be until you’re unavailable that he’ll even notice. It’s better to not let someone like that control your life.”

Von Karma then looked back at his papers. Miles stared at him, his heart pounding hard in his chest.

“But do what you will. It may not matter, if you do not choose to continue your genetic line. Perfection doesn’t require someone to be hanging off your arm.”

Miles chose not to verbally acknowledge. He sat back down at his desk and got back to work.

Once his shift ended, he went back to the college campus. He was halfway across the quad to his dorm room when he heard someone calling his name.

“Hey! Miles!”

Miles stopped and turned around.

It was Phoenix.

He steadily made his way towards Miles with his walker. Miles could move faster and met him a little more than halfway.

“What’re you doing out here so late?” Phoenix asked.

“I could ask you the same question.”

“I was studying at the library, then realized I wasn’t moving fast enough to get back to the dorm before it got too late. And I have that super early class in the morning.”

“I guess that means you’re not sleeping any better.”

“Not really. I might have to ask the doctor to up the pain med dosage. Again. I kinda don’t want to ask again, though, ‘cause I’m sick of sounding like a damn addict.”

“. . . I’m sorry.”

Phoenix shrugged. “It’s fine.... Hey, wait a minute.... Did you get your ears pierced?”

Miles was standing under a street lamp now. The gold earrings glinted in the light. He blushed a little.

“Yes, I did. Franziska von Karma wouldn’t leave me alone until I agreed.”

Phoenix smiled at him.

“It looks real good.”

“Really? You think so?”

“Yeah! They’re the starter set, right? How much longer until you can put in whatever you want?”

“Still a few months. I’ve only had them for about a week now.”

“Oooooh. Next you’ll be dying your hair crazy colors.”

“I will not,” Miles said.

“Heehee. I think it’d look good, actually.”

“. . . Y-you do?”

“Yeah, it’d look pretty cool. Miles Edgeworth the Punk Prosecutor, hahaha.”

Phoenix grinned at him.

Miles’s heart soared.

He didn’t care what Von Karma said. Phoenix was beautiful. There was no one else Miles ever wanted to be with, even if it was only ever as friends.

“Let me walk you to your dorm,” Miles said.

“Thanks. I appreciate it.”

“How is Kay Faraday doing?” Miles asked. “I haven’t seen her since her dad’s funeral.”

“I actually haven’t seen her since then, either. Her mom’s family doesn’t really bring her around. They don’t exactly think a cripple can be a babysitter.”

“Don’t use that word,” Miles said.

“I’ll use whatever damn word I want,” Phoenix said, but Miles knew that Phoenix hated the word. He really only used it in a self-depreciating way or when he was angry. Usually angry at the very people who would use that word as a weapon against him. “.... Sorry.”

“It’s fine. I’m not upset.”

“I know, I . . . I shouldn’t have snapped. You’re just looking out for me.”

“It’s fine.”

“. . . Are you happy? Working for Von Karma?” Phoenix asked.

“. . . Yes. Yes I am. He’s strict, but he’s really helped me. As soon as I graduate, there’s a position in the prosecutor’s office for me.”

“That’s . . . really great, Miles. Definitely more than what I can say right now. But I’m pretty sure there’s one place that’ll hire me once I pass the bar.”

“That’s good. Which office were you thinking of?”

“Well, there’s always your dad’s.”

Miles frowned. For a while all that was heard was their footsteps and the metal clacking of Phoenix’s walker.

“Will that really be okay? Working there? With Mia Fey?” Miles asked.

Phoenix gave a long-suffering sigh.

“I happen to like her,” Phoenix said. “She’s a good person. And a good defense attorney. She’s been giving me a lot of good advice, since you’re not really around much to give it to me instead.”

Miles frowned.

“That’s not my fault.”

“I know.”

“. . . Just be careful. Okay?”

“I will be if you are.”

“I will. I am.”

They reached Phoenix’s new dorm building, stopping just short of the elevator.

“Well, I’ll see you around. Think you’ll be free for tea or something this weekend? Dollie has some new tea leaves I actually think you’ll like.”

“. . . There’s an important case Prosecutor Von Karma is working on and needs my help with. I’m afraid I can’t this time around.... Maybe next weekend?”

“You’re the one with full weekends, not me. Come by whenever you’re free, okay?”

“Right. Yes. I will.... Good night, Phoenix.”

“’Night, Miles.”

Phoenix entered the elevator, then the doors closed behind him.

Miles stood there for a moment, then went back out into the dark to head to his dorm room. His roommate was already asleep in his bed. The strap on Miles’s bag suddenly snapped, and Miles bent down to re-gather his stuff.

In the moonlight, the package of razors caught his eye. He moved his hand and grabbed it.

He stared at Phoenix’s unopened packet of razor blades in the palm of his hand. They were meant for exacto knives, the kind that one would use for the set design class. Miles wasn’t really sure what they used them for exactly, but they were also used for a variety of the more creative art classes.

He did know that Phoenix had used them for something else entirely, but he wondered if Phoenix had been continuing his art as electives or if he had given it up entirely.

He didn’t understand why Phoenix had decided to go into law instead. Or why he had chosen the defense attorney track. He didn’t understand at all.

But they really hadn’t had the chance to ask each other why they were doing what they were doing.

Without really thinking about it, Miles put the razor blades into his bag, then set his bag in his desk chair before getting ready for bed.

#ace attorney #greg lives au #miles edgeworth #manfred von karma #franziska von karma #phoenix wright

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So I said this in the tags of my last post, but then I went wacky and doodled up some pages of this other AU idea that stemmed from the idea of that comic I did

In this AU, Miles goes to Diego Armando’s office a few weeks after the Fawles trial. There is no cocky, arrogant, or smug air about him like there was during the trial and instead he seems really shaken and nervous. Diego’s like “hey what’s wrong?” And Miles is quiet but then says that he needs help. He tells Diego that he can’t get the image of Fawles’s suicide out of his head and that he has no one he can talk to about this. Diego asks about Miles’s mentor, but Miles says that there’s absolutely no way he could ever go to his mentor for help with emotional stuff because it would show “weakness” and he also isn’t comfortable with von Karma. To make a long story short (because I’ve thought so much about this), Miles ends up pleading with Diego to protect him from von Karma just in case he goes after him for switching sides to be a defense attorney. He knows that von Karma will see him as weak and a traitor for switching teams after a single case, but Miles can’t be someone he’s not. Diego points out that Miles seems to be trying to be who von Karma wanted him to be. So he asks Miles what he wants to be, and Miles responds by saying he wants to be his dad (just like in my 1985 animatic 😭).

So Miles decides to renounce prosecution. He rips off his cravat and throws it in the garbage in Diego’s office and declares that he’ll become a defense attorney. He also asks Diego is he could be his mentor to help him in both being better at defense law and also just being better with interacting with people.

He joins the Grossberg Law Offices and works alongside Mia and Diego to gather evidence on Dahlia Hawthorne, as he now too believes that she has done terrible things.

After Diego is poisoned, Miles freaks out because people just keep dying or getting hurt around him and it scares him. (Oh…baby boy just wait until Mia dies too-)

He takes the case to defend Phoenix, gets TERRIFIED when Phoenix eats the poison necklace, and then at the end, Phoenix was like “oh wow! You’re a defense attorney now?? Lmao when did that happen??” Bc he had been too busy simping over Dahlia. But Miles tells him that he should still pursue law so that they could work together and also so that Phoenix’s law classes and studying wouldn’t have gone to waste. So Phoenix becomes a lawyer and works with Miles and Mia at the Fey & Co Law Offices until she dies and then it becomes Edgeworth & Co Law Offices because he had been a lawyer for longer.

I like the idea that in this AU, Phoenix and Miles obviously have huge crushes on each other, but these idiots still refuse to acknowledge or admit it <3

Also :((( when Diego wakes up, he still goes on his whole antagonist arc as Godot, and Miles refuses to tell Phoenix the truth about who he is. See, I also like the idea that in this AU, Nick and Miles are still as cagey with their past and truths as they are in normal AA

As you can see, I am perfectly normal !! I think about ace attorney a very normal amount!! 🤭

#doctorsiren #ace attorney #ace attorney au #miles edgeworth #diego armando #mia fey #phoenix wright #feenie #bratworth #narumitsu #wrightworth #prosecutor godot #maya fey #iris fey #franziska von karma #defenseworth au #ace attorney fanart #doodle pages #art #digital art #my art #fanart #procreate #what should I call this AU??? for some reason i can come up with really good ones for other fandoms but I have a hard time with AA AU names #I mean one of my AUs is literally called ‘silly little monster AU’ soooo #he looks way too much like Milo Thatch /pos #I AM NORMAL!!! HEHEHE #dude how many AUs have I made in the past few days?? like 4 counting this one? and not counting SLM AU bc that started a month ago #for funsies!! we can combine this AU and the Godot AU I made and so everyone can be happy!!!! 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥#<- I live in a constant state of denial /j

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