#murders and bridges and disbarments oh my!!
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okay re your last post im curious now so: top 5 insane phoenix moments 👁👁
oh no. what have u unleashed girl helNUMERO UNO not necessarily his most insane, but my personal favourite--him going through an ‘all prosecutors are terrible people’ arc in aa2 purely because he’s projecting his fucked up emotions about edgeworth killing himself after the combination of 1-4 and 1-5 events. like he was so heartbroken over his not-boyfriend dipping on him like that that he decided to paint all prosecutors w the same brush of betrayal, and enter his manic widow era (boos from the crowd over me using that turn of phrase AGAIN like sorry that it’s literally Him in aa2) he’s such a zero-sum fucker i love him
second fave insane phoenix wright moment would be pulling an elle woods and going to law school for a man. but he actually pulled an elle woods on crack, because: edgeworth was never his boyfriend, phoenix was already in college studying something we can only assume he was good at, and his decision was made just because he saw a picture of his not-boyfriend looking a little bit sad in the newspaper. like ?????????
third fave is what ive already talked about in my last ask, ie how codependent he is and how he’ll fall into depressive episodes if there’s not someone around to keep him busy and occupied
fourth fave is whatever the fuck he had going on in aa4. a lot of fans like to say beanix was mostly an act but i dont think it was, because in the sections in 4-4 (lots of fours going on here this wasn’t intentional i promise) where we played as him his behaviour was very congruent with the internal monologue we got to see, like there was literally no persona going on. i think after he got disbarred he was just like, oh word? i can fully lean into how much of a cunt i am now??? and went wild with it, because trilogy phoenix, while being a bitch, mostly kept this entirely to himself and still tried to seem Normal to others, probably because he needed people to take him seriously (i’m holding back laughter rn because whoooooo in the trilogy actually did take him seriously LOL). meanwhile beanix had none of this baggage thanks to being a disgraced disbarred ex-lawyer <3
fifth fave is eating glass to try and protect his girlfriend from being convicted of murder like jesus fucking christ dude. phoenix learned the phrase “ride or die” and was like ok is anyone actually gonna take this literally and then didnt wait for an answer. (him running over a burning bridge to save maya from a potential murderer on the loose is also in this category)
aaaaaand an honourable mention to how much of a doormat he is. and also how indestructible he is. and--[i am forcibly removed from the stage]
#astri thank u. i love thinking about my fave guy sooooo much#phoenix#asks#ace attorney#phoenix wright#<-some general tags for the good people of tumblr
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[ aa ] everything stays / but it still changes 🍃
#mine#narumitsu#pwaa#phoenix wright#miles edgeworth#naruhodou ryuuichi#mitsurugi reiji#their relationships to law and their relationships to each other go through such dramatic changes over their lives#so its nice to think about the things that stayed!#little moments like these came so naturally when they were children#but to obtain that same moments as adults... theyve just been thru so much ykno??#murders and bridges and disbarments oh my!!#but despite everything#they worked so hard to become close#and thats really important to me :D#also i idly doodled the dinosaur on phoenix's shirt but im a little obsessed with it HLJGKD#OH and initially miles' top and phoenix's pants were going to be matching like they were sharing a pyjama set#but in the end i couldnt get the colours to balance like that :( so just imagine it!!!
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Spinning Out
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He finds out from the news. It isn’t even him who sees it first; they’re in a hotel somewhere in Canada, not far off the Atlantic Ocean, all still overstimulated from the concert that afternoon which ended an hour ago. The last vestiges of caffeine have yet to work themselves out of Klavier’s system and he’s doing laps around the room while Daryan throws things at him when in a voice unusually subdued his best friend says, “Hey, Klav, have you checked the news?”
“Early this morning; what about?” he asks, and that was the last moment that his life was normal, inasmuch as his life was ever normal, which it wasn’t. But this – this was the second before he hit the ground. Icarus, golden child, a cliche; he flew away from a cage to chase the light but the only thing there to catch him were the broiling waves.
Daryan puts his tablet into his hands and the body of text blurs as he scrolls back up to the headline. He catches Gavin in the text, wonders what he’s done; when he reaches the top he sees that it’s a local Los Angeles paper that isn’t a tabloid. The other Gavin, then, doing as he does, and Klavier doesn’t need his friends pushing his brother’s shadow back down on him.
The headlining act, bold letters: Defense Attorney Kristoph Gavin Arrested for Murder.
Klavier sits down on the floor.
A damning lede: Kristoph Gavin was arrested at the district courthouse this morning on charges of committing murder in the early hours of the morning Friday, and the details, always the devil in the details, it goes on, it continues, like a sick joke taken just too far to be funny. Mr. Gavin, 32, was at the courthouse to assist as co-counsel to the lead defense attorney for the case, Apollo Justice, 22, a junior partner at Mr. Gavin’s firm. Over the course of the trial, the details which came to light pointed to the innocence of their client, but a far more likely culprit in the defense attorney himself.
He closes his eyes. Did Kristoph keep his frightening calm even as the jaws of the law closed in around him? Was he calm when he murdered another person, too, or was it spur-of-the-moment, a most dire expression of the rage that Klavier has always believed his brother harbors within him.
The court record suggests that Mr. Justice’s position as the lead defense was a last-minute switch as requested by the defendant, Phoenix Wright…
The tablet slips from his hands and he thinks to just leave it on the floor and himself leave, run away from it all, but he can’t ignore the growing sick feeling in his stomach, nor that name.
Mr. Wright, 33, was formerly known as a defense attorney of some renown before his disgrace almost exactly seven years ago, in which he was found guilty of presenting forged evidence in a trial and was subsequently disbarred.
They don’t mention that it was Kristoph Gavin’s own brother who caught Wright in the act of such. And no one knows that it was Kris who had that information to begin with. Did Wright find that out and frame him as revenge?
Still becoming public is what exactly is the evidence which placed such suspicion on Mr. Gavin.
Why wasn’t his first thought that Kris was framed? Why wasn’t his first thought denial? Why, until he saw Wright’s name, was he willing to accept it?
Further details about the victim as well are not yet known; the police gave his name as Shadi Smith, of unknown age.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
“I have to go back,” Klavier says, eyes closed again so he can’t see the look that Daryan must be giving him, pity and concern and now disappointment, surely, as he goes on to drag him out of the sky with him. He drops the tablet on the floor and stands, pressing his hand over his eyes, suddenly feeling the crash from the caffeine. “I need to go.”
“Right now?” Daryan asks. “Seriously, dude?”
“Now, or tomorrow, I have to – tickets, tickets, cancel everything, refunds, I won’t be mad if you and the guys find a singer and go as the Gavinners Without Gavin but we’re not fucking charging people for that, I’m bailing I’m sorry—”
“Why don’t you not do anything until later, or tomorrow?” Daryan says, which is a good idea, which means that in this exact moment Klavier does not want to hear it. “Because you’re seriously just going to drop us, and everything, because—”
“Because my own brother fucking murdered a man, yes, I am!” He believes it. Why does he believe it? Wright is involved; it can’t be legitimate. Wright isn’t allowed to be legitimate because that only fucks up everything more than it already is. “Because I’m a prosecutor and my brother is a defense attorney and murdered a man!”
“At least wait for the evidence, dumbass,” Daryan says, and Klavier stops at the door, realizing he’s right, wondering if the two in the room next door have already heard him yelling.
“I – you’re right, technically, but—”
“No, just stop there.” Klavier turns around, back against the door, watching as Daryan retrieves his tablet and sets it on the table. “I’m right, no technicalities. Wait.”
“I can’t wait.” Tomorrow, the trial is going to be tomorrow, won’t it? Planes back to LA aren’t in short supply, and he’ll gain back four hours crossing time zones. He could be there for a 10 am trial start. “If he’s being falsely accused, framed, I have to go help him. If he – if he—”
“If he really fucking just went and ganked some rando—”
“Then I – then my brother’s a murderer and I can’t just go on like nothing happened—”
Like the world hasn’t fallen out from beneath his feet.
“Sure you can,” Daryan says, far too blaise, and Klavier wants to scream at him. “When’s the last time you talked to Kris? What’s he done for you lately?”
When was the last time he talked to Kris? He doesn’t know – he doesn’t know. They don’t keep in touch; he doesn’t keep Kristoph updated on where in the world he is traveling now. They used to text daily while Klavier was studying in Germany. Kris was the first person who heard that Klavier had passed the bar and gotten his badge. They’re brothers but they were friends. It was why he didn’t question the information he got about the Gramarye trial. It was from Kristoph; of course Kristoph is a reliable source.
After, though – after, the lack of verdict haunting him, that was when he started to wonder. Of course Wright forged the evidence; unquestionable. That has to be true. Klavier needs it to be true. But why, how, did Kristoph know? And it was like he read Klavier’s mind, knew his doubts – and that old bridge between them he thought so sturdy burned instead. Which one of them struck the match?
“He’s still my brother,” Klavier says. He slides back down to the floor. Daryan is flopped on one of the beds, hanging half over the edge, looking over to Klavier.
“What’re you gonna do? You’re a prosecutor. You’re not just gonna march in there and demand to prosecute your own brother?”
“No; I wouldn’t make it back in time.”
“And, oh, maybe a billion other reasons why that’s not gonna work,” Daryan says.
He’s right, again. No one would trust Klavier not to have some sort of bias if he went in and insisted on prosecuting Kristoph’s case. If he was assigned, fine; he could try and be objective. But to actively seek that out -- no, they would think one way or another, he wanted to tilt the verdict.
“I… I just have to go back.” He doesn’t have a good reason. It’s a flight of fancy to think there is anything he could do, but in his heart he knows he needs to go back. “I need to. I’m going.”
Daryan seems to realize that he’s talking to a wall. “Sure, but two things. First, wait for some fuckin’ evidence before you start making calls, and two, you’re on your own when you do.”
“What?” Maybe if his head weren’t spinning he could figure out what Daryan was referring to.
“I mean, telling the other guys, telling the fans, fucking up everything – I’m not taking the heat for you on this one.”
“I wouldn’t expect you to.” They’re both silent. Sometimes they can say things in the silence but right now Klavier feels like he is looking at his best friend through a haze. “I’m sorry,” he adds. Daryan says nothing. “I’m sorry, but I—”
“Yeah, yeah, don’t start the self-flagellation.” Daryan rolls over so that he’s staring at Klavier upside-down. “I’m pissed at you but I’ll get over it. Save it for everyone else.”
“He’s my brother. I have to go.”
“Dude.” Daryan’s hands start moving around, patting the bed, like he’s looking for something to throw. “I said, save it. We’re not cool but we will be.
“Thanks.”
It feels weak, given the situation, but he doesn’t know what more to add. Daryan topples off the bed, grabs a pillow that was on the floor, and hurls it at Klavier. When Klavier gets it out of his face, he is grinning. “So if I got arrested you’d drop everything and come running too, right?”
Klavier rolls his eyes and tosses the pillow back. It does not reach Daryan. “You won’t because where are you that I’m not there to stop you doing dumb shit?”
“Well, maybe while the rest of you are hoofing it across the pond for some leg of a tour—”
“Nobody says ‘across the pond’.”
“Oh, you’re one to talk about people ‘saying things’, you fake Eurotrash piece of shit.”
Klavier laughs, and Daryan does as well, and for the briefest of moments, he can forget. Daryan is the one who sobers first. “It’s like, a week left this part of the tour. Wait that long, at least.”
He’ll still have to cancel everything down the line, starting with June, but just a week is –
— enough time for a sentencing.
“I don’t know.” Klavier pushes himself back onto his feet. “I… we should probably talk about this as a whole band.”
“Group meeting about what to do about Gavin’s douchebag brother!” Daryan yells at the wall. Klavier steps forward and grabs the pillow and swings.
He agrees to stick out the week, faced with the full pressure of the rest of his bandmates, which he starts to regret as the news articles updates and the evidence against Kristoph reads thin, even for an article for the layman concerned more with informing the public that he did it than explaining in depth how that conclusion was reached. He drafts an email to the Chief Prosecutor and then tables it. He drafts an email to the band’s manager and publicist and tables it, then sends it ten minutes later. He writes, rewrites, and rewrites again a tweet before deleting it. Daryan watches him, faintly bemused.
“Dude,” he says, “you don’t gotta… rehearse and re-rehearse every single fucking little thing. You’re so…” He trails off, searching for a word.
“Don’t you dare say ‘anal’.”
“Real mature, Prosecutor Gavin.”
“You happen to be laughing as well, Detective Crescend.”
“Perfectionist,” Daryan says, throwing a pen at Klavier. He has no idea where that pen came from. “Micromanaging stick-in-the-mud.”
“Maybe I should make it a video announcement,” Klavier says. “More personal, more genuine an apology. Family emergency, gotta put the breaks on the tour—”
“Family emergency, my brother’s a headass.”
“—because my brother’s a tire fire and I have to go back to LA—”
“An absolute shithead.”
“Quite the douchenozzle. Quite the nozzle of a douche.”
“I can’t believe you write our lyrics.”
It makes him feel a little better, for a moment, like he’s trying to stop the rush of blood from a bullet hole with a cork. It’s not going to work but it’s the right shape to give him the impression of helping. His heart is hemorrhaging on the floor of some shitty Russian dive and calling his brother an asshole is an asprin for the internal bleeding.
He doesn’t even know what the fuck borscht is.
He googles it.
Wait, he does, actually. He had it or something like it in Borginia.
“Get a grip, Gavin,” Daryan says, leaning over his shoulder and looking at what the laptop screen now displays.
“I have a grip.” And he does, but in a way that his life is spinning out of control so fast that rather than breaking free of his hands it has pulled him, clinging to the last vestiges of control, along into the vortex. He goes back to his email. It’s been seven minutes since he emailed his manager. That’s enough of a warning before he puts in a call. “I’ll do the video,” Klavier says. The Gavinners have a social media manager as well, but Klavier has always liked taking pictures and video and dumping them online himself. He should probably at least put in a warning before he does this time. “Once I make these calls.” He made a list. He’s already misplaced the paper.
“You want me to start drafting your note cards?” Daryan asks, ducking under the desk and retrieving for Klavier the sheet.
“I’m not writing fucking note cards. I can speak off-the-cuff.” He wouldn’t be a prosecutor if he couldn’t.
Daryan raises an eyebrow. “Shit, dude, you’re not gonna meticulously overplan your big public apology? You’re more fucked up right now than I thought.”
Klavier flips him off as he leaves for an empty conference room. He shuts himself inside to put in the calls, one by one, to everyone who keep the wheels greased, everyone behind the scenes who are about to find themselves in free-fall – and while he’s on the phone having hard conversations he could make one more. He’s a prosecutor. He wouldn’t have to pull many strings to get through to—
No, no. He’ll wait for him to call.
(Kris never does.)
#ace attorney#klavier gavin#ace attorney bullshit tag#SURPRISE IT'S A FIC NO ONE ASKED FOR#roddy fanfics
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YOUR FAVOURITE...?
1. Favourite Ace Attorney game?
-> i'm stuck bw justice for all and spirit of justice tbh
2. Favourite case?
-> bridge to the turnabout oh god the feels
3. Favourite defendant?
-> aside from my bbs (maya, trucy, and athena), imma say... lana skye
4. Favourite prosecutor?
-> franziska von karma will always be my baby
5. Favourite ship?
-> p sure i be shipping maya/nick for all eternity. and i'm into franziska/adrian (bc idek huhuhu) and athena/trucy (T HA T DLC CA SE TH OO B I TCH THE Y MAG IC SHH OWS AR E DAT ES)
6. Favourite victim?
-> yo bruh, the circumstances behind metis cykes' death is fuckin sad i hate everything. also, tahrust inmee ;_;
7. Favourite murderer?
-> GODOT [ugly sobbing]
8. Favourite assistant?
-> bruh you can't make me choose frm my babies ;_; but athena is my adorable sunshine so imma go w her
9. Favourite witness?
-> adrian andrews is my presh baby ;_;
10. Favourite quote?
-> IN JUSTICE WE TRUST
YOUR LEAST FAVOURITE...?
11. Least favourite Ace Attorney game?
-> apollo justice oops
12. Least favourite case?
-> honestly tho, i can barely remember shit from aj so s'probably somewhere there
13. Least favourite defendant?
-> well, fuck you, matt engarde
14. Least favourite prosecutor?
-> annoyed @ klavier and nahyuta tbh (but at least nahyuta redeemed himself at the end)
15. Least favourite ship?
-> KLEMA OH GOD. PLS DONT SHIP MY PRECIOUS SINNAMON ROLL W THE BLING-LOVING EUROPHILE GAWD
16. Least favourite victim?
-> hmmm idek im kinda indifferent w other victims tbfh
17. Least favourite murderer?
-> bruh prof means just creeps me tf out. and i wanna grab luke atmey's nose, that slimy bastard
18. Least favourite assistant?
-> lol no
19. Least favourite witness?
-> that box chick from dual destinies
20. Least favourite memory of Ace Attorney?
-> blah i aint sure
DO YOU PREFER...?
21. Phoenix Wright or Apollo Justice?
-> P H O E N I X W R I G H T
22. Maya Fey or Trucy Wright?
-> YOU CANT MAKE ME CHOOSE BETWEEN MY BABIES
23. Investigations or trials?
-> Trials
24. College Phoenix or Hobo Phoenix?
-> Hobo Phoenix is just a chill dude, I wanna hang out w him
25. Klavier Gavin or Kristoph Gavin?
-> annoyed at both, but meh... klavier i guess
26. Ace Attorney or Ace Attorney Investigations?
-> ace attorney
27. Apollo's perceive, Phoenix's magatama or Athena's Mood Matrix?
-> athena's mood matrix
28. Ace Attorney trilogy or Apollo Justice and Dual Destinies?
-> trilogy!!
29. 3D models or sprites?
-> idek i like em both
30. Ema Skye as she is in Rise from the Ashes or Ema Skye as she is in Apollo Justice?
-> EMA FREAKIN SKYE AS SHE IS IN SPIRIT OF JUSTICE
MISCELLANEOUS
31. Did you like what they did to Phoenix in Apollo Justice?
-> tbh, no. tf do they have to disbar nick? and if they rly hafta disbar him, 7 fuckin years is a fuckin long time. idek, i just... he couldve been a much more legendary lawyer if it wasnt for the 7 years wasted
32. Your opinion on Dai Gyakuten Saiban?
-> havent played it yet... maybe in the future tho
33. Do you think Dai Gyakuten Saiban and/or Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2 will get localised to the West?
-> hope so, tho.
34. Do you think Miles Edgeworth should get another Investigation-game or do you think another character deserves a spin-off?
-> ok look, i like miles and all but if there's gonna be another investigation-game, can it be w franziska instead tho?
35. Opinion on the soundtrack of the Ace Attorney-franchise?
-> bruh i love that shit
36. Do you like where the franchise is heading or did you prefer the atmosphere in the original trilogy?
-> i like how darker the recent games are compared to the original trilogy tbh
37. Capcom suddenly announces that Phoenix will no longer appear in the Ace Attorney franchise! Your reaction?
-> FUCK THIS FUCK OFF FUCK YOU [cries]
38. Capcom suddenly announces that the Ace Attorney franchise has ended for good! Your reaction?
-> FUCK THIS FUCK OFF FUCK YOU [cries]
39. Would you like there to be another Ace Attorney/Professor Layton crossover game?
-> meh havent played the crossover yet so idek but if it has fuckloads of nick/maya, then ok
40. Would you like an Ace Attorney anime?
-> actually enjoyed the anime tbh but couldve used more fillers tho :(
41. Opinion on anime cutscenes in Ace Attorney?
-> FUCKIN. LOVE. IT.
42. Would you want to play an Ace Attorney game where you take on the prosecutors role?
-> HELL YES.
43. Do you like having DLC in Ace Attorney-games?
-> since i dont have a 3ds, i just be watching youtube for playthrough so idc
44. Opinion on Lamiroir’s storyline?
-> bruh, when they gonna tell apollo and trucy they sibs?
45. One thing you think the Ace Attorney games can improve on?
-> hm, cant think of anything rn?
46. Capcom suddenly announces an Ace Attorney movie! Would you like it to be based on an already existing case or would you like an all new storyline?
-> i'm cool w both tbh
47. Capcom suddenly announces an Ace Attorney movie! Would you prefer it being live-action, 3D animated or 2D animated?
-> 2d animated bc as much as i enjoyed the live action movie, i didnt enjoyed it as much as the anime. and idek abt 3d but if my bbs are pretty in 3d.... then i'm good.
48. If there could be an Ace Attorney crossover with whatever franchise you'd like, which one would you choose? (Does not need to be a video-game franchise)
-> bruh, since im into saints row now, i wanna see how the saints and my bbs interact hahahahahha
49. Opinion on recurring witnesses? (Wendy Oldbag, Lotta Hart, Larry Butz, etc.)
-> love oldbag, like lotta, kinda annoyed w larry
50. Do you think Dual Destinies deserved its M-rating?
-> yeeeppp that thing w athena was p dark tbh
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