no but seriously the "my friend wanted some help with legal work" line in aa4 changed me as a person. i think about edgeworth trying to reach out to freshly disbarred phoenix in a million different ways and it not working, so this bastard pulls a damsel in distress move on the guy who's only weakness is people who need help and goes "wright:((( there's this very very tough case:((( innocent people will go to jail if you don't accept these first class plane tickets for you and your daughter and spend a week with me in this five star european hotel :((( oh i am so lost and confused ughh this legal work is killing me" AND IT WORKS MULTIPLE TIMESSSS

"but would wright and edgeworth even be allowed to face each other in court if they started dating" have you considered that they're bastards and have both at some point 1) broken the law with carefulness and intent 2) found loopholes to win a case?? at the very least they would start gaslighting everyone and it would partially be not to look stupid. they get together post-aa6 and when the waa members learn of the fact of their relationship phoenix is like "yeah i mean. duh. we have been together for a decade now wdym???" the judge finds out in the middle of a trial and starts questioning if this is even legal but edgeworth goes "your honor what do you mean. you were literally at our wedding" "yeah he cried a lot i'm pretty sure. your honor don't you remember?" "well, it's only understandable. he may have had a little too much champagne as i recall". it's completely illegal but is it really beneath the guy who forged identity (pretended to be a defense attorney for a day) and a guy who forged evidence, both for good reason but. still. cmon. it's also only illegal if they don't find a crazy loophole or change the law again don't put it past them

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as someone who hasn't played aa4 yet: is he okay

this official art for turnabout tunes pw:aa needs to be looked at more actually. pearly is cuddling a dog and it's the best thing ever. phoenix looks absolutely beautiful. edgeworth is doing a whole hamlet monologue with the steel samurai's head?? for some reason?? i feel like that's the best part of this whole thing. franziska is either looking at maya or at the thinker so this is like. schrodinger's sapphism i think. larry is actually also surprisingly good-looking. gumshoe is suffering. godot is godot. charley is there. again what the hell is edgeworth doing

something that i love about narumitsu is that you can come up with any headcanon for them in terms of marriage and it will make sense. oh they got married the day they confessed by signing their papers during lunchbreak in a hurry? for sure, they are weird little freaks and wouldn't waste any time. oh they had a proper wedding that turned into a murder case? that is so them. they had a beautiful ceremony? yeah, marriage is a legal procedure and what else would they value more than that? oh they divorced like three times? yeah c'mon look at them it makes sense. they proposed to each other simultaneously? god i love these losers they totally would. they didn't get married at all because it's against the law in japan and that's why edgeworth always talks about never getting married? so true so tr

i am once again posting about aa4 with no knowledge about aa4

my new narumitsu getting together hc is that gay marriage gets legalized when they're like 35 in japanifornia and edgeworth calls phoenix with the words "we should review the new legal reform". "what new legal reform" "gay marriage. do you live under a rock". it's not fake marriage because they kind of immediately establish a romantic relationship with that statement but they do genuinely do that to check out if the tax benefits are the same

she would. in my mind she would

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i wake up. ace attorney is trending??? i check the tag. apollo justice trilogy? capcom that's great and all but an apollo justice trilogy would require three apollo justice games

i started collecting these and it turns out i will need a separate post just for the beanix ones

what really kills me about ace attorney is the time. the length. the lasting effects of it all. seven years of disbarment. fifteen years of believing you killed your father. how long was simon imprisoned? how long did lana skye have to live in fear and obedience? how long was diego armando in a coma? we remember the numbers, but are we as aware as they are of how much that time has blended into their identities, how it's now at their cores, the most horrible parts of their lives being so big and important, not just something that can be let go of and erased. they all fucking came back wrong and they will never be the same but the game goes on and they live to the best extent of what they can be now. ace attorney reminds me to say "it is what it is" more and i think that's beautiful