Okay, so I’ve seen some Ace Attorney Fans speculate that the screwdriver featured as a minor piece of evidence in ‘Rise from the Ashes’
Is actually the same screwdriver as the one that was a major plot-point back in ‘Turnabout Sisters’.
Because, well, they look pretty much the same and also it is mentioned the screwdriver is from one of Miles’ previous cases… and Miles was the Prosecutor on ‘Turnabout Sisters’. Plus, it would explain why he’s so cagey about explaining it to Phoenix during RFTA. Obviously he wouldn’t want to bring this case up in front of Wright again.
And, well, the thing is that all of these explanations do make sense and do make it sound like this was the authorial intent, but….. There is one thing that bothers me.
The whole Thing with the RFTA Screwdriver is that Miles got it from the Evidence Room where the crime took place. And that Evidence Room is specifically mentioned to be a special one reserved for especially violent crimes involving members of law enforcement.
And this doesn't apply to the 'Turnabout Sisters' case but.... feels like it’s meant to be the Turnabout Sisters Screwdriver, y’know?
So, actually, you know what I think?
Well, after an Ace Attorney trial concludes and we find the real culprit and our defendant gets the ‘Not-Guilty’ verdict… it’s not like the Real Culprit gets Immediately Sent to Jail. They get their own off-screen trial to determine their guilt officially (as we saw briefly with Luke Atmey’s grand larceny trial in ‘The Stolen Turnabout’).
So I think that after the story of ‘Turnabout Sisters’ ended for Phoenix and Maya and us the players, Miles Edgeworth also took it upon himself to be the one to prosecute in Redd White’s own trial. Either as a way to ‘double-check’ all that Phoenix has proven in his own trial, or as atonement for almost getting this guy off-the-hook in the first place, or because it’s pretty clear that Miles is one person that Redd doesn’t have specific dirt on, or probably because of some combination of the three.
This case against Redd White is the AI-16 Incident that is labeled on the Screwdriver, and it covers all of the charges that have been put against White - not just Mia’s murder and the wiretapping of her law office but also his empire of blackmail. That we know have involved high-ranking members of the police, some of which have been driven to suicide by White.
As such, this will qualify the Screwdriver to be placed in the Special Evidence Vault for Dead Cop Cases, while still maintaining the connection to ‘Turnabout Sisters’!
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This one fucking image from Rise From the Ashes reminds me of those weirdly sensual "female bullying" stock photos, for some reason
like. this
is the same as this
EDIT: Thank you to @/kurapikaschai for the IDs below!
[ID 1: Angel Starr smirking while she pins a struggling Lana Skye's arm behind her back. The two women are standing side by side. A flip phone can be seen falling to the floor in the foreground.
ID 2: A stock image of 3 women bullying another and holding her close. End Descriptions.]
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ace attorney characters as cats day 99: i'll be honest and say i know next to virtually nothing about most of the rfta characters except for ema and lana, the case just went on for so long and i just never finished it. his design looks cool as hell though
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okay so last year i made a post asking what scene in ace attorney that was played over and over again annoyed people the most, but that was before polls came out. so now that we have polls, here's the final vote!
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the term transracial belongs ONLY to adoptees.
Race fakers, this term is NOT for you. Seek some actual therapy because you are delusional.
You are racist and hurt actual POC people.
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It's so funny to me how some people (mostly cishet) bring up Ema's admiration/fascination towards Edgeworth in Rfta as proof that she's not a lesbian or aroace, like... you have no idea how many actual lesbians and arospec people had obsessions towards certain specific men during their childhood.
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THE FINAL ROUND
Both contestants were automatically included but I will be writing a synopsis on their autistic traits for those who haven’t played aa.
Ema Skye
Hyperfixated on forensic science. During her grumpy period she almost only ever gets excited when she gets to talk about it and when she gets her job as a forensic scientist she becomes much more amiable. A large part of her personality is based on whether she gets to talk about her special interest.
Looks away a lot, rocks back and forth while thinking, plays with her hair and glasses
Eats a specific food consistently (comfort food)
Athena Cykes:
Has sensitive hearing and wore noise protecting headphones as a child
introverted and found it hard to make friends as a child
hyperfixated on psychology (brings it up often in conversation even when it doesn’t have anything to do with the topic at hand)
extremely honest and blunt, sometimes offends others by speaking her thoughts too much
May be over-empathetic
plays with her hair and earrings
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