Little Changes

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Happy 23rd birthday ace attorney! 🎉🎉

something about truth & mistakes & siblings

I'm aware I'm probably not the first to think about this, but I am so ungodly annoyed by one specific missed opportunity in Dual Destinies.

I'm talking, of course, about the Phoenix disguise (does it have a name? Fakenix?) and how it's such a weak-ass gutpunch. Mx. The Phantom, you motherfucker, we could have had it all.

(Thanks for the screenshot, Reddit.)

"Hey," I hear some of the imaginary audience piping up. "The fuck do you mean? It was a fun and fucked up moment!" To which I say: okay, but.

I want you to picture a world in which Dual Destinies as a narrative actually gave a single fuck about AA4's character choices. Even if only a few small nods here and there to Phoenix's seven-year dark night of the soul. Literally ANYTHING to indicate that Phoenix has put in real work to regain his current, more balanced sense of morality/idealism/self. (Fans and the characters deserved more than just nods, but whatever, I'd take scraps and run with 'em.)

Now imagine the cross-examination of the Phantom in such a scenario, right up until we get to that eerie OBJECTION!

And it's Beanix on the witness stand. Like a bucket of cold water right into present-day Phoenix's face. Maybe he's even appearing to wear the beanie at first—maybe Athena and/or Apollo says "Mr. Wright, are you okay?" and the beanie disappears, but the hollow-eyed bastard cryptid Phoenix used to be still remains. And they look each other in the face, and Phoenix sees the abyss staring at him, and he forces a smile to do Mia proud and doesn't blink.

So yeah. I'm really normal about how none of that potential got used and instead it was just a series of "haha duplicated Phoenix" jokes.

people who haven't played this series will never understand how much of a hater phoenix is in his internal monologue

oh to be a rookie attorney in France in love with the bitchy prosecutor next door

Farewell My Turnabout is going good so far

colour palette request from twitter

felinix wright and muttles edgeworth

A couple ace attorney doodles and the pics that inspired them. Man it’s too bad I’ve still got semester work to finish all I wanna draw is the funny lawyer game

He loved her immediately I'm gonna cry

I hate how funny "Rolling on the Floor... Starving?" is to me

being both a star trek fan and an ace attorney fan is funny cause the star trek fandom has this concept called kirk drift right which is basically used to describe the cultural misremembering of jim kirk as this kind of chauvinistic play boy asshole whereas his actual portrayal in tos is someone who’s very much kind, gentle and sociable.

and then when I look at the ace attorney fandom, jim’s canon portrayal feels very similar to how certain parts of fanon portray phoenix. but canonically phoenix is like. a bitch.

tradesies

Kids table

sibling conversations

The Lawyers r lawyering