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I love the way dog plushies are always either, generic husky, generic *dog*, or the scrunkliest damn guy youve ever seen in your entire life

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pearl + franmaya thoughts

Bridge To The Turnabout is one of absolute favorite ace attorney cases of all time, this isn't really surprising as from what I've seen, its generally considered one of (if not) the best cases. It gives us the best thing that has ever graced this world, assistant Franziska. But also Pearl and Franziska interaction, and this one interaction is basically the foundation for people's interpretations of Pearl's idea of Franziska and Maya being together. And I love it. Some of my favorite plots for Franmaya fics are the ones where Franziska NEEDS to win over the approval of this. Literal child. For the sake of her relationship. Whether it be through Franziska making Pearl think she is so super cool, bonding through hurt/comfort, or Pearl just coming to realize that Franziska makes Maya happy, I absolutely adore when people write and/or make art about it. In canon, Pearl literally just berated Franziska, a grown adult, for being mean to her cousin..and Franziska took that personally. The scene itself is amazing because Franziska would never take criticism like that from anyone. But this 9 year old absolutely tears her apart in a way no one could even DARE to try. But this isn't about that one scene from BTTT that everyone knows about. This is me being stupidly self indulgent over a ship I love. Franziska and Maya being gay for each other aside, I love the dynamic between Franziska and Pearl. In a way, they're just like each other, which leads me to believe that Franziska would truly see herself in Pearl, and want to protect her like she were her own kin. Both prodigies, both destined for something amazing, both having corrupt parents. I feel as though Franziska would look at Pearl and envision a tiny Franziska, wanting to be just like her Papa, incredibly intelligent for being such a young age, and not really knowing any better of the horrors of having to grow up so fast. I think as close as they would become, Pearl would tell Franziska about what her mom was like, to Franziska's horror. I mean, Pearl's autonomy was kind of stripped from her. Maybe that's a stretch but with the way Morgan acted and talked about Pearl, I've always compared them to Rapunzel and Mother Gothel from Tangled. A lot of people hate Manfred Von Karma and believe him to be an abusive father, but I feel like there's reason to believe from multiple sources that he actually loved his kids. But this isn't about him and there's people who have explained this point way better than I ever could. Something I see a lot less is talk about Morgan Fey. Who was willing to kill her own niece so Pearl could take her place. Like her own blood. Back to the Rapunzel and Mother Gothel comparison, Mother Gothel values Rapunzel for her hair and that hair's ability to keep her young. Morgan values Pearl for her absolutely insane psychic abilities, believing she could be the one to put the branch family back on top. She wants to basically live vicariously through her daughter and will absolutely stop at nothing to get her goal achieved. Sucks to suck for her because it doesn't work but it also makes you go what the fuck! Maybe one day I'll make another post after doing a bunch of research on how this could pyschologically fuck up a kid (though I already have some idea). Franziska would absolutely want to protect this kid's innocence. Pearl doesn't know any better, she's a kid. She doesn't fully understand all the adult stuff going on around her and this is touched upon in BTTT. Pearl shouldn't know about all the horrible stuff that goes on in her family. She should literally be playing with dolls and probably learning how to use a whip, this is Franziska after all. This is technically a franmaya post and yet it has mostly been about Franziska and Pearl's friendship because well, I think franmaya needs to be there for Franziska and Pearl to even interact, because it puts that feeling inside of Franziska to have Pearl approve of her like a dad would.

Another thing I wanted to touch on because I cannot form a coherent train of thought even if I tried was the "homophobic Pearl" joke, which is just something I think is funny but also hope people don't actually take as a factual part of her character. Like ironically, yeah that's hilarious. Truly though, Pearl would not be homophobic, obviously?? Like someone could make the argument that Morgan instilled homophobia into her, but also she didn't let her leave the village so I kind of believe Morgan would think she wouldn't have to, if she wanted to even. If she doesn't leave the village how is she gonna learn about different kinds of love. Also Pearl is just, really into romance in general, she believes it to traditionally be between a man and a woman because that's what she's been taught, she's a kid. Also Maya is like, her idol, if she said she liked girls and boys (or just girls depending on how you hc her) then Pearl would gaze at her all starry eyed and go "YOU CAN DO THAT???" and probably think up a bunch of stories about princesses being together. Pearl being included in franmaya sillies is so important to me, Maya watching as two of her favorite people finally get along, Franziska feeling that protective instinct bubble up inside of her at the innocence of this little girl, Pearl coming to terms that Maya loves who she loves, and Franziska isn't as bad as she once was. They are so. Found Family. They matter SO much to me.

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WAIT please do spoil it this is never gonna leave my mind I gotta knowwww

Something that I think about quite a bit, and that also kind of bugs me is that. After Reunion and Turnabout what..happens to Pearl?? Morgan (who was her sole caregiver due to the fact her dad left) got arrested, and then next case is just Phoenix and Maya taking Pearl to the circus to take her mind of the fact that her mom is in jail. But who's taking care of her??? Morgan would at least lose temporary custody right? If not full custody due to the fact that she was an accomplice to murder. Obviously all the laws in Ace Attorney have to be taken with a grain of salt because well, absolutely anything can fucking happen in those court rooms. I've tried thinking of possibilities myself to make myself go a little less insane. I know it's not a big deal, but it is to me. She's only 8 in JFA so as far as I know she'd be too young to be emancipated, honestly I believe Maya (or even possibly one of the residents of Kurain Village) would take over guardianship of her. Maya just makes the most sense (as it possibly can) to me because she's 18, she's a blood relative of Pearl, and honestly while an 18 doesn't seem the most fit compared to an older relative (even though all of the closest ones are dead) I kind of like to believe Phoenix would help her fight for custody in court despite being a criminal justice lawyer and not a civil one. Also with how much Pearl is around after the fact, it would make sense that Maya is just, looking after her now that her mom is gone. Maybe there's an actual answer somewhere that I just have not found, but if not, that's my guess.

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Something that I think about quite a bit, and that also kind of bugs me is that. After Reunion and Turnabout what..happens to Pearl?? Morgan (who was her sole caregiver due to the fact her dad left) got arrested, and then next case is just Phoenix and Maya taking Pearl to the circus to take her mind of the fact that her mom is in jail. But who's taking care of her??? Morgan would at least lose temporary custody right? If not full custody due to the fact that she was an accomplice to murder. Obviously all the laws in Ace Attorney have to be taken with a grain of salt because well, absolutely anything can fucking happen in those court rooms. I've tried thinking of possibilities myself to make myself go a little less insane. I know it's not a big deal, but it is to me. She's only 8 in JFA so as far as I know she'd be too young to be emancipated, honestly I believe Maya (or even possibly one of the residents of Kurain Village) would take over guardianship of her. Maya just makes the most sense (as it possibly can) to me because she's 18, she's a blood relative of Pearl, and honestly while an 18 doesn't seem the most fit compared to an older relative (even though all of the closest ones are dead) I kind of like to believe Phoenix would help her fight for custody in court despite being a criminal justice lawyer and not a civil one. Also with how much Pearl is around after the fact, it would make sense that Maya is just, looking after her now that her mom is gone. Maybe there's an actual answer somewhere that I just have not found, but if not, that's my guess.

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I absolutely adore franmaya, so I drew them as cats!! (I can only draw cats!!) (this is a problem I'm fixing...very slowly!!!) I want to post on here more so the blog doesn't continue to look like a ghost town so maybe I should just put...more of my thoughts about them because they occupy my brain 24/7. They make me ill. Couple of doodles under the break

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more kitty sisters! callie has the zoomies!

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girls why you so kibby

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i love silly girl characters so much, like they are so silly, but also for some reason they have so so much trauma. like you're not allowed to be happy, you must be traumatized. that bit sucks but despite it all they smile and yknow what i admire that. also theyre fuckin funny and amazing and i love women

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callie sketch that i colored in to make it seem like there was more effort put in, so i guess you could call it a messy doodle??

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intro post

I'm honest to god hoping I don't give up on this blog after like a week, but the PLAN is to post art and maybe my cat, I have actual such bad anxiety with people..looking at me so I'm just biting the bullet and not telling any of my friends I'm doing this. So heyyy if you're seeing this, call me whatever you like (literally) I'm just here to vibe.