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i was doing some pose studies and then things got out of hand lmao

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Apollo doodle

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[ divination séance ]

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doors open

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klapolly doodle page to try out different artstyles!!

and extremely quick horsemonkeys

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I have just discovered something world altering and possibly evil

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Do i look like him ????

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Starting off the new year with some lawyers. I’m going to try really hard to draw more this year! #AceAttorney

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an extra wet kiss to annoy your little boyfriend 🫶

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This person is not breathing.

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also do you ever think about how the hyperbolic slapstick humor in the nanami episodes is deliberate. how in reality she is just a really young girl faced with things that are new and strange to her, and she's having such a bad time.but the show sets her up as an odd girl, too silly, borderline hysteric. everyone is laughing at her. so you do too. but it's one of those moments where the show is aware that it has an audience, and this play has been specially prepared for you. nanami's understandable discomfort is discredited by her portrayal as an "irrational teenage girl". isn't she just so dramatic? she walks to the stage and begs the audience to please tell her what's going on and suddenly a message appears for the viewers This is a Comedic Monologue! None of It is Meant to Be Taken Seriously. Please Ignore Her. the show has decided for you how you shall interpret her and feeds it to you. it's one of the most effective showcases of misogyny in rgu to me, because the show makes you complicit in it. it needs to to dismiss the critique to the world she clearly poses. and for a moment you go along with it. you doomed nanami too.

it sends the message that how you view the characters in this story matters. you were never considered a passive observer. it's all a play they're putting on for you after all.

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some edgeworths

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gavinized square steel

@klaviersimpsanonymous told me to post this, blame them

[Image ID: A photo of a stack of galvanized square steel tubes overlaid with different sprites of Klavier and Kristoph Gavin. End ID]

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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2007)

Turnabout Trump Turnabout Corner Turnabout Serenade Turnabout Succession

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After finishing Turnabout Succession last night, one of the things I just can't get over is the way Klavier looked across the courtroom, saw Apollo standing there, calm and composed while Klavier was falling into hysterics, and Klavier asked Apollo point-blank to rip off the bandaid, to prove that Kristoph was the one behind it all, who gave the Vera the nail polish, gave Drew the poisoned stamp, commissioned the forged diary page. And then! After Apollo does everything short of provided hard, decisive evidence! Klavier looks at Kristoph and he starts, as he puts it, cleaning out the family closet.

Klavier starts explaining the ways in which Kristoph manipulated that trial, Zak Gramarye's trial, and he declares in front of his brother, the Judge, and the jury, that Kristoph told Klavier about the forged evidence, that Kristoph was the one Klavier was supposed to face in court that day, and when he finishes. It's quiet. And we get a new sprite for Klavier, and he's looking up at the ceiling, back straight, chin up, for the first time! For the first time in four cases, we see Klavier without that weight on his shoulders, dragging him down, shoulders hunched and head hung low.

It's over. And Klavier is free of a burden he's carried far longer than seven years. It's one he's carried his whole life.

Klavier and Apollo are both squirming out from under the thumb of an abuser, and they do it together. They help each other through it. As soon as this is over, it's Apollo's turn to sweat. Kristoph looks at Apollo and says Vera's poisoning is because of him! Apollo pressed Vera too hard. That's why she was biting her nails in the first place. Is Apollo then not just as guilty as Kristoph, if Kristoph is guilty at all? And Kristoph says, not in so many words, don't you see that you cannot prove it? There is no decisive evidence. And Klavier pulls them out. This trial is being decided by a jury, not a judge, and what matters is that the people are convinced, decisive evidence or no.

And you, the player, get to decide. Guilty, or not guilty? Did Vera Misham kill her father? Or was she as much a victim as he? And you have to move your cursor twice. You select your choice. Then you have to confirm. The weight of it hits you.

Vera is not guilty. You decided that. You looked into the eyes of the most despicable character in the franchise this far, and you decided that evidence it not, in fact, everything. The law is not absolute. The law, meant to govern the people, is derived from the people, and by declaring Vera Misham Not Guilty, you assert that Kristoph Gavin undeniably is.

It's catharsis, not only for the player, but for Klavier, for Apollo, for Phoenix, for Thalassa Gramarye, for Trucy, and for the legal system at large. This is the start of a new age, and you're ringing it in not with thunderous applause and confetti, but with silent relief.