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Started redrawing these two pages from the vol. 2 Ace Attorney Casebook manga back in June and kinda left it on the back burner for a while. Finally finished it! This was fun! And I think it turned out nice, although there are changes I’d make if I did it again. There are so many more moments from the manga I want to draw, but probably not to this extent

(Here’s the OG manga pages. Apologies that the pictures aren’t the clearest. Had to hold my copy open with one hand and take a pic with the other)

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"Let me take a look at you." (1/3)

I've got a lot of headcanons regarding these two - Nick has a TON of scars, he uses makeup to hide them and his freckles during his disbarment so he isn't recognized (along with colored contact lenses), and Miles is pretty much completely blind without his glasses to the point where he can't actually see all that well during the original trilogy. Due to general apathy regarding keeping clean on Phoenix's end, and only being able to visit every so often on Miles's end, Miles has had no idea what Phoenix looks like under his cover-up job.

Part 2 • Part 3

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long time no maya :3

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Bridge to the Turnabout

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please give me the why-phoenix-wright-is-unkillable rant, I’m foolishly curious

lets stop and consider what phoenix wright has withstood:

falling from a burning bridge into a deadly river (survived with a cold, worked off in roughly a day)

consuming a necklace laced with trace amounts of a poison that realistically could have killed him (no adverse effects)

hit point-blank by a car, launched high into the air, slammed into a telephone pole (survived with a sprained ankle)

and not withstood:

two slaps from an eight-year old girl (knocked unconscious)

back pain from bending over (knocked unconscious for more than a day)

a notable middle ground to these occurs at the end of Reunion and Turnabout, where franziska von karma absolutely beats the shit out of the poor guy, remarks "and one more for good measure" and proceeds to go on an absolute frenzy.

what common ground is shared between the "not withstood" column that is not with the "withstood" column? comedy. being knocked out by pearl fey or back pain is played for laughs. as is fvk's knocking him out after saying just one more. but none of the first three are. but you know what is played for laughs about all three of them? the fact that phoenix survives unscathed.

he "passes off" his cold to the canadian judge, and everyone around him is varying degrees of incredulous at his speedy recovery. the necklace eating is explicitly a funny and frustrating moment and the player only realises the danger he was in after the fact. apollo's reaction alone to the whole fiasco of phoenix getting hit by a car is great.

the conclusion? well, theres a rather clear one. ace attorney operates under some crazy rulesets to start with, and phoenix wright is borne into those rules. the man operates under looney tunes physics. you can't harm him in any way that matters unless its funny. in the same way that one could only defeat bugs bunny by opening their mouth incomprehensibly wide to swallow an oncoming pie, one could only best phoenix wright by laying a banana peel in his path or something of that ilk. any meaningful attempt on his life would place the assailant in the role of the court jester, madly trying to take down this man that refuses to die in spite of absurd circumstances.

in trying to kill phoenix wright, you become a joke.

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thinking about older kay again

Kay: "The prosecutors at the office WON'T stop talking about you. You're very popular you know!"

Athena: "I didn't know we were celebrities..."

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Faraskye commission for @apolloshorns !! Yipeeee

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Franziska von Karma is a lot of things.  She’s a thirteen year old prosecutor who has never even come close to losing a case.  She is a younger sister and an aunt to her older sister’s three year old daughter.  She is smart, skilled, and leagues ahead of some adults she knows.  Franziska is perfect, everything a von Karma should be.  

Then why was her father always so focused on him?  

Miles Edgeworth got all of her father’s attention.  No matter what she did, how hard she tried, he was always more interested in what he was doing.  The expectations were the same, perfection at everything they did, but the oversight was different.  When they were in school, her father watched him carefully, checking the grades on his assignments to ensure they were one hundred percent.  He only checked the grade on Franziska’s report card at the end of the school year.  As if Franziska was just an afterthought to him.  If they were anything less than perfect, his reaction was the same to both of them.  They both became prosecutors at the same time, with her being seven years younger than him.  When her father saw them, he looked at him with a cold smile of satisfaction.  He hardly even glanced in her direction, despite her achievement being objectively more impressive than his.  

She didn’t know why he was getting more attention, or what she had to do to get her father’s approval.  (She suppressed the thought that Miles wasn’t exactly getting her father’s approval either, that the attention he got wasn’t the same as the kind that she wanted.)  She was perfect at what she did, and made it seem effortless on her part.  

All of those foolish wants that she sometimes got, like when she saw a pretty dress and wondered how it would look on her, were nothing more than distractions to stop her from being aware of her surroundings.  The time she saw some people playing a game that she doesn’t know the name of was nothing more than a waste of time that she could be spending studying.  The times when she was thinking about riding her horse and ended up tuning everything else out didn’t mean anything other than she shouldn’t be thinking about such things when other, more important things are going on.  Her father told her that they were small, meaningless, and that she should be good enough to ignore them.  Every time she caught herself wanting something other than perfection in her path to becoming the best prosecutor ever, she could imagine her father glaring icily or scoffing and shaking his head, as if she was a disappointment.  

She resented her father for it.  For the lack of attention he freely gives to Edgeworth, someone who wasn’t even a von Karma.  For casting her to the side, yet still holding her to the same expectations.  For denying her time and again the things that she had to watch other people get, leaving her wondering why she couldn’t have them.  For his idea of perfection that just made her miserable. 

Franziska von Karma is a lot of things.  She’s a eighteen year old prosecutor who has never lost a case.  She is a younger sister, and an aunt, and she should be a daughter, but she doesn’t feel like it.  

She finally had an answer as to why her father had neglected her for all these years.  A grudge against a man long dead.  A man he had killed.  He had told them time and time again that they had to be perfect, conveniently overlooking his own imperfections.  If he were as perfect as he made himself seem, as he wanted them to be, then he wouldn’t have had to kill anyone.  Franziska bitterly added hypocrite to the list of words she would use to describe her father.  

Miles had taken the revelation hard, there was no question about that.  He had sworn off caring about win records, and wanted to find the truth.  Like his father and Phoenix Wright, he had said.  Franziska would never admit it, but she felt lost.  She didn’t know how to continue being a prosecutor.  Being perfect, living up to her father’s expectations was all she knew how to do.  The very concept and person her life had been based around had come crumbling down in a matter of a few days.  

Well, that’s not strictly true.  It was never real in the first place.  

He was no better than the other liars and criminals that she sent to prison daily.  It had been ingrained into her that they were the lowest, most worthless people there were, and she had just discovered that her father was one of them.  She couldn’t continue like this, she knew she couldn’t, but she didn’t know what else to do.  

And despite everything he had done, she still cared about her father.  She was still upset that she didn’t get the attention she had worked so hard to earn.  He was gone, and it just left a part of her feeling empty and her believing that she could never be wholly satisfied ever again.  The empty feeling, like something was missing from her life, the undercurrent of sadness always present, the feeling that she had failed at getting her father to care for her, and failure was unacceptable.  Even now, she could feel his judgmental gaze burning into her back ever time she even thought about going against him.  Even gone, disgraced, dead, she still couldn’t escape him.  

So, she did the only thing she knew how, and continued being the perfect prosecutor that she was.  That she thought her father was.  She changed her reasoning behind it, but she didn’t change any of her actions, so did it really matter?  Her win record and perfect reputation the only thing in her life that isn’t changing or falling apart completely.  This is all Franziska knows how to do.  

Franziska von Karma is a lot of things, but she never thought utterly destroyed would ever be one of them.  

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[ID: A digital illustration of Phoenix Wright and Trucy Wright from Ace Attorney. Phoenix is doing Trucy's hair as she stands in front of him, his tongue sticks out as he focuses on braiding. Trucy holds her top hat in both hands and smiles, with sparkles around her as she looks back at her dad. There is a drawing of Trucy's finished braid to their right, showing a simple braid tied at both the top and bottom with red hair ties with heart, star, and round beads attached. The braid is a little messy, with some small pieces of hair sticking out of different sections. End description.]

The Wrights <3

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Psyche-Lock

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I care him, Your Honor.

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objection!

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Movie night

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ITS HIM!! PHOENIX WRIGHT! THE ACE ATTORNEY!! 💕😍🥰

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Maya: sure, love at first sight is cool and all, but have you ever experienced sibling at first sight? You see someone and you're like "wow, I would die for you, but also I want to steal you shoe during the winter and point and laugh while you hop around on one foot in the snow"

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i think abt him being an art major an abnormal amount