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kay and edgeworth self defense class

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trucy in the sky with diamonds or something idk

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truly nothing funnier than having an archive of when you first started getting into a media that has since consumed your entire life

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Angsty idea that popped into my head and wanted to share:

Kay learning a variation of Logic Chess (as an interrogation technique/gameplay mechanic) from Edgeworth. And she’s studying to either be an investigator or a lawyer. She has Little Thief, but she needs was to get into out of witnesses and suspects to input the simulation, so she develops her own way of getting it.

(She calls it Crow Snatching or Brain Pit-Pocketing or something fun. There’s like anime ninja sword slashes and crow caws as sound effects only she can see instead of “Chess Dimension” lol)

anyway! Kay is a smart, emotionally intelligent girl, but that can also get a bit carried away right? So she’s now becoming buddies with “that Man”, and Nick of course has a massive soft spot for “weird little girls” so while even when he’s in his Hobo Nick era, he’s still willing to be a bit more open and indulgent with her, even as his own life spirals and his relationship with Edgeworth gets more and more tense and fraught again

And of course, Kay catches this. She’s like hmmm, but she’s content to learn about Nick and by extension him&Edgeworth the “normal” way. Just spending time together, playing with Trucy, working some European cases, hanging out and all that.

but!

There’s a trigger moment where Nick starts to get REALLY weird around Miles. Maybe a case they are all working with involves a missing person. Maybe him and Miles are arguing about if this person (be it potential victim or culprit or witness) and they are divided on if this person left voluntarily, or killed themselves.

And the usual back and forth court style argument keeps escalating and getting more tense and just…stops. Both Nick and Miles are like…we should keep investigating.

And Kay is like hmmm? What is that all about? And so at some point she’s like, asking Edgeworth and he brushes her off, and she tries to dig but nope, he’s the one that taught her about prying information out of people that don’t want to talk so he knows all her current tricks since she’s still learning.

So she tries approaching Nick, who has never actually been Logic Chessed by Edgeworth, (idk if he even knows about THAT yet lol) and starts poking. Kay convinces herself she’s being a good investigator, but also deep down she’s being nosy and hungry for information on both Mr. Edgeworth AND Nick, Edgeworth being such an important person in her life that rarely opens up about his past in any specifics, and Nick is clearly a big part of that past, she’s so hungry for this information and so new young and impulsive she doesn’t even stop to consider the ethics of what she’s doing and…

Anyway, she gets the information as to WHY Nick is so, um, worked up over the idea of someone disappearing voluntarily and leaving behind everything and everyone. And why Mr. Edgeworth is also a bit, uh, invested in the subject as well. She then has to grapple with the consequences and gets a lesson on privacy and letting things go (I love Kay but girly is a wee bit problematic on boundaries lol. Especially in fanon where she’s breaking into her friend’s houses all the time which is very in character for her imo)

She and Nick make up of course, Nick can’t exactly be TO mad about pushing boundaries with things people are hiding, he’s got a lie detector in his pocket and all that, and Kay also has to kinda incorporate this new information about Mr. Edgeworth into her full image of him. A very “parents are flawed humans” moment for her I think. I don’t know WHAT exactly she’s think of what he did with the Note™ and the disappearance and if that worries the part of her that fears of her losing parental figures, but yeah.

(also, turns out the missing person was murdered or was a murderer because AA gotta have murder cases)

This is fun!! I really enjoy thinking about Kay learning more about what Edgeworth was up to in the trilogy, especially since she thinks of him as a hero and Edgeworth seems to be unwilling to tell her about his past (like that one part in AAI2-2 where Eddie/Ray started talking about Gregory and Edgeworth interrupted him because it didn't concern Kay). I also love her adapting Logic Chess for her own purposes too, that's really cute.

And of course the missing person has to be related to a murder. everything in ace attorney is murder and if it's not murder yet it's going to be murder soon!

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Hey all, Crips for Esims for Gaza has been purchasing E-sims for people in Gaza and need help to continue their advocacy!

We link them in our Hi Nay episodes but want to remind people to help out if they can and donate! They're an offshoot of the E-sims for Gaza program created by Mirna El-Helbawi, and allow you to, if you are overwhelmed by the E-sims purchasing process, streamline it.

You donate to Crips for Esims for Gaza, and they do it for you. Help these fantastic disabled activists if you're able!

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Siblings

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happy one year until the end of the seven year gap and apollo justice's first trial which will go so well for him

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the tactica dlc trailer for context

this edition of my stupid tweets brought to you by p5r and sumi yoshizawa

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Sorry what?

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dreams & pathways & legacies & things

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A couple of mias I don’t think I ever posted?? Crazy

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sister, i’m not much a poet, but a criminal / and you never had a chance

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45 minutes away from being late on this update but I made it just in time! Probably not getting the next one out by next week but this chapter is about as long as the previous two combined to make up for it. Things are still going very great for Yukari here and I also get to work with some of the more female protag route-specific plot elements here which is fun.

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if anyone asks I am EXTREMELY good at writing short and concise chapters and also at estimating how long it takes me to write things. some may say this is my best skill