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Everyone jokes about Phoenix being a serial adopter, but Maya has the same exact habit as shown by Pearl and Rayfa.

This is something we narumayo thruthers need to be more annoying about, tbh.

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My concept for the final boss of a Threequel to The Great Ace Attorney.

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I have never been more feral about something in my life.

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The best part is that the case, up to this point, does everything it can to make this picture's existence distressing for an entirely different reason.

Namely that the case was throwing death flags for Susato's dad literally everywhere, and so it primes Players to think "Oh no, is this picture gonna be the last one Susato has of her dad alive? 😭"

every time i look at this specific image from tgaa2 this meme flashes through my brain

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People who make tomboyish qualities like short hair and spunky pants and stuff about feminism are sucking the fun out of character designing, for real.

how I feel whenever I reblog fanart portraying franziska with short hair because I like the idea of the passage of time running parallel to her hair getting shorter as a design motif and NOT because I see feminine features as something inherently sexualising and believe they need to be erased to make the character design more feminist

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Wait...

Is he confusing Russain for "RUSHING?"

Is he saying "Is he dubious because he's rushing or rushing because he's dubious?"

i am INCREDIBLY surprised i haven't seen people discuss this line of sholmes's tbh

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HOW AM I ONLY NOW REALIZING THAT GINA NAMED TOBY AFTER GREGSON?

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I don't know how I've seen more people get this wrong than right,

But the 7 years Kinger mentions going through is not 7 years of work, like "He was a programming for the Digital Circus and worked there for 7 years," or whatever else.

He says "7 years of Computer Science." Computer Science is a standardized term for college degrees regarding programming. That sentence was describing his degree, not his work history.

You could, however, make the argument that the way he says "for this" implies that the Digital Circus dev team has a minimum requirement of a 7-Year CS degree.

This is an interesting implication because Pomni's age aligns perfectly with the notion that she is also a programmer who started her own 7-year Computer Science degree at age 18 before getting hired by the Digital Circus crew and near-immediately getting herself sucked into the game.

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Happy 23rd Anniversary to Ace Attorney!

This series is awesome in a way I've only been able to fully appreciate in the last couple years or so. A perfect mix of all of what makes my other prior hyperfixations great.

(My stomach has been messing with me really bad, and I couldn't get myself motivated enough to draw anything for this, sorry.)

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Shower thought about Turnabout: An Ace Attorney musical:

On top of drastically improving the ending scene by having Mia produce the actual White Dosseir from the thinker for the final push, the fact that White was never able to find the dossier actually makes his choice to murder Mia to begin with more impactful.

In the canon game, White decides to do it almost on a whim, as a secondary matter on top of recovering the papers that incriminate him.

But in the musical, he kills Mia because he CAN'T find the papers, and so silencing her is the only thing he can do at the moment to ensure that his crimes never get revealed.

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I thought you were trying to complain about how everyone in DD reacts to Athena's use of the mood matrix and how they just allow her to take over the court proceedings and use it. Something that 5-2 cleverly negates by outright showing us the reason the Judge and co are so open to her methods, being that she's made good use of them in the past.

Insisting that Bonny is traumatized to convince the court to let her do her thing may be clever for Athena to do, but in overall writing, it's not drastically better than it was handled in DD. Hell, it being a trick Athena is pulling on the court actively presents it more as a bullshit lawyer superpower.

I thought this would be obvious enough, but I'm pushing back at your insulting Dual Destinies, not your praise of Spirit of Justice.

i want to give credit where credit is due- i found athena really frustrating in dual destinies, but we're halfway through the trial for 6-2, and shes actually been pretty great during the trial!!!

one of my problems with the mood matrix was like. why would anyone allow this teenager to do space robot therapy on a witness in the middle of a courtroom??? in front of god and everyone??? in the middle of a trial?????

i know athena isnt the only character with a magical bullshit lawyer power, but they felt different to me. maya can only channel mia, so the utility of her power is really limited. phoenix can only use the magatama outside of court, so you dont ever have to justify it to a judge. apollo's perception ability is just normal ability everyone has (yknow. lookin), so you wouldn't need to explain what you're doing and why and how. but athena rolls up like "hi im 18 years old. can i run an unlicensed polygraph test on our witness in front of the whole gallery?" and then everyone just. lets it happen??

anyway, all this complaining is necessary to set up how, in 6-2, when athena brought up using the Mood Matrix, it worked really well, and actually made her seem very smart and good at her job!!!!

we have bonny on the stand, and we know she's lying but can't find any contradictions, so athena suggests using the Mood matrix. she tells the judge that, based on the witness doing the traditional ace attorney witness freakouts, that shes very traumatized by the murder and NEEDS athena to do her therapy bullshit

its a really clever move!! in DD it felt like, every time she wanted to do it, she was like "its therapy time!" and the judge was like "sure do whatever you want i guess". like, no effort was made to convince him to allow it? (although this is part of a larger complaint i had about DD, where the audience was told certain characters were manipulative or smart, but instead of that character actually coming across as persuasive and subtle, it felt like they were only successful because everyone around them just turned their brains off for a while)

idk its a pretty small thing, but it felt good and i liked it and i want to acknowledge when the games are being good and smart

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If you had paid closer attention to Dual Destinies, you'd find that this exact thing happened in the 2nd case.

The 2nd case, which is chronologically the first in the game, has Athena use the Mood Matrix in court for the first time.

At that point in the trial, Jinxie was suffering from a genuine mental disorder and was unable to give coherent testimony as a result. Athena recognizes this and suggests a therapy session, which the Judge is willing to give a shot because this scenario blatantly does call for it, just like what Athena suggests in 6-2.

From then on, the Judge makes comments about Athena having proven the worth of her therapy sessions in the past, giving him reason to trust the process as helpful and continue to allow it.

This also is cleverly used as a tutorial for the advanced "Emotions Running Wild" version of the mechanic, which fits logically.

i want to give credit where credit is due- i found athena really frustrating in dual destinies, but we're halfway through the trial for 6-2, and shes actually been pretty great during the trial!!!

one of my problems with the mood matrix was like. why would anyone allow this teenager to do space robot therapy on a witness in the middle of a courtroom??? in front of god and everyone??? in the middle of a trial?????

i know athena isnt the only character with a magical bullshit lawyer power, but they felt different to me. maya can only channel mia, so the utility of her power is really limited. phoenix can only use the magatama outside of court, so you dont ever have to justify it to a judge. apollo's perception ability is just normal ability everyone has (yknow. lookin), so you wouldn't need to explain what you're doing and why and how. but athena rolls up like "hi im 18 years old. can i run an unlicensed polygraph test on our witness in front of the whole gallery?" and then everyone just. lets it happen??

anyway, all this complaining is necessary to set up how, in 6-2, when athena brought up using the Mood Matrix, it worked really well, and actually made her seem very smart and good at her job!!!!

we have bonny on the stand, and we know she's lying but can't find any contradictions, so athena suggests using the Mood matrix. she tells the judge that, based on the witness doing the traditional ace attorney witness freakouts, that shes very traumatized by the murder and NEEDS athena to do her therapy bullshit

its a really clever move!! in DD it felt like, every time she wanted to do it, she was like "its therapy time!" and the judge was like "sure do whatever you want i guess". like, no effort was made to convince him to allow it? (although this is part of a larger complaint i had about DD, where the audience was told certain characters were manipulative or smart, but instead of that character actually coming across as persuasive and subtle, it felt like they were only successful because everyone around them just turned their brains off for a while)

idk its a pretty small thing, but it felt good and i liked it and i want to acknowledge when the games are being good and smart

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I don't wright write fanfics, hell, I rarely even read fanfics, but there has GOT to be some fan-content in which Phoenix and Maya adopt Rayfa and take her to the states. Phoenix and Maya are so blatantly parent coded with Rayfa I swear. I can't be the only person who wanted them to save her from the shitty life of a Royal.

Please link me to any content like this you know of, or, better yet, let me know if any tags may exist for this concept on Tumblr or Ao3.

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Why is Amara just, for no explained reason, a master of disguise?

Like, when Maya is channeling Dhurke, she has long black hair, so she looks exactly like Dhurke.

Then Amara walks in and channels him herself, but Amara has bright silver hair, so to complete the look it's implied she managed to fit on a long black wig so that it didn't look fake.

Along with this, there's a scene where it's shown that she also had once impersonated Ga'ran, whose hair is deep blue.

What is it with this woman and having the wigs and cosplaying skill necessary to impersonate anyone in her family?

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Not what this post is about, I know, but I absolutely love the fact that in the in-universe Steel Samurai canon, Steel Samurai and Pink Princess are lovers.

After all, Phoenix is compared to the Steel Samurai several times, and Maya literally inspired the Pink Princess character.

broke: miles edgeworth isn't autistic

woke: whatever this is

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Is it just me, or would the scene where Larry first shows up in T&T have been INFINITELY FUNNIER this way.

Larry finds Ron's wallet. He opens it and finds Ron's KB Keycard, labeled "R. DeLite". Due to Ron's feminine face, he assumes Ron is Female.

So Larry "only straight man in Japanifornia" Butz, goes to Casa DeLites with the intent to woo who he assumes is a Ms. Rachael DeLite, who is actually married man Ron DeLite.

He opens the door to see Desirée and thinks she is what "Rachael" looks like out of "her" guard uniform, thinking he hit the Jackpot.

He hands Desirée the wallet, and she says, "Oh yes, this is my Husband's! Thank you!" Larry stands there for two seconds before instantly dying of shock and embarrassment.

Phoenix and Maya are both struggling to breathe, watching the entire exchange.

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A redraw of one of my favorite scenes in the anime for #narumayoweek2024.

"The first time they knew they could truly trust each-other."