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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."

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Slight Dahlia Hawthorne redesign to explain the lack of fingerprints on the Cold-Killer X bottle.

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Weird detail I'm somehow only now noticing; but according to the logic presented by Trials and Tribulations, given Adrian Andrews, Iris should only stay in jail after what she did for roughly 7 months.

It's easy to assume she spent a couple years in prison and that, from an in-universe standpoint, contributed to how she just disappeared from the narrative, but, like, she would've actually just shown up right when Phoenix was getting used to having Trucy around.

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One random thing I just thought of that I feel Dual Destinies did better than Apollo Justice is that it had characters that I could actually see making a return.

All of the characters from Apollo Justice that weren't obvious choices to have return just by contractual obligation were either hyper-specific to their individual case's narrative, end up dead/in jail and straight up CAN'T return, or have such an excessively large amount of mystery/baggage attached to them that having them return is cumbersome at best.

Dual Destinies doesn't do that, most of its characters are ones that are prevalent just due to who they are and the friendships they have with each-other.

I could way sooner see Juniper (and even, by extension, one of the Themis crew) or someone from GYAXA returning in a serious fashion than someone like Lamiroir or Vera.

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Hot take: Trucy absolutely deserved a chance to look Valant in the eye and slap him in his motherfucking face before he went to jail.

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I just realized that we could've gotten Juniper acting as assistant defense in Athena's trial, and I am SOBBING.

Imagine Juniper standing alongside Phoenix to prove Athena's innocence with her first-hand knowledge of Athena's childhood life as her childhood friend.

WE WERE ROBBED.

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You know, interestingly, it seems like it's actually subtly implied that the Kitaki family knew Meraktis left the bullet in Wocky for a while beforehand.

By the time Apollo enters the story, the Kitakis have already begun shifting their organization into a legitimate business, for the purpose of getting enough clean money to buy an honest surgeon with enough skills to save Wocky. Judging by Klavier saying they've amassed a fortune already, it's suggested it's already been going on for a while.

But Wocky only received the checkup report that revealed to him the existence of the bullet the same day of the murder. So this would only make sense if Winfred and Co. knew about the bullet before that point.

But it's unlikely to be because the doctor who did the checkup took Winfred aside and told him beforehand without telling Wocky, because of the subtle hint I've never seen anyone realize: The Kitakis didn't get their checkup from Meraktis.

Meraktis had been their personal doctor for years, but when they have everyone go to get checkups, said checkups are performed by another clinic that never goes named. Which I feel suggests some combination that the Kitakis already distrusted Meraktis and that by the time of the checkups they were already trying to go clean.

It seems to me like the idea here is that when Meraktis failed to produce an actual bullet that had been removed from Wocky's sternum, Winfred or whoever got wise to the fact that Meraktis didn't actually remove the bullet, despite Meraktis's attempts to conceal that fact.

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I feel like they really should've followed up on this statement in one of the later games with something along the lines of someone who used to be a Magician in the Gramarye troupe but then left and became a doctor being tracked down by the Kitakis and asked to do Wocky's surgery.

The only one who could truly save Wocky, in the end, was someone who was both a Magician AND a competent surgeon.