#''oh I'm not hyperfixated on AA anymore'' I thought ''I probably won't do theorycraft for it until AA7''

[loregoddess]

okay, so according to what I wrote up in.....2017, these are the initial birthdate ranges I came up with:

(quick note: I can't copy over the actual charts I made bc they were made w/ the tables function in Word (past me what the heck?) and honestly I want to redo my theorycrafting for this)

Phoenix Wright: between Oct 9 and Oct 11 (I also had notes about his age is incorrectly listed in AA5, but are correct in AA6)

Miles Edgeworth: between Mar 23 and Sep 5 (bc AAI2 hadn't been localized yet, I had a note about depending on if his age was mentioned in the game that it would change that range to between Apr 6 and Sep 5; like Phoenix, Edgeworth's age is wonky in AA5, and a whole slew of notes about wonkiness w/ AA6)

Maya Fey: between Mar 23 and Jun 16 (some notes on wonkiness with info from AA6 as well, past me did not know what to do w/ AA5 and AA6's data apparently)

Gumshoe: between Apr 19 and Jun 16 (note on his age being wonky in Turnabout Reminiscence)

Larry: between Apr 2 and Aug 3 (notes on AA6 age being suspicious)

Franziska: between Apr 6 and 16

Ema: between Jan 1 and Feb 19

Trucy: between Jan 1 and Apr 17 (in AA4 Zak states that Trucy is "fifteen this year" in 2026, meaning her birth year has to be 2011)

Apollo: between Jan 1 and Apr 19

Klavier: between Jan 1 and Apr 19

Athena: between Jan1 and Apr 17

Blackquill: between Jan 1 and Apr 17

Kristoph: between Jan 1 and Apr 19

Ray Shield (Eddie Fender): between Apr 6 and Dec 24

I don't have any other characters in the old document. I will note almost every character has a second range listed if their birth year was changed, bc we only know the canonical birth years of Trucy and Rayfa iirc, so if a character hadn't had their birthday yet, then their age would be listed as a year younger than what their end of year age would be.

The wiki seems to list possible birth years by the age in game assuming it is the characters' end of year age, but like with Rafya, who's birthday is in December, if a character never shows up in late-year cases, we know for certain their birth year. (Phoenix is the only exception, as far as I can tell).

I will also note that past me was not as skilled with the fannish meta analysis as I am now. My skills for collecting, organizing, and analyzing canonical data for fan-theories have significantly improved (and I also know how to use Excel, which is FAR superior when it comes to timeline data analysis), so if you're willing to wait a bit, I am currently reworking these theories and will have updated or confirmed birthdate ranges (with much prettier screenshots of the information in a proper data table) in like, a week's time give or take.

since there's apparently no canon birthday for apollo, i say we as a community have to decide together.

so i will be a series of polls to narrow it down to a singular day. first, we all pick a month, then a range of day, and then we'll pick a day out of those.

I'll reblog this post with the range of days poll so please be sure to look at the notes. The last poll i'll only be able to post once the second one is finished though but if you all look at the notification of when the first two polls are done that shouldn't be a problem.

With that said, I'm hoping a lot of people vote because I think it would be way more fun that way. ❤️