#AAI2 spoilers

[f1shm0rgue]

sketching them bc theyre always on my mind

[sage-nebula]

This is literally the funniest fucking thing Edgeworth has ever said

[kilometresrufflefuck]

(miles edgeworth voice) cringe as fuck. not even camp

[gumdefense]

Edgeworth the president was murdered

[nyaagolor]

Everyone talks about how silly Ace Attorney is but only ever mentions the parrot and the Almost Christmas thing, so here’s a few highlights of insane shit that happens in Ace Attorney that I personally adore:

The famous orca defendant from Phoenix’s first case after disbarment turns out to be the secret sibling of another orca… who was also falsely accused of murder

The final case of what is widely considered one of the best games in the series involves a clown crushing the president of fantasy Hong Kong to death with a hot air balloon. The president turns out to be a body double who replaced the original president 15 years prior. This is all taken completely seriously

The inciting incident of effectively the entire series was an episode of cupcake wars that went really, REALLY poorly

The plot of the most recent mainline game is “what if defense attorneys were systematically oppressed by the government”

The main character gets hit by a car in one of the cases and walks it off. He does sprain his ankle though

Two separate characters can summon butterflies in court and make their scarves levitate. They have literally no relation to each other and this inexplicable telekinesis is never mentioned by the cast even once

A major plot point in one of the cases is someone tying a corpse to the end of a rope and then pendulum swinging them across a bridge so aggressively they get launched 30 feet into the air on the other side. This is fully animated and you get to watch it happen no less than 4 times

[small-spanish-face]

Frank Sahwit voice Don’t worry she doesn’t bite ☺️.

[pcholkachai]

thinking.... what if baby miles and baby manosoutas knew eachother and were chess buddies for a brief moment before the whole is-7 and dl-6 thing

i think they didn't go to the same elementary school but they met at some chess tournament. i always thought knight's motivation was kinda childish so i imagine miles beat his ass at chess so he went like wait i need to be better than everyone even those who're older & have more experience than me to earn the approval i want :( and then the rook thing happened. imagine caring about the character named bronco. couldn't be me

[arisugawa-rio]

"lit freaks pretending to be meek" omfg that's ✌︎( ᐛ )✌︎

[anaizzzen]

Luckly, grinding people's self-belief into dust is kind of a hobby of mine.

[caljordan]

“Are you crying from Ace Attorney sprites?”

“The way that our mannerisms are a reflection of the people we are surrounded by got to me.”

“All right.”

[bitterseaproduction]

AA7 game idea? Playing AS Eustace Winner. As a prosecutor. With a new face/Athena as your main rival, Edgeworth as your main mentor, and Phoenix Wright as your final prosec- I mean defense lawyer.

Give me back Phoenix Wright, but as my Red in Pokémon: The final boss you have to take on. Make me prove to Phoenix Wright himself that his client is guilty against all his bluffs & efforts, without dismissing or disrespecting his faith in his clients. Make a tale of struggling to reach justice and truth from the other bench, with all the conflict of Case 2-4 but without a kidnapping motivation or an early villain reveal. Make us tear apart the lies and fight to make everyone, including Phoenix, face the truth, only to underline how it was never that he should have doubted his client, but that he should trust US. Trust the prosecution even when their name isn’t Miles Edgeworth to help him find the truth.

Give me back Phoenix Wright, show him at his strongest, but also show that, even at your peak, there are still new lessons to learn from new perspectives.

[fcstellae]

THEY FUCKING CHANGED THE THE SIGHT OF THAT MAN STILL SHINES BRILLIANTLY IN MY EYES LINE I HATE EVERYTHING. CHAT THIS MIGHT BE THE FINAL STRAW.

[sage-nebula]

I understand that Phoenix can't show up (beyond background cameos) in the AAI games because that would detract from them being the Edgeworth games, and that the writers were so dead serious about this that even saying his NAME was off limits, but I'm sorry, the most unrealistic thing so far is the fact that Phoenix didn't kick down the detention center door the second Edgeworth got arrested again. Perhaps Edgeworth resigning wouldn't have made the news, but him getting arrested again would, and you KNOW Phoenix would be at the detention center IMMEDIATELY like, "Tell me everything, I have my badge and the magatama and I'm not afraid to use them!" Maya and perhaps even Pearl at his side. Like look me in the eye and tell me I'm wrong. You can't because I'm right.

[kilometresrufflefuck]

[sannam]

happy release announcement day to the best game in the franchise

[dreameralive]

i think one of the most noteworthy things about Blaise that i haven't really seen anyone discuss is his tendency to liken others to children, his weaponization of it, its relation to him being a child abuser, and its relation to his defeat.

one of his first lines of dialogue, before he even introduces himself, is him humiliating Franziska by calling her 'little von Karma', and then bringing up something retroactively embarrassing she did as a little girl.

he frames this as genuine nostalgia, but to me, it's pretty clear this was a purposeful, and almost sadistic, powerplay.

there's also these lines. these aren't too strange, out of context - "let's all play nice" is a relatively common phrase, and in the second screenshot where he's discussing Kay and Edgeworth's friendship, they are literally youths (well, compared to him). but in context, it's clear that this is part of him attempting to assert his dominance over everyone else.

he wants to let everyone know that he is the adult here, and all they are is children - and thereby, they are completely powerless to his end-all authority, so they shouldn't even bother attempting to resist. this is further emphasized during his logic chess segment.

he calls Edgeworth 'my boy', he reminds him that he is his 'senior in life', he tells him he's being naïve. he threatens to never give back his prosecutors badge if he doesn't stop trying to question his authority. he asks him, mockingly, if he's scared. then, while grinning, he tells him that there is nothing he can do, and he should give up already.

he once again, more blatantly this time, is attempting to force someone else into accepting that they are the weaker party and that he could do anything he pleased to them, and once again, he is weaponizing the societal power imbalance between a child and an adult to do so.

i could go on and on for a while with more examples of this, but then that would make this post really long and rambly. so, instead, i'm going to discuss what his behavior ultimately results in.

this is probably one of the most disturbing interactions in Ace Attorney.

he does this purely so Sebastian will feel humiliated and ashamed in front of his colleagues, people he respects and who in turn are supposed to respect him. he does this to remind Sebastian that he is his father, and Sebastian is his child. to Blaise, that means he has complete control over him. and until this point? he actually does.

he has controlled every aspect of Sebastian's life to be exactly how he wants it. his path in life, his school, his tests - even Sebastian's constant usage of his surname serves as a reminder that Sebastian's only purpose to his father is to be an extension of him, a tool to feed into his ego. an object. something he owns.

note how, in their sprites, Sebastian is typically tilting his head slightly downwards, and in his crying sprites, he's leaning down. meanwhile Blaise stands high, and in his grinning sprites, his head is tilted up, as to literally look down on the person he's talking to.

but in the end, right before Blaise is convicted, right as Blaise tells him he should just remain his idiot son, Sebastian is looking up as he tells him goodbye. a way of saying that he's not beneath him, and he won't let him act like it anymore.

Blaise is immediately infuriated by this, and says all you've ever been able to do is depend on me. he screams Sebastian's name in anger - but it's cut off.

in fact, there is no more dialogue from Blaise after this. because he has no more authority, no more ability to scare Sebastian or anyone else into submission. in the end, Sebastian has finally taken back his autonomy that Blaise has robbed him of. so has Kay. so has Simon. all of them are children he has mistreated, threatened, and jerked around for his own selfish gain, but ultimately, they all still have more power over their own lives than he ever will again.

there's a lot more i could say on this, but these are all my thoughts i could organize. thanks for reading.