#ACE ATTORNEY FANDOM IS FOREVER!!

[ministarfruit]

APOLLO JUSTICE PORTS AWOOOOOOO

[its-hai-time]

Say hello to my ace attorney zines

[void-pitcher]

cant believe capcom successfully created a character so relatable that fans project their projection onto fictional characters like him onto the character himself

[cornmazehater]

do any of you have that one collection of random fandoms that you can never leave?

because they just kind of live in your head rent free, forever.

[kingdomoftyto]

Have you played Ghost Trick? If you like Ace Attorney you might want to check it out

I have not, but I have been sTRONGLY CONSIDERING IT ever since it was first announced for Switch :') I've basically been hopping from one detective fandom to another since like 2013 so why not toss another on the pile?

[gaymedievaldruid]

I am the best parts of Jonathan and the worst parts of Martin. I am the best parts of Miles and the worst parts of Phoenix. I am the best parts of Zuko and the worst parts of Sokka. The best parts of Catra and the worst parts of Adora. The best of Owen and the worst of Curt. Of Luz and Amity. Of Clark and Bruce.

...I think there might be something about the way I choose my ships to be considered here.

[locallepidoptera]

i've since finished my catch up. and now i'm both happier for it and incredibly sad there's not more. such is life. man. fans' fiction fucking rocks. and i needed a reminder. i'm on my way to reread. wishing you so much luck in all your endeavors!! thanks for being an inspiration!!

happy almost christmas. means it wasn't christmas :)) i had been listening to a new aa1 playthrough to pass the time and it reminded me that. unfortunately. i do think edgeworth is cool (i talk in jest. about it being unfortunate. lol. i'm just not into "cool" charas usually) and it reminded me that i. really need to catch up with saturation. hell maybe reread it once i'm done. i'm in need of good fic. i'm not really a quality snob usually but i've found i just don't have the energy right now to search through the main tag. and your style of writing lets me turn my brain off. < - positive connotation. if that wasn't clear.

^U^ Thanks, and Merry Actually Christmas! ;D And XD, no worries, I get it - Edgeworth is very much one of those "Unfortunately, I'm into it" characters in regards to his everything. And I say that as someone who's writing him one of the world's longest love letters in the form of a fic that's going to break 300k when the next chapter goes up and a tidy (if tiny) little AA merch collection that I'm quite proud of, if I do say so myself. ;)

"and your style of writing lets me turn my brain off" Good, wild as it may sound for a slowburn mega!fic, Saturation's meant to be a nice comfy read, so that you're able to switch off and just enjoy the fic is good. Like, I'm trying to ensure that there's plenty to be found on a deeper read, because I enjoy doing that, but if it's not enjoyable to partake in on purely the surface level, what's even the point? Anyway, thanks for the ask, and I hope you have fun on the catch-up/reread! ^U^

[sparklingsora]

the draw 4 ships meme but it's Oops! All Manosouta!

I love how pretty much every manosouta shipper has their own au so i wanted to draw some of em... so many flavours of horse and monkey.......

1 - my spies are forever au! look uhhh i dont rly have anything for this one aside from a short animatic and a half finished google doc so just go watch spies are forever (it is free to watch on youtube) and you shall see my vision ok

2 - @attorneytrash's assassin au! this one is what got me into manosouta in the first place! i think about it so much......... carousel is still one of my favourite, if not THE favourite fic of all time. argh. so good. tumblr user attorneytrash how does it feel to be the most correct person in the ace attorney fandom. literally my favourite creator in the fandom for years now i really love your work and your ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 - @sannam's prosecutor au....... yet another one from a creator whose work i really adore!!! da sillies........... i think about their goofy little office sitcom romance often........ it was between this and the mafia au but you've drawn more stuff for the prosecutor au so i figured i'd go with this one HEHE

4 - @fizzysgayassposting's knightley lives au, aka check[mate]! man i've already sung this one's praises. i've written a fic for it. i've made an animatic. it's awesome! the golden ending! they happy.........

[nelsonny]

one thing i will never forgive the ace attorney fandom for is the severe mischaracterization and fanonization of manfred von karma. they turned him into an evil harmful abuser and it just makes a weaker narrative overall to me. i dont have any problem with it just being a headcanon because people are allowed to have whatever the fuck they want even if i dont like it but No its considered to be Canon and anyone who likes this character is Bad and its like Babe there is so many other things to hate this man over why do you choose one that is never shown in the games besides Once and that turned out to be a mistranslation and is also from a game that commonly mischaracterized its characters. what are you talking about.

you know what you CAN hate this man over? he was the one that people respected and adored, the one that was considered to be a god amongst prosecutors. he may be cold, stand-offish and a perfectionist, but miles knew he at least cared about him and was his main source of comfort when he needed it. he never knew that he was the one who killed his father and changed his life forever. he never knew that the person that gave him this much love and comfort was the person who made him scared of earthquakes to the point he'd passed out and made him always persistent on taking the stairs. the person who he hugged and cried into the shoulder of being the man who changed it all for the worse.

and for what? because he was a coward. he got scared when his perfect record has it's first penalty - and it wasn't even a loss. he still won. he could've moved on with his life and pretended it never happened. he was still respected amongst prosecutors despite it, after all, it wasn't his fault. yet he just couldn't help it. it was opportunistic and uncalculated. he was filled with such guilt and regret to the point he took in his victim's own son and raised him like his own. knowingly allowed him to cry into his shoulder and told him that it was going to be okay, he's here and that's all that matters when he was the one who took that gun and shot him.

and then people Hate him not because of all of that but because he is an Evil Abuser And Doesn't Regret What He Did At All Because He's Just That Evil.

[ot3]

Reverse hottake. How about aa fandom? Something positive

I am relatively new here (only a year) and need some good vibes

i think the fact that you're a newcomer to this fandom within the last year says a lot about the staying power this franchise has and the dedication of its fanbase. it's been over 20 years since the first ace attorney game came out and there have been people loving it for just as long! a lot of fandoms gain hype fast during their media's publication and then lose steam really fast when people move on to the next new thing, but ace attorney fandom has really proven itself to stand the test of time. as someone who gets into things for the long haul it makes me happy to know that there's going to be some form of community around these games for pretty much forever. it's been almost 5 years since i started playing these games for the first time and i still feel relatively new to it all. it's nice to not feel essentially Rushed to put out fan content within a brief window of relevancy

[citruscatfish]

one of the reasons why i downloaded tumbler — my ace attorney phase. i have feeling that nobody except tumbler ace attorney fandom are still alive

recently i watched great video about Franziska by @musashi and whole 2 hours i was like "YES YES SOMEBODY TALKED ABOUT IT THEY SAID EXACTLY WHAT I TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO ALL MY FRIENDS FOR THIS YEAR Y E S"

and well i think it's my turn to talk about Manfred. because i like this moron. before you ask me wtf let me explain: miles made unforgivable, stupid, aggressive and childish stuff. nobody can grew up in awful condition and become clearly good person. i like him because of his ambiguity. all fandom likes him. but i don't understand why everyone hate Manfred so easy

of course we don't know enough about him, his past, his relationship with family (i mean wife, for example). we only have different headcanons about how he raised miles and 'ziska. but.. it's strange for me why everyone accept so fast that "he is a villain, he is murderer, he must die, forget about him"

first of all, he is prosecutor, lawyer. probably hereditary. me too (seriously), and I saw mean, authoritative people, who can't communicate with their family well, but.. they still love them. you know, all that stuff about justice will settle in your soul forever, when you see courtroom, when you talk with other lawyers (your parents colleagues) from early childhood. you will never forget it, it's part of your life from the beginning. you can be mean, you can make awful mistakes, but you will remember. and probably your parents will press you with all this perfectionism, aesthetic, study and lawyer dynasty stuff. same as Manfred has been pressed, same as he pressed his children later

of course Manfred worked for victory, not only for justice. but i can't believe he did it because he e v i l. maybe he is just like miles in his youngest carrier because of demanding teacher and loathing to criminals? that's why he thought his children same stuff. he was just.. doing his duties. prosecutor must blame someone. somebody must get punished. death, especially violent, is always tragedy. relatives of victim are waiting for explanation, for punishment. it's so painful

next thing: Manfred is old. and he has toddler, and this toddler has noone exept Manfred, her father. i agree that Manfred could take miles because "ah look at me i adopted my rival's boy cause i'm SO generous and obviously NOT guilty ", but how about more reasons? another one child is always lots of work: money, school, adoption documents, this child also has a dog, so it's headache about vet, passport for transportation it to Germany, then dirt and maybe bitten furniture, food for both of them and more, more, more. we can see in anime, that Manfred allowed to take dog too. and by the way, he agreed to raise miles as prosecutor (he didn't force him), he helped him. quite possibly he gave him great education. Manfred understood, that Franziska need someone, who can protect and support her when he leaves her. he also can write it in testament

and how about AAI flashback? Manfred was ready to stay with miles during his first court. he discussed with him details before the beginning. he argued with detective to allow miles and 'ziska get to crime scene. he appointed them to investigate (no one of them asked about it directly, they were shocked and tried their best)

i think Manfred just another traumatized step of long von Karma dynasty. remember how Franziska hug herself when you press her against the wall? compare it to Manfred sprites. he is so self-defensive, when he loses control. controling everything around him — the only thing he can do now, when he became "that smart old person with lots of subordinates". and then Franziska remembered that and trying to repeat. i believe Manfred can be good in little things, he capable to love. i think he literally gone mad with understanding of what he has done on emotions and everyday pain, which reminds about that day

that's enough for first time, thanks for reading and sorry for my eng — it's my first non-translsted from native language text. waiting for your thoughts about it! this is my bf's art, he has no Tumblr, but tg https://t.me/bjdsketch

[oodlyenough]

apollo justice: ace attorney thoughts

over the weekend I finished playing AA4 so I wanted to try to put my thoughts in order. much to think about etc

spoilers for the whole game obv, but i haven't played AA5 or AA6 yet so any mention of those are speculation lol

I had heard some pretty mixed reactions to AA4 and I had a lot of reservations going in. It's also probably the AA game I've played that I've been the most spoiled for, which is a shame but probably an unavoidable consequence of waiting for the port while engaging with the fandom. I don't usually like being spoiled but I think knowing the broad strokes of what to expect actually helped here. I can imagine an AU where I blitzed through the first trilogy and onto 4 with no idea of what was coming and being... very upset and disappointed by the direction it took. Having several months to brace for things like Phoenix's disbarment, the 7 year gap, Trucy, etc definitely softened those blows and made me more amenable to them than I would've been otherwise.

Cases

For the most part I thought the puzzle solving was good and the pacing was solid. The puzzles were mostly challenging enough to be satisfying to solve but not so challenging as to be infuriating, and I don't think I needed a walkthrough at all. 4-1 is one of the best tutorial cases in the franchise so far (though I'd give the edge to 3-1) and 4-4 was a really cool finale. The middle two cases tbh I also found fairly charming, and there's usually a least one case in the middle that seems to drag forever, so that was a pleasant surprise. I played Investigations 1 right before this, and I thought both the puzzles and pacing in that game were frankly horrible, so AA4 won a lot of points just with that.

I did think Turnabout Corner and Serenade would be more relevant in the grand scheme of things. The half-spoilers I knew had me expecting a much bigger web of conspriacy than we ended up with -- I expected it to be more than coincidence that Phoenix got hit by a car, more than coincidence that the Borginian egg coccoons are related to poison etc ... like... I fully assumed this was going to tie into the atroquinine plot. But I guess not ... ? Lol

Characters

The new main cast are all very likable, despite my initial reluctance to have a new main cast to begin with. Klavier was an interesting change of pace as prosecutor, in that he wasn't particularly antagonistic outside of the court, nor was he particularly preoccupied with winning, but he was still fun and challenging enough to face off against. Trucy was fun and delightfully bonkers as all assistants should be. Apollo's longsuffering exasperation was hilarious. Ema is the BEST I loved having her as the detective I wish she was there all the time.

I loved Beanix, for the most part. I can see why he rubs some people the wrong way, and tbh I'm glad his last canon outing isn't ... this. But I didn't find him wildly out of character, or at least, when he was feeling "out of character" vs the trilogy it made sense given the intervening events. I also thought it was fun to see him from the outside and see what a galaxybrain 5d chess master he is. I do wish we'd gotten to see more genuine moments of him with Trucy.

Kristoph was fun as a villain, though I have to say fandom led me to believe he was much more of a mastermind puppeteer than he seemed to be in reality. I was expecting a whole decade worth of conspiracies! Instead he fucked up once and struggled to fix it for seven years, lol. I also found the Kristoph/Phoenix relationship a) very fascinating, b) not really what I'd been led to believe by fandom (shocker). I like the canon more though -- I like that instead of being a retread of the Dollie betrayal-from-someone-you-love it was two guys who hate each other being forced to play nice as part of their own schemes.

Criticism

I think it's fairly obvious AA4 was meant to be a soft reboot of the series, to pivot away from the trilogy cast and set up our new heroes in Apollo, Trucy, and I guess Klavier. I think this is probably the entire explanation behind Maya and Edgeworth (and others but lbr those are the big two)'s conspicuous absence... but that doesn't make their absence any less conspicuous. I can squint and forgive neither of them being there when Phoenix is accused of murder, even though I find that insane. I can squint around Maya maybe being off in Kurain during the Enigmar trial, even though I think they could've used a line of dialogue to explain it. But then we started playing past-Phoenix for huge portions of investigation and that started to fall apart for me. Sure, maybe he's pushing his friends away because he's depressed, or maybe he wants to keep Maya out of things because he thinks it's dangerous, or whatever -- you could at least throw in a line or two saying as much. Not mentioning them at all and setting AA4 so closely after AA3, where Phoenix fell through a bridge to save Maya and Edgeworth chartered a private jet, just feels ridiculous.

I also think, at the end of the day, the story here was focused on and pivoting around Phoenix. The core question of the game is "what the hell happened to/is up with Phoenix Wright?" I love Phoenix, so that alone isn't a negative -- except that I think it meant Apollo, Klavier and even Trucy felt underwritten. Trucy and Klavier have such personal stakes in the unfolding events with the Gramaryes and Kristoph, but we only spend a little time and hints on how that might influence Trucy, who mostly falls into the AA weird girl pattern of brushing off major trauma instantly. (Maya got this a lot too in the original trilogy.)

Klavier ... I like Klavier, but they did not do much with him. How did he feel about Kristoph going to jail? He doesn't seem to hold it against Apollo, which is uh, noble, but perhaps not believable. He says he values honesty and truth but do we know why?

Apollo, likable as he was, felt like a passenger in his "own" game, rather than a major character. He doesn't even solve much of the stuff happening in the big overarching mystery -- he is Phoenix's avatar in court, presenting evidence and clues Phoenix left for him. Unlike Trucy and Klavier, who I am pretty sure take a back seat from now on, I guess Apollo still has two more games to try and flesh himself out ... lol but I also know fan reception of those two is not great, so my expectations there are minimal.

Overall

A really solid game that I enjoyed playing, though I can see why it's controversial and not some people's favourite, if they really loved the trilogy. I think it's debatable whether this was the best/only way to continue the series after AA3. And I am excited to read and write a billion 7 year gap fics now.

[inkandpaperqwerty]

Remember that oneshot I told you guys about? That I might be posting sometime soon for a fandom I haven't written in forever? I did it. It's an Ace Attorney fic from days gone by that was beginning me to revamp and post it. Just some good, old-fashioned Phoenix and Edgeworth friendship with Edgeworth being bad at friendship and Phoenix trying to teach him how to friendship. All it took was a sudden heart attack.

AO3 // fanfiction.net // wattpad

[ihaveanaxe]

Yall I need a mousepad (I spilt pop on my desk one time and it soaked into my old mousepad and it’s forever sticky now) and I was rlly wanting a fandom fanart one, but I don’t have any specific fandoms in mind. Would it be viable to just list my fandoms and have yall send me any mousepads you know of???

Fandoms:

X-men

Starkid

Ace Attorney

Musicals

Smiling Friends

LOTR

EPIC: The Musical

Sam & Max

ROTTMNT

DHMIS

Gravity Falls

The Looney Tunes Show

Steam Powered Giraffe

[greentrickster]

(flops face-down on the bed) It's a bit over nine pages long (front and back), the bulk of the story is written, just needs an epilogue, and I have reached the, "Vaguely depressed, didn't even want to write this in the first place, do I even want to publish this" stage of writing (which, while a common one among many writers, is not one commonly experienced by me personally). I am so tired.

On the plus side, however, I seem to have made it through this without writing so much that my hand fell off, meaning I won't have to grow a new one. So that's nice.

Me: Okay, I'm going to poke at the RWBY fandom a bit, but I'm not a huge fan or even really interested in the source material. I'm here to get some fics on that one side character I like and then leave. I'm definitely not going to write for it.

My muses: You called?

Me: Wait. Wait, no, I didn't mean it-

My muses: You think you get to choose which fandoms you get to write for?

Me: No, look, when I said I definitely wasn't going to write for it, I meant that I assume I'm not going to because-!

My muses: Consider the legend of the jack-o-lantern!

Me: (reaching for my pen, mind ablaze) Fuck you fuck you fuck youuuuuu!!!

[goodoldfashionedmurderboy]

What is a murderboy?

A murderboy is a character that meets the following requirements:

Is male

Either commits murder, commits attempted murder, or directly or indirectly causes a significant amount of otherwise avoidable death

The fandom for the piece of media they're from absolutely does not know how to be normal about them. ("[x character] did nothing wrong" vs "[x character] is the literal devil" type arguments, for example)

So what are we doing here?

Simple! We're running polls to find Tumblr's Ultimate Murderboy!

Round one:

JD (Heathers) vs Magneto (marvel)

The Master (Doctor Who) vs Sebastian (Black Butler)

Oswald Cobblepot (Gotham) vs The Phantom of the Opera

Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen version) vs Ed Nygma (Gotham)

Hans (Frozen) vs Komaeda (Danganronpa)

Moash (Stormlight Archive) vs Dabi (My Hero Academia)

Loki (MCU) vs Steven Universe (Steven Universe)

Klaus (Vampire Diaries) vs Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)

Light Yagami (Death Note) vs Edward Nashton (The Batman)

Kylo Ren (Star Wars) vs Springtrap/William Afton (FNAF)

Guillermo de la Cruz (WWDITS) vs Jim Moriarty (BBC Sherlock)

Ben Mitchell (Eastenders) vs Julian Fawcett (BBC Ghosts)

Ashfur (Warrior Cats) vs Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins version)

Adam (Forever) vs Simon Laurent (Infinity Train)

Guy of Gisborne (BBC Robin Hood) vs Jim Keats (Ashes to Ashes)

Simon Keyes (Ace Attorney) vs Scar (The Lion King)