#Ace Attorney Steel Samurai Au

[a-random-pillow]

Ace Attorney, Steel Samuri AU

This is a re-telling of the AA story but with SI-FI elements based off Steel Samuri.

Since there isn't much Steel Samuri lore in AA, I'm going to have to make some up!

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Long ago there was an old race of aliens, they don't really matter to the story but what does matter is the fact that they made the Samurai Suits. The Samurai Suits were left on earth for reasons and now new aliens are coming to feed of the power of the suits and earth by proxy. So, The Samuri have to rise to face these new threats, face hardships and accidently become celebrities.

Poor Greggy, he gets zero hours of sleep and managed to acquire a little baby who is probably a little alien. Becoming one of the few people capable of defending earth was a terrible choice for his health. The Steel Samuri is world famous and so Gregory has to also deal with hiding his identity, Clark Kent but with 1000x more walking disaster energy.

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Fast Forward to Mile’s middle school days, guess which kid finds a Samuri Suit? Well, he isn't the only one who finds a Suit! Meet the Five Signal Samuri!

Red, The Brains (Miles Edgeworth)

Orange, The Jokester (Larry Butz)

Blue, The Second in Command (Phoenix Wright)

Pink, The Heart (Maya Fay)

Purple, The Leader (Mia Fay)

They have no clue about each other identities, even the sisters but they are all very close friends! They go on wacky adventures together and learn valuable lessons with occasional help for the older Samurai.

Oh dear, don't forget the Karma Samurai, he hates it when people don't give him attention. Can you guess who it is? (Manfred, we all know it’s Manfred)

Things go wrong when the Steel Samurai realizes that the Karma Samurai is faking monster attacks for fame. The Karma Samurai doesn’t want his secret told to the others so he attacks the Steel Samurai and loses, badly. The Steel Samurai thinks he killed the Karma Samurai and leaves, but shock Manfred is not dead. Karma heads back to Germany and licks his wounds and focuses on his lawyer career and child. Then Manfred meets Gregory, the defense attorney and feels a odd sense of DeJa'Vu.

Note, The Steel Samurai dose not tell the others what happened with the Karma Samurai because they are already traumatized enough and some of them really looked up to Karma.

Back in court Manfred gets the plenty commits DL-6.

While later he realizes that Gregory was the steel Samurai because of very specific scars listed in his autopsy report. Soon after Miles moves in with the Von Karmas he realizes Miles is the red signal Samurai because of the boys mannerisms and the fact that the red just showed up in Germany.

Miles isn't having a good time, Manfred revels himself to be the Karma Samuri and lies that the Steel Samurai attacked him because he was too popular (Miles doesn't know his dad is/was the Steel Samurai). Also Manfred says he was crippled by the Steel Samurai, which he why he doesn't fight any more (Actually because of the DL-6 Bullet) So now Miles is being trained as a Samurai and Prosecutor. Franziska is also being trained to take up the Karma Samurai mantel one day, they go flying togther a lot.

Nothing much changes in the Daliah/Early Ace Attorney area expect Mia is even more stressed because she still has to manage the Signal Samurai, minus the only other one with common sense. Oh and the Signal Samurai are now Earth's main protection since Karma and Steel disappeared.

Unfortunately Mia would still die since she didn't have her suit, but her chase would be much easier to solve since she knocked out most of Red White's teeth, and nearly broke his jaw form a single punch. Red White had surprise and a weapon is the main argument for why he could win but there is a strong argument that Mia should have survived.

At the end of Turnabout Goodbyes, after Manfred has all is lies exposed, he dawns his Karma Samurai suit on last time to try and tries to destroy the courthouse and probably the city. Unfortunately for him he transformed in front of ALL OF THE SIGNAL SAMURAI! Manfred doesn't stand a chance, especially with their teamwork being on point for the trial. After Manfred is dealt with the Signal Samurai have a moment to process all the identity reveals that just happened.

They are all upset, excited and shocked to find out the truth but resolve to make themselves a proper team again, even without Mia. Of course, after taking that picture, Mia reminds them that she is really gone.

That's all I got for now, feel free to ask me anything if you have questions. <3

[liimonadas]

randomly rememebered a very silly maya content creator AU i came up with like 2 years ago. its just dumb fun haha

[doctorsiren]

my robotic sillies

[iamtheoneandonlyever]

do you guys-

do you guys think miles and maya have rant sessions about how the steel samurai is definitely gay and has feelings for the evil magistrate and he is SO not in love with the pink princess and how the media is either actively pushing heternormative AND amatonormative standards of having to be married for a fulfilling life, or the writers were going through with the magisteel reveal (THERE IS SO MUCH SUBTEXT, HELLO???) but production cut it out because it was a mainstream kids show and it will "damage children"

and how in-universe, the steel samurai has a lot of pressure from the citizens of neo old tokyo, not only to protect them, but to be a role model, and hence cannot be seen with another man due to homophobic ideology.

And how if he does challenge that, he might be run out of his duty as the city's protector, and if he won't fulfil his duties, who will. So he keeps up the facade until the pink princess publicly discloses her feelings for the steel samurai, which would have been fine, he is a hero, he is used to people fawn over him, but the pink princess is his respectable partner in pursuing justice, and his fans are practically begging him for a reply, and he has no choice but to oblige.

AND HOW HIS LIFE AS A HERO IS NOT ONLY ABOUT PROTECTING HIS CITY AND ITS PEOPLE. HE ALSO HAS TO JUGGLE THE EXPECTATIONS THE CITIZENS HAVE OF HIM, AND AND AND.

and do you think miles and maya collabed to write an arranged marriage au where the pink princess is a lesbian and the rival kingdom's princes are secretly dating?

[solis-solaire]

I like the idea that even though Misty and Gregory divorced, it was one of the few separations in Kurain Village that was amicable and came with plans to visit in order to keep the children involved with both parents. Misty and Gregory split due to their devotion to each of their career paths - Misty can’t be the Master of Kurain in Japanifornia, and Gregory can’t be a lawyer in Kurain. Therefore, an amicable split was made between them (although the people of Kurain still dislike Gregory since he’s “just like everyone else”, but still insists on sticking around despite “making his choice”), and Greg took Miles since he wouldn’t have a place in Kurain.

When their schedules align, Gregory and Miles visit Misty, Mia, and Maya in Kurain (since they have a vehicle, it’s faster than the girls taking the bus). Since they’re all pretty young and the visits are sparse, they gotta re-introduce them almost every time XD. So the drawing are of one (or a few) of those meetings.

Miles cannot People for the life of him, so he seems like a jerk to Mia and Maya at first, but after Miles becomes friends with Phoenix and Larry, maybe he learns to open up better and they become besties.

Incorporating that Maya gets into Steel Samurai thanks to Miles. Signal Samurai ends, but Steel Samurai’s pilot episode goes on the air during one of their visits in Kurain, so Gregory and Misty make it a bonding experience for the kiddies. Mia doesn’t really get into it, since she’s the oldest (probably 15 here, thinking about their age difference :0) and generally isn’t interested in such genres. But Maya LOVES it. She was probably like Pearl at this age - not knowledgeable about the outside world, and generally rule-abiding - but this is her first taste of mischief, and the introduction of cable tv leads her to become more a prankster to keep things interesting.

I wanna post something else about how Manfred gained custody of Miles post DL-6 even though Misty existed, so watch out for that!

[candicoated]

Since people wanted more elaboration on other jobs Wright would have if DL-6 didn't happen. Here's a more common one, actor Phoenix Wright. This is fun because you can go a Broadway route or a Hollywood route, I'm going for the Hollywood route. Since you could make an argument that they are in a warped version of Los Angeles and Tokyo. I have seen this one being used a lot but far less than the artist route.

I just think it would be interesting for him to balance his newfound fame along with maintaining current friendship. Maybe there could be something about him and Miles growing apart as their worlds become more distant. Both being far too busy with their own careers.

And it's fun as well, both Miles and Phoenix having to deal with tabloids, the pressure of the public among everything else is just so interesting.

Also the thought of the obviously recognizable Phoenix having to dodge crazed fans and paparazzi like Lotta Hart for example sounds like a fun and silly concept.

Side Note: How funny would it be if Phoenix started off at Global Studios with Vasquez before getting into bigger and better roles, with a better studio. Especially if Miles takes on that case where he defends Will Powers while trying to contain his fanboying. And Phoenix inevitably ends up as one of the witnesses too. The term unnecessary feelings is about to have a newer meaning now.

Also theatre kid Phoenix is one of my favorite ideas ever so this is a win for me.

[chocochococoffee]

expanding a bit in the Maya Writes Steel Samurai but Uses Phoenix as Base for the Evil Magistrate au, she surely would be the kind of writer who didn't just create a whole new vision of the SS universe, of course after living the Will Powers case and knowing Sal Manella and Dee Vasquez, but also would absolutely would use DL-6 as a big base of it. She knows Von Karma, she got tasered and got into jail by him. She Would do a Steel Samurai who doesn't know (or so he says to himself) how misguided is his own Justice. But also would create a manipulator scene behind it

Inagine if she was there against Gant ahuhuh

She would do a whole fucking series enough for making a book of her own vision of the Steel Samurai, each year encompassing more and more characters and more of her peculiar world view. And I am sure that most of the fanfom would hate that shit because No, Thats Not who The Steel Samurai Is!!!!!!

She would receive so much hate she would probably think its another perk of having bad luck. But its better than getting tasered and kidnapped, whatever.

Shes proba the kinda author that does the "sorry for not updating today! I was falsely arrested :( again :("

Edgeworth would eat those fanfics with gusto though. If he knew the identity of his favorite artists he would fucking put the law at her defense and probably Chide Phoenix for not knowing the dangers of the antis she receives w.

Better for him to not know, though. He deserves to not know how based on real life Maya's stories are.

[stabble]

Still obsessed with my silly little figure skating AU btw

Maya Fey plays the Pink Princess in The Steel Samurai on Ice. She's a fan favorite and super big on social media. Most people don't even make the connection to her older sister, a former pro figure skater.

[thinking-outside-the-giftbox18]

Just a free idea that anyone can use because I like making ideas - WrightWorth edition

This AU is both Actor Wright AU AND no DL-6 AU.

So...I have gotten myself into a spiral within a spiral and because I’m still in The Stanley Parable and somewhat Welcome Home rabbit hole, here’s a Wrightworth AU idea based on an separate idea for one of my AHIT OCs.

And here’s the thing: I don’t know the entirety of Ace Attorney despite reading the Wikia. So, some points would be either wrong or vague.

Now here’s the idea - 

1. Gregory survived the incident, sued Manfred, and adopted Franziska. But decided to move to a new place, so Miles and Phoenix get separated. Phoenix does send letters to Miles tho.

2. Miles grows up to be a lawyer and is mentored by Mia Fey, so he was well acquainted with Maya and Pearl Fey. Miles and Maya are still both fans of Steel Samurai, but like always Miles is more private about it.

3. As for Phoenix, he studies art in college but joins an after class acting club, and through some shenanigans, gets to be an uncredited stunt double of the main lead of the Steel Samurai.

4. Will Powers would then get into an accident that affects his health. At first, he wants to continue acting, but then retires for the sake of his mental health. So, he passes the torch to Phoenix both behind-the-scenes and on the show.

5. Phoenix’s letters to Miles slowed down to a halt, and Miles notices how different the Steel Samurai looks after Powers’ accident. So, he was there when everyone was discussing about whether this Steel Samurai is played by a different actor.

6. And for lols, I picture Miles have a crush on this new Steel Samurai because something about him has a magnetic charm to him.

7. Then Phoenix gets framed for murder and Miles takes the case. he then learns that 1) He's meeting THE [NEW] Steel Samurai, 2) who is his childhood friend, and 3) who is currently framed for murder and 4) Is it Miles or is Phoenix fit as fuck???

8. But in the end, Phoenix is innocent, the real killer was found, Maya and Phoenix get along well, and Miles and Phoenix reconnect and promise to interact more.

That is all that I got for this AU ^^;;;;

Hope it’s interesting and you can change a bit if you want to use it. But do credit me for this idea as you use it; and you reply to this too, I like to hear your thoughts on this AU ^^ - Giftbox

[cherry15329]

Maya’s dress is so cute!

Welcome to our lovable geeks at the Samurai convention :) <3

Art by @nessiemccormick!

[a-random-pillow]

"managed to acquire a little baby who is probably a little alien"

Explain

WHAT DO YOU MEAN A LITTLE BIT ALIEN?!?!

(For you Ace Attorney Signal Samurai AU)

Thanks for the ask!

Well, you see,

Space Alien with cloning machines arc!

Has all you bells and whistles! Clone army, fake out villain death, clone army revolts, near identity reveal, and evil clone Gregory.

At the End, the Alien tries to make another clone of Gregory capable of defeating him and BOOM Miles Edgeworth!

[kingdom-stars]

Something, something, throwing up 'bout my AU all over the page, something, something(?).

Wright & Co. Family bussines

So, this past year I've been thinking about an Ace Attorney AU. Nothing original, just the tri-color trio (Apollo, Athena and Trucy) in the original trilogy

You'd think it'd be the most common AU, but I've seen surprisingly few of them

(Unless I haven't searched well, in which case, post links👀)

So I gave myself the task of making one, because if you want something to go well you do it yourself :V

Clarifications before starting:

This OBVIOUSLY has spoilers for both trilogies, so I'll put a cut here

I decided to move some important moments to fit into the AU, such as:

The trial where Trucy's father disappears was taken by Mia and was for the accidental "death" of Thalassa, he is declared innocent but leaves Trucy because he does'nt think he's a good father to her. Phoenix's last case will still pass and Shadi will still be accused of murdering Magnify Graymare, but Trucy will not be the one to give Phoenix the note and she'll not recognize her father (but Phoenix will)

Simon's trial will pass two years before canon. Phoenix, blessed be his heart, adopts Athena because she has no one else and her relatives in Europe have not been brought up yet

Apollo will be found by Mia while she searches for some other relative of Trucy's and tells Phoenix, who immediately contacts child services to make the adoption

Apollo and Athena decide to keep their last names, Trucy is the only one to change it to Wright, but the three are comfortable with being called by Phoenix's last name

Nothing related to the newly formed Wright Family, Edgeworth decides to adopt Kay after Turnabout Reminiscences, just as he adopts Sebastian after Turnabout for the ages (I just saw that's the official name for The Grand Turnabout and it's DOPE AS FUCK)

Some other things:

Apollo will be 12 in this AU, as that would be the age calculated for this point in the series, Athena would follow with 7 and Trucy with 5

The three of them will reference their respective backstories, Apollo having knowledge about the spiritual channeling thanks to his time in Khura'in, Athena missing her mother and paying attention to Phoenix to become a lawyer and save Simon and Trucy having vague memories of when her mother was still with her

Apollo will have a tendency to use his Chords of Steel™ when he gets nervous and will switch to Khura'ines

Athena would still use the sound canceling headphones (or emotions, whatever) but as the story progresses she will take them off more and more

By the end of the second case, Trucy will start wearing the blue cape

Maya will be a kind of aunt/older sister, Pearl will be the cousin that no one can get angry with and Kay the bad influence gremling cousin(?)

Larry, Gumshoe and Edgeworth will be the ✨Cool Uncles✨. Gumshoe and Edgeworth will take a while to get there for obvious reasons, but they will

Each final case will be in some way related to the three children. This would be with Athena

Without further ado, let's go to the first game!

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

The first Turnabout:

There's not much to change here. Character introductions, dynamic statements, the odd clue about the children's talents and little triggers for Phoenix, but small ones, small ones

Turnabout Sisters:

Slight changes but nothing significant. Apollo's discomfort with the Kurain channeling technique is mentioned for being similar to those of Khura'in, Trucy is the one who notices the butler's lies, Athena hears April May's fear of Red White, Red White attempts to blackmail Phoenix out of the case by threatening to take the children away from him, and Apollo testify on Phoenix's behalf, Phoenix has major triggers here

Turnabout Samurai:

I don't know what I would change here. Gumshoe being rude to Phoenix and Trucy defending him, Maya dragging poor Apollo into fan conversations with Cody and Phoenix bringing up the issue of Dee Vazques' threat at trial, on a separate note, Edgeworth finds Trucy in the prosecution lobby and returns her to Phoenix

Turnabout Goodbyes:

Ohhhh boy, this is the one. Kay makes her debut introducing herself as Edgeworth's daughter/assistant, she is the one who asks them to represent him to Edgeworth's mortification and will help in the investigation with Gumshoe, the three children catch Edgeworth's desperation for this case which makes Phoenix more determined to help him. This is practically the final case for Athena, she sympathizes with Edgeworth's earthquake phobia, she hears von Karma's true intentions but doesn't know how to explain them, she is inspired by Phoenix's story of how Edgeworth and Larry defended him as a child and how that act made him become a defense attorney and decides to do the same for Simon, she feels a strange understanding in not wanting to believe that she killed his her father mother (the black psycholocks sound), she stays by his side when he makes the last testimony and explains his nightmare, even going so far as to grab his hand to give him strength and shout at Von Karma in the face when he tries to ridicule them, when Von Karma's breakdown occurs he tries to attack Athena in the purest Tronchatoro style and then she is saved by Edgeworth. In the end she starts calling him Uncle Edgeworth

Rise from the ashes:

Oh yes, the DLC case, I almost forgot. Apollo and Trucy go full on Gant and his tics, Ema and Apollo bond (no Ship here, just friendship), Athena jumps into full scolding when she sees that Edgeworth wants to resign as a prosecutor because "they didn't spend three days stressing for you to then throw it overboard" or something like that, everyone gets scared by the Blue Badger and everyone wants to kill(?) Meckins

Ahhhhh, finally, I took it off my chest

I have olabs for Justice for all and Trials & Tribulation, but I'll make separate posts for those, you say if you want to hear it or not

Byee~!

[doctorsiren]

Ok but imagine Batman or at least one the two Robins (Kay and Ema) seeing this poll

I had sketched this yesterday after making the poll and I’m not gonna clean it up, but I still wanted to post it because I can

[trashydez]

hi!! im so glad you’re liking my au!! and you’d be correct about the manfred pushing law onto him blablabla ‘maybe if i just do what he wants he’ll stop being a pos to me and fran’ blablabla. (in a way, it did work. but at what cost). as a result, he became a prosecutor (and boy, can you imagine how miles felt about that when he found out. poor guy was reeling, especially after watching a recording of phoenix’s debut trial (state v. fawles) and what happened in said trial)

also, about the music thing, i figured manfred would allow phoenix to play music/use the music room in the von karma estate, but not to play in front of people for some reason (he is a caged songbird, confines covered by a cloth, hidden from the world, only existing to sing for the glee of its captor). and manfred would use his instruments (particularly his violin, that had been gifted to him by (redacted redacted spoilers spoilers LMAO)) as leverage, threatening to destroy/take away his one source of joy/connection to his old life (when phoenix would screw up, he’d burn some of his sheet music or lock the room for days. and yes, this form of punishment onto him continues into his adult life :>)

and yea! fran is in a constant state of “JUST WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE WANT FROM ME” with phoenix and manfred and it causes alot of weird dissonance in her personality- like shes whip crazy and perfection obsessed one second, then shes cracking a pun in court so cosmically stupid that there was no way she’d came up with it herself

about kristoph! i figured since the von karmas and the gavins are both german, and both families are in the law field (altho kris becomes a defense attorney, i figure since klav became a prosecutor, their family likely is just made up of people in law), what if those two met wayy earlier, in whatever rich kid private academy mvk and the gavin parents sent them to? in every universe, kristoph gavin is unexplainably pulled to, like a butterfly to a forest fire, the enigma that is phoenix wright, so what if they were put into the same playing field earlier?

anyway im sorry for rambling, i really wish i could work on this au more and actually write a fic (or multiple) of it, but my exam for my,, i think the equivalent to it is a gcse, im not sure— my that exam is around the corner and ill be really busy until like, february next year. but i wont be abandoning this au! (obviously, i just looked away from my stack of mock papers to type this all out). im really really glad you enjoy this au, i’ll be back in full swing once these exams are finally over!! for now, i actually am nearly done with some doodles of turnabout tragedy franzy, so stay tuned!

Phoenix and Franziska as siblings is an interesting dynamic I need to seeeee

GOD you do not know how much i think of these two as siblings, thank you for being my excuse to talk about them!!

i think if phoenix were frans brother instead of edgeworth, he’d be alot more doting of her- look at how he is with his daughter, afterall. he moves into the von karma household when hes like 9 and she’s 2 years old. she was a Baby. a Baby who can talk in full sentences for some reason, but a baby nonetheless.

and he is So doting and caring, raising her in contrast to how von karma was raising her. we see that despite how franziska von karma she is even as a child in the anime, she is sweet and worried about miles’ wellbeing, so ive no doubt itd extend to phoenix if he and miles swapped places.

except, obviously mvk has some issues with whimsy and joy because, well he’s von karma. so he likely doesnt approve and actively berates phoenix for caring for fran, saying its weakness and she’ll grow up to be useless and a dishonour blabla. it gets fran in trouble too though, so i think as time goes on phoenix would start to act less openly affectionate and more cold, but still caring, despite showing it in his own,, convoluted way. as time goes on too, i think the constant beratement from mvk, the pressure of the von karma name and other things i cant say here lest it be spoilers to my own au starts to wear at phoenix’s wellbeing, and it takes a toll on his relationship with franziska as fran tries in all her eight year old might to bring back the boy who’d always smile at her.

anyway i think unlike how miles and fran are like a prince and princess and mvk is the king, i think phoenix and fran would have a princess and her first knight kind of relationship, to put their dynamic simply

[yellowistheraddest]

LADIES, GENTLEMEN AND FELLOW CONTORTIONS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, i present to you 9 drawing requests with accompanying commentary...

request one:

honestly its not a crime but they are criminally curious to learn the rich history of Dallas in 1963! i mean arent you curious, you should google what happened there on november 22nd!!!

request number 2:

OH BABY you know i love making people feel :( my most popular post is characters crying so i was supposed to have fun with it but 3 people hugging - dude, i was no the verge of insanity and in the end pearl just kinda got swallowed up and disappeared.

[[7 MORE UNDER CUT!!]]

request tres:

coming from the last drawing i was still on the 'lmao get sad' bandwagon, and simon and athena they have lived through somethings so once again i drew people crying :D so heres a drawing of little athena and her goth uncle having a nice little hug and nothing ever went wrong

request četiri:

by now everyone should know that my favourite AU is these two bastards meeting before phoenix became a lawyer; ya know so he doesnt need to break his back trying to learn law as an art student - not that he learns much as he doesnt know what a cross examination is in his first case,,

request pénte:

this request marked the second day of drawing.

now,, i might have not read the request before i drew sooo i kinda just drew them taking a selfies at a steel samurai con so i kindly edited the second drawing to contain a peace sign. [the plush is the hellish creature named the iron infant [from AAI i think] and i bet its like the worst character in the franchise and these two will definitely burn it when they get home]

request numero sześć:

now i swore to never post kissing on here so i spare myself of the cringw when i look back later, so just dont read the first half and enjoy the way i found out you cant really draw flicking without making a comic. like the motion is so small yet so powerful how do you draw that?!?!?!?!?!? this looked miles better in my brain...

request shtatë:

you know what else is like rocks? big frozen chunks of ice, like the one here :D

RIP LMAO

request huit:

ah the t4t to end all t4ts. ron is definitely a guy to fall at first sight and bro desiree is the definition of girlboss

also people forget that larry was rons coworker and i need more content of those two because they are just wildly opposite

[edit: ''sir are good'' HUH??? brother i need to go to sleep and just not draw for the next millenia]

now we have arrived at the end of our trip...

you may be thinking "yellow, you said that there were 9 drawings!"

YES, but no.. theres probably a reason behind this but when i opened my inbox and saw this was like a game character who was stun locked. i mean look at this, aka request number NINE:

love ya to death, babes, but please get some rest because i think you forgot to write in the characters you wanted to see. despite that i decided to draw what you requested:

now just imagine whichever characters you waant in those places! wait was your request an investment so you can have an infinite amount of ships inserted into this pose???

anywho, ummmmm.. yeah Now we have reached the end - but do not fear, im not dying or going away. im still going to be here on my ace attorney bullshit as long as my brain can stand.

sadly i have to say GOODNIGHT, LADIES, GENTLEMEN AND FELLOW CONTORTIONS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. may we meet once again when the planets align and it rains in the greatest depths of the ocean o7

[solis-solaire]

I am OBSESSED with that AU where Miles is a sibling of Mia and Maya,, and all of them are children of Misty and Gregory. So here’s an essay I wrote about it!

Ideas are inspired by by many other comics on here tagged with #mystic miles au and #miles is a fey au. I also grabbed inspiration from this fic, so please check it out! https://archiveofourown.org/works/8724838

SPOILERS for the Ace Attorney Trilogy ahead, particularly case 3-5!

SO,, Since Iris and Dahlia moved away from Kurain at a young age and are close in age to Phoenix and Miles,, maybe they went to the same channeling school in the city as Miles.

Iris is purple and Dahlia is pink by the way lol

Gregory is a GOOD father so he would send Miles to channeling school since he’s interested in it (and also has powers,, as it turns out. The Fey blood be powerful like that)

And even though Iris and Dahlia’s dad sucks, maybe part of the divorce arrangement for him and Morgan would be that he’d also send them both to channeling school under the guise of them not losing their culture (but Morgan only cares about having a legacy at this point since she wants to put one of her own as the Master of Kurain, ONE of them needs to be able to be a spirit medium).

So they all meet when they’re like 8-10yo,, and Dahlia sucks and would probably bully Miles frequently for being the only boy in the class (since spirit channeling is meant to be passed down through the women in the family. Just for the sake of this au though,, it’s possible for men to inherit the ability, but the amount of times it’s happened in Kurain can be counted on one hand,, so it’s really rare). Dahlia’s projecting hard since at this point she’s def grappling with feeling like a massive failure because of her lack of powers and is taking it out on Miles,, easy target

Iris is feeling it too, but wow she has a friend now to support her! and Miles is like “no you’re so good at other things! You don’t need to be able to channel spirits to have worth, that’s dumb!”

Dahlia totally makes some mess up about Miles having “stolen” her and Iris’ abilities when it turns out Miles can actually channel spirits since “HE’S NOT MEANT TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT” and Iris doesn’t believe it at first,, but when Miles disappears a few weeks later (adopted by Manfred 🤢) she gets hella gaslighted.

Miles also knows like nothing about spirit channeling since he’s a silly city boy who doesn’t live with the Feys in his family,,, so Iris teaches him many of the technical basics when he first starts there 😌 in return they’re often partners for exercises and Miles tries to help her understand the more internal part of them.

Not pictured: Miles consistently ties his kimono the wrong way (right over left is only used when the wearer is dead) because Morgan taught him that “all men in Kurain should tie it that way” - aka she believes Miles should be dead bc her own personal vendetta against Misty + he’s a boy with more powers than her and her children (pre-Pearly) and she took that personally. She didn’t think he’d learn any different since he was moving to the city anyway so who would teach him about that kind of thing? Miles doesn’t learn why she taught him that way until 3-5 and he kinda privately has a moment like “that was on purpose. She wanted me dead. Oh MAN”

I also like to think that Miles’ strong sense of justice rubbed off a little on Iris and stuck with her through adulthood. Maybe she told Phoenix the truth in university and tried to warm him about Dahlia’s plan, but Feenie’s a little too dumb to fully put all the pieces together like that pre-murder. He’s just like “Dollie wdym???? Twin sister? Trying to plot my murder?? You’re so funny ily” and Iris is SOBBING like “Feenie PLEASE it’s been 8 months and I still haven’t gotten her necklace back yet she’s going to kill you TOMORROW” And that makes Phoenix a little less INSANE for Dahlia during the trial making Mia’s life so much easier. He doesn’t eat the necklace bc he kinda knows it’s REALLY important here and he’s gotten other signs that Dahlia’s an awful person. He’s still a bit difficult since he’s still in denial,,, but he’s less of a simp because he WAS warned. Case 3-5 probably also comes to close a little sooner since Iris is less willing to cover for Dahlia like that. She still helps her sister,, but when testifying while facing Phoenix AND Miles she may tell the truth a LOT sooner.

Also when Miles gets adopted by Manfred he can no longer attend channeling school. Misty tried to fight for custody of him when Gregory got clapped but failed since she was under fire because of the DL-6 Spirit Channeling Incident of 2001™️ and she wasn’t seen as a good fit to parent an additional child. Because of this,, Manfred isn’t under obligation to do anything to keep Miles in touch with the Fey side of the family. Miles no longer visits his siblings and Manfred pulls him out of channeling school because “it’s a waste of time,, why do that when you could speedrun becoming a prosecuting attorney?” And although Miles DOES enjoy law,, he also enjoyed spirit channeling. I hc that Manfred lives on one of those big fancy acreages, there’s 100% a waterfall somewhere on his property so Miles would sneak out through his teen years and practice his chants sitting under the flow of water like 4 times a week since that’s the only exercise he remembers from school that he can actually do by himself without a bunch of materials. It’s not proper training since he doesn’t know how to push himself aside from doing it longer each time,, and other exercises are necessary for learning how to control the powers (i say that waterfall exercise is for becoming in tune with the powers and connecting with the spirit world as a whole instead of channeling one person in particular. It’s good for expanding the reach and flexibility of the powers,, but not so much for controlling and restricting them)

This leads to Miles having INSANE spiritual energy and Pearly and Maya can FEEL it when he’s around,, but he sucks at controlling it. He’ll look down the hall in the courthouse to the elevator where his dad got killed and hear screams and see blood. In 3-5 when Dahlia un-possesses Maya in a fit of rage,, she DIVES for Miles and possesses him in a last-ditch attempt to kill Phoenix in pure fury. Miles can’t stop it or control anything that’s happening as Dahlia uses his body to jump over the desk and lunge at Phoenix in an attempt to strangle him,, and it’s only stopped by Phoenix pulling the demon-warding hood from the court record and tying it around Miles’ head. Thankfully it was painfully obvious that Miles wasn’t himself because his appearance and voice changed (Kurain Technique style) - his hair got longer and braided itself to match Dahlia’s,, and his suit jacket suddenly didn’t fit correctly since Dahlia’s much smaller in stature than him. Phoenix attests to this and Miles thankfully gets off scot-free,, but it could’ve easily been another Reunion and Turnabout-type situation with a spirit medium murdering someone while they were channeling someone who was already dead.

Afterwards Maya drags Miles to Hazakura Temple to do the special training courses with her. Miles enjoys it although he hates being imperfect at something (we hate Manfred in this house),, but Maya is very kind and supportive to her older brother 😌