#Atroquinine

[laughing-moonlight]

I have a personal headcanon that Kristoph started off as a normal, healthy child but when he was around 10 (Klavier would be around 2-3 at this time) he because increasingly sickly and weak and eventually bedridden. He could barely move and spent most of his time asleep in bed or studying whilst little Klavier got to play outside in the sun and seemingly got all of their parent's attention. Although Klavier could most often be found curled up against Kristoph as the elder read to him.

Even before his sickness, Kristoph's parents were quite protective and even more so now, yet they hardly seemed to bare down the same way on Klavier. Kristoph became paler, hair and eyes becoming lighter. He needed glasses. He was constantly thirsty (for tea). Because one/both of Kristoph's parents were actually poisoning him. In my eyes, it was his Mother and his Father and Klavier had no clue.

All those physical changes and his debilitation mirrors when Diego Armando was poisoned. Godot's were more drastic, as Dahlia gave enough to almost kill him off in one dose. However, Kristoph was sick for years, and so his aren't quite as bad.

He was given not nearly enough to kill, as this had gone on for years, but the Gavin Mother was so protective over her kind, smart, beloved firstborn that she wanted to keep him closed-off from the world and solely reliable on her for the rest of his life. She was a very obsessive, disturbed woman, but the Father was so enamoured with his wife that he never saw her that way. (Her reasoning for why they even had Klavier in the first place is so they could "have a child each".)

Then their parents both died in a car accident (the boys around 13 and 5) as per the most popular community headcanon, and Kristoph eventually gets better when doctors realise just what his mystery illness really was. As soon as he is well enough to leave the Gavin House and Germany (which takes another few years, at about 17-18 and 9-10), he takes Klavier with him to America while he studies law. Even now, Klavier is still scared that Kristoph could end up permanently in a bed or even dead from his "illness" returning.

Somewhere, deep down, Kristoph does know the truth about his Mother poisoning him, even though the doctors never told him the truth. And that's why it's his preferred method: it runs in the family.

[zato-3]

After the events of Apollo Justice, I feel like Klavier would have removed Atroquinine, My Love from all streaming platforms and made sure it couldn’t be played anywhere again. It would only exist in fans uploading it onto places like YouTube where newer fans would eventually discover it and comment things like “wow i thought I’d listened to everything and I’d never hear a new Gavinners song again because they broke up before I was even a fan, but I found this gem!” Then there’d be the shock of realising why it had become hard to find. It would be featured in iceberg vids alongside “Klavier’s brother is a murderer” and there’d be videos titled something like “The Gavinner’s Platinum Hit That Vanished For A Dark Reason…” 

[leshrom]

my piece for @amlzine, a transfem kristoph zine!!! free digital release is out!

[nyaagolor]

Atroquinine Headcanons

"Vex this didn't need expansion why are you doing this" because I love overthinking things

Atroquinine is the name of a chemical found exclusively in Borgnian cocoons. It has two enantiomers-- the R enantiomer is the poison and the S enantiomer is the medicine that can cure incuritis. For obvious reasons this is a pharmaceutical nightmare

(For context, enantiomers are chemicals that are non-superimposable mirror images of each other, like this:)

When extracting atroquinine from the cocoons, you'll get a racemic mixture (50:50 of both enantiomers). It's costly and difficult to isolate the S enantiomer, which (coupled with the R enantiomer's extremely low LD50) makes atroquinine extraction highly dangerous and led to its restriction to Borgnia

Atroquinine (the poison) is closer in my mind to Strychnine but with a few elements of V-series nerve agents. The symptoms (burning throat, arching back, trembling limbs, onset of 10-20 minutes) are more consistent with Strychnine while the physical properties (non-volatile, odorless liquid, long shelf life, extremely low LD50) are closer to VX and similar nerve agents. This is Ace Attorney and actual chemistry means nothing so I'm just gonna mash the two together and call it a day. VX being an AChE inhibitor is irrelevant bc I think glycine receptor antagonists are sexier

[amlzine]

Zine update!

Hello all! If you’re on twitter and follow us there, you’ve likely been seeing our contributor spotlights and all the stellar promo work that mod Sunlight has done— but in case you haven’t, I’m posting to announce that Atroquinine My Love: A Transfem Kristoph Gavin Zine is nearing completion!!

Pieces are coming in, fics are being formatted, and the day for posting is fast approaching. We can’t wait to show you all the incredible art and writing that has gone into this project!!

[cornertheculprit]

wait i have one more thing to say on the subject. this post is krisnix in its own warped way:

it didn't change anything (the atroquinine traps were planted long before kristoph and phoenix became proper friends). it didn't save anyone (and god knows phoenix wright has a savior complex a mile wide). there were just too many forces against it (the diary page, the atroquinine traps, kristoph's utter inability to relinquish whatever forms of control he has). but it still matters that the love was there (it matters because it made everything so much worse. because they took each other's respective "betrayals" so much more personally even when logic dictates that they should have seen it coming. because even when it ended with kristoph screaming phoenix's name in the middle of a breakdown on the witness stand it still matters that they knew each other for seven years and even after they'd gone and turned on each other one of the first things they say when phoenix visits kristoph in his cell is "...you look well, phoenix wright." "you, too...gavin."). their relationship (whatever it was) was a tragedy before it even began and they still took it as hard as if they'd never expected something like it to happen at all.

[fandomaddict505]

FEAR!!!! PANIC!!!!!!!!!

[gautierprotectionsquad]

I wrote lyrics for the Gavinners hit song: Atroquinine My Love

I’ve been poisoned but I don’t know when Was it at hello Or the first night over Was it at dinner Or maybe when I drove her (home) Bitter-Sweet memories Haunt Me When I’m All Alone

Laughing in the daylight turns to sunburns in the midnight

Hide the Evidence (hide the evidence)

Wish there was physical proof of my pain But now my death will remain Unsolved ATROQUININE, My Love

I’ve been poisoned

I don’t know when it all started But now that we’ve parted All the evidence is gone Nothing remains Except for what’s left in my veins ATROQUININE, My Love

Laughing in the daylight turns to sunburns in the midnight Hide the Evidence (hide the evidence) There’s no physical proof of my pain My death will remain Unsolved ATROQUININE, My Love

Everything was all fine But your hatred was burning inside Dinner date turned murder case My love for you turned bitter taste Makeup over fingerprints No one has seen her since Love letters in the fireplace I find it so easy to erase ATROQUININE, My Love

Laughing in the daylight turns to sunburns in the midnight Hide the Evidence (hide the evidence) Wish there was physical proof of my pain But now my death will remain Unsolved

ATROQUININE, My Love

I’ve been poisoned

ATROQUININE, My Love

Notes:

I wrote this a year or 2 ago but never posted it anywhere. I'm more of a poet than a lyricist so i don't know the notes or anything. I was trying to write how a teenage Klavier would and based it on early 2000s rock. I wanted it to look like an edgy break up song on the surface but hint at something deeper.

[lawyeryuri]

LUMINOL IS REAL???? ITS A REAL BLOOD TEST??????.

[eleccy]

my insane lawyer gf 😜

[fortunefavorsthebrave-dude]

only got one more case to sum up for the aj outline then it’s on to scriptinggggg

[mekatrio]

random headcanon that nobody can disprove: kristoph had dated doug swallow too

[crplpunkklavier]

hey after kristoph gavin planted atroquinine in a kid's favorite nailpolish, while he was spending seven long agonizing years waiting for the kid to actually poison herself, how badly do you think he pissed his dumb little blue pants when 6 years in his brother presumably out of nowhere published a song titled "atroquinine my love" and made the whole world sing it for a little while

[ajihaew]

atroquinine, my love

[khairosclerosis]

☀️ ‘ don’t go sharing your devotion,

lay all your love on me ! ’

collab made with pm for the transfem kristoph zine, “atroquinine, my love!” [ @amlzine ] i did the sketch and lineart, they did the beautiful colour and rendering! we did two of them, check out the other half either in the zine (it’s free!) or on their post :]

my lineart & sketch under the cut ⭐️

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[hychlorions]

inspired by a late night conversation with @atroquinine-my-love

why don't you want to help your flesh boyfriend apollo 😔