#I forgot how unhinged I used to be about AA

[loregoddess]

When I complete Spirit of Justice, I want to know what you'd like to see in a possible Ace Attorney 7. I know you mentioned you had ideas sometime before and I'm almost at the point where nothing is a spoiler in this series. It's quite exciting! I'll probably have a few ideas of my own for the next entry too. Is it possible Capcom is gearing up for that, since Investigations 2 got localized? If so then... Well. I think I'll have something to look forward to. 💖

Oh definitely, I feel like the fact that Capcom's managed to port all of AA onto current consoles, and even both AAI games managed to make it globally (and significantly more accessible than they had been) gives me a lot of hope we get AA news sometime soon(ish). Capcom's been doing fairly well thanks to RE4 Remake from what I've heard, and the announcement of Okami 2 at the Game Awards was entirely unexpected (I had just assumed Okami was one of Capcom's one-hit wonders, given how Okamiden kinda flopped despite being a decent game in its own right, like Capcom more or less treated Okami like Ghost Trick, a really excellent and beloved game that will not be part of a longer series), so like? Anything's possible.

Now, for what I would like to see in a potential AA7...

The shortest answer possible to "what would I, personally, like to see in AA7" would be a resolution to the loose ends left by AA4 (and 5 and 6, but those loose ends are mostly only loose bc of the loose ends in 4). I want the Forbidden Gavin Backstory (and also for a certain character to get a chance to fucking grieve, and also for the whole Apollo and Trucy are siblings and Phoenix and Lamiroir haven't told them yet thing to uh, finally be resolved, and also for Athena to get some more time as a main character, and...a whole list of smaller things honestly). Realistically I think there's a slightly higher chance of the Lamiroir-Apollo-Trucy family dynamite being A Thing in 7, but this is Capcom and I know their basement is filled with unresolved plot lines and forgotten characters (from games other than AA as well).

But like, the vast majority of my time spent during the height of my AA obsession was going over AA4 trying to figure out what the resolution would have been if the writing team hadn't been changed drastically. Me and a friend of mine spent a ton of time discussing theories and swapping story ideas. So, needless to say, what I personally would be most interested in is the lost story threads surrounding Klavier (I was very, very unwell about him see).

Although there's bits and pieces from 5 and 6 I wouldn't mind expanded either (I'm still so miffed about Clay's death, I'm sorry have the writers seen what spacesuits are like? what they're made of? there's no way that teeny tiny little pathetic excuse of a pocket knife stabbed his heart through a spacesuit. Capcom fight me). AHEM, but realistically? After all these years like, I'm fine to neutral w/ whatever I was dissatisfied with in 5 and 6, there wasn't anything (aside from that stupid little pocket knife) that bothered me enough to stick around in my memory, or, if I do remember it, still bothers me vehemently.

Now, will Capcom return to old plotlines, or will they go batshit and try something new? Well, who knows. I'm a tangential fan to Capcom's Resident Evil series, and have watched RE roller coaster in terms of characters and plotline management, sometimes abandoning beloved characters, sometimes coming back to plot lines or characters no one remembered, so as far as I'm concerned, anything's fair game for any of their flagship series.

Now, I have a ton of documents (theories, notes, story and character ideas, etc.) from the height of my AA obsession circa 2017-18, which this ask prompted me to go and revisit to see what past me was up to, and found I actually wrote up several outlines for potential "AA7 stories" where I did basically just write in everything I personally want (in varying degrees of detail per case). But while I think I had good story outlines (actually I had a ton of fun reading the final outline I had labeled as "the best" and maybe I'll turn it into a whole fic if I ever decide to replay/watch the entire AA series so I can brush up on the lore and characterization), I know it's probably very far off from what we'll get for AA7 realistically.

And like? I'll probably be happy with whatever we do get, even if I don't get my long-desired resolution to AA4. It's been so long...

Anyhow, I'd also absolutely love to hear what you'd like to see in AA7, or just ideas for future AA stuff, once you finish AA6 (I will be very curious about your thoughts on the game as well). It's been a while since I talked AA, due mostly to burnout, but I still have a lot of love for the series, kinda remember the spark I used to have for it, and it's been fun getting a fresh perspective from your posts about your experience with the series.

[laf-outloud]

It’s nice to see Billy Burke, JDM and Jim Michaels standing up for Jared re those idiot girls who accused him of not tipping.

I’m glad to see it, but I can’t help find it funny (weird not haha) that this THIS is what gets coworkers new and old to stand up for Jared? Accusations of being cheap??

It’s like, “yeah, yeah, somone on the internet told Jared to kill himself again. Ope, here’s one who is accusing him of being abusive. This one here says he and his whole family deserve to be hurt, or worse. I’ll just keep scrolling. But this one, this one said he didn’t tip?? They’ve gone too far! I must avenge!!”

Of course, I get that people are more calling out the stupidity and pettiness of the girls for lying and for giving Jared a hard time. And I appreciate it. I do. But … my guy has been harassed far worse for years and it’s been … crickets.

Yes, Jensen has stopped up for Jared on stage. Or I’ve heard on one-to-one basis during ops if somone snubs Jared. But, honestly, would it have killed him to put out a message even once online about not fans being assholes to his “brother”?

I get that it probably wouldn’t change much, but it would have been nice to see.

Misha, on the other hand, is actively a piece of shit. Someone as chronically online as him obviously knows exactly the kind of shit thst gets flung at Jared, and he encourages it with his “jokes”. He leans into shotting if Jared /Sam because his minions eat it up. He’s such a petty loser.

I know in fandom, we can see things as more us vs them, or the cast as Team Jared vs Team Misha then reflects reality, and we don’t know any of these people in person. But the fact that so many of the guest stars blow smoke up Misha’s ass while making fun of Jared just smacks of petty jealousy. Even Mark S who prizes Jared also praised Misha … and I just don’t see anything in the guy but performative “charity” and insincerity.

Granted, I’m far from and unbiased source, but I have “met” both Jared and Misha in photo ops and spoken to both during Meet and Greats, and only one of them comes off as attentive, kind and friendly. The other as superior and disingenuous. I’ll let you guess who is who.

I can’t get over how unhinged the heller and AA element are in SPN fandom. It just doesn’t compute to be so unrelenting my shitty.

Sorry for not getting to this earlier, anon. I read it and somehow forgot to respond.

And yes, I wholeheartedly agree with much of what you've said. I do think the only reason people chimed in was because it was harassment to Jared's face and not the normal (sad to say) online harassment from the anonymous bullies that can be labeled as regular anonymous trolls who are only seeking attention, and who can easily be blocked.