#Klavier and Snufkin are there too

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I think?? I get Flora's design now??? She's very cute I think she'd make a fantastic legal aide for Athena. Let the gals go off on their own wild rides!!

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Actually, here's a smorgasboard of fic recs because why not --

The Things We Do For Gym Access by Queenychu (ongoing): Klapollo fic where they are fake dating and gym buddies. Lots of cute drama, a slow burn making me chew on my own arm, and describes gender euphoria so well it gives it to me second hand (also makes me want to get back to a Gym lol)

In Pursuit of Justice by StrawhatsandDelibirds (ongoing): Apollo Justice from the view point of Klavier Gavin!! This one gets the Wocky and even Stickler voices so goddamn well it's awesome. Also love to see Klavier being both a wreck and the huge dork that he is, I legit cannot wait to see where it goes.

Your Own Cupid by mngwa (complete): a very very cute Ace Attorney fic where Athena is tired of these pining Narumitsu and Klapollo happening around her and so takes matters into her own hands. Kinda. I have a soft spot for these types of fic where the whole point is to setup the pair I'm into lol

Klavier Gavin and the Case of the Anonymous Letter by apolloyoostice (complete): Klavier is a MENACE I, too, would immediately take back my attempt to confess like that lol.

Tomatoes, laxatives, and other things that don't belong on sandwiches (complete): Klapollo work scuffle in which I sided with Apollo the whole time, but absolutely revelled in Klavier's cowardice. Probs steps over a few bounds I don't quite agree with, but it's still a fun romp!

Tragedy by Verse (complete): Phoenix Wright and his relationship to an outer god who seemingly controls the trajectory of his life while it is present. Absolutely beautiful and, indeed, tragic.

Darling, Oh by bootishbint (complete): Snufkin and Moomin have a day at the beach. I nearly have the summary of this one memorised, I like it so much. The language in here and just the title haunt me so, I'm love it.

And Worship the Trousers That Cling to Him by ladysisyphus (complete): a Persona 4 everyone/Yosuke sorta comedy fic. This made me laugh so hard with a bonus HELLO???? moment with Yu specifically near the end. ""If I didn't have this, no one else would be able to have you."" LIKE HELLO!!! I am HERE for casual shit like that dropped in there, Yu is a goddamn funnyman XD

anyway yeah have fun

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DIRECTOR'S CUT! give me the rundown on Lemon Boy!

Oh god uhh. That is three whole chapters lol it's gonna be a bit long oof

Okay so like. The concept started from this Cavetown Album (called Lemon Boy, fittingly) and me singing Lemon Boy to myself one day and going, "huh. Apollo and Snufkin both fit this song. I should do something with that." (I pretty easily spiraled into shipping the two help)

I wanna be ten feet tall!! I wanna grow big red horns!! I wanna eat fire and snow!! And scare everyone!!

Uhh yeah go listen to Ten Feet Tall it's a good song. Very Apollo vibes.

(I love to write to music, if you couldn't tell. Sprinkling in the motifs or imagery of them is like my fave thing to do it's so much fun.)

It is very important to me that you understand that Apollo's love language is to shove. This is my headcanon and I will go to the grave pushing this agenda. XD

The concept of Apollo tracking down one of his old foster caretakers was actually something I came up with while jamming out a different story with Tega. It was a nice little heartbreaking thing to include in Apollo's backstory and so I put it here. Shit's fucked, my boy, I'm sorry.

(Maple and Ginger were purely named for food. Also lesbian couple because idk I will also die on this hill that Apollo is gay and had a lot of gay in his life.)

I am pushing an Agenda and y'all will have to live with it. XD

But for real, I just like the concept of a young Snufkin, not really knowing any other way to console his friend, kissing him first and explaining it after. Snufkin and Apollo can understand each other in a way not a lot of the other kids around them could, so of course they'd also have a bit of a different relationship than those others.

This was also a good setup for the final chapter but it's really the entire reason I wrote this fic, I wanted this scene where Snufkin kisses Apollo and then Apollo pays it forward later in his life.

so uh I wrote the Clay chapter *after* finishing the first and last chapters!! I was originally just not gonna include a Clay segment (he was giving me too much trouble), but then I had a burst of inspiration and slammed it out so hey Clay gets to be in this lol.

Also furthering my Apollo will bite agenda. I love the idea of Apollo not actually getting bullied because he fought back, but getting ignored and avoided actually because, again, he fought back. I think it fits his character pretty well to have that in his background, considering how desperate he is for validation.

Clay is also weird to me. Like, he's such a blank slate for characterisation that I end up not knowing what to do with him half the time and that kinda makes him boring to me. He's only fun because *I* made him fun, which can be nice but like. The Ace Attorney roster is filled with too many good characters for him to stand out at all. Dual Destinies made Clay an important fixture in Apollo's backstory, though, so fuck me I guess.

Finally, Klavier chapter!! I got to start off with Apollo just buying the concert tickets Klavier sent, which as you know is my favourite little detail. Klavier sending these tickets is such an unhinged move but Apollo then buying them without a second thought is just as unhinged, these two are dumbasses and perfect for one another. XD

IT'S ME I'M STILL MAD ABOUT THIS. Phoenix goddamn Wright you cannot make Apollo present two (two!!) pieces of forged evidence and then never apologise for it!!! And then Spirit of Justice rolls around with Dhurke's whole deal and!!! Makes everything worse!!!

I have a whole ten or so rants about how AJ's ending is made worse actually by SoJ's inclusion (because how could Apollo be "too new" to law when he grew up with a literal disgraced defence attorney?? How could he have nothing to say on the poisoned system when he's known Dhurke and Khura'in's whole deal for all his life??? I'm upsetti I am so upsetti about this) but I'll save that for another time >T

I just really like this bit. Absolutely added this scene it does not exist in canon, but. I like Apollo's last line. Maybe one day you won't be such a coward, Klavier. Maybe one day you'll stop running from the truth.

And agh. The whole conversation scene in the lobby is just. Catharsis but not. I ended up playing the comfortable-but-also-not mood the two got stuck in, Apollo reaching out and Klavier dodging his advances (like the coward he is lol) until Klavier finally does accept that offer. I just like their dynamic, two men touched by ruin and reacting to it in vastly different ways. Klavier runs until he sees someone else in need and Apollo reaches out against all of his better instincts. They're my faves <3

*screaming from the rooftops* IT'S ABOUT TRUST!! IT'S ABOUT TRUSTING SOMEONE WHOM YOU SHOULD ABSOLUTELY UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES NEVER THINK ABOUT TRUSTING!!! BUT YOU TRUST THEM ANYWAY!! AND THEY TRUST YOU IN RETURN!!! agh

I like the whole scene of them talking outside the car (and fun fact, I have an actual location in mind for them to be at; it's near the Conejo Boulders, which isn't LA whoops but is a view ingrained into my mind), but particularly this bit (of course) --

YEAH KISS!! it's a parallel (or rhyme??) to the one Snufkin gave him in the first chapter!! It's Apollo internalizing that lesson and paying it forward!! Yeah.

The end bit is funny specifically to me. Like yeah Apollo just spent a whole day making out and talking with Klavier and only when Klavier is like, taking care of him (making breakfast) does Apollo go "oh. Shit. I might desire this man romantically." Like lol amazing my fave. XD

ANYWAY YEAH LEMON BOY. I LIKE IT. At some point I'll finish the two sequel stories I've got in the works....