#Phoenix couldn't easily been Mile's Clay chat

[pain-is-too-tired]

I actually like Apollo's backstory tbh. Like yeah boy goes through it but it makes his character interesting looking back on him.

Like to actually go back to the one off mention of what happened to his dad in his first game and build on that is interesting.

Especially cause, his death is told to us as "a accident during a performance" I believe. Or close to it

And-well- dieing in a fire why performing for royals is one way to represent that but it's not entirely wrong hdgd

And his whole story is

Parents traveled as performers/musicians. They stopped in Khura'in, during which Jove was ask to perform for the royal couple, for some reason seems to have to take Apollo along(I assume him and Thalassa took turns looking after him between performing, maybe Thal was doing her own thing at the time she it was his turn? Idk fhdt)

They get caught in a fire, Apollo is saved and adopted by the soon in hiding queen's husband, who's also a lawyer.

Which is a big encouragement to Apollo's choice in career (which also influenced by seeing news on Phoenix I believe? Which probably due to Phoenix whole thing was calling out corruption in the system. Something Apollo also grew up seeing with his adoptive father.)

That and the fact that he grew up knowing that corruption in Khura'in is what took his father's life, he's kinda like the parallel of Edgeworth's story tbh?

Both fathers killed

Edgeworth's father was a unplanned crime where Gregory was the target

Apollo's was a planned crime in which Jove was an unplanned witness that was dealt with.

Both adopted afterwards

Edgeworth by the man who DID kill his dad but was never caught(until later)

Apollo by the man who was PINNED for the fire that killed his dad.

Both were influenced by them in opposite directions,Edgeworth becoming a prosecutor and Apollo becoming a lawyer.

Though both did have negative influences, Edgeworth's was influenced earlier by his mentor/adopted father. Why Apollo's first mentor tried to influence him to get what he wanted but Apollo was old enough to see right through Kristoph.

Also- both have adopted siblings who were related to and influenced by their father's killer-

Both have more upbeat close friends that they first became friends with by helping them through a tough time as a kid(Apollo comforting Clay and Miles defending Phoenix)

Honestly I didn't realize until I started this how similar they actually were ggdgd

I see you Capcom. I see you.

Now I want more Miles and Apollo interactions.

Also,technically Miles could've very easily had to handle Phoenix's death like Apollo had to deal with Clay's if Phoenix hadn't been warned before hand about Dhalia(and then put to trail where he COULDVE ALSO HAD DIED)

Dang. Just dang.