#Valerie Hawthorne

[snailianz]

Still here, despite everything

Happy 23rd anniversary to the Ace Attorney series! Originally this was supposed to be an "animation" where the background characters fade one by one (in chronological order) while maya/pearl channels mia as a way represent the game's timeline and events but it turned out... really bad. It didn't even make sense.

The vision was there but the excecution was not T_T I'll try not to take this loss too personally. Onto the next drawing !

[skyefeys]

one thing about ace attorney is it's incredibly adept at doomed siblingism. mia and maya. edgeworth and franziska. lana and ema. iris and dahlia (and valerie). misty and morgan. ini and mimi. apollo and trucy. klavier and kristoph. the list is long and each one is utterly gut-wrenching

[vexinglyvolatile]

ace attorney memes i made part 14

link to meme catalogue

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Collection of looping Ace Attorney gifs. Some are new and some already posted. Credit is not necessary if you use them but I'll be happy if you reblog this post.

[casstars]

(cw: flashing, eyestrain & noose imagery)

Ain't that against the law?

(lyrics are from Maggot by Dazey and the Scouts)

[nyaagolor]

Another round of little guys!

[handsometimr]

last supper (2022)

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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations (2004)

Turnabout Memories The Stolen Turnabout Recipe for Turnabout Turnabout Beginnings Bridge to the Turnabout

[dougkisser]

I tried a new brush to colour. Their hair is supposed to be blowing in the wind but I couldn't draw it well

[apricotmayonaise]

terrible idea: dahlia hawthorne diary of a wimpy kid au. morgan is susan. unnamed hawthorne dad is frank. iris is rowley. valerie is rodrick. pearl is manny.

[sukisukidaysook]

Question about The Hawthorne Sister's swap au, how does everything with Valerie and Fawles go down? Also what are the two's thoughts on Phoenix?

I believe events play out similarly to canon… up to a point. Iris kills Valerie not out of feeling betrayed, but because she feels a moral superiority and that it is her duty to see her sister be punished for her “sins” (the theft, faking Iris’ death, wanting to turn Iris in… etc)

She isn’t betrayal motivated like Dahlia was… very focused on that innate “moral high ground” that she has where she justifies everything she does as for the greater good. Much like Dahlia, she gets away with her crimes with how innocent and sensitive she is. Except she isn’t acting, she’s just Like That.

Fawles will still kill himself with poison, feeling guilty over taking advantage of Iris. That is how he sees the situation, after all. Iris can’t do any wrong, so it really must have been his fault. The poison itself was a gift from Dahlia, who used it to try and help out her sister, explaining to Fawles that if he ever hurt her, he best use it. This is about the closest Dahlia gets to committing murder herself in the swap AU. All she wants is to protect her sister.

Iris loves Phoenix genuinely, but in a sick, obsessive way. She idolizes and glorifies every aspect of him… even though they don’t really date as she and Dahlia still swap places! Dahlia however ofc had to disguise as Iris and date Phoenix for a while and she absolutely hated how sappy and sweet he is. He reminds her of Iris, almost, and it’s sickening.

When Dahlia and Phoenix meet again in BTTT, she’s rather cold and hostile, which throws Phoenix off because now he’s like… well maybe that isn’t the sweet girl I dated after all. And he's kinda right! Dahlia's sweetness is only an act! Even though they were in fact dating.

[kodachromantic]

wrote some braindump abt the hawthorne timeline last night cause when you think about it there are a lot of questions and ideas to put in. idek what happened but all of a sudden dahlia became a very interesting character to me (iris too but dahlia is just kinda surprising)

huge mega spoilers for aa3, also large and likely boring so uhh read more

thinking abt dahlia and how weird things are in the beginning of her timeline before things actually start happening and im trying to think of how to fill the gaps. what age were they taken away by their father? isn't it crazy how the family relation is kinda sorta glossed over for all of this?? mia and dahlia are COUSINS, BRO, FUCKING COUSINS AND PEARL IS HER SISTER LIKE!!!!! BITCH!!!!! there's a 4yr age gap between d/i and mia. were misty and morgan somewhat estranged maybe?? we know morgan lived in fey manor, but was that just bc she was maya's caretaker or would she have lived there regardless? did she leave once the master title was given to misty and then moved back in later? mia could be young enough with some leeway for them to have been taken when they were toddlers and have no memories (if they lived in different houses or something).

dahlia thought morgan abandoned them bc they had little/no power but that brings up a question of when can you tell of one's spiritual power? i feel like it makes sense to just say, you can't tell that young, thats just the reasoning dahlia came up with or maybe what her father told her. age here depends on how many memories you want them to have of kurain & morgan, if any--maybe 2-4 y/o so mia would be 8 at most.

how long did iris live with dahlia and their dad? how old were they when their father remarried? i'd kinda put this at around 8-10 years old just as a feeling. how long was iris around until she was taken away? did bikini know her origin? did she speak to morgan? oh god imagine bikini alerting morgan and morgan is either pregnant with pearl or just had her and rejects iris coming back in a cruel twist of fate (i think im using that right? lol) bc although morgan didn't abandon them bc of their lack of spiritual power, she now doesn't want iris back because of it

okay 14 years old now, post fake kidnapping. wiki says valerie found dahlia and took care of her. so dahlia was considered legally dead bc terry was arrested for her murder. i think i forgot valerie forged all the melissa foster documents and just assumed dahlia did those herself or even just didn't have documents?? i mean it says "unable to get her original papers" so i didnt think of valerie making any new ones. and then post/during fawles trial, she's just given her info back? i mean edgeworth knew who she was. nothing really happened?? it was just, yep that stuff was weird but here's ur id back. do u think her dad thought she was dead, did he believe in the story or knew it was fake? do u think he gave a shit??? does dahlia live with valerie afterwards? she was 18 at the time of the fake kidnapping, so 18-22 years old taking care of her (valerie died at 23, dahlia would be 18 when valerie turns 22)? or did she go back home to her dad like "whoopsies" and her dad just does not care i dont even know what happened to the diamond after. i guess the two were able to pawn it and get the money that way rather than from the dad and that's how valerie looked after dahlia?? either they lived together or valerie set up dahlia with a living space and sent her money or she just lived independently with valerie checking in. it feels vaguely like ema like "who took care of this child and where did they live"

the idea of valerie taking care of dahlia and somewhat being that parental figure for her but it's too late for dahlia for that sort of kindness to change her path. she was also probably too close in age so dahlia would be like "whatever bitch" as you can tell dahlia & iris have become very interesting characters to me over the past few days lmfao

wait thinking on it maybe dahlia did know they were cousins. she knew morgan was her mom, she saw the last name fey and mia's magatama, thats not hard to put together

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thats the end of what i wrote lol, i've been trying to write a comic idea out for the past couple days in the evenings abt dahlia and iris and i kept getting into roadblocks, first just the idea of writing and how daunting/hard it is, but then later the timeline and how it'd work and if my ideas for it even fit. so i had an idea for them to talk about their father briefly but then remembered dahlia jumped off the damn bridge & melissa foster and it got me down a rabbit hole. so now i'm either going to rethink that section or just plow through like fuck it and maybe change my idea for the timeline at a later date. who knows if it'll even be made w the pace im going lmfao!!!

i do like that bikini/morgan interaction tho i think i'll try and make that. if anyone reads this at all first of all hi teehee second of all if you want to do that idea literally feel free i wouldnt be upset in the slightest. lil egotistical of me to assume someone would want to tho LOL

[askaceattorney]

Dear Curious Court Researcher,

Edgeworth was completely beside himself after that case. He was new, so I decided to let him work a few cases with me before taking on his next one.

I would have known she murdered her sister and given her two choices: either come clean and allow me to prosecute her or I can return Mr. Fawles back to his little cell, the whole murder would be played as an accident, and everyone would forget about this whole thing.

- Manfred von Karma

[aa-power-of-nine]

Getting closer to Sheet 3's end! Enjoy the minis!

[First Row, left to right:

Guy Eldoon, Wendy Oldbag (1-3), Valerie Hawthorne, Officer Maggey Byrde, Benjamin Woodman (and Trilo Quist), Ponco and Clonco, Pierce Nichody

Second Row, left to right:

John Watson/Wilson, Courtney Sithe, Shadi Enigmar, Esmeralda Tusspells, Maria Gorey]

[wowowwild]

And to think this all could have been avoided if the Fey's were a functional family. RIP to like... well at least 4 people and good luck to at least 5 others. I guess at least most of the victims were part of the family themselves??? I'd say y'all need family counseling but there's only 3 left and they actually get along... Maybe get some therapy anyway, though.

[bwbaceattorney]