#aka why the hell is phoenix wright Like That

[leeeeeeef]

savior complex

[stanweirdosalliance]

Get to know me

Sorry if this is too long I really want some to understand me. Most people have hard time knowing real me not just online me.

If you see a lot of football aka soccer for you American I grew up watching it I am from Belarus but live in America. Growing up I was huge fan of David Beckham had him as my wallpaper on computer and my bro was okay with it. I am huge into entertainment, movies and music. My fav director is Edgar Wright I am taking Edgar Wright filmmaking course online it's not cheap but my mom bought me that as my early 28th bday last year. I really love him as film director even when Last Night in Soho came out and I saw it. I came home and watched his every interview on that movie. I love how his movie usually come out like 3 to 4yrs. He takes time on his movies and I see how a movie fan he is. Last year I went from just listening to pop music and soundtracks to Indie music. I cant do anywhere without my headphones I listen to so much music in public to get away from people it's part of my disability. I listen to music too much does not matter time of day cause it calms me down. All of my rock music love comes from my amazing mom. I am future Filmmaker 4yrs ago I think I wrote like 54 pages script. Truth is we need to write 100 pages but teacher had so many problems about my British character who is cop but my bro was helping. Also I am ON THE SPECTRUM that's why my teacher let me make shorter then 100 pages script. Their is a reason why I chosen filmmaking well because my whole family is medical even my aunt and for me learning it would be hard cause I wanted to be vet. Someone in new high school when we moved to new state like a decade ago told my mom I would never graduate high school and I did close to graduating community college. When I came to community college and took classes I really wanted like filmmaking ones I finally became so happy cause school was never happy for me with my disability school was hell if no one would of helped me I would of failed it on my own. If you talking to me and its not movies, music or entertainment, or football sorry I start to either freak out or I just need to leave I can't be in that room. I wish someday to see my fav band live French band Phoenix but I seen one of my fav bands last year in music festival thanks to my bro its The National. I love anything British my fav actors Dan Stevens, Gwilym Lee, Martin Freeman and Simon Pegg. My favorite tv shows are Legion yes it ended but still it was the best one, Fargo, The Bear, What we do in the Shadows, Welcome to Wrexham, loved Pose and Righteous Gemstones

Just 3yrs ago during the middle of season 4 of Fargo I started to like actor Jason Schwartzman and now I know so much about him. I own almost everything with his band he made Coconut Records only need Nighttiming Vinyl. I won Davy on Ebay for 300 dollars and in 2021 in one auction I won his red jacket from Fargo season 4. If you need to know anything about Jason just don't afraid to ask me. People make fun of me being fan of him cause i know too much but that's not my fault being On The Spectrum he is my hyper fixation. Growing up I been bullied so much even for liking some actors. People tell me on on TWITCH channel how bad of an actor he is or terrible actor. My mom recently came to terms to liking him after I showed so much videos and made her listen him talking about his kids. She says he is a great person and dad. If ever asking one of my fav Jason videos it has to be Sesame Street Memory: Jason Schwartzman | #ThisIsMyStreet cause part of it I relate knowing his one daughter is autistic and special needs. Talking about Jason sometimes annoys my mom.

[the-big-sad-hawk]

Okokokokok- my vote goes to my boi Phoenix bc... why not???

If you have seen anything related to Ace Attorney, you would know that the cases he handles are on most ocasions INSANE and take WILD ASS TURNS when they seem to be straight forward and simple. Now, he could probably tackle this in like three days, if we consider the in-game statute of limitations (aka why you as the player have to defend your client ASAP). This guy could absolutely find the truth in that time at max, but in case the statute of limitations doesn't apply in the courts of the Death Note universe*, the whole investigation could end up extending to around six months to a whole year. I say this because every game, individually, takes place in less than a year. Which is the amount of time in which the over-arching plot of each game gets to be resolved, meaning that it escalates over every individual case until all the relevant info is out.

I've seen some of the reblogs point out that, given his status as a defense attorney, he would have to defend someone accussed wrongly of the murders to actually get involved in all of this. BUT!!! That's not strictly necessary, bc on ocasions he wanders into these kinds of situations and becomes involved either way. ALSO, maybe, just maybe, he could end up defending the actual culprit or an acomplice or someone who's covering up for the people directly involved in the crimes. If so, Phoenix would find out eventually and do EVERYTHING in his power to make sure they're found guilty of the string of murders (given that his hands aren't tied for the sake of protecting his friends and loved ones, on which case he would have to stall for time and wait for an opening to reveal the truth).

Another argument pointed out is that Phoenix Wright is a well known name, at least in the legal world, which would INMEDIATLY endanger his life (see: getting his name written on the damn notebook). While that is true, I have to point out that he's kinda inmune to injury. To mention one hell of an example, this is the guy who FELL down a bridge that was ON FIRE and onto a river with a CURRENT SO STRONG that should have both killed him and made the recovery of his body from the water an imposibility, AND YET not only HE SURVIVED, but he also only got a cold from it. ONLY. A FUCKING. COLD. FROM IT. Like, that's the most prominent example of the few injuries per se that he received through the games. So yeah, he kinda relies on dumb luck not only to win cases (something very important to note), but also to avoid severe damage to his physical health to an extremely bad estate.

*Red from OSP voice* So... yeah!

*Also, I'd like to mention that I know very little about what the show's about, so take this analysis with a grain of salt. I just came across this poll and went "hmmmm... I don't really know any of the options except for the funny lawyer, so I think he could take a shot at this and win!"

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[salty-dracon]

Liveblog of Deltarune Chapter 2, in one Tumblr post.

DELTARUNE SPOILERS

Checking out Deltarune Chapter 2.

Does time move differently in the two worlds? I hope not.

Ralsei is so nice to us. Thank you Ralsei for your rooms made specially for us, and totally not over the course of 10 years.

Thanks Toby Fox dog for.... something.

The Internet world reminds me of Mega Man. Is this place like Web 1.0 with those giant cathode ray monitors or is it something else? The mention of Space Pinball makes me think it's the Windows XP era.

I just noticed that a sparkle flew off from us when we jumped into the new world. Was that our second uninvited guest, Rouxls?

Everything about Queen makes me want to punch her stupid face in. Good villain, I guess? Ughhhh she's so mean but in a 16 year old on a chat room kind of way.

The Werewires have such a good design.

Queen attempts to beat us at a fighting game, but with the power of friendship we got through it. "Bosom or Perish" lol.

It's not a highly emotional game without a dancing sequence by a highly irritating musician.

Yeah they're hinting at the Queen having a sidekick and him speaking in a way no one can understand. So it's probably Rouxls.

The enemies in this area look so good.

BERDLY!!! I have a voice in my head for this guy and it's Byakuya Togami, even now.

Triple trucies!

If I ever acted like Berdly towards you, I'm sorry. Also people who act like him suck. I want to draw him doing the Virgin Walk now.

Gamer's Delight of course it is.

I finally figured out the words for what Berdly is. An isekai protagonist. That's it. He's an isekai protagonist.

Hmm. Spamton. Don't like that.

Noelle's honest discussion about the city is a nice break from all the silly shit. I'm glad she could experience it. Why was she spelling out “December” on her walk, though.

I ONLY PLAY MOBILE GAMES

Wow, I didn't expect a shout-out to Kiwami Japan, aka the knife guy who makes knives out of increasingly weird stuff.

Berdly being ass at solving puzzles is giving me, who is good at solving puzzles, life. “Face it, you’re just as big a dumbass as the rest of us!” got me. The backstory for him is interesting, though. Once again, the word “December”, alongside a silhouette of Noelle. Hmm.

I knew those screams weren’t Ralsei! Lol, they were some of those giant conefaced plague doctor Phoenix Wright things!

The Tasque Manager enemy looks so cool.

Oh god. Blue checkmarks.

Is Nubert supposed to be a reference to Omori’s “Humphrey”?

I deeply adore all of the old computer references, like “Mouse Wheel” and the windows XP background behind Queen.

Thanks Toby Fox dog.

That post where it’s three versions of “has food thrown at me, inexplicably eats it all instantly” is what Susie just did. Like the “witch hitting me while i’m sitting in her cauldron: stop eating all the potatoes” one and the “woman throws a drink at me but i swallow it all perfectly” one. That’s what Susie just did.

mmmmmm battery acid and hands and logic puzzles

There’s Rouxls. He’s a pirate now.

GOD DAMMIT!!!

Noooooo poor Noelle. YESSS SUSIE COMING IN CLUTCH

amazing. pre character development noelle lent her a candy cane and susie payed it back by not picking on her. *slow, sarcastic clapping* bravo, asshole. bravo. fuck you

Noelle :’)

Wait a minute. Wait wait wait wait wait. Noelle calls her sister Dess. Noelle stayed silent when one of the words in the spelling bee was “December”. Noelle is Christmas-themed, with her being a reindeer, her name sounding like “Noel”, and mentions of Christmas songs and candy-cane pencils. Is it possible that Noelle’s sister’s name is December, and she lost December to an accident or something?

This is the funniest conversation ever, in the Ferris wheel. Aww. I hope it ends well for both of them. Ah. Berdly came to ruin it.

NOELLE????? WHAT????

This possible revelation that Noelle can strengthen the Darkness, and that a lot of this world is built on her own memories of this person named “December”, leads me to believe that actually, all of the worlds here are built from the memories of a person, in this case, this world was built from Noelle’s memories. But whose memories are the first world built from? Susie’s? Kris’s? Ralsei’s?

All of these boss themes ROCK!

Yeah as I thought, Queen is only acting to save Noelle.

What does the Knight have to do with any of this? There was a Knight in Undertale, though, I think- it was that guy lying on a wall near one of the shops. So the Knight apparently created the darkness through the power of determination, and with determination, which Lightners all possess, anyone can make more darkness. Hmm.

Epic final boss fight against Queen! I wondered what mechanic they'd bring back- turns out it was the fighting game. Despite being an asshole it seems she didn't really want anything bad to happen.

The Roaring is going to be the endgame I guess. Maybe it's the reason all the monsters are underground in Undertale?

And everything was back to normal!

At least Lancer's got a new mom now. Lancer's dad does not like her one bit.

Sans. Good to see you. Funny as ever. Cracking fourth wall breaking jokes about how goddamn long this part took to make.

There it is again. Kris's soul acting on its own- or, by the player's influence. If the last chapter suggested that Kris's soul wasn't ours to control, why did it let us do so again?

What the HELL? So Kris sometimes pulls her soul out, shuts it away, and lets it sit there while she goes out and does her own thing? That explains the connection between last chapter and this one. There's no discontinuity. We just didn't see her put her soul back into her own body.

So what Kris did just now was slash the cars tires. Why?

Oh. And there's the connection between The Knight and the events of this story. Kris, or at least her body without her soul, is the one causing these fountain of darkness to appear. That's why Kris, with her soul, is the only one who can seal them. Kris is the knight.

[matt0044]

The Anime Community has a FUNimation Problem. Full Stop.

In Prison School’s seventh episode, Anzu Yokoyama’s dialogue with Shingo Wakamoto has her calling out his attempt at talking to a woman and kicking starting a fairly obligatory romantic subplot. The English Dub, up to that point, had all the hallmarks of FUNimation’s script writers playing off the already existing comedic aspect of the title. Some disapproved while other embraced it.

However, the dub would go a step further by having Anzu’s emasculation of Shingo involve a reference to the then ongoing Gamergate controversy. If anybody knew of the movemen then, you’d know this wasn’t a good idea. Every geek and their mother took offense to it right out the gate, claiming that it was FUNimation “shoving politics” where they don’t belong and insulting their fans.

To play devil’s advocate, Prison School as a whole is all about young men being integrated into a formerly all-girl school with all the sleazy shenanigans that the title’s become infamous for. It’s already pretty provocative in terms of visuals and how it pushes the envelope on its fan-service element. Something the dub team were keen to embrace with all of the dialogue reflecting this tone.

Yet Tyson Rinehart was raked over the coals for what was suppose to be an edgy joke for the sake of it, not unlike a lot of Prison School’s humor. Bare in mind that it within was one scene in the seventh episode out of a twelve episode Anime. We don’t get any other references to Gamergate like Anita Sarkeesian or the like in any other scene of any other episode. It’s just... this.

Yet even now when the line was redubbed to remove the reference for the home release, you’d think that this one line is all the dub is. That it’s akin to Shin Chan or Ghost Stories where the dub team wrote their own story and made jokes out of every kind of current event controversy because that’s what gets the lulz. Yet, again, it was just one scene in one episodes out of the twelve.

Of course, the cycle seemed to begin again with Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid which had a more... small scale kerfuffle in regards to the titlular human character claiming that, “I’m not into women or dragons.” Ironically, Jamie Marchi claimed she wrote that line since something like, “But I’m a woman,” came across as homophobic to her. However, I wrote my piece on all that.

What really got the wider community all up in arms was in regards to the character of Quetzalcoatl AKA Lucoa, specifically a single scene where she and Tohru exchange dialogue for less than ten seconds at most over her more conservative attire. Lucoa is pretty much THE fanservice character with breasts big enough to nearly suffocate a little boy in his sleep. Yes, that did happened.

Lucoa explains her more conservative attire as feeling uncomfortable with everybody looking at her in her other revealing outfits with the official subtitles by both Crunchyroll and FUNimation at the time. The dub would take it a step further so to speak by having her claim that she changed clothes because of “pesky patriarchal standards” getting on her nerves, something a tad different.

Well, I say, “different,” in the sense of what she’s referring to in regards to why she changed her clothes. The sub has it come out to “everybody” in a general sense like men, women and children alike while “patriarchal” is more specific in referring a societal phenomenon. However, that’s not what fans got in a tizzy over. The word, “patriarchal,” is the real focal point for this scene’s controversy.

It’s not secret that this word is thrown around most Feminist circles to the ire of geeks who “just wanna have fun” and hearing this word alone set off all the alarms. Like with Prison School, FUNimation was accused of trying to push a political agenda using Anime as Lucoa’s line was spread across the community.

By now, I’d like to be frank in how this all feels overblown. Using a word that’s common in the Social Justice lexicon can stick out but the idea that it turns the dub into political propaganda never made sense to me. I mean, it’s one thing the entire scene was rewritten to recite some kind of feminist manifesto but it only mentions the “patriarchy” and... that’s about it for this one scene alone. :/

I’d bring up “My First Girlfriend’s A Gal” but I feel like the points I made with Prison School largely apply here. However, I feel like some fans are hypocritical in how they claim that the dub’s dialogue is “inaccurate” when most enjoyed the dub for how it nearly went full Ghost Stories. Many felt that the dub was spicing up an otherwise by-the-numbers Ecch Fest that people would’ve written off. :P

Yet along came Episode 7 and the usage of the words of “SJWs millenials” among others was enough to make the dub “propaganda” in the eyes of many. Despite the fact that the script does convey the spirit of the original with the cafe manager trying to get the female cast into reading smut to nerd without their consent. What does that matter when the dub uses terms like “cuck?” :/

What about the voice acting? Doesn’t matter. Anzy referred “Gamergate.” That’s all that matters about Prison School’s English dub now and forever.

How well does the dialogue hold up on the whole? Doesn’t matter. Lucoa mentioned the “patriarchy.” That’s all that Maid Dragon’s dub amounts to.

Is it enjoyable in any way aside from said foibles? Doesn’t matter. The mention of “SJW millennials” in that one scene has now tainted the dub. Oh, the shame.

Starting to get the picture? I don’t want to be the guy who says dubs should go off doing as they please with not consideration for what the original’s narrative was trying to convey. Even if the occasional liberty can be intriguing, it’s always better for an English dub to keep the story in line with their source material. I, of course, type this for those who actually approach any dub in good faith at all. :/

The problem comes when the examples described above are weaponized by those who never had good faith in dubs and/or had it out for the likes of FUNimation to begin with. It’s not about discussion. It’s about propping up their bias of dubs being trash at best and trying to falsely villainize a company for making mistakes that ultimately amount to a handful of off-sounding dialogue.

By all means, discuss how those like FUNimation could improve on things such as where their streaming services are available region by region. Discuss how dubs like Danganronpa and Phoenix Wright recast the characters from the VAs in the games. Discuss how good or bad their script writing can be when it leans more loosely. All this fearmongering and vitriol does nothing but poison the well.

But weren’t these choices in adaptation politically motivated? Hell no? There’s a different between humor made in fairly poor taste and trying to brainwash your audience into believing, what, that women have problems? It’s not propaganda when you recognize it right away. And while Tyson Rinehart and Jamie Marchi responded rather rudely to the backlash... can you blame them with all of this?

I say this not to “kiss up” to FUNimation. Much as I admire their script adaptation process like the nerdy nerd I am, there can be times where I do feel they might’ve missed the mark. Particularly with their earlier dubs of the Dragon Ball franchise where they were borderline 4kids. However, dubs such as Fairy Tail and My Hero Academia are modern examples of how far they have come.

This mentality of holding grudges over fairly small potatoes that personally offend you gets us nowhere. I mean... isn’t it like the stereotypes SJWs are known for. A piece of media does something offensive, however big or small, and is deemed problematic forever by purity crusaders. Can’t we take a joke? It honestly gets to the point where I kind of have to quote Anzu Yokoyama here:

“Do you have a stick up your ass or are your one of those Gamergate creepshows?”

[the-hidden-writer]

A Second Chance: Chapter 3

An Ace Attorney fanfic. Read on both AO3 and FF.net!

Summary: Miles learns the identity of his “dead” mother, and the aftermath of that revelation is a tricky one. Especially when his newfound little sister is trying to turn him into a spirit medium.

AKA Miles is a Fey. Miles also doesn’t really know how to family properly.

[Chapter 1] | [Chapter 2]

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The Reveal

Phoenix, the poor man, just stared at them blankly.

“What?”

“Let me explain-” Miles began, but immediately was cut off.

“Edgeworth’s my brother!” Maya repeated. “Turns out my Mom hid these secret secret boxes (that’s secrets inside secrets) and there’s this really cute picture of him as a baby and he’s my big brother!”

Accepting that resistance would be futile, all Miles could do was grit his teeth and watch the inevitable unfold.

“Wait.” Phoenix said, causing Maya to pause her rambling. That could be done? “You’re telling me that you’re brother and sister? How’s that even possible?!”

Maya seemed to still be muted, so Miles took his chance.

“Yes, act-”

SLAM!

“HEY PALS!”

All three expressed their feelings simultaneously.

“Gumshoe?!”

“Detective Gumshoe!”

“FOR GOD’S SAKE!”

Could Miles jump out of the window now? Was that allowed?

“Mr Edgeworth!” The large addition to their company bellowed. “I’ve been looking all over for you, and I think I’m just in time by the looks of it! You left the letter in your office so I brought it as quickly as I could.”

Forget jumping through the window himself, could he please push Gumshoe out. “Detective?”

“Ye-”

“Shut. Up.”

“Noted, I’m sorry Sir. But-” “Ah!”

“The le-”

“Ah!”

Gumshoe saluted apologetically. Miles did not feel remorse.

“What the hell?!”

Right. The others were still there. Phoenix looked ready to explode.

“First of all,” he began, “Hi Detective Gumshoe.”

Gumshoe waved.

“Second of all, brother? Since when?”

Miles hung his head.

“For all I know, YOU-” Phoenix continued, pointing at Miles for emphasis (not unlike how he did in court), “YOUR DAD was killed in DL-6! There was a whole thing about that!”

Nobody needed reminding.

“Ohhh, ‘Don’t forget DL-6’” He mocked, but it sounded almost like… a whine? “I had to cross-examine a freakin’ parrot!”

That parrot still haunted the dreams of both lawyers in the room.

“And then you!” Now his finger accused Maya. “Your Mom was murdered just over a week ago!”

After seeing the reactions of both Miles and Maya (hell, even Gumshoe) after that latest part, Phoenix lowered his voice a little.

“Sorry. I just can’t see how they could be related in any way. It doesn’t make sense! Okay, I admit you didn’t even know it was your Mom until after she was murdered- honestly who would've guessed it was a children’s author, right? Maybe if she’d kept her name after DL-6 then- oh.”

His head comically turned to look at Maya, then Miles. Maya, then back to him. Then Gumshoe, because why not, and then back to him.

Phoenix laughed quietly. “I’m an idiot.”

Maya snorted. “I can’t believe it took you so long to figure it out!” She teased. “And you call yourself a lawyer.”

Said lawyer appeared to be deeply offended by this remark. “Hey, you didn’t figure it out either! You had to be told!”

“Actually,” Maya countered, “I did figure it out, and Edgeworth just confirmed it for me. TAKE THAT!”

“That’s- That’s not how that works…” Phoenix groaned, facepalming.

Maya then firmly placed her hands on her hips to… assert dominance?

“Well that’s what you-”

“As interesting as it is to know who is the smarter of the two of you,” Miles interrupted, “I think you’re both missing the point here.” He glared at Phoenix when he said that, because that’s what he was currently most concerned about.

“What point?” Asked Wright, crossing his arms.

Miles had thought it was obvious. “I’m- Maya and I share parents? That entire shebang?”

“What about it?” Phoenix asked, still nonplussed as ever, and seemingly oblivious to what Miles was hinting at. Then a wide smile gradually cracked open on his face. He looked towards Maya again. “You can leech off Edgeworth's pockets now! He’s got loads more money than me, oh the freedom!”

“Never gonna happen, Nick.”

“Damn it. Worth a shot.”

“That’s it?!” Miles exclaimed in frustration. “No denial, n-no shouting, no accusations… Do you understand what any of this means?! Any of you?!”

All three shook their heads guiltily. “I- My entire life I… ugh, forget it.” He rubbed his temples briefly. The others were still in stunned silence. “Thank you for coming, Detective, but your services aren't needed. Go home.”

Standing up, Gumshoe looked down at him sympathetically, and almost protectively. “O-Okay Sir. Take care of yourself.” He started to make his way out, but paused at the door.

“...Are you sure you don’t want the le-”

“Yes. Go home.”

Awkward silence. Gumshoe still seemed hesitant.

“Alright, uh, see ya pals.” He eventually said, shutting the door gently behind him.

Nobody said anything for a good few minutes after he left. Maya looked at the shiny floorboards, deep in thought. Phoenix looked confused, didn’t bother to admire his handiwork like Maya was. Miles, flustered from his sudden outburst, was the one to finally break the silence.

He sighed. He was just tired. It had been a very emotionally draining 24 hours and… he knew it would be idiotic to not heed Gumshoe’s advice at a time like this. He didn’t trust himself when he was alone. When he felt this broken.

“...I wouldn’t mind that coffee now, Wright.”

Phoenix looked up at him. His expression made it feel like, somehow, he understood.

“Sure.” He said, moving to grab his coat. “Let’s go.”

“I’m gonna stay here.” Whispered Maya. “I feel a little worn out.”

“I think we all feel like that.” Phoenix laughed, but didn’t have much humour in his voice. “I’ll be back soon.”

Miles silently thanked him for not saying “we”. He was utterly exhausted.

Wright smiled at him, and for some reason, Miles felt his tense body begin to loosen up and relax. Phoenix Wright wasn’t involved with any of this “brother” business directly, which he was also thankful for. An escape.

“Ready Edgeworth?” 

Miles frowned but didn’t mean it. He picked up his briefcase. “Yes.”

“...I wish I could’ve filmed it.” Phoenix remarked out of nowhere.

“Filmed what?” Miles asked.

“You admitted to wanting coffee, tea-loving ass.”

Maya guffawed. Miles blushed.

“Shut up, Wright.”

He had to drag Phoenix out of the door, as Maya’s endless snickers became muffled.

He was never going to admit it to Wright, but he had no intention of ordering coffee from the beginning. Coffee-loving moron.

[nyarmand]

puns i noticed in phoenix wright: ace attorney

Phoenix Wright - anyone he defends ‘rises from the ashes’--something driven in by the final case name. also, at the end of the cases, he’s always right.

Mia Fey - ‘fey’ is an adjective generally used to indicate otherworldliness. it’s also a scottish term meaning ‘fated to die’.

Winston Payne - ‘winced in pain’

Larry Butz - don’t make me say it. please.

Frank Sahwit - ‘Frank saw it’. Phoenix even points this out himself with his ‘or should I say, Mr. Did It!’ line.

Cindy Stone - you can even choose the pun this one is based on when asked for her name. ‘Cinder Block’. why? hell if i know.

Maya Fey - see notes on Mia’s surname.

Dick Gumshoe - both ‘dick’ and ‘gumshoe’ are slang words for ‘detective’.

Miles Edgeworth - will go miles for a guilty verdict. also, he’s sharp and has proven himself worthy of the title of prosecutor. 

April May - self-evident.

Redd White - also self-evident, especially when you remember that his company is called Bluecorp.

Will Powers - ‘willpower’

Jack Hammer - ‘jackhammer’

Wendy Oldbag - ‘windy old bag’. she talks too much.

Penny Nichols - penny, nickels

Cody Hackins - I feel like there’s a joke to be made here about ‘code’ and ‘hacking’, but that might be a stretch.

Sal Manella - ‘salmonella’

Dee Vasquez - ‘diva’

Lotta Hart - she has a lot of heart

Gregory Edgeworth - see Miles’s surname notes; also worth noting that he is VERY similar in appearance to Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird--aka one of, if not THE most famous fictional defense attorneys of all time.

Bruce Goodman - a good man. as Marshall put it, good men die young.

Angel Starr - self-evident

Jake Marshall - ‘marshall’... like ‘marshal’, a law officer

Mike Meekins - ‘mike’ as in that megaphone he’s always carrying around. plus, he’s certainly meek.

Blue Badger - blue... and police officers carry badges (this one might be a stretch on my part)

[inbarfink]

I think that everyone has that... one Ace Attorney culprit, who's not like the big final culprit of the game. Not your Dahlia Hawthornes or Kristoph Gavins or Manfred von Karma, just someone from the in-between cases. Everyone got one of those that they absolutely LOATH.

Mine is Roger Retinz, what an awfull, petty man. I get pissed off just thinking about him.

Yeah, he’s not SUPPOSED to be sympathetic, but the game doesn’t even focus on the things that make him the most hateble! I don’t care if he’s a good magician or if he doesn’t respect magic or if Magnifi Gramarye was wrong or not to oust him from the Troupe! Dude ended up becoming a rich and famous producer, am I supposed to feel bad for you cause your STAGE MAGIC CAREER didn't work out? Go cry into the stack of money you LITERALLY fan yourself with!

Hell, why COULDN'T he restart his stage magic career if it was so godamm important to him? I could buy that back when he were kicked out maybe he didn't have the clout to get work without Troupe Gramarye - but now that he has all that money and connection, why didn't he try? 

Like, how's Troupe Gramarye being doing lately? Magnifi is dead, Thalassa is in hiding, Zak went into hiding and is now also dead, Valant went to jail and than faded into obscurity. Dude could have either put himself up on stage, or used that dedicated fanboy\apprentice he had and gotten "The Mysterious Mr. Reus" to be the biggest name in the world of Stage Magic while the Gramaryes are remembered as "that one case that got Phoenix Wright disbarred". Fuck, if he REALLY wanted to be needlessly cruel to an innocent teenage girl, he could've used his connection to sabotage Trucy's attempts to break into the big leauge. The granddaughter of Magnifi Gramarye unable to get work bigger than the Wonder Bar? While you rake up the big times? That sounds like pretty solid revenge to me. Living well and all that. 

But noooope, this guy is so full of hate and pettiness, he couldn't be happy with Troupe Gramarye self-destructing, he had to feel like he destoryed them HIMSELF. So he fucking killed his own dedicated fanboy (AKA someone who actually RESPECTED his magic), framed the aformentioned innocent teenaged girl for that and also used two other teenaged girls as his accoplishes and traumatized them, so that’s also nice. 

THEN, as if that's not enough, he fucking scammed her in order to destroy the entire Wright Anything Agency for having a connection to Trucy - basically now he's not just doing revenge by proxy, he's doing revenge by proxy of proxy! (And of course let's not forget  that Trucy and Phoenix have much better claims for being victims of Troupe Gramarye than Roger Retinz ever had. Like Phoenix lost his job and DIDN’T actualy get a more lucrative one out of it. Trucy was abandoned by her biodad. Valant and Thalessa made Apollo sit through Turnabout Serenade so maybe he’s a victim too.) AND he also paid people money to defame her and the Agency on the news AND to heckle her in the middle of the trial! For max emotional trauma I guess. That’s just... so much cruelty, aimed at a kid you barely know.

You know, I've never really super felt sorry for Yanni Yogi - having so much hate for someone he thought accidently manslaughtered his dad at age 9. But at least his life became horrible as a result of what happened, while one could be mistaken into thinking Miles had a nice life. Like, if my fiancee killed herself and I lost my job and had to become a weird boat-rental guy and to pretend to have brain damage - maybe I WILL feel resentment toward the guy who lived in wealth and become a super-famous prosecutor, even he did lose his dad. What sort of a sad little man you have to be to have all of that wealth and prestige and still feel resentment toward a teenage girl doing magic in a hole-in-the-wall bar on the weekends?

Of course, being an Ace Attorney culprit, and a 'filler' one at that, I'm not supposed to LIKE Roger Retinz, but still... he is just SO despicable. Has anyone else in the games was a perfect storm of entirely unjustified motivation, such a lovable and sympathetic revenge-by-proxy scapegoat, a victim he had no reason to kill because they were on the same goddam side, and just more and more extra twistings of the knife to be needlessly cruel to the girl he's already being needlessly cruel too? I fucking hate Roger Retinz.

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

The Adventures in Fansubbing: Localization and the Song of La Béfana (FR Miraculous Ladybug S2)

At this point, I just have a feeling I need to write this (mainly since I think people might find this interesting). If people are ever curious about the process of making subtitles/captions and what goes on, I’ll share some of that right now.

Now, releasing subtitles to a show isn't super abnormal these days. But there are some challenges that do come with making them.

Most people these days aren't too fussed with getting a direct translation from a fan subber, but when trying to create a quality project that keeps with the spirit of the original work is much more difficult to execute well. If you want to know more, keep going. You’ve got a lot of reading under the cut.

Professional captioners have some standards to keep to which can drastically alter what you read. These can include:

Ensuring the lines only show up in a certain number of lines and within a certain percentage of the screen. (The standard is a max of two lines, with few exceptions being three.)

Making the captions easy to understand and read in a timely manner.

Format captions to flow easily and smoothly to a viewer.

Making the idiosyncrasies, jokes and cultural references of one country understandable to other cultures. Otherwise, using an appropriate cultural reference in their place. (AKA Localization)

It's a lot of work trying to stick to that list and can often result in many things being lost to translation. A lot does hit the cutting room floor and things are altered to get an idea across in a shorter form. It's the kind of stuff that people might criticize on forums or such, but it's sometimes a necessary evil that has to be done.

With that, I want to talk about the last tick on the list (localization) in relation to S02E04 La Béfana in Miraculous Ladybug. Of course we’re talking about captioning the French language version.

I’ll start with a disclaimer: I am not a translator. I am not even fluent in a second language. I don’t even claim to be a professional captioner. I only do this for my own personal fun and education. Most of what you’ll read now is merely anecdotal and based on experiences doing this as a hobby.

It’s a pain in the butt trying to write subtitles for a language you aren't at all fluent in. What's worse, is when you run in to something that only works within the context of the original language or culture. It happens too many times to count.

I'm only going to detail a small sampling of what happens.

In this case, we have two very time consuming issues in La Béfana: the song that Béfana sings while flying around, and subsequently Chat Noir and Ladybug's responses to the song. These two are exactly the kind of localization problems that slow down jobs when you're not working on a team of multiple people. Let that be known if people are thinking of picking this up.

I won’t detail people on Miraculous Ladybug, one can easily Google the show on their own. But to set the stage for us here, La Béfana is actually based on the myth of Befana from Italy. She's a very popular figure who gives gifts to children on a flying broom, kind of like Santa. She gives candy and presents to good children in their stockings and coal or dark candies to bad children. The way Béfana in Miraculous Ladybug is portrayed is in line with this myth. Naturally, the show also has her sing a traditional Italian song while she's flying around. I wasn't able to find the original song this was based on (which may have made this easier to understand). Allegedly, it's a song that's found in a Befana opera, according to a friend of mine but I could be wrong. Knowing this background information can be helpful in understanding how to handle what we’re tackling. (Google is your best friend!)

The song in the show looks sort of like this:

La Béfana arrive sur son valle volant aus enfent j'en tiens don de bonbons aus enfent benial chet du charbons

*NOTE: I'm aware this is most likely not correct at all

This is not obvious to someone that doesn’t understand French, but this song isn't entirely in French. It's some sort of mixture of French with some thick Italian undertone and word selection. It's non-standard. The best I could do was sound it out and look through dictionaries and grammar books to figure out what Le Béfana is singing. This problem is exacerbated by the fact I know neither French or Italian and have no basis on their grammatical structure or phonetic language.

This language mixing also makes it hell for a normal translator to pick through since while it sounds like one language it doesn't line up with it (in this case it's French). It caused a lot of confusion when I asked a French translator to assist me. I spent hours trying to figure this out but I can't be spending more trying to figure this out if I'm on a timetable.

Needless to say, how do we handle this scenario for captioning?

There's two ways this can go. One is to try to bring over the spliced languages. I've actually done it before when working on No Game No Life. Of which I have and example here:

The alternative is to just play it straight and not even bother with bringing the song's language mixing over. That would look like this:

The Befana is here On her flying bike All good children get candies All the naughty ones get coal

In this case, I threw out trying to chop in multiple languages in the English caption and not bring over the idea of Béfana singing in not-Italian. Why? Because it would slow processing it when it's read.

This is just a song that La Béfana sings that (specifically) American-English speakers won't understand the significance of. Additionally, it might not even be intentionally mushed together! Trying to write the mangled-ness might even be insulting. I'm pretty sure the people who wrote the French script didn't actually intend for it to be interpreted as really terrible joke-Itali-French. And unless you live in that area of the world, the meaning of it is lost regardless of what I do and I don’t want to disrespect it.

This is a case of a functional change. I can't salvage this even if I wanted to. It felt best to not try and overstate the mixed sentences as a thing. However, I did leave the not-real spliced not-French-not-Italian caption above the English caption in case someone cares for it. (This technically is my file I make for fun. I can do whatever I want with it.)

At that point, it was just choosing between a direct translation and a more artsy lyrical one. Long story short, in this case, we (my translator buddy and I) just picked a lyrical one because we liked it more. It's not 100% what Béfana sings, but we wanted it to read as chipper as the tune. In the end, we end up with something that looks like this:

Doing alright so far! Next!

Our second issue was Chat Noir and Ladybug singing in response to Béfana in the second half of the episode. It goes a little something like this.

CHAT NOIR (singing) Chat Noir vient lui aussi Descret comme mort la nuit

CHAT NOIR (speaking; questioning tone) ...What also rhymes with "-it" [I]?

LADYBUG (singing) Il défend Paris Avec sa Lady

In this case, Chat Noir is wondering what will rhyme with "aussi" and "nuit" which end on the same phonetic sound of "-I". Ladybug jumps in and supplies "Paris" and "Lady" (which also end on the same sound in French). Oh man. This is a gag that specifically works because of how French is pronounced.

This is also entirely a children's show joke. There's plenty of words in French that rhyme with "aussi" and "nuit". It's silly, and perfectly in line with the normal comedy line of this show. The problem was trying to get that idea and feeling across to read in English captions. If you translated this more directly, it would look something like this:

CHAT NOIR (singing) Chat Noir arrives as well Discretely like the night

CHAT NOIR (speaking; questioning tone) ...What rhymes with “night”?

LADYBUG (singing) He protects Paris with his Lady

It's serviceable. It's functional. The gag is completely lost though and it makes no sense to read.

Well. Let's try an alternative version! It might go something like this:

CHAT NOIR (singing) Chat Noir is here as well Discrete as the dead of night

CHAT NOIR (speaking; questioning tone) ...What rhymes with "-ell"?

LADYBUG (singing) Defending from the tower, Eiffel Helping his Lady fight

Hmm. This at least rhymes now in English, but it's clumsy to read. I really don't like it. We don’t want it to look like some strange archaic poetry you need a masters in English to interpret.

As a related aside, sometimes you do have to completely rewrite a cultural joke or a gag to work when bringing a work to a different culture. This happens all the time (especially in dubs) and it's definitely based on how much people would know about at the current period.

A super famous example of localizing a cultural item was turning rice balls in to donuts. One has to understand, that at the time this sort of change was made (early 90s), people didn't know much about Japanese foods. The standard was people knowing about ramen and sushi. Rice balls look similar to sushi (specifically maki roll type sushi). They might have even been interpreted as sushi. But rice balls are 100% not sushi. (joking) What a mistake one can make! (/joke) On top of that, having rice balls be retained in the context of the show had a chance of not being accessible, thus a change was made to keep the flow of the show intact.

Another one that people might not be familiar with is changing ramen in the Phoenix Wright games to hamburgers. (If you want to see an insane piece of localization work, look up articles on the localization of Phoenix Wright. It's fantastic. The amount of alterations in that game series is astonishing.)

In our case in Béfana, this is just a phonetic gag. This gag may only make sense right now in French because of the way French is spoken, but it’s still only a phonetic gag. I don't have to look up anything like French expressions or idioms or cultural lore or even specific items. I could make a completely serviceable alternative that shouldn't look as weird or insert an equivalent American-English gag.

Unlike in the case above where we couldn’t retain La Béfana’s not-Italian song, we can do something here. Our goal here now is to capture the spirit of the joke or the joking nature of the lines. If we have to toss out the direct meaning of the words to do it, we’ll have to do it.

Spend a couple of more hours with a pen and some scratch paper and end up at this:

CHAT NOIR (singing) Chat Noir is now here, you see Coming like the night on the scene

CHAT NOIR (speaking; questioning tone) ...What rhymes with "-ee"?

LADYBUG (singing) And he defends Paris Alongside his Lady

Surprise! We got super lucky here! I didn’t have to rewrite an entire section of episode dialogue!

It isn’t exact, but it’s not a full replacement of the original French lines. The same questioning of the rhyme still exists. It's working on the fact that it's pretty much all half-rhymes, but if you actually read it out loud (of course pronouncing Paris as "Par-ee" and not "Pah-ris") it sounds pretty good! The line where Chat Noir is referring to the night can also be connected to the environment transitioning to night time so that tracks as well. On top of that, there’s plenty of words that rhyme with “ee” in English. (Get it together Chat Noir!) As a bonus, this version is singable to the tune they sing to in the show. It works just fine for my purposes. We saved the joke! That’s all that matters!

Job done! Looks nice! Time to ship it out!

Now, If you survived this long reading this and you're thinking "Oh god. Is it over?" while I did just write an essay, you probably only read this in a fraction of the time it took to solve this issue. I’m heavily generalizing this process. In reality, these two sections alone took maybe seven hours to settle on. Surprised?

You don't want to imagine listening to these dialogue exchanges for that long trying to interpret what's being said and workshopping captions till you find a set you like. This is just a small snippet of what goes in to these sorts of things. It's work. It takes (a lot of) time. It's exhausting. But in the end people that do this do it out of enjoyment of the same piece of media you enjoy and to help other people enjoy it as well.

That's about all I have to say for now. I hope this was informative. I may see you all again some time in the future.

Thanks to aprilblossoms for being my translator buddy for this one! And thanks to all my friends for putting up with me while I was giving myself a lobotomy trying to hammer this out! (Special note to C-Note for helping me come up with the final captions for Chat Noir and Ladybug's song response.)

[definitelyyessnakedemons]

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50

Fanfiction Questions:

5. Which fandoms have your written fanfiction for?

Oh, hell. It’s a long list.

Angel Sanctuary, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, Attack on Titan, Harry Potter, Pet Shop of Horrors, Skip Beat, Weather Warden, Wicked Lovely, One Piece, RWBY, FFIV, FFVI, FFVII, FFVIII, Death Note, Fruits Basket, Bleach, Saw, Boondock Saints, xxxHolic, Eldarya, slither.io, Diablo II, Rurouni Kenshin, Fight Club, Sweeney Todd, Bones, House MD, Kyo Kara Maoh, Vampire Knight, Maximum Ride, Immortals After Dark, Cirque Du Freak (AKA Darren Shan Saga), Loveless, Rayearth, Pokemon, MonMusu, Nana, Paradise Kiss, Claymore, The Walking Dead, Fairy Cube, Alice in Wonderland, My Candy Love, Princess Debut, Sleepy Hollow, Yuri on Ice, Final Fantasy: Unlimited, Secret of Mana, Katawa Shoujo, Gundam Wing, Evangelion, Excel Saga, Madoka Magica, X-men, Silence of the Lambs, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Sailor Moon, Excel Saga, The Wallflower (Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge), Gravitation, Kill Bill, Inuyasha, Yu-Gi-Oh, Fullmetal Alchemist, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Fringe, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

And there might be others which I’ve forgotten to mention, or wrote for but never posted on the internet.

10.  Is there a fandom you read fic from but don’t write in?

Technically yes, but that’s because I read fandomblind for review tags on FFN forums.

I’m not really reading much fanfic these days, and most of what I’m reading is either RWBY or One Piece.

15. Is there an obscure ship which you love?

I tend to ship odd things in a lot of my fandoms. It’s more rare for me to ship the big popular pairings in any fandom. (Skip Beat and Yuri on Ice are the only fandoms I can name off the top of my head where I ship THE popular pairing. I guess I could include Pet Shop of Horrors on the list but there are so few recurring characters in that series that if you don’t ship D/Leon you probably don’t ship anything in that fandom.)

20. Any ships which you surprised yourself by liking?

I tend to ship weird things in a lot of my fandoms, so I’m not really surprised by much anymore.

But yeah, when my brain randomly decided that I ship Hazel with Salem when dude had only had literally 10 seconds of screen time, I was kind of going “brain, why? We don’t even know him yet.” (When RWBY v4e1 had just come out)

25. What’s your most popular fanfic? 

The one with the highest stats across the board (views/faves/alerts/reviews) on FFN is “Do You Know What Fanfiction Is?” 

My most-kudo’d fic on AO3 is “Speak Your Dark Pleasures to Me”. It has a 40-point lead on “Do You Know What Fanfiction Is?”

30. What inspires you to write?

Literally everything. Fandoms, music, internet posts, real life events, a random thing I saw lying on the ground, and so on and so forth.

35. Do you write drabbles? If so, what do you normally write them about?

Drabbles are my jam. Crack humor, horror, angst, fluff, I drabble literally all the things.

40. What do you struggle the most with in your writing?

WORDCOUNT. omgggg, I have such trouble writing anything long! Also consistently updating multi-chaptered things is difficult because I have attention-span issues.

45. What is your all time favourite fanfic?

I honestly couldn’t tell ya. I love a lot of fanfics and I’m in a lot of different fandoms. I have a ton of stuff faved/bookmarked.

50. How did you get into reading and/or writing fanfiction?

I’ve been writing fanfic since I was a tiny little child, I just didn’t know that writing something about someone else’s pre-established universe/characters was called that back then.

[royalxiii]

My Personal Top 10 Games of 2016

I know a lot people had a bad 2016, but for us gamers, it was a pretty good year (if you don’t mind all the delays that is)! So why not make a good old top 10 list? It’s always fun! 

I’m also gonna have my personal “out of 10″ score for each game’s gameplay AND story, since both are equally important to me. As well as a mini-ish review and why it’s placed where it is. Without further ado, here we go!

*Contains Spoilers* 

*Keep in mind I haven’t played every game, nor do I have a Xbone or Gaming PC.*

10) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (Wii U)

Gameplay: 8/10 | Story: 9/10

Twilight Princess is one of those “love it, or hate it” Zelda games. For me, even though I’m aware of it’s faults, I love Twilight Princess. Even more so without the motion controls. I love Wolf Link (even though I wish there was more reasons to use him), Midna, Zant, the darker and creepy atmosphere, I love it all! So why is it at number ten? Well, I personally don’t believe ports and enhanced versions should be on a “top 10 games of the year” list (they should be for new games only). But I haven’t finished a lot of games I got this year, and I was missing two slots. So here you go!  

9) Gravity Rush - Remastered - (PS4)

Gameplay: 9.5/10 | Story: 9/10

Like TP above, Gravity Rush is lower on the list only because it’s a port/HD version of a old game. I really loved Gravity Rush back on the Vita, but I was quite confused at the story. But once I replayed it on PS4, knowing what I knew, it was easier to follow (even though you really don’t figure much out by the end). Gameplay feels so, SO, much better on the PS4! I love the Vita, but playing GR on it cramped my hands so much. It feels just right on the PS4 controller. Playing through this again makes me even more excited for Gravity Rush 2 this month! 

8) Pokken Tournament (Wii U)

Gameplay: 9/10 | Story: 3/10

At last, a actual new game! Pokken is such a oddity, but goddamn I love this game. I’m pretty horrible at fighting games, especially ones that aren’t “Smash Bros.” style. But I had fun playing this, and when I had friends over, they loved it too! There’s not much of a story, which wasn’t surprising, but the Shadow Mewtwo segment was interesting enough to keep me playing. Still haven’t beaten the bastard (last battle) though. I hope to see this ported or get a sequel on the NS!  

7) Ratchet & Clank -2016- (PS4)

Gameplay: 9.5/10 | Story: 5/10

Ah, Ratchet & Clank! One of the handful of games on my “Must Buy Day-One” list for every new installment. The series has been a bit on the shaky side after A Crack in Time, both in gameplay and in story. But this game (at least gameplay-wise) is a real return to form! Unfortunately, since this is a game based off a movie (based off a game), there’s pretty much no story since you’re suppose to watch it’s movie counterpart (which isn’t great). But it’s still a fun time! And there’s a in-game cheat to turn bolts into rupees, which is fucking fantastic. 

6) Shantae: 1/2 Genie Hero (PS4, Vita, Wii U, X1, PC) 

Gameplay: 9/10 | Story: 8.5/10

Oh Shantae, you were so close to becoming a 2017 game, good for you for staying in 2016 :3 This is game is beautiful! The animation is so good and lovely! And it’s as fun as any Shantae game before it (I do miss using Risky’s gear though)! My only complaint is the slide segment that’s used twice. For me, they ruin the pacing and they drag on for a little to long both times. Other than that, I really loved it and I can’t wait for the Risky Boots DLC! Also the music is fantastic XD

5) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice - (3DS)

Gameplay: 9/10 | Story: 10/10

I love the Ace Attorney series, warts and all. That being said, I didn’t like the last game, Dual Destinies. Although I liked a lot of new characters from it (and it’s DLC Case), I never felt so out of sync with out to proceed in the Court Cases. By the end I just wanted it to be over. But with Spirit of Justice, it was like the game was reading my mind or vise versa. I was so in-tune with the cases and only messed up a handful of times! And the story is wonderful and heartbreaking, as this series is known to be. I really can’t wait to see the future for Wright and his friends :D

4) Final Fantasy XV (PS4 and X1)

Gameplay: 9.5/10 | Story: 8/10

People are gonna hate me for this, luckily this blog ain’t popular enough for a huge backlash. FFXV is game I, much like a lot of people, have been waiting for since it was first revealed as Final Fantasy Verses XIII back in 2006. So obviously, there are high, and I mean high, expectations for a game ten years in the making. For the most part, it does succeed, at least with gameplay. Unfortunately, the story is lacking. Not in plot, mind you, but in cutscenes. I know cutscenes are the bane of some people’s existence, but to them I say “fuck you, why the hell are you play a JRPG in the first place then?!” Cutscenes  don’t only add personality to the main characters and depth to the story, but also to show other character’s within the story and why we should care or hate them. I know FFXV will be getting a update with new cutscenes later, but for now it’s sort of bare bones for me, and I don’t want to feel like that for this game. I see so much good in it, so it’s only natural I want to love and care for everything in it, right?

3) Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (PS4)

Gameplay: 9/10 | Story: 9.8/10

What a way to end Nate’s story, I fucking love this game! It’s so beautiful, the writing is great, the characters are great, and that fucking epilogue makes me want a Uncharted featuring Nate’s daughter. With Sam acting as her Sully. I know it wont happen, but I can dream can’t I? The gameplay is mostly the same, but it’s still fun. I love being able to almost always complete areas in stealth mode. Much like most games on here, I can’t wait for it’s story DLC :3

2) Kirby: Planet Robobot (3DS)

Gameplay: 10/10 | Story: 9/10

This may seem very, VERY, odd that Kirby beat both FFXV and Uncharted 4 for me. But I have to give the number two spot to this game because, well, I just had so much fun playing it! Once I got it, I barley ever put it down. It was 100% fun from beginning to end. Hell, I was actually completing it as I was playing it! Granted, I haven’t picked it back up since I completed it. But I’m already feeling the urge to replay it as I type this, and that’s the sign of a good game. Story-wise, it’s sort of what you’d expect from Kirby, but it’s still fun and entertaining. I wouldn’t change it for the world. I just wish it had post-game levels or something to that effect. 

1) Pokemon: Sun & Moon (3DS)

Gameplay: 9.8/10 | Story: 10\10

Given that my blog is mostly Kingdom Hearts and Pokemon, and all the news updates, drawings, a report of my gameplay for both games, this shouldn’t be much of a surprise. Even though I have some problems with it, this game is fucking fantastic! There’s a lot of upgrades to how things work that needed working on for a loooong time. From small things like your PC no longer has the useless “Withdraw and Deposit” options, to big things like no HMs! And recovering from the somewhat bland story in XY, the story and characters in SM is really fun and interesting! Hell, there were times where I was actually laughing out loud! I don’t think a Pokemon game has ever done that before! This game is just a real treat from beginning to end! As far as nitpicks and things that just piss me off from the oversight, well it defiantly has it’s fair share. But this is mostly at the Trainer Customization and some movepools for the New and Alolan Form Pokemon. In any case, even after beaten both Sun and Moon, I can hardly wait to get another copy to play my Popplio Team :D

Honorable Mentions 

(AKA Games I’m Loving but Haven’t Finished)

World of Final Fantasy (PS4 and Vita)

I honestly didn’t think I’d like this game, but it does grow on you! I stopped playing because I want to wait for the Sora Summon DLC (coming out this month!) Plus Pokemon came out soon after. What makes this game great is that, unlike other non-Pokemon monster-catching games, the monster-catching part isn’t almost 100% completely random. Like Tales of Symphonia 2, Ni no Kuni, and Yo-Kai Watch to name a few. The story is kinda interesting as long as you get used to to voice acting, which isn’t bad but the dialog is kinda awkward and Tama’s the-the is so annoying. In any case, I can’t wait to get back and beat it!

Watch_Dogs 2 (PS4, X1, PC)

I got this game for Christmas, and started it after beating FFXV and Shantae. So far I’ve been loving it! So far it’s much better then the original Watch_Dogs in graphics, gameplay, and story (granted, I’m still basically in the beginning. Doing a lot of side-quest). As of now this is the game I’m currently playing in till Gravity Rush 2, which will then be taken over by Kh2.8. 

[tharacelehar]

RE: fandom trash ask meme! 2, 7, 14

now name ur trash ship

I had a truly terrible LOTR trash ship but I literally cannot for the life of me remember what it was. It was probably Thranduil/Tauriel.

My Marvel trash ships are definitely Thor/Loki and Natasha/Bruce (but lbr he fervently believes she could lift the hammer, so that’s barely a trash ship except for everything that happened in the movie besides that scene so I don’t like to think about it). My Ace Attorney trash ship is Phoenix Wright/Apollo Justice (aka, shitty sarcastic disbarred lawyer and his eager yet sarcastic little shit of an apprentice), and I actually am sorry about that one, because the mentor/mentee thing tends to..... drop the sarcasm in most of the fanworks, but I also don’t think it’s terrible enough to go on the “I’m going to hell for shipping this” list.

Logan and Caliban could have kissed and that would have made me happy, but that definitely was not a good marriage, so. Oops???

what is ur guiltiest guilty fave fandom

My guiltiest guilty fave fandom is Saiyuki because it’s the story of 4 really unpleasant people traveling across the world in a Jeep that is also a dragon in order to stop everything from ending and none of them know how they’re going to do it but they know that the answer to the question of why they are doing it is spite. (They are also kind of in love with each other.)

It is the guiltiest guilty fave fandom because I started out with the anime, in which every filler invariably takes the form of “the four main dudes meet four women who are perfectly suited to them aesthetically and personality-wise, amidst a slew of comments about how the four dudes are Just Bros Sitting In A Hot Tub Five Feet Apart ‘Cause They’re Not Gay but oh wait! The women are all evil demons sent by the Big Bad to kill them. Then they die tragically, or wave the heroes off into the sunset on their ever-continuing Journey to the West.”

It’s the worst, and I fucking love the manga.

what is ur crackiest crack ship

I’m the kind of person who thinks that if two characters speak once and then never again, they should definitely kiss. I have a lot of cracky ships. I ship two characters in K because he’s nicknamed the Ogre and she’s nicknamed the Ice Queen and he looks at her like this as she punches people:

I’m sure I have a few good Discworld crack ships, but the Discworld canon ships are so good, and like, how does it get crackier than the grumpiest sergeant on the Watch getting married and having CHILDREN with the city’s resident middle aged noble spinster who runs a sanctuary for horrible little dragons?

I used to know off the top of my head what my Marvel crack ships were but I can’t think of them now... It’s tough to come up with crack ships when there definitely is a universe where your crack ship probably did get together. Case in point:

A good ship. The best ship.

Dani Moonstar and Hela could kiss though and that would make me happy.

[aceof-stars]

This. Is absolutely perfect. “This isn’t a fairy tale, Wright” !!! I feel like people are forgetting something about narumitsu most of the time. Edgeworth dismantling Phoenix’s misbeliefs and savior complex in 2-4. It’s equally as important and Phoenix dismantling Edgeworth’s misbeliefs and guilt in 1-4. You cannot just have Phoenix saving Edgeworth all the time.

savior complex

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A Second Chance: Chapter 9

An Ace Attorney fanfic. Read on both AO3 and FF.net!

Summary: Miles learns the identity of his “dead” mother, and the aftermath of that revelation is a tricky one. Especially when his newfound little sister is trying to turn him into a spirit medium.

AKA Miles is a Fey. Miles also doesn’t really know how to family properly.

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The Question

“This is your last chance! I’m warning you! You take another step and I’ll- ARGH!”

Maya squealed and her chocolate eyes went wide as they peeked over the pillow she had started to clutch so tightly that her knuckles were turning white. Miles grimaced with an audible exhale of breath as he subtly averted his eyes from the screen, his teeth grabbing hold of his bottom lip in suspense.

Phoenix looked between them blankly.

“H-Ha, you... may have defeated me today Samurai… but my c- *cough* curse has already taken hold of you… I win…hahahaha-”

It was Friday and just as he’d sort-of-promised, Miles Edgeworth had arrived at Wright & Co. Law Offices to watch Steel Samurai with Maya clad in his usual attire. Phoenix felt guilty knowing he’d probably come straight from work but appreciated him coming anyway.

“Impossible!”

“Pa? Pa where…? Pa!!!”

A loud gasp broke the tense silence in the room. Maya squirmed in her seat, sending worried, questioning looks in Edgeworth’s direction. Edgeworth didn’t notice. He had his eyes glued to the screen.

“Pa! Are you alright?! What-”

“Suki, I… you’re all I ever wanted… you’ve made your father so proud…”

“Shh Pa, save your strength. I *sniff* I promise to finish what you started, Pa. I love you.”

“Suki…”

“P-Pa…”

“S…”

“Pa? Pa! PA!!!”

Once again, the silence in the room was shattered. This time by Maya’s muffled sniffs into her pillow. Phoenix, instinctively despite his confusion of exactly what was going on, reached out a hand to squeeze her shoulder comfortingly. Miles didn’t react.

“You did this, didn’t you Samurai?”

“I…”

“Of course you did. I’m not blind. I know how you’ve been destroying everything we’ve been working toward.”

“We?”

“Don’t take me for a fool! Pa told me everything. I know exactly what I have to do. And I know that the magnificent warrior Steel Samurai will never harm a vulnerable little girl like me.”

“You might be too young to realize Suki-chan, but you seem more than smart enough to know that I have responsibilities I must fulfil. The fate of Neo Olde Tokyo rests on my shoulders, and when you have been doing what I do for as long as I have, then maybe you will understand why I have to make an exception.”

“Pwaha, you would never-”

The screen went black just as the Steel Samurai moved to draw his katana, causing two-thirds of the room to exclaim their annoyance in extremely contrasting ways.

“Uh, yeah… that’s enough of that.” Said Phoenix with only a hint of apology.

“Nick!!!” “Wright.”

Alright, maybe not so contrasting after all. That might’ve been the first time Phoenix ever saw some kind of resemblance in the siblings.

“Hey, it was pretty much over anyways! Besides, I did it for a reason. Have you seen your faces? You look like ghosts.”

Truthfully, both Miles and Maya’s faces were extraordinarily drained of color when they’d simultaneously turned to face him (it was actually really creepy how in-sync they were). Phoenix may have purposely forgotten to mention the fact that this particular story arc could be compared to their own experiences. He was trying to do them a favor.

Miles cleared his throat and straightened his posture from his position on the floor where he sat with Maya. Phoenix was lucky enough to have the couch to himself. “Well…” he said. “I suppose you do know what happens next.”

Maya nodded solemnly. “Yeah… up ‘til now I was thinking why they pulled these episodes but now I think I get it.”

“It’s kinda messed up for a kid’s show.” Phoenix commented, unsurprisingly subjecting himself to fall victim to yet another simultaneous sibling glare. Individually they’d always been quite intimidating, but together? Their eyes bore into his soul so much that it genuinely felt like he was on trial all over again.

“Thanks for coming, Miles!” Said Maya, all-too-obviously choosing to ignore Phoenix’s statement. “It’s so much better to watch along with someone who understands art.”

“Hey-”

“Shut up, Nick.” “Noted.”

Edgeworth began to slowly push himself up from his awkward sitting position on the office floor. “It was my pleasure. I had a nice time.”

Phoenix noticed that his voice was quite clipped and he found it quite uncharacteristic of Miles to be so open with his compliments. Guess he really was a changed man.

“Actually, Maya, there’s something I’ve been meaning to ask of you.”

Ah, there it was.

“Sure,” replied Maya, wiping her eyes as if she hadn’t been bawling her eyes out just minutes ago, “what’s up?”

Miles looked off to the side. “I was wondering if… with your blessing, of course… if I could visit Kurain Village. Talk to some of the people there.”

“Miles…” Phoenix began in concern, but Edgeworth held up a finger to silence him.

“I’ve been thinking about this a great deal, and it is something I want to do.”

It was understandable, Phoenix thought. Life hadn’t been kind to Edgeworth’s family, and it was only natural to want to get to know his mother’s traditions and the life he might have led. He was more surprised that he hadn’t asked sooner, seeing as Maya would be more than happy to-

“No.”

Edgeworth must have been as surprised as Phoenix was because his mask of neutrality suddenly disappeared and he looked both taken aback and absolutely heartbroken.

“N-No?” 

“No.” Maya repeated, more firmly. “I’m sorry but that’s not a good idea.”

“Why not?!” Miles protested loudly. Phoenix cringed at the outburst. He knew both of them well enough to be able to tell when they were getting riled up. This was not going to end well.

“It’s just that I don’t think it would go down well with the village, okay?! They have a bad history with men!”

Miles sprung up onto his feet. Maya did the same, took a step forward so that her face was inches away from Edgeworth’s chest, and looked up at him angrily. Phoenix sunk further into the couch.

“It’s a simple request!” He exclaimed, forcefully waving an arm to exaggerate his point. “You have no trouble taking Wright there!”

“Yeah that’s because Nick isn’t my brother and also not a main family Fey,” Maya yelled, “because like it or not, you’re-”

“I’M NOT A FEY!”

Maya’s mouth snapped shut instantly. Her chin began to wobble. She glared at Edgeworth with as much hatred she could possibly muster.

“I’m not a Fey and you have the same right to my father’s name as Wright does. Which is none!”

“Miles…” Uttered Phoenix, in an attempt to calm the man down. Said man wasn’t listening. He was breathing heavily and his eyes were darting around the room.

“Well,” Maya started quietly, “I’m sorry to break it to you but you are. I’m your sister, and that’s not changing anytime soon. So deal with it!”

“Where were you then?!” Miles argued, with a ferocity that Phoenix had never seen before, not even in court. “Where were you when I was being-”

He caught himself and sighed, rubbing his eyes with his thumb and index finger, and said with a voice barely above a whisper: “I’m sorry.”

Maya scoffed and replied in a voice equally as quiet. “You’re sorry. For what? Insulting me, our Mom, or my village’s entire way of life?”

Phoenix finally braved sitting up. “Guys, calm down.” He said. “We had a good time, you can talk about this properly another day.”

“So you call her our mother,” said Miles, completely ignoring Phoenix, “but you say that it’s your village?”

“It’s my home!” Maya countered. “Have you been there even once?”

Edgeworth didn’t answer.

“Thought so.”

“Perhaps if your mother had bothered to alert me of her existence, I would have visited considerably more often!”

“Oh yeah? Well maybe if your father had just taken the stairs then none of us would be in this mess, would we?!”

The silence that was left in the office was tense and sickly thick. Miles seemed at a loss for words. His cheeks were red as he puffed on the spot. Without a word, he grabbed his blazer and stormed toward the door.

“Wait!” Maya called as she ran after him, her sandals clicking against the hard floor.

He stopped and turned to look at her, eyes cold and unforgiving.

“That was stupid of me to say.” She looked down. “If you want to go to Kurain Village we can work toward it,” she suggested, “but you need to trust me. I don’t want you getting hurt, or worse, disgraced from the village.”

He seemed to acknowledge her for a second, before letting out a long sigh. “Alright. That’s… that’s a good idea.”

Phoenix let out his own sigh of relief from his spectator’s seat and stood up to join the pair. If he thought their last meeting was intense, this one rewrote the book in its entirety.

“See? You guys can get along!” He laughed, no humor in his voice.

“Not now, Wright.”

“Fair.”

The air felt lighter all of a sudden, and for the first time since Miles had arrived, it felt right.

Right until Maya opened up her arms.

She was already very close to Miles, but instead of accepting her embrace, he took a step back in surprise. When Phoenix caught his gaze over Maya’s shoulder, he nodded at him in encouragement. 

And so he awkwardly hugged Maya back.

Suddenly Maya pulled back with a long gasp. “I have an idea!” She announced happily. “The perfect way to help you get accepted in the village!”

“What?” Phoenix and Edgeworth asked at the same time.

“We’re gonna teach you how to channel spirits!”

~-.-~

Brrrrrrrrrring!

“Uh, he-”

“Detective.”

“Oh, hey boss! You okay? It’s kinda late-”

“Detective, I need to ask you something. You have a brother, correct?”

“Nah, got one hell of a big sister though. Love her to bits. Why are you asking? Did something happen with Maya?”

“Do you ever… disagree with her?”

“Oh yeah, sure, sometimes. We get over it pretty quickly though. What happened?”

“That’s none of your business, detective.”

“Sorry, sir. I’m just worried about you, y’know?”

“...We had a rather intense argument. And then she suggested that I should…”

“Should what, sir?”

“Ugh, that I should start ‘spirit medium’ training.”

“It’s a real thing, I’ve seen her do it! It’s kinda creepy to be hone-”

“It’s preposterous! I’ve witnessed her doing it too, but I… really don’t want to involve myself in all of that. I told her as much.”

“And what did she say?”

“She was so excited about it, and I didn’t want to upset her again so I begrudgingly agreed.”

“I thought it was a girls-only thing?”

“So did I. Again, I told her as much but she assured me that she had a plan, which I don’t believe for an instant since it was only seconds… detective, what’s so funny?!”

“Nothing, sir. It’s just that you’re starting to sound like a big brother.”

Miles hung up.