#but oops now the fucker (who is totally dead btw and never coming back guys trust me) haunts him as a manifestation of guilt??

[ladyofthecreeddraws]

"Oh, love...I'm merely waiting until you're happy."

Yeah listen man, this crossover is a thing now because dreamstat can't stop spitting bangers and this line's been haunting me for a week.

[pinksweatergettingbetter]

alright so we’re back with chapter three - the Great Witch

-

i wonder how much of their memories Nick and Maya have actually recuperated 

the whole thing seems a little dodgy...

-

“This bench looks like a torture tool– shall we try it out on you, Nick?”

why is Maya so bloodthirsty in the game?? i mean she’s mischievous, but...

-

ahhh their widdle walking sprites are so cuuuute!

-

hang on– is that a picture-picture of Barnham with his dog?? if so, that should raise a lot of questions...

also why is the only person who *doesnt* comment on the painting Phoenix? he’s the art major.

-

you know, ive seen plenty of Phoenix X Barnham, and Darklaw X Barnham, but I’ve never seen any Phoenix X Darklaw 

i wonder why...

maybe Ive just never come across it

-

“Mr Wright, are you alright?”

(no response)

he's dead guys the fucking dog killed phoenix wright 

-

luke: I can talk to animals maya: haha omg cool! phoenix, laying in a pool of his own blood: hurgle

-

wait did maya just call Barnham adorable by proxy 

-

things layton likes: puzzles, stone lanterns 

-

oh fuck i forgot about the puzzles

also what the FUCK muffet

-

Patty: I believe in your Phoenix

Phoenix, trying not to cry: cool cool cool

-

aww. its nice to have a moment to just talk about feelings, especially between the sidekicks. 

...

...dont go into the forest you little fuckers

-

maya likes helms..??

-

“I used to come here with Nick. He’d carry the water pots, and I’d cheer him on!”

that reminds me, theres no plumbing. in fact, since its the middle ages, theres not even any outhouses. maya and phoenix have canonically shit in the streets

-

DOGS AND CATS, LIVING TOGETHER–

-

its 12:30 on a school night and I've spent over an hour trying to help a dog deliver mail 

oh maya solved that one! thats the first AA solve of the game. ...er, to me.

-

i dont understand how piccarats work

like, the previous puzzle was 30 piccarats and it was ridiculously easy. this one’ twenty and ive already lost ten points

maybe its to do with how my brain works– the 30 one was a pattern/colour puzzle, and I'm an artist. this one’s about directions, and I'm ASS at directions.

-

darklaw what are you WEARING

you look like a skimpy medieval furry

seriously what is with the metal skirt on bare thighs 

is that supposed to be comfy 

-

man these backgrounds are so beautiful 

-

why did she specifically tell Maya to be wary of witches

-

“You certainly both love your food. Personally, I’d just like a little more sleep...”

amen bro

-

oh fuck

Drosselmeyer wants to see Layton. dont let him brainwash ya!

-

“So this is the deathknell dungeon? Looks more like solitary confinement to me.”

considering the fact that she can see out the door, i doubt its solitary nick. solitary is a sealed box from hell.

-

Maya: you were just scared that nick would fuck up like always!! because he's an enormous fuck up haha!! Espella: i... no, i think he's really great

Phoenix: ...hey can i change assistants please

-

OH HO

CLIFF HANGER 

-

one does not simply

visit the storyteller

-

“come to think of it, during that parade, the storyteller did seem to be held in high esteem by all the townsfolk...”

guys have you not realized that youre literally meeting god yet???

ah see Layton’s got it

c’mon luke keep up

-

pfft they think Layton’s a hatter 

just wearing a tophat does not a hatter make 

-

ah the knights garrison

this is where Chucky stopped playing on his second third-space save 

I wonder why...

-

“And so the travellers finally arrived...”

yeah well first of all??? if you wanted me to get in there faster maybe dont make your door a fucking puzzle maybe 

fuck you old man you aint shit 

(btw i managed to solve it accidentally in the recommended 4 turns by pressing 3 random buttons and then realizing id somehow succeeded)

-

Storyteller: [farts suspiciously]

-

Storyteller: you guys are bad because you stopped me killing children

Layton: 

-

“OOPS”

DUFLUS SHFLS 

LUKE ITS OK 

I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH TO BE MAD

-

Espella: it’s true... that the towns folk look at me in a different way

well for one thing youre a different art style than most of them without being anything usually associated with said art style 

-

oh ok that i was not expecting 

she’s,,, jesus???

-

Maya spitting truths here 

-

wait hang on a second 

first of all– “the great witch is just a character of myth” yeah well EVERYONE is a character, Espella

also, she says she came to live with Patty 5 years ago... which is also what Phoenix and Maya said

when their memories all got altered to include phoenix and maya, does that mean they like, had a whole growing-up-together for five years roster of memories?

13 y/o Espella and Maya meeting, bonding over stuff, wondering why only Maya had to make bread and Espella didnt 

Phoenix–– hell, in the time frame, he’d be ‘Pheenie’ being their older brother. Acting like his 25 y/o self, or harkening back to those days and acting accordingly??

and how shitty it must’ve been when they realized none of it ever happened.

-

“Were these things... My memories?”

well probably not considering im pretty sure that tiny kid being flown over was you

-

i feel bad for nick’s... wherever is getting bitten, but this does lend credence to my headcanon that animals hate phoenix so 

also the inquisitor office theme needs to chill the fuck out

-

“Exactly what are you doing over there on all fours”

dont do that 

“He just sits back and lets his dog bite people, err... I mean, me”

he’s lucky nobody flips the fuck out and bites back. i suppose nobody would dare if they knew it was his dog, but still. not very responsible.

-

“Dr. Delduke” eh

well now

-

“He was no witch.” “Why?”

“HE was a man.”

( Welp, can’t argue with that. )

hey!!! equality to witches!! boys can be witches too!!

-

“Maya... can you get this mutt away from me? I can’t feel my leg.”

“Aww... So soon? I was hoping he’d use you as a blue chew toy just one more time.”

ok, seriously, what is UP with Maya? I can’t remember her ever being this violent in the original series. Like, she hit Nick over the head with the shichishito that one time, but she wasn’t constantly wishing harm on him??

-

as much as i appreciate seeing a tiny maya model i fucking hate the cloud puzzle fuck you for doubling up on it

-

oh i lucked into the answer awesome

this seems to be a running theme...

-

every time someone looks at the bell tower, they always comment on the bell never being heard. it must be foreshadowing.

-

wow Jean is very short

...also I'm calling it now, HE DID IT

-

hmm Greyerl’s voice actress is a little more noticeable than Luke’s...

also OH OK. the fucking bell tower just MANIFESTED OUT OF PURE FLAMES

THATS COOL

-

“He reacted in a moster peculiar way. Unlike others who saw it, he seemed unsettled, as if he was truly afraid of something” 

oh i dunno, maybe the DEMON BELL TOWER???

-

Maya: only YOU can fuck up that badly, nick!

ok... genuinely, utterly, seriously, why is Maya so malicious in this game? She does tease Nick a lot throughout the series, but its usually in a more playful or goofy manner. A lot of the things she says in this game seem sort of unnecessary or weirdly hurtful... especially since phoenix hasn’t done much to warrant any of them.

-

hmm

well, I know what happens to Maya

but what the hell is he doing to Nick?

also I do hope there’s a reeeeeaaaaally good reason for all this...

-

layton flings out his arm to shut luke up skdgkafajkf

-

wait why did the owl bring them that

-

“Luke, my boy... We have the need... to rent a steed.”

LAYTON

oh and they fucking did

-

“You think that’s bad? You should see Nick try and do the laundry– Now that’s a major blunder!”

see that seems a little more in character somehow

especially since its something that seems like he would fail at.

still, weirdly insult heavy...

-

hey hey 

100 coins

-

“in an alchemy sense”

shouldn’t that be an ‘alchemical’ sense?

-

“I guess you’re more suited to small, dark, damp places.”

is that a reference to the mushroom thing??

-

phoenix, in someone else’s abandoned basement: oh no their house plants are dying :( ill water them 

this man??? is pure??

-

“Well well well. If it isn't a well.”

NICK

-

“Come to think of it... I haven’t noticed any plumbing here in Laborynthia.”

HA 

I WAS RIGHT

THEY SHIT IN THE STREETS

-

“As things stand, Mr. Wright is in serious danger!”

uh the story said Maya would die, not Phoenix. It said he’d be cursed, but Maya would be tried and burnt. You should probably be more worried about her...

-

great witch: sup guys I'm gonna fuck shit up

game: the following is too horrifying to look directly at; here, have some shenanigans with Luke and that other bard Bardly was complaining about.

-

“Birdly”

fuck you perhaps

-

NO

WHY IS EMEER THERE

NOO

-

also hi Layton you’re looking a bit uh 

a bit 

...well this hardly makes any sense

doesn’t Layton appear not long after this? also, it’s easy enough to prove Maya’s not a witch; just hand her the staff and ask her to politely turn Layton back. 

that or just cry on him real quick; worked for Ash

-

bweuuuhhh dont cry luke pls

luuuuke

its ok luke magic isn’t real luke

...though from what I’ve heard of your universe, someone could have used Science to turn him into gold and that could be totally real so

just 

c’mon in for a hug lil guy

also see yuh all next time for part... four? i think?

[constellationmelody]

My neighbor’s demon spawn child intentionally set our apartment building on fire. Its a long story of my bad week.

I would never hurt a child, even those ‘would you kill baby Hitler’ questions, i would’ve said no but after Tuesday, I have no problem on murdering this ‘child’. He has literal death/beating threats now for what he has just done.

Say what you want but when your life was intentionally was put at risk, you’ll be beyond livid and reason flies out the window.

It started on a Tuesday night around 1:50am to 2am, Somewhere around this time, Dennis(as i nicknamed this fucker after ‘Dennis the Menace’) and his half brother where playing in the hallway using hairspray/perfume with a lighter, Reasons I don’t know why but they took a mattress from the fourth floor, set it at the staircase window that are between the the fourth and fifth floors and sets it on fire. I guess he freaked out and ran back home and went to bed. (I think that’s what his mother said on where he was when she ‘found’ him)

If you’re thinking why are they are there and where are their parents for these kids to be out around this time? That’s because their parents are shit. Not exaggerating when i say that all my neighbors have a story about this kid and how much of a terror he was. Every time he does something and told on his mother, She refuses to believe that the kid was a bad kid, even though when she sleeps, the little shit sneaks out of the house, day or night, and does shit. (The list of the things he has done will be on a later post, I have stories about him too)

After the little shits ran off, Unknown to them, Someone who lived behind our apartment saw the whole thing, video taped it and called the fire apartment since, you know, most of the people in those floors were asleep from most tenants have said that their fire alarm did not worked. My sister was luckily in the livingroom with my mother when she turned her head to see black smoke coming out of our door. It was too dark to be someone’s burnt food so they ran to the bedroom to tell me this and said that we needed to leave the apartment through the fire escape. The whole floor were engulfed in flames, so it wasn’t safe to open the front door at all. We shut the bedroom door, put a rag against the crack and called 911. My next door neighbors had to break their window to escape and luckily, Some guys came to our window to help us since I had a hard time getting my mom to get out of to the window cause she was freaking out.

The fire department quickly came and put out the fire.

During the time when the firefighters were putting out the flames, The person and other tenants came up to his parents and accuses their kid for starting the fire, of courses she refuses to believe that he did anything this bad until they showed her the video evidence. His step father nearly choked him and his mother have already have heard people making threats, vowing to who was responsible and hurt him(She must of heard me saying this too, after we glared at her kid), puts Dennis on a taxi to god knows where.

Finally we were allowed back inside, The fire COMPLETELY damaged the fourth and Fifth floors. It almost went to the third floor. If you were saw the movie Silent hill, after the sirens go off and the scenery changes to dark with rusted walls and shit, It looked exactly like that. Personally I was terrified to go back in because I’ve forgotten to take my pet bird with us. I was in survival mode that I had to help my mother out so we can all get out that i forgot I had a pet. Fortunately He was found to be alright. Tough bird. I guess being next to the window helped a lot. I was expecting him to be dead from the smoke.

After checking the damages to the apartment, which was only the front door and soot marks, we helped our neighbors with cleaning the mess off the entire floor, It was just covered in ash and burnt wood. The people reasonable for all this didn’t have the fucking decency to help out.

Later, A neighbor got told by a fire marshal about how fortunate we were that the fire spread to my side of the hall because the other side had a main gas pipeline and had the fire burn through to the pipe, the whole fifth floor(my floor) would’ve exploded.

The red cross were really no help. They came while we were cleaning by giving us ‘goodie bags’ for the cleaning effort and smell. They did offer to take us to live in hotel while our building is being cleaned up but they were located far from home and there’s ppl here that can’t commute from there to their jobs in the bronx.  It was nice of my neighbor to break our lock to get our door to fully shut closed but we hardly slept at all that night. How could anyone after that?

I wish I can say that this was all that was on this bad week but the next day...just got better. It was a ‘How could things get any worse’ moment.

Later that day, we had a thunderstorm with REALLY HEAVY DOWNPOUR. The burn debris blocked the drain on the roof and I've walking into the Rio grande that was forming between the livingroom and hallway. We were ankle deep in water. We spent quite a while trying to scoop up the water while blocking the cracks of our door from the rain water. After all that and again, helping the neighbors, We all felt like we were going to crack from the stress of the fire and now flood. We felt terrible also for the tenants below because the seeped through the floors and walls and caused apartments ceilings to collapsed, all the way to the first floor. It was a really bad. We all took out some chairs and chatted in the hallway because we just didn’t want to be suffering alone. We were all just traumatized. Spent the night gossiping, talking bad about the boy.

Superintendent was an asshole too. The neighbor overheard this fucker wished that were had died from the fire, all because he’s disgusted with us about the cleanliness of the hallways. Like if it’s everyone in the floor’s fault. And the asshole totally disrespected my mother too after she asked about the repairs like ‘You think you’re the only one?’ and chuckled off her concerns. Luckily, One of my mom’s new friends is friends with some drug dealers and they are pissed off at him for those comments, and from what i’m told they are going to fuck up his car. I hope they do.

Later that night, the red cross people told us that we had to leave our homes because the fire and water made the apartments unsafe to live in and had to quickly pack up our things and leave, not know when we will ever come back. I nearly broke down crying. I didn’t want to leave and spend my days either in a hotel or my dad’s house. Especially since he’s so insensitive. Even after the fire, HE MAKES IT ALL ABOUT HIM, HOW HE’S RIGHT AND QUESTION WHY WE ARE STILL LIVING HERE WITH DENNIS RUNNING AROUND. This is why don’t want to live with him, he’s an asshole. And he wants us to move into his apartment complex... Fuck no. Good lord, He embarrassed us in front of my neighbors by showing how much of an asshole he is towards my mom! Luckily, My mom blew him off. ...

Sorry, I went a little off the rails.

Obviously, The neighbors talked it over among themselves and decided that since they came way late for this, like 12am late, we’ll sleep until tomorrow on it. None of us are happy about this. So, I slept in my bed, thinking that this will be the last time before I’ll be temporarily homeless. Fearing to death that I might have to live with my dad.

As for Dennis’s family(they lived on the fifth floor two doors down from me), During the morning, they packed what they could and left, later that night, however, they came back to get the remainder of their stuff so that no one can see them. But My sister and I did. (We’re too traumatized to sleep) and they know we hate them for the situation they put everyone in. I can only hope that they left for good, that the police arrest the kid and send him and his brother to Juvenile jail.

The next day the landlord came to inspect the damage. (I accidentally yelled at one of them, thinking that they are my mom. oops.) After a while, The landlord said that since we had little damage, we can stay as long as other tenants on the fifth floor does too, otherwise we all have to leave under the threat of arrest from the police.

So technically, I’m trespassing in my own home with our landlord’s permission to stay.

So... The repairs are slow, the landlord are doing something with the insurance(saying they’ll clean the walls and repaint the apartment.), we are literally praying that no one takes advantage of the door being unlock-able since it’s literally being ‘locked’ by a rod, step ladder, an ironing board and table as alarms should someone attempt to break into our home and the padlock is how we lock our door if no ones in the apartment. We haven’t slept well in days because one of us has to be awake for the door. We are waiting for a new door to be installed. That door literally saved our lives, btw. It blocked the fire from coming in. Had we opened it, our apartment would’ve been on fire.

I don’t know how long it will be like this. Because of the fire, My mom, sis and I developed PSTD with our own variations on how we are effected by it. My mom has it the worse and I’m now extremely paranoid for every sound, smell and activities in the hallways, thinking that it’s a fire. My mom nearly had a heart attack because she mistook the dust from the cleaners cutting the walls as smoke. We are severely stressed out.

All because that little demon that loved to terrorize other people, took it too far with his shenanigans and nearly costs people’s lives. The mom is ashamed but what i want from her is not only to leave but to own up to it. Her child is evil, he needs to pay for what he did, and admit she’s a bad mother. Instead, She’s a coward who shipped him off somewhere and took all their things in the time where everyone is asleep and disappeared. Fuck her.

I thought my week was already fucked when my computer can’t connect to the WiFi due to network connectivity but after this near death experience, it was pretty ‘first world problems’ of me to think of that. I’m just glad that I’m alive. I should...go outside and experience life, get those piercings that i wanted and go to places I've been meaning to go. Life is short. I could’ve died on Tuesday.