#doing seb's logic chess...... :(

[claitea]

a friend is playing aai2 on discord stream and we finally got up to the last case! i missed my boy

[hermitcraft-8]

ace attorney investigations is both way better and way worse than the original games to me in particular because in the original games you go around looking fir clues and stuff but most of the games are the courtroom parts which is complicated and confusing and awful < unless youre good at it

id like to mention ive done mock trials before and theyre actually so much fun but the games are so confusing and convoluted and strange that i dont like being behind the bench for some levels. i just dont know whats happening or what on earth phoenix is thinking

but anyway. in investigations youre almost never behind the bench and its great. phoenix isnt there at all, youre miles EDGEWORTH instead. you just look around to see clues and stuff, build the situation your head - its cool :]

but the downside is logic chess. in which you learn that miles has no clue how to play chess because its a time based game where you either stay quiet or start pushing for information and then a chess piece shows up????? and breaks the other person’s chess piece ????? its not chess. but i only really dislike it because of the time aspect, yiure on a timer and its scary

ANYWAY who even cares about game mechanics i need 2 introduce you to kay faraday

shes a little [i say little but shes like. idont know. 16-18] pink thief girl who shows up. i think after miles gets kidnapped ?????? in a haunted house ???????? and she has her speech where she talks aboyt how shes the yatagaratsu who steals the truth ect ect. i love her because when she’s not being extremely helpful she exclusively makes fun of miles. as a teenager is meant to do 👍

she talks aboyt stealing & breaking & entering in front of this whole entire lawyer so often and its hilarious. because he cant do shit about it because shes never actually stolen anything or broken and entered anything

anyway she has this little machine she got from her father called little thief that makes holograms of whatever information is inputted into it. helps with detective work 👍 and also with stealing

her dad was a defence attorney BUT. YOU SEE. HE WAS ALSO A GREAT THIEF which is where she got this whole thing from. and he was a thief WITH two other people. her uncle whos a detective that looks like hes smoking cigarettes but its just a lollipop < hes silly] and the woman who killed her dad 👍 her sprites r cool as hell

the whole first game, kay & miles are revealing a smuggling ring. can you believe it. this random rich guy and the girl he met 3 days ago who is 16. find an international smuggling ring and get them arrested. the hell

in the second game they have ❤️❤️❤️❤️ justine courtney & sebastian debeste. justine is a judge & also religious but her god is uh. the goddess of the law 👍 shes kind of a hardass but shes nice to sebastian which i appreciate because no one is nice to sebastian. which sucks

sebastian is another rich guy who only got the job cuz his dad let him. its complicated and a whole thing and seb’s dad is a. horrible person + the big bad of the second game because he killed someone, attempted to take justine’s son hostage + took sebastian hostage instead.

Theres a second big bad, his name is simon keyes, hes a clown. but an evil clown but like. he looks nice. until he starts being an ass right when you try to get him arrested. he gave kay amnesia and ill never forgive him ect ect ect

anyway thats ace attorney investigations. evil rich people & people who manipulate people who dont know better into giving them what they want r the general big bads in this one

that's awesome, love that

[bluemajingirl]

Zizzi would let out a sigh when Sebastian had left the scene after the last logic chess of the game. She could see that she was in the home stretch at this point and she was going to beat this.

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She had have Edgeworth argue in court to keep things from being decided until John could be found. She would glare a bit as Blaise was shown a couple of times.

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"Yeah take him down Seb!" She would cheer as she was so excited for him to have come this far.

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"Well, I guess he's got this but I wish I could see it." She said as she did have to beat more of the game as she crossed her arms.

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"They do love bringing up twelve years ago." She would say as she was tapping the screen a lot as she could see that the finish line was so close.

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"...Man, I wish I could see what Seb is doing." She would say softly as she couldn't believe that she was arguing with a clown at the moment.

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And with that the game was over. "Wooo! It's over!" She was proud of herself for beating this game as she would flopped onto the chair as she laughed. "That took like forever, but it was worth it!" She closed the ds up for now.

[7clubs]

sebastian appreciation moment but. if you know me then you'd know the Central trait I build my view of them timeskip, post-character development is (cool dgs reference) Resolve. Determination. Desperate though it may be. Digging through the dump, then willing themself to show up to the court and take their place back on the stand after that. After everything. It's a really good contrast to how they are in the early game, making other people/forensics/etc. do all the work and taking credit for it.

(There's also their shattered sense of self-esteem, their meekness hiding under the facade, the quickness to tears. Not the main point of this post, but ties into the rest of their character all the same.)

But the other thing is that they're actually very capable of springing into action when it counts. Seb doesn't have the best book smarts and initial comprehension skills here and there But.

Obviously they have their totally understandable, worst day of their life, just-got-disowned breakdown moment and that Logic Chess but immediately after? Know exactly the first place to look for the crucial evidence (the tower storeroom, which was probably correct but they were just too late.) Then after that? put together the pieces w/ Blaise taking out the trash and got right to searching. And again, that was actually the right call, before heading straight for the courthouse. Seb has a good intuition when they're fully in the know. And it pairs together wonderfully, formidably with the resolve. Like. they CAN be pretty scary!

But.

They're also soft.

and that's another beautiful contrast. they do what needs to be done but at the very end. he's still their dad. and they thank him despite it all.

also god i know ultimately all this is just to make this moment really epic and emo but i will also accept it into my worldview that seb has this ridiculous level of emotional intelligence to have this level of awareness and clarity of exactly how they feel in the moment. they sure did a lot of reflecting in such a short time. that's my last important Post AAI2 Seb trait okay Thank You bye.

[prosecutors-gambit]

kay faraday for the ask meme ^^

How I feel about this character: KAY!! i love her so much her theme slaps she’s so much fun. probably my favorite assistant i love her thief thing and when [redacted] in aai2 i just aughhhhghhghhh

All the people I ship romantically with this character: ema ofc and thats sort of it. faraskye is so fun if i was like two years younger and still obsessed w shipping they’re all i would talk about im sure of it

My non-romantic OTP for this character: well kay and edgeworth father-daughter isms are soo soso osososo important i just <333 and kay and sebastian they’re so funny i wish we got to see more of them after sebastians big character moment but i know they do funny siblings together :)

My unpopular opinion about this character: i don’t think this is unpopular but when ppl say mean things abt her boots i get so angry those r her tabi!! in my humble opinion i think she plays taiko but thats just me projecting

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: i already said kay seb sibling moments but also ahh there’s no logic chess sequence with kay and i guess it makes sense bc she’s never directly opposing edgeworth but i rly wish she had one and i think it would have fit in perfectly in aai2-4

[rivalsforlife]

Hokay, so! Nerdanon here, once again - I'm so glad to hear you like these lil back-n-forths too and I'm not being a pest. :) WRT Miles and Feelings TM, I do think he eventually does figure them out, quite well - in his own way. He's an intense but reticent guy (esp. with people not of his own "in-group"), and a very precise one too; I reckon, being Mr All or Nothing, he breaks some social norms with how sincere/earnest/truthful he is when he does actually discuss The Feels. cont/

Sometimes that kind of on-the-nose, no-varnish approach makes people uncomfortable; it might help Trucy a lot, helping her name negative feelings and explore them in a safe way. Phoenix is an A+ dad par excellence, but he's a Fixer, he wants people to be okay, and Trucy being unhappy would be deeply upsetting to him; Miles, for all that he's pants at a lot of stuff, has years of navigating Franziska's temper/issues + his own anger/grief even if he's not leveled up in Feels Mgmt otherwise. cont/

Also? I think taking care of other people would be good for someone like Miles, who can't readily show love through words casually/frequently, but rather through actions. Seb, Kay, and Trucy all deserve to have someone who's going to sneak more vegetables in their diet, worry about their vaccinations, workloads, and how much sleep/screen-time they're getting - like a slightly awkward but well-meaning tiger with a calendar full of notifications and to-do lists, hell-bent on their wellbeing. /cont 

(I’m going to split this into two posts because they’re sort of unrelated and this would have been a very long post otherwise haha)

Miles really is SO all-or-nothing when it comes to expressing his feelings; aai2 is great for that, he kind of goes “hmph this child is just barging into my affairs. what do you mean we’re close. I WILL GIVE UP EVERYTHING I HAVE IN ORDER TO KEEP YOU SAFE, YOU LITERALLY JUMPED INTO MY LIFE, um. i was just doing what I had to in order to seek the truth...” I just love that about him. He really can’t do things halfway, like, I wrote a fic where when confessing his feelings to Phoenix he jumps straight from nothing to “You have changed my life and I want to spend the rest of eternity by your side” instead of you know... “would you like to get dinner sometime, romantically,”

Miles really does seem to have good Taking Care of People instincts, whether that comes from Gregory’s influence or growing up with Franziska or both, idk. I  feel like with Franziska she would HATE feeling coddled or looked down upon or taken care of, because she’s Franziska von Karma And She Can Take Care Of Herself, so Miles throughout his childhood has probably had to come up with ways to express affection and care without making it seem like he’s expressing affection and care. ... and then forgot how to express affection and care in a normal straightforward way except for in extreme situations.

But further on through aai and then definitely aai2 he gets so much better at that, to the point where he can even sort of express affection for Gumshoe by raising his salary, a truly unprecedented event. I’ve been watching aai2 streams lately and I’ve been thinking a lot about how aai2-4 really just flipped some sort of Feelings Switch in Miles, he goes from being kind of aloof straight to “I have been worried sick about you!” and then carries that through the logic chess with Sebastian and then gently coaching him through the time Sebastian needs to face Blaise. Plus just being more... genuine and honest about his relationships with the important people in his life. That’s such a great thing I love about aai2 because it’s just ~look at these platonic relationships~ and I adore it.

[heavenblooded-blog]

long post below cut: stats and general info for new oc, sebastian whittaker. mainly for my own reference and full bio will hopefully be finished tonight.

BASIC INFORMATION FULL NAME: Sebastian Flynn Whittaker 
 MEANING: Revered 
NICKNAME(S): Seb, Bash 
PREFERRED NAME(S): Sebastian 
BIRTH DATE: 13th July 
AGE: 23 
ZODIAC: Cancer 
GENDER: Male 
PRONOUNS: He/him/his 
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Demisexual 
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Pansexual 
NATIONALITY: British 
CURRENT LOCATION: London ( verse dependent ) 
LIVING CONDITIONS: Penthouse, paid for by father 
TITLE(S): N/A


 BACKGROUND BIRTH PLACE: England 
HOMETOWN: London 
SOCIAL CLASS: Upper 
EDUCATION LEVEL: University- law degree 
FATHER: Flynn Whittaker, 46 
MOTHER: Penelope Whittaker, 45 
SIBLING(S): Charlotte Whittaker, 18 
CHILDREN: N/A 
PET(S): Family dogs 
OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIVES: N/A 
ARRESTS?: None 
PRISON TIME?: None

OCCUPATION & INCOME PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: Family 
SECONDARY SOURCE OF INCOME: Stocks and shares 
TERTIARY SOURCE(S) OF INCOME: N/A 
PAST JOB(S): N/A 
SPENDING HABITS: Spends freely and without thought 
MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION: Car

SKILLS & ABILITIES PHYSICAL STRENGTH: Endurance strength 
OFFENSE: Strong fighter, usually wins 
DEFENSE: Not as strong as offense 
SPEED: Quick over short distances 
INTELLIGENCE: Highly intelligent, has good logic abilities 
AGILITY: Lacking 
STAMINA: High stamina 
TEAMWORK: Poor teamwork skills 
TALENTS: Plays piano 
SHORTCOMINGS: Short temper 
LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: French 
DRIVE?: Yes 
JUMP-STAR A CAR?: Yes 
CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: Yes 
RIDE A BICYCLE?: Yes 
SWIM?: No 
PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: Yes 
PLAY CHESS?: Yes 
BRAID HAIR?: No 
TIE A TIE?: Yes 
PICK A LOCK?: No

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS FACE CLAIM: Richard Harmon 
EYE COLOR: Blue 
HAIR COLOR: Brown 
GLASSES/CONTACTS?: Sometimes glasses 
DOMINANT HAND: Left 
HEIGHT: 5'10" 
WEIGHT: 65kg 
BUILD: Athletic 
EXERCISE HABITS: Regularly at gym 
SKIN TONE: Pale 
TATTOOS: None 
PEIRCINGS: None 
MARKS/SCARS: Birth mark on hip 
USUAL EXPRESSION: Surly 
CLOTHING STYLE: Smart casual, expensive 
JEWELRY: None 
ALLERGIES: Hayfever 
DIET: Mixed 
PHYSICAL AILMENTS: None

PSYCHOLOGY JUNG TYPE: ESTP 
ENNEAGRAM TYPE: 8, the challenger 
MORAL ALIGNMENT: Chaotic good 
TEMPERAMENT: Choleric 
PRIMARY INTELLIGENCE TYPE: Linguistic 
APPROXIMATE IQ: 120 
MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: None 
SOCIABILITY: Social with a small circle of people 
EMOTIONAL STABILITY: Mostly stable 
PHOBIA(S): Spiders 
ADDICTION(S): Smoking 
DRUG USE: Occasional 
ALCOHOL USE: Most days 
PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: Easy to incite

SPEECH STYLE: Articulate and eloquent 
ACCENT: Queen's English 
QUIRKS: Pacing 
HOBBIES: Fencing 
HABITS: Swearing 
NERVOUS TICKS: Tapping fingers 
DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: Money 
FEARS: Losing his comfortable life 
POSITIVE TRAITS: Cultured, disciplined, observant 
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Arrogant, dishonest, money-minded 
SENSE OF HUMOR: Often dark 
DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: Yes 
CATCHPHRASE(S): None

FAVORITES ACTIVITY: Piano 
ANIMAL: Horse 
BEVERAGE: Vodka 
BOOK: N/A 
CELEBRITY: N/A 
COLOR: Green 
DESIGNER: Hermes 
FOOD: Seafood 
FLOWER: N/A 
GEM: Sapphire 
HOLIDAY: Christmas 
MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: Car 
MOVIE: N/A 
MUSICAL ARTIST: N/A 
QUOTE/SAYING: N/A 
SCENERY: Prefers cities 
SCENT: Mint 
SPORT: Rugby 
SPORTS TEAM: England rugby 
TELEVISION SHOW: N/A 
WEATHER: Snow 
VACATION DESTINATION: Caribbean

ATTITUDES GREATEST DREAM: Run his own law firm 
GREATEST FEAR: Lose his money 
MOST AT EASE WHEN: Alone or with those closest to him 
LEAST AT EASE WHEN: Large social events 
WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN: Death of his sister 
BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: Law degree 
BIGGEST REGRET: Not moving away from home sooner 
BIGGEST SECRET: Sexuality ( secret from parents ) 
TOP PRIORITIES: Money

[7clubs]

ok not a yumimei ask this time but I’m curious to know what you think seb’s childhood was/how blaise treated her

whew. (TW for discussions/depictions of abuse [seriously tread carefully here...] brief mention of death/suicide in AA cases.)

tl:dr: Always walking around eggshells around Blaise. Awful mindgames. Might promote my fic chapter real quick actually since that delves into that a little... And I might talk about some of these more in a later chapter. But yeah...

I'd say she has some faint, nice memories of her mom, but she vanished when Seb was maybe 5-6. I think she was musically minded, though not financially powerful, maybe a teacher. Some of Seb's most vivid early memories are of sitting beside her, watching her play on their nice acoustic piano.

But after that, it was just her and Blaise.

Most of Seb's keepsakes of her mother disappeared except for that piano, only because it was too nice a statement piece to destroy. Though Seb only played it whenever he wasn't listening. (Thankfully, she acquired it after Blaise's incarceration, so she gets to play with her new family now.)

Straight off the bat I'm gonna say: I've seen a lot of people HC Blaise as having been physically abusive to Seb, burn scars, etc, in addition to the canon verbal abuse. Totally understandable, given the horrifying implications of this bit.

Which is to say that I don't see him """actually""" laying a finger on her even once. A big part of it is probably because it feels too heavy for the tone of AA, just for me personally... which is a WILD thing to think about considering the many murders and suicides and "matricide" AA DOES depict!!!

But they've always skirted around that kind of behind-closed-doors physical domestic violence (i'll be using this term in the familial/household sense rather than partner violence) as a serious theme in the games (as slapstick... not so much, unfortunately...)

Relatives do attempt to harm each other, again, see the "matricides" in the series and general Fey family drama... I don't know if this makes sense, but it's just less intimate and easier for the general viewer to stomach when these happen as part of grand schemes with robots and channeling thrown in the mix.

Seb flinching when they see Blaise approach and him taunting them when they do does Not hit that way. Seb willingly putting out the possibility that Blaise "wanted to kill her for being a nuisance" in her Logic Chess does not hit that way.

When I HC for stuff, I tend to find myself trying to match the tone of the original since I'm a boring stickler for canon. But I can't ignore how haunting that scene is, so this is the compromise I've found for myself. It's still really heavy, though.

Yeah, Blaise never ""actually"" laid a hand on her. But Seb was always, always keenly aware he could and was terrified for it. She's still terribly traumatized for it, and a big part of it is the second-guessing and guilt over how it "wasn't actually that bad."

One aspect of Blaise's deplorable character I find interesting and very characteristic of him is how he constantly dresses it up in being jokey and playful and, basically, layers of plausible deniability. It's a fucking mindgame minefield and I feel so bad for Seb.

Alongside the terrible verbal abuse and controlling her finances/life path/etc, one thing I could see him subject her to a lot is, yes, making a show of destroying stuff. Wrecking her stuff as punishment, or destruction for the sake of showing his own strength and, again, capability to hurt. I could see Blaise in a temper going on the warpath with Seb as a witness, and doing his shit apology later asking her to understand that his emotions just got the better of him, while Seb just nervously looks over to a chair he's reduced to splinters.

So that's really the undercurrent of their entire relationship: Insults and abuse dressed up as affection and jokes, constant uncertainty and tiptoeing on Seb's part because surely her pops really isn't that bad, he's provided for her all her life, she must understand how hard it is that he's a single father, it's not as if he's actually hurting her. He's scary when he's on a temper but at least it's not them. He's just got a peculiar personality, he's imperfect, but he's their pops. All the while wearing them down mentally so that they'd do anything for his favor, anything so he wouldn't actually cross the line, cling to a false sense of pride for stability. Always, always making excuses for him, to the very end. She eventually comes to terms with how awful it all is, through the 7yg.

(Re: Seb being trans... I don't think she'd describe her journey with the like "trapped-in-a-boy's-body but i was always a girl" narrative, more the "I was a boy for a long while and now I'm a woman" path of transness. She did hold back on some impulses though, wanting to experiment w/ presentation as a teen, because she knew that would Not go over well with Blaise. )

Anyway in the AAI3/AA7 I imagine in my brain the very first victim is Blaise Debeste. world is abundant, goodnight <33