#i think he did. he was just a fuckhead w bullshit. and im kinda .

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warning, the following has mainly snarky (and possibly furious) opinions on Spirit of Justice. Reader discretion is advised.

ok guys. its the final ending for REALS this time.

Amara’s been shot after lying for approximately half a decade, boobs AND secrets were exposed, Dhurke was momentarily a good father and everything is exhausting.

now, for the actual final chapter of this ball-gripping tale.

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“If she did shoot Amara, she’s not gonna get away with it!! Not on my watch!!” ok apollo do remember that youre still an unarmed foreign man with an occupation that makes you an outcast and also you’re 5′5″    up against a literally queen with followers proven to kill for her

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a 50/50 chance of survival

so an Engarde/Vera/Hostages situation then

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“...That Ga’ran! Justice will be served.”

ok APollo’s dialogue writers have officially opened the Stock Phrases barrel.

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ok so Rayfa... maybe knows she’s Amara’s daughter? if so i love her like 10 times more. she actually put 2 and 2 together.

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“...How are YOU, Horn Head?”

BLESS HER

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Datz: :( Dhurke is dead guess the revolution is over

yeah i guess there’s nobody to defend you from pulling bullshit like throwing firecrackers at kids anymore, is there, Vore Machine? Cause I doubt Behleeb would stand for that shit.  

yeesh. talk about weak ass resolve.

when Mia died Phoenix didn’t wallow in depression, he got his ass up and went to defend her sister.

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Datz: Hey Apollo! Because I’m a lazy fuckwad, if you don’t prove Ga’ran guilty, the revolution is over and our country is doomed! Good luck!

god even when he’s actually taking things seriously he’s a shithead. like really? if the trial goes south, that’s it? no more revolution? despite how much the trial has /already/ done to rile up your supporters?? what kind of a revolutionary are you?!

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Ready or not, here comes Justice!

god yes lets end this

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hey where’s Sadmad

maybe he went with his mom to make sure they didn’t just kill her at the hospital.

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ohhh. i see. they haven't announced it yet but thats actually pretty clever of her– Sadmad’s the final blockade to fall. Accuse him of the murder, carry off Amara to be ‘healed’, and then uh... do nothing about the rebels because apparently they’re not even interested in a revolution anymore.

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yeeeeeep it’s sadm–

SEXY PAN UP SHOT FOR NAHYUTA

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hey Perceive you should be kicking it about now.

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well that IS leading the witness, apollo.

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y’know, considering Ga’ran is a monarch, she could pardon Nahyuta for his crime. I mean, he’s still useful to her.

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“The law, Nahyuta? Or the queen?”

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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“problematic testimony”

s top... using that word... pls

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“The holy mother does not condone killing in her name” but her sister’s name??? fuck yes murder that shit up

just say Lady Kee’ra told you to do it and you’re off the hook sadmad

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ok... so Dhurke rescued Amara when Nahyuta was ten, (15 years ago) and he met her at that point. Apollo got shipped off to America when he was nine... And since Nahyuta is a year older than Apollo, that would make that the very same year. Ah– and confirmed by Apollo himself. Guess he just missed her.

“Sorry Apollo– I’m getting my wife back and we need your bed... See you in 15 years!”

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“Mr. Justice. Know that Dhurke sent you away so that you would not be caught up in the life we led.” oK??? but why didn’t he send Nahyuta away too? it’s literally been stated that Nahyuta was totally outcasted, and even worse, now we find out he had to live constantly on the run. A ten year old.

Why not send Nahyuta off to America with his brother, and bring them back when everything was safe?

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Apollo: But Dhurke said that pic was from 23 years ago!!

tbh i have no idea why theyre still trying to cover up Rayfa’s true parentage. cause i dont think the shame of her being related to a rebel really matters at this point.

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my brain is pea soup

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“If Rayfa comes out as the daughter of Dhurke, everyone will hate her like they hated me!”

...except we just got done basically freeing him of all wrongdoing and that was the end goal of the revolution, thus making this utterly meaningless.

...wait. this isn’t the only thing Garan was threatening to do to Rayfa, was it???

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holy fuck. thats it. no threats of murder or assault; just “ill tell everyone that her dad’s Dhurke”

despite the fact that even IF she got kicked out of the royal family, she would still be the next queen since the queen Must be a spirit medium, and Rayfa is the only other medium in the country??

but whatever, i ... fuck it, whatever.

this is just a straight up rehash of Simon and Athena anyway, preceded by a rehash of Trials and Tribulations.

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“You are an innocent party in this”

damn right she is

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“I just gave up overthrowing the queen because she said she’d tell everyone your dad was a bad man”

good fucking lord, no wonder the revolution didnt get anywhere. NOBODY believed in it, even from the fucking start.

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god the longer this goes on, the less afraid I am of Ga’ran. hell, considering the police’s skill level, i could probably just deck her in the face and then sprint out the door and id get away with it.

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Apollo: The Edgeworht I knew–– fuck, the Simon I knew–– shit, fuck, damnit–– The NAHYUTA I knew would NEVER let himself be turned into this!!

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“This hope in your heart is what binds me, Dhurke and you as a family”

yeah whatever

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boy everyone really WAS depending on Dhurke. No Dhurke, can’t do shit.

thats just... depressing.

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“I have to protect her from being outed as the child of Dhurke!!” he yells in the middle of court surrounded by witnesses who can probably figure this shit out for themselves

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“..............Really? Nothing at all? Could an exceptional lawyer like Dhurke try that long and really uncover nothing at all? He had over two decades, Apollo.”

IM WHEEZING

I KNOW THIS ISN’T WHAT HE’S SAYING BUT IT FUCKING SOUNDS LIKE HE’S SAYIGN “uhhh i fuckin did it in SEVEN years"

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oh my god!! oh shit!!

thank god real-life physics dont apply to fire-smoke in the AA universe or else lil baby apollo would be dead in like 2 seconds

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OH MY GOD OH NO

APOLLO JUST STRAIGHT UP FLIPPED OUT OF HIS ARMS

I HOPE HIS SWADDLING IS REALLY PADDED

JESUS CHRIST

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noooo god. now I'm genuinely distressed

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why'd Rayfa bring up the lighter evidence?? thats not something to do with Jove’s last thoughts

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“Someone attempted to assassinate Queen Amara by settling her residence ablaze”

me: who's the motherfucker in the shiny thing

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hrhrhhghg looking at baby apollo is hurting the horrible gremlin mother inside me pls let me just find the contradiction soon

ᶫᵒᵒᵏ ᵃᵗ ʰᶦˢ ᶜᵘᵗᵉ ᶫᶦᵗᵗᶫᵉ ᶠᵃᶜᵉ ʷᶦᵗʰ ʰᶦˢ ᵗᶦᶰʸ ᶠᵘᶜᵏᶦᶰ ᶫᶦᵗᵗᶫᵉ ʰᵃᶦʳ

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OH ITS A HAND

OHHHHHHHH

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>ENHANCE<

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“Peasants”

whoa go back to old timey tumblr your malevolence

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“It shall still be I who shall decide Rayfa’s fate.”

uh pretty sure you won’t cause your guilt just got proven in front of tonnes of witnesses and the rebels can legitimately just whisk Rayfa to safety right now, right? like. you’re not queen anymore. you lost. Rayfa is already queen at this second if Amara doesn’t make it.

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“The child lives only by my good graces”

ok at least we know murder was on the table. but also Ga’ran you’re literally dead on the spot you can’t do this anymore

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does she uh. maybe know anything about Russian history, perhaps..? if i was her id be sneaking out the back way real fuckin quick

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well Sadmad its a little less impressive that youve finally decided to defy her when there’s literally nothing left to defy but... meh.

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“I believed protecting your secrets was in the best interest of his kingdom...”

WHY

WHAT

WHY??

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“In all this time, not once did I reflect on my own conduct -- for I had believed all was fate”

did he just admit he happily acted like a fuckhead under the excuse “oh well, fate’s fate! better be an enormous shithead!!”

yeah, Sadmad?? doesn’t fucking fly.

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the DD’s salute looks like they’re catching a kiss

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( Now, if we could just prove Ga’ran’s guilt... )

YOU JUST DID. YOU HAD A FUCKING WITNESS

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“For the cuffs could have been stolen and used without my knowledge”

you have actual octopus hair

you’ve visibly threatened the life of your own daughter

everything about you is evil and your shit system convicts people on a dime

id say witnessing those cuffs is enough evidence.

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oh i just realized Sadmad and Amara do the same head-down hand-symbol pose. cute

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“we gotta find the clothes– if we can, then–”

oh god. oh god. i dont like where this is going

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siblings unite to piss off auntie 

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oh god

oh god

OH GOD

CORPSE CLOTHES

SHE STRIPPED AND REDRESSED A CORPSE

I DIDN’T WANT THIS

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“Because even Monarchs aren’t above the law.”

hell yeah

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"Haha. If you convict me, Nahyuta will die for using fake testimony to protect me!”

a) it was under duress, i’d say thats exempt from the law

b) when you go, you’re no longer the queen. you have no power to enforce a law YOU wrote. Amara/Rayfa will abolish the law and pardon Nahyuta

you really are grasping at moron straws aren't you??

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“I hate it too but its the law of the land. And as you said, nobody is above the law.”

you people have the brains of protozoa 

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“She wants us to let her off scot-free? And yet, I don’t see any other choice...”

phoenix, ho-humming about how he had basically the same dilemma in JFA and he convicted engarde anyway

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babe,,, you cant make laws anymore,,, you lost. just give up jesus christ. er, holy mother.

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oh this is where the SEX! SEX! SEX! gif is from heheh

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garan if you kill them you’ll have a courtroom full of witnesses and even the most brainwashed of your subjects won’t stand for a straight up massacre 

and if you dont want witnesses you’ll have to kill them all

covering that up’ll be pretty hard. along with the fact that this will only piss off the resistance more

you’re really spiralling here your malevolence 

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oh my god we didnt need that to be voice acted 

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HSHDGDJ

Phoenix: shut UP apollo!!! w-we’re gonna die!!!

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“I cannot lose you to the twilight realm too!”

aren’t you heading there together? ...that is kinda sweet tho.

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alright, enough griping– lets just treat this like a nice big finish. 

this music is weird though i gotta say

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Apollo: time to face death and laugh!

Phoenix: heheh, yeah, heheh– [signalling to the gallery] TAKE CARE OF TRUCY FOR ME

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“Two auspicious creatures dwell within you– a fierce dragon and a virtuous Phoenix.”

im gonna assume the japanese version of the line was “boy ya got double the dragon power up in you”

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your playbook huh phoenix

heheh

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oh shit

logic

i forgot about that

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wow. i love that “the queen literally committed several murders, fraud and basically ruined out country” doesn’t mean anything, but “our queen doesn’t have magic powers” is enough to kick her out on the fucking spot 

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as much as this ending is kinda stupid, i do appreciate the sheer amusement value of backing Garan into an impossible corner 

sjkhdhjshj

and in front of her creepy guards

ur diarrhoea garan indeed!!

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“I want a lawyer!”

[bart voice] the ironing is delicious 

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o man... I'm laugh 

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the collective emotion here is ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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hes goNNA THROW DOWN

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oh no she’s gone try

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“HRRRRGGH”

it usually doesn't involve shitting yourself but youre trying 

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garan: [does the Macarena]

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ohhhh yikes

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“It seems... she now believes that she herself is the Holy Mother.”

oh boy. 

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“Whyd she try to kill her sister??”

bro,,,,, it 

never mind. also, Inga was actually going to stage a coup??

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wow this is just misty and morgan on a gargantuan scale isn't it

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OH! THEY MIGHT EXPLAIN THIS

“why did amara even listen to garan in the first place?”

“My mother is a gentle soul who loves her sister. So when Ga’ran told her to hide because Dhurke was out to kill her, she believed it.”

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“What’s more, she did not wish to tarnish the name of her beloved sister...”

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“That is why she acquiesced so obediently to Ga’rans request to keep channeling for her.”

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“Until she fled with Dhurke and was told the truth, that is.”

wh–– 

“But since Rayfa was being held captive... I imagine Amara had no choice but to help cover up the truth behind Inga’s murder.”

THAT DOESN’T ACCOUNT FOR THE TIME BEFORE AND DURING HER PREGNANCY. WHAT THE FUCK WAS SHE DOING THEN!?

AMARA.

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“Well, that was a trial for the ages.” You said it, K-judge.

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“Dhurke... I hope you’re watching...” well you retconned people being conscious in the spirit world so no, he isn’t. 

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“Nah, it was all you.”

baw, nick.

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here we go. here’s the phoenix/apollo interaction we’ve always wanted. its just a shame it has to be in this game...

maya: :D PRAISE ME TOO

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phoenix: trucy!? how'd you get here?

trucy: its maaaagic :D

edgeworth: i was nearly arrested at the airport for suspected human trafficking.

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D: RAYFA NO SAD

tbh rayfa is the best character here. 

I'm literally actually smiling with genuine joy as she steps up to the queenly plate. may the Holy Mom bless and keep her.

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“Big B...B...”

BABY

“Buh..?”

“B-B-B... Br...”

SHES TRYING SO HARD

YOU CAN DO IT BABE

(cries)

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“straight through without doing any serious damage”

wow lucky shot

i wonder if this was the same guy who “sniped” the phantom 

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you know... on one hand, I'm glad Apollo’s come into his own. But I also hate that he’s leaving the series this way.

It’s not the fact that Apollo is getting his own office, even in a different country– that’s not half bad. But the way they’ve left everything unfinished, and the way they’ve tossed his character around like a hacky-sack... I just can’t accept this as a “happy” ending for the character.

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wait why is the revolution still being spoken about– isn’t it over, technically..? i mean, they won... the rebuilding part isn’t really a revolution, is it? 

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well anyway. I’m happy for Apollo, but not for Apollo Justice. you know what I mean? 

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“I... I’m sorry guys... Capcom just can’t be bothered with me anymore. I’ll remember you fondly...”

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Klavier, from the Capcom storehouse: he WHAT

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“But someday... I’ll return to the US!”

[squints]

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heh... goodbye, Man Cub. you’re off to the human village. and as for us, it’s back to the jungle.

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“We must never stagnate, but continue to grow and change.”

HA

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phoenix: uh huh!!

god the voice acting... its so bad...

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Dhurke: hello son... I'm a butterfly now!

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oh no you dont– dont you dare play us out on a jazzy version of apollos theme >:T

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HEY I JUST REMEMBERED

NOBODY CHANNELED GOD.

I WANTED TO SEE GOD DAMN IT

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OH

baby Faith. 

Datz: Faith! Grow up to be a horrible guy like me!

Faith: [tiny baby middle finger extends]

good child. he takes after his mum

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haha eat shit dickquill

..also who are you calling “old chum”

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aww pearly you can wear as many city girl outfits as you want ;w;

.......just no slim white dresses

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Sadmad: I know I’m a total fuckwad in court but does she have to call me a silly name :’(

sadmad... youre getting off so, so easy

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oh hey. this game didn’t end with an OBJECTION!

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“Don’t you think it’s about time we told them the truth?”

ohhh you mother fuckers. you absolute asswipes. 

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huh... an after scene??

“Case backlog” jesus

...ohhh here’s the huh huh huh OBJECTION

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“From legal advice to investigating extramarital affaires– even yak milking!”

uhh

DJF ITS FREE

HAHA

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heh. i like it when you can use the mic for that.

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well, it looks like that’s the end. i made it through SOJ. I gotta say, I don’t feel anywhere near as soul crushingly miserable as i thought I would. I’ve got a lot to think about for my final thoughts... guess i’ll get to that tomorrow morning.

anyway– it’s been a pleasure writing all this shit and going through this whole thing with you guys– err, whoever reads these, haha.

I may come off like a dick, but honestly it comes from a place of deep, deep love for a series that's helped me in so many ways. Here’s hoping AA7 will bring us a new, crazy adventure. 

so, i’ll seeya next time. possibly with a much more lighthearted play by play of PL VS AA :)

[deep inhale]