#i would go apeshit as well

[eleccy]

It's the fact that Kristoph completely engineered his own downfall while doing everything he possibly could to avoid being found out.

Apollo - and Klavier too - take Kristoph down with the very things he taught them.

Apollo: (Who was it that taught me never to pull punches in cross-examination?) Apollo: (It was you, Mr. Gavin! I learned it from watching you!)

At the same time, it's stated and implied throughout Kristoph's segments that he taught them everything they knew - about truth, evidence, breaking witnesses, avoiding being misled, trusting your instincts as an attorney. The very values he instilled into his little students were the tools they used to take him out.

I think we easily forget that Kristoph wasn't really teaching Klavier and Apollo bad things. There are AUs, including mine, that explore that possibility. And certainly he was probably weaving some not-so-savory lessons into his words - ways to cheat the system, etc. But overall, Kristoph seems to be a very by-the-book attorney.

Kristoph was the one that incriminated himself by impulse killing Zak and then (stupidly, to be honest) revealing that he thought that the cards were blue.

By trying to kill the Mishams, he ended up damning himself because of his paranoia. Drew Misham was involved in illegal activities - he knew he would go down if he ever dared to reveal Kristoph's identity, not that he knew what that identity was to begin with. Kristoph never let Drew see his face or know his real name because he used a pseudonym and hid his face. The only person who could have possibly ratted on him was Vera, and Vera (a) practically worshipped him and never would have given him up unless compelled to (b) didn't seem to know his name in the first place (c) had no reason to believe that Kristoph was doing anything wrong and (d) literally never left the house. The only reason Vera left the house in the first place is because she was forced to after Drew's unnecessary death, which Kristoph himself arranged.

By doing everything he did, Kristoph created the perfect conditions for his own downfall. He engineered his own L. Ace Attorney villains have done some pretty crazy shit, but it's difficult to identify one that is as cunning, contradictory, and sadly unfortunate as Kristoph. Nothing seems to really go his way at all. He has fantastic luck for seven years and then everything just falls neatly into Phoenix's lap the way it always does. Phoenix's immortal luck and unbeatable plot armor just spell the end of it for Kristoph. This man has survived much worse and always comes back. The gods are looking out for him. Kristoph isn't so lucky.

Ultimately, everything was driven by paranoia and fear of it becoming known that he had fabricated evidence and given it to Phoenix Wright, causing the end of the legend.

I think Kristoph's foresight in playing the long game and strategizing about possible outcomes are unmatched. In chess, he'd be twenty steps ahead and already planning his next move in a thousand different scenarios. He always prepares for every possible eventuality. Even in the Zak Gramarye trial, I believe that he thought he could defeat Klavier on his own, even without fabricated evidence. But he had the forgery created anyway, as insurance. Kristoph is not the type of guy to tight-rope without a net. He wanted to make sure that he would win no matter what happened.

While his long term, detail-oriented strategizing and 5D chess skills are great, Kristoph does not do well reacting to things when he doesn't have a lot of time to think. Killing Zak was a very amateurish move that ended up costing him the game, but his fear got the better of him at a time that he did not have any time to sit and think. In a time-limited situation in which he cannot think deeply about possible outcomes, contingencies and pros/cons of his options, Kristoph tends to experience some deficits in his decision-making. He is unable to make a good choice quickly because he's too concerned with finding and quickly executing on the "optimal" outcome, and he is usually affected by emotion much more than he normally would be. Taking the killing Zak example, in the moment, his fears tell him that killing Zak is the best option because it ensures no risk of Zak revealing what he knows. It may be an extremely risky gambit, but Kristoph believes he can pull it off and keep his mouth shut later. He could have gotten away with it, but failed to keep his mouth shut, later, and his slip of the tongue does him in.

While he is fairly adaptable and doesn't shy away from making hard decisions quickly, he can become myopic and narrow-minded in situations where he must leverage conflicting priorities. The calculus of what determines a priority in his mind seems to put his self-preservation first above all else, not only in terms of remaining alive and safe, but of staying an attorney, and of staying as a well-regarded attorney. He also values staying wealthy, as this gives him a sense of superiority and without this, he would lose his own sense of identity.

Basically, tl;dr Kristoph is smart, but he's stupid, and he's extremely unlucky. The fact of the matter is that he set himself up to fail. Despite his machinations, if he had just done one thing differently, he could've remained on top. Yet it was the kindness he had to educate Apollo and Klavier that finished him off. And when he realized this, he basically lost his mind.

[stalebagels]

[muchmossymess]

hmmm thinking about what would have happened if Father had gone after lan fan and her philosophers stone rather than greedling

[singsweetmelodies]

russell and sainz as teammates. Who could be hated more?

AHAHAHAHAHAHA OH GOD IMAGINE THE SCENES 🤣🤣 every race weekend there would be at least one "he turned in on me" and if not that then at the bare minimum a LONG complaint over the team radio about how someone's race is being sacrificed and it is VERY UNFAIR. lmfao. it would be a disaster 🤣🤣 personally, i would also love to see the russell girlies and the sainz girlies really go at it on tumblr. now THERE would be absolute scenes 😆

[randomtheidiot]

Listen. I love Bonnie with my heart and soul and I love that she gets to smile and commit manslaughter on screen. But if any children deserved to kill Lysandre violently in cold blood, it should’ve been either Alain or Ash. Those two were actual victims of Lysandre’s bullshit and I think they both deserve to murder someone.

[crimeronan]

possibly the funniest outcome of this drama-filled amity-thinks-luz-killed-hunter alternate princess AU timeline is all three of them being fine and together and safe, and hunter being like BLIGHT. you tried to MURDER LUZ????

amity: I THOUGHT SHE'D KILLED YOU!

hunter: .....I DON'T APPRECIATE THE CONFLICTING FEELINGS I'M HAVING RIGHT NOW,

[berenshand]

shakespeare snobs still aren't ready for this conversation but revenge of the sith is the closest western media has to a modern equivalent of a shakespearean tragedy

- entertainment created for mass appeal

- effectively utilizes comic relief despite overall serious tone and/or subject matter

- the audience knows it's a tragedy going in

- utilizes, as shakespeare did, the elements of the greek tragedies which came before him, ie:

- the tragic hero is virtuous but for a fatal flaw

- the audience fears for and roots for the hero despite said flaw and their knowledge that the story is a tragedy

- in his attempts to escape his destiny, the hero unknowingly runs toward it, even brings it about himself

- it's entertainment for the masses even though the masses know it's a tragedy before it even starts

[dashedwithromance]

okay honestly. cressida can do whatever she wants at this point. yeah she’s being cruel but also i would go completely apeshit if i were her. get it girl

[mokutone]

thank you to northstarfan for the kofi tip!!! here's a drawing of a cozy elnor from star trek picard! 😄

[hauntingblue]

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[yashley]

aesthetic and fledgling tenderness aside, imogen and fearne really make me sit up simply for the fact I think their potential is so entwined in a internal way I'm unsure if they realize. imogen, with all of her conviction and apprehension, her fear and self-doubt and self-hate, the remorse and guilt that plagues her deeply rooted in the aftermath when she dips into her powers. she can’t savor the edge she has because she’s always been told, from stiff, polite expressions to outright grimaces, that her powers are what makes her... evil. her powers cast her out, her powers isolated her, her powers cost her her mother and shattered her father. imogen can’t even sleep without the promise of rest if her powers decide to torment her, she can’t even relax without her powers slipping from her control and she could hurt someone. she is a cage and she’s chained herself up out of fear, out of conviction, out of this iron will that she won’t allow herself to be swallowed by her storm.

and then you just have these little moments of natural reflex. imogen triggers a potentially fatal trap on opponents. once. twice. three times? imogen casually tosses a bomb towards other adversaries. not as an intimidation tactic, but as a casually brutal solution to an inconvenience. she has these sways of morality and these dabbing desires that nearly align with the nefarious tilt of her powers, she’s responding naturally and yet actively denying that her nature could also align with her powers.

and then fear and denial and splintering desire for control meets..... affable recklessness and brazen freedom. imogen meets someone who genuinely has no interest in the same way her own actions display. it’s not... malicious, per se? oh surely they wouldn’t do anything completely Evil, but... let’s roll the dice. let's see this “boundary” and see just how much inching until it’s not in our way anymore. fearne can do what imogen can’t let herself do, she can act now and not think later and not have her entire worth be questioned or care if her presence is cast out. fearne representing to imogen what it’d be like to act on every impulse without questioning her own character or doubt herself or fearing herself. imogen can witness fearne behave in a way she always told herself she would never steep so low to be and yet watch as fearne is smiling. imogen having all of the darkest, hurtful thoughts tearing her apart and watching as fearne glides along the precipice as graceful as she’s careless, as violent as she’s curious. for once in imogen’s life she doesn’t have someone damning her for her powers or checking her for her morality. and it’s like fearne is naturally the chaotic language imogen has always known but has never been able to speak. fearne not bringing out the best of imogen but bringing out the most ok.

[nejackdaw]

Sometimes I like to think about Charlotte showing up at the fort and she and Celann just stare at each other for a minute baffled. This has been an incredible way to further develop Charlotte but I keep coming back to

Charlotte: your hair got long

Celann: yours got short

(Their hair is nearly the same length as each other's)

[cheemken]

KNIGHT IM EVAPORATING AFTER I FOUND THIS TIKTOK

Like, it’s actually Iris. I immediately thought of Iris doing this when I saw it

She would post this and then get canceled by Team Plasma because she’s promoting Pokémon cruelty

LMFAAAOOO IRIS W THE VANILLITE THO REAL😭😭🤣

Fucking imagine that one vine too w Jared 19 just Iris going "hey everybody today the Vanillite are at it again it's already January but it's still winter, so I'm opening up a Kickstarter to kick out all of the Vanillite in Unova. Benefits of kicking them out the region is that I won't have to suffer in the cold again"

[roseofcards90]

Meryl Stryfe is an insane woman and I love her so much <3

[malhare-archive]

“Why does a coyote want to play with my dog” isn’t something I thought I’d have to Google but here we are

[mercgaydes]

max can either give the position back to ferrari very nicely or they can deal with charles finally crashing them both out because frankly that man is at his wits end and I wouldn’t blame him for snapping