#i: dahlia & ace 001

[highliqhts]

            for  a  second  dahlia  freezes,  as  misleading  words  reach  her  ears,  eyes  darting  to  the  man  standing  next  to  her.  he  knew  her  secret  ?  ace  kang  of  all  people  ?  raising  a  brow,  she  waits  for  him  to  elaborate.  shoulders  immediately  relaxing  upont  he  realisation  he  was  talking  about  the  drink  in  her  hand.  the  hint  of  a  smirk  appears  on  artfully  arched  lips,  as  she  swirls  around  the  clear  drink  in  her  glass.  it  was  a  vodka  soda  actually,  but  she  didn't  need  him  to  know  that.  "  don't  we  all  have  our  secrets  here  ?  "  she  asks  instead,  voice  slightly  hushed  as  to  be  conspiratorial.  "  but  i  don't  know,  at  the  end  of  the  day  you  can  seldom  trust  a  man  to  complete  a  task  to  your  complete  satisfaction,  can  you  ?  " 

closed  starter — ace kang  ( feat. @highliqhts )  ! location  —  mutual actor friend's party  , around 9am .

“ i know your secret ... “ the actor smirks into his own drink , now standing beside the femme with a glass of see-through liquid she's been carrying throughout the night . “ you're drinking water , aren't you ? “ he declares , that being the only reasonable answer as he motions down to her drink . “ now , my other question is .... why ? sasha can make you any cocktail you can think of , “

[henrysglock]

Mother is God, In The Eyes of a Child

This has got to be my farthest-fetched theory, and its more of a collection of observations that weave together than an actual theory. However...there's something distinctly weird about all this.

It started here:

Max steps on spider egg sacs in Vecna's mind lair, and the babies spill out.

"If there's a spider, you're never gonna find it 'till it lays eggs and the babies spill out"

Then Vecna killing Patrick while looking distinctly like a spider on a web, a direct comparison to those black widows.

And I talked in the discord chat talking with Em for a while like. They. They wouldn't. Right? And I've been sitting here thinking about the last time I said "they wouldn't...right?" So here we go.

"Of course you have a mother. You couldn't really have been born without one."

But Mama is dead...

just like One doesn't exist.

And whoever you are, either you aren't home (which, you're "Terry's daughter" in Terry's home which was decorated for you in hopes that you'd come home 🤨)...or you aren't Terry's daughter.

but wait: Mr. Mom? Perfect!

Mr. Mom...which leads straight to the lab going haywire:

Because of the Mind Flayer, who we know is (most likely) a version of Edward.

And "sleepyhead" is a parent thing...but it's specifically a mom thing, and it comes from the guy who's likely Edward. Why are you, as a man, so distinctly mother?

And so I'm looking at all of his God coding:

And I'm looking at his talk of spiders, particularly black widows, being the gods of our world:

There's also this particular dialogue parallel with Carrie's mother:

As well as Black Widow "God of Our World" 001 and Henry "Sensitive (Gay) Child" Creel, framed this way in back to back shots.

One of them has the rainbow flag and the other's got the black widow spider, makes sense...right? (Sure. Except not really.)

He also has a ton of God coding in his music choices:

Except, when we look at the songs he alone or he and El are overlaid with...Akhnaten is functionally a mezzo-soprano. In the pieces we hear specifically, Akhnaten sings in the same range or higher than Nefertiti.

Which then gets me thinking about the Silent Hill parallels (that Em has talked about here), and specifically this one line of dialogue from Dahlia:

And the fact that every single black widow spider reference regarding Henward/Vecna/001 has been about female black widows, never male ones:

As well as a good portion of his rant being about:

- Being vaguely broken (what's wrong with him is never said) - His kinship with spiders (specifically the female black widows) - Society's oppressive made-up rules - Being forced to pretend (unspecificed as to what, exactly, he's pretending about...all we get is "a silly, terrible play") - Reproduction

Then the fact that Vecna kind of has a thing for showing up as mothers:

And on top of all that...the fact that Vecna somehow lost his dick along the way. Where did it go????????

There's also all the birthing and reproduction imagery that goes along with the UD, most blatantly in the scene where El crawls out of the same hole the Demogorgon came through:

As well as these movies from the ST4 Movie Board:

Ace Ventura Pet Detective: Finkle has a sex change to assume a new identity and seek vengeance.

Let The Right One In: Vampire girl who is really a boy being forced to live as a girl

Sleepaway Camp: Girl named Angela who is actually a boy named Peter being forced by his aunt to live as a girl after his twin sister (the real Angela) was killed in an accident. (Wibble knows more about this one than I do, but I'm staring at Peter Ballard and all of our Angela's parallels to the lab)

Splice: Female Human-Animal hybrid "dies" (is actually in a coma) and undergoes a spontaneous sex change to male and proceeds to go berserk.

Silence of the Lambs: Main villain is a blonde, wavy-haired cross-dressing serial killer.

And then with the parallels to Room (even if it isn't on the ST4 Movie Board):

Plus Will's Alan Turing poster and the castration stuff that goes along with that..and the "Henry" that shows up behind him:

What in the gender is going on here?

[shalvis]

Ace Attorney | Narumitsu | Edgeworth >:3c its your turn

001 | Send me a fandom and I will tell you my:

Favorite character: I love. Dick Gumshoe. So much. He is just a big puppy and he cares so much and tries his best.

Least Favorite character: Saying Manfred would be too obvious, so I’ll say April May, because she’s a cute design and I love the cat thing but they don’t do enough with those elements to make her anything but annoying to me.

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Narumitsu, Gumworth, Franmaya, Cykesquill (I guess? I haven’t seen that game yet), Mia/Lana

Character I find most attractive: P...Phoenix....

Character I would marry: P..

Character I would be best friends with: Maya 

a random thought: Hobo Phoenix is the cutest of them all

An unpopular opinion: Edgeworth is Trans and Franziska is NB. Together they trans their genders and update autopsy reports

My Canon OTP: Narumitsu isn’t canon but might as well be

My Non-canon OTP: Franmaya

Most Badass Character: Franziska uwu

Most Epic Villain: IDK about epic but I really like the design of Wellington. He looks like Phoenix but if he was a JJBA character.

Pairing I am not a fan of: Narumayo

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): April May is already talked about but also I feel like Ema Skye is a little one dimensional in Rise From The Ashes. Maya said that she’s more fleshed out in a later game though so..

Favourite Friendship: Pheonix, Edgeworth, and Larry’s childhood shenanigans

Character I most identify with: who do you think

Character I wish I could be: again. who do you think

002 | Send me a ship and I will tell you:

When I started shipping them: a long time before I even knew what Ace Attorney was. It’s one of those ships that is kind of just widely known.

My thoughts: I adore them. They balance each other out in so many ways and it’s just really nice to see Edgeworth opening up to literally anyone like. He doesn’t seem to do that a lot. The fact that he can open up to Phoenix and not be afraid of not being taken seriously is like. astronomical. Also I project a lot.

What makes me happy about them: Their canon very gay interactions. I think they like. Define the term coded. It seems way too obvious to suggest that the writers didn’t intend them to be very very gay. And for a game from 2001/2 that’s pretty damn impressive. So many shows and such have trouble now, in almost 2020, in coding characters without just turning it into queerbait. Even canon gay content fails in some areas but Ace Attorney like. Ran so these other medias could walk I guess.

What makes me sad about them: Edgeworth is so wound-up and traumatized that he can’t even rightfully accept an award for his performances. He probably could never believe that he is anything that Phoenix would be into, even if Phoenix came right up to him and told him that he’s gay and his type is tall-ish red lawyers with gray anime hair and ruffles. Edge would be like ‘...surely he means someone else with those features and not me.’ WHICH IS SAME HAT but also sad.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: Just the sheer amount of abo stuff out there. And that one AU where basically every triggering thing out there is crammed into one fic. Also fics that turn them into the seme/uke trope but were written in 2018/19 like. Grow up.

Things I look for in fanfic: Pining!!!!1 Pining! Marriage, Edgeworth being Trucy’s dad, Phoenix and Edgeworth talk about trauma and understand each other, pining holy shit, being on a first-name basis with each other, edgeworth feeling understood for the first time in his life

My wishlist: Those things I just listed. 

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Phoenix would end up with....man idk. it really seems that he and dahlia didn’t work out and that kind of poisoned dating for him. I don’t know if he’d even pursue anyone after that if Edgeworth wasn’t grandfathered in via their preexisting crushes on each other. Edgeworth would probably not pursue anyone either but he’d always be close with Gumshoe. (I feel like Phoenix would be the one to tell Edgeworth that it is okay to crush on Gumshoe so they wouldn’t likely be a thing without Phoenix)

My happily ever after for them: married, Trucy has two loving dads, one dog (pess) and one cat (phoenix affectionately names the cat edgey), they grow old together.

003 | Give me a character & I will tell you:

How I feel about this character: Kinny,

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: Phoenix, Gumshoe, I jokingly rb’d one that ships him with blackquill but that’s only bc my boyfriend Gerry kinned blackquill and I was surprised that there was art of him with edgeworth so I tagged him in it.

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: Maya!!! also Franziska. 

My unpopular opinion about this character: He’s trans as hell, and has known this since he was a child.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: Recovery from his trauma. Bonus points if he and Franziska recover together because they lived in the same household for a lot of it.

Favorite friendship for this character: Maya!1 they watch steel samurai reruns when edge feels down.

My crossover ship: Jokingly shipped him with Lunafreya once because Dex kins Lunafreya

[supercookie1995]

ace attorney and narumayo for the ask meme!

001 | Send me a fandom and I will tell you my:

Favorite character: Pearl Fey, she is my daughter and I will protect her with my life

Least Favorite character: Nahyuta Sahdmadhi

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Narumayo, Cykesquill, Franadrian, Pearl/Apollo and Justicykes

Character I find most attractive: Athena Cykes

Character I would marry: Pearl Fey

Character I would be best friends with: Trucy Wright

a random thought: I really want a sequel to PLvs AA

An unpopular opinion: Wright/worth doesn’t have any chemistry

My Canon OTP: don’t have one

My Non-canon OTP:Narumayo

Most Badass Character: Simon Blackquill

Most Epic Villain: Dahlia Hawthorne

Pairing I am not a fan of: Wright/worth

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another):Pearl Fey, they keep insisting on writing her as a little kid when she is supposed to be an adult at this point

Favourite Friendship: Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey

Character I most identify with: Apollo Justice

Character I wish I could be: Athena Cykes

002 Send me a ship and I will tell you:

When I started shipping them: During Justice For All when Pearl started gushing and Phoenix’s reaction made my think huh I think I ship the two together

My thoughts: I just love pairing so much, they work together so well

What makes me happy about them: That they have such great chemistry and are such good friends with one another, A point anti shippers seem to miss but that is by the by

What makes me sad about them: The way they first met one another, that is probably the worst way it could of happened

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: them acting out of character

Things I look for in fanfic: them being together and friends

My wishlist: them to admit there feelings for each other

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: can’t think of anyone tbh, maybe Phoenix with Apollo

My happily ever after for them: married with kids