#im goin bonkers.

[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.

[stormbreaker-290]

G u h

[cyberdragoninfinity]

ok so like, the Three Pure Nobels are not, strictly speaking, clones/direct exact copies of Aporia but some media does throw the language around (iirc i think in tag force 6 once or twice,) and i would be lying if it doesnt make me a Little Craaayzzzayy every time just thinking about it. my god. my GOD. What if you were a clone that got caught in the printer and all kinds of fucked up since the only ingredients used in your creation were anguish and rage and despair and you didnt even KNOW you were a clone until you died and God had to put you back together. Forcefully made aware you're a copy of someone else youve never met. and then you Do have to go back and become him and then you'll stop existing. GAAAHHHH duel links was so cowardly for not having primo and aporia have a conversation during Aporia's event it would have made me UNWELL.

[poems-of-a-lover]

god i just wanna be special to someone. i want someone to be excited to talk to me. i wanna be someones person. fuck.

[jakowskis]

im doing crazy shit w owento im making them psychosexually obsessed w each other im making them codependent im covering them in blood im putting them in a timeloop

[willgrahamsbecoming]

my thoughts are rapidly pinballing between chillywilly and murder fiances. need to grab my brain and shake it until all of the ideas fall out

[the-tiniest-demigod]

chat I have resorted to infodumping my oc lore onto my cat chat am I cooked

[tophthedaydreamer]

WELCOME HOME UPDATE HAS ME INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE RN!!!! I AM BACKFLIPPING AND RUNNING AROUND IN CIRCLES!!!!

[qslimebignaturals]

Do you ever think about the fact that Mariana and Charlie killed the eggs in the same ways? Firstly, destroying the beds and then with sweeping edge?

Cause I do

[cricketkyum]

back in my hating my job era

[outletcrash]

I AM FEELING TEN TRILLION EMOTIONS I LOVE STARSCREAM SO MUCH EVERYTIME I SEE HIM I GET TEARY EYED AND STIM BY WHISPERING 'I NEED TO BEAT HIM TO DEATH' IN AN INTENSE STAGE WHISPER

[bionic-penis]

Update on the individualised study ummm I am developing a complex in which I am a terrible God and I have done horrible things to those undeserving of my roaming hands. I am the dog I sought to kill. I am the broken bottle. I cannot be left alone in the ceramics studio I will attempt to usurp the father who art in heaven amen

Anyway learning to make terra sigilata and that sculpting a hand is a lot more difficult than one might think (this is perhaps the one thing I miss about slip-casting)

[stormbreaker-290]

In honor of Machine Monday (and also since I'm able to draw again >:3), I whipped up a special background x3

My PC doesn't have a capture card so I couldn't screenshot but look!!!!!! It's!!!!! :DD its Static!!!!!!!!! In the fle- In the tech!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sad--tree]

i was so so SO sure rammstein wasn't gonna tour next yr but. guess what. :')

[sunsetrcse]

feelin all over the place and bleh. gonna head to bed. have fun you sillies 💕

[stormbreaker-290]

F UCK YEAH

TW EYESTRAIN

Idk what happened here but unhinged Mal

@stormbreaker-290 @starheirxero

Cuz ik you both like Mal and Arcade machines