#nickandmaya

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what a trio of fun american citizens

[demonadelem]

A bestfriendship doesn't have to be codified or stuffed into nuclear found family dynamics to be deep. Sometimes good friends can be good friends without seeing eachother as pseudo siblings.

HOWEVER let me make one thing clear, Maya does actually see Phoenix as her brother.

[distanttraceofbeauty]

my gorgeous low quality wife (and maya fey) in HD for anyone who hasn't seen them yet

[jakebakingbaconpancakes]

Phoenix always complaining how much Maya is always leaving him bankrupt from all the burgers she eats but the second he hears she's in danger he's like

[l-i-n-u-s-k-a]

I love the difference in their dynamics

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Transparent Phoenix and Maya assets (I)

[dpurut]

was cleaning out my 2021 folder and found a Maya in there. releasing her into the wild

art ig- @acepostale :)

[platonic-pals-punchout]

Epithet Erased (webshow & lite novel) | Ace Attorney (video game series & anime)

[This poll was made by silly mistake on the part of the tournament runner, who misread the bracket. Sorry! It won't count towards the overall tournament. Followers have voted to make Gio/Molly PPP's mascots if they win tho!]

Giovanni Potage & Molly Blyndeff:

1. THEY’RE SO SILLYYYYYYY i love them. they’re such a prime example of friendship with an age gap in media, which, i think needs to happen a bit more. i have friends older than me! i have friends younger than me! and also they’re just. goofy. silly 2. Would any friendship bracket truly be complete without this dynamic duo? She’s a serious an disillusioned elementary school student, resigned to her miserable lot in life after years of neglect and doing her family’s taxes. He’s a wacky and optimistic teenager turned supervillain, here to sweep her away from her abusive family. Together, they commit CRIMES! 3. She is an anxious child who has the power to dumb down noises or impacts to help her deal with the literal everything in her life, as she has to balance school and her family’s toy store, especially as her father and sister seem to prioritize their own selves and not care about the family as a whole. Molly is like 11 or something and has to do her family’s taxes! He is a villainous mastermind!…well, he says he is. In actuality, Giovanni is a captain in the Bonzai Blasters, with ambitions of being promoted to Vice Principal…or even Associate Justice or Valedictorian! (Yes. This is how that system is organized) But unlike the rest, he prioritizes the wellbeing of his minions above all else. He’s comfortable with his masculinity, as he knits for his minions and packs them all some soup in case they get hungry. Oh! He also has the power of soup. He can make soup, make steam of soup, and every 13th physical hit from him deals critical damage (that has nothing to do with soup. It’s just what he does). After a heist gone wrong, these two meet, and Giovanni adopts Molly as one of his minions (giving her the minion name “Beartrap”, on account of her bear hoodie. She likes bears). Together, they thwart/do a heist and steal a valuable amulet. Giovanni also distances Molly from the Banzais when the cops show up, so she will not have to worry about legal troubles. Not spoiling much about the book (Prison of Plastic, go read it), but Giovanni continues to stand up for Molly against her family, who continues to write her off. He tries to get her sister to connect with her and soften up. He can’t do much with the dad because he sucks. Giovanni makes sure Molly knows how cool she is as a person and that she doesn’t let herself be walked all over by other people. He helps her stand up for herself, and in turn, she helps him with crime.

Maya Fey & Phoenix Wright:

1. Quite frankly I don’t think they will win. They are constantly being tormented and experiencing the horrors and this poll would be no different. 2. they literally cannot die no matter what hell canon puts them through. fall off that bridge n cliff to a deathly boy! get kidnapped like 4 times girl! when she gets kidnapped like the first time, they had to make a new sprite for Phoenix coz he didn’t look devasted and depressed enough. Power of friendship though! and she is OKI! :) 3. The most iconic attorney and assistant pair in the series. Phoenix canonically ran onto a burning bridge to try to save Maya when she was in danger. His call with her got cut off once and he left the country to go make sure she was safe. She’s been kidnapped twice to be used as leverage against him and both times she was more worried about him than herself. She once jumped in front of a taser to try to protect him. He’s also defended her from murder accusations like four times. Their relationship defines the original game trilogy even more than the Wright-Edgeworth relationship does. Other Ace Attorney games wish they could replicate this dynamic. They got added to a fighting game as a single unit where they work together to fight. They both think they’re the reasonable one in this friendship, despite neither of them actually deserving that title.

Note: This blog is run & followed by aromantics. Insisting any pairs are ~actually romantic~ will not only cause you to be blocked on the spot, but you’ll out yourself as someone not safe to be queer around. No one wants to hear how stupid you look with those shipping goggles on.

[nay-lon]

[adapotata]

Yesss! I just played this part and I love it!

i will literally never stop thinking about phoenix saying "note to self: gossip with maya about this later!" when he finds out about gumshoe having a crush on maggey

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[demonadelem]

One of my favourite Ace Attorney headcanons is how Maya and Phoenix came to consider each other as siblings.

So in turnabout goodbyes, when Maya and Larry meet for the first time, he mistakes Maya as Phoenix's little sister and it never gets corrected.

I believe that Maya and Phoenix went along with tricking Larry for months, until it wasn't a joke anymore and they genuinely considered each other siblings.

One day, Larry meets Pearl and overhears her say that Maya and Phoenix are together, only then do they finally reveal it was a prank.

[distanttraceofbeauty]

society if nick and maya had a dedicated fandom-wide besties tag the way the von karma siblings do 

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Pardon me I'd like to add to this pile xoxo

They have no boundaries and I love them for that

i just think the lack of personal space phoenix & maya have in every piece of media they're in is so funny. at any given moment in time maya is clinging onto his arm like a squeaky toy and jumping in his face and phoenix is hovering over her shoulder to see whatever she's reading and letting her nap on him and there is simply no way they don't poke each other in the sides to be annoying and ruffle each other's hair at every given opportunity and there is no way maya doesn't jump on phoenix's back 24/7 demanding a piggyback ride and phoenix grumbles about it nonstop but always gives in anyway

[jakebakingbaconpancakes]

the relationship between Nick and Maya is that they share one brain cell and they think they both have it but actually Pearl or Charley has it

[trucygoose]

favorite aa ships?

Platonically? Nickandmaya, Wright-Anything-Agency gang, Phoenix and Franziska, Luke Atmey and Adrian Andrews, Trucy and Pearl.

Romantically? Franmaya, Fradrian, Verocky, definitely more that i cant think of rightnow

Familialy? Fey family, von Karmas, and the Kitakis :>