#oh and something else about fandoms approach compared to other fiction discussion spaces is tendency to just makes stuff up

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just remembered with the anime especially thinking how similar phoenix and mayas eyes looked, like they arent textually siblings figures but it does lend to that implication, mirroring edgeworth and franziska not being actually related but having similar eyes anyway as a representation of their sibling relationship (and similarities and narritive parallels), and like i think thats something people dont really talk about with these characters that like the animated media (the games are absolutely included here obviously) isnt totally literal and some things dont really have in universe explanations but add to the characters from an out of universe perspective