#putting manfred in my pocket

[orangepajamas]

his dad just finished polishing him he's so excited

[im-a-dokutah]

I present to you... baby Ascalon and Manfred !!

(well not really baby, more like children i suppose)

[rosenfey]

good night im off to cradle my datv artbook in my arms as I fall asleep like its my little baby

[felassan]

Sylvia Feketekuty: "To celebrate DA day, I've made a bluesky account that I'll keep active for a few days to talk about my work on Inqusition or Veilguard! After a few days I'll lock the account, because I'm not a social media person. Happy to talk until then though. I want to say straight off: the reception to Emmrich, Manfred, the Mourn Watch, and the Grand Necropolis has been heartwarming for all of us who worked on those people and places. Thank you all very much!" [source, two]

Rest of post under cut due to length and spoilers. [Post Two, Post Three]

Sylvia Feketekuty: "In the meantime, I do want to talk about a couple of things I saw floating around regarding Emmrich: 1. Emmrich being 52 or 50. I think people got 50 from data mining a character file, but we can't do a ranges in those files. As in, I couldn't input 50-60, it had to be a whole number. I put down 50 as an early ballpark, then went more accurate in later audition scripts. 2. Fifty-two is a old number I threw into an early document before his art or character was totally final. (And which caused another developer a headache because they thought it was accurate, I never updated it. Sorry about that.) 3. "Wait, how old is Emmrich then?" Once I saw his final character art, I felt more mid to late 50s. MAYBE early 60s. But unless we specifically state a character's age in the game, it's all malleable. I honestly would just adjust it to your impressions unless stated otherwise. 4. I've also seen comments on how weird it is for Emmrich to act like there's an age-gap in the romance if your Rook is around his age. And you're right. 5. The reason is because Rook WAS younger when those scenes were written and worked on. I felt it'd be odd if I never addressed the May-December aspect, especially as it hooks into some of Emmrich's worries. 6. By the time that shifted, it was really too late to change without catastrophic repercussions to the excellent cinematics and music and other things that depend on line delivery and timing. 7. To be clear: you can feel how you want about the age gap coming up at all! But that's how the discrepancy came about. 8. "Is there a way to reconcile Emmrich acting like my Rook is way younger than him if they're not?" Great question! I have several suggestions: -Accept it's an error. (True, but unexciting) -Emmrich considers a gap of 3-5 years scandalous. (Funny, albeit a bit cartoonish.) -The Mourn Watch has perfected swapping out organs, and Emmrich is nervously hiding that he's way older than he looks out of vanity. (Untrue, but funny.)" [source thread]

User in reply to point 6. above: "I'm personally glad it was too late to change because their argument about it is genuinely my favorite scene in the entire game! 😭💕 It's such an important moment to me" / Sylvia: "Thanks! That one was one where I was all sweatily trying to balance things out, with tone, with pacing, etc. Really glad it came together for you. (Cine and the actors did heroic things there to get it feeling just so!)" [source]

More snippets:

Emmrich's favorite ice cream flavor? Rum raisin [source]

Lots of people on the dev team shared the vision of having a bunch of gothic weirdness in that pocket of Thedas [source] (Necropolis/Nevarra)

Sylvia "especially liked writing the Mourn Watch origin, it was fun to write a fellow nerd for Emmrich to chat with" [source]

Sylvia poured some personal worries and fears into writing Emmrich [source]

On Vorgoth and their nature: "I'm a little leery of saying anything, partly because I'm cowardly avoiding publicly defining anything more until/if I ever need to. And partly because I did want them to be a fresh unknown. Sorry!" [source] "I'm glad you like Vorgoth, but I'm afraid I don't have much for you that isn't in the game. I deliberately wrote them so as to leave room, if we ever revisited them, or for Vorgoth to remain mysterious, if we did not. I'm sorry if that's not a very satisfying answer!" [source] "I will say, it was fun to throw in a few lines about Vorgoth's art collection. Their passion for it is sincere and deep. (I wanted all the Watchers to have a little non-death related hobby or interest, because they can be so singularly focused.)" [source]

Dwarven Mourn Watcher is a rare origin combo for Rook so Sylvia wanted to call it out [source]

On the outcomes of Emmrich's quest: "I tried really hard to make the options equally viable, and more up to the player's interpretation or preferences of what it would mean for Emmrich in their view. It's been interesting seeing reactions to it, which hinge sometimes on various single lines pushing people one way or another!" [source]

"The Grand Necropolis is always eager and ready for a new member of the Mourn Watch to grace its ranks." [source]

User: "I loved Emmrich's view on death and what his personal quest ultimately went on to say about the nature of death itself, and how the beauty of mortality lies in its impermanence and unpredictability." / Sylvia: "I really wanted to dig into those themes, and everyone in cine and art and level design and editing and the whole team honed in exactly on the vibe. The floral stuff especially, I was so thrilled when I played through the Memorial Gardens' with the art and lighting in." [source]

User: "I experience thanatophobia and that first conversation w/ Emmrich was so affirming and helped me describe my own anxiety to others" / Sylvia: "Thanks, the thanatophobia was, as you may've guessed, a personal experience for me too. I'm glad it was something that helped a little." [source] "I suspect that phobia is way more common than people think, and part of the reason Emmrich talks about it was to express that sentiment out loud. I find it helps sometimes just to acknowledge it." [source]

What languages does Emmrich speak other than Trade? "I think he'd be familiar with Tevene, since there's surely many, many old texts about magic written in that language. Kind of like a doctor that knows latin through their work. I also named that MW alphabet "tomb-script", though I'm not sure if it has a spoken component or not since it never came up in-game. If it does, he'd be able to speak that for sure." [source, two]

User: "Playing as a Mourn Watch Rook has been an absolute delight!!!" / Sylvia: "Thank you so much, I really liked writing those branches of the dialogue. Since Emmrich's so focused on necromancy, it was fun having a Rook who could be both casual and knowledgeable about it." [source]

User: "In your opinion, what outcome do you prefer for a romanced Emmrich (lich/non lich)?" / Sylvia: "Interesting question! To be honest, I'm afraid to answer it properly in case anyone takes my answer to be a canonical one. I really wanted either path to feel equally interesting/correct for whatever you decide fits your Rook's relationship with Emmrich. (We're also in the strange waters of meta-reasoning. I GAVE Emmrich his fear of death-Sorry Emmrich!-which makes me feel a little culpable for that, even though he's entirely fictional. And that might prey on my mind when trying to decide. A very odd experience!)" [source, two]

What music genres would Emmrich be into? "Classical music is very much playing to type for Emmrich, but I feel it's also correct. He'd enjoy a nice concerto or an organ recital. Or, if he's feeling daring, a bold new Orlesian opera! But I don't think his tastes are too outré in that area. That said, I saw someone post something like "Leave Emmrich alone, let him attend the Depeche Mode concert" while listening to Depeche Mode's "Violator", for the first time, which made me laugh. (Great album. If he could get over the shock of synths, Emmrich might enjoy "Waiting for the Night".)" [source, two]

When writing Emmrich the devs wanted to try and hit the gothic romance vibe [source]

Does Emmrich mix his own fragrance/cologne? Does he ever vary it by the season? "I think Emmrich goes to some of the many perfumers that have set up shop in Nevarra City around the Necropolis, just because he trusts their judgement and expertise. I hadn't considered him varying it by season, but that's very fun! I certainly think he has more than one bottle of scent." [source]

User: "How does Lich Emmrich have sex?" / Sylvia: "I don't mind the question! But my answer's a bit boring: I generally stay at arm's length on the more explicit romance stuff, just because if it's not stated or shown in-game, I don't want to bring in a canonical answer that might affect what people imagined. My general preference for romantic scenes that get physical is to leave blank space somewhere, so players can imagine what happens next. It's not the ONLY way to do it, I think there's legitimate artistic reasons to go more explicit. But that's how I approached Emmrich (and before him Josephine.)" [source, two]

User: "The scene with the fade glow where he touches your hand haunts me in the best way" / Sylvia: "Aw thank you. Our animators and audio people made that scene way better than I could've hoped! They took such care with everything there. I want to say that little eye-peep from Rook was added in by one of them, which was the perfect touch." [source]

User on Emmrich: "i’m curious whether you think he’d prefer dogs or cats (or both, or neither)" / Sylvia: "I think he'd consider cats and dogs a little too noisy and messy for his tastes. Not like a nice, quiet plant or skeleton! (Weirdly, I actually had a scrap of banter going over this exact subject at one point. It got tightened down to the exchange with Harding about the pig he used to hug when he was a kid.)" [source, two]

Sylvia was trying to tease Nevarra with the Tevinter Nights story Down Among the Dead Men [source]. "It was really fun to tease the Necropolis, so to speak, in TN, and I'm grateful we got to actually let players through its gates at last." [source]

User: "if Rook chooses to save Manfred and keep Emmrich mortal, what would Emmrich wish to become of his body once he did pass on?" / Sylvia: "Good question. I think he'd want to remain active and useful in death. A guide for other Mourn Watchers, or posted as a mystic guide somewhere dangerous, or perhaps an oracle in the library." [source]

User: "when and how was it decided that Emmrich would be romanceable? I remember reading that he would not be a romance option." / Sylvia: "I'm not sure where that came from, because I pitched him and then shortly after that we decided the entire cast was romanceable. That was fairly early on in the development of Veilguard, as I recall it. (Could've been a crossed wire?)" [source]

Trick Weekes: "Sylvia wrote the fantastic Emmrich "the Vol-carnage" Volkarin and everything that happens in Nevarra while dealing with a lead writer whose attitudes about corpses and undead are... not dissimilar from Taash's." [source] / Sylvia: "I still remember when you gave the very accurate feedback "I think we need to give players whose Rooks aren't into corpses some roleplaying choices to express this" and I was all "Ohhh yeaaaaaah." (Thank u Trick, you were right)" [source] / Trick: "Specifically, being able to express this without locking themselves out of the content! (For non-Sylvia folks) Given my issues with corpses, Emmrich as a whole was SUPER Not For Me, so I gave one caveat and then said, "For the rest of my critique, I will be impersonating his target audience." [source]

Sylvia on the secret origins of Manfred: "After I pitched Emmrich, I started jotting down notes and thoughts on his plots, his quirks, all that kind of stuff. It was very early on Veilguard, anything was still possible. We were chatting in the writer's room about it one day, and I think we'd just seen some early concept art for Emmrich. And our lead writer Trick Weekes joked that Emmrich looked like a man who'd have a skeleton named Manfred. And I laughed and went "Yeah he does!" And then I thought about it. It's wild in retrospect, but that one comment spurred a train of thought that led to the core of Emmrich's arc. He may've ended up a very different character without it! tl;dr: I stole it from Trick." [source, two, three, four]

"I got to play with a pretty free palette when defining the way Emmrich and the necromancers view death and spirits. But I tried to keep it within the confines of existing lore. That's one reason why that scene where Emmrich talks about Manfred to Harding goes into "the eternal question" of whether a soul actually returns with the dead or not. Nevarra has distinct beliefs, but I thought it'd be interesting if its people argue over their interpretations of those beliefs." [source, two]

"the other writers also suggested a bit later on that the big choice dig more into Emmrich's philosophies. Initially, it was more personally focused on his fears, which made it 'relatable' but pettier. Without that correction, I think it would've been weaker, I totally needed the team push." [source]

"I have a few guides to graveyard symbology, and it's so packed with references and meaning." [source]

User: "Did any of your own fears & experiences, make it into the writing of Emmrich? If yes, is it information you’re comfortable sharing with us? If it’s too personal to give any details, that’s fine as well. Also, across the other games, who do you think Emmrich will get along with best?" / Sylvia: "some of his fears are absolutely personal. The reflexive-compulsive panic over death is something I'm very familiar with, and I wanted to explore that through him. Because I suspected it was not uncommon, and worth examining. The question of who he'd get along with from the other games is surprisingly tough! Because without asking the other writers about their characters, I wouldn't know for sure. So I can only really speak to Josephine with surety. That said: -I think Josephine would be polite, and grow to like him, but would never entirely be over the ostentatious necromancy. -I think Emmrich meeting Sera would be the funniest match." [source, two, three]

"Peter Cushing was also one of my go-tos as an example of what I wanted Emmrich to be." [source]

"(Huge shout out to all the animators and level designers making Manfred run, quite literally. Like 95% of his personality lives in his movement, I think they nailed it.)" [source]

On Emmrich: "I tried to put a lot of passion and sincerity in his love for the dead, and I admit the Necropolis was THE big place I wanted to see in Thedas myself ever since reading about it in a codex." [source]

User: "Thank you for letting him have that cemetery dream date!" / Sylvia: "Having the date in the cemetery was one of the first things I wanted when thinking about the romance." [source]

"Josephine was the first time I was entrusted with a new character and a new romance at once, and that'll always be special to me." [source]

User: "How much input did you have in Emmrich's appearance in the podcast?" / Sylvia: "In the podcast, none myself. I believe it was handled by a third party but reviewed by a few people at BW, I don't know too much past that. (We did provide a descriptor and character rules. Stuff like "Emmrich never swears" and "always says amongst" and broader, more thematically useful things.)" [source]

User on Emmrich: "Are you planning any other external-media stories for him?" / Sylvia: "Thanks very much, The Flame Eternal has a special place in my heart for being the first time Emmrich got to be center stage in a story. (And very flattering to hear about the cross stitch. That's so cool!) I can't speak to any external-media plans, I'm afraid. That's not an implied hint about anything existing or not, it's just literally outside what I'm allowed to chat about. It'd be fun to do something like that again though!" [source, two]

"I must give full credit to Nick Borraine, Emmrich's voice actor. He got the compassion and tenderness the character needed right away." [source]

"And glad him being closer to your age resonated, I really wanted someone older out on an adventure. No reason that has to stop at any age IMO." [source]

User: "do the mourn watcher/nevarra in general raise their pets after they die to keep them around? like a dog skeleton with a whisp in it?" / Sylvia: "To be honest I hadn't thought out this one, but it's a very good question. I'm not sure how common that would be, or even if it's permitted to have pets running around the family crypt. (I definitely thing people would WANT to do it.) You know, I think I'm going to have to leave this one in the vague quantum foam of the future. I think I'd want to not only double check existing lore, but answer that in-game (or in a book or etc.) if we ever need to. (Hope that's not too much of a cop out. Sometimes I like to leave questions I'm not sure about alone, because until it's in an official game or story, it doesn't quite count.)" [source, two, three]

User: "as someone who shares emmrich's anxiety about mortality, getting to spend time with him, and in the grand necropolis and with the mourn watch, was genuinely soothing" / Sylvia: "Thank you, I'm glad he was a comfort. It's a familiar fear for me too, and I'd hoped he would connect that way with people very much." [source]

On the giant ribcage 'ceiling' in the Necropolis: "sadly, even I don't know all the mysteries of the Necropolis. (Which is to say it's a very cool bit of art but has no stated origin yet. Could be a large dragon, a giant...or something weirder!)" [source]

On TN story Luck in the Gardens: "It was nice change up, writing in first person and with someone so rascally. I've got an enduring affection for the Lords after writing Hollix, the scamp." [source]

User: "I just love his genuine enthusiasm for everything he does. If the other party members had fan clubs Emmrich would be the president of each and I love that for him" / Sylvia: "Thank you! I really wanted him to embody a kind of expansiveness and generosity of spirit, to stand in contrast to the eeriness of his abilities." [source]

User: "What was your inspiration for Josie?" / Sylvia: "My girl! When I came on to Inquisition, there'd already been work done on setting up the spine of the main plot, and figuring out the overall cast. But one of the advisors was a little murkier. It just said "Diplomat" on the white board. We knew we wanted someone in that position, but not who. So in a game where you were out exploring, killing demons, etc., but also had a big organization to run? I immediately wanted to make a Diplomat firmly there for you. Somebody you could hand the keys to the entire Inquisition to while you were out, and know it'd be in good hands. I also thought it'd be fun to have someone from Antiva, since that area wasn't covered yet by anyone in the cast. And I needed her to be polished, smooth, but heartfelt, because of that aforementioned trust. And that was the core of Josephine! Her voice actor, Allegra, brought her to life with such lovely charm, and hearing those early sessions also helped me further hone her tone." [source, two, three, four]

"Our music supervisor Ron Dazo hit it out of the park with Emmrich's music IMO. And so glad you liked Hezenkoss! Just very fun to write as a character." [source]

User: "Did any specific watcher raise MW Rook?" / Sylvia: "Good question! I kind of left that one alone because I wasn't sure if I wanted to let Rook define that themselves, or leave it open, and also I'd have wanted a full conversation on it. In the end that was a little out of scope so I left it unsaid. Which is to say that it COULD be Vorgoth who helped raise your Rook. And that stands until/unless we give a definitive answer (or let you choose from a range of answers) one day." [source, two]

"It was such a pleasure for all of us to finally get to explore the Necropolis, I am very glad we got to throw open the gates." [source]

User: "I was wondering if there were any Mourn Watch details you wished you had more time to explore? I was so struck by some of the ethical implications in your stories" / Sylvia: "Geeze, now that's a question. I mention it with Emmrich, but there's some resentment over the power the Watchers hold as THE mortalitasi of the Grand Necropolis, between them and the other orders. There's something to that situation I liked. There's also questions of how they select people for the order. What their standards are, how closely they work with benign spirits. And how they cultivate those relationships. How deep does that go? I also mentioned in a codex "the lives and bodies of those who tamper with the undead of the Necropolis are forfeit unto the Mourn Watch." which is pretty chilling. What's that punishment like, exactly? And in general, writing about anything weird or unexplained in the Necropolis brought me much enjoyment, and it would be fun to dig around how the Mourn Watch deals with (or what they want out of) all these mysteries and entities." [source, two, three, four]

"Geeking out with Emmrich about spooky stuff was a delight to write." [source]

"I liked writing someone older this time, it was something different for me and rewarding in some unexpectedly different ways. (And thanks especially for the nice words on DAtDM - I was very excited to introduce people to the Mourn Watch there!)" [source]

"Ah, tomb-script. I named it but it was our concept artists who went developed it with the hexagon shape-language of the Mourn Watch, which I loved. Conceptually: I think it's used purely an occult or sacred language. Something for the graves, or books on magic, but not everyday things." [source]

"Some trans people kindly offered their help with some feedback on some of the romance lines and others, which absolutely made them much better." [source]

"Trick Weekes actually wrote a ton of the banter where Emmrich inquires into qunari artifacts and customs, and Taash talks about what it was like to grow up under a scholar. I really dig the dynamic they unearthed between the two there." [source]

[fool-counter]

March 23, 9:42 PM

International Departures

Gate 12

Where are you going... Franziska?

von Karma:

...! How did you know I was here...?

Edgeworth:

With this.

von Karma:

That's...

Edgeworth:

I heard you were planting things on a certain person. Things like tracking devices in his coat, for example.

von Karma:

Hmph. That's just like you. I only planted it there because he was always wearing it. This... filthy, drab coat of his... I don't know how it ended up in my luggage. But it's going in the trash, I promise you that.

Edgeworth:

Oh, that's right... Speaking of that man... He told me something very interesting.

Gumshoe:

When I ran off with the things from De Killer's hideout... I was sure I took 4 things total, sir.

von Karma:

Four items...?

Edgeworth:

It seems he put the last one in his coat pocket.

von Karma:

He put it in here...? ... It doesn't matter anymore. The case is already over.

Edgeworth:

... What are you going to do now?

Edgeworth:

... What are you going to do now?

von Karma:

... That's none of your business.

Edgeworth:

Are you running away?

von Karma:

Shut up! You don't understand a thing! You can't possibly understand what it means to be "Manfred von Karma's daughter"!

Edgeworth:

Franziska...

von Karma:

So many expectations from everyone around me... Expectations I must fulfill! I'm expected to win no matter what. And failure? Such a thing is not an option for me! My father was a genius. There's no doubt about that! But... But me... I'm no genius. I've always known that.[D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:]

Edgeworth:

...

von Karma:

But I... I had to be one. I had to.[D:D:D:D:D:D:D:]

Edgeworth:

... You may not be a genius like your father... But... You are a prosecutor. You have been and always will be.

von Karma:

...! No, I'm not... Not anymore. I've even thrown my whip away.

Edgeworth:

Speaking of that... Wright gave me this to hold onto. (Wright... You knew something like this would happen, didn't you...?)

von Karma:

...

Edgeworth:

I'm going to say this again. We prosecutors do not fight for personal honor or pride. I hope you will think deeply... About what you should be striking down with that whip.

von Karma:

... You haven't changed a bit... You've always... You've always left me alone and walked on ahead without me. Miles Edgeworth... I've always hated you.

Edgeworth:

...

von Karma:

And then... Finally, my chance to take my revenge on you arrived. If I could win against that man... If I could make Phoenix Wright bow down in defeat... Then this "girl" you left behind would have risen higher than you! That was supposed to be my "revenge"...

Edgeworth:

I see...

von Karma:

... You know, I can't do it... I can't change who I am. I can't throw away everything I've been until today.

Edgeworth:

I believe you can. Just like how Adrian Andrews did.

von Karma:

Adrian Andrews...?

Edgeworth:

You were going to use her during the trial, right? But you... You were "dependant" on your father by using his tactics. Isn't that right?

von Karma:

Hmph!

Edgeworth:

Today, you chased after me, after I had left you behind all these years. And that's why we're standing here now, side by side.

von Karma:

...!

Edgeworth:

But I have no intention of stopping. If you say you are going to quit your walk down the prosecutor's path... ... Then, this is where we part ways, Franziska von Karma.

von Karma:

... I... I... I am Franziska von Karma. Don't think I'm going to walk in your shadow forever... Our battle... begins now... so you had better prepare yourself, Miles Edgeworth!

Phoenix Wright... One day... Someday... I'm sure we'll meet again in battle. Until then... This last piece of evidence that never made it to you... I'll take good care of this fourth piece... So I can give it to you... when at last we meet again...

March 23, 9:42 PM

International Departures

Gate 12

Where are you going... Franziska?

von Karma:

...! How did you know I was here...?

Edgeworth:

With this.

von Karma:

That's...

Edgeworth:

I heard you were planting things on a certain person. Things like tracking devices in his coat, for example.

von Karma:

Hmph. That's just like you. I only planted it there because he was always wearing it. This... filthy, drab coat of his... I don't know how it ended up in my luggage. But it's going in the trash, I promise you that.

Edgeworth:

Oh, that's right... Speaking of that man... He told me something very interesting.

Gumshoe:

When I ran off with the things from De Killer's hideout... I was sure I took 4 things total, sir.

von Karma:

Four items...?

Edgeworth:

It seems he put the last one in his coat pocket.

von Karma:

He put it in here...? ... It doesn't matter anymore. The case is already over.

Edgeworth:

... What are you going to do now?

Edgeworth:

... What are you going to do now?

von Karma:

... That's none of your business.

Edgeworth:

Are you running away?

von Karma:

Shut up! You don't understand a thing! You can't possibly understand what it means to be "Manfred von Karma's daughter"!

Edgeworth:

Franziska...

von Karma:

So many expectations from everyone around me... Expectations I must fulfill! I'm expected to win no matter what. And failure? Such a thing is not an option for me! My father was a genius. There's no doubt about that! But... But me... I'm no genius. I've always known that.[D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:]

Edgeworth:

...

von Karma:

But I... I had to be one. I had to.[D:D:D:D:D:D:D:]

Edgeworth:

... You may not be a genius like your father... But... You are a prosecutor. You have been and always will be.

von Karma:

...! No, I'm not... Not anymore. I've even thrown my whip away.

Edgeworth:

Speaking of that... Wright gave me this to hold onto. (Wright... You knew something like this would happen, didn't you...?)

von Karma:

...

Edgeworth:

I'm going to say this again. We prosecutors do not fight for personal honor or pride. I hope you will think deeply... About what you should be striking down with that whip.

von Karma:

... You haven't changed a bit... You've always... You've always left me alone and walked on ahead without me. Miles Edgeworth... I've always hated you.

Edgeworth:

...

von Karma:

And then... Finally, my chance to take my revenge on you arrived. If I could win against that man... If I could make Phoenix Wright bow down in defeat... Then this "girl" you left behind would have risen higher than you! That was supposed to be my "revenge"...

Edgeworth:

I see...

von Karma:

... You know, I can't do it... I can't change who I am. I can't throw away everything I've been until today.

Edgeworth:

I believe you can. Just like how Adrian Andrews did.

von Karma:

Adrian Andrews...?

Edgeworth:

You were going to use her during the trial, right? But you... You were "dependant" on your father by using his tactics. Isn't that right?

von Karma:

Hmph!

Edgeworth:

Today, you chased after me, after I had left you behind all these years. And that's why we're standing here now, side by side.

von Karma:

...!

Edgeworth:

But I have no intention of stopping. If you say you are going to quit your walk down the prosecutor's path... ... Then, this is where we part ways, Franziska von Karma.

von Karma:

... I... I... I am Franziska von Karma. Don't think I'm going to walk in your shadow forever... Our battle... begins now... so you had better prepare yourself, Miles Edgeworth!

Phoenix Wright... One day... Someday... I'm sure we'll meet again in battle. Until then... This last piece of evidence that never made it to you... I'll take good care of this fourth piece... So I can give it to you... when at last we meet again...

fool count: 22

I really should have destroyed that coat when I had the chance. now all of tumblr knows about this foolish conversation...

[squadron-goals]

An encounter (by Emil August Glogau)

When I took the morning train from Frankfurt to Berlin at the end of September, a young Uhlan officer nimbly jumped onto the departing train in Gotha, threw his hunting rifle into the luggage net of the compartment I was sitting in, pulled his coat collar up over his chin, made himself comfortable in his seat and was immediately asleep. At the station I had bought the recently published “Der Rote Kampfflieger” but I had put it right into the luggage net next to my buttered breads because I had more interest in my sleeping neighbour. How can someone fall asleep so easily? Who is able to train their will in such a way that the boundary between wakefulness and sleep can be crossed so easily? This young man must have a strong energy, I thought to myself, but his clean-shaven schoolboy face gave a different impression. Didn´t the blond youth look around out of good-natured blue eyes when he boarded the train? How deliberate and determined were his movements, how powerful his grasp of the rifle? The square head and strong jawline belonged to a eastern German Junker. But how did the lines of resignation from the cheekbone to the chin fit into this motionless face? Had the war dug the furrows in this young lieutenant's face? Only then do I see the two stars on his epaulettes. Rittmeister? Rittmeister at twenty, twenty-four at the most? Well – entered in Gotha - Thuringian principalities - flashes of awards under his coat collar - a prince, then. Then the eyes opened as suddenly as they had closed before, focused on my luggage net and shone as if they say saw something that made him very happy. The „prince“ seemed to be hungry, I thought, maybe you can offer him one of your breads? „Is there a dining car?“ he asked. „Unfortunately not, but may I offer you a buttered bread, I caught your look and was hesitating whether or not to offer”. He then laughed out loud, blushed like a first-time published author, took a bite of my bread and replied, "Oh no, I looked at the book. I get such a kick out of the fact that every traveler buys one of these things. You see..." - pointing to the people waiting at the railway station in Weimar - all "red fighter pilots”. I beginn to understand, reach for the book, open the cover and now know that I am sitting face to face with the red fighter pilot himself, Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. „Have you read it already?“ he asked me. I denied. „Well, better leave it! Because I cannot write, I can only fly and shoot and run my mouth a little about whatever comes to mind“. And so he then told me, with eloquent lips that have now closed forever, about his adventures in the skies until we arrived in Berlin. I could fill a book with it, but this book is already filled by himself, but I wish I had the ability to give an account of the boyish freshness of this famous daredevil, the bubbly mentality of this child of nature and the soldierly simplicity of this Silesian nobleman. “I´m just a fighter pilot,” he said, “but Boelcke, he was a hero.” He buttoned his coat so that the people wouldn´t stare at his Pour le mérite. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a telegram. “Look, isn´t it nice of the Kaiser, he telegraphs to congratulate me on my sixtieths victory: ‘Now rest for a while.’ I was invited on a hunt at Schloss Reinhardsbrunn by the Herzog von Koburg-Gotha, and now I´ll meet up with my brother Lothar in Berlin. Sadly, Moritz isn´t with me. Moritz? That's my Great Dane, he has to be with me everywhere. Sometimes I even take him up in the air. Do you know Berlin? Yes? Great! Then you have to show us around a bit, we don´t know it and have no acquaintances there. Just once, I visited the Kaiser but he isn´t there now.

By the way, a nice thing happened to me once: I was driving with a lady, like we are now, and I gave here a lift in my pre-ordered car when there was a great shortage of cars. Of course, I had my shotgun with me, as always, because there's nothing like a hunting, is there? The lady had two sons as volunteers in the field and made mocking remarks: Of course, you officers, you have time for hunting while my brave boys have to lie in the trenches'. I told her: 'I always hunt, I do nothing else, day and night'. She replied that it was a scandal that I was proud of it. When we reached her house and before I drove off, I called after her: 'I hope you will soon read again about my hunting successes. I am Manfred von Richthofen.' You should have seen her face." We arrived in Berlin; when we said goodbye, he asked me if I could take some time off around Christmas. He would be taking a long holiday and he could meet me then. “Ah no,” he interrupted himself, “I can´t promise that… Well, you know, I´m probably due now. After all, the English have put out a huge bounty on my head for a long time." He clicked his heels together and waved at me again from the crowd. For me, it was to be his last greeting. Now he has moved into Valhalla.

[im-smart-i-swear]

HELLO!

HAVE THIS MANFRED AS A FAIRY TO BRING YOU GOOD LUCK!

HOW ARE YOU?

HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD DAY!

OH MY GOD THIS IS SO PRECIOUS I AM TAKING HIM AND PUTTING HIM IN MY POCKET<33333333

i'm doing fine, thank you for asking<3 long time no see, how have you been? Glad to see you again in my inbox:]

[anne-is-confused]

only been able to play datv very sporadically with everything going on but i finally got to the point of no return flag and i need to gather my thoughts before i go in

(got longer than i thought so. Page cut)

act one's pacing seemed fine to me but honestly act 2 seemed? Weird? Rushed? Idk i know there's a bunch of quests left in the main line but the overall story just feels so. Short, compared to the other games

did get the circles. i know they unlock a secret ending, but nothing more. my best guess at this point is that the future of the franchise will turn towards the powers across the sea (to which im still convinced rook is somehow already connected), especially combined with the qunari's "devouring storm" stuff

my ongoing theory for why davrin didnt die is because. Well. it's the old god soul that kills the warden who makes the final blow, right? which until now seems to have been the evanuris' consciousness trying to escape their prison. but now elgar'nan and ghilan'nain are here physically. so now im a lot less worried about davrin and A LOT MORE worried about lucanis

im romancing bellara but i havent had any romance specific scenes yet?? I locked it in and she acknowledges it, but no kissing no nothing?? Really hoping i didnt miss anything :((

i was right emmrich's personal quest DID make me cry👍

i was already against him becoming a lich but i wanted to keep that choice for my romance playthrough. but then it became a choice about manfred and i just could not have lived with an empty space on the balcony :( no lichdom for you sir

taash's va really carries the character i think. im still haunted by their scream when their mom died

i have to be honest im really not a fan of the very modern queer terminology being used..... it's the continuity thing that bothers me most i think. after 3 games where they wouldnt even use the word gay, codex entries being like "genderqueer people are valid☺️" feel very alien

neve really grew on me. she didn't interest me much off the bat but ive really come to love her AND i really like her little romance with lucanis as well<3 jaded lady detective and her boytoy femme fatale

lichrally cannot get enough of antoine and evka they are adorable!!!!! Putting them in my pocket

when solas started speaking to rook in the elgarnan trap i almost teared up againnn i missed my boy!!!!! I honestly thought we'd have a lot more conversations with him, he wasnt at all like the "devil on your shoulder" the devs talked about. he was just. There, sorta

mythaaaaal🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 the fact that solas EXTRACTED HER FRAGMENT FORM THE BLADE THAT KILLED HER and kept her locked in a closed-off area of the crossroads without ever visiting FOR MILLENIA is exactly the type of fucked up shit i wanted from them. wife in the freezer moment

convinced someone on the writing team is/knows some hungarian. hal the fishmonger. elek. warden jános. (sylvia feketekuty has a hungarian surname so maybe im not insane??) anyway dragon age hungary au is real

Dont know when ill have time to finish it but uuuhhh yeah im closing in lads👍

[ddwardiswriting]

Chapter 13: Insight

“So, can you use your gift to take a look at this?” I asked, digging into my pocket and producing the badge of service.

Amy looked at it, holding it close to her face, “An Octavian badge? Sure, I’ll give you a read on this. But Manfred hands out all the badges so it’ll end with Manfred and then the jeweler who made it.”

“But the points in the middle might tell us something,” Fiona said. “The person who had it before the gentleman we took it from will likely be the most important person.”

“Alright. Lady Ren, may I sit? Using my gift is taxing. I can lose my balance when I receive the impressions of the other people who’ve held the item.”

I patted the spot on the loveseat next to myself. Amy sat next to me. She took a moment to nuzzle me. I noticed she was staring at Fiona. They had their eyes locked. After a moment longer than I liked, Amy looked away. She clasped her hands around the badge and then closed her eyes. 

She sat still and silent. 

Nothing happened. Amy sat motionless. Her expression remained blank. 

“She is bold,” Fiona said, “I like her.”

“So do I,” I said.

“She does not wish to upset you. But she made sure I understood that she would not back off to placate me.”

“She did? How did you know?”

“I do not read faces well. I am not good at nuance or subtext. But she made eye contact and held. And then she pressed herself against you, while maintaining eye contact. That is a message I understand. She has my respect for that. And she is gorgeous. You have good taste.”

“You’re not upset?”

“I am worried. The class difference would cause a scandal if somebody exposed your secret. That could complicate our relationship. And new though it is, I wish to retain that relationship.”

“I do too.”

“But, to answer your question. No, I am not upset. I am intrigued.”

“That’s something,” I said.

“She has it.” Fiona said, “Her aura has changed.”

I looked and noticed Amy’s expression had tightened into a grimace. 

“A lot is happening in her head right now. It is impressive to watch.” Fiona said. 

“Is she okay?” I asked, “It looks like she’s in pain.”

“She is not comfortable, but I do not think I would call it pain yet. But she is not enjoying whatever she is seeing. You are worried about her.”

“Of course I am! You know what we are to each other. Of course I’d worry about her.”

“Indeed. I am glad to see your concern. How long have you been together?”

I sighed, “Days. But she’s been my personal maid for three years.”

“So you have been pining for her? Did I pick an inopportune time to begin courting you?”

“Of course not. You’re an amazing woman,” I answered. “And you’re a very good match as you say. I wouldn’t be able to marry a commoner at this point anyway.”

“Indeed you would not. That would take great sacrifice or greater authority than you have.”

Amy’s nose had started bleeding. I put my hands on her shoulders.

“Is she alright?” I asked.

“She is in pain now. Beyond that, you and I know the same amount. We have different gifts than she has. I have not practiced my gift as a professional. And I do not have any friends or connections within the professional mystic community. I assume that you do not either?”

“No.” I didn’t want to tell Fiona that I didn’t have friends. Not as Lady Karen or Lady Ren. I paused and dabbed at the blood on Amy’s face. I wiped the trickle away so it wouldn’t stain her uniform. I didn’t want her getting in trouble for that on my account. “Fiona, I didn’t know that my ladybird had a mystic gift. I’m clearly not aware of these things.”

“True.” Fiona said. “Ah. Miss, have you finished?”

I stopped with my handkerchief still brushing her face.

“I am,” Amy said, then she coughed into her left hand and closed her hand into a fist. “Did I get a nosebleed? Thank you dear.”

She took my hand with her free right hand.

“I was worrying,” I said.

“I’m sorry Ren, I should have warned you that counter measures can make my gift strain my body.”

“Counter measures? What do you mean?”

“May I borrow your handkerchief?”

I nodded and handed it to her. She wiped her left hand on the handkerchief and more blood stained it. I realized that she had coughed up blood.

“Defenses against scrying, like my object reading or clairvoyance.” Amy said, “There are alchemical powders that ward a person or a place.  They can be against object reading or other gifts. A mystic can sometimes force through the wards. That’s what I did here. But a few blood vessels in my nose burst.”

“You’re not hurt?” I asked.

“I hurt,” Amy said, “I’m not injured though.” 

She leaned in and kissed me on the cheek. 

“Have we expressed enough concern now?” Fiona asked, “May we ask what you learned?”

I shuddered. I thought I was socially inept. But that was impressive. 

Amy giggled. I sighed with relief.

“Of course Your Excellency. I appreciate your concern.”

Fiona shook her head, “When we are alone, you may call me Fiona as you call your mistress Ren.”

“Of course Your Excellency. I’m sorry. Fiona. The man who had the badge last used to come and go from our estate with some sort of deliveries. He didn’t know what was in the deliveries. And I am confident he is dead now.”

I coughed.

“That may have been me,” Fiona said. ‘Correction, that was definitely me.”

“Oh,” Amy whispered, “Was it necessary?”

Fiona nodded, “Yes. He was a werewolf working for the crown prince. And he attacked Ren.”

Amy nodded, “Then it was very necessary. Before the nasty werewolf, the badge was in the possession of a very boring man. If you want my guess, he was a bureaucrat. He transported the badge to the nasty werewolf, but didn’t do much else.”

“We can leave him out then,” I said.

“It’s the next one who is interesting.” Amy said, “He was the one using a ward. You’re lucky I’m good at this. I couldn’t get all the way through the alchemical defenses. But I could tell that they were an actual member of House Octavian. And I’m confident that they are a lord, and not a servant.” 

“So this isn’t a conspiracy against my house,” I said, “It’s a conspiracy within my house.”

This was creepy. I had watched Lynn play through the game along five different story paths. And I had listened to Lynn talk about the game non-stop. She had never mentioned a conspiracy involving House Octavian. And she had never mentioned a smuggling sub plot. And I couldn’t remember any myself. 

I wanted to ask Lynn about it. But I had no idea where I stood with her.  

“Somebody in House Octavian is conspiring with Hyperborea. This is not good.” Fiona said, “At the mildest, this is criminal. At its most severe, this is treason. If we keep digging, this could bring down your whole house. Are you sure that you wish to continue?”

I was quiet for a moment. Fiona was right. It depended upon who had given out that badge, and how high their status. But what we discovered could shatter House Octavian. This could ruin everyone within the house.

“It doesn't matter. We have to go forward,” I said.

Would Lynn let me bring down House Octavian if it would save Ys?

[theggning]

Oh god look she’s talking about Godot again- YEAH I AM, because nobody talks about Godot’s actual strategy and mechanics as a prosecutor!

Because in canon he only does 4 cases (4 of which he loses and one of which... ahem) Godot has the reputation of being a “bad” prosecutor or inept at his job. But I call bullshit! Players are just used to 2 games where every prosecutor is either Manfred Von Karma or a disciple of his (Payne who??). Godot’s prosecution style is totally unique, and very distinct in ways that make him an absolutely perfect “final boss” prosecutor for the original trilogy.

- Chiefly, and unlike the VK prosecutor club, Godot does not care about winning. Sure, he doesn’t want to lose, but it has nothing to do with his “record.” Though he states his desire to defeat Phoenix, he later specifies he’s actually “testing” him and his worthiness to the legal legacy he’s inherited. And for all the flack Godot gets for his winless record, Phoenix really lucked out in all of these cases. Godot actually would have won State vs. DeLite 1, State vs. DeLite 2, and State vs. Byrde had one witness in each not made a stupid mistake at the finish line.

- To that point, and often unacknowledged, there is a specific moment in each case where Godot stops arguing his case and either gives leeway to or actually assists the defense. (EX: He helps verbally reason out Phoenix’s arguments, agrees to Mia’s request to cross-examine Atmey, personally subpoenas and “tames” Furio Tigre, etc.) This usually comes once it’s been proven beyond a doubt that Phoenix’s client is innocent. Godot remains an unrelenting asshole to Phoenix personally and eggs him on about how competently he can prove his point, but he’s clearly not looking to send innocents to jail to stick it to him.

(Hmm. Who else cares about a client’s guilt or innocence and the truth ahead of “winning...”)

- He infamously has never prosecuted a case before 3-2, but multiple characters remark that he’s obviously not an amateur in the courtroom. Gumshoe in particular notes that Godot has skill and confidence to back up his arrogance (via a series of Top Gun jokes) and he’s not just a rookie floundering around behind the bench.

- Also unlike the VK prosecutor club, Godot mostly plays fair. He doesn’t prep or coach witnesses, doesn’t instruct them to lie. He never does anything as cheap as the infamous “updated autopsy report,” or Franziska’s blatantly illegal detention room photo stunt from 2-2. Obviously there’s a few below-the-belt moments (and he clearly enjoys when he can catch Phoenix flatfooted) but those are mostly the result of this goofball legal system being massively stacked for the prosecution anyway.

- The one questionable quirk of his is the fact he tends to take evidence from the crime scene. In 3-2, he kept DeMasque’s brooch to himself without telling the police he’d found it. Gumshoe and the Judge are both appalled at this but Godot thinks nothing of it, remarking that it’s a “rule” of his that “the safest place for evidence is in my pocket.”

(Hmm, which other legal professional we know tends to pocket evidence from the crime scene without telling the police? And what job does he have?)

- Godot’s style with his witnesses is completely different than the other prosecutors. Rather than coaching them or telling them what and what not to say, he tends to let them speak their minds on the stand. For all his cryptic douchebaggery he does have a way with people, keeping his cool with hostile witnesses (Tigre) and building friendly rapport with others (Ron and Kudo especially come to mind here.) 

(Hmmm, which other legal professional is used to building a strong rapport and trusting a witness to give testimony...?)

- He’s a world class bullshitter. Like even putting aside the unparseable metaphors and non sequiturs, when his back’s against the wall he throws out some absolutely wild arguments, blatantly ridiculous notions, whatever he can think of, trying to make it stick until the evidence decisively rips it down. The whole mirror testimony in 3-3 is a prime example of this... just blatantly stupid, but he allows it because it forces Phoenix to prove something.

(Hmmm... which other legal professional do we know is a constant bullshitter, desperately throwing outrageous theories to see what sticks...?) 

Notice a pattern at all?

This incredibly funny post by @franbamm and @palant1r is 100% accurate and is one of the best takes I’ve ever seen. Why does Godot’s prosecution feel so strange, so off? Because he prosecutes like a defense attorney. Not just any defense attorney either, but a certain defense attorney, the protege of his own protege, the man he crawled back from hell to do battle with. He’s the best possible “final boss” prosecutor for Phoenix because he’s his foil, both characterization and courtroom-wise.

In order to truly prove himself, Phoenix will have to proverbially beat himself: an inwardly honorable but near-incoherent bullshitting weirdo, constantly flying by the seat of his pants.

[aceattorneyheritageposts]

I hc the reason that Edgeworth always has his hands in his trouser pockets is an act of defiance against Manfred. Because mfvk is so strict he probably would have taught miles to never put his hands in his pockets because a) it’s bad form traditionally because it stretches the fabric and b) lawyers are often scolded for having hands in their pockets. So miles keeps his hands in his pockets as a invisible ‘fuck you’ to von karma

I like this headcanon. Like "fuck you von Karma, now everyone knows my ass is incredible, unlike you with your flat ass baby ass man ass ass."

[mystic-faraday]

UTIL Plays Phoenix Wright: Justice for All (Case: Farewell My Turnabout)

Small Note: It took us two weeks to get through this case, so that’s why there wasnt one of these last week.

- *Nickel Samurai Slashes the Moon* “FUCK THE MOON” “Wow, Majora’s Mask looks different” “Fly me to the moon, and let me kick its fucking ass”

-  Pearl VA: Is he a sussy baka? Mr. Larry taught that word to me Larry VA: I sure did Edgeworth VA: You and me are going to have some words later

- “Prosecute Me Daddy~”

- “No one Maya likes stays alive”

- ”Not to judge people by their appearances but bellboy looked two-faced to me “ 

-  “With a last name like De Killer, I’m sure he did De Killing”

- “The show is real popular with High School Students and Secretaries” “Maya is the center of the ven diagram that is this shows demographic”| “Ven MAYAgram”   

- “Hi, my name’s Phoenix Wright and I went to law school to chase a guy” “Hi Phoenix” “Hi, my name is Elle Woods and I did the same” “Hi Elle”

- “Lotta Hart? More like Lotta Hurt”

-  “The finger prints are like the ballistic markings of your hands!” “Yeah! Put a glove on that gun and you’ll never know where that bullet came from”

- “This bastard (Matt Engarde) is just Sans!”

- “ Is she… yknow.. a lawyer?”

- “(Oldbag) was married to von Karma” “WHO HASN’T VON KARMA FUCKED? He’s the court bicycle”  “Manwhore Von Karma”

- (In relation to Phoenix’s relationships with the Fey Family) “The fey kidnapped him, and turned him into a lawyer”

- “When (Edgeworths)’s doing that pose I feel like something’s going to drop into his arms” The whole call: “Yeah, Phoenix”

-  “I’m tired Miles, carry me” “That is what this whole case is about yes”

-  “Mr. Edgeworth said she was in stable condition” Franziska VA: She’s never been stable

- Director Hotti: Exists The Entire Call: FUCK YOU PIECE OF SHIT DIE

-  A Solid 2 minutes of the VC loosing our shit over the mental image of Edgeworth just picking up a 6 foot tall bear and leaving. 

- “I love how no one questioned if Corrida hired the assassin himself” “He really said ‘take me out’“ “Like with a Gun or on a date?” “Surprise Me” “This whole case is just a date gone wrong”

- Pearl VA: Sorry I had to go get mac and cheese “I just had the mental image of Pearl Summoning Gregory’s spirit in Engarde’s kitchen and having him make Pearl mac and cheese”

- The entire VC got sad when Phoenix accidentally yelled at Gumshoe

- “You two can kiss and make up” “Couples therapy!” “This session of court is couples therapy”

- Edgeworth VA: Shit gets whack every time Wright is in the courtroom Phoenix VA: you know what, that’s fair.

- “I’m just fucking with you your honor” “Fuckery sustained” 

- Coming to the realization that Phoenix is using the exact same method of deflecting that Manfred used in 1-4

- “Image your dragging yourself away from your captor with the last of your strength, and using your channeling power, which is exhausting you even more, and just as you’re about to pass out the last thing you see is MAX GALATICA’S FACE STARING DOWN AT YOU” “Maya loses her "I survived big top" pin”

- Playing the loz chest sound effect when they opened the bear

-“Did he pickpocket Phoenix” “He did” “Slapped Phoenix’s ass” “Buenos Días Phoenix” “In court?” “You get that ass Mr. Edgeworth Sir”

 - Phoenix, checking his pockets:  Babe did you take my evidence? Edgeworth, wearing phoenix's hoodie: our evidence, babe. We share in a relationship

- Entire VC loosing their shit over the ‘Edgeworth Catch’ Phone animation

- Someone: Goes off on a tangent about Phoenix’s eyes. “Heterochromia is the only hetero Phoenix will ever have or be“

- “We discovered the suicide note is forgery”  “Well isnt that a kick in the balls” 

- “Will the court please refrain from unlocking repressed childhood memories”  “That’s what we do here”

- “This is an inclusive courtroom” “No Gender in this court of law”

- Franziska: OBJECTION Entire VC: Explodes in joy

- The “miracle” never happen.

-Engarde VA: *stops talking mid-sentence due to slow internet* “Oh he died” “Oh De Killer is FAST”

- “Look at these two finally talking about their emotions like adults! Oh Hi miss von Karma”

- “Who gave this website to (De Killer) ?”  “Squarespace!” 

Video Version will be uploaded by @musashi at a later date! 

[flamingredanon]

Henry gets amnesia:

Reg and righty ran to the Henry’s farm, looking around it, it was cute, sweet, but something wasn’t right.

Righty turned and sees Henry “Henry!” Henry’s hair was pulled back in a ponytail and looked like a mix of a farmer and a redneck.

Righty hugged Henry “Henry! We’re found you!”

Henry pulled his body back “You city focks lost?”

Reg put a hand over his mouth, no.. please no. “Henry… it’s us, your husbands.”

Henry blinked “I’m married? Man… I didn’t know.” He removed two rings from His pocket “these?”

Reg and righty hug Henry before pulling him into the house, Henry make them some cups of coffee.

Reg was calling Henry’s dads, telling them they found him but he think he’s farmer.

Terrence, Wilford and Randy arrived at the farmhouse before nightfall and Henry began to explain what happened.

"I woke up with my clothes all tore up and my head was pounding and not a lick of memories other then my name being Henry. I wandered around this area untill this strange Government man found me"

"Since I was near this here farm, I asked the fellow if I lived here. Apparently his memory wasn't the best cause he had to think abit before confirming that I did so, that I was a mighty good farmer. I thanked him for his deed and he was soon off."

"Though since you two came along with the three older fellows, something is itching my brain that this ain't quite right."

Reginald felt a fury of anger rise up, it was the Government's fault in the first place that Henry was hurt, then they lie to him instead of getting him help!

Right held Reginald's hand as Terrence spoke up, seeing the rage in Reginald's eyes.

"Well Henry, we three fellow are your fathers, we adopted you when you were just a small baby. And those men over there are your husbands."

"I know you just can't take our words at face value, but I brought along the family photo album along with a few other things so that we can show you that we aren't lying."

Henry pondered abit before asking to look at the photo album, wanting to look through it alone for awhile.

Everyone respected Henry's wishes, knowing that only he could remember his own memories.

Henry didn't make any sort of expression at first, turning pages ever so often, but then a quizzical look befell Henry as he spoke out loud.

"I... think I remember this event... I wanted to be a large scary pumpkin for Halloween, but I think... only... only... Papa was able to make it because... Dad and Pappy were sick with something and... Papa tried his best... but the costume he made wasn't very good."

Henry looked at Wilford, who came over to Henry and saw the pictures.

"You can say the costume sucked, because it so very much sucked. But yes, that did very much happen, Terry and Randy had a bad flu going around so all the dad duties fell to me."

Henry looked through more pictures as tears started welling up, remembering things slowly as he looked at each picture.

And then Henry saw his wedding photos, of him, Reginald and Right walking down the aisle, of their kisses and of the party afterwards.

Each photo caused tears to fall, with Henry clutching his head at one point before taking the wedding rings out of his pocket, his voice cracking as he spoke.

"I remember... I remember! I am Sir Henry Copperbottom Manfred Suave Radman! I remember Papa, Dad and Pappy! I... I remember Righty and Reggie and co leading the Toppats with Reggie dear. I remember now..."

Henry put on his rings as Right and Reginald ran to Henry, hugging and kissing him as Henry found himself kissing his husbands as well.

Wilford tucked the photo album back into his coat as everyone decided to leave, with Henry asking "Does anyone know who's farm this even is? Because it sure isn't any of ours."

There was a silence before Terrence replied "I wouldn't worry about too much. Knowing the Government, it was probably some ploy to get you arrested while you couldn't defend yourself."

Henry soon gave each of his dads a hug as they headed back home, with Right soon carrying Henry and Reginald as they headed back to the Airship, together.

[imagineclaireandjamie]

Prompt: Unforgettable.

Claire rolled the freshly-torn linen bandages tightly, holding them fast with a pin and neatly arranging them in the basket she always kept at the ready.

Jamie’s bootsteps sounded in the hallway, growing louder as he approached the surgery. 

“Ah, there ye are. All done.”

She glanced up quizzically. “What’s all done?”

“Ach, Manfred McGillivray came a-calling today, asking if he could take on some additional responsibilities.”

“He’s already got a cabin, and land, and animals. What else could he need?”

Jamie dug his hands into the deep pockets of his coat. “He didn’t put it this way, but I got the sense that he wants to be on the list of men I’ll turn to when I need something.”

Claire pushed aside the basket and leaned on the table. “Do you think he understands what that means?”

Jamie sighed. “Do ye mean, does he understand that I may ask him to fight for me, and to kill if needed?”

Claire didn’t need to respond.

Jamie pursed his lips. “So I said to Manfred, that’s verra gallant of ye. Such an offer doesnae come without danger, so what does yer wife think of all this?”

“His wife - the whore we found him with in Edenton, when we were searching for Bree?”

“The verra same. They have two bairns now, and a third on the way. Manfred said she’s respectable now, though on occasion she comes across a...former customer.”

“Respectable?”

He smiled. “Aye, that’s what I said. I said, Manfred - it will take time for yer wife to become respectable, and that amount of time doesnae exist.”

Jamie watched Claire’s face for a smile - but instead he quickly darted to her side, gripping her arm as her face lost all color.

“Claire?” Gently he pushed her to sit on the cot in the corner of the surgery, and carefully sank beside her. “Sassenach? Are ye ill?”

Her eyes focused on something far away. Her hands were clammy between his.

“That was the last thing I said to Frank, on the night he died.”

He searched her face. “I don’t understand.”

She licked suddenly parched lips. “I told you that he threatened to take Bree away from me. We argued. It was ugly. He accused me of seeing you, Jamie, whenever I looked at Bree. And I couldn’t deny it.”

Someone - Jem or Germaine or Mandy - shrieked happily somewhere outside.

“He asked me if I could have forgotten you with time. I said...” She closed her eyes. “I said, that amount of time doesn’t exist.”

His lips were warm against her forehead. He kept them there for a long while.

“You’re right,” he whispered. “And praise God, we will never have to think about that again.”

She drew in a deep, restorative breath. “Eppie McGillivray can become respectable. Just as much as I could become a Scot. Meaning that it won’t.”

He smiled. “I thanked wee Manfred, but I said I’ve enough people around me to turn to. More importantly, I have my wife for that.”

She sat up straight and squeezed his hands. “Lord knows where you’d be without me.”

“Oh, I do know, Sassenach. And I never want to be there again.”

[felassan]

Snippets. 🐺💜

John: "one of the funnier quirks of game dev is you will never remember missions by their real names but instead by the name you called them by for several years of development it will never be 'In Your Heart Shall Burn' for me, it'll always be Setback" [source] / Blair: "there was that awkward period where half of the DA:V ones had "gods" in the title, so discussions were always some variant of: "Did you mean 'Gods Are Back' or 'Gods Are Bad'? I've heard people mention 'Egads! Gods!' but I'm not sure if that's new or a rework."" [source] / Malcolm (in reply to John): "I have one like this in DA:Ve and I can't share it yet because spoilers but I promise you it's delightful" [source]

John: "the only one i can ever remember is 'Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts' and it's because it seems to be the only DAI mission that people constantly reference by name online" [source] / Mary: "It's proper name is "Ham Ball." I put that in the file names, even." [source]

John: "idk how widely it’s been advertised but a reminder we are doing another Veilguard Q&A on Discord this Friday noon Mountain time (so 11 Pacific)" [source] / Malcolm: "Make sure you don't tell them about that one thing that happens in that place, with the guy." [source]

Trick: "BioWare released a new screenshot of Taash! I love how it captures the amazing detail work the character artists did." [source]

Image description on the Taash screenshot in Trick's post of the cap:

"A screenshot of Taash looking off to the side. The lighting is warm like either late afternoon or an interior with a fireplace, and it catches in the gold on Taash's armor and horns. Taash looks pensive or vulnerable -- not the deadpan stare or badass determination we've seen in other shots."

pensive or vulnerable.. ohh Taash. 🥺 Trick!!

User on the screenshot: "Taash looks *completely the fuck over this shit* in a totally exhausted sort of way, here. which is, mind, amazing detail work on the character artists' party!!" / Trick: "You know, it's a spectrum." [source]

Trick on DA:I - "Miss May is amazing in many ways, and especially in finding the balance of sweetness to pain for the Solas scenes. ❤️" [source] ((thankyouuu Miss May!!))

User: "it must be basically impossible to resist putting at least one extra moon around your fantasy world" / John: "if dragon age didn’t already have two you’d better believe I would’ve added another one. sitting next to a dial titled ‘number of moons’ and every so often I add another one. anyways the thing about Satina is- (a large hook drags me offstage)" [source, two, three] ((omg.. THE SECOND MOON shfuehfuehdbdh)

User: "i've been thinking about bellara's pockets and i need to know what her thoughts on cargo pants would be. would she be a fan for the utility." / John: "she wouldn't wear them all the time - she's a firm believer in a distinction between 'work clothes' and 'at home clothes' - but she is always in search of more pockets to carry more things into the field. she'd own at least three pairs" [source]

User: "The next two months are going to feel like the Fade section in DAO 😭" / Dragon Age: "Good thing we have a Veil Jumper to help you out! 💜" [source]

User: "MY SON LOOKS SO CUTE" (re: the new pic of Manfred from today) / Dragon Age: "MY BOY MANFRED 💀💚" [source]

User: "Can we change the armor/gear on our companions?" / Dragon Age: "You can!" [source]

User: "thank you for the food 🙏🙏🙏" / Dragon Age: "Enjoy your meal!" [source]

[amiibo-king]

ok i GOTTA know.. my little pony and ace attorney for that ask game

starting with ace attorney

Send me a fandom and I’ll tell you my:

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): honestly i think it's edgeworth. i just think hes neat

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): ok this is gonna sound weird but actually pheonix. i know hes an adult man. but hes my son

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): will powers. he's just a big soft guy. also adrian andrews

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): idk if she counts as obscure but im kind of obsessed w desiree delite

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): gumshoe. and larry. theyre both so pathetic. i want to put them in my pocket

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): wendy oldbag. not bc i dislike her but bc i think it would be really funny

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): manfred von karma. need i say more

and my little pony. all generations but actually probably going to focus mostly on non-g4 and probably heavily on g1 bc i grew up w the pre-g4 stuff so it's more nostalgic for me gfdjkg and its been a while since i watched g4 tbh i'd have to rewatch it to do this with g4 i think

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): depends what gen tbh. in G1 i'd say maybe melody from mlp tales? in G2 definitely clover. G3 would be either kimono or cherry blossom (or cheerilee as they later renamed her... i prefer her original name) and G4 probably fluttershy

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): spike. all versions of him

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): G1 tic-tac-toe and baby tic-tac-toe! they were my favorites of the toys as a kid but they hardly ever showed up in the actual animated material so whenever i see their existence acknowledged i'm like ITS THEM!!!

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): i would have put the tic-tac-toes in this spot but actually i think the better one for this spot is knightshade from the G1 mlp n' friends episode "bright lights". im p sure he only shows up for that one episode and i dont think they ever made a toy of him. he rules tho

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): discord. i dont feel the need to elaborate. ALSO the witch sisters reeka and draggle from the G1 movie

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): gusty. why is she so mean all the time

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): im sorry i know theyre supposed to be good guys but i hate the bushwoolies. im sending them to super hell