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About Eddie Fender and why he was a dick to Miles
I first started this post in response to something, but it got so long I decided against inflicting it on OP. This is very long and very meandering and the form is kinda weird, as a warning. It's also kinda spoilery for Ace Attorney Investigations 2.
When we first start playing AAI2 and are introduced to "Ace Attorney Eddie Fender," it's true he doesn't come across as very likeable. The first thing he says to Miles is basically "Oh, look! Here comes Manfred von Karma," and the game happens three years after the truth about DL-6 came out. That's incredibly low, very petty, cruel even. He does start off as a dick to Miles, unfair on him until he gradually realises he isn't as bad as he thought, and as he starts warming up to Miles we start warming up to him.
But also... I kind of get it.
Like... Imagine you're 19 years old. Your boss just died in a sudden and shocking murder. You inherit the law firm even though you haven't even passed the bar yet. You're grieving as you keep working hard to become an attorney, now without the guidance you used to have. Maybe you even blame yourself a little - after all, you worked on that case too, you were likely there for the trial, you left both Edgeworths to take that elevator by themselves. Had things played out differently you would have been there, too.
Did you think of your boss's son, in the middle of this whirlwind? Probably a little, but you're a 19 year-old law student. You're nowhere near a suitable place in your life to even think about fostering a kid. Besides, Gregory Edgeworth was your boss. Someone you greatly admired and whose death you will never stop mourning, but still just your boss.
(It's unclear how well Eddie knew Miles. Enough for Miles to recognise him instantly, but certainly not as close as Miles and Phoenix were.)
You take it on yourself to continue the work he left behind, to help the clients Gregory can no longer help. For ten years you try your best to uphold the reputation and the values of his firm and name, and every day you witness a little more how corrupt the system really is.
Then, one day, you start hearing about this young new prosecuting upstart. Passed the bar at 20 and already has the legal world in his pocket. Rumours of forged evidence, backstreet deals, manipulated witnesses. Not only is that just like the whole lot of them, the tactics you became so familiar with over the years - no, it sounds painfully, specifically familiar to that one long, drawn-out case, the last one you worked with Gregory. It turns out the young prodigy is the student and protégé of Mr. Perfection himself, the man who never lost a case in thirty-five years, even though he should have lost against you ten years ago if the world was even a little fair. You would hate the boy for that alone, but on top of that he's also the son of the mentor you lost, the son of the man you both used to admire so very much.
And that hurts. That none of Gregory's legacy lived on in his son. That this sweet, kind boy, who Gregory always used to worry about not making any friends, became a parody of all they used to despise.
Perhaps you even get to see him. You catch a glance of him in the courthouse corridor as he passes you by without so much as a nod to acknowledge you, or you stumble upon a picture in the same paper that struck Phoenix Wright so deeply. You see that damn suit. That damn smirk. That damn waggly finger. His features may have something of Gregory but everything in him screams von Karma. He's spent a decade trying to shape himself into him, and it shows.
Prosecutors are a privileged bunch, and the Edgeworth kid grew up into a downright brat. Entitled. Rude. Arrogant. Obsessed with his fucking perfect record. You hear he goes around cutting the salaries of detectives that make a tenth of what he does and insulting the opposing counsel in court. He became the worst of them all, taught by the worst of them all, he is everything Gregory fought against and everything you hate.
Why would you want to associate with that? Why would you ever think he is not perfectly fine where he is, with his cushy office and his cushy sports car and his doubtlessly cushy pay?
A couple years later you hear he's been arrested for murder. Maybe you follow the trial, maybe you only see the headlines after everything, after DL-6 is finally solved. Honestly, that's when you start having a reason to reach out. When, had you been less embittered and jaded by the thanklessness of your job, you might have wondered what it was like for him to grow up in the shadow of his father's murderer. You might have been stricken with compassion and horror at the thought of fifteen years spent in crushing guilt, believing he killed the father he used to love so much. You might have empathised, despite your contempt for von Karma, with how his ward might feel to be so cruelly betrayed, thrice over, by the man who raised him since he was nine, who taught him everything before throwing him away like a piece of used junk.
But you still think of how he was like a son to von Karma, of how he got to spend fifteen years in wealth, following a shiny, easy, corrupt new path while you grieved and desperately tried to keep the pieces of your shared dream together. You think of how uneasy Gregory seemed with the idea of von Karma as a teacher, you think of how eager Miles seemed to follow in his footsteps and how much Gregory would have hated it. You think of the many defendants this boy callously condemned with barely a thought, just like his mentor. Of how he may not have his father's blood on his hands, but with the way he acts you'd think he had his murderer's in his veins. And you really, really don't want to deal with any of that.
You think, somewhat unfairly, that maybe Miles ought to have seen it coming. It's not like it's much of a secret that Manfred von Karma is a piece of shit, and good riddance to him.
Three years later, you actually have to interact with him again. It's been 18 years since you last saw him in his father's shadow, looking at him like he hung the stars in the sky, back when everything was so simple for the three of you. It's been 3 years since the truth about his oh-so-esteemed mentor was uncovered. He still wears the cravat. His brow is still furrowed, his eyes are still piercing.
But slowly, begrudgingly, you talk to him. You start realising he actually has some honour to him. That he's not really the Demon Prosecutor the papers made him out to be, that maybe you misjudged him a little bit, in you grief-stricken, angry bitterness. That maybe he can be trusted, after all, with his father's legacy.
Why would you think he ever needed saving?
#Ace Attorney#Eddie Fender#Raymond Shields#Miles Edgeworth#idk whether to tag this#meta#or#fanfiction#Ace Attorney Investigations 2 spoilers#AAI2 spoilers#samurais and mockingbirds#listen I love Phoenix but he was still very unhinged#for seeing his childhood friend became a successful if shady prosecutor#and immediately going like 'he is in so much pain and I must help him'#what's even MORE insane is that he was RIGHT#I love Ace Attorney xD#re the whole like a son to von Karma thing that's literally a line Eddie says#(well that's how I remember it from the fan translation)#(idk how they translated it in the official tbh)#Aza talks too much#my fanfic#sticking both tags on this
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when you tell your friends about that one thing you hyperfocus on ✨️
#me when I talk about raymond or james spader in generell irl heh ✨️#james spader#raymond reddington#the blacklist#reddington#red#raymond red reddington#blacklist#tbl#5x11#season 5 episode 11#raymond reddington meme#my screenshots#loml#husband#hyperfocus#he is so giddy anout mysteries and treasures and talked sooo excited i loved it#could have listened days to him
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Happy 1-year anniversary of Raymond Shields giving me psychic damage before permanently infecting my brain forever.
Enjoy this montage of some of the most poorly aged AAI2 clips I have (and the turnabout of the century at the end)
#mel's musings#raymond shields#eddie fender#aa#aai2#everything before his first objection happened on sept 28 2023. the rest of the footage is from the following day#i hate listening to whatever tf i was doing for his voice at first. who IS that man and what have you done with the ray shields i know#but i still laugh my ass off at most of these. i can't believe it's been a whole year#↖️ this user is NOT normal about raymond shields ace attorney and you best BELIEVE she's going to make it everyone's problem#video#mel plays aai2
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Red’s apartment in Baltimore <3
#one of my favorites of his little hideaways#james spader#the blacklist#raymond reddington#*#when luli brings him tea wearing one of his shirts. [muffled screaming]#that’s me she’s so me !#kissing his cheek soft little smiles the smell of his shirt and all those old books making love listening to him do the crossword#typical most wanted criminal in the world things..
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The Big Lebowski is a neo-noir film.
#discuss at will#listen. it's got everything. convoluted plot where everyone's double-crossing each other.#laid-back detective reluctantly sucked into the madness in pursuit of a small selfish personal goal.#femmes fatale; including a harsh cold goal-oriented woman the detective ends up sleeping with but not ultimately forming a relationship wit#corrupt cops#an abundance of grit and sleaze#frequent reference to characters' experience in the war#nihilism.#germans.#and a killer soundtrack#the coens even said it was inspired by raymond chandler what more can you ask for
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The vocal effects here are so cool
#faves#long time without listening to this album#music#audio#pig band#raymond watts#sakurai atsushi#imai hisashi
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Why vote for Kuro: okay I do not understand Servamp whatsoever but Kuro (or Sleepy Ash if you prefer) is some kind of sleepy cat boy/monster representing the sin of sloth. I think there’s no question about him qualifying as a catboy since he has cat ears and a cat form but admittedly I do find both to be somewhat stylized in such a way that makes the cat features a bit uncertain. But whatever man look at this guy. He looks anemic and he has eye bags is that not enough?
Why vote for Raymond: you shouldn’t I really don’t like this guy. But uh. He is probably one of the most popular cat boys on this list. And he has enough humanized fanart to count as an anime boy. Probably. He had that whole thing with acnh players making him wear a maid outfit? Idk. Vote business casual cat if you want to.
#tumblr catboy polls#servamp#servamp of sloth#sleepy ash#acnh#acnh raymond#listen this poll has both cats that are boys and boys that are cats
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Happy FriYAY.
Work background noise. 😏
How are we doing, lovelies?
#navybrat rambles#happy friyay#i don't really wanna do the work today#the gentlemen#raymond smith#could listen to him all day#are you reading my tags?#go drink some water#stay hydrated my friends
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rewatching season 2 and I absolutely for the life of me CANNOT wrap my head around just how GAY villanelle is for eve jesus fucking christ oh my good lord above--
#villaneve#villanelle#killing eve#the woman has no emotions other than 'horny bc of eve' and 'happy bc of eve' and 'sad bc of eve'#its unreal#the way she squeals after listening to eves voice messages? wow.#how fuckin turned on she gets when eve kills raymond? iconic.#i want to scream#tagged:sk
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The way Lestat/Red are both mother coded and protective over their daughters in a way that builds up resentment in Liz/Claudia and evidentially leads to their deaths.
#the blacklist#okay listen dont spoil but im on s9 halfway through and atp im convinved red is actually kat so hes more than mother coded he is mother#but yeah#iwtv#elizabeth keen#raymond reddington#lestat de lioncourt#claudia de pointe du lac
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the executive is not functioning
#me when i need to do things: ok but what if i just rotted on my couch and jerked off instead#what have i done today? NOTHING#i made one (1) unhealthy meal (BAD) and now I made a pizza and there ARE vegetable on it at least so. yay#i did ten whole minutes on my walking pad. incredible#girl you need to write. that's what you're supposed to do. GIRL#hello raymond binch i might be are you listening ..#rayrambles
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oh my godddddddd i just started watching the blacklist with my mom like a week ago and i am literally SO obsessed! like the brainrot is REAL
help meee
#LOVE reddington SO MUCH#i’ve always loved james spader though#his VOICE#UGH#he’s so freaking cool#why am i always obsessed with older guys why can’t i be normal#i’m only just barely into season 2 so please#no spoilers#i really wanna follow the show tag on here or the reddington tag#but i don’t wanna see any spoilers! i’m trying so hard to watch it naturally#aaaaagggghhhhhh#it’s killing me#raymond reddington#red reddington#the blacklist#also the music in this show SLAPS#they did sooooo good#been listening to a playlist of the songs from the show on spotify#on repeat#for like a week#might have to do my top bop of the week on this show#this show is my life now for the foreseeable future#thanks for coming to my ted talk#interview with the guardian
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"What a garden. I love daffodils."
#james spader#raymond reddington#the blacklist#reddington#red#raymond red reddington#blacklist#tbl#raymond reddington gif#raymond reddington gifs#reddington gif#the blacklist gif#blacklist gif#gif#gifs#gifset#my gifs#godddddd#i love these cocky reddington moments#i love his way with words#could listen to such phrases and watch his cocky smiling face all day long#hes the boss tbh#ugh#my husband#3x21#season 3 episode 21
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Realistically if you put lipstick on a pig, you don’t always hide failure
No, sometimes you get either Miss Piggy or Raymond Watts. Both are good options
#symbols rambling#okay maybe don’t listen to me rn#I just need a platform to get out my stupid ass thoughts that isn’t Twitter#Raymond watts#pig band#miss piggy#can you tell I’m still in a <PIG> kick?
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it's during politically fraught times like these that i like to think about chris's all but canon confirmed tory parents
#raymond's canonically racist celia's canonically a xenophobe i just know they're awful in several other ways as well lmao#chris is also a little bit awful but he's a little less awful than both of them. his friends can fix him. ish#do you guys ever think about the 'i'll never perform my jamaican accent again' line that shit was crazy ghkldsfjkld#did no one tell him that was a bad idea or did they tell him exactly that and he ignored them#anyway we're getting off track here listen. celia and raymond bad political opinions send tweet#the goes wrong show#celia bean#raymond bean#chris bean#gang's all here#marshy speaks
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World's sleepiest girl attempts to breed blue roses in acnh
#lindsay speaks#animal crossing#i just want ummmmm#blue/white/orange roses to rep l#excuse me to rep all three able sisters#no one told me I'd have to talk to satan first and complete all the layers of hell before i could get blue roses#also raymond just plopped his ass on my island. i literally JUST WANT THE RAT. this is comedical and also cruel at the same time#comedical. COMICAL. I need to go to bed#i realized i was listening to monstarr and drinking monster at the same time and starting giggling that's how too late it is
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