#reading back on this though it strikes me how incomprehensible aa's story must be to anyone who doesn't know it

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Reading through the jtta aus tag and I cannot BELIEVE the Ace Attorney AU was not talked about more!! Tho I guess tbf the characters I'm thinking of now might not've made sense back when it was first suggested.

Annnyway Solomon-Phoenix and IK-Maya amirite? Okay so hear me out. I don't think he'd been conceptualised back when it was suggested, but Zhaoxi as Mia? Devastating. Poor guy only really exists in two (three if you count it takes two) aus and in one of them he's already dead.

Anyway if we go with that, I know you suggested Lucifer for the Miles equivalent, but HEAR ME OUT AGAIN, what if he was Godot. Got poisoned in the investigation of whoever replaces Dahlia Hawthorne, and was comatose at the beginning of the story, wakes up to find out his bf's been murdered while he was out, and eventually re-encounters said bf's protege after having murdered someone to keep his bf's daughter safe. Tragic character but that's what we love to see :)

As for Edgey, what about your Mephisto? It'd make Sonno Manfred von Karma.... and IG Diavolo would be Franziska in that case??? That works a little less but listen I'm one of those guys who lowkey really ships Solphisto LMAO

Sorry if I'm boterhing you lol!! I just really like the idea of this AU :P

i did also really like the concept!! though i’d be lying if i said i didn’t forget about it ^^;

i do like your ideas though! the whole fey family + mia-godot story is insane but also really tragic and i’m definitely down for your take! though i guess this technically would make lucifer guilty of murder in the end and subsequently sentenced to death.... since that’s just how it goes in the aa universe

mephisto as miles... personality-wise they don’t quite match up, until you look at it from the angle of what our mephisto would’ve been like if he hadn’t left sonno’s service when he did - i.e. a lot more serious and edgeworth-like

and in terms of dahlia hawthorne.... i’m drawing a blank as well, mostly because the we don’t have any Pure Evil om characters who’d do what she did, but purely for the was-in-a-relationship-with-solomon angle, maaaaybe asmo?