#sasha buckler

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aa textposts part 7

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requests from twitter!

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Seeing Simon in the Wright office is one of the funniest visuals I've ever seen what is this monochrome bastard doing in my colorful wonderland

Polly officially got Phoenix his first job back

PENGUINNNNN also hi Pearls

Don't question my investigation methods Apollo

The orca approaches

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Miles is on his way here as we speak

What the fuck

Congrats on your first kiss you 35 year old man

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Once upon a time, I wanted to try 3D to 2D sprite ideas, but I've mostly set it aside now that I don't have the time :')

Feel free to see all my attempts though :D

[From left to right, top to bottom (all poses are normal unless stated otherwise):

Academy Juniper Woods (anxious), Young Apollo Justice (confident)

Armie Buff, Robin Newman

Aura Blackquill, Marlon Rimes

Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in, Ted Tonate

Ellen Wyatt, Sasha Buckler

Uendo Toneido, Geiru Toneido

Betty de Famme, Bonny de Famme

Myriam Scuttlebutt (unboxed), Casual Juniper Woods

Rayfa Padma Khura'in, Ahlbi Ur'gaid (thinking)

Hugh O'Conner]

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day 3: defendant 🐋

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Designs for my Turnabout Reclaimed rewrite. There's brief explanations of some of the changes I made too but I don't wanna give away too much yet... (This was actually to keep interest up until I could get on with part 2 but it ended up taking a lot longer than I thought due to life things sorry 😅)

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i cannot be stopped

yet another bit that was sat in my drafts for like a decade until we finally had decent quality dd rips. audio is from sealab 2021

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of course phoenix's second "first" case is helping the performer girl with the diamond-shaped earrings who forces smiles and sort of tricks him when they first meet. i mean. what else is there to say (i'm going to say a lot, this is a long post about the orca case and it's references to aa4)

i'm going to talk about sasha first, though, even if the similarities between her and trucy might be coincidental rather than intentional. here is a somewhat full list of them:

1. diamond-shaped earrings and a big hat they wear at all times

2. perform for an audience for a living and are genuinely passionate about it

3. the "smile during showtime" attitude being not only something they use on the clock, but a motto overall (buckler tries to keep a smile and cheer phoenix and athena up in the detention center: see image below list)

4. have a persona with a moustache that they use in their performances (see image below list)

5. their first encounter with phoenix is an unintentional deception on their part: trucy gives him forged evidence and buckler, well, doesn't tell him the client is technically an animal and isn't even considered to be someone who can be brought to court for a trial

6. phoenix chooses to help them out after a trial ends unexpectedly (zak dissapearing, buckler being accused)

7. does a dead "father figure" count? i feel like it might.

you get the idea. again, i'm not claiming this was intentional: i am simply pointing it out.

btw. you know what he does right after taking the orca case (accepting the "deception")?

he goes to the pub o'danger, a place totally different from the, oh, i don't know. the borsht bowl club. intentional or not, this is a nice blast from the past, because we get a lot of his beanix personality showing throughout the case. a good example is the bloody "trump card" he presents:

basically, a bloody piece of evidence that turns the case around and gives him a chance to prove the truth turns out to be not what it seems. this case is one of those very rare times aa5 doesn't completely erase phoenix's aa4 (and trilogy) personality, i think. just look at the way he starts straight up manipulating people at some points:

it's very much like beanix: well-intentioned and careful pressing of the right buttons. i enjoyed that a lot.

speaking of phoenix's personality, a thing he does a lot more than he used to is staying silent. his thinking sprite while he does that is one of the only aa5 ones that have traces of his aa4 self in it: he is looking to the side, relaxed, calmly examining everything he has so far. at a certain point in this trial, athena actually gets to scream "objection" before him. she says she heard it in his heart that he's not willing to give up yet, so she spoke for his heart instead.

honestly, athena is a walking metaphor for phoenix's badge in this case. athena and phoenix get frequently addressed as the blue and yellow duo by deplume, which you might as well call phoenix and his badge; phoenix wears his badge like one wears a heart on their sleeve, and this entire case is his journey of learning trust and hope again (but i will talk about that later for a nice conclusion).

the case also has a sub-plot of sorts: specifically, the TORPEDO system. oh, you know the one with the capital letter name that is illegal in japan but would actually help a lot and work really well and is introduced to us by some shady guy who we think is a criminal... what do you mean that's MASON. like a jar?

"but, in some cases, lives can be saved by breaking the law. do we simply allow the lives of our animals to be lost whole we wait for the laws to change?"

if aa5 actually had the jury system happening in the game, this would make so much more sense. unfortunately, i'm not sure if this was an intentional parallel, but i'm sure going to talk about it regardless. it's illegal means for the greater good, introduced to us by the guy we are totally meant to suspect and misinterpret as the audience, just like we are meant to be put off by beanix in aa4-1. we later learn that ms deplume is trying to change the law and make the system legal in japan, and dr. crab won't be getting into any serious trouble for it, too.

we honestly learn a lot of new information that contradicts our prejudices that the game purposefully creates. a lot of people in this case can be suspected even based on their design - ms deplume in her shady glasses and shady attitude, dr crab with his twenty-something dead girlfriend (wasn't actually, btw. purely platonic situation there, which is surprising for ace attorney) and actual motive, and, of course, rimes. turns out, for the first time in forever, none of them did it. wasn't a murder.

phoenix, though, like the player, has no choice but to suspect. he doubts, he recharges the magatama, he changes theories and he, at the end of it all, gets his faith and trust back by saying "hey, actually, rimes didn't do it, it was an accident", despite rimes staying silent. i honestly think rimes is a mirror of sorts for phoenix's character - the guy who is, at his core, tired of being too "weak" to help anyone, so he doesn't speak up much for himself, and isn't that what phoenix did in aa4?

phoenix didn't try to defend himself when the diary page was revealed to be forged. phoenix didn't try to defend himself seven years later, saying "maybe i did it, maybe i didn't". phoenix didn't even create the jury system to redeem himself.

how can ya trust a creature that can't speak, indeed.

in this trial, phoenix is the orca and is the rimes and is athena the fire and i am the forest and i am the witness watching it. he is defending the creature that can't speak, and the man that didn't mean for this to happen, and his own right to wear his badge. he loses his voice at times, but his heart speaks up. it takes him two trials to get back at his rightful place, the trial for orla and for buckler - just like it took the trial of aa4-1 and 4-4 to get justice. hope has returned, and no one did it, and you can trust them all.*

* - trusting them all really would make much more sense in the presence of the jury system. forever mourning her.

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Hi I'm new idk how this works

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havent posted because Ive put all my time into this daily account on insta. free assortment for you all

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Looking at some localized German names from the Apollo Justice Trilogy trailer because I love a good localized pun:

Sasha Buckler's last name is Buoyter. Kinda French looking, 90% sure it's a pun on Freibeuter (freebooter). Freya Buoyter perhaps?

Geiru Toneidu's last name is Burize? Both the Japanese and English names follow a wind-theme. The latter does try to at least sound Japanese and Burize doesn't very sound Japanese imo. No clue what kind of pun it's building towards.

Myriam Scuttlebutt's last name is Gryph. No clue where that name is going either.

Ahlbi Ur'gaid first name is Rai, so I'm 90% sure his name is gonna be Rai Se'Laiter (Reiseleiter = tour leader) or something else related to Reise.

Ted Tonate's last name is Plosion, so take a guess what his name is gonna be a pun on.

But what I'm really interested in is Hugh O'Conner. His last name is Rheckov. Kinda vaguely Slavic sounding. Now spoiler for Turnabout Academy:

It's important in the story that his full name, when spoken, can be misheard as a threat. (Hugh O'Conner = You're a goner. Kora, Shizuya Rei = koroshite yaru = I'm gonna kill you.) Basically any localization is gonna have to jump through hoops to give him a name that fits this really specific plot point, and I can not for the life of me figure out what phrase the name Rheckov could build on. This is probably gonna haunt me until the game comes out.

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Title: Cherry Popsicles Length: 200 words Fandom: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kidzuki Kokone | Athena Cykes/Umino Shouko | Sasha Buckler Characters: Kidzuki Kokone | Athena Cykes, Umino Shouko | Sasha Buckler Additional Tags: Popsicles, Banter, Dialogue Heavy, Fluff, Community: 100ships, aayurirare24, Ace Attorney Yuri Rarepairs Week 2024, Double Drabble Summary: Sasha and Athena have a sweet treat

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Written for @aayurirare day 1 - parallels

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And for my final work for Mermay have some Rarepair Love. Inspired by the one conversation in Turnabout Reclaimed where Sasha suggests Athena to play a sea slug and explain that sea slugs are actually super pretty.

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something something clever description for hopefully funny picture memes