#stepstool Ace attorney

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Me and my love just fought (playfully) about what the difference is between stepstools, stepladders, and ladders. I love ace attorney.

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,,,I may have softlocked myself

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I have so many oanty dropping blorbos lmfaooo. Let's see here... *flipping through my mental filing cabinets* there's Rhys and Vaughn from Tales from the Borderlands, Bobby Fulbright from Ace Attorney (here me out his fan art is incredible lol), McCree from Overwatch, Karl Heisenberg and Alcina Dimitrescu from Resident Evil 8, Nahara + Nadia + Muriel + Portia + Julian + Lucio (Lucio is also a hear-me-out bc he's lowkey a piece of shit LMAO) who are all from The Arcana (mobile game), i could go on but i won't just yet lmfao. Anyways lol, why are we sending in our blorbos again?

-🎧 (also can I be headphones anon?)

🦌 anon asked if they could send hot men to thirst over, and i figured why not open it up to the crowd! and absolutely you can!! I always love when people want an anon sign off, so flattering that yall want to stick around 😊

Rhys and Vaugha: oh. oh wow. yup that's a tag team I would like. the borderlands art style is also just objectively very sexy

Bobby fullbright: there is definitely some very daddy fanart. the original art style is not his hair's friend though alchsodhs

mccree:

Karl Heisenberg and Countess Alcina Dimitrescu: ALL I WANNA DO. IS FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU. A GIANT WOMANNNNNN. my ass is bisexual and you expect me to not want to be the personal stepstool and sex toy for vampire-adjacent, 9'6, mommy-kink personified woman? and I fear. I fear literally rolling around in the mud with Karl would... not fix me it would definitely make me worse but it would do something to me. fundamentally.

Nahara: she's... wow. stunning and her armsssssss

Nadia: she could tell me to bark and I wouldn't even need to think about doing so

Muriel: he would ruin my life but also I want to tug on his harness and have him whimpering at my feet. perfection akdhsofjso

portia: mommy but in the warm mother way. and I want to be under her skirt puh-LEASEEEE

julian: oh I've seen him!! he looks like a mean flirt but looks a little too twinky to pull it off...

lucio: aldjaldja he LOOKS like he'd be a piece of shit lmao. opposite of a pleasure dom, and he knows he's pretty so it's even worse.

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Requesting Dhurke for the hugability prompt!

This is from another game I have not played, so I'm going in cold for this dude. But I can already see that hugging him is going to be a challenge. Really, in the hugzone, this guy is nothing but classic Greek Tragedy. I truly believe that he wants to give me the biggest, warmest Dad hug none of us ever got. But everything about this man's existence conspires against it.

Even by Ace Attorney standards, this guy has got to be huge--at least 8-ish feet from a quick eyeball. I'm a pretty tall glass of water myself, but I'm going to need to bust out my stepstool if I have the hope of getting my arms over the shoulders of this bloke. TBH I'm already getting vertigo imagining this guy opening his arms and booming "SHEBS COME HERE AND GIVE YOUR OLD NUNCLE DHURKE A HUG".

Also, I just get a sort of vaguely sticky vibe from this guy. Not his fault--some guys are just like that. Think, for a minute, of the time you babysat your sister's Great Dane. He's just gotten back from playing in the mud, and you think 'oh no, need to get this dog in the tub NOW' while he's still wounded up and ready to go. Meanwhile, your grandmother is having tea with her bible studies group on the porch, and they're all wearing their best. Shit, you think, shit shit shit, how am I going to do this.

It's like that friends. You want to get this man into a hug and/or a bath, but he's his own worst enemy. He's just too damn big, and too damn eager. He knows not the nice lacy dresses he's going to ruin. If you've got your sweats on and not afraid of heights, close your eyes, and enjoy the best hug of your life. But is anyone ever fully prepared for that?

FINAL SCORE: 5/10

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nanami speaks up at this point and says that if peko is the killer, she thinks she knows what the escape route from the beach house was. of course, hinata gets prompted to do the actual explaining, but since nanami figured it out first i wanna say something about nanami.

i'm not sure how best to explain this but... i like that her mystery-solving skills seem like what you'd expect from someone who has played a lot of mystery games. this is overall a pretty genre-savvy group, but nanami feels especially genre-savvy in the way that tracks what with her being a gamer and all. she's basically approaching this like someone who plays ace attorney, if that makes sense — i also play ace attorney and generally the way you do it is bluff your way through at first and then, once you can tell you're on the right track, you work backwards from the evidence to solve the case (mid-trial). the others are mainly doing guesswork (often based on common mystery tropes — again, this is a genre-savvy group) or going off of hunches, and the other especially genre-savvy person here, komaeda, solves cases via manipulating mansplaining and malewifing and he generally walks into the trial having already figured the entire thing out. nanami's insights (which are often really valuable and move the case along in a big way) feel like they come from her approaching the cases the way someone who plays murder mystery VNs would, and that's of course very apt and no doubt purposeful. i like it a lot.

anyway, the escape route was the window. peko used her bamboo practice sword (she had it on her back when she showed up at the diner, despite being in her bathing suit) to reach the window and escape. owari, who had said something during the investigation about how you'd have to be a ninja to make it out the window, is very pleased she sort of got proven right here and explains that there's a ninja climbing technique where the handguard of their sword is used as a stepstool. also there's a funny exchange here where sonia goes "wow just like a japanese ninja!" and souda awkwardly tries to tell her that "japanese ninja" is redundant

(enoby from my immortal voice) anyway

so they get back to talking about the blood issue. it was a pretty bloody scene, and we know koizumi's body was dragged in front of the door, so it stands to reason they would have gotten blood on them. changing clothes in the beach house was prohibited so it can't have been that simple. also they can't have used the shower since that's out of order. hinata suggests the drinks from the fridge were used, and peko cuts in to argue directly saying there's no way the killer washed themself off with soda. hinata says, no, there were water bottles in the refrigerator, and points out that the trash can was full of empty water bottles. peko tries to protest but the rest of the group quickly gets on board with the idea — it really does seem like the only possibility here.

while the group's still discussing this, hinata suddenly has a brain blast and puts it together that if this is true, the killer would have been wet. his narration doesn't explicitly say so but he's clearly realized that peko is the killer, and he gets visibly anxious, which komaeda immediately notices and comments on, saying basically "looks like you've figured out who did it." (it seems very clear he already figured it out himself.) the rest of the group takes interest and asks hinata to name the killer. he does.

peko maintains her stoic demeanor when accused and asks hinata why he thinks it's her. he says, well, you showed up at the diner dripping wet. i think peko realizes the jig is up because she doesn't have a response to this, but kuzuryuu pretty quickly starts arguing in peko's defense, even though he doesn't seem to have a real argument — he's just like "well, maybe she did go swimming, you don't know!" and when souda points out no one saw peko swimming, kuzuryuu tries to alibi her by claiming that he saw her, but hinata points out this contradicts what he was claiming earlier in the trial. kuzuryuu, getting increasingly agitated, switches tactics and starts arguing that they can't prove it's peko without even knowing how the killer managed to leave the beach house. so i guess we're all going to have an argument about that now.

i'll probably do a "closing thoughts" type of post again after we finish up this trial and i don't want to get ahead of myself too much, but going through this for a second time, it's interesting to see how peko and kuzuryuu have been defending each other throughout this trial. a lot of this wouldn't necessarily stick out on a first playthrough, especially because the other characters don't notice or comment on it until around this point (ibuki asks why kuzuryuu is so adamant about defending peko when it's not like he's the one being accused), but near the start of this trial kuzuryuu was under a good deal of suspicion thanks to this case's connection to twilight syndrome, and it's peko who defended him there and then took the focus away from him by accusing saionji. unlike peko, though, kuzuryuu doesn't seem to know when he's already lost an argument — he kept accusing saionji even after the rest of the group accepted it wasn't her and peko backed down, and now he's hellbent on defending peko even though she seems aware the fight is basically over. not that the fight is actually over, of course, i estimate we're about 3/4ths of the way through the trial (maybe?) and i'm sure things will get dragged out here, but there's very little actual doubt that peko is the killer at this point.

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I don't have time to digitalize this but, here is this sketch I did! I thought a crossover ship between Pearl and Flora would be adorable.

[Image description: A photo of an uncolored sketch of Pearl from Ace Attorney and Flora Reinhold from Professor Layton. Pearl is standing on a stepstool, still on her tippy-toes while she leans up, kissing Flora on her cheek and cupping her face. Flora is smiling with one eye closed. They are both blushing. End description.]