#the kind of lawyer guilty people hire

[woozapooza]

I gotta say, I’m confused by the idea I’ve seen a couple times that it reflects badly on Jimmy that in “Bagman,” he didn’t use the thought of Kim to motivate himself until Mike put the idea in his head. Jimmy is not nearly as hardened as Mike, and he was nearly delirious from heat, exhaustion, and the traumatic events of the previous day. He simply was not in his right mind, and I can’t blame him one bit for not being able to see beyond his own fear and pain. To me, the fact that he had to be told to think of Kim doesn’t say anything about Jimmy’s feelings for her. You know what does say something about his feelings for her? The fact that Mike’s advice worked!

[fashion-runways]

okay it's been over a year and i keep saying i'm going to make a new post and it's too exhausting to even think about the whole thing so i keep pushing it-- here's the link to the old post if you want a more detailed thing i wrote back then.

anyway, a year ago, out of the blue, our apartment got raided by the police, they broke our front door, they broke a bunch of shit inside, they took a bunch of our stuff, they barely gave us answers or an explanation, they took my dad and made it seem like he would have to sign some stuff and answer some questions and come back, but it's been over a year (since june 2022) and he hasn't come back, and his case is still up in the air. they're barely working on it. they didn't pay for all the shit they broke, they haven't returned all the shit they took, we had to spend a lot of money on that, i had to take a loan to buy a new computer so i could keep working and studying, on top of spending even more money on basic needs for my dad in jail and lawyers, plus blood pressure and anxiety medications, plus he's old and he was scheduled an eye surgery that he obviously couldn't go to so he's like, practically blind in one eye now, also new clothes for him to wear there (there's a bunch of rules for that), honestly i already lost track of how many things we had to pay for. it's been incredibly stressful and it still is even now that we've gotten used to it. he's been detained for a year for something that they still don't even know if he did and the case is barely moving, i don't know if they're like... i don't know, waiting for the man to die in there since he's already old so they don't have to admit they don't have enough proof for all the mess they made? i don't know. like i said back then, please don't ask me for details on the case or show up in my inbox trying to play tiktok true crime and guess what he did/didn't do. it happened a few times and it's extremely triggering, please don't. please.

this blog is basically my job. it's my primary source of income, i don't have anything else, no matter how many interviews i go to, in the country/city i live and in the state our economy is, if you don't have contacts it's impossible to get a job. i'm always signing up to free programs to learn new things while i don't have a job, try to make my cv bigger, but it doesn't matter. if you don't have someone saying “please hire my friend/family member” or you don't have 500 years of experience, they won't. so like i said, donations people make to this blog are how me and my mom (and my pets) stay afloat. it's what we use to pay for food, general groceries, transportation, electricity, wifi, water, gas, health insurance, stuff for my dad in jail, meds for my mom who has diabetes, food and meds for my pets. i don't go out much, i haven't gotten a haircut in a year, i barely spend money in anything that makes me happy except once in a blue moon when i stop feeling guilty lmao i had a redbubble account also that helped a little too, but last week it got suspended without an explanation as i was uploading new designs, so i don't even have that now. i made a new account on teepublic, but all my designs in high quality are locked behind redbubble and i can't even log into because of the suspension. it's... complicated, and it's a lot, but it is what it is.

i'm always keeping an eye out on new collections, new designers, new cool things. like i said, i love fashion, i studied fashion, and i know a lot of you use this blog as inspiration whether it's for yourselves or for your art, so i don't want to post all similar stuff all the time, i want to post all kinds of styles and brands as much as i can. which is why when i say if you like this blog, if you want to support me, sending even the smallest amount of money helps me keep going. living in latin america, the exchange rate is kind of insane, so truly any amount of money donated helps. unfortunately, i never stop needing money to survive and help keep my family afloat, but in the past year more than ever.

as usual, my kofi link is this one: https://ko-fi.com/fashionrunways and my (new) teepublic link is this one: https://www.teepublic.com/user/dinah-lance. if my redbubble account gets reinstated, i'll add that link eventually too. and as always, thanks for loving this blog and for loving fashion like i love fashion, even when i post crazy looking stuff, and thanks for helping. you have no idea how much your support helps, but it really does, i don't even know if i'd be alive right now if it wasn't for this blog.

[sirfrogsworth]

Froggie's (Almost) Very Productive Day

I try to fit as many out-and-about chores as possible into a single day so I only have one set of post-exertional malaise consequences instead of consequences after each day of doing a thing. So any time I decide to drive, I try to find several tasks to accomplish all at once.

My first stop was the Family Services Division in the hopes of getting some help with grocery bills. I am making ends meet, but it seems to be getting harder each month. And maybe I could have skipped my trip to Florida and saved that money, but if I don't do something drastic for my mental health, I fear this first holiday season without a parent could send me into the darkness.

I needed to do an interview to finish applying for SNAP. I wanted to do a phone interview, but the next appointment was in January. So I went to social services where they allow walk-in appointments. I waited in a tiny plastic chair for several hours until they called my name. She yelled out "Benjamin" because when most people see "Grelle" they aren't really sure how to say it. (Rhymes with belly.)

She started my interview and it was going swimmingly at first. But then she started asking questions about the house and my inheritance and my trust. I had no idea what to tell her. It feels like a mistake now, but I have had pretty much no involvement in that process. I have no idea how it works. And I started to panic because she was acting like I was committing fraud or something by not mentioning the trust. But the entire point of the trust was to protect my benefits. Nothing is mine. I own nothing. I have no access. But I had no idea how to explain that.

Maybe my lawyer can help me apply, but I did not want them investigating everything and screwing things up before we even have the estate through probate. We specifically hired a lawyer and went through this convoluted process to make sure everything was on the up and up. But she really made me feel like I was doing something wrong. And that made me panic, which probably made me look even more guilty of something. So I just canceled everything and left.

After a few hours in a crowded government office, I decided to head to a different crowded government office.

I know I didn't need it until 2025, but I decided to go ahead and get my Real ID thingie before my first flight. I was kind of hoping they'd retake my picture because my current driver's license is... well...

And I'm so glad they took my big terrible picture and made it into a smaller, more terrible picture.

People complain about the DMV, but the one near me runs like a machine. It was filled with people and I still only had a 10 minute wait time.

I'm starting to wonder if all of those 80s comedians who were all, "What's the deal with the DMV?" were exaggerating.

Good stuff, Jerry.

I head up to the counter and ask for a Real ID. She asks for two pieces of mail and my birth certificate.

And this disappointed me a little bit.

I did my research. I went to the Real ID website and used their interactive guide to figure out exactly which documents I would need. They gave me this entire checklist and I printed it out and went through all my records and mail trying to find everything.

I had to wait a week for my internet bill to come because it's the only thing I forgot to change to paperless. This took a lot of effort and I was ready to be validated for being so prepared.

And she asks for two pieces of mail.

Any mail.

So I was off to get new tires.

Driving around on 8 year old bald tires was giving me anxiety. I didn't have the money for new tires, but I remember the guy saying they had financing. Recently several of my past debts went past the statute of limitations, and so my credit score lifted itself out of the pits of "poor" and into the realm of "fair." So I decided to take a chance and apply for a Discount Tire credit card. It's a 6 month payment plan with no interest, so that didn't feel as predatory as all the credit card offers I get in the mail with 8000% interest.

We started going through the approval process and I was answering all of the questions and then I saw the name of the bank offering the credit. It was the same bank that tried to sue me and also the bank that can longer collect due to the statute. I was worried they put me on some sort of list and would deny me. But, to my surprise, they approved me instantly. And wouldn't you know it, they gave me almost exactly the amount needed for a new set of tires.

I'm hoping we'll be doing another auction of the house stuff soon, so I plan to pay off the card and then cancel it, but this was the only solution I could come up with to drive safely until then.

I was having a weird day where photos of crusty rich wide dudes followed me everywhere I went. Here is my good ol' boy governor at the entrance to social services.

And at the tire place, I noticed this fella...

Why does every rich CEO think they are a font of wisdom capable of creating compelling quotes?

Does he think no one has ever said "work hard" and "have fun"? And after he said this was he like...

"That's gold, put that in *every* store."

"Oh, and use that picture of me where it looks like a handsome gal just grabbed my undercarriage."

He probably thinks, "Well, no one has put these specific generic platitudes together into a single mega-platitude. I am a genius."

"Be honest, work hard, have fun, be grateful, pay it forward" sounds like he had a bunch of motivational posters on his wall and started reading them all at once.

Like, every line could have a picture of an eagle above it.

In any case, the guy at the tire store, Dakota, was really nice. He made the experience very low anxiety. And he really liked my Thor's Hammer keychain with built in fidget spinner.

He went around showing it to all his coworkers. "Look, it even spins!" And they were like, "Dude, where did you get that??" And I was like, "Amazon." Now I'm just imagining 10 dudes at a tire store all fidgeting their hammers.

As nice as he was, Dakota was still a salesman and had a job to do. He gave me two tire options and tried to upsell me. The cheapest tires had a "1" rating for winter. He said they get "super hard" in the cold... I tried not to giggle. But I explained I drive about twice a month and mostly to the grocery store. If it is a bad winter day, I'll just wait or get delivery. He understood and set me up with the cheaper tires.

He then checked out my car and noticed my tire pressure sensors were dying. I keep getting a warning light on my dash. Apparently they all have tiny batteries in them that die after 7 years. And you can't just replace the batteries so you have to install brand new sensors.

And this is where my social anxiety got me into trouble.

I don't actually need these sensors. They are usually inaccurate. I prefer to test my tires with an actual gauge. But I got so caught up in his sales pitch that I agreed to replace them... at $60 each. For that I could have gotten the fancier tires. I really don't care if an orange light shows up on my dash. And I looked up the price online and a pack of 4 is $30. Though that is without installation.

But still... I wasn't thinking and he was so nice that I was just like, "I want to please Dakota. Saying no might make Dakota sad." Dakota's job is selling me but that doesn't mean I have to buy anything. He would live if I had said "no thanks."

To make my blunder more blunderous, when they finished the tires he asked for my key fob. And it decided that was the time for the battery to die. And in order to reset the system for the new tire pressure sensors, you have to press two buttons on the fob for 7 seconds. Thankfully I had a spare fob at home, but if I want my fancy new $240 sensors to work, I have to return to Dakota and have him initialize them.

I really hope these are the Cadillac of sensors.

Or, like, the ones they use on Cadillacs?

They better be accurate, is what I'm saying.

I do feel safer with new tires. So I am glad I did that. And I gave them a good obligatory kick and felt the tread. They seem nice enough even if they get boners in the winter. It's crazy how bald my other tires were in comparison. Like, I can fit half my finger down into the tread on the new ones—which did not get them super hard.

The way I drive, I probably won't wear them down. They'll probably start to rot before I do.

Before I do, meaning before I wear them down.

Not before I rot.

I am not in a rotting competition with my tires.

I was then off to Sam's. I decided all of my hard work accomplishing 2 out of 3 goals deserved some sushi. So I grabbed some California Rolls and headed home. On my way out, a Hummer and a Porsche nearly collided in the parking lot. And they sort of got stuck facing each other. One of them needed to back up and they both signaled at each other like "You back up, I'm not backing up." And it was just this weird standoff between the two douchiest looking cars you could imagine.

I mean, you have to be a douche to drive a Hummer.

I still remember the mystery Hummer dialysis patient from when my dad was going 3 time per week. We could never figure out who owned the Hummer, but we knew it was not the underpaid nurses and techs. So it had to be one of the patients. And none of them seemed the type. We never solved that mystery.

That hummer started off a delightful safety yellow. (Elon would cry.)

They decided this wasn't extra enough... so they did this...

Katrina and I could never decide... are these cow spots or the world's least effective camoflauge?

There was another patient who drove this old beater...

And I loved seeing this car because we had the same one when I was a little kid. I'm afraid the aesthetics of the 1980s Caprice Classic did not stand the test of time, but it had great sentimental appeal for me.

But this maroon beast that squeaked and sputtered its way from here to there belonged to a very sweet older gentleman. Sometimes he and my dad would be dialysis buddies—sitting next to each other in the recliners. And the worst thing about dialysis was the boredom. All you have to do is watch broadcast TV with 4 channels.

All of the TVs require headphones. They give you your own set of super cheap headphones in the dialysis welcome bag. They were very uncomfortable so I ordered my dad better ones with cushioned ear cups.

His dialysis buddy noticed them and thought they looked nice. And then he revealed that his free headphones broke and he didn't know how to get new ones. He had been watching TV with no sound for weeks. So, I bought another pair with the soft ear cups and my dad gave them to his friend. And it just made me happy imagining the two of them watching The Price is Right in matching headphones.

I do have to make fun of this sweet old man a little bit. When I walked passed his car I noticed he implemented the world's most effective anti-theft device ever created.

That's right... The Club™.

If someone decides they have to have a 40 year old car with an engine that sounds like a dying hyena and a hubcap missing... they are out of luck.

But hey, you gotta protect what is important to you. And if I needed a getaway car and my choices were between his beater and the Cow Hummer, I'd take his ride for sure.

Well, I'd try... and then get arrested because The Club™ is undefeatable.

Do NOT look that up on YouTube. It's 100% true. (And the Lock Picking Lawyer doesn't count due to him being able to break into Fort Knox with a paperclip and then doing it again to make sure it isn't a fluke.)

The dialysis center is in the same complex as my local Tolerable Schnucks and I still see that maroon boat of a car every once in a while. I always smile whenever it is there because it lets me know he is hanging in there and hopefully still has sound for his TV.

Wow, I went off on a mega-tangent.

I didn't even finish talking about my day. Where was I? Oh, the douche standoff finally ended. The Porsche Douche capitulated and backed up. Probably due to the fact the Hummer Douche has 0 visibility behind him.

When I got home I started devouring my sushi. I finally heard back from my lawyer. He submitted the last of the evidence for my appeal. And I was finally able to confirm he got the records of my ECT treatments from 20 years ago. I worked so hard to get those. At first, they forgot to send all records before 2011. I had to call back and figure that out. They shipped them and they didn't arrive until a week before we had to file. Everything was so last minute and my anxiety has been... palpable. It felt like when I did my science fair project on Sunday night.

He's hoping to get a decision at the beginning of next year. He warned me that these appeals are usually rejected. And that the most effective method of approval was a hearing in front of an administrative law judge. But that could be delayed by up to a year. So I might need to figure out how to survive until 2025. As long as my brother does what he is legally required to do, I should be okay. But counting on that also gives me palpable anxiety.

And that was my day.

Every time I go out is always an adventure.

But remember...

BE NICE. EAT YOUR VEGGIES. PET CUTE DOGS. DREAM BIG. KEEP YOUR TIRES WARM... FOR REASONS. 5 LIFE LESSONS -Froggie, Mildly Famous Internet Person

[half-as-big-as-life]

Okay, I have to ask about "The law & daniel molloy"

YIPPEE!!! Law & daniel molloy is my baby

There's 2 universes of it right now. Both are the same premise, but the minor characters are different. All human AU.

The Law & Daniel Molloy is a crossover with one of my favorite tv shows, The Law & Harry McGraw, which itself is a spinoff of Murder, She Wrote. Harry was in 6 episodes of MSW iirc, and the spinoff had 16 episodes before it was canceled.

The show revolves around Harry, who is a private investigator in boston. His closest friend works across the hall from him in the same building, a defense attorney named Eleanor Maginnis. Harry is kind of uncouth, but nice. Ellie is fancy. You wouldn't expect them to be as close as they are from appearances/personality alone.

Ellie's husband, Matt, died two years before the last episode, and the timeline is in spinoff hell because why wouldn't it be. Harry was an alcoholic and Matt, before he died, was the one who got Harry to attend AA.

Next is Harry's niece, EJ. She works for him as his assistant. Ellie's nephew Steve works for Ellie, and he's a tax lawyer.

There's other characters, like Cookie. He is the bartender at the bar/restaurant Harry loves. Everyone else thinks the food is bad except Harry.

As well as that, there is Tyler Chase, a district attorney, who hates Harry and is in love with Eleanor. He is... something. AND he was played by Peter Haskell, the guy from the Chucky movies, I guess.

I swear, all these characters are relevant.

PART 2: CHARACTERS

Daniel takes the role of Harry, and Armand of Ellie, and Marius of Matt. I've changed my mind about EJ and Steve, I think Sybelle may be EJ and Antoine be Steve.

Thorne is Cookie. That's not truly important but it is a silly little thing and why I mentioned Cookie at all. Yippee! Thorne!

And David as Tyler Chase.

PART 3: THE AUS THEMSELVES

Section 1

Like I said, there are 2 AUs. One is of an episode of the show, the other is the ACTUAL AU.

The one that is just an actual episode of the show is the last episode, Maginnis for the People, in which Ellie is upset when her friend is accused of murdering her (the friend's) husband, and hires some famous fuck from texas instead of her (Ellie).

In this AU, which I've called De Romanus for the People, the plot is the same.

Armand's work has been slow lately

He goes to a dinner party held by Louis and Lestat, David is there, as well as Madeleine. There's others who do not matter, perhaps

David asks (read: begs) Armand to work for him, and he denies

After the dinner party, the last person leaves (Madeleine), and Louis closes the gate and sets the alarm (the housekeeper is off for the night)

The next morning, the housekeeper comes in and finds Lestat dead, an apparent suicide. Louis is upset and confused, and people are acting very strange about him

They think Louis killed his husband! But he didn't :(

Daniel and Armand go to Louis, so Armand can talk to him. Armand comforts him a bit, until Louis gets a call. Its revealed that he'd already hired Raglan James as his attorney, and didn't need Armand for it

Daniel asks housekeeper about it all (im thinking the housekeeper may be Babette, either way doesn't matter) and learns that the marriage wasn't doing too good. Separate bedrooms, Louis having a possible affair. But the weird thing is? The alarm was off when Babette got there that morning...

David has Daniel thrown off the property, and Armand is here now and FREAKING OUT! Angrily agrees to lunch w David, that he may go to work there

Of all people, Louis hired that bitch Raglan James! Instead of Armand! His friend of many YEARS!

Speedrun of the next bits:

James asks Daniel to work for him, and eventually Daniel agrees, but James tries to get him to pay off a witness. He thinks Louis is guilty. Daniel and Armand fight over his working for James. Armand has lunch w David; Claudia and Madeleine meet for the first time. He really does go to work for David but HATES it. Quits. Daniel quits working for James, too. Louis shows up, hears that Armand thinks he's innocent, and him and Armand make up.

Eventually some things happen and the killer is revealed. I won't spoil it all. But the bad guy gets arrested and everything is OK.

Section 2

This AU is not based on an episode, just the premise of the show itself. It involves Louis and Lestat, with the murder of their daughter and trying to figure out who did it. There's less thought put into this one so far, but it's more important, as it's the actual canon for tL&DM

CONCLUSION

De Romanus for the People is NOT canon to the real lore, just kinda fun

If you made it to the end WOW cause I have typed far too many words here and I apologize. Passionate soul and all that

If you have lore questions feel free to ask because I am actually insane about the show + this AU

[coochiequeens]

A man who wore prosthetic breasts and was asked to "tone down" his make up is crying victim because his boss called him his by legal name before he started the legal process to change his sex.

By Amy Hamm July 1, 2024

A trans-identified male in the Maine-et-Loire region of France has been awarded €7,000 in compensation after a court determined he was the victim of “gender discrimination” by his former employer.

Syntia Dersoir, 22, had filed a complaint against the McDonald’s franchise where he worked after management referred to him by his legal, male name and asked him to remove the makeup he wore during his shift.

Dersoir began working at a McDonald’s located in Segré-en-Anjou Bleu beginning from September 2022. He was hired under his birth name and was legally registered as a male at the time. In early 2023, he began wearing makeup and prosthetic breasts to work, and, by the spring of 2023, he obtained an alteration of his identification documents.

Dersoir alleged that the discrimination happened over several weeks in 2023 after he began wearing his prosthetic breasts and makeup to work. Management at the McDonald’s branch where Dersoir was employed continued to refer to him by the name he had been hired under, his male name, despite his requests to be called by his feminine preferred name.

The man also alleged that management instructed other staff to also refer to him by his male name.

According to his legal complaint, Dersoir detailed that during one shift, when he was wearing lipstick, a manager asked him to leave or to go to a nearby store and purchase makeup remover. In March of 2023, Dersoir obtained a note from his doctor allowing him to take sick-leave, citing the stress he was suffering from the discrimination he had been subjected to.

Dersoir complained to the French Labour Inspectorate, and was provided a lawyer by the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), a conglomorate of national labour unions. He also filed a criminal complaint against the management at the McDonald’s where he had been working.

In response to Dersoir’s allegations, the lawyer representing McDonald’s, Maître Pascal Landais, claimed that management had only ever asked Dersoir to follow the workplace makeup policy that applied to all staff.

“We asked him to tone down his make-up, not to remove it,” she clarified. The McDonald’s policy described that all employees should wear “light and discreet makeup” only for both uniform and hygiene purposes.

French media has run sympathetic stories on Dersoir, profiling him as a victim of discrimination. Some outlets are criticizing the managers at the fast-food chain, which uses the slogan “come as you are” in the country. One outlet suggested that Dersoir’s bosses had “trampled on” the sentiment behind the slogan and are “guilty of moral harassment and discrimination.” 

On June 24, the employment tribunal of Angers ruled in Dersoir’s favor, ordering the franchise to pay him €7,000 in compensation. Dersoir’s lawyer was excited about the verdict, noting that it set a precedent and that other “victims” may now be able to come forward.

“As soon as a large brand is convicted … it necessarily provokes a discussion. This is a first to condemn McDonald’s, which presents itself from the angle of tolerance, for precisely the opposite,” the lawyer said.

Charlotte Duval, the Deputy Secretary General of the Maine-et-Loire Services Union, similarly praised the decision, stating: “This ruling is very positive … it is the recognition of [Dersoir’s] victimization. It may also open the door to other people who are experiencing this kind of situation to talk about it.”

Dersoir is in fact the second trans-identified male in Europe to take legal action against a local McDonald’s for “gender discrimination,” with the other incident occurring in Germany.

One day after Dersoir won his case, a trans-identified male in Berlin appeared at the Berlin Labor Court after filing a case against the Central Station franchise where he had been employed.

Kylie Divon, 27, is seeking compensation for “gender identity discrimination” after being denied access to the changing room reserved for female employees.

[gothhabiba]

I think Jimmy McGill (/ Saul Goodman) would be a more... consistent? but less interesting character if he had the qualities that his track record of scamming would lead you to expect—i.e. if he were a more convincing, suave, charming, handsome conman sort of character.

But he is not really convincing or confidence-earning so much as boisterous, which is a different thing. He has a recognisable sort of sleaziness about him that’s more attractive to a sales company that doesn’t do background checks (“he’s exciting!”) than it is to people with options (“you’re the kind of lawyer that guilty people hire”).

Kim is more capable of thinking of arguments that are likely to convince her interlocutor, more confidence-earning, a better actor, and on occasion better at scamming (Jimmy did not even think to tell the guy on shift at the copy shop not to identify him...?).

It’s as if Jimmy is just good enough at scamming to get into trouble and not quite good enough at it to make his life actually, appreciably better

[96percentdone]

Your ace attorney opinions are so valid and I wish they did aa5 and aa6 more justice? The characters are interesting and fun but when they play 52 pickup with each individual storyline it really shoots the collective narrative in the foot. From a gameplay standpoint, the stuff introduced in aa5 and 6 are fun and rly cool ways to expand upon the universe, and the Wright lie detection agency is fun, but it feels like. Idk. Like they didn’t trust their writers OR their fan base with their story. Idk if that makes sense? (I have similar beef with aitsf and aini though so,,,)

Yeah I honestly hold more contempt for AA5 and 6 than I do any other art I've experienced. Defenders of these games will posit the detractors are so fixated on AJ's plot they cannot see the merits of DD and SoJ, but I don't care about Kristoph's psyche locks, the untouched sibling reveal, or Apollo's 70000 backstories nearly as much as they suggest. Those things are annoying, but they are minor symptoms of the real issue: bad writing across the board. Most if not all culprits have store-bought motives that are thinly elucidated, if they're even elucidated at all, which impacts the writing of every case. If the cause of the suffering is a caricature, the victims end up similarly toothless. They are equally generic. AA has always struggled to write witnesses and culprits consistently well--there's a reason people talk about ace attorney middle cases like that for instance--but it's compounded by the frequency that it happens especially for the main characters.

The returning main cast are hollowed out versions of themselves. Trucy is just a quirky magician girl which they walk back a little in Spirit of Justice by giving her a focus case, and then she's back to being Quirky. Phoenix Wright is a generic mentor figure with goofy internal dialogue sometimes. Klavier is a rockstar prosecutor!!! That's it!!!! Miles Edgeworth is BACK, and because they worked on the investigations games you can kind of see why he's this big good figure, but Pearl and Maya are seemingly around just to be around cause they have nothing going on emotionally. Apollo is a stock dweeb except when he's stock Edgy as a result of one of his new poorly written backstories involving poorly written new characters who might not even be characters (looking at you, Clay Terran).

And the new main characters suffer just as much. Let's take Dual Destinies as a case study. Blackquill was convicted and imprisoned for a murder he did not do, something that changed him and shows in his scenes, in order to protect Athena, whose upbeat personality is only preserved because she is so traumatized by the events and her complicated relationship with her mother and hearing she cannot acknowledge it consciously. These are compelling emotional beats, it makes for well-rounded characters, but what's the payoff? Why did they suffer this way? Because some hired goon with no name and no face had a job at GYAXA to execute. In a better game, you could use Phantom's emptiness as commentary about how often the things that ruin your life don't have good explanations, but I will not be lending credit to that notion for this game, because void man is the origin point for "The Dark Age of the Law," which now also happened because it did, and it was a shallow idea from the jump.

"The Dark Age of the Law" is an simplified cartoon explanation for distrust in the legal system. Instead of people being flawed whether through selfishness (MvK, Kristoph) or trauma (Miles, Justine) lending itself to corruption, exploitation and injustice in systems meant to protect, leading to a myriad of reasons the public would be skeptical that the law serves them, they just feel that way because one lawyer got disbarred for evidence forging and one prosecutor was convicted for murder. Spirit of Justice largely takes place in a made up country with a tyrannical government that kills defense attorneys for assuring fair trials for guilty clients! Why does this happen? Idk, because Ga'ran sucks, and she has ultimate power and creates all the laws. The root of all evil in Khura'in is one woman who is a factory set trope surrounded by generic citizens, diluted returning leads, and new characters who must be dragged down by the garbage that surrounds them in order to take part in it.

You brought up AI. Since you're anonymous, I'm guessing you're one of the countless people who takes issue with Nirvana Initiative on the grounds it's a bad followup to AITSF, to which I first have to ask.... Are you new to my blog? This is a AINI defender account lmao. I think it's better than AITSF, fight me. I'm writing a whole essay about it; I'll win. That said, I get the comparison because it's one I've made before, even if I don't quite stand by it anymore. I'm not going to explain my AINI opinions here, wait for the essay if you're curious, but I think I can get at that difference to me just by using Ace Attorney alone.

My favorite Ace Attorney game is Investigations 2, a sequel to a spin-off that has two of the writers for the mainline games I hate. It's a game about legacy and family. Whether they were admirable and just like Gregory Edgeworth, or duplicitous abusers like Blaise Debeste, the cast of this game wrestles with who they are, how their parent (or parental figure) shaped them, and who they should be in the face that now. Maybe they have to learn what that person is actually like and separate from them, or maybe they find a new family among their friends to fill that absence, or maybe they make peace with that loss and accepting who they are now is someone worth being. Maybe they deny that memory as their own or significant until the end to preserve what they want to believe. It's also a game about systemic failure, and all the things that have to be done to make the law an institute that actually protects people. Specific bad actors may be out of the picture now, but there is still more work to be done.

And the funny thing is? I2 does all of this without actually talking all that much about the rest of the series. Most of the characters are new, even to Investigations, and the ones that return don't bring up most of the shit that happened like a week ago. Miles references the events of Turnabout Goodbyes, and "That Man", and Gregory Edgeworth is a key figure in this game, to the point where you play as him, and yet all of that is only alluded just enough to understand the magnitude of his image and his loss. The heart of AA has always been in its characters, who are zany and fun, but they face real tragedy and real abuses, at the hands of one another which are then reflected in the world of law because the justice system is created and run by people; in I2 it beats so strongly.

Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice may have the skin of Ace Attorney and the bones to prop them up, but underneath that familiar exterior, they're empty. They lack the the muscles and veins and blood to bring them to life, because the character writing and thematic conceits are shallow. The reason AA5 and 6 fail as followups is not because they don't engage with prior entries enough, but because they are poorly written on their own terms. They say nothing at all; they have removed their own heart.

[boredcouchpotato]

So I have this scenario in my mind for quite some time now.

I think after Russian tournament when Voltaire and Boris got arrested, the police conducted a investigation in the abbey too (obviously). So that means all the abbey children which also includes demolition boys don't have a place to go.

Kai also don't have a home (assuming that his parents or any immediate family member are not in picture)but I will get to it later that if Voltaire is arrested.

All of them ( abbey kids not Kai) has only two options left that is either to be placed in either foster system and attend therapy which is mandatory for them because there is no way they will not need therapy or the other option is to run away and go back to streets.

So the children obvious will choose to stay in foster system because

1) that means they shelter to sleep and food

2) they can get proper education ( I don't believe that Boris was not in some way brainwashing them to believe that he is their saviour of sort and they should obey him without any complains) which can help them to improve their living condition.

Ofcourse their are exceptions (the kids who are brainwashed) but majority of them are smart ( no way Boris would keep academically weak kids because to him they (kids) are replaceable). So they just decided suck it up and go to foster system.

BUT BUT BUTTTT

It's a little different for demolition boys because they actually got pretty famous from the tournament and they are the most messed up kids of the bunch. But by the time they are in g- rev demolition boys attend therapy and it actually helps them a lot also maybe they have a loving guardian or mom or whatever, they gets adopted. I don't know who adopts them but they all get in adopted by same person which means they are basically living as brothers. And it creates their bond even stronger and they see each other as family.

They get the time to start to heal.

But what about Kai??? I don't think they were in contact this whole time, because d- boys and Kai acknowledge each other as someone they knew from the past sort of like an old friend which we don't talk anymore but we are polite with them. Except d- boys and kai don't do polite.💀 So how was he dealing with all this??? Where will he go??

What I think happened here was that Voltaire never gets jail time. Yes, he gets arrested. Yes, he was put on trial. But we also have to keep in mind that he has a lot of money and bribery is very common. What if he bribed the judge or if his lawyer somehow managed to prove that Voltaire did not know what was "actually" happening in abbey. That he (Voltaire) thought that he was just donating to an organisation that helps kids and not some organisation that do experiments on children. Otherwise why would he put his own grand child there. And he did not know this was happening because when Kai came back he has lost his memory in an fire accident. That Kai is lying about the physical abuse he received at his home in Japan because he has messed up memory because of that accident. So the court decides that Voltaire is not guilty and he still has Kai's guardianship.

And oh boy, Voltaire is LIVID. Because not only Kai has dared to go against his wishes by not using black dranzer he humiliated him as well by saying he was abusing him. So when they go back to Japan he starts different ways to punish Kai for this. It ranged from financial abuse to emotional abuse but never physical because 1) it will put Voltaire in the spotlight if anyone finds out, and he really wants to avoid that because the court case is still fresh in people's mind

2) he is an old man he really won't have the strength to do that to a teenager himself, ofcourse he can hire people but he had to be careful now

and because Kai never really got therapy he still kind of believes in "emotions are weakness" thing. So he just kind of tried to brush this off, thinking that this nothing and atleast Voltaire is not bothering him anymore.

So yeah, never gets the chance to truly start the process of healing. Yes, he might have opened up to his friends more in next season's but he never shared his personal life, so they never knew what happened to him after Russian tournament. You can't just "fix" his trauma with the power of friendship and his other issues that he might had. He needs professional help.

And he never told anyone about all these things.

So what happens when in g-rev he joins the blitzkrieg boys. He is treated as an outsiders of sort. Lan and Spencer don't really cares what he does as long as he don't get in their business. Tala keeps annoying him about joining team's training and stops going on his own. It's annoying but nothing he can't handle after all he was in a team with Tyson for years. And at first Kai is fine with all this arrangement he is here is win a tournament and then he will go his way. What irritates him the most is Bryan and his jabs. Bryan never trusted him especially after he Changed teams in russian tournament and just because tala chose him his partner in tournament doesn't mean he has to tolerate Kai as well.

At first he ignores him but they gets more and more annoying and personal with each try . Tala and Spencer of course breaks their fight before it gets physical or something serious happens.He knows that Bryan hates him and he has said that to his face multiple times and he has made sure that Bryan knows that the sentiments is same from his side too. It's just when someone is constantly getting into your face and trying to get a reaction out of you especially when you have to concentrate on winning a tournament it gets mentally and physically exhausting. And at first Kai is fine with all this arrangement he is here is win a tournament and then he will go his way. But now he is just tired. He is just so so tired that he feels like he can sleep for a eternity and he would still be sleepy.

(This incident happened sometime after Kai vs ray battle, so you know Kai is literally dead on his feet and he needs a nap before he can tolerate anyone.)

So when Bryan decided that this is the perfect time to poke Kai and call him "a spoilt brat" , "princess" or "someone who gets everything on silver platter" he snaps. And by snaps I mean this fight gets physical very quickly bitter words are thrown at each other. Tala and Spencer had to hold them back. Spencer only managed to hold back Bryan because of his massive muscle mass and tala is able to hold back Kai because Kai is exhausted from the match and tala is taller than him, so it's makes his task easier. You think the fight was done here but No. When I said Kai snapped I mean he *snapped* this guy was still swearing at him (Bryan) and screaming at him and his face was getting red from screaming too much. He (Kai) didn't even noticed that tala is holding him from punching the daylight out of Bryan. At first Bryan was also replying ( means fighting him verbally because he was still being held back), but he suddenly stoped. Because he noticed how Kai's voice cracked and then angry tears started to pour out from his eyes. But at that point Kai is just so angry he never noticed this he is even mixing up the languages like this guy is speaking russian and Japanese mix. And Bryan is shocked, the whole team is. He might be annoying bastard but he never meant to make him cry he then realised that he crossed the line with this one that he shouldn't have. But Kai is not done yet he is still speaking (screaming) in full Japanese now and he is full on sobbing and hiccups which was now starting to develop into a anxiety attack.

Spencer is the one to break out of shock first and he takes Bryan away from Kai's sight because if he is in Kai's sight he will continue to scream at him. And Bryan was is so shocked that he just complies without complain. Tala also breaks out of the shock with this and tries to calm down Kai but nothing works and kai basically cried himself to sleep. So after tucking Kai to bed tala goes straight to Bryan to scold him but when he gets there he sees that Bryan is already feeling guilty. So all three of them just decides to wait till the morning to resolve this matter. But when Kai wakes up the next morning he is absolutely mortified. He feels so embarrassed that he just wants to crawls into a hole and never come out again. And he was determined to do that , he was ignoring his teammates at first but then tala gets fed up (also because tala is the captain of this team and he wants this issue to resolve and he does care about Kai no matter what kai likes to believe) and somehow made him come to the team's practice.

Kai was prepared to be teased mercilessly but he gets surprised when Bryan apologized like he is actually speachless. And kai can tell that Bryan was genuine with his apology. So after some awkward moment he is just like "whatever. I don't care". And they just move on from there. The team practice like they normally would and nobody mentions his breakdown for which he is thankful.

But Bryan do get a little more tolerable after that because he is more mindful of what he is saying. And both of kind of develop a mutual respect for each other. They can actually tolerate each other now and Spencer is relieved too. Because he might not say anything but the hostile environment between the two of them was exhausting for him too. And because Kai isn't irritated now because of Bryan he gets better at practice and less exhausted by the end of the day which means tala can now drag Kai to actually train with team rather than him going alone. It annoys Kai but he doesn't say anything because he wants to avoid another fight if he can, but that doesn't mean he will make it easy for tala. And by the time his battle with takao comes he feels that he is prepared to face him.

I also want this being kind of like a turning point of their friendship. And when Kai becomes an adult he actually goes to therapy himself for better mental health also so that he can also start healing. At first he was hesitant of going there but after he saw how good blitzkrieg boys are doing he decides it about time. He also adopts 3cats and no one can tell me otherwise. Spencer and kai exchange photos of cute animals.

Please the ending got a little lame, but I am not a writer so don't come after me.

[becomingpart2]

i see what you mean about bcs both trying and failing to be feminist and anti capitalist. it fails at being feminist because it positions Kim as the Strong Female Character (TM) but ultimately gives her very little interiority and character depth. her flaws are whitewashed by the text and it hurts her ability to be a nuanced well rounded character, most of her “cool girl” moments involve her defending jimmy in some capacity. she’s written more like a man’s ideal of a strong woman than an actual 3 dimensional character. now in terms of anti capitalism i think it fails because it positions jimmy, a middle class white man, as the ultimate underdog and ultimate victim of the system, this is different from breaking bad where the show was unafraid of examining Walt’s privilege, and never bough into the narrative that Walt was as hard done by as he thought he was. i feel like the show tries to deal with the corruption of the legal system and how it treats people differently, but it all kind of falls apart because it all centres around positioning jimmy as the ultimate underdog.

Yes!! You're spot-on when it comes to the feminist angle. I definitely agree.

When it comes to the anti-capitalist angle, I think jimmy being held as the biggest example of systemic injustice is definitely part of the problem with the show like you said. They doesn't seem to be as aware of his privileges and how he benefits from them like brba was. Not saying brba was super aware either, but at least they acknowledged that 1) walt was the one responsible for his "misfortune" (dating back to leaving Grey Matter willingly); 2) other people suffered as the result of his selfishness, both directly and indirectly. BCS seems mostly intent on showing jimmy as the ultimate victim and saying that's why he lashes out, and even going as far as implying that is the only way he can "make it".

But I would also add that brba just does a better and more consistent job at being anti-capitalist because of the way that it shows how problematic and false it is adhering to the capitalistic ideals like meritocracy. It shows that atributting the value of human life to how much money and professional success you can achieve is wrong and that it will detroy lives. Brba puts a magnifying glass over white middle class america and it makes you understand the frustrations and struggles they face as well as the fucked up values that they were fed.

EDIT: I forgot an important part: BCS plays both sides when it comes to the "fighting the oppressive justice system" message because while it acknowledges its biases and that it serves the interest of the rich and powerful, it also mocks jimmy's clients, who are not meant to be taken seriously but instead as further evidence that Jimmy is not a Serious Lawyer. When he's saul, we're not supposed to look at his clients and think he's helping the "poor and disenfranchised" against a system that fucks them over, we're supposed to think jimmy really lost himself because he's helping "criminals".

When betsy kettleman says "you're the kind of lawyer guilty people hire" the focus is solely on the "poor jimmy" angle and not really on the clients who this is being said about lol

[heartbreakprincewille]

You know what Simon and Wilhelm deserve?

A court trial.

Against August.

I know, there are a million things that can stop them. The Royal Court and Kristina won't allow this to happen, the Crown Prince and the supposed spare to the throne in a court up against each other and that too in a case of child pornography of all things. The Hillerska administration won't let it happen, because who in their right minds would let 120-year old prestige of a school be damaged, and that too because of revenge porn? August would do anything to get himself out of this mess, he can hire best lawyers in Sweden to back himself up(one being his step-father) and he can play the game dirty all right. Simon and Wille won't be comfortable to be the front faces of an inevitably public trial, they are still minors for crying out loud. Simon's dealing of Micke's pills can come out in the open and become detrimental for him.

But that's the point. Rich people can commit literal crimes but they can get away with anything just because they have the resources to buy into the system, and the poor cannot buy into the system, they have to face the punishment.

And August commited a crime. He knowingly posted that video on the internet, he had intent to do so, it was not just a spur-of-the-moment thing. He sat with that tape for days, and when Wilhelm took a hit on August's ego, that's when he struck. He's still not guilty about the tape itself to this day, he was guilty about the consequences that will follow him, not Simon. Not Wilhelm. Not for the fact that he gave life long trauma to two kids. Not for the fact that he made their lives a literal hell. Not for the fact that they are still feeling the repercussions of that tape to this day. He's not sorry at all.

And that's why I want Simon and Wilhelm to get the justice they rightfully deserve, and August must feel the proper consequences of his actions(the legal kind, putting a gun to his head wasn't enough). And with Sara reporting August, I think there's still hope.

Because Simon and Wilhelm cannot file the case on their own, them being minors, they need adult support to file a proper court proceeding. And since Sara is a legal adult now, she can file a case on their behalf(and in a way redeem herself in Simon and everyone else's eyes).

(Although I would like to hear from the Swedes or someone who is knowledgeable in this matter that whether Wilhelm can be a part of legal proceedings or not, being a royal and all that? Is he allowed to?)

[beardedmrbean]

JACKSONVILLE, FL – The Florida widow of slain Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan faced her husband's accused killer for the first time in court Monday before asking for his help to end "this nightmare."

Bridegan's widow and the mother of his two youngest children, Kirsten Bridegan; his brothers Adam and Justin Bridegan; and more than a dozen other family members and friends packed the gallery.

Kirsten Bridegan wept as suspect Henry Tenon, 61, entered the courtroom wearing glasses and a white face mask that covered his gray beard. The hearing lasted less than five minutes.

Tenon's attorney, Matt Bodie, entered a not guilty plea on his behalf to charges of second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, accessory after the fact and child abuse for the Feb. 16, 2022, killing that left four children fatherless.

MAJOR BREAK IN JARED BRIDEGAN MURDER MYSTERY AFTER EX-WIFE MOVES CROSS-COUNTRY

Judge Roberto Arias adjourned the case to March 21 and set a trial date of July 19. 

Kirsten Bridegan, flanked by her family and friends, grew tearful as she read a brief statement in the lobby of the Duval County Courthouse.

FLORIDA EX-WIFE OF SLAIN MICROSOFT EXECUTIVE HIRES CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER

"Honesty, I think it's still sinking in," the shattered widow said of seeing Tenon for the first time.  "To think that might have been one of the last people my husband saw is kind of a hard pill to swallow."

Jared Bridegan was gunned down in front of his then-2-year-old daughter, Bexley, after he was lured from his car by a tire placed in the middle of the road in an upscale suburb of Jacksonville Beach.

FLORIDA POLICE, STATE ATTORNEY ANNOUNCE ARREST IN MURDER OF MICROSOFT EXECUTIVE JARED BRIDEGAN

Court papers say Tenon, who was arrested Jan. 25, carefully plotted the cold-blooded killing of the 33-year-old software developer for six weeks with at least one accomplice. Prosecutors haven’t said whether Tenon pulled the trigger.

During the press conference, Kirsten Bridegan said the family knows that he is only one piece of this puzzle, and they will fight until each person responsible for the heinous murder is brought to justice.

FLORIDA PERSONAL TRAINER CONFIRMS ALLEGED AFFAIR WITH EX-WIFE OF SLAIN MICROSOFT EXEC

In her final statement, she made a plea directly to Tenon.

"Henry, if you get to hear this, please choose now to do the right thing. Please help us receive justice sooner than later," she said. "Please help us in this nightmare that we are living every single day." 

She told Tenon's family that they were in her prayers. "We can only imagine the hurt and the pain you must also be feeling," she said.

Fox News Digital was the first to report that Tenon has a surprising connection to Bridegan’s ex-wife Shanna Gardner-Fernandez.

Tenon lived in a home owned by Gardner-Fernandez's husband, Mario Fernandez, at the time of the murder. Tenon also worked as a handyman for Fernandez.

Gardner-Fernandez and Fernandez remain suspects in the slaying, according to law-enforcement sources.

Minutes before Jared Bridegan was repeatedly shot, he had dropped off the now-10-year-old twins he shares with Gardner-Fernandez at her home nearby.  

Jared Bridegan and Gardner-Fernandez, who both remarried, had a contentious divorce and continued to battle in court over custody of their twins and finances until his death.

Shortly before their divorce, she asked a tattoo parlor staffer if he knew anyone who could "shut him up," apparently referring to Bridegan.

Melissa Nelson, State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial District, announced the major break in the case at a press conference last month and suggested that more arrests were forthcoming. 

"We know that Tenon did not act alone," she said at the time. Tenon is being held without bail.

[la-pheacienne]

if jonsas watched better call saul they would think saul/betsy kettleman was the true love story of bcs (and they’d always call him saul instead of jimmy). they’d argue that he never loved kim, and in every scene of jimmy and kim, he is secretly thinking of betsy. the scene where jimmy blackmails the kettleman’s so kim can get them back as clients is actually proof of his undying love for betsy. betsy telling jimmy he’s “the kind of lawyer guilty people hire” is actually evidence of how compassionate betsy is and how much she loves jimmy. the fact that betsy represents the establishment that has looked down on jimmy his enitre life is actually a good thing, it’s proof her and jimmy are soulmates.

[bisluthq]

I think people are like omg he hired the same PR firm that defended this bad person, but like there are different people on every firm, he may be assigned to the same ones as John or he may not. Different people have different methods as well.

Also the bottom line is think of it as lawyers. If you decide to work on a field where you defend people, you can't really say look I don't like this person, I think he's guilty of whatever so I can't defend him. It doesn't work like that. And people know it. Their job is to defend that client, that's what they are paid for, work with what they have and put aside your own beliefs. If one can't do that, then they are not in the right career.

Even rapists, murderers and all kind of shitty people are entitled to have a lawyer regardless if they are guilty or not. Ofc that's probably not easy and that's a big reason why not everyone in the world chooses to be a lawyer. Other example are doctors who have to treat you even if you are a complete trash of a person. That's how the world works, we don't have to like it

I kinda agree with you in principle, but I wanna say a few things. Firstly, when discussing Johnny x Amber we need to separate two issues: his legal team and his publicists. Obviously they worked in tandem, and the way the publicity went helped to win the case, but they are two separate entities. He could've won the case but lost the court of public opinion (Kevin Spacey's just had that happen - he won his cases but everyone still hates him) and he could've lost the case and won the court of public opinion (in this case he just happened to win both). This isn't so much to you, anon, as to a few other people who've conflated legality with publicity. SO FAR no one has sued anyone here so there are no lawyers involved. Justin MIGHT sue the daily mail but I doubt he will because it'd just bring the allegations into the spotlight and he has absolutely no reason to want that. Like the compensation he'll receive for (likely winning) the case against the daily mail won't help him since everyone will be discussing it and he wants them to... not discuss it.

Which brings me to my next point and that is, regardless of which specific person is handling Justin and which specific person handled Johnny, they actually are using very similar tactics: they're finding all the possible dirt on the other person, while trying not to completely make shit up, and making said dirt go viral.

The PR tactics are actually pretty much exactly the same in both situations. They worked then, and they're working now. The difference is this time the allegations are not as serious (at this point, but you'd think if the Reynolds' side had proof they'd have started with that), the Reynolds side is very very powerful (whereas in Johnny and Amber's case he very much had the power from the beginning of the relationship), and like tbh I think Blake and Ryan did this to themselves lol so sorry for them I guess.

[ireallyamabear]

"you're the kind of lawyer guilty people hire" 2903129321901million dead no survivors

[the-firebird69]

Trump accuses judge of making hush money trial ‘as salacious as possible’ | The Hill

Yeah I'm good relevancy in the judge said it's relevant not only that but public opinion is it's relevant there's a lot more stuff that they can bring up and they should Trump's character is a question then they should pigeonhole it it's been in the mental hospital he's been seeing a costing people assaulting them has been found guilty of it and several cases not just one is a short temper.

Really they're kind of lenient on him all over the place and it's a pain but really we're concerned about our son and we were going to go after people again who are involved and most of you are dying that's fine for you.

And yeah it was not his girls and he's going on saying it and people getting mad at him because they understand the concept and they see what he's talking about and they're saying you don't know who you're rising those things for. And he says probably not and he says I'm doing it and people who kick the s*** out of him and they're killing those people in front of him what's going on today the guys at the water bubble bubbler was too close and you're threatened away but he said this walking away he's going to just keep killing people in front of me and me until I stay away from him and I won't and I'll be gone this is yeah and we have that planned as well there's nothing to stop it the public are behind it now and it's an effigy thing versus me and I need it you'll die serving me with your big fat f****** mouth is going or not and he went off and slap you under the tree and got this cursing the s*** out of him to get him to move and he wouldn't and he said you're supposed to protect vagrance and dumb s*** like that and swearing and cussing and he said no I don't have to go anywhere a little later on he would not leave finally he left to go to fisherman's village and came back and Garth called the cops and they came and arrested him anyway you said he's now wrestling hero I mean the guy is a Playboy to the max doesn't really do any work and we should make sure he doesn't get his damn thing it's an ugly scene here it's very ugly and this guy Trump is really a nobody but he's got things from our sons and he wants them we're going to start suing him for them he doesn't have a right to hold them he's tried to contact two lawyers to write the letter and they're not responding it's going to try it third I'll tell you what have a deli in revelli are the lawyer's mom used and they're actually Mac and Ben and they're waiting for the call and said I called before you said no but the time is different now and it's a simple case and they said it's not real hard for us to do so he's going to try calling a few more is your son she's out it is working this is a good idea so they're going to help guide it and get them going on each other and they're just loses but these wars are starting up and they are going to go down and they're going to go down forever they don't have a prayer with what's going on this all these wars and they're combative with everybody they need they're insulting everyone they meet and they are negative to everybody so just thinking earlier this guy is like soupy sales it's not useful to anyone and it's running around pestering me harassing me threatening me and it won't take no for an answer and he goes off and gets arrested it says I'm actually sick of it the little puke needs to leave so he heard when he was thinking and it's a good idea and we're going to enacted and we're the ones hiding but it is it's very decent furthermore there's other actions going on and we are going to hire tons of people now this is a gross thing happening here and we needed to stop we're going to return in a moment

Thor Freya

Olympus

[violet-traitor]

I finally started making ace attorney ocs the other day and I've just realised how hard that is shjghs. I could've chosen the easier path and added funky characters in ace attorney but instead I started making an ace attorney game in my head that will never actually be created and I have to think of how the cases would work. I consider myself a creative person but I barely have any ideas for incidents. Who knew fantasy ocs and worlds would be 10x easier to make.

Like I have an entire fantasy world with its own lore, species and magic systems but I can't even think of one incident for my aa ocs.

(I am going to explain all the lore i have in my head under the cut so it will be a doozy. also there will be some aa4 spoilers)

I want to make a major incident that gets resolved in the last case like your average aa game but I can't think of anything. I don't even know how the mc would have an assistant.

Plus the (probably) main villain I have in the making, is basically a kristoph gavin blueprint, except if he was a woman (possibly a lesbian) who didn't actually kill anyone but hired an assassin instead.

The main charcter/defense attorney is pretty much a mix of Apollo and Klavier (not really personality wise though). Her names is Himiko (haven't thought of a last name yet), she is a naive newbie defense attorney from a rich family whose assistant in the first case (that I have not yet thought anything of) is her older sister (long hair, glasses. Her name is Homare). Throughout the cases she goes through, she mainly faces off against a prosecutor by the name of Naysha Kennedy. Naysha is a more experienced prosecutor and at first she didn't really like Himiko due to issues she has with Himiko's family. That mostly goes for Homare since, as it is revealed in the last case, she used forged evidence to falsely convict Naysha's sister (she doesn't have a name yet) of a murder she didn't convict. I do not know the circumstances and the reason of the false conviction/victim/reason of the crime etc yet because I have no ideas. But things might involve other members of Himiko's family.

So Naysha was a bit, harsh at first? Against Himiko? Like how Franziska and Godot for example were going hard on Phoenix because they wanted revenge and stuff blah blah yeah you get it. But with time she started to realise how Himiko wasn't really aware of anything her sister had done. While she did become a lawyer because she looked up to Homare, she didn't pick up on her "cruel" tactics (she probably didn't have her as a mentor, even though I wanted that to be the case at first. But while I was writing this I realised it wouldn't make a lot of sense, hence why I crossed out the Apollo and Klavier bit in the beginning of the of the cut). Himiko hadn't spent a lot of time with her family because everyone was busy which lead to her being left out of things like that, plus, she is the youngest member of her family. Due to that, she knew nothing about what was going on behind the scenes and became a lawyer in a pure sense, as a way to save people from injustice and the general aa stuff. And with time Naysha came to kind of realise that and started being less harsh to Himiko. On the other hand, based on things Naysha has said about her family, Himiko feels very guilty because of the things that have happened to Naysha's family that she had not been informed of yet.

In the final case everything (in a way that I haven't decided yet) gets revealed and Himiko is able to convict her sister Homare of her crimes. I don't know what exactly (or at all) happens in that case but I feel like there would be Homare using manipulation to stop Himiko (Kristoph style) and the whole "omg I can't believe the prosecutor is on my side" when Naysha tries to help out Himiko. (btw personality wise Naysha isn't like, super mean to everyone, she's polite/nice but is usually pretty serious. The only reason she acted kind of harsh up until now was because of hers and Himiko's family situation). And in the end Naysha trusts Himiko and they're on friendly terms because she (Himiko) went through a lot for her, which makes her trust her almost completely. (no but quite literally, Himiko probably literally got disowned after all that it's crazy)

THAT'S IT the whole lore up until now