#v { franziska }; open my mouth a little wider so you see my faith in you | defense attorney

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(( fuck, just, Franziska defending her brother against her own father, a culmination of all those years of choosing to stand between the two, a full acknowledgement that she’d always choose her brother over her father, facing head-on the realities of her father’s crimes and damage he’s done

Franziska getting to kick her father’s ass

Also her later getting to chew out Ray when he does his bullshit ( not that I know how the rest of the timeline would go but shh ) just like “Well a Von Karma solved Gregory Edgeworth’s murder while you were fucking around elsewhere and if you insult my brother one more time, I’m going to ruin you.” 

Does she have serious identity issues after her father’s arrest because a lifetime of trauma doesn’t go away with one dramatic court case?  Yes.  Will she still proudly claim to be a Von Karma purely to spite people being assholes to her little brother?  Absolutely. ))

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(( Defense Attorney Franziska still gets shot in Farewell, My Turnabout.  She can’t stand to actually be on the defense team for the case, having got Vibes™ from Matt that she refuses to ignore.  ( Which I do imagine could cause an argument between her and Wright considering her being the assistant on the rest of the cases was supposed to be her learning to trust the clients.  But she’s staunchly like ‘There are so many reasons not to trust this man.’ )

However, in response to Maya’s danger , she steps away from the case to focus on finding Maya and bringing her to safety.  With that being all that she’s devoted to, she’s a damn fine investigator and genuinely threatens Shelly’s position.

Maybe there are a few times she sits at the defense bench and can’t help but refuse to let Wright hedge on the case so Shelly still calls it a “gift”

Part of me also imagines that her getting shot is what leads Miles to revealing himself in this verse, so it happens at the hospital.  Which makes me think of Nick doing the ‘I would have been better for you not to come back from the dead’ bit in the lobby and, from her room, Franziska’s eyes snap open and she barrels to the lobby ( drugged to the gills and still VERY injured ) solely to sock Phoenix in the jaw and then promptly pass out ( what with the aforementioned painkillers and gunshot wound ). ))

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Phoenix: Okay, here's everything in the office, here's our palm lily Charley, here's the file cabinet / Franziska: You seriously expect me to call this plant by name?! (Franziska. you cannot resist getting attached to Charley.)

(( Franziska is on the fence about calling an office plant by name until she finds out about the misunderstanding Miles has about Charley ( thinking Charley is a real human man that Wright may or may not be dating ) and then aggressively embraces it solely to tease her little brother.

She does also eventually get genuinely attached to Charley. ))

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(( [ suddenly thinks about Rise from the Ashes in terms of Defense Attorney!Franziska AU and the fact the timeline could work out that that’s the first case Miles gets involved with after being released and having his badge reinstated and the combo of RFtA and Turnabout Goodbyes still fucks him up enough that he still “Chooses Death” and how that would absolutely devastate Franziska even more than in canon ]

[ lays down ] ))