#was that the jurist system....?????

[mekatrio]

naw that final trial was Weird was there seriously only one cross-examination in that whole thing HUHHHH. strange strange rushed writing towards the end BUT WELL i liked this game anyways!!! 💥💥💥💥

[jinxedshapeshifter]

alright, question because i feel like it's really not made clear in AJ:AA and i've genuinely wondered about it multiple times:

[ot3]

In Justice for All when Edgeworth returned and saw Phoenix for the first time, Phoenix seemed genuinely disgusted by him, thinking him a coward who only cared about Perfection just like Manfred. Phoenix probably really hated Edge for that year but all the fanworks i see are him just being like "oh miles I'm so glad ur not dead :)". Where are the twisted emotions?? Where is your rage????

that's an absolutely perfect moment to hone in on because as I've mentioned a couple of times in the past that was the exact moment where ace attorney injected itself permanently into my brain. I was fully expecting phoenix to be grateful and relieved to have Edgeworth back and offering him assistance at a time of crisis no matter how douchey he was about it, and so when he snapped instead I was completely blindsided and overjoyed. Like that was the moment when narumitsu went from Good to Superb for me because suddenly there is this entire other layer to the dynamic. I love a (un)healthy dose of resentment in any ship because I love when characters love each other despite having very good reasons not too so that bit was just. So good. Narumitsu getting the Sunshine One and Grumpy One treatment is so frustrating because phoenix has soooooo much more depth to him than that and he's my fave so it sucks to see how many people will just completely take him at face value

[longdeadking]

i think everyone is overloking the fact that the seven year gap perfectly lines up with covid. i know we're all a little tired of it and writing about covid can be hard and depressing but CONSIDER. on top of all the other shit phoenix is dealing with he also has to be in lockdown

[void-pitcher]

beanix has some fae level bullshitting skills down to the never lying (except for the bit)

[planet4546b]

also i just think it’s the most fun when you admit phoenix is up to some shit in aa4. the first thing he does is trick apollo into the same situation that got him disbarred. he’s using his daughter to cheat at cards. the mason system is about half a straight up lie. he rigged the jurist system. admittedly part of the plot is the way the justice system is broken so that he feels like he has to do this but he’s also doing it for like 95% self interest. which is fun. he’s not a person who is continuing to stand by a strong moral framework even though he had been placed in a bad situation he’s a person who saw that moral framework broken and said Oh word does this mean i can lie now? cool. i hope the next car that hits him finishes the job. love himmmmm

[probablygayattorneys]

Good day to read a good book with the perfect soundtrack for it.

[borom1r]

I have played one (1) singular trial to completion in Dual Destinies and already I have. well not SO many questions but one major, burning question.

[prommytheus]

im still losing my mind over caterpillars of the commonwealth btw. its like THE kristoph song im going to explode and die if i dont find the time to make an animatic soon

[cosmiccomma]

at the end of the day aa4 IS a good game. like do i wish things were different about it? absolutely. and i will complain about these things because i am a hater but like as a whole it is a good game that i love dearly

[clone-fighter]

I decided to go get one just for the sake of it

(alt ver under cut)

This case is great and everything and I'll probably talk about it more later but is there a version of this shot without the textbox? bc that seems like a great reaction image

[mekatrio]

my imaginary aa4 followup will probably have to be 3 cases long instead of 2.... gwuh.....

[zoejayw]

I drew a short comic about phoenix working on the jurist system for @phoenixwrightzine! leftover sales are open. i also drew an enamel pin so you can get your hands on one of those too.

[starboundsingularities]

the jurist system seems really cool i hope they keep using it :-)

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i'm determined to make this work btw

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they called me to the witness stand and the defense attorney just shouted "BOOOOOO WE HATE YOUR PUSSY"

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look if i was on trial and the guy prosecuting me started advertising his music i'd just plead guilty. avoid the embarrassment of getting put in prison by a guy who basically used the trial to say "this blew up btw here's my soundcloud"

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didnt miles edgeworth defend someone in a case once

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do you know the difference between a prosecutor and a defense attorney

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who the fuck is evil magistrate

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STOP TAGGING THIS WITH LAWYERS?????

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they hired a guy to stand in court and shout "GET A ROOM YOU TWO" whenever the lawyers start getting a little too homoerotic

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your honor i know all the evidence points to my client being guilty. but come on you have to admit he kinda ate right

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mia fey when they had phoenix wright on trial

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🔍 thuthseeker Follow

ok hot take but i feel like these lawyers should maybe not be allowed to drag literal children to court with them?? how many people have gotten genuinely actually fucking SHOT in court and they're just ok bringing fucking 8 year olds in?

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🥚 eggvidenced Follow

STOP asking me about the dl-6 post idc idc look even phoenix wright forged evidence once shut up

📕 lexculpatory Follow

he didn't forge the evidence, though. it was kristoph gavin who ordered the forgery. this was covered in the trial of vera misham. if you're going to try to compare yourself to well known figures, you could at least check the veracity of your claims.

🥚 eggvidenced Follow

yeah well. he might have. on a different case or something.

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i tried to take the bar exam but they didnt let me because i wasnt cunty and traumatized enough

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she present on my evidence til i reach a verdict

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"we need more great prosecutors" you guys couldn't even handle manfred von karma

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didn't he kill someone?

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irrelevant. you guys couldn't handle him.

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why is it always murders with lawblr. why don't we ever talk about divorce or something

[ot3]

Edgeworth only cares about important laws like "don't kill people" he has no respect for trifling little inconveniences like "you can not freely investigate inside of an embassy without consent because it is foreign soil" or "you can not compel your employees to do additional unpaid work outside of their job description" and certainly not "you need to follow the speed limit." Guy who is champing at the bit to mansplain the Autobahn to anyone in the general vicinity. His biggest success during his tenure as chief prosecutor is facilitating a statewide adoption of the jurist system, resulting in an unprecedented decline in false convictions. His most notorious failure is his deeply unsuccessful campaign to remove speed limits from various California highways.

[velvees-archive]

Dual Destinies Spoilers (5-5)!

so what exactly did phoenix mean when he said he was sorry for everything he put edgeworth through?

a quick look at forums/reddit netted me the following interpretations:

he’s apologizing to edgeworth for ushering in the dark age of law and leaving him to deal with the aftermath

he’s apologizing for all the trouble edgeworth went through to help him get reinstated/vouching for the jurist system

neither of these feel quite right to me. the first point because phoenix says he's troubled miles for “eight years”, yet the dark age of law didn’t officially start until a year after he was disbarred (simon blackquill’s guilty verdict). this means the dark age would have only been in effect for seven years. also, shifting public opinion of the courts is edgeworth’s responsibility as the chief prosecutor, which he’d only been for about a year as of 5-5.

*granted, i wasn’t as locked in for dual destinies as i was for other entries in the franchise, so this could just be me not paying enough attention to when the dark age began.

i do think phoenix feels guilty for contributing to the public’s negative perception of the courts, so this interpretation still holds some merit, unlike the former half of the second interpretation, which doesn’t make sense at all. phoenix didn’t get confirmation edgeworth pulled some strings to get him reinstated until after 5-5’s resolution, when edgeworth openly admits it. the latter half is fine, but i don’t think it was specifically the jurist system he was referencing—one because “eight years” implies phoenix began work on the jurist system immediately after the gramarye trial and two because edgeworth’s response, “i’m sorry i wasn’t able to help you” contradicts the idea that phoenix's apology was related to his help with the jurist system.

so what is phoenix apologizing for? we know how terribly he was affected by losing his badge aka the focal point of his identity, which amplified his cageyness and bitterness tenfold. we know edgeworth was present in his life because he would fly phoenix and trucy out to europe while phoenix was disbarred. we also know from this dialogue that phoenix purposefully kept edgeworth from “helping” him (“nah. i was the one who made that decision”).

this leads me to believe the trouble he put edgeworth through was—on top of the agreeable parts of the two aforementioned interpretations—emotionally charged, angsty 7-year gap + lead up to his return anguish, wherein phoenix shut miles out and miles had to shove his way in, first trilogy phoenix style. and edgeworth’s apology, while seemingly related to phoenix’s badge, was also about him feeling like he hadn't done enough to aid phoenix during the lowest point in his life.