#whoaaa user trlvsn back with the textposts who woulda guessed

[trlvsn]

while there are many things to be said about turnabout trump, a thing i feel people often misinterpret is trucy giving the forged evidence to apollo and how it's something that brings her back to the day of zak's disappearance. the thing is, it is an undeniable parallel if we look at it from an outsider's point of view or from phoenix's: a young and clueless attorney receiving evidence from trucy that turns out to be forged; but from trucy's perspective, the situation is actually completely different, and here's why:

1. this time, she is fully aware of the evidence being forged and why she has to give it to the attorney. she is not a small child anymore.

2. the evidence is given to her by her own father, not a stranger (kristoph did give the page to her, if i remember aa4 correctly)

3. most importantly, she is giving the forged evidence to help her father stay, not dissapear. she isn't getting ready to help her dad with a vanishing act - she is there to give the ace and can finally see the trial reaching an end instead of the verdict never being announced.

the trial ends. her father is there for her. justice is served. i don't deny the possibility of trucy still feeling the familiarity of the situation, feeling scared, subconsciously, that her father won't come back yet again, but at the end of the day, this situation is something that helps her reclaim her trust, power, and even ease the guilt she could be feeling for delivering the forged evidence for the first time. in a way, this is also trucy reclaiming her magic, as she delivers the ace by performing a magic trick of sorts. with this action, she says "i didn't know what i was doing then, but now i do and i'm doing it for a good reason". with this action, she says "this is no longer about zak gramarye: my actions are not his and my magic is not his". she ends up getting the gramarye rights by the end of the game, which fits this interpretation rather well; and ace attorney does like reclamation as a subtle theme, so i feel confident in my reading of this.

i only wish the game showed us more of trucy's perspective, but ace attorney has the unfortunate tendency of keeping female characters' issues and events as something that only happens in one case and never gets addressed ever again.