HUH!! Not someone else using Gumshoe's clumsiness to insult Edgeworth, giving him the perfect excuse to get pissed at Gumshoe and break up with stop working with him!!!!
And Gumshoe recognizing this and feeling bad about it!!!
And Edgey notices he's down!!!! And doesn't get mad at him!!! And reaffirms how much he needs him!!!!
"average person solves 3 puzzles a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person solves 0 puzzles per year. Puzzles Hershel, who lives in university & solves over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I'd like to think Edgeworth would be absolutely horrified to find out just how terrible Gumshoe feels on a daily basis! Since Gumshoe is a big guy who's spent years working a highly physically and mentally demanding job whilst too poor to eat and running on basically nothing but fumes, I think the likelihood of his health being in pretty bad shape is very likely, even after Edgeworth raises his wages. Experiencing it for himself really shocks Edgeworth into realising he needs to be even more committed to listening when Gumshoe complains of aches and pains or feeling tired — he doesn't want to lose his partner to a heart attack or other health condition, after all...!
Image description and transcript under the cut:
[Image description: A two-panel comic featuring Detective Gumshoe and Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney drawn in a chibi style. The art in the two panels is mostly the same depicting Edgeworth in Gumshoe's body on his knees on the ground, clutching his chest as if in pain whilst Gumshoe in Edgeworth's body is standing next to him with a comforting hand on his shoulder. Above them are coloured speech bubbles with text. In the first panel Edgeworth in Gumshoe's body looks like he's trying to remain composed. In the second panel he loses his composure and grits his teeth as if in even more pain than before. Gumshoe in Edgeworth's body has a sympathetic look on his face.
Panel 1 transcript:
Edgeworth: Gumshoe, I think you might be dying.
Gumshoe: Sorry, pal, that's just what it feels like to be overworked and underpaid.
E: ...
E: Are you saying you feel like this ALL the time?
G: Sometimes I feel even worse!
E: .....!
E: When all this is over I'm taking you on a two-month vacation at a five star resort.
G: Oh! Is that like one of those "honeymoon hotel" kinda deals with the heart-shaped hot tubs?
E: Yes!!! Now please stop talking and call yourself an ambulance!!!