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At the most basic level, they’re both stories about facades and revenge. AA3 shows you how destructive revenge can be, both to the people around you and the self. That no matter how terrible what was done to you was, that allowing revenge to consume you is the most dangerous thing you can do. That you will always lose track or your original intentions because desire for vengeance is a disease. AA4 is a story of revenge that is unjustified from the beginning and trusts the player already understands that it’s dangerous and shows you the extent.

Where they’re so different is how they treat facades. In AA3, every character is wearing a mask of some kind, and it’s a rule that Mia and Phoenix both play by. By unmasking evil while still hiding their own suffering behind a smile, did they really win?

AA4 felt like such a life changing experience for me, personally, because at no point does Apollo hide how he really feels. He punches Phoenix when he feels betrayed, he cries when he thinks Trucy’s being kidnapped, he shamelessly bitches through the Gavinners concert, he admits when he doesn’t know. So when he pulls Klavier from the darkness and reveals the full extent of Kristoph’s corruption, the narrative feels complete, because there is no question of if Apollo is also free. He has been the whole time.

thinking about my gavin parents earlier. specifically, karsten gavin and the way he loves klavier.

according to gonintendo, these ace attorney keychains from bandai are coming out later this year, as part of a gachapon. these depict characters from PWAA cast getting picked up by the back of their clothes, with a little hook to connect them to another character.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

day 6 - routines ☀️