foreigners and strangers on earth

WHY I SHIP MITSUMAYO AS MUCH AS I DO PHOTOSET ONE PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE I SUCK AT EXPLAINING SHIT

OKAY SO YEAH LOOK like we all know Phoenix and Maya have the perfect A++++++ relationship, and Phoenix can sense when Maya feels like sad and stuff and knows how to cheer her up, but in this case she’s pretty much lost a lot of things, and she’s gone through a lot of shit and he simply cannot fully wrap his head around why she is still putting up a smile and holding back tears.

Now, I know we haven’t gotten much Edgeworth/Maya interactions in these games my tears BUT BUT BUT BUT!!! It could be because Edgeworth’s gone through a lot of shit as well, but he knows Maya is a really strong person even behind all the smiles and klutz. He can understand her feelings at the moment and why she would want to keep up a strong position right now, even though she lost her mother, and Edgeworth knows that as well and acknowledges her strength and just knows that she’s a really smart and wise person looking past burgers and stuff.

OH MY GOD I TOLD YOU I WAS BAD AT EXPLAINING STUFF BUT LET ME EXPLAIN YOU A THING: I SHIP THEM YES I SHIP IT LIKE A MAD WOMAN BUT IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE THIS REALLY NATURAL AND EASY-GOING RELATIONSHIP. IT’S LIKE EDGEWORTH DOESN’T TRY TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND HER HE JUST DOES. AND EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT THE SAME KIND OF “SNARK-SNARK-JOKES” RELATIONSHIP THAT SHE HAS WITH NICK IT’S STILL A REALLY NATURAL RELATIONSHIP THEY RESPECT EACH OTHER AND ACKNOWLEDGE EACH OTHERS’ STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

As for Edgeworth, he probably understands how Maya feels considering they both lost parents in bizarre situations where they felt they were to blame. Maya probably has some guilt since she was the intended target. Just as Edgeworth feels guilty for throwing that gun at his father and believing for all those years that he was the murderer.  The guilt probably still lingers, since he’s had it for so long.

I think it’s interesting that these two have so much in common, even down to growing up without their loving parent they did know, never knowing their other parent, and being raised by a strict surrogate who did not have their best interests at heart. Edgeworth copes by being serious, keeping to himself, and burying himself in his career. Maya copes by smiling, acting positive even when she doesn’t feel that way, and being silly. Here we see opposite coping mechanisms to similar emotional stresses.

But Wentworth is only able to fully enjoy it for like A DAY before he starts realizing how terrible it is. He watches Anne suffer in silence and he hates it. He watches her being treated like an inconvenience and a joke and a piece of furniture and he hates it. He hears sneering comments at her expense and he hates it. He spends evening after evening in her company, where he is celebrated as a handsome, dashing hero while she is shoved to the side and ignored and he hates it.

He probably spent a lot of heartbroken hours out on the sea wishing revenge on her (like ten years’ worth), but then he gets to see it happening and revenge turns out not to be that sweet after all. He probably thought “I hope she never gets married to anyone else and she has to spend the rest of her miserable life with her miserable family, listening to them talk about nothing and regretting ever letting me go.” But then he has to watch her live through it, and it is just excruciating. Watching her bite her tongue. Watching her keep her eyes down on her clasped hands. Watching her silently accept everything as if she deserves it.

He’s like, “YES, it’s all HAPPENING! She’s all ALONE and PALE and OLD and…sad. And her family treats her terribly, and she’s— no one is talking to her. No one even knows that she’s funny and smart, they just— they just make her sit in the corner. She’s hardly eating anything. And she really isn’t that old, but they are acting like she’s dead? Her family is even worse than they used to be, how is that even possible? Why isn’t anyone helping her? Why is she the only person taking care of anyone? Why isn’t anyone taking care of her?”

“Some things never change …”