Thinking about Mia and how she had to walk the path of vengeance all on her own. How she investigated Redd White without telling a soul, and how she had to endure Dahlia Hawthorne traumatising her and robbing her of a partner. When she took in Phoenix under her tutelage, she was just grieving the loss of her own mentor. Phoenix and Marvin were probably the only people in the world who could provide her some solace. My theory is basically that Mia took a softer approach after Diego was poisoned by Dahlia. She must’ve felt so guilty that he was hurt because someone had a grudge with her, not him. And when Phoenix ate the poisoned pendant that took Diego’s life, I wonder if she also felt responsible for that too. A young person like him could’ve lost his life to that woman again, just like Diego, just like Terry Fawles.
Then remember the files she uncovered from Redd White. Blackmail, extortion, pushing people into suicide. Could she have thought her mother might have been one of those victims? She had lists of names in alphabetical order, yet she couldn’t have used them in court herself until she became a name on that list. Yet she wasn’t angry when she was killed. She still trusted that she can contact her sister and that’s all that matters to her. She knew of the finality of death, she has seen it over and over again. But what brought her relief is finally putting Redd White in jail, and exposing a meagre of his crimes to the world. Someone else could continue the investigations afterwards. It’s enough to her that she finished her mission, and I think it’s so sad that we would only come to learn of it after she had died. She was cautious and solitary. Anyone she confided in was caught in misfortune too.
Marvin was there to help her get into law, but he ended up being extorted by Redd White. Diego was there when Mia indicted Dahlia, and he was poisoned into a coma. Maya who was the most precious person in the world to Mia, constantly gets targeted by other criminals for just being an honest person. She may even have watched her mom struggling after the DLC-6 incident. And the aunt who she grew up with that harboured deep malice for her and her sister. Pearl was 9 when we met her in JFA, and I don’t need to do too complicated math to say that Mia had already left the village by then. That means Aunt Morgan only started to remarry, confirmed by Morgan that her husband only married her because he thought that she would become the new head of clan. I have a theory that Morgan was intentionally halting Maya from training so she wouldn’t develop any spiritual power. Maya kept talking about training when she met us, I think it’s because she only just realised what she needed to when Mia was gone. There’s so much training she has to catch up to, because she was taking it easy when she was with Morgan. The two sisters think fondly of their aunt, but I think even that kindness has a venom to it.
My last point is about art student Phoenix. He still had years of repressed traumas about people not believing him, when he became the accused of murdering Doug Swallow. He was also going to be murdered too if my goat didn’t save his ass twice. Doug died at 22, his life had barely started. He had discovered poison missing from his lab twice, once when Dahlia was dating him, then again when Dahlia was dating Phoenix. She dropped him right after getting that poison. Of course he would’ve known, but had no evidence to back up his claim. He did the best thing in his mind, which is to tell Phoenix who’s currently dating her that she’s dangerous and planning to poison somebody. I think in warning Phoenix, it showed that he believed in Phoenix’s innocence. Even if he had gone to the police, Dahlia would not have been the one carrying poison because she gave it to Phoenix. Then Phoenix would’ve become the accused again, and it’s not certain who would believe him this time. I think he was so grateful to Mia because she had defended him then. Mia could also be at ease after convicting Dahlia of murder, and rest assured that Diego’s killer is now behind bars. I think this narrative supports the death sentence but eh, I’m not qualified to talk about that.
My purpose of writing this is just to compile my theory on how Mia became gentler from Trials and Tribulations to the start of AA1, and passed her cynicism down to Phoenix. He has a deep sense of justice that gets so upset when Redd White was going to get away with murder and extortion, that he came to that man’s home turf to indict him, gets his ass whooped and somehow got him to testify in court. Is he stupid or ingenious? Putting his life at risk never seemed to bother him. Checks out on how I was saying Beanix Wright is the ultimate evolution of this reckless hero.
Anyway, I’m just thinking about all Mia moments in 1-3, 2-2, 2-4, 3-3. Of how gentle she is to Cody and her sprites in 3-3 is everything to me. They really put me in Godot’s shoes when they make the most beautiful and gentle woman and robbed her of life 😭 I love how protective she is over Maya in the cases I mentioned. She takes over when Maya is troubled or overwhelmed and needs her help. And the way she body hops channeller in 2-4 is genuinely galaxy brain 4D chess move. The way she embraces being a spirit and gets shit done in the afterlife will never stop being funny to me. And 3-5 absolutely ruined me. I see Misty’s smile, and it’s the same smile on Mia. She looks so much like her mom. Personal bias but I like Mia in Maya’s body a lot. I don’t like how she looks in her body and Pearl’s body. Idk like something about the brown hair doesn’t suit. Maybe because her hair was a darker brown when she was younger. OH it’s because she lacks the fringe in her basic sprite and Pearl’s body. I miss that so much. I miss the way she flips her hair fringe when she makes a deduction. That animation lives in my head rent free.
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