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So Zak doesnt use Poker to determine his lawyer and sticks with Kristoph as his attorney. Kristoph ends up using the forged evidence of course, establishing Zak’s innocence. However, Zak still flees before a verdict is announced (ee mentions smth in the game abt how it will be impossible to declare a verdict, so I genuinely believe that he was planning on running out no matter what) and Kristoph gets stuck with an 8 year old girl.

At first, he’s planning on giving her up to an orphanage when he can’t find any living relatives of hers, until he learns that she aided Zak in his escape. This makes Kristoph realize that she’s smarter than he first thought, meaning she could be useful to him, so he adopts her, not out of pity or love, but because he could use her. He has her start training to become a defense attorney like himself that she’s a defense attorney by the time she’s 15.

Kristoph gets the fame he was looking for as the lawyer who defended Zak Gramarye, but due to the defendant running away, there are rumors that Zak was actually guilty, and that Kristoph is a defense attorney who would do anything to win, like the defense attorney version of the Demon Prosecutor. Still, hes a really good defense attorney, so he’s still getting business.

Another important thing about this Au: Phoenix never got disbarred, since Kristoph was never replaced, so the Wright and Co. Law Offices remains. Apollo ends up working there instead of the Gavin and Co. Law Offices, and this part is still iffy as I need to play more of Dual Destinies, but I’m thinking of changing the timeline a bit and having Athena in the US during AA4 as Apollo’s assistant/weird girl as an intern at the Wright and Co. Law Offices studying to take the bar exam since Trucy can no longer be his weird girl.

Not completely sure how the actual game itself would play out now, I’m still developing this Au, but Kristoph does still end up killing Zak seven years later. Zak has the real torn page, which makes Kristoph paranoid because Zak could reveal Kristoph’s secret of seven years that he used forged evidence and destroy his career. So Kristoph kills him on impulse.

Apollo still catches Kristoph as the true culprit somehow (not sure how yet, still working this out), and of course Trucy finds out. She defends her father in his trial and gets him a Not Guilty due to a lack of evidence, so he doesn’t go to jail this time. But the Gavin & Co. Law Offices name is ruined thanks to Kristoph having been labeled as a murderer. The moment Trucy learns it was Apollo Justice who branded her father a criminal, she decides that she hates him for doing so and declares him her enemy.