#dougnix

Ace Attorney has given us many wonderful characters and dynamics over the years, but there’s always been something about the relationship between the series’ most recognisable face and least recognisable face that stands out to literally no one. Dougnix, also known as Phoedoug, Swallowright, Narudouggie and a host of other names, is the ingenious and most certainly canon slash ship between Phoenix Wright and Doug Swallow.

Through the last nineteen years, Ace Attorney fans have not said SHIT about the ship; some view their five minute acquaintance as having a romantic tone, while others argue that they are ‘literal strangers’ or more like enemies than lovers. I’ve also seen ENTIRELY JUSTIFIED confusion in the past over why exactly people ship them, and if they have any canon basis at all (they do not <3).

The aim of this essay is to explore why they are such a galaxy brain take as an item, to serve as a comprehensive explanation and compilation of Dougnix’s nonexistent history and evidence and, hopefully, to be entertaining to both Dougnix shippers (all seven of us) and non-shippers (everyone else) alike. Of course, my views and experiences of Dougnix are pretty much universal let's be honest, so I can claim to speak for all Dougnix shippers in this essay. Fuck you.