#evelyn wright

Tagged by @stephschoices to use this picrew, and I tag anyone who wants to do it.

Moodboard for Phoenix Wright’s Mother, Evelyn (OC) from Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney.

((Judging by how this is phrased I’m guessing this means the day Phoenix was born? I didn’t expect Griffin to be this popular but ok))

Griffin’s body shuddered as he lay on the bed, his skin covered in a thick layer of perspiration that his wife was desperately trying to dab away with her hand towel.

He could feel it now, his baby was coming, and coming fast. However, Griffin was surprisingly not in a lot of pain, in fact he had a rather peaceful look on his face as he concentrated on his breathing.

In, in, out… In, in, out…

Evelyn looked at her husband worriedly. “Are you going to be ok?”

Griffin simply smiled and reached for her hand and gave it an assuring squeeze. “Im fine… it’s just our little Phoenix is in a hurry to get out…”

“Just hang in there…” Evelyn encouraged before looking out the window “we just need to wait for the midwife.

He let out a whimper as he felt a strong contraction and his body proceed to open up, a sense of build up eminent. The time was nigh.

“No good…” Griffin grunted, “I have to push…”

Evelyn gasped in shock. “But Griffin…”

“I… I know when I’m supposed to push, love” Griffin assured. “I have been trained!”

Evelyn nodded with uncertainty before wrapping herself around her around her husband’. Stroking his hair, kissing his forehead and holding him as he laboured. “You can do this Griffin”

Griffin smiled at his wife with loving eyes before scrunching them as he pushed. No matter how much he tried to make it look like he didn’t feel a thing, he was honesty hurting.

Hours later the midwife still hadn’t arrived, and Griffin was lying on the bed the newborn on his chest, in the arms of his beloved wife.

((You’re welcome! Thanks for asking))

6. What was your relationship with him like?

“He was my hero growing up, I wanted to be just like him. He was always brave and adventurous, but fair too. And well, we’re six years apart so we didn’t really grow up having all the same experiences or the same group of friends. I was five when he started at Hogwarts and so for most of my life until he disappeared I only heard from him from the letters he sent to our parents, and saw him during the summer holidays. 

But when he was home and our parents weren’t around he was surprisingly indulgent, I think, with all the times you hear about how easily adolescent boys get annoyed at being followed around by their kid sisters. He used to tell me about all the creatures he met, pranks he pulled, and other misadventures he’d had that he left out of his letters to our family, but it was normal. All normal stuff. He’d teaching me spells - pronunciation and wand movements when I asked, proud to show off. (Because despite what the ministry would have you believe, underage magic goes largely undetected when you live in a magical household.) He happily let me explore together with him, if only so I would carry the bucket full of our findings back home myself. And he took me up flying with him, sometimes, when he ‘borrowed’ dad’s broom. 

He fought and banished the monsters under my bed, in the closet, in the darkest corners of my room when I got to the age when my parents would no longer play along with me. He even made it into a game so I’d forget my fear, so I would eventually able to banish them myself when he wasn’t there. But if even that didn’t work, he’d let me crawl in bed with him even as he complained that it was too hot for him to sleep with me there. That happened a lot during the war. 

So in short, he was my best friend, secret-keeper, protecter, and one of my very first teachers.” 

16. Is there something you said or did to him that you regret? If yes, what was it?

“I wish that I’d tried to push him harder to open up, you know? He’d become a lot more withdrawn, and less open with me the year leading up to his disappearance. So my regret is that I so blindly believed that ‘Jacob knows best’ back then. Not that I REALLY could have done anything, since I didn’t even own a wand then, of course. But I do think it would have made us both feel better, if I had let him know back then that he’s not alone in this. So it’s rather what I DIDN’T do that I regret. As soon as I started at Hogwarts I promised myself that I would never fall to inaction and never waste an opportunity to tell the people I care about how I really feel about them ever again.”

22. Do you think he trusted you?

“Trust me about what exactly? I was nine when he disappeared in 1982. So basically three years before I started Hogwarts. You’ll have to be more specific. Did he trust that I would always think the best of him? Did he trust that I would find him eventually, if he really was the one to leave all of those clues in the Vaults for me to find? Or did he trust that I would abandon him to stay safe? Because despite what Duncan thinks, it sure sounds like he did all those risky things to protect me and mum, and trying to protect his friends and Hogwarts. I don’t believe at all the he’s really betrayed us like the Slytherin seems to think.