#modshoe

I’m sad to say that Modshoe has just told us that they won’t be able to continue on as a mod. As a result, we will be doing Mod Auditions again. Co-Mod will be setting up the next post, but it’s the same rules and requirements as before. So, stay tuned.

We will miss you, Modshoe.

Dear Miraz van Nohrr,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Thank you for your kind words.

Unfortunately, the moment that letter is seen, it will get deleted, because it does break the rules of breaking canon. Phoenix Wright intended to never tell Trucy or Apollo about their origins on behalf of Thalassia and she feels unready to tell them at the moment. Every letter that has ever toed the line would always result in neither Apollo nor Trucy knowing or else deciding to research themselves outside of the letters. So, until AA brings us a game where Phoenix or Thalassia intends on telling Apollo and/or Trucy, neither will ever know on this blog. Even Thalassia and Phoenix talking about revealing this to Apollo and Trucy at the end of the post-credit scene in Spirit of Justice doesn’t count.

That being said, you could do a letter like that for one other person without breaking canon: Iris Wilson. When Yujin Mikotoba revealed the truth of Iris’ origins to Ryunosuke, Susato, Barok and Kazuma, there was a pause before Iris began talking on the talkie. It’s also proven in canon that Iris has a tendency to eavesdrop and there were subtle hints that Iris already knew after that reveal, unlike with Apollo and Trucy.

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: I think they’re a person that likes to make funny letters for the characters’ reactions.

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: It doesn’t matter to me, but there is something to admire about 2D with all the work that goes into it. That being said, 3D can be admired, if work goes into it. I once said that if AA was going to do 3D, then they should take a page from PLvsPW’s playbook on how to do it. It seems they did when The Great Ace Attorney came. The animation was clean, it took advantage of its surroundings. Much of the gameplay felt familiar to PLvsPW, especially cross-examining multiple witnesses and questioning one that you’re not talking to. 

If AA was to do another game, I’d like to see them bring back the Jury idea, but take a page from The Great Ace Attorney in how to do it. My issue with how it was done in Apollo Justice was that there was no interaction or threat of the Jurors choosing Guilty or Not Guilty. They were ultimately in Phoenix’s favor. I like that the Jurors were not on Ryunosuke’s side and could even be racist jackasses to him sometimes. He had to talk with them and use their words against them, only submitting evidence when asked. I’d like to see Phoenix, Athena and Apollo go through something like that if Capcom was to make a new 3D AA game.

Modshoe: I love them both :D. Though, when I first saw playthroughs of DD, I wasn’t a fan of the 3D style. I just finished the first four games so I was biased towards the 2D style. But eventually, I grew to love the 3D style just as much as the 2D :).

Mod Justice: Don’t care about graphics or gameplay - I only care about good storytelling when it comes to Ace Attorney (and pretty much every video game ever to exist).

If a game has a good story, then graphics and gameplay are secondary. Don’t like me for having this opinion? Three words: SUCK IT UP.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: You and I both. I was on the fence about that one for a moment.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: That’s the problem. The letters used to show the emails of anonymous letters, but now they don’t. It’s a pain. As if Tumblr hasn’t given us enough trouble as it is.

Dear Dawsongfg,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Have never played half those games, so I can’t say.

(Referenced Letter)

Chief Mod Edgeworth: If you think this is ridiculous, you haven’t played The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, the second one specifically. Speaking of evidence.

This means that Franziska von Karma is of Japanese descent. Whether it is full or part is up to the fans to decide. I’ve just decided to go for full Japanese. The same goes for Phoenix Wright. It isn’t out of the realm of possibilities for this to be canon and, as far as I know, they’re the only characters that are accepted to be full Japanese in this blog. Maya and Athena have only claimed to be part Japanese since both have adopted Japanese religion/culture in some form. You don’t have to share the same headcanons, but this isn’t ridiculous for Ace Attorney.

Personally, I find it more unrealistic for the game to take place in the United States, yet somehow require all attorneys to wear badges, one of them representing the rising sun on the Japanese flag. At this point, I can see why some headcanons include Japan winning WW2. Until The Great Ace Attorney came around, it was easy to go along with Phoenix Wright and Franziska von Karma being American/German, but now it’s also canon that Ryunosuke Naruhodo is the ancestor of Phoenix Wright and Manfred/Franziska von Karma haven an ancestor that took the Karuma name as a surname. This blog will accept canon as it comes and will be flexible with any new information. If this means making everyone Japanese, then so be it. 

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Also, do note, even then the Judge thought that Phoenix didn’t act like himself and Tigre didn’t call himself “Overly dramatic Phoenix Wright.” He called himself “Phoenix Wright.” Maybe if the letter was from “Phoenix Wright,” the Judge could’ve fallen for it.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Fart Smella,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: I only correct letters, if I made a miscorrection, but this is not the case. Please tell me where in the letter does it specify WHEN Ryunosuke receives the letter or is being channeled? If you only placed “Ryunosuke Naruhodo,” then that’s on YOU. 

You need to place in your letter what timeline this takes place or if Ryunosuke is being channeled. You could’ve placed the following: “To Naruhodo Ryunosuke (Channeled by Maya)” or “To Naruhodo Ryunosuke (Phoenix Wright Timeline)”. Anything that would inform me that this takes place at a certain timeline would work. If not, don’t be surprised if we don’t answer it in the timeline you want. We can’t read your mind.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Sinyove,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Fixed it!

Dear Emperor-vizer,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Err... sorry for not answering this one. I do remember answering letters from you, so perhaps that answers your question?

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Oh wow, I don’t know how I missed this one. This was at the bottom of the inbox.

At the moment of sending this, they had a huge number of letters pouring in but that has since decreased to 2-3. I’d say the maximum they’ve sent in a day is 5. Lately, I’ve hardly had any letters from them I’ve had to delete. No one seems to have an issue with Dawsongfg anymore. 

I did say around the point this letter was supposedly sent that their letters have decreased. The reason you didn’t see that around October and November was because I was answering letters from July and August. This is exactly what I meant when I said, “you are not seeing it at the moment.” Now, you are seeing it, because several months have passed. 

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: I’m lost, because I have no idea what you’re talking about. This is a blog that answers letters. It’s not a fan fiction or roleplay site.

(Referenced Letters)

Dear Draph91,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Thanks. Fixed it.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Inferno,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: I know I’m hijacking a character letter, but that’s because this one was fixed before I saw your letter. I thought Edgeworth was getting slapped when he was being told to slap instead of kill. Sorry about that.

Dear Draph91 (again),

Chief Mod Edgeworth: That’s fine. We’re just trying to avoid another incident like last year. As for Apollo having a cat, (it’s two cats actually) it’s like Edgeworth having a dog named Pess. It is mentioned, but we never see the cat in general.

(Referenced video)

Dear Vivyn,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: It would depend on the video and if it could be taken as something that happens to real life celebrities or YouTubers. In the case of reviews, most of them can be done on people in real life based on their performance in their careers or content. However, many game reviews of characters are criticized for how they’re animated, written and executed as fictional characters. Those cannot be translated to be reviews of real life people. 

In this case, it seems like the video has people talking about characters they consider hot. This kind of review is done with real life people. Just give us the time stamp to the video talking about Godot, and you can have him or someone else respond to it without breaking the fourth wall.

(Referenced Link)’

Dear skibot99,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Thank you for the tip, but I would rather stick to universally known holidays. Believe it or not, I did have a discussion with Mod Justice when he wanted to add Pi Day. I don’t think we should add holidays that people only celebrate one year, then forget the next. 

I say we keep it simple and celebrate holidays that are universally celebrated by the country or the world. Even the two extra holidays I added for TGAAC are celebrated and well known in those countries.

Mod Justice: Admittedly, I was a bit disappointed about these holidays not being shown, but I didn’t really mind it. It’s kind of like being at a store and your favorite brand of a certain item is out of stock: “Aw, they’re out of the [insert brand name here] brand of [insert related item here]... Oh well, I’ll be fine with [insert alternate brand here].”

(Referenced Letter) (Referenced video)

Dear invenblocker,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Ah! Thanks for this. In truth, I never really got that big into Pokemon. Not the anime anyways. I played Soulsilver and that was it.

Modshoe: The Pokerap! I’m actually a huge fan of Pokemon, so this was nice to hear again :D.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Vivyn (again),

Chief Mod Edgeworth: No worries, I didn’t take it as you being aggressive or a personal attack. You’re also not the only one that gets misgendered. Even in real life, I once got misgendered when I was in 4th grade and I’m not even trans or non-binary. It happens to the best of us and I’d be lying if I said I never did the same in my life.

I find laughter to be the best medicine personally.

(Referenced Letters)

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Thank you. It is a bit tricky to know how to link previous sites. I’d read this, if you wish to know different ways of doing it that will go through. I’ve updated this, so people new here will know how to write letters. I recommend everyone else to also read it if they’re having issues with the letters with HTML, links and other things not showing.

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: So, you think that because we answered these letters with having characters not fall for these letters because they know said character long enough to tell they’re fake, we never have letters where the characters do fall for it? Not here, here, here, here, here or even here? 

Not saying you’re trying to be rude, but this isn’t a blog meant to have characters act stupid when someone they know very well acts strange. The Judge didn’t fall for it, because it read “Overly dramatic Phoenix Wright” and Phoenix doesn’t sound like that. Apollo didn’t fall for it either, because he knows Kristoph isn’t a dramatic person. He was named “the Coolest Defense Attorney in the West” for crying out loud! 

Well, about time for some spring cleaning.

Ohh, boy! This will be fun!

Oh wow. Look at this letter that definitely doesn’t break any rules whatsoever. How should I answer this?

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Thank you and a Happy Lunar New Year to you too.

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: It’s hard to say, considering you are also counting the characters of The Great Ace Attorney at a time when currency and pricing of things were much different and characters from another country that is likely not a first world country.

Though, if I had to take a guess, this would be my top 10 richest AA characters (that have sprites and lines):

10. Dee Vasquez

9. Justine Courtney

8. The Debeste Family

7. The Amano Family

6. Ga’ran Sigatar Khura’in and all Khura’in family

5. Di-Jun Huang (Body Double)

4. Miles Edgeworth

3. Barok van Zieks

2. Franziska von Karma

1. Manfred von Karma

(Referenced Letter)

Dear  মিরাজ।,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: These were sprites created by the former mods. As for which one of them did it, I do not know.

Mod Justice: I believe those sprites can be credited to "The Mod," as I'm ninety-five percent certain he's the one who initially made them.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear FernadoLemon,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: I wasn’t a mod when this was answered and I don’t think Co-Mod was either. So... I don’t know what this letter is talking about.

As a side note, not sure if it was intentional or a misunderstanding, but I am keeping my gender anonymous. As such, I’d rather not be referred to as a gender of any sort, including being a man, woman, gentleman, lady or anything in between. That includes pronouns. I’m sure I have hinted my true gender somewhere, but I’d rather them not be brought out either.

As for Modshoe, I’d ask them just in case.

Dear Tropetaker,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: I like the idea, though executing it is often difficult. Personally, I feel that the evil vs evil in Ace Attorney was executed the best in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. Perhaps, not having the player play as an evil Defense Attorney against another evil Prosecutor by any means, but the concept that even the greatest people with the best of intentions are capable of evil acts and that evil people are capable of doing good. The introduction of Magnus McGuilded and Gina Lastrade truly highlights this, then went even deeper in the second game.

Ace Attorney has always demonstrated how evil characters can be in positions of good or start out with noble intentions, but with every new game they release, they highlight this concept even more. I only wish there were more games like these.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Dawsongfg,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Google search.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear A1am0nt,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: That’s actually very interesting. I wasn’t sure, but then again, I also learned right after posting that, that it was also used for other things. When I was asking my grandpa, who is 90 by the way, what they used to use as toilet paper, he said, “we used the catalog.”

Long story short, my mom and I burst out laughing, while my grandma was red on the face. Guess newspaper was used for other things than carrying Fish and Chips.

Mod Justice:

............

(What the [CENSORED], M.E.?!)

Modshoe: That’s... disturbing...

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Really? That’s cool!

(Warning: Language and Politics)

Modshoe reporting for duty!

...

That was all I could come up with for my introduction...

But I think I got my point across.

That's right! I'm the newest member of the Ask Ace Attorney mod team! I'm still learning the ropes around here, but I'm sure that I'll learn. After all, everyone gets better with time.

So let's start this new year with a bang!

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: My apologies about that. Co-Mod did take out that rule in the Submission Guidelines, but I think he forgot to take it out of the description. It’s now out, so no worries.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Yes. Sorry about that. Grammar error. It’s fixed.

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: If it hasn’t come up already, I can’t remember. We are now just entering the October letters. If yours was submitted after October or somewhere during October, it’s likely still in there.

Modshoe: It’s most likely still in the inbox. It’ll be answered soon.

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: 

I apologize for not picking this up. I assumed it was a character letter, but there doesn’t seem to be any indication of who it’s for, so... yeah. 

Since there’s no letter or any link to a letter we did to understand what this is indicating, I can only say that I agree with what you said. I don’t recall a point in time either of us, even me, denying this. While there likely were letters by others with head canons that there could’ve been ulterior means, they are not from us. Keep in mind that just because we answer letters with head canons as if they were canon, that doesn’t mean we consider them canon. 

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: 

Thank you and happy birthday to you!

Modshoe: Happy birthday! I’m glad that this blog makes you happy. It’s also gonna be my birthday soon! Maybe we can birthday buddies... or whatever that is.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Thanks. Fixed it!

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Beppo is a nice old guy. I like him. 

Odie Asman... I guess has a cool monocle? I don’t know much about him, other than that he screwed over Enoch Drebber.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Thank you for the clarification. I use google translate to translate foreign languages, so I only go by what it tells me. I’ve fixed it, so it’s good.

Dear Anonymous,

Co-Mod:  I'm not really a huge FNAF fan, but I'd probably go with Freddy himself, since he's the least creepy-looking of the bunch.

Mod Justice: I know this was for Co-Mod, but I thought I'd chime in.

I'd personally go with a classic - Foxy's my guy.

...What? Too "vanilla" for you?

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: I have since first seeing him. It wasn’t a big revelation, but I can see how anyone could miss that. They are very small ear rings.

Modshoe: Wait, Manfred wears earrings?

Huh, I guess he does. I never noticed. Well, the more you know!