#outofcourts

Dahlia’s wings molt early, due to the fact of how smart she’s becoming. How aware of her situation she is... Iris doesn’t understand as fast, so while she molts to grow them, Dahlia’s don’t improve much; feathers growing darker.

Misty is found out in a similar way to DL-6: she was trying to help a case, was called a fraud, ruined her reputation on Earth as a “spirit medium”...but due to Maya’s youth, the young girl was caught with her wings out. Misty would disappear while Mia- who knew about her angelic heritage, but not the full rules about it (“don’t let them know of your wings, halo, or power,” is all Misty ever told her)- was left confused.

Dad stuck around, dedicated to helping them...but Mia chose to abandon the angelic ways in favor of finding her mother.

Things happen...about the way you’d expect, really. Just small, added twists. (Redd White knowing about Mia’s origin and killing her with an added substance that is extremely harmful to them, for example. It’s relevancy can’t be added to court, but that harsh blow to the head still explains the death easily enough, anyways. Is there really a need to explain this weird, small bottle of plant-water half under a desk in the office? Totally not...)

Bonus: pair this up with a “Phoenix the Phoenix/Ace Attorney Mythology” AU. Almost everyone (if not LITERALLY everyone) is a special being now!!!

Wings. There’s more details to those.

Everyone has a color that’s original to them. Angels who stay more on their path, however, get white on the inside of their wings. If the white fades, they “fall” from this path, but don’t necessarily become fallen.

One is fallen when: found out with ill intent from an other party OR when corruption seeps in. The latter is the quickest way to fall, however.

For example... Mia’s wings are mottled brown with no white. Maya’s wings are black with a purple sheen, with white on the insides.

Dahlia’s used to be red and black with flecks of white (much like a very vibrant koi fish), but her wings eventually died; only scars and a slight raise on her back show she had wings at all.

Iris’ wings are mottled black and grey, with speckled white on the insides. They’re smaller than they should be, and dying due to her obedience to the fallen Dahlia. (Had Mia not died, she actually could’ve assisted with getting Iris back to Kurain and started the healing process; Iris isn’t as lost as she thinks she is.)