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sorry for the overwhelming amount of narumitsu thoughts im having but like. what really really gets me every time is the choosing death and forging the ace parallels because there are so many possibilities. miles edgeworth dies and makes phoenix thing he's exactly what the public viewed his as: a man who's pride got the best of him. phoenix wright forges the ace. what does miles edgeworth think? at first i pictured it as this huge fight with a "it would have been better if you never came back from the dead/stepped foot in court" moment but then i remembered miles already has deeper, less black-and-white knowledge of how the legal system works and how some decisions can be complicated. phoenix, on the other hand?? as justifiable as his motivations for forging the evidence are, he still presents himself as this guy who "maybe did actually forge the page seven years ago, it doesn't matter" and feels somewhat deserving of the public's reaction and apollo's punch. honestly, him forging the ace and telling apollo is a punishment to himself - so i feel like he would tell edgeworth too, as a kind of "you have been so convinced i was this brilliant and wronged guy for all these years, well what do you think of me now" move. i can imagine phoenix confessing the forgery over the phone and hanging up, drawing conclusions before edgeworth even gets to speak. i can imagine him getting hit by the damn car next day after the call. i can imagine miles edgeworth coming into the hospital and feeling a sense of deja vu, but this time, he is the one to pick up the magatama from the stand near the hospital bed and express very clearly he does not give a shit about the forgery but wright you are being an asshole and hiding something and you will let me break the locks that will appear right now. respectfully. god knows phoenix wouldn't talk about the jury system plans otherwise. the parallels man the parallels get me every time

krisnix is something that can be so personal because like. the love was there. i swear it fucking was even if they didn't think so. and it's not even a "in another life situation" because the fucked-upness of it all is what made them close, i don't think they would even be close friends if they were normal lawyers the whole time. it's about kristoph needing to control phoenix and phoenix needing control over his life and about denial and about me fucking crying right now

also just in case someone thinks me posting about dahlia and kristoph with a lot of expressed interest means i am treating them like gaslight gatekeep girlbosses: no!! i recognize how deeply terrible and impactful their actions were and that is what makes their characters hit the spot, especially with dahlia. i speak about her being a victim and being a human not as an excuse but as an addition to the horror: the horror, specifically, of seeing how the character started as a human child and with slow inevitability became a creature so selfish and devoid of empathy, both as a defense mechanism an as a conscious choice. i bathe in the implied complexity of kristoph's manipulations: the man probably helped wright financially and emotionally in the first few years, trying to earn his trust and keep the entirety of it to himself for phoenix to become more and more susceptible to manipulation, like clay getting softer in warm hands. i might understand bits and pieces of the psychology behind those character's actions, but they don't, and they won't, and they don't want to - it's their intelligent choice to kill and ruin, to be as they are, and at the same time, it's something they have no control over. long story short - there is another way to appreciate villains beyond the "lol he did nothing wrong" half-joke. it's like reading a horror book in the shape of a man.

see my issue with the fan characterization of most characters isn't that they make a character dumber than they are or smarter than they are, it's that they feel the need to identify them with the "dumbass" category or the "nerd" category or the "smart dumbass" category or literally any other category. is art not fundamentally unique. can we not enjoy characters by seeing all of their complexity and specific, uncategorized traits. same about ship dynamics, but i've seen someone else talk about that already and they were right, so why say it again. anyways, if you want two characters with two traits have a dynamic that can be defined by one word, go watch tom and jerry, i'm out here enjoying refreshing takes and meaningful details. and men's wide shoulders as well. big fan. women's wide shoulders also

seriously though can you imagine being any aa1 character. the plot is a psychological tsunami for literally everyone, maya fey ESPECIALLY, and i'm not even talking about the whole "oh yeah we have to look at pictures of dead people and decide the fates of defendants in a cruel system" thing I'm talking about the "my sister died and i got framed for the murder so this guy helped me but then he got framed for murder and ie felt so responsible i channeled the dead sister so now everyone but me can talk to her" thing and the "said channeling burnt me out so much i couldn't do it anymore and it got so bad that i threw myself in the way of a taser with a death wish" thing. like wtf!!!! every time i think about maya my heart breaks into millions of pieces!! and this is just the surface stuff!!! she was 17 THAT'S MY AGE

i wake up. ace attorney is trending??? i check the tag. apollo justice trilogy? capcom that's great and all but an apollo justice trilogy would require three apollo justice games

sometimes a love story is a seven year long staring contest and actually more of a hate story that leaves permanent damage on both parties and so so many unanswered questions even after the truth is seemingly uncovered. krisnix to me is like the wine and cheese of ships if ships were food. meaningful conversation? here comes the wine and the divorced lawyers. crazy day and a need for relaxation? bring it here. hedonistic mood? i'll get the glasses