Royal Pile Of Trash

Dahlia Hawthorne/Calisto Yew interaction but in the specific scenario where Dahlia was actually indicted for Valerie's murder while Calisto got away with Byrne's murder and kept being a lawyer.

Dahlia: So, you actually are going to take my case? You should know miss Yew, the prosecutor has some quite hard evidence against dear old me. I heard they're considering the death penalty. It will be a tough trial.

Calisto: Believe me, miss Hawthorne, you'll find no lawyer more capable than me at getting my client off the hook, no matter how guilty they are. Trust me, I'm speaking from experience here.

Dahlia: ...experience as a lawyer or as a guilty party?

-getting away with her crime for 23 years

-tricking her kingdom into believing she can channel spirits for just as long

-having the biggest kill count if we count deaths caused by the unjust trials her laws created

Does putting Orla on trial make sense if it was a way for Simon to get the proof out of the defense because he'd already figured out the culprit was human (specifically Sasha)? Yes.

Just remembered that at one point towards the end, to give Miles time to find the evidence to frame Simon, Kay just, starts making fun of him by mimicking his voice to distract him? And somehow it works??

I can imagine Simon figured out immediately what she was doing and just played along cause he was confident they couldn't catch him either way, but it's so much funnier to think he was actually that pissed off at her imitations that he just stopped paying attention at the guy currently trying to get his ass for murder.

It's still so fucking baffling to be hit every once in a while with the notion that yeah, all that shit that happened in the mainline games? All the main characters that were directly and indirectly affected over time? It's because of two of the contenders for the title of Worst-Piece-Of-Shit-Father-Ever in the series and one fangirl of a fake french man.

Genuinely so wild to me that the devs decided to expand such a crucial element of the mainline games in the fucking spin off. That alone baffles me more than the circumstances of the actual case.

It makes the fact that none of the characters that only appeared in the AAI collection ever got to be in the main series so more confusing and insulting to me. I'm not necessarily hoping for a new Ace Attorney game but if it is a possibility, I beg of you Capcom, bring some of them back! You had no problem exploring elements of the main series in the spin-off, hell you did a great job with it! Why don't you give it a try again, but in the opposite direction?