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The piece I did for @castlevaniazine ! The leftover sales are currently going until April 18th so please check it out!

#castlevania #castlevania fanart #dracula #hector #isaac

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sypha sketch ‼️

#castlevania #castlevania fanart #sypha belnades

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Finally finished!! Kinda obsessed with this new painterly style and i'll definitely draw more of it :'>

#castlevania #castlevania fanart #alucard

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wright anything agency presents... TRUCY!!!

#ace attorney #aa fanart #aa4 #phoenix wright #trucy wright

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still so busy but i’ll always make time for trucy art

#ace attorney #aa fanart #trucy wright

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im perfect

#ace attorney #franziska von karma #aa fanart #aa2

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also!! here are the stickers I made for the @phoenixwrightzine !! they're doing reprints of the zine & merch rn so go check them out if u missed out on the leftovers✨ link to the post here~

#ace attorney #aa fanart #phoenix wright

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This picture should be an album cover. What the hell even is this

#ace attorney #aa screenshots #aa5 #apollo justice #athena cykes #phoenix wright

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Kay & Klavier being besties commission for @/byakushii on Twitter! Love these two! 🫶🏼

#ace attorney #aa fanart #kay faraday #klavier gavin

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I don't think I've shown these before

I made them from poster board and sharpies

#these are so cool! #ace attorney #aa fanart

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we were going to be together forever (we were going to be together forever)

#ace attorney #aa fanart #iris #phoenix wright #aa3

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replaying the AA trilogy again for scientific reasons, and I just gotta say I love that in AA1: Turnabout Samurai, when Mia leaves at the end of the second day and Maya comes back, Phoenix doesn't express any disappointment. Like, it would make sense for him to be a bit bummed that Mia left while things are still so fraught and he's still floundering a bit, but he doesn't say anything like that, he just embraces that Maya is back and fills her in on what's happened.

I feel like that was probably such an important moment for Maya and Phoenix, because maybe he's NOT that disappointed Maya is back because hey, that's his friend, and he's happy to see her. How long has it been since he's had that and it wasn't Larry? Or his boss? And Maya gets to see that he doesn't just view her as a conduit for his old mentor, and is just as happy to work with her as he was Mia.

I care them, your honor. I care their friendship so much.

#ace attorney #aa meta #phoenix wright #maya fey

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Good & Evil in Ace Attorney

So one of the things I like to pick apart in a fictional narrative where good versus evil is a relevant theme, is how does the narrative depict the nature of evil, and what tools and mechanisms does it give the protagonists to combat it.

The Ace Attorney series absolutely thematically depicts a battle of good versus evil, and the narrative position that it takes is that:

good = the truth

and evil = lies.

In Ace Attorney the hard truth is always preferable to a soft lie. Characters who lie, and twist the truth– even to help someone, or for good reasons– are cast as making a choice to do something wrong– are bringing wrongness into the world. They are not effectively fighting evil. 

We can see this embodied with Simon who chooses to lie on behalf of Athena, and while this lie saves her it also is the narrative cause of her suffering and his sister's suffering. Not only this but he is literally visually shackled by his lie in the story– he's freed by the truth.

Ace Attorney also takes the position that the longer a lie goes undiscovered, the more harm that it does. A lie that's become integrated into the fabric of the world keeps people from healing from the results of harm– we can see this embodied heavily in Von Karma, and Edgeworth in the first game. Von Karma who is literally concealing the truth inside a wound in his body, and Edgeworth who is unable to move on and heal from his trauma until the truth of the matter is uncovered.

The mechanism with which the characters fight evil in the series is by discovering secrets and revealing lies, picking away at falsehoods and incorrect assumptions until only the truth, no matter how difficult to accept, remains. The narrative reality of Ace Attorney is that truth is good, that truth is healing and freeing, and that lies are like a rot or a cancer that destroy people.

The weapons by which the characters in Ace Attorney fight evil are logic and reasoning– but always tempered with faith and hope, but notice that the characters– especially Phoenix and Apollo– are motivated to pursue the truth even when it is against their best interests, and even when it looks like the truth is going to shatter their belief in someone they trust.

In Ace Attorney the battle of good and evil is presented as pursuing truth, to heal those who have been harmed and distorted by lies and false perceptions. The more serious the evil, the deeper and more ingrained in the fabric of the world the lie is. 

An ultimate battle between good and evil would potentially look like the protagonists digging up the truth in a truly ancient cold case– discovering a lie that has remained ingrained in the world for centuries, amplifying the pain of others and causing them to be unable to heal. This dovetails extremely well with the existence of literal actual ghosts and spirits in the story-- haunting the narrative until the truth is uncovered, and they can finally rest.

#ace attorney #aa meta

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ME WHEN THE ACE OD SPADES IS ONE OF THE LUCKIEST CARDS BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS GOOD FORTUNE!!! ME WHEN IT FITS HIS CHARACTER!!!

#ace attorney #aa fanart #aa4 #phoenix wright

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my full piece for @7yeargapzine!! i got to collaborate with @angst-in-space and draw for their fic which is for all you wright family fans (bring tissues!!!). CHECK OUT THE FIC HERE: https://ao3.org/works/54832612

leftover sales for the zine are open while supplies last! check it out 🃏

#ace attorney #aa fanart #phoenix wright #trucy wright

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April fools

@themornal and @8edhead are the voices

#ace attorney #aa fanart #franziska von karma #phoenix wright #maya fey #aa2

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comic I made for the 7 year gap zine! leftover sale is ongoing :>

#ace attorney #aa fanart #aa4 #trucy wright #phoenix wright