#Juan Corrida

[zarla-s]

More holiday requests! Some Ace Attorney ones this year which are fun, I haven't drawn PW stuff in ages, haha. Some of these are from an Ace Attorney/Frozen crossover that i finished writing years ago and still haven't POSTED IT'S DONE WHY AM I LIKE THIS i just need to sit down and finish editing it one of these days

The last one is from a very disturbing Matt/Juan (well, more like the doomed love square of 2-4 with Adrian/Matt/Juan/Celeste) psychological horrorshow I wrote a long time ago during a pretty dark time in my life, as you can probably guess from the shot, haha. Definitely not for children or the faint of heart.

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#ace attorney #pokemon #brain's froze #z art #athena cykes #apollo justice #klavier gavin #kristoph gavin #toxtricity #matt engarde #juan corrida #shoe #i really need to reread the frozen fic and try and get back into that headspace again #it's just been sitting there mocking me for ages #god it's 90k+ i didn't even notice until just now #i was possessed by a demon

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6/24/23

some meme image redraws for funsies <3 (images i used under the cut)

#ace attorney #juan corrida #matt engarde #shelly de killer #godot #aa godot #dick gumshoe #maya fey #maggey byrde #gregory edgeworth #manfred von karma #miles edgeworth #kay faraday #trucy wright #art #fanart #tw guns #tw blood #tw violence #aa jfa #aa trials and tribulations #character things #character drawings #bfhdhb-art

[wowowwild]

Beginning to think I have issues.

#ace attorney #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #wrightworth #narumitsu #simon blackquill #nahyuta sahdmadhi #blackmahdi #juan corrida #matt engarde #dahlia hawthorne #kristoph gavin #krisnix #captioning random shit so ik which one i'm getting notifications for #my memes #ace's memes

[meowquill]

if i forgot anyone plz tell me and ill add them :)

#ace attorney #ace attorney fandom #ace attorney meme #larry butz #maximillion galactica #luke atmey #wocky kitaki #diego armando #bobby fulbright #ace attorney bellboy #bellboy ace attorney #hugh o'conner #richard wellington #uendo toneido #juan corrida #neil marshall #nahyuta sahdmadhi #turner grey #dick gumshoe #gregory edgeworth #sorin sprocket #ace attorney judge #judge ace attorney #apollo justice #clay terran #will powers #winston payne #gaspen payne #miles edgeworth #redd white

[knightsickness]

recognising the theme of grief in jfa is literally so important to getting anything out of it. phoenix and franziska are both grieving miles, though phoenix is depressed by this (refusing to engage with it at all) and franziska is in angry denial. miles is coming to terms with the death of his father and the metaphorical death of his mentor throughout the trilogy, but especially here. pearl is understandably devastated over the loss of her mother, which she only voices when she thinks she’s about to lose maya too. mimi is grieving ini, and her crime is killing the man she sees as responsible for the death of her sister. acro is grieving bat, and while attempting to kill the girl he sees as responsible accidentally kills his mentor. these crimes are supposed to be sympathetic, but not selfless - despite the justification of grief, they acted for themselves, because ini and bat are already dead. adrian and juan are both grieving celeste and both attempt to frame engarde, who they see as responsible for her death - a stance that alleviates both of them of responsibility, that justifies forging a suicide note. is it supposed to? engarde is the subversion to the theme in that he’s a villain who is evil because he enjoys hurting people. he is entirely self-interested, without any facade of grief or reasoning. the situation he puts phoenix in forces him to choose between his ideals (solving the case) and ‘self-interest’ (saving his friend at the cost of an innocent life). the bad ending, in which phoenix allows adrian to be convicted, reflects phoenix’s established tendency to depression and avoidance - after he wins the case, he wanders the streets alone, thinking about it in abstract terms. the good ending - adrian getting justice, pearl reunited with maya, miles and franziska coming to their version of reconciliation - is a hopeful one, opening the possibility of moving forwards

#you may be wondering why i didn’t include 2-1 in this analysis and well it isn’t a very good case #2-3 is worse but at least it’s thematically interesting #justice for all #ace attorney #justice for all spoilers #phoenix wright #franziska von karma #miles edgeworth #pearl fey #ini miney #mimi miney #maya fey #acro #ken dingling #regina berry #adrian andrews #juan corrida #celeste inpax #matt engarde #ace attorney meta

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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All (2002)

The Lost Turnabout Reunion, and Turnabout Turnabout Big Top Farewell, My Turnabout

#ace attorney #aa2 #trials and tribulations #gifset #figtreegif #the lost turnabout #reunion and turnabout #turnabout big top #farewell my turnabout #phoenix wright #the judge #mimi miney #ini miney #maximillion galactica #jammin ninja #nickel samurai #juan corrida #matt engarde #phoenix wright ace attorney justice for all #game boy advance #nintendo ds

[graverobber3457]

Ace attorney rightfully receives criticism for it's misogyny and treatment of female characters, but ill give it one (1) thing: 2-4's portrayal of how matt and juan only see celeste as an object to be used and thrown out, and how even when she dies she cannot escape being fodder for their stupid fucking rivalry is very, very cutting and well written.

#ace attorney #ace attorney justice for all #adrian andrews #celeste inpax #matt engarde #juan corrida #farewell my turnabout

[weeniehead1]

OH. MY. GOD. OH MY GOD this case is phenominal! Farewell, My Turnabout is FUCKING FANTASTIC. I'm not done yet but like I'm so obsessed with this case.

Honestly I love everything about it: the clues, the characters, the setting, the dialogue, the way the case develops, maya's kidnapping (please find her edgeworth!!), etc. I just,, I LOVE IT.

I don't think I've ever liked a case as much as this one to be completely honest with you. I just need someone to reciprocate my excitement because the last case was doo doo poopy and I needed this case to be good and it exceeded my expectations.

#ace attorney #ace attorney fandom #maya fey #pheonix wright #miles edgeworth #detective gumshoe #will powers #juan corrida #matt engarde #adrian andrews #shelly de killer #celeste inpax #lotta hart #wendy oldbag

[aubyrei]

some ace attorney doodles/art studies. love the gay lawyer game

#tw noose #tw self injury #tw eye trauma #tw eye damage #okay now that we got all of those out of the way #franziska von karma #matt engarde #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #adrian andrews #juan corrida #dahlia hawthorne #celeste inpax #maya fey #pearl fey #ace attorney #farewell my turnabout #turnabout memories #ace attorney spoilers #aa2 spoilers #aa3 spoilers #uhh ok rhat should be all #the engarde claw thing was a hc I read here. literally the biggest brain hc ever

[otaconinabox]

doodle dump

#liquid snake #psycho mantis #otacon #hal emmerich #juan corrida #matt engarde #ace attorney #metal gear #metal gear solid #metal gear twin snakes #mgs #doodles #doodle dump #dump #art dump #photoshop

[i-like-too-many-things-rip-lmao]

stupid aa thing #3

thinking about that gloom video where she does vr and that kid goes on a rant about suing Walmart... Matt Engarde. that's all I have to say.

#stupid aa thing #ace attorney #phoenix wright #matt engarde #juan corrida #I have this memorized and constantly quote it with my sister #farewell my turnabout

[zarla-s]

And the last batch of holiday requests! Christmas pain in Christmas tooownnn (requests are closed)

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#hunter #smoker #ladyverse #z art #juan corrida #ace attorney #edgar vargas #little things that are probably hard to identify by these tiny chibis #charger #david

[ezracorner]

do u guys think matt and juan ever explored eachothers bodi HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHAHAHH GUYS make sure to play the hit ga,me ace attorney by capc,,oom!

#matt engarde #ace attorney #ace attorney trilogy #farewell my turnabout #aa jfa #mattjuan #juan corrida #ace attorney justice for all

[ethanhuntfemmefatale]

drop a Matt Engarde character analysis onto us

Anon I am always ready for a Matt engarde character analysis at five minutes to midnight

Ok here goes. there is so much to talk about with Matt Engarde.

The basis of Engarde’s character is his double personality. There’s a lot of ways to interpret this—as someone who is trying to learn but essentially does not know Japanese at all, I think I remember hearing that he refers to his two personas with different pronouns? Which is Fascinating. It’s easy to imagine there are mental health conditions at play here, but there are a lot of people on this site more qualified to talk about that than me (mentally ill guy who knows very little about mental illness) so I’ll leave it to them. The main thing I think is interesting about Engarde’s personas is the way that they relate to his two major roles, as a child actor and a murderer. These are the two main ways he thinks of himself. A dumb, charming kid, and an evil maniac.

For me, far and away the most fascinating and revealing line Engarde has in the whole game is when Pearl asks him why he would do “something so horrible,” and Engarde replies, “Because I’m a grownup, and I can.” There’s another moment where he talks to Pearl that way—“Let the grownups talk.” Engarde’s evil persona carries the infamous mysteriously appearing glass of alcohol, another symbol of adulthood. This is a pattern.

Engarde grew up as a child performer. That’s a role that involves a ton of responsibility and practically zero agency. It’s safe to say he led a powerless childhood, addicted to fame before he could even comprehend it, with a manager whose relationship with him was, in my opinion, questionable at best. The point of this is, there is a direct association inherent in Engarde’s personas: between his “innocent and stupid and beautiful” persona and the powerlessness of childhood; between his “evil ugly mastermind” persona and the agency of adulthood.

It’s easy to see that Engarde’s fame is a trap. Even though he’s a legal adult, he isn’t allowed to grow up because any act of independence, any show of adulthood, would compromise the image he’s built. He’s obsessed with it, all through the game. It seems at times like the only thing he cares about. We see the lengths to which he will go to protect it. We also see all of the ways that it restricts him. Adrian can’t be seen walking out of Engarde’s bedroom. It would compromise his image. Engarde can’t let the world see his scars. It would compromise his image.

The scars are fascinating too. Obviously, there’s the immediate “disgust-fear” reaction the game expects to elicit when they are first shown, which is pretty shitty. But there’s more to it. Engarde’s scars are likely (as many people have theorized) self inflicted, in an act of rage and maybe even self-hatred while wearing the Nickel Samurai costume. It’s not only that his audiences aren’t allowed to see his scars. Audiences aren’t allowed to see his anger, or his capacity for violence and harm. They aren’t allowed to believe him capable of it. Engarde associates anger, injury, freedom, flaws—in short, any sign of humanity—with the end of his career and the entire life he’s lived until then.

Obviously, an existence genuinely free of these things is simply not tenable. It is impossible for Engarde to truly live in his persona all of the time. But instead of allowing himself to relax behind closed doors—a feat that would likely be very near impossible for someone raised to play a part all of the time—Engarde constructs a new persona to fit the parts of himself he doesn’t like. He refers to this persona in the third person. He uses different pronouns. He essentially does everything possible to separate the two personas. In his mind, they are different people.

There’s an important thing I’m leaving out here. Arguably one of the most important aspects, when considering how exactly Engarde decided to make a whole new self that he had to hide from the world all the time. Celeste Inpax.

I’ve talked about this before. First, Matt Engarde did not cause Celeste’s suicide by telling Corrida about their past relationship. No matter how much the game suggests it as an appealing argument, it’s not. It’s ridiculous. However, I think that Engarde wholly and uncritically believes Celeste’s suicide was his fault. He and Adrian share this belief. They deal with it in different ways.

There’s more to talk about here—Adrian describes Matt’s relationship with Celeste by saying that he was using her. It’s not clear whether that idea comes from Adrian’s hatred of Matt or from Celeste herself. In any case, it’s…not impossible that that’s true, but definitely not the most likely conclusion to draw from the evidence at hand (an older woman with a ton of power over the younger man in her care, who later went on to have another romantic relationship with a young man in her care.) I feel confident in saying that child stars are nearly completely dependent on their managers. Matt certainly seems dependent on Adrian to a degree that goes beyond the persona. And we meet him at age 21. It’s easy to imagine that, when they were dating, Matt was completely reliant on Celeste.

Celeste is a complicated figure. She haunts the entire case. Engarde keeps her picture in his hideout, with a note saying, “Love, Celeste.” It’s likely he has been grieving her for a very long time—while feeling fully responsible for her death, and working closely with a manager who also believes him to be fully responsible for her death. That’s an insane situation! It’s likely that the “evil” persona came from that feeling of total self hatred. From the moment Celeste died, Engarde believed he was a killer, which was utterly incompatible with not only the way he saw himself, but also the person he knew he had to be. He had to make up a whole new person who would do those things, and would also be allowed to drink alcohol and be angry. And he had to put all his guilt and self hatred onto that person, the embodiment of all of his shame. And then he had to hide that person completely and make sure no one ever saw him. Engarde had to continue to seem “refreshing as a spring breeze”, in order to keep the career and the fame and the “love” of the audience that he got hooked on at a young age, that quickly became the only kind of love available to him.

(Side note: again, I do not know Japanese, but I would be interested to know how much of Engarde’s motto is a direct translation. The “spring” part to me suggests a childlike, ‘new and innocent’ aspect.)

Engarde’s relationship with Adrian is interesting to me. I am, like many others (check out jackedup180’s excellent engardeposting) fascinated by the detail in the musical production of this case, that Adrian is wearing Engarde’s jacket. Such a strange little incongruous thing. How exactly did that happen? Not only that, Engarde knows Adrian’s “secret”—in turn, she knows his. It seems obvious that their relationship is deeply codependent. I think it’s very possible that there is a kind of twisted affection there. Engarde is one of Adrian’s last links to Celeste, and vice versa. Adrian’s hatred of him allows her a mission, and a productive, righteous anger into which to funnel her grief. The two of them simultaneously understand each other deeply and thoroughly misunderstand each other—which is to say that both of them believe the other’s lie about themselves. Matt believes that Adrian is weak. Adrian believes that Matt is evil.

I have to get up early tomorrow morning so I’ll leave this here. I’m sure there are more details I haven’t thought of, but these are my essential thoughts about Matt Engarde as a character. He’s a fascinating guy!

#I love these asks! thanks anon #ace attorney #matt engarde #adrian andrews #juan corrida #celeste inpax #suicide mention #child abuse #long post #self harm

[meowquill]

i dont know who this twink is but ive seen him on my tiktok fyp and you know who he looks like

hes like literally matt and juans like love child like you cant tell me im wrong

#ace attorney #ace attorney justice for all #aa #aa jfa #jfa #juan corrida #matt engarde #matthew patel #scott pilgrim takes off

[knightsickness]

#ace attorney #narumitsu #juangarde #matt engarde #juan corrida #blades of glory