#alto-tenure

[ghost-nick]

@alto-tenure did a really nice edit of Lynne with short hair and a more masculine style, and it was INSPIRING!

Of course I had to draw :-)

#ghost trick #ghost trick lynne #ghost trick phantom detective #lynne #alto-tenure #the og edit is really great!! #my art

[u3pxx]

junithena for ship rqs?

oop! 😳🍪

#ace attorney #junithena #athena cykes #juniper woods #sunnysidedraws #alto-tenure #sunnysideattorney

[magicwhiskers29]

For the latest ask game...Great Ace Attorney, specifically

Favourite Character:

Gina, my girl Gina!! I love her development!! She adds to the atmosphere so well in Unspeakable Story, and I love her and Gregson's dynamic in DGS2!

Least Favourite Character:

Roly Beate. I think his gag is a little obnoxious, but I'm less endeared to him than Pat, so... I don't really actively dislike him that much, but he annoys me, so if I have to pick a least favourite...

5 Favourite ships (canon or non-canon):

-Ginasusa

-Haosusa (/Susarei)

-Ginasusaohao

-Asoryuu

-Nikosusa

Character I find most attractive:

Uhm. I don't know if I feel qualified to answer this. Maybe I'll just say whose design I like best... In which case, Gina again, maybe? I think she's very well-designed! :)

Character I would marry:

Also not that qualified to answer this one, uh... I could marry Courtney Sithe to make her history of marriages/relationships even more confusing? lol

Character I would be best friends with:

Iris!! We both like writing and science so I think we'd be cool buddies

A random thought:

Killing off Jezaille Brett at the start of DGS2 is an excellent way of setting the tone for the rest of the game, as well as setting up that, yeah, important characters can just die, so that Gregson's death works better later. I think it's a very shocking reveal that she's the victim, and I like it a lot.

An unpopular opinion:

Idk if this is that unpopular, but I asked my friend, and they told me this is at least a weird opinion, but Return of the Great Departed Soul is my favourite case in the doulogy, and my favourite case in Ace Attorney overall.

My canon OTP:

There aren't that many canon ships, to my memory, but the Vigils (Evie and Daley Vigil), I guess? Better than the Beates or the Garridebs...

My non-canon OTP:

I guess since this says OTP I can't say Ginasusahao, so uhm... Ginasusa, maybe? That's probably my favourite DGS ship, but I'm not like, that attached to it specifically, so...

Most badass character:

SUSATO MIKOTOBA!!! She saves you in court so many times, and she will take down anyone she needs to with a Susato takedown <3

Pairing I am not a fan of:

Hm... The most I think I get towards DGS ships I don't care is ambivilent, tbh. I can usualy see why people like them, though. I guess the ones I stear most clear from would be Baroryuu or Asobaro? Nothing against then, and I can get why people ship them, but they're not really my thing.

Character I feel the writer's screwed up:

Right, this isn't so clear-cut as it would be as if I was writing this about PL, but if you'll allow me to be petty for a moment, I do have a few minor grievances with Susato. I love her writing for the most part, but I think there was a major missed opportunity in the specifics of her ending.

I don't think her thematic beats about choosing her own path work quite as well if her sole motivation to return to Japan at the end of DGS2 os for Ryuunosuke. Like, yes, she chooses to follow him over Kazuma, that's something, but she's still just choosing to follow another character, when she was previously set up in Blossoming Attorney to be capable of standing on her own if the law only allowed it! I think i would have liked it more if it was at least implied that she returned to Japan to help Ryuunosuke AND start to try to begin her own legal career.

Otherwise, I think her ending's uncomfortably similar to the midpoint in her arc for the ending of Unspeakable Story. Albeit indirectly, she's once again returning to Japan upon her father's request, and I think that could have been avoided a little if her motivations for wanting to return were established as being outside of what other characters want, because that is her arc!

Favourite friendship:

Kazuma and Susato. Everything they do with those two is so interesting to me, and I love writing about it. It's so interesting how core Kazuma is to Susato, but how also she can't mean as much to him, because he only met her properly after he's already decided his mission. But she still means a lot to him, and I just, augh. I love the tragedy.

#ace attorney #the great ace attorney #dgs #dai gyakuten saiban #dgs spoilers #dgs2 spoilers #answered asks #alto-tenure #whiskers rambles #Ask game

[characteroulette]

👋 I left you a comment on AO3 earlier on the AA prosecutor meta, but seeing as you did cover the one-off prosecutors in Investigations (as well as the Paynes), I'm curious about your thoughts on Lana Skye especially. I really like RFTA as a window into the legal system's politics, and Lana as a character is especially intriguing in comparison to the other prosecutors we defend (e.g. Edgeworth/Blackquill/Nahyuta/Barok) because we never actually face her in court...but they still draw on RFTA's themes and character beats for some of those cases, especially in 6-5 and DGS2.

Oh hello!! Awh thanks for reading my meta essays I wrote mostly in the span of two days! XD

Lana Skye is a very interesting one, mainly because, as you noted, we never see her prosecuting style in court and that's really one of the biggest ways I draw characterisation notes from our rivals in these games. Seeing how they are presented to us as obstacles and how we are meant to slowly warm up to them was my main goal with those lil essays, but I definitely got off track a bit hahaha.

(Got a bit carried away here, too, so. Read more!)

Lana is an interesting case, though. She's our first defendant (if you play these games in order from the ds release on) we're really unsure if we can fully trust. She is trying to confess to the crime, and only by the grace of Ema's belief in her does Phoenix also agree to believe in her. She's short with us and pushes us away, giving the distinct impression that something is pretty wrong.

However, we also get told multiple times that this isn't her usual personality. That she "changed" once she became Chief Prosecutor. So it's a little harder to grasp her personality on top of take anything she says with a degree of belief. Her actions are more about sowing seeds for the mystery of why she would be so determinedly trying to get convicted instead of establishing a solid character for her. We do get the sense that she's a hard nut to crack, that she cares too deeply for Ema, but otherwise her cold and stoic personality is a complete front, we're told. A means of pushing those who used to care for her further than arm's length to keep them from discovering what's happened, to keep them from getting caught up in the splash zone.

There's also the odd note that she was close with Jake and Neil Marshall enough so that Ema was fond of them, too. Specifically the Marshall brothers, not Angel Starr or Bruce Goodman. I always found this interesting because Lana kept Ema away from Gant, but didn't mind letting her get close to the Marshall brothers. Gant was far more dangerous, especially as we learn about his all but framing Ema for Neil's murder, but it's still an interesting thing of note that comes up once at the beginning and kind of never again.

Even when you finally get a chance to talk with Lana about Gant before the final day of the trial, she's still composed and cool. Still completely under control. It's not until Ema is actively in danger of being found guilty of murder does she lose it. The final day of the trial is her at her most desperation mode, renouncing Phoenix's defence and running for that Guilty verdict. She has to keep Ema safe no matter what and it's interesting that the game lets us ruin that for her! This is probably why there is a slight bad end scenario where we don't play our cards right; it's all in service of these high stakes and connects to Lana's own desperation.

It is another interesting note how, at the end of the second trial day, she admits to the forged evidence. She has realised, on some level, Phoenix will claw his way to the truth no matter what. So she admits to this thing she knows would just get proven anyway. She's the one to cause the uproar and delay the trial one last time. It's all a part of her cool and calculated control, but it's also an admission that we've done well to get this far. It's a victory, but one delivered the same way she stabbed Bruce Goodman's body. The only person spared was Gant; everyone is going down with her.

It really is a fascinating mindset to see. I'm not a huge fan of the whole "stoic woman smiling at the end to show she's come out of her shell" anymore because AA uses it a bit too much (when will we get the male equivalent, huh??? Blackquill and Barok were right there!!! Make them smile, damn it!!!), but it is refreshing to see that Lana no longer has to keep her heart frozen over. She ans Ema hugging is the MUCH better payoff, even as Phoenix waxes poetic right behind them. XD

So yeah!! Despite this case saying on the surface that we shouldn't trust Lana, it really leads us along to trusting and liking her pretty much from the start. She's compared to Mia, after all. She is also the only defendant to date to turn their back to us and I still think that's funny as hell.

I... had more to say than I thought!! Hope this satisfies a bit of what you wanted!!

#Momo replies to things #Ace Attorney #Lana Skye #alto-tenure #Essay time for Momo #Oops went off #Momo is unhinged about the AA series

[multiversal-madness]

layclaire 2b?

They somft :)

#professor layton #LayClaire #Hershel Layton #Claire Foley #ask #alto-tenure #requests #drawing request #my art #multi’s art #drawing requests #how do captions?

[havendance]

re-read Blood for Blood after finally getting around to the CFB mini in my comics reading and I just wanted to drop some bonus kudos in your inbox! I really liked the urgency and helplessness Helena experiences without the Huntress as a method of getting out of that helplessness.

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it :)

The central idea of Blood for Blood for me was this slow building of pressure and what Helena would do without having the Huntress as a release for that. And of course the poisoned wine, that was the other core image :)

#letters to the editor #alto-tenure #i do love queen of attolia and helena has irene vibes #to me #havendance writes #blood for blood #carthago delenda est

[yomiel]

72 on the wrapped?

72. DEBT COLLECTOR - Jhariah

please don’t think i don’t have empathy for you

what you’ve been through, but

there’s nothing i can do now but stand here and watch

it all catch up to you

#ask #alto-tenure #thanks river!

[thelocalmuffin]

lanamia + 19 for the kiss prompts?

Oh, Lanamia is so good. Thank you for the suggestion!

19 for Good Luck

It’s the big day.

It’s the first day of the bar exam. Yet, Mia cannot sleep. She’s tossing and turning as she tries to rest her racing mind, but it’s futile. 

What if it wasn’t enough?

She closes her eyes again, and the thoughts don’t stop. If anything, they pool into her mind faster and her eyes snap back open in minutes.She’s going to stay awake, and there’s nothing she can do to calm down. Rolling around, she grabs her phone to check the time. 

6:30 AM

Mia groans, deciding to just get out of bed, hoping to not wake her girlfriend. She grabs her coffee maker and begins to start the pot. As the familiar aroma of coffee fills her small apartment, Mia leans on the counter. 

Lana steps out of their shared room, wearing a robe. So she woke her up…

Mia shakes her head. “I’m sorry I woke you.”

“It’s alright.” Lana nods, wrapping the robe closer. “It’s about time I got up anyway.”

“I’m making coffee, do you want some?” Mia glances over at the pot. It’s almost full, and yet, she worries that it will not be enough to keep her awake during the exam.

“Yes, you were up all night again?”

Mia exhales. “I guess I just am not used to being so nervous.”

“I see.” Lana pours herself a cup and grabs some creamer out, pouring a good portion into the cup. She takes a sip. “Well, it may not go perfectly, but you are very intelligent. You shouldn’t be worried.”

“I know.” Mia nods. She’s the top of her class and has had a wonderful support system in Lana. “I just can’t help but worry I studied the wrong things.”

“You literally went through every subject twice.” Lana hums, starting the oven as she begins to make some eggs. As their breakfast is cooking, Mia takes a quick peek at her textbook.

Lana serves the food dangerously close to the book. She looks up to see Lana’s face stern, crossing her arms. “There is such a thing as over studying, Mia.”

Mia closes the text book with a defeated sigh, pushing it away from her. “Yeah, I suppose so.”

She decides to take some food and begins to eat without another word. Lana’s the better cook of the two and she’s cooked the scrambled eggs to perfection. As soon as she’s done, she glances at the time. She must have lost track because the bar is in an hour and she doesn’t want to be late. 

She scrambles to get ready, tossing her professional clothes on and grooming herself to high standards.She has to look as if she’s rested well. She needs to show what the top of her class is supposed to look like.

Getting her briefcase and holding her head up high, she takes another breath. Lana has her purse, handing it to her as she opens the door. Lana walks over, grabbing her shoulder before kissing her briefly.

“I’d kiss you longer, but I probably shouldn’t keep you. Good luck.”

Mia smiles with a quick wave, stepping out of the door. “Thanks. You can kiss me all you want when I get back, okay?”

Lana nods with a faint smile, “Promise.”

**

I am still taking requests from this prompt list! Please send an ask if you got an idea!

#lanamia #lana skye #mia fey #ace attorney #muffin writes #alto-tenure

[gilded-7]

I do! The basic idea is that Randall after falling got picked up by Targent instead of by Firth, so you have amnesiac-Randall in Targent that recognizes Layton later on when they first meet again, but unaware of what exactly their history is

:0 oh that’s such a cool concept!!! definitely a lot more intense than mine lmao sounds like it would have some very fun dynamics and angst potential

#ask #alto-tenure

[blossominglovezine]

Hello! If one is interested in applying to write a poem for the zine, would it be helpful to include a poetry sample among the writing samples? I have enough material to compile an anthology within the length requirement, but is that going to be a consideration for people applying or should the samples be solely prose?

Hello! Yes, please include a sample of your poetry if you'd like to be considered for that position!

Good luck if you apply and let us know if you have any other questions!

#alto-tenure #FAQ #blossoming love zine

[cogandstar]

@alto-tenure replied to your post “what is going on with the wink psyncing. i was...”:

the actual rule per gameplay is that you can only do one per scene, so if you want to get multiple wink Psyncs from the same scene you have to reload the save

​thanks! i appreciate the clarification

#alto-tenure #cog plays games #cog plays aitsf #aitsf #aini #aini spoilers

[u3pxx]

14!

14. is there a character or ship you were so sure you would never write/draw but now you've changed your mind?

ship: krisnix probably LOL back then i wasn't really interested and my preferences lied elsewhere but then i saw the light ..... and that;s some good shit ................

character: harry only bc he looked so difficult to draw LOLLL but look at me now i now specialize in drawing middle-aged men 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

#sunnysideanswers #alto-tenure

[magicwhiskers29]

I've been sending everyone this one, so: number 10?

10: If you could make one more character a travelling companion who would it be?

Randall :)

I think Randall (post-MM) would be a lot of fun with the gang! I don't think there's room for him in our actual AL crew, but that doesn't stop me from thinking he'd have been a bunch of fun in it!

Actually, does Randall count as already one because of the MM flashbacks? Ah, oh well...

#professor layton #randall ascot #miracle mask spoilers #Answered asks #Ask game #alto-tenure

[laytonwithagun]

worst character poll nomination: Arthur Cantabella

He will be added!

#alto-tenure

[multiversal-madness]

13, any fandom?

13) What's a character or ship you haven't written/drawn yet but would like to some day?

I was going to say LayClaire because I haven't written anything for them yet but I realised I have drawn some, so I'd have to go with LayDon. I've grown interested in the ship recently but I have no clue how to draw Don Paolo, so that complicates things.

#professor layton #ask #ask game #Alto-Tenure #thanks for the ask! #I want to put some LayDon into Pandora's Call #or at least some past LayDon since LayDore is still the main ship #I had an idea about them having 'date nights' where Hershel and Paul go somewhere so Hershel can investigate and Paul can get even with- #some sketchy bad guys #that would be during Hershel's reckless era btw

[throughouttheyear]

Hey, did you get my Tumblr post? -theriveroflight

We did not see it! Will you send it over to our DMs?

#alto-tenure #inquiry