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morphogenetic · 2 days

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Mediaposting 2024, #6: Dai Gyakuten Saiban 2/The Great Ace Attorney Resolve

Completed: April 21st, 2024 (/i still have to watch the DLC episodes that didn't get released with the official loc, I guess but I'm not playing it any more so ?? lol)

Time spent: 49.5 hours (will be like 50.5 after the DLC stuff)

Rating: 9/10 (more objectively. but a very biased 9.5 in my heart.)

ohhhhh my god alright where do i even start with this. i guess i also have to talk about dgs1 a little bit in this review/mini completion log but I will TRY and keep it to just 2. [editor's note: somehow succeeded with this! lfg]

first, to get the non-spoiler parts of this out of the way:

please for the love of god play this fucking game if you've played the original AA trilogy but not the DGS duology. i can not stress this enough. i would not recommend playing them as your FIRST aa games because a) they will set your bar way too high (and too low simultaneously bc wow dgs1 still has whack as hell pacing) b) there are a few details, especially in this particular game, that will evoke no reaction in you if you haven't played at least the main three games but WILL cause you to start gnawing on drywood if you have Knowledge Of The Future

the whole dgs duology - and specifically as a duology, bc 2 makes no sense without 1 but 1 by itself is not on this level - is absolutely in my top 3/4 AA games now. i admittedly have not replayed the original trilogy in quite a while, buuuuuut T&T/AAI2/DGS1+2 are my new top 3. not necessarily in that order, give me a bit to think about it lol.

im going to be thinking about this game for the rest of my life probably. i can see why my best friend wanted me to play it for uh. seven years. because yeah it really is that good.

i want to cosplay four different designs from it. i have not wanted to cosplay anything new (to me) since neo twewy came out three years ago. take that as you will.

music still slaps. obviously. my favorite new song is absolutely partners (IYKYK) but agh. the new theme(s) that characters get are all so fucking good. clenches fist. the leitmotifs

definitely becomes relevant in retrospect in a few places where capcom obviously cut the hell out of the budget but they saved it for where it matters so i dont care. im also uh. very used to low budget VNs so frankly even 3D models are better than I'm used to LMFAO. i also you know. didn't realize that they did that until after the fact. so. they hid it well

if you havent played this go and play it (after playing the original AA trilogy). please for the love of god im on my hands and knees.

everything below the cut (i.e. below this point) has blatant unfiltered spoilers. you have been warned.

okay so welcome you've presumably played all of dgs2 if you're reading this. i have THOUGHTS. a lot of these will come off as critical/negative but i need to strongly emphasize that these are the only reasons that this game is not a 10/10 for me and otherwise i'm in love with it. it is fucking CLOSE. i am not talking a lot about the things i really love because that is.............................a lot of the game for me and we'd be here all day. the critiques are much more limited in number. but. you know.

dgs2 absolutely has much, Much better pacing than dgs1 does overall. it does not take 3 cases to get past a bunch of tutorial cases. this is a good thing. however..............the first two cases are still very slow. i won't call them pure filler, because a) reminding us about yuujin was a very good idea, b) they contribute to the Themes of the game. and im glad hosonaga was there again and (of all of the side characters we could have had) seeing souseki was good. i like them. but they really didn't need to be there to fulfill the themes of the game. case 2 in particular feels like a filler case, which I do not love given how tight the rest of the plot feels. if anything i feel like they should have done an interim flashback case without susato, as much as I adore susato, because as-is it's canon that ryuu had 3 cases in the span of a week. which feels INSANE

speaking of better pacing: im so glad dgs2 remembered that AA games can take investigation breaks between courtroom shit because running through ALL of the trial after ALL of the investigation in 1-5 was. let's say. taxing. the 'finding their footing' aspect of the first game

i do kind of wish we got One more case with the masked apprentice where susato wasn't there at all for the entire case. if only because then the delay between ryuu Thinking It and susato Knowing it would be even more painful. but i do really appreciate that they don't try to make it a woah big reveal as much as a painful "i know who you are but you don't." really adds a certain je nai se quois or however the fuck you spell that. idr. its 1 am when im typing this

also hey asougi can we fucking unpack how susato (the girl you were raised with to some extent, probably not like your sister but your weird younger cousin) called your name and you didn't remember who you were but you DID remember when you saw a wax reconstruction of your dead dad. can we fucking talk about that for a minute. can w

speaking of asougi. my god. they did such a good job with him. i think i wouldn't have cared nearly as much about him if all we had was the dgs1 stuff but his extreme motivation for the truth almost turning him into a violent attack dog is. aaaaaaaaaah. god. and the parallels between him and his father's followers (read: the von karmas) that one has from playing the mainline AA games. truly brainworm material

speaking of this: i can absolutely tell they did NOT think about writing the professor stuff with this game until they added in the masked apprentice - before he got turned into asougi - even though the reaper was obviously something that was planned. i do not care personally about this, because game dev is weird as hell and it REALLY works with asougi and van zieks' character arcs. in the same way that i don't think [SPOILER CHARACTER] from vlr would have been as good without the knowledge of 999, i think if barok had been foiled against a new character it wouldn't have worked as well. all that said. it sure is obvious they didn't know what they were doing. this makes me even more impressed that that they got it to work at all

the same is true of everything with the hound of the baskervilles but im really glad that they took it in the direction that they did.

also man it is so obvious that they probably wanted to have this be a proper trilogy like the original trilogy but then budget happened. because 2-3 through 2-5 all slap but they feel so fucking weird next to 2-1 and 2-2. like i dont feel that theres anything missing per se but a little more time for character growth would have been nice. hell even adding in an extra case (and/or editing 2-2....)

the only writing thing, aside from. 2-2 being like that. and the other weird pacing issues..that extensively is off to me is the whole assassin trading plot. i do think it is Very stupid and that they clearly wrote themselves into a corner with 1-5 on how to deal with it because they just...proceed to not deal with it until 2-4 and 2-5. however. even with that said. i actually kind of like that it is so stupid. because stronghart definitely feels SO obsessed with his version of justice that he wouldn't think through the potential downsides of having two free-roaming assassins running around and maybe coming to get his ass. obvious flaw that would not occur to him because of his insane ass behavior

its still dumb. but it's ace attorney dumb. so i can excuse it a little bit

stronghart being a damon gant expy was funny but goddamnit was it predictable. making him be so obssessed with justice that he talks to ryuu about it for 4 hours was funny as hell though and absolutely adds to him as a character. still dont like him that much Personally but hes definitely a character

his breakdown was peak. by the way. top 3 breakdowns in the series

jigoku being like that kills me. also. the way he just let genshin

g. genshin impact (sorry)

i dont care that sherlock's bullshit was a deus ex machina bc honestly.....electricity was real at that point. its fine

also. holy shit i love ryuunosuke in this game even more. 'i'm not doing this for you, kazuma. i'm doing it for the truth.' BANGER!!!!!!!!!!!! his growth across these two games is really good but especially in this one he shines so brightly

however..........this game made the glaring lack of ryuu's parents even more obvious. its not like i Need it or anything but considering how he very literally refers to yuujin/susato/sherlock/iris as his family in 2-4.....where are your parents!!!! what was your childhood like!!!!!! I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS THAT I WISH COULD BE ANSWERED!!!!!!!!!

and asougi. i could write an essay on asougi alone i think. but i adore how both he and ryuu are like 'you've changed' at each other and neither of them are wrong but then by the end they're like 'wow you're the same as before.' theyre so fucking gay. anyway

and sherlock (WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU WHY DO YOU LIE FOR FUN LIKE THIS????????)

and yuujin (partners ~ game is afoot starts playing and i start crying). obsessed with how they only had to write the dynamic for a single case and you can believe all of it because they can just go. lol. ACD canon. anyway

and susato

and, most surprisingly of all for me.....fucking barok van zieks. i would not call myself a Fan of him in the way i am a Fan of asougi and ryuu, but i am obsessed with him. he did so many things wrong but realizes he genuinely fucked up and wants to atone for it. he gets genuinely upset in prison when he can't join the red-headed league. he's a professional alcoholic. he has bats in his office (???). what is wrong with him. (i know the answer is 'literally everything that could be wrong with a person.' but still

i love every single character in this game (or i hate them but because they were written to be hated)??? how did they manage this again. dgs1 helps so much here because the character growth.

argh. the character parallels with everyone realizing their parent / mentor figure was fucked up and/or hiding shit from them in some way. thinking emoji rotating in a circle goes here

wow that magically became way less critical as i was writing it. i thought it was going to be a lot stronger of a critique. its still weird pacing stuff basically that bothers me but i have very minor complaints that im forgetting aside from this

UHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEAH HI GUYS IM BRAIN ROTTING NOW FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this has had almost the same brain impact on me (as evidenced by the 1 million words about it) as raging loop i think and thats never a good sign since i still think about raging loop at least once a week despite the fact that i played it 3 goddamn years ago

#dgs thought spiral #< if you're wondering. how much personal hell i am in because of this game. i made a tag for it. lmao.#mediaposting #junpei.txt #finished writing this at 1 am my time but im queueing it for the morning so people can read this like the fucking morning paper. you know.#long post

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selfdiagnosedeyemotif · 6 months

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this is beyond late but if you are willing to bite. for the character ask, maya & franziska?

my dear fellow it is NEVER too late to take me up on ask games.

Maya

Favourite Thing: i simply ADORE the burden of responsibility as a trope and maya pulls it off in SPECTACULAR fashion. you can feel the fear and uncertainty she feels about her role as the master of kurain through the screen when she finally opens up about it in bridge to the turnabout (and the little crumbs we get about it in reunion and turnabout) (and it's only augmented by the fact that it was suddenly thrust upon her by mia's departure)

Least Favourite Thing: a bit of a nitpick but there are some aspects of the mechanics of maya's channelling that give me a bit of an ick (channelling mia. go figure), but i do like the way the technique plays into the mystery during reunion and bridge

Favourite Line: either her little speech to nick before she leaves for kurain at the end of goodbyes or her so desperately trying to protect diego during the dying light of bridge, can't decide between the two

brOTP: PHOENIX!!!! they're such best friends. they mean so much to me. its like. everything that apollo and trucy did in aa4 (which i notoriously also love), only with way more time to develop and simmer, so it's like. perfect. i love maya and phoenix

OTP: i have two ships that completely consume my mind. one of them is not for this fandom. the other is franmaya. they're such unexplored narrative foils...

nOTP: i mean. phoenix. 'nough said

Random Headcanon: i think that, for all of her hyperactivity (at times), she embroiders in her free time, and got pearl into it as well during the seven-year gap. pearl quickly surpassed her.

Unpopular Opinion: STOP SHELVING HER IN YOUR FICS, PEOPLE. SHE DOESN'T GET ENOUGH LOVE. PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU IS THIS THING ON

Song: Soulgazing by Gregory and the Hawk (vibes alone, im bad at assigning songs to characters)

Favourite Picture: this redraw of her unused objection sprite by @/u3pxx, i love it so very much

Franziska

Favourite Thing: the sheer hurt and terror that sits at the corners of her character but never gets touched on outside of the airport scene because good GOD there's so much guilt and shame for her imperfection and terror about turning out like her father and CAN I TALK ABOUT THE BULLET. THAT DAMNED BULLET.

Least Favourite Thing: not enough screentime. i need more franziska content like i need air

Favourite Line: "You, you're running away from Von Karma… from me!?" "So… you're leaving me behind again!? I'll never… Never forgive you for this!" from The Forgotten Turnabout in aai2 because HELLO??? this is one of the most important pieces of franziska characterization we get EVER because a), she's still clearly still holding onto her father's memory, or at least the pedestal she had him on, b), it showcases how quickly she turns to wrath as soon as the chips are down, and c), MOST IMPORTANTLY. LISTEN TO HOW SCARED SHE IS. or dont listen i guess but like. still. she sounds TERRIFIED of losing her brother all over again.

brOTP: torn between either edgeworth because i love the vk sibs or kay because their friendship is adorably sweet and pretty underrated part of aai

OTP: once again franmaya cuz. god. theres so many emotions.

nOTP: cant think of any that i genuinely dislike besides the Nigh-Universally Hated One (her and edgeworth) so im gonna say that

Random Headcanon: she doesn't give phoenix the calling card during the hazakura temple investigation. she wants to. she has it on her and everything, but she couldn't work up the courage to do it. way down the line, deep into the 7yg, she shows up to the wright residence, has a long chat with phoenix, and finally gives it to him

Unpopular Opinion: i know its been said a lot that she probably does have some normal teenager aspects to her (the example ive seen the most is "owns a hello kitty tshirt and reads yuri fics"), but i think she's a little too repressed to have that until at least after aa3. maybe she gets a little more normal during the 7yg but im not sure yet

Song: Top of My School by Katherine Lynn-Rose because come ON. you've seen the animatic with the clip of that song over franziska stuff. if you haven't then you will soon cuz its linked here (full song first, then the animatic)

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Favourite Picture: this wonderful number by the incredible and talented @/ind1c0lite because uh. i like fran angst.

#the thing is you tossed my a ball right in my court with this one #i LOVE maya and fran #they're such well-written characters #veneer of flame and veneer of frost y'know #oh yeah i also love characters who lie and uh. oh boy do these two lie #the main lie is ''im alright'' but hey that can be a compelling lie #and the void screameth back #loki-liddell

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wugblogs · 2 years

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@sumi-tunes saw your tags #badd is THE most underrated aa character of all time no i will not take criticism and not to go on a tangent here but

honestly i think he would be more popular if he were not (a) only in investigations, which are less played for obvious reasons (b) not directly related to any of the non-investigations characters (even without playing aai2 people like me probably went "holy shit, miles' dad's old mentee is around? edgeworth has an honorary uncle?!?!) and (c) not the kind of character you see one line from and immediately go "oh you are Archetype XYZ" i love kay but you really only need to see her for 2 seconds to get most of her personality. badd being gruff means you actually have to pay attention for the moments where it's obvious what kind of guy he really is.

anyway badd's definitely a unique flavor for someone on the detective/prosecutor side. gumshoe and ema definitely want to do the right thing, but they also tend to bow to the wishes of whichever prosecutor's in charge (and they both work at least sometimes for a prosecutor who is not concerned with doing real justice.) it's a nice contrast for badd to just fully not give a shit what von karma says if he knows that's not right.

#ace attorney #ace attorney liveblog

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ace-attorney-prison · 2 years

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Aaaa sksjsksk i’m so glad to hear that you enjoyed getting my asks thabk you, and artfight sounds awesome, hope you’ll have fun with it :))

You even have songs ideas for your fics too? Wow, im even more curious and excited to hear about your ideas for the characters and the songs if you wanna share them lol

Sure I can share them!! :D

There's a lot of different plot lines and stuff, but the gist of it is:

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Prison A - Where our story starts. It's the relatively "nice" prison. The one shown in AAI2. Dogen's still got a fair amount of influence over the place even though Patricia's been arrested by this point. He uses his influence to keep the place fairly safe. Rules are a little looser, and Souta keeps the inmates in line so he doesn't have to deal with an overly toxic environment.

Prison B - Gant has a ton of influence over this prison. Even though he's technically an inmate, he virtually runs it. Life is terrible there, and there's a lot of corruption in many areas.

Prison C - Life here is fairly neutral. It's a prison, so it's still kind of shitty, but it's not horribly dangerous. Dee Vasquez is the one with influence here, though she doesn't wield it more than she feels she has to. Has a neutral, laid-back approach to things at this point.

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Souta's been avoiding the issue of Prison B. He doesn't live there. Hasn't had to deal with it. Not his problem.

But slowly, the issues start leaking over and affecting their side of the prison as well- especially when Dogen refuses to aid Gant in something, and Gant tries to exert control by making things worse in Prison A.

So the plotline boils down to Souta (and some other people) trying to fix the issues in the prison while navigating all the danger in the situation. There's a lot of character development and relationship arcs I have strong feelings for haha.

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I have quite a lot of songs in the playlist, but one I'll mention for now is "I Got No Time" by The Living Tombstone. That's a Lance song- he plays a big role in this fic, as a young rich boy who lived a life of privilege and is now having to cope with being thrown in such a perilous environment.

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penny-nichols · 2 years

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Thinking about my global studios based sitcom again

OK SO BASICALLY it would be a mockumentary style thing (I think that’s what it is???? Parks and rec is a mockumentary right? I haven’t seen the office) and it would follow the cast of global studios in their like. Daily adventures the case was - Dee Vasquez (out of prison or never went) -Matt Engarde (still very much killed a guy but is out of prison because there are 3 total actors at global now instead of 2) -Penny Nichols (Penny Nichols) -Will Powers (of course) -Cody Hackins (Just a guy ya know) -John Marsh (STILL HAS NOT FINISHED AAI2 I’M WORKING ON IT I HAVEN’T PLAYED IN MONTHS BUT I’M GETTING THERE) -Lotta Hart (we need a bigger cast and so she’s the camerawoman) -Roger Retinz (has like. a friendly-ish rivalry with Global, specifically Dee) -MAYBE Shelly de Killer at some point -..... that might be all in terms of current canon characters actually So I had started writing episode one at one point and since I cannot include Sal Manella for more than the most passingest of references I had him leave the studio. Of course, they needed a new director, so they hired one: Bea Mubie (you may notice that Bea is also the name of one of my other OCs that I have yet to really develop. They are the same oc just at different stages and with different last names) I had two different plots planned for the episode (not like. A plot and B plot but more A plot and.... Different A plot because I scrapped the first one. the B plot was pretty solid)

Plot number one (the first one I came up with) was Bea wanted the studio to stop making samurai content and focus on more prestige cinema (I stopped writing it because I realized we had 3 actors and I would also have to explain the characters of Oliver Twist.) The main thing (besides the fact that it wasn’t samurai stuff) was that everyone got cast very wrong (WP was Bill Sykes who is the evil murdering bad guy and she described him as having a scary/murderous face, Matt was Noah Claypole who is an incredibly minor character and also a teenager when he was expecting to be Bill because of the murder conviction. John was expecting to be Oliver and he got the Artful Dodger which he’s fine with but Cody is Oliver and he’s not exactly an actor). Literally I think I was just genuinely not considering how a movie studio WORKS and that it needs PEOPLE and it’s not like an acting troupe (I think at one point I was going to have Shelly audition for one of the roles) Plot number two was about Bea coming to the studio again and having a big idea for a NEW samurai show. the conflict is that she’s taken the plot from a fanfic and the ONLY person who knows is Penny BECAUSE SHE WROTE IT. Once again there were 3 people and I was still treating it like an acting troupe and an acting troupe that had MORE than 3 people at that. Anyway the B plot is still kinda solid and it involved Lotta going off into the woods to find proof of the “wasp man” which is like Mothman but a wasp. She was trying to prove something to John and Cody

Anyway I kinda want to continue it but I would need some serious help figuring out the plot. I think I’m pretty good at writing humor and character interaction stuff, but we’re dealing with limited characters and the fact that I just. CANNOT come up with a solid plot is limiting. I don’t want to add too many OCs because while I can definitely give people unique personalities, I think that I’m bad at describing personalities and coming up with OCs in general, and if I were to introduce them I’d feel like they’d need like.... kind of an episode about them to get people used to them and attached to the character and stuff. That’s why the episode I had written started with the introduction of Bea (although she was probably going to leave by the end of the episode, I only really got about 1/4 of the way through at most). I mean, I know a lot of shows have to introduce a lot of characters at once but I feel like with the cast I have there’s JUST enough people that solidly introducing more would be a problem. And I KNOW that they’re canon characters and people already know them but I kinda want to write this like it’s a thing???? IDK. Honestly though. DM me or shoot me an ask or something if you think this is solidly An Idea and want to help. I can’t really promise anything about this happening but if I did manage to complete a script I’d want to find enough people to do like. a read through. Or maybe I’d just post it on AO3 IDK ...I’m open to including oldbag btw. but I am not including Sal the guy’s not funny and you can’t verbally say leetspeak which would make it useless for a read through

#long post

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maskdemasquedits · 2 years

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horace knightley and simon keyes icons!

requested by: @off-brand-phoenix-wright

please like or reblog if you save or use!

#i have not played these games so if anything should b changed etc let me know #these being investigations not . all of aa lmao #ace attorney #ace attorney icons #horace knightley #simon keyes #aai2 #⭐️ the sacred urn heist | request complete ⭐️#icons

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aquilamage · 3 years

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been thinking about badd in aai2 again...both because of him and Sebastian, but also once they realize they can get along Badd and Justine would be amazing....

pov you just said something rude to Sebastian and are about to get your shit wrecked for it

#it's a really good thing for miles that a) he has Kay with him and b) Badd isn't actually around for most of the game game parts of aai2 #otherwise he'd be in a lot more trouble #aai2 but with badd in #untitled aai2 au #sebastian accumulating more good parents is just the goal all the time really #rambles #Sebastian Debeste #Tyrell Badd #Justine Courtney #I have Many Thoughts about Badd and Justine interacting. genuinely could be /so/ fascinating to play them off each other #basically the two of them start interacting by side eying each other behind Sebastians back as he's just excited abt being paid attention to #also she's nothing like her but I think Badd might have calisto on the mind when they're first interacting #they cautiously respect each other despite having some different approaches to things and reservations about one another #because of how they initially understand the other to be #but eventually they start actually working together!#Ace Attorney #aai2 spoilers #??

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4ragon · 3 years

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Got any hcs for Sebastian Debeste? He's one of my favorites

I do for sure, I love this guy!

Sebastian is very musical, and can play most instruments. However, he is not a very good singer

He didn’t have a lot of friends in high school, since most of them thought he was A) Conceited, and B) Cheating

Sebastian was pretty sure he was best friends with classmate Klavier Gavin, but Klavier had always thought Sebastian was trying to bully him

He still has a tendency to get words mixed up, but after a lot of practice, it’s much less frequent. However, it does tend to happen more often if he’s distracted or stressed

He’s still very close to both Justine and Miles after the events of AAI2. Justine has him over for dinner very often, and of course, he’s basically Miles’s number two at the prosecutor’s office

He stayed with Justine for a bit after AAI2. He and John get along pretty well, and Sebastian tries to watch the movies John is in when he remembers

He’s also very good friends with Kay, and they hang out frequently, even though Kay’s ideas of hanging out sometimes are a little more Heart Attack Inducing than he’s used to

#sebastian debeste #ace attorney #i don't think these are spoiler-y?

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browneyedwright · 2 years

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like father like son

#i forgot to post this last night jsddsjd #[distressed edgeworth noises] becomes even more real #ace attorney #ace attorney investigations 2 #gregory edgeworth #miles edgeworth #aai2 #b plays aai2 #yes i had to look up a new picture for miles. had to google 'miles edgeworth ngoh'

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transguyedgeworth · 3 years

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well fuck now i cant think of shit to say abt any single tracks xbcbzchshdhs oh other than just... trials and fucking tribulations man. literally when it was getting toward the end and they had the fuckign remastered versions of cornered from aa1 i am SO FUCKING GLAD I DIDNT KNOW ABT THAT BEFORE IT HAPPENED BTW OH MY GOD and also just in general that entire God Damn Credits Song man w both of these that shit was just whole out of body experience literally. but anyway i do agree w you pretty much all the specific character themes fuck Hard EXCEPT REGINA BERRYS IM SORRY I HATE THAT SONGGG IM NOT EVEN A 2-3 HATER BUT I JUST. I DONT LIKE THAT MUSIC EVEN A LITTLE

ok ok anyway besides all that i RLLY reccomend you listen to those orchestra and jazz soul albums (link to the jazz one.. just think this ones better first cos the other one just. hits much harder in the emotion zone https://youtu.be/kXEeyajJvwY ) fyi the last chapter thingys in these are just like. a lil Extra at the end i think. basically the last part of both of them is a bit of aa4 music so if you don't wanna be hearing that yet there u go i warned u just like. pay attention sjfhdhfhddhdhdhdjTHAT BEING SAID THO A L SO i think the aa4 tracks r fucking fantastic too so if u get around to that one WHICH YOU SHOULD you have that to look forward to alongwitheverythingelse ik aai2s fucking longgg tho which is why i havent gotten to That so like idk just do ya thing dont worry abt nothin b IM GONNA GO NOWWWWWW IVE BEEN MEANING TO MOVE FOR LIKE AN HOUR I NEED 2 GET U P

WAHHHH I’M SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG THE SEMESTER JUST ENDED SO I’VE BEEN WIPED OUT FROM FINISHING PROJECTS!!!

anyway i will say i do love all the credits songs... they never fail to make me Emotional but THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS ONE?? YOU ARE SO RIGHT. it was so so impactful for me cuz it just felt like... really Final and obviously there’s more games after that one but it just. wrapped the whole thing up really nicely i think. and all the bits and motifs it took from other themes throughout the trilogy was. mwah.

also i have to admit i am the complete opposite on regina’s theme. i ADORE it, it’s so whimsical and fun and just the slightest bit eerie and i really think it’s a lot of fun to listen to! on the other hand though i DESPISE turnabout big top as a case. i think it’s poorly written and while some of the characters and designs were fun, that just couldn’t save it for me (not to mention the Uncomfortable age-gap relationships on top of that).

i will say i do love hearing different arrangements for songs i’m familiar with so the jazz and orchestra albums SLAP i did try to avoid the aa4 music for now though but OTHERWISE THOSE WERE REALLY GOOD!!!! i don’t wanna ruin myself for apollo justice cuz my roommate and i are gonna play it when we move into our new apartment next semester but i am DEF gonna be playing it and hopefully the rest of the series too gdkfnsnf

we did just finish aai2 yesterday evening and YES IT IS LONG BUT IT IS SO GOOD AND ABSOLUTELY WORTH THE COMMITMENT I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO STOP THINKING ABOUT IT SINCE HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!

#it's literally gonna kill me to have to wait to play aa4 i think #i'm gonna finish playing aai and aai2 with my partner over the summer #but STILL #i will also probably be buying the dgs localization on steam when it comes out to tide me over #regina berry #miles answers #twink-on-the-brink

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homocarnage · 3 years

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hey im bored so if u want 2 give me some drawing ideas thatd b pog,,,,,,,ace attorney and hlvrai only plz

(just 2 warn u i most likely wont do every request)

details under the cut

ill do whatever.....prolly full art w/ shading bc i physically cannot just draw a sketch. itll b done in autodesk sketchbook

please try n b detailed when u send in a req.......like a specific scenario or pose would be ebic. u can send in an image in ur asks if u have something really specific in mind. ill do (almost) any character btw

no nsfw/suggestive content (haha funy pepis joke is fine) nothing gross or weird obvs. i can refuse any req 4 any reason (that includes 'idk i just dont feel like it') sorry if i dont do ur req tho.

nothing past aa4 plz :(

ships ill do:

frenrey

boomer

sodashipping

tomrey

freelatta

frenreylatta

wrightworth

klapollo

franmaya

lanamia

langworth

claypollo (havent played dual destinies)

hughdebeste (havent played dual destinies or finished aai2)

asoryuu (havent finished dgs)

id prefer frenrey, sodashipping, wrightworth, klapollo, and franmaya but *shrug*

uhhhhh if i think of anything else ill add it here lol

#hlvrai #ace attorney #art requests #go ham fellas #temporarily unpinning the hlvrai ask game. its still happening tho :)#ill tag it 'hlvrai ask game' (sans quotes obvs) if i remember

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I love you Matt hcs so much! So much inspiration for mine too!

Have you got any post-cannon hcs? (Maybe angst/Whump one? But that’s not so important I would love to hear any ^^)

Thank you sm!! :D

All right SO, my main niche in the fandom is fleshing out the Ace Attorney prison, examining the relationships between all the characters there, fleshing everyone out, considering their character arcs, etc. It’s definitely something I put a lot of thought into and get excited about ^^

I imagine there being three main prisons:

Prison A

The canon prison shown in Ace Attorney Investigations: 2. Prisoners are allowed one animal companion, there’s a supplier with influence over the warden (and, imo, the guards as well), it’s overall a prison that can be interpreted as more relaxed--with limited corruption, due to the fact that, in my opinion at least, Sirhan Dogen wouldn’t put up with much BS. Although he can’t control everything, Dogen has a decent amount of power that he uses to make his prison livable.

Prison B

This is the opposite of Prison A. Damon Gant is in charge, but in a different kind of way; after being Chief of Police for so long, he still has a lot of power and connections, and many officers hold respect and / or fear towards him. The prison is a hierarchy of power and control with a lot of corruption, and anyone who doesn’t work for Gant is in danger.

Prison C

The women’s prison. Dee Vasquez has the upper hand here, due to her outside connections with the mafia. She handles things in a more manipulative, underhanded kind of way--isn’t so much focused on the prison at large, but moreso on securing her own matters. She uses protection or exploitation sparingly, and when she does, she deflects attention off of it as much as possible. While the prison isn’t as horrible as Prison B, it’s not as safe as Prison A.

Now that the environment has been established, time to get into the details about Matt:

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Matt Engarde went to Prison A.

In Ace Attorney, fame and riches seem to make little difference when it comes to putting someone behind bars. However, the game does show that it can add complications, and affect things to a certain level. With that said, here’s how I imagine things went over with the arrest:

Things are a whirlwind of chaos and fear and pain at first, but it doesn’t take him long to get a deal set up with the prison. Sometime within the first week of his imprisonment. Thankfully, this is done quickly enough that his assets haven’t been transferred to his parents, yet.

His sentence is 10 years. No death penalty or life sentence, because the deal is that, for each year that Matt Engarde is alive and healthy, the prison receives $500,000. This would give them ample reason to take measures to protect him from De Killer.

Matt doesn’t have an endless amount of money, and he also doesn’t want to be stuck there forever. In his mind, hopefully De Killer would be behind bars or dead by the end of those 10 years, and if not... well, he’ll figure it out when he gets there.

He’s given the cell down the hall from Sirhan Dogen, the infamous assassin. This scares the HELL out of Matt at first, but the guards assure him that it’s for his own safety:

However, since he’s placed in this cell before the deal is made, there was an ulterior motive as well. Due to the fact that Shelly De Killer is another infamous assassin, Warden Roland considered it a possibility that he’s one of Dogen’s outside contacts. If Dogen were to rat out Matt’s location to him, the prison would be prepared to capture and arrest De Killer, and it would be confirmed that they had been contacts.

Obviously, Dogen could rat him out no matter which cell he’s in, but it’s more convenient to place Matt there as bait since the hallway is monitored so heavily--they’ll be prepared to restrain both De Killer and Dogen if/when that time comes.

If the deal were made beforehand, he likely would have been sent to Prison B; even though it’s a harsher atmosphere, no one in there is presumed to be a contact of De Killer’s. While he could have been transferred at this point, it’s decided that they’ll stick to their regular plan, just with added precautions and safety measures.

Matt, although suspicious, never has any sort of confirmation that he’s being used as bait--at least, not until years later.

BUT ANYHOW.

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Interactions and Reputation

I get into it a bit in this fic*, but the gist is this:

There’s no point in continuing to act charming when everyone knows it’s BS, and any chance of Toughness or Good Standing he could have had are kinda... shattered by his frequent (very loud) panic attacks late at night.

For the first year, he doesn’t bother trying to make friends. He doesn’t care about them, they won’t care about him, and he’s not interested in playing a tug-of-war with power dynamics when he knows he won’t always necessarily come out on top. So he’s kind of a loner here. Occasionally entertains himself by picking fights.

*(Spoiler warning for AAI2 in the fic I linked!!)

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Character Arc

From this point, I can see it going in several different directions. I have two different fic AUs where things turn out differently in each one, and I also have an extensive role-play I did with a friend of mine. In terms of imagining his “canon” life and his future, I definitely learn towards the events that transpired in the role-play, so I’ll focus on those.

(My friend and I made a post analyzing his personality and character arc, so most of the things I’ll mention here have been mentioned in this post in greater detail. HOWEVER the post is EXTREMELY long and also contains major spoilers for AAI2. So if you want to avoid spoilers and also want a summed up version, feel completely free to just read the summary below!) (oh also, with relation to the post I just linked, tw for?? a variety of common triggers)

I should mention that this might not be COMPLETELY spoiler-free, but I do avoid saying the spoilery name. It’s hard for me to accurately gauge what is and isn’t revealing, since I already know all the spoilers haha.

And, without further ado:

-Everything about his world has been turned upside-down. Instead of being adored, he’s despised. Instead of being the one with power, he’s the one under the thumb of others. Instead of a life of comfort and privilege, he’s confined to small, uncomfortable areas, and is barely paid anything for his labor. Additionally, he could be killed at any moment at any hour at any location--and this is something he’s forced to endure for years on end. The entire situation is incredibly stressful and traumatic for him.

-About a year after his arrest, a guy moves into his cell with him. Things align in just the right way that a friendship of some sort is formed between them: the guy is friendly, pretty, relatable, into some of the same hobbies he’s into, and he has power within the prison walls. It’s beneficial to form a friendship with him... and the guy isn’t annoyed with him for his (now much less-frequent) panic attacks, but rather, shows sympathy.

-Neither of them particularly trust one another, but they enjoy each other’s company.

-Humans need comfort, and Matt is no exception. Under the intense trauma and stress he’s enduring, it’s all too easy to form some sort of bond with the nice guy who dances with him and pets his hair and holds him.

-It’s important to mention that Matt is rendered unable to do his usual power & control shit. And he especially can’t get away with that kind of stuff when his new cellmate shows up. The guy is Very Alert to underhanded behavior (due to his own underhandedness + the fact that he’s dealt with one too many bastards), and is quick to call Matt out on even minor things. So Matt’s options at this point are either:

a.) try his manipulative shit and lose any small amount of power or comfort he may have had, with an added risk of retribution

b.) resist all forms of connection / interaction with other people, and just be miserable and alone and scared all by himself

c.) be friends with the guy WITHOUT being a shady douche, and getting to enjoy the comfort and benefits that provides

-So... YEAH. Long story short, he makes friends with the guy. And, also, lowkey catches feelings for him.

-Matt also makes friends with Simon Blackquill a couple years later (and that has its own backstory)

-His previous ways of moving through the world do not work at all here. In the end, Matt’s main goal is to get what he wants, and to feel good. With the circumstances, he has to completely change his approaches in order to meet that goal.

-Matt may be cold and uncaring towards other people’s emotions, but it’s clear that he does have very intense emotions. He shows much more vulnerability and pain now than he used to, because doing so makes him more sympathetic to his friends--but he also needs to learn to not be as manipulative about it, and to actually consider the other person’s emotions instead of making it all about himself.

-He does ultimately decide to make the overall changes necessary for healthy interpersonal connections, since it’s in his best interest to do so. It’s not easy, and he hits plenty of road bumps along the way. It definitely dredges up a lot of shit, a lot of painful emotions; he’s extremely self-protective, and genuine vulnerability is hard and frightening.

-The tl;dr is that he’s dragged through a healing arc, kicking and screaming the entire way.

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That’s what his life in like in prison, overall! There’s a ton of aspects and details, but I figured it’d be best to cover the basic storyline ^^

I also have thoughts on how things would go after he’s released from prison.

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...OH SHIT I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO MENTION THE SHELLY THING LMAO

I’m gonna make a post where I detail out what happens, and then link it here when I finish.

Edit: Here it is!

#Matt Engarde #aa post #Matt #thank you for the ask!! and thank you to everyone else who's been asking too aaa #I'm so happy people are interested in my headcanons #aaprison

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