#den's aa roleswap au

[aaroleswapau]

ohoho!~ art thee working hard, or hardly working, sir edgeworth? 🌻🎭💗💕

originally drawn for narumitsu week 2022 day 3: free day!

i suppose i should post some of my old swap au art since i'm too busy rn to answer asks adfghd <3 (i'm so sorry, i appreciate everyone's interest and curiosity with the au! but between college and brain stuff, i'm afraid i don't have any spoons rn </3)

anyways, like i mentioned, i drew this for nrmt week 2022 and i polled my bird app followers for which piece of official art i should redraw for the swap au, and this one won so here it is!

y'all finally get to see the full image of this blog's icon if y'all weren't aware lol

#ace attorney #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #den's aa roleswap au #narumitsu #wrightworth #narumitsu week 2022 #<- well. i drew it for that so might as well tag it too #aa swap au art #ace attorney roleswap #roleswap au #aa roleswap au

[u3pxx]

🌻🎭 i present to you! a compilation of all of my old ace attorney roleswap au stuff!!

these are like from 2020-2021 so hopefully, i get the drive to update these sooner or later TT feel free to ask me questions about it over on @aaroleswapau!

this is a long one so more stuff under the cut!

ok for easier understanding, here's who's swapped with who!

phoenix ⇄ edgeworth

maya ⇄ franziska

mia ⇄ gregory

mvk ⇄ morgan

godot ⇄ raymond

apollo ⇄ klavier

trucy ⇄ kay

kristoph ⇄ constance (do not worry she is not evil)

daryan ⇄ clay (he also isn't evil)

athena ⇄ blackquill

juniper ⇄ fulbright

and some characters, while not swapped with anyone, had their stories and roles changed (like pearl, iris, and ema), and certain characters whose roles have been swapped with another person, still keep their stories (like constance and clay)

i'm also gonna apologize in advance for the lack of franziska here, i'm currently reworking her in the au so oop! no new drawings atm ;;

#ace attorney #den's aa roleswap au #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #narumitsu #maya fey #franziska von karma #mia fey #morgan fey #raymond shields #diego armando #godot #apollo justice #klavier gavin #trucy wright #kristoph gavin #ema skye #daryan crescend #kay faraday #simon blackquill #athena cykes #clay terran #juniper woods #constance courte #bobby fulbright #iris fey #ace attorney roleswap #sunnysidedraws #aa roleswap au #roleswap au

[metaphorical-goblin]

Obsessed with @aaroleswapau Phoenix. He’s so. I love him.

Like you know this man puts his hand to his mouth and laughs like “OH HO HO,” twinkle in his eye, maniacal CHEER at your imminent failure. I love him

Lots of pointing, still, but also lots of gesturing and using the whole floor in his presentations

“Sir Edgeworth,” SIGHHHH I LOVE HIM

#ace attorney #phoenix wright #aa roleswap au #I’m not really sure how to tag this lol #I guess #fangirling about other people’s aus #they’re just so so good and Den’s art is *chef’s kiss* #I love Phoenix Wright

[aaroleswapau]

Do you have a pearl design?

sure do! as you all can probably tell, these are very old pftt, here's some doodles of her way back then :0]

copypasting from my old replies on twt LOL:

pearl's set up to be another prosecutor like her ma, she's still a very sweet girl but she is very antagonistic towards miles and franziska bc they're going against prosecutor maya, who she still loves very much and idolizes.

i thought it would interesting if she served as an angry little force to be reckoned with during investigations instead of being helpful in what would be considered jfa in the swap au

she does grow a lot more chiller once she grows up pftt

also, kind of been thinking of pearls and simon friendshipisms bc when i was like doing an age table of all the swap au characters in excel, i realized that they'd be the same age which is WILD lol (i mean athena and pearl are the same age too so i should've seen it coming, but still!! wild!!!)

in my heart of hearts, pearl and simon are some flavor of aroace and whatever pearl wants to do with anybody's love life doing is going to be a disaster ASKSKS sorry queen </3

#get simon out of the blind date pearl devised for him please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #den's aa roleswap au #ace attorney #pearl fey #aa swap au art #aa swap au asks #im feeling impulsive so thats why im answering asks whoops dghj #sorry gusy . i cannot control what i can do most of the time orz <- adhd

[aaroleswapau]

are nahyuta or any of the other khura’inese characters in this au? i like them a normal amount

yep, they are! nahyuta and dhurke are swapped! it's been a while since i've thought about aa6 in any capacity for the swap au bc, let's be real, it's so hard to piece together LMAO ORZ

it's such a swerve to go from miles, klavier, and simon to "OH IT'S APOLLO TIME NOW!!!!!!!!" in the au WHEEZES so i did think about making aa6 like, swapollo's version of an investigations game just so it'd make sense that he gets the spotlight this time.

and yea, nahyuta and co. are here (i unfortunately don't have a design for rayfa yet :^[) but from what i remember, i haven't actually like, solidified their lore in the story bc again, it's very difficult to do (i just like drawing and character design why did i do this orz) DFGHD but yea. somehow, he left khura'in and went into japanifornia with a semblance of a plan in hand and if he could, find his long-lost brother :'^)

i did think about nahyuta approaching the eaa being one of the first things he did (reasons tba pftt) but the idea that he's your co-counsel in the 6-2 is really fun! i do remember switching out the prosecutor in this case to apollo, just for the added trucy angst (bc she still is the one who gets accused in this), and bc of "uh oh what's this!!! my long-lost sibling on the other side of the courtroom!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!"

as for dhurke, i haven't built a lot of lore stuff for him yet (bc i cannot remember aa6 lore very well DFGHD) but just. the switcahroo trick of him being gone the whole time? very fun. you know who else had a switcharoo moment in aa6? hey hold on, why is nayna not here in this au?? why is dhurke's hair lavender????? anyways :^]

#ace attorney #den's aa roleswap au #nahyuta sahdmadhi #dhurke sahdmadhi #aa swap au asks #aa swap au art #aa6 spoilers #ace attorney spirit of justice spoilers #WHAT IMPULSE DOES TO A MF ....

[aaroleswapau]

🌻🎭 long time no swap au .... (thanks for the peeps who sent doodle requests! :0])

what can i say, the people love maya!!!!!!! (very flattered actually shes one of my fave designs i did lol)

and also, thank you all for the very nice words omgg 😭💖💖 i know it's been a while since i've drawn or talked about this au (or used this sideblog in general asksk) but i am always very grateful that you all still enjoy it pftt <33 🥹🥹🫶🫶🫶

i've gotten a LOT of asks since the last time i posted here which:

AHHH!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹 warms my heart to know that people are interested still ...

AH FUCK I HAVENT ANSWERED ANY OF THEM YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i did gain like, new interests LOL as is evident in my main, so i gotta admit that the brainrot isn't as strong as it used to be! 😔

dw, ill get to answering em, they're in my drafts. i was just waiting for a time that the doodles i drew for the answers would get polished and, well. i just .. hafta get less busy first 😭😭

im gonna drop the latest swap!franziska lore one of these days DFGHD i finally made like a new design for her months ago, just didn't have any polished drawings to show for it but oh well

thanks again for sticking by :'^] i'll revive this sideblog once the brainrot kicks in again asksks <3333333

#den's aa roleswap au #ace attorney #maya fey #miles edgeworth #franziska von karma #phoenix wright #athena cykes #kristoph gavin #daryan crescend #narumitsu #wrightworth #aa swap au art #im not tagging apollo or klavier but theyre in there in the bg lol #had to fill in the dead space thats why this ones more chaotic lol #ace attorney roleswap #ace attorney swap au #roleswap au #aa roleswap au #id in alt text #described

[aaroleswapau]

mandatory furio tigre ask.. do you think Furio Tigre would still impersonate Phoenix, or would he be a whole new character designed to look more like Miles? or do you think maybe it would be that Tigre is swapped with Viola and Viola impersonates Franziska instead?

YEAAAAA I GET TO FINALLY SHOW OFF ONE OF THE STUPIDEST THINGS I EVER DREW FOR THIS AU AGAIN YEAAAAA

basically, i like to think that furio tigre is the same person but, for some reason, he bears a strong resemblance to miles edgeworth instead in this universe DFGHDJKD so here ya go, ya boy selim

(viola never did impersonate and create ayam but viola impersonating a phony franziska is still a very fun and silly to think about pftt)

#ace attorney #aa swap au art #miles edgeworth #furio tigre #den's aa roleswap au #aa swap au asks

[aaroleswapau]

i'd love to see some of your swap!athena art if you could find them! speaking of, did aura and metis go through a switch in this au as well?

sure thing! here's some pretty old ones :^P

and yep, they did! i have an old draft of a design for aura but not one for metis (yet). i thought it would impact simon more if... yea :^(

#aa swap au art #aa swap au asks #ace attorney #athena cykes #simon blackquill #klavier gavin #well kinda #aura blackquill #aa5 spoilers #dd spoilers #aa5 #dual destinies #dual destinies spoilers #den's aa roleswap au #ace attorney roleswap #roleswap au #aa roleswap au

[u3pxx]

hi! just popping in to say I love your art, and also that I made a little fanart of your older Athena and swap!Athena designs! They are wicked cool 🙏 thank you for sharing your creations!

oh goodness hello!!!?!?? 🥺💛💛💛

these are amazing, oh my god!!! thank you for drawing my thena designs, the way you drew them looks oh so very charming <33 and it's just so cool to see other ppl draw the things you design yknow 🥹🥹🥹 so cools ....

#sunnysideanswers #gigimirasol #ace attorney #athena cykes #den's aa roleswap au #sunnysidegifts

[aaroleswapau]

Burning question: is Narumitsu/WrightWorth canon in this AU?

very funny question to ask whether something is canon in this thing of mine that is very far out from canon WHEEZES

but ah, settle down, i'm here to confirm once and for all that they are very good friends :0]

#and they were rivals .... #aa swap au asks #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #narumitsu #look at me in the eye boy pfttt #den's aa roleswap au

[aaroleswapau]

🪶🌟💫 woop woop! a compilation of swap!aa5 drawings ranging from various levels of polish and incompleteness pftt <3

if you're curious who's swapped with who, feel free to refer to this and if you want more trilogy-aa4-centered swap au art, well i've got just the thing right here! and as always, feel free to send asks about the au and i'll try my best to answer! :^]

also coughs did you know i made a speedpaint for the aa5 lineup long ago on youtube it's over here....

i've accumulated a lot of drawings over the last two years so more stuff under the cut!

(about the thing with bobby being the phantom in this au, it's not actually set in stone! i'm kind of still deciding if he should still be the phantom or if the torch is passed to someone else but eh, i just like playing around with the idea nevertheless <3)

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#ace attorney #den's aa roleswap au #miles edgeworth #simon blackquill #athena cykes #klavier gavin #clay terran #juniper woods #bobby fulbright #constance courte #apollo justice #kay faraday #blackbright but just a lil bit #tw blood #cw blood #i know that its danganronpa looking blood its the only way i can stomach drawing it wheezes #aa5 #dual destinies #aa5 spoilers #dual destinies spoilers #ace attorney roleswap #aa roleswap au #aa swap au art

[aaroleswapau]

Listen. I am obsessed with Kay Faraday, and your take on Kay Faraday has activated my brain. May I please receive more Kay content?

sure thing! here are some old drawings of her! :^D

little bit of a background, kay is swapped with trucy! she's a stuntwoman/escape artist and currently the charming, lively assistant and kind of a big sister figure (klavier voice we are the same age, kay) of defense attorney klavier gavin!

#ace attorney #den's aa roleswap au #kay faraday #klavier gavin #simon blackquill #ema skye #faraskye #well . kinda #aa swap au asks #aa swap au art #ace attorney roleswap #roleswap au #aa roleswap au #ghastly7

[aaroleswapau]

They actually let phoenix show up in clown attire??? That has to be distracting for some people. Like imagine this clown sends your ass to jail. That's a tale to tell your cell mates.

Jokes aside though, are there other role swaps for example, Miles mentoring a defense attorney Klavier or Simon? Genuinely curious.

i mean hey man, no one stopped regular edgeworth from dressing like that /j

and oh yes absolutely!! edgeworth gets to have both of them under his wing! he met klavier in... well, not the best of circumstances if we take note of the original verse turnabout trump

i dont think swapklav has the same BAM as apollo that he'd punch scruffworth, but i have thot abt him kicking him in the shins kay style, wheezes

simon, on the other hand... miles has had many a trip to japan accompanying phoenix, and then he met the young man.

#aa swap au asks #aa swap au art #cupcakestreets #ace attorney #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #athena cykes #apollo justice #klavier gavin #simon blackquill #den's aa roleswap au #ace attorney roleswap #roleswap au #aa roleswap au

[aaroleswapau]

Do you have any swap!franziska art? Wanna see more of her design

i unfortunately don't have any polished art of her bc i think when i drew this, my swap au hyperfixation was starting to wane, whoops! these are just some very quick sketches of what i wanted her new thing in the swap au to be.

(i will be putting old art of her old design if you want to see it under read more pftt [unfortunately not a lot of them bc i wasn't vibing with the old role i gave her so i wasn't drawing her a lot 😔])

oki doks, now time for a lore dump!!!!! (copy-pasting what i wrote on the bird app a long time ago):

ok, so the thing is, i gave a bit of redd white's role to mvk. my reasoning for that is since he's the one who killed gregory (who has mia's role), he'd have to take on that role too. when characters don't have any like, "exact" foils for their roles to be swapped with, i either make them stay the same or hobble some roles together. mvk's case was the latter.

so mvk runs a private eye that's connected to the prosecutor's office (he's corrupt bc have you seen that guy) and franziska happens to be working there.

mvk also happens to be one the people responsible for covering up the details about mia's death.

i wanted to change franziska's job from my first version of her bc she doesn't really have a connection to the supernatural, so i just gave her a job that works closely in the covering crimes too.

but yeah, fran has to meet gregory, and then she gets framed by redd white

and she's furious about it, of course! that fool works under her father, how dare he put the blame on her!

with how fran is supposedly cooperating with gregory, i think mvk would've really wanted her to catch the fall even with how much he cares about his daughter. he's an 'end justifies the means' kind of guy.

i don't think fran realizes until swap!jfa that it was her father who purposely tried to frame her and the one who ordered to kill gregory.

i think she'd feel really torn by that and the guilt with how miles defended her before knowing all that would've ate her up (the fact that gregory is dead, no spirit channeling or anything makes this more fucked up for them i think agfhhjh)

however, i still haven't figured out why franziska would agree to talk to gregory if he's investigating mia's death, and i'm not quite sure why gregory would've been investigating mia's death in the first place bc unlike mia in the regular verse, he'd have no connections to her case at least

(that would probably require some aai duology knowledge that i do not have right now ASKSKS)

my brain isn't fully working right now so i can't fully ramble on about her design, but i did think it was important to make her dress eccentric; and i know that everyone dresses eccentric in aa, but particularly that one point in turnabout sisters where april may should've remembered maya bc she dressed weird? i wanted the same for franziska ASKSKS roast her old-timey gothic looking ass!!!!!

and from my recent drawing of her, i think if i were to draw like, a polished ref for her, i would like to show the fact that her make-up is severe. again, 'eccentric' or whatever pftt

i originally had her be like a witch, some sort of seer who could communicate with the dead through her crystal ball. scrapped that and changed it bc it was just not digging my dudes asdghd a shame tho bc i'm rather fond of her big-ass veil witch hat thingy

#ace attorney #den's aa roleswap au #franziska von karma #aa swap au asks #aa swap au art

[aaroleswapau]

I love this AU it's a brilliant concept but I'm going to need to burn Phoenix's ruff, it's up to him whether he'll take it off or not

(and aww!! thank you!! :^DD)

#aa swap au art #den's aa roleswap au #phoenix wright #larry butz #larry is swapped with gumshoe btw #but he still doesnt have a solid design rip #ace attorney roleswap #roleswap au #aa roleswap au

[aaroleswapau]

Ah!!! These are So Cool!!!! Does- does Apollo still have the tag of his suit on(is he still broke ass in this au). Love that you didn't give daryan dildo hair. What's that card in klaviers chest pocket that shows up after kg:aa? Fan of the second kristoph drawing very handsome. What is the roleswap wright anything agency called?? Is Sebastian the 'little dare devil' Kay has on dail?

Hope that's not too many questions but I really like the details on this jsjfng

wah thank you, so glad you think so! <33

swapollo isn't broke (lmao) in this au since he's pretty well off as a musician, it's klavier's turn to be a broke ass bitch pftt rip king im sorry that you still love clothes and fashion

the thing on klavier's chest pocket after aa4 is constance's notebook. a reminder of her that he keeps close to his heart :'^)

the waa in the swap au is called...

and the little daredevil kay has is actually little thief! but they're called little daredevil in the swap au since kay is a stuntwoman here and i thought that seemed like a fitting change :^P (i'll be honest, i haven't quite figured out how to fit in most of the aai cast in this au just because i keep forgetting what happens in the duology, wheezes)

#aa swap au asks #aa swap au art #phantommarigold #ace attorney #apollo justice #klavier gavin #kay faraday #constance courte #den's aa roleswap au #ace attorney roleswap #roleswap au #aa roleswap au