#for me the thing in canon that confirms that manfred von karma was a shit dad

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read someone's essay about being mad that fanon makes manfred von karma abusive abusive and one of their points of evidence was stuff from the anime canon and like yeah i get what they were going for conceptually but also i feel like everything decent he might have done as depicted in the anime canon is cosmically balanced out by the fact that, textually, he is going to drop edgeworth off at an orphanage until he realizes edgeworth would be a good prosecutor. like kind of an unchill move there tbh. regardless of the fact that he buys franziska toys.

#i blocked the op of this post forever ago apparently but i cant remember when or for what. probably annoying kinnie crimes #for me the thing in canon that confirms that manfred von karma was a shit dad #is how little franziska seems to care that he's dead #in aa2 when phoenix is like 'i know youre mad because your dads died' and shes like 'what. no'. like.... girl are you good? #just seemed to be kind of a shitty understanding of abusive parenthood tbh #like i don't think he's a cartoon caricature of abusive parenting #but i dont think you can raise kids by pitting them against each other to be perfect without that qualifying as emotional abuse.