Honestly the more I think about IS-7, the more utterly pathetic Dane Gustavia is to me.
There were three contestants in this competition. The competition that existed solely because Jeff wanted the Angel's Recipe off his hands but given to someone he deemed worthy by his measure, not his parents' or their company.
In the great bakeoff, there was one guy who was actually a chef. Not even a pastry chef (although Gustavia was a pasty chef), but straight up the only chef at all. Dover was a sculptor, Scones was a pharmacist.
Yeah, yeah, Dover and Gustavia collaborated. But Scones was about to be disqualified anyway, because she demonstrated just how much she wasn't actually a chef by fucking up the cream so badly. It was down to Dover and Gustavia, their partnership would've had to end regardless of how they handled it.
Gustavia killed Dover because he was being actively blackmailed and backstabbed, and also all of Dover's insults. Not an unreasonable move if murder's on the table already. But he literally never had to resort to murder. He brought a nuke to a knife fight.
If Gustavia had acted like a normal person for five minutes, he would have ran off and immediately told Jeff everything: the partnership, his taste disorder, Dover blackmailing him, Dover being Hoquet. And you know what Jeff would've done?
"Shit, I have a very similar disorder I'm in the process of curing. And I too want to make life good for my child, who I cannot currently give good sweets to because I can't taste half the stuff I'm cooking. You're the only actual chef here, and you've just proved your honesty over the other two. Here's the win, now come with me to the pharmaceutical lab and let's fix both of our taste disorders and make some Good Sweets! :D"
Like. I don't know why he went straight for murder. Jeff would have forgiven him - he wouldn't really have had a choice, he really wanted to get rid of the Recipe - and he would have won the bakeoff by default.
But no. That's too easy. So instead Gustavia did a murder, destroyed the lives of everyone involved, got Gregory killed, sentenced his own kid alongside Knightley and Miles to be incredibly badly traumatized, got who knows how many innocent people sentenced and/or executed by giving Miles to von Karma, and also almost kicked off a civil war in Zheng Fa.
Zero-out-of-fuckin-ten, Gustavia. Congrats, dude. That's the worst anyone's ever done it.
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Dear Anonymous,
Hard to answer when I don't know any of them personally.
I suppose I'd go for Issac Dover. I will never understand why anyone would turn their backs on anyone they'd consider a close friend. I hardly understand why Mr. Keyes did that to Mr. Knightley, but he at least HAD an excuse.
Even when I believed in only Guilty verdicts, I couldn't stand the thought of backstabbing Wright. I couldn't even Prosecute him for the murder of his mentor during the second half of Ms. Fey's trial with a straight face. I'd ask Mr. Payne to Prosecute any trial Wright is the defendant of.
- Miles Edgeworth
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Causes of death in the Ace Attorney franchise
Because I'm bored, and what do we do when we get bored? We MAKE LISTS! I went through every character dead character in the canon game universe (so AA1-6, AAI1-2, and TGAA1-2, sorry PWvsPL) and jotted it all down below, so let's see what the most common (specified) cause of death in Ace Attorney is:
Stabbed (x15)
Shot (x15)
Hit by a blunt object (x14)
Impaled (x5)
Poisoned (x4)
Fell to their death (x3)
Hanged (x3)
Car crash (x2)
Strangled (x1)
Electrocuted (x1)
Crushed (x1)
Suffocated (x1)
Asphyxiated (x1)
Heart Failure (x1)
Burned (x1)
Full list with character names all color-coded by game and more specific data below! (Beware of SPOILERS for the whole series!)
COLOR CODE: OG Trilogy - AJ - DD & SOJ - AAI1 - AA12 - TGAA 1 & 2
(AAI gets two different colors since a lot of people probably haven't played AAI2 yet. Sorry, DD and SoJ, you have to share. 'Why don't you do one color for the whole Apollo Trilo-' No <3)
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Stabbed (x15)
(Bruce Goodman, Misty Fey, Rex Kyubi, Constance Courte, Clay Terran, Metis Cykes, Inga Karkhuul Khura'in, Byrne Faraday, Manny Coachen, Horace Knightley, Di-Jun Huang, Mason Milverton, Jezaille Brettª, Odie Asman, Klint van Zieks)
Shot (x15)
(Gregory Edgeworth, Robert Hammond, Turner Grey, Pal Meraktis, Romein LeTouse, Magnifi Gramarye¨, Dhurke Sahdmadhi, Buddy Faith, Oliver Deacon, Deid Mann, Mack Rell, Ethan Rooke, Pop Windibank, Genshin Asogi, Tobias Gregson)
Hit by a blunt object (x14)
(Cindy Stone, Mia Fey, Russell Berry, Kane Bullard, Zak Gramarye, Candice Arme, Paht Rohl, Archie Buff, Jove Justice, Dumas Gloomsbury, Ka-Shi Nou, Isaac Dover, Jill Crane, Jack Cameron)
Impaled (x5)
(Jack Hammer, Neil Marshall, Manov Mistree, Puhray Zeh'lot, Tahrust Inmee¨)
Poisoned (x4)
(Glen Elg, Terry Fawles¨, Drew Misham, John H. Wilson)
Fell to their death (x3)
(Dustin Prince, Jack Shipley*, Akbey Hicks)
Hanged (x3)
(Joe Darke°, Celeste Inpax¨, Dahlia Hawthorne°)
Car crash (x2)
(Ini Miney*, Selena Sprocket*)
Strangled (x1)
(Juan Corrida)
Electrocuted (x1)
(Doug Swallow)
Crushed (x1)
('Di-Jun Huang')
Suffocated (x1)
(Taifu Toneido)
Asphyxiated (x1)
(Duncan Ross)
Heart Failure (x1)
(Azura Summers^)
Burned (x1)
(Magnus McGilded)
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ª: She was stabbed, right? Like, she was poisoned first, but she died from the stab wound first, if I'm correct. Do tell if I'm wrong, lmao.
*: Accidental deaths
^: Natural death
¨: Deaths by suicide
°: Executed (Joe Darke's method of execution isn't mentioned, but if we assume Japanifornia goes by Japan laws, then hanging is the only method of execution used. Probably a higher number of deaths by hanging then, whether you believe some people got executed or not. Also, a lot of the killers in TGAA probably got executed, too? I just jotted down the confirmed cases, but yeah.)
(Also, von Karma died of 'Something'. Who knows. Of being too ashamed, maybe. Sucks to be him).
I probably missed some characters/omitted them, because who knows, it's my list I guess. If I forgot someone important do let me know!
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