Foils and mentors
I think the most interesting thing about Phoenix Wright is that he’s an asshole with a heart of gold. He’s snarky, he’s meanspirited, he’s grumpy, he’s cynical, and as much as he talks about trusting people he’s very suspicious of…
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Being Queer in Japanifornia
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the text of the Ace Attorney games and how they present (and largely don’t present) queer issues and drawing conclusions about the society from that. This has impacted my writing of In…
So-called Sibling Dynamic
Miles and Phoenix ‘sibling dynamic’ traits. (written as a thought experimen’t becausse of how often people call Phoenix and Maya and Athena and Simon ‘siblings.) grew up together in young childhood Miles sticks up for Phoenix when no one else…
Phoenix Wright; excellent detective, terrible attorney
So, in honor of Phoenix Wright Disbarment Day… We agree that Phoenix Wright is a very excellent detective, and a very terrible defense attorney, right? only defends clients who are innocent checks to make sure that they’re actually innocent using…
Things that just happen to Apollo Justice
Things that just happen to Apollo Justice father is murdered when he’s an infant. raised through early childhood as a son of the leader of a group of guerrilla terrorist lawyers. abandoned by his guerrilla terrorist lawyer surrogate father to…
Why Apollo?
So did Wright deliberately pick Apollo for the trial in order to additionally ruin Kristoph’s protege to further punish him? Or did he just think Justice would be easy to manipulate. 🤔
Protagonist Centric Morality
Anonymous asked: “it’s really interesting how Justice for All was supposed to be the game that made Phoenix realize that he, as a lawyer, will also have to deal with clients that are guilty and has to defend them bc…
Magnifi Gramarye is terrible
Nobody is out here trying to hand Magnifi Gramarye a father of the year award (I hope), but I’m genuinely reeling over just how incredibly awful he actually is. Because amnesiac Thalassa didn’t just ‘magically’ disappear to a different country.…
Narumitsu fanon vs canon
As a narumitsu shipper, the main issue I have with narumitsu fanon is how contradictory it can often be with the actual text of the games. Aside from general mischaracterization and flanderization, the major idea I take issue with is…
Yesterday I talked a lot about the gay subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there’s lots of it. Today, I’m going to talk about the het subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there’s lots of it. Honestly, I…