(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ Prosecutors
Simon makes my ♥ go doki doki
Lots of Wrightworth, Blackbright/Phantomquill, and Blackmadhi
Current Status: Hiatus
#nsfw tagged when appropriate
Not currently taking prompts; will open them again soon
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At some point I will try to compile (after editing) all or most of my request fics into two archives (one for sfw and one for nsfw) to put on ao3. And I’m going to try and put up some of the other smaller one-shot type things in there too I guess?
Longer things might get their own posting. Not sure yet. I’m still debating.
(Of course, I am swamped with work that I have trouble concentrating on so this might not be for a while. Sigh.)
How does one write Simon Blackquill? (This is a cry for help because I have no idea how and I'm trying to write a story that has been sitting in my folder for the past 7 months and I want to finish it but how does one write him my God... ;_;)
SO I know I’m still on like…unannounced hiatus as I try andfigure out what I want to do in the face of tumblr’s nsfw ban (which I hate, soI’m wrestling with my desire to not really use tumblr anymore out of protestvs. wanting to stay because I enjoy running this blog for the most part). BUT I saw this and knew I had to answer! :D
OKAY, so it’s hard for me to exactly say what might be bestsimply because him pre 5-5 and post 5-5 can be slightly different, so I willjust go over how I write him and stuff! Anddon’t worry; it took me a while to get his voice down myself, and even now Istill sometimes wonder if I’m writing him alright (but I look back at somethings in the beginning of my AA writing career and I think I’ve been able to getcloser to him than I was)!
Simon is odd because he honorable, snarky, a troll(ish), protective,emotional, scary, and soft all at once. He hasa very specific vision of honor and adheres to that very strictly – this samurai code he follows was his reasoning forwhy he was ready to sacrifice himself for Athena. In court, too, he has a specific set ofstandards and methods that he finds to be legitimate (which he allows) and just ‘tricks’(which he hates). He is very intolerantof things he finds dishonorable – hence why he did everything in his power (andwas successful) to make sure that Apollo was not able to use his perceptionability in court (until he found it a necessary evil to taking down thephantom). To him, this is just a trickand has no legal or scientific basis. Healso does not like the dirty tricks that Nahyuta sometimes plays – he getsinvolved in 6-4 partially because he found Nahyuta using Athena’s hearingability against her to be underhanded.
(cut because holy shit this got long I am sorry I can’t help myself)
His respect for people varies depending on if he finds themhonorable and to be a worthy ally or opponent. In court, he refers to the opposition with the honorific -dono as a wayto show his respect of them as an enemy. He is very poetic (in his own way) when describing…most things, butespecially courtroom battles – they are, to him, akin to actual war, and thewords and arguments people use are weapons and blades. His respect (or lack thereof) can usually beseen in how he addresses people. Thosehe respects get their actual name and an honorific. Those he does not get a nickname atbest. (Example – in 6-4 he starts outcalling Nahyuta ‘Sahdmadhi-dono,’ but once Nahyuta loses his respect, hechanges it to ‘Prosecutor Sad Monk’ on top of just flat out insults.)
THAT BEING SAID his having respect for people does not meanthat he always…treats them that way. Simon is The Gadfly/Troll trope – he likes to provoke people and makefun of them and make them uncomfortable…either because he finds it amusing(most of the time), or because he is trying to get them to figure something out(usually in the form of ‘tough love’ especially with respect to Athena in6-4). In prison he was a prankster andjust reveled in doing things to messwith his fellow inmates. He has an extremely dark sense of humor (gallows-type)due probably needing to have it in his own way in dealing with his prison sentence, and laughs at his own jokeswhile everyone else/most people around him stare awkwardly and feel uncomfortable. He used this in court a lot too; when peoplestill thought him a murderer, he would act like he was committed to violence andwas about to cut them all down and then when everyone was cowering andterrified he’d be like “lol just kidding you’re all pathetic but you shouldhave seen your faces.” He also used hisfrightening reputation and appearance to his advantage in court – he wouldglare and bang on the table and break his shackles as a way to unnerve peopleand gain that sort of psychological advantage. Andwhen he was seriously angry? Well…that was terrifying.
In the English version of the game, Simon is said to be asamurai, but he actually is more akin to a ronin – a masterless samurai. Metis was his master/mentor, and he lost herand so does not hold that same sort of reverence for (almost) anyone, which iswhy he is so powerfully devoted to her and preserving her legacy and honor and savingher daughter. (I say almost because Iwould say that Edgeworth is the closest thing he has to a new ‘master’ in thesense that Edgeworth helped save him and is his boss and is highly respected,etc. So where I think he makes fun ofeveryone else he respects, he does not do the same to Edgeworth, who is more onthe ‘revered’ level akin to Metis (though still less than her). Yourmileage may vary on that though.)
Things that do not interest him get zero/minimal attention. In fact, he will go out of his way to make others do things for him. In this sense, he actually might be thelaziest of the prosecutors – sure he takes his job seriously and will fight inthe courtroom to the best of his ability, but he will also try and get thejudge and the police and the defense to do parts of his job for him. Simply because he doesn’t feel like it, and/orsimply because he can. The easiest example is how he convinces the judgeto do the opening statements in most cases just…because he doesn’t want to. The one he actually does dothe opening statement for is the case that is personal to him and so he takes astrong interest in it.
So, on the outside, Simon is rough. His sense of honor does not mean he is respectfulin the traditional ‘respectful person’ sort of sense and most people who cross his path would probablyconsider him brash and rude.
On the inside, though, and at his core, Simon is extremelyprotective and loyal and emotional. Hisprotectiveness comes out mostly with respect to Athena – he might make fun ofher and tease her relentlessly but the moment someone does something toactually hurt her in any way, he ison the warpath and puts himself in the path between whoever is doing that andher. This is the other reason he gets involved in 6-4; he saw that Athena washurting and panicking and came to help her (while at the same time shaming Nahyuta and the entire courthouse audience). Sure, he did this with his own ‘tough love’type of approach, but he came to her defense without hesitation. So even after he is out of prison, Athena is still a very importantperson to him – probably the most important aside from her mother – and he willdefend her.
Pre 5-5 he has a lot of emotions deep within him – he is sad(canonically, the marks on his face were created from the tears he cried whenhe was in prison that he never wiped away) and angry and fearful. Although he ‘accepts’ his death in theloosest sense of the word, he did not wantto die. It was a sacrifice he wasready to make that went along with his code of honor, but he did not wantdeath. Sometimes I think people forgethow young he actually is – at 28 hewas in prison for seven years and was a day’s away from execution. He looks older because of the stress being inprison put him under and from the secrets he carried, but he is still a youngperson and was ready to sacrifice so many years for his mentor’s daughter.These sorts of sad emotions, though, he was usually very good at keeping hiddenbehind his humor and his ‘twisted samurai’ persona. So I usually use this when I am writing inhis perspective (which is…my usual route when he is around), but I don’t knowif it would be as apparently obvious to others, minus Athena, who knows him bestand can hear his heart’s turmoilwhenever he speaks. I also write that hestill carries a lot of it after 5-5but that is my personal perspective! Hedoes have a lot of relief and is happier after 5-5 and that fear of impendingdeath does not follow him. But to me,that sort of trauma will stay with him. He just, still, does not show it. He is not the type to lean on others. Get them to do his work? Absolutely. But actually lean onthem for emotional help? Not somuch. Even with his sister, he was verystunted in how he expressed his love for her (and vice-versa; neither Blackquillsibling is very good at expressing their emotions).
UH I’m sure I’m missing things but I just realized that thisis already like…1500 words because I just rambled about Simon’s character and Ilove him so much. I DON’T KNOW IF THISWAS HELPFUL because it might just be me rambling, so feel free to send meanother ask or DM or something if you would like more or something morespecific, even!
I told myself I wouldn’t post anything about him to avoid drama nor that I would draw anything not commission-related but here I am and I’m rather happy with this drawing so take this doodle
Hey, if someone draws a nice piece of a character you hate, it’s rude af to put how much you hate said character in the tags and how they are ‘objectively awful.’
Either reblog it saying how nice you think the art is or don’t reblog it at all. Reblogging it and crapping all over an artist’s favorite character under their art is just a shitty thing to do, no matter how “right” you think you are.
So, tumblr has decided to take the worst possible route and basically is jumping off a cliff instead of actually addressing its problems in a constrictive way that would make the site legitimately better.
Apparently written works will be less policed - as a writer, apparently, I will be less affected - but I am not sure I can stick around here as my main platform while my visual artist peers are being purged left and right for things that are not at all bad. Tumblr has basically taken the extreme position of ‘all sexuality is bad’ and I find that rhetoric incredibly dangerous, especially considering the strange surge of purity culture/radfem notions that has taken hold of a large chunk of people on here.
It is a shame; you guys have been nothing but supportive of me while I deal with personal shit, and I hate to just up and leave - tumblr might be shooting itself in the foot (over and over to the point of crippling itself), but you guys have been excellent and are what keep me from just leaving entirely.
I’m going to try and see if I can get a pillowfort account, which is where people seem to be migrating en masse (aside from twitter). I’ll keep you all posted on that.
I’ve created a twitter with the same handle aceprosecuties, but I have not had the chance to really do much with it at the moment. My “main” twitter is heavily vld focused; dm me if you want to follow me there too (not that it would be hard to find me lol).
I’ll post more things on my ao3 rather than restrict them to tumblr.
I might make a curiouscat for requests - although I have not done them much lately, I do still like to try and do what I can for you guys! Again, I’ll keep you guys posted.
Hello! Just thought, I'd tell you that it's not very likely for our artist friends to get "purged" from tumblr. The changed guidelines say that they won't delete any blogs (not even those marked as explicit), "just" content. Also, they're only interested in real live photos/vids/gifs, not illustrations, so I'm reasonably sure most artists are out of any danger zone. Hope that helps easing the anxiety about this whole mess. Have a nice day! <3
Hey nonnie! Unfortunately I know a lot of people who already have been purged who cannot come back, and then other people’s content are getting flagged to hell and back and if all this content is getting flagged and will get taken down it basically cripples artists. And although they said they are interested in real life photos and stuff, I’ve seen a ton of illustrations get flagged and a ton of nsfw artists dealing with the brunt of it. (I have a few people who have had even their sfw stuff flagged; I’m not sure how this algorithm is working...I saw someone who had their little sketches of Garfield the cat just sitting around flagged as sensitive it has been bizarre. I think even the staff’s post about banning nsfw content has now been flagged, which is hilarious.)
I do appreciate you coming me with this info! Hopefully what will happen is closer to what you’re saying than what I am thinking/seeing - maybe after this initial backlash (and Verizon’s stock taking a huge nosedive), they will reevaluate this decision and/or look at how things are getting flagged.
It just sucks that users have been asking for tumblr to do something about the porn bots and actual CP rings on this site and their response is to just ban all nsfw content (where they decide what nsfw entails). And the irony is that I’ve still been seeing so many porn bots while fandom and sex education blogs are taking the biggest hits
So, tumblr has decided to take the worst possible route and basically is jumping off a cliff instead of actually addressing its problems in a constrictive way that would make the site legitimately better.
Apparently written works will be less policed - as a writer, apparently, I will be less affected - but I am not sure I can stick around here as my main platform while my visual artist peers are being purged left and right for things that are not at all bad. Tumblr has basically taken the extreme position of ‘all sexuality is bad’ and I find that rhetoric incredibly dangerous, especially considering the strange surge of purity culture/radfem notions that has taken hold of a large chunk of people on here.
It is a shame; you guys have been nothing but supportive of me while I deal with personal shit, and I hate to just up and leave - tumblr might be shooting itself in the foot (over and over to the point of crippling itself), but you guys have been excellent and are what keep me from just leaving entirely.
I’m going to try and see if I can get a pillowfort account, which is where people seem to be migrating en masse (aside from twitter). I’ll keep you all posted on that.
I’ve created a twitter with the same handle aceprosecuties, but I have not had the chance to really do much with it at the moment. My “main” twitter is heavily vld focused; dm me if you want to follow me there too (not that it would be hard to find me lol).
I’ll post more things on my ao3 rather than restrict them to tumblr.
I might make a curiouscat for requests - although I have not done them much lately, I do still like to try and do what I can for you guys! Again, I’ll keep you guys posted.
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