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I'm posting edits and anything Ace Attorney related because Elon's twitter sucks (P.S. no asks, replies only)

[poh-writes]

Oh, Kay. How I wish that were true.

Except, in a weird way, when I think about Simeon's situation in "The Captive Turnabout," it's almost a relief to know that he wasn't truly innocent in everything.

Pretend he was innocent. Imagine if that was his real personality and he really didn't know anything about what was happening with Bronco until it all came out into the open.

When you think about it that way, everything he goes through in I2-2 is the stuff of nightmares.

Picture it: you're going about your day, training animals, living your best life, when you get a call from the cops. Your best friend got arrested. Not just your best friend, but pretty much the only family you've had since childhood. He's being accused of murder and attempted assassination against a foreign leader.

Well, the good news is, he's innocent of the assassination attempt! The bad news is, he definitely killed one of his coworkers in a jealous fit of rage.

Just...what even happened? This doesn't match up with the friend you know. Were there warning signs that you missed? Could you have done something to prevent this from happening?

Even worse, because of the attempted assassination part - y'know, the thing he didn't do - this is all over the news. Every time you turn on a television or go online, you're seeing stories about what everyone thinks your best friend did. They're probably saying all kinds of horrible things about him and throwing out conspiracy theories on what his motive was and everyone at work is seeing this and probably asking you about it.

While you're still wrapping your mind around all of this, you get another call from the cops, about a day later. He's dead. Somehow, despite all of the alleged security in the building, someone murdered your best friend while they were in prison.

And before you have time to properly grieve over that, the cops suddenly raid your home and arrest you for the murder on the basis of some pretty flimsy evidence.

And the kicker in all of this? Not only are you innocent, you're the only one who is actually grieving your best friend's death. Nobody else cares because he was a bully and a murderer. Yet even though you know what he did was wrong, he's still someone you cared about deeply. And you don't even get the comfort that comes from sharing your grief with other people because everyone else thinks he got what he deserved.

And rather than getting the emotional support and grief counseling you desperately need, you're stuck in a prison cell waiting to get dragged into court where people will discuss whether your grief is even real or whether you hated your friend enough to want him dead.

Oh, and lest we forget the part in I2-2 where it comes out that the real killer secretly swapped out some weights that you used for a circus performance at the prison with your best friend's corpse and you had no idea.

Just...again, it's almost a relief that Simeon actually had a hand in everything that happened to Bronco because WOW.

When it comes to traumatizing fictional characters, no one really does it quite like Ace Attorney.

[mannysouta]

[scalytunster]

hairstyle swap :D

and some Simeon doodles

[horklees-olcshm]

That hairswap is magical. I love how you nailed the two of them. You can easily tell it's them, even when Simeon got the buzz and Bronco got the silky shampoo and dye.

[fullmetal-attorney]

im having too much fun making these

[miroh4]

@mannysouta's priestmonkey au sketches! theyre so fun to draw

[mannysouta]

Manosouta swap AU where Bronco becomes a vengeful priest and Simeon becomes an actor. I call it "Priestmonkey AU".

[horklees-olcshm]

Ok so apparently Frost was supposed to have a sprite as evidenced by the height chart comparison.

So I took this jpg for ants and went wild with it.

He definitely needs a crossed-arms pose like this one though.

[mannysouta]

I loved Miron's Swap AU so i did a rough comic based off of his ending

[miroh4]

MANOSOUTA WEEK : DAY 4 : SWAP AU (A LOT of text + collection of illustrations)

so. it has come to this. THE day. this au has been on my mind for such a long time, and i'm finally getting to share! i'll be the first to admit that some things have not been thought of, so feel free to make em up!

TW FOR COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF BLOOD,

enjoy!

I call it "Turnabout Sacrifice"

this an overhaul of the story (made with the help of FEYA!!! THE SMARTEST PERSON EVER!!)

First thing to change: Simeon ran away from the orphanage the day of presidents assassination, and Bronco left to distract and take the fall, unbeknownst to Simeon. Simeon was the one to send the drawing and did not look back, staying with Kanis, but the drawing was pinned on Knight, and all three were after him, not Saint.

Another change is that Simeon is no longer the one to remember the car incident, Bronco is. and he resolves to take revenge FOR Simeon and himself, no matter the cost. after enduring whatever-the-fuck, everything goes as we know. Knight becomes the presidents second-in-command (knowing his secret in hopes of getting to kill him) and Simeon joins the circus while keeping in contact with Kanis. because he had not endured what he did at Fifi, Winner and Wangs hands, the threat of the past being relatively out of his mind AND not remembering what happened 18 years ago makes Simeons sweetheart ditzy persona obsolete. so he becomes a bitch

Knight, on the other hand, needs to be close to Wang and for him to find a confidant in him, to trust him with his life and not have a single suspicion about him. so, he adopts the persona of a soft lovable guy who is a little skittish and shy despite being as big as a fridge.

Sometime in the future, Knight and Saint reconnect (through Bronco basically stalking him) and start developing a relationship together. Now onto the game.

TURNABOUT TRIGGER

First change to be had: Knight does not kill Rooke. Instead, it's Wang who does out of fear of being named a fraud, and naturally tries to pin it on the stupid little second-in-command, who would do anything for him, right after commencing the fake assassination.

Next change is that Simeon wasnt the one to think of the plan NOR to hire Shelly (idk who feel free to get creative). Still, the real assassination commences, resulting in an injured Bronco, and the fake one begins.

Rooke is killed by Wang, and an "attempt" on Wangs life gets made. Miles Edgeworth is called.

Bronco presents as a sweet and helpful individual, a bit bashful and nervous, but otherwise competent and, strangely enough, averse to violence.

After some time, Miles starts suspecting Bronco, but then learns that Bronco only assisted Wang because he wanted to help Zeng Fa and didn't know his colleague would die! THEN! Miles deduces that it was Wang. But what can you do against a president?

Knight is falsely arrested on the murder of Rooke as well as an attempted assassination.

THE IMPRISONED TURNABOUT

Next day, we learn of something horrible that had happened in prison.

Blood, a lot of it - belonging to Knight, with him nowhere to be seen, and a ring that supposedly belonged to him. While the body can't be found - the suspicions fall on his best friend, who'd visited him yesterday. So, Miles and Kay go investigate.

And they meet a bratty, arrogant rising star of the animal training world and Big Berry Circus - Simeon Saint! (slight spoiler to aa4 on the pic (line courtesy of Feya!))

He is cocky and rude, bragging about how he's "free do do anything" and immediately takes dislike towards Miles, yet has no choice but to accept his help. While investigating, Kay and Miles learn of what was inside the case, and how it got there, as well as Simeon travelling to Knight without permission and with a huge cage to boot. After determining that a chisel in the case might be Knights work (which it is in this AU - a LaGuarde lure), they turn to accuse him of trying to aid a criminal in escaping prison.

And he snaps.

Now Miles fully trusts Simeon. He tells him how he tried to get Knight to climb into a cage, "But Bronco was always the kind of guy to follow the law to the T. Nevermind the law being wrong..."

This is an inverse of that one scene from the finale of the game. The idea was proposed by @diableriezer and it near made me weep.

After more investigating we finally get on Fifi's trail, and get her to confess.

Knight's body is missing because he ran away from her wrath, and had now gone missing, although she claims that he couldn't have survived the attack.

In reality, he did. (cw blood)

(contains lyrics from "Evil" by Electroforez, a song about being obsessed an in love)

Kanis lied about not knowing him, and secretly patched him up with Helmut's help and helped him escape, so he'd finally take revenge.

Inherited and Forgotten turnabouts play out, second probably with a lot of changes which I didn't think of, but in the end Winner gets arrested, so does Gusto. Knight hates Gusto with his whole heart, and wishes to rip it out for letting him and Saint suffer like that. He remembers his father, and he only wishes he got to kill him first. Now, without further ado...

TURNABOUT FOR AGES

TURNABOUT SACRIFICE

We get evidence of Fifi, Blaise and Wang working together, and decide to finally confront the latter, only to learn that he went missing.

We find his corpse and realize that Simeon also hasn't been seen in a while. Learn from Kanis that his pup has gone to seek revenge, determine that it's Simeon the same way.

Weirdly enough, we do NOT find Saint at the circus Regina tells is that he left in a hurry. We determine that he'd gone to retrieve a piece of evidence from the crime scene, which in this case is the presidential plane because I thought it'd be rad.

There we find Knights "corpse", but it turns out he is asleep and Simeon is helping care for his wounds here, since he thought it'd be safe. They ask Knight if Simeon has harmed him, he says no.

We learn that Simeon has been notified of Knights location by Kanis.

When Miles attempts arrest, Knight quickly takes Simeon hostage, revealing himself to be Wangs killer.

Knight reveals his motivations, his story. Reveals that he'd been abandoned by everyone, even by his darling friend, and nobody was there for him. Despite that, he still forgives Simeon, because he is all he has, and all he wishes for is to finally stay together - leave and never look back on the horrors they've endured.

Unfortunately, it does not work out.

Saint is adamant that he wants to stay together, and he is truly grateful for the revenge, but that he didn't trust Saint with that, so how could he trust him?

After talking through things, and various threats from Knight, he concedes. But not in a way one would expect.

Knowing that he won't take being apart easily, Knight tells Simeon that there is only one road to go from there.

And pulls the trigger.

[horklees-olcshm]

THIS IS SOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD

[galacticourt]

Manosouta Week Day 2 : Childhood

[horklees-olcshm]

THIS IS SO CUTEEEEGAZUGDUIEFUILFULIRUE

[la-horrorosa]

🐎/🐒

[horklees-olcshm]

So yeah this is probably how their first real chess match went.

[milaza]

horace knightley brain disease

[mannysouta]

So this is something I forget not everyone knows:

According to the ace attorney investigations art book, Bronco viewed the President like a father figure, which is why he was so jealous of Rook.

[miroh4]

your kiss is torture

but killing me would be too easy

[baker-chan-senpai]

Based on this post by @cornertheculprit

[kajuelle]

Nrmt dump

They’re all fiiilth

[mannysouta]

Someone posted some manosouta concept art here, but I decided to post a cleaner version (pulled this from the game) + extra photos.

Also the paintings:

[horklees-olcshm]

Dayum, thanks. The Collection version even expands the size of some pictures that were already present in the HD release.