On the Wright Track - Liveblogging Ace Attorney

I'm Annie, and I'm kind of terrible at video games. But I'm going to try liveblogging them anyway. (Read at your own risk of spoiling.) Read from the beginning Important tags

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My boyfriend looked at my screen when this panel was up and just went, "Haha, it's a dick!"

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PHOENIX NO

I was going to make a set of the saga of Missile but I decided to just go with this one shot because PHOENIX WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

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Every time I do, it makes me laugh.

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Math may not be my strong suit, but I can at least find the middle of a lake - and Gumshoe, honey, that isn't it.

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Looks like he taught Edgeworth all he knows about fashion, too.

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Good old Larry.

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Well, you could have mentioned that a little sooner! Like, what, three cases ago?!

I mean, it makes sense as a minor plot twist, and for character development reasons, but the way it's presented now compared to how Edgeworth was introduced in the beginning makes this seem like a sudden addition to the overarching story. Not that I don't like it; it's just a little... River-Song-esque, if you know what I mean.

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So apparently the victim in this case is Severus Snape.

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A small collection of Lotta's more colorful "country bumpkin" quotes, because who doesn't love dialogue tropes?

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Boom mic + fancy camera rigged for sound-triggers = meteor showers?

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I thought we were in Japan

what is going on

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Pick your poison:

Phoenix pockets a pair of poppers

Phoenix put a pair of pretty poppers in his pocket

Phoenix put a pretty pair of polka-dotted poppers in his pocket

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"O numbly-toesied poets thy micturations are to me As chill winterosity on a bare leaf tree. Groop, I implore thee my turning poetgnomes. And truthciously spangle me with crinkly lawyerwords, Or I will blend thee a gobstopper with my truncheon, see if I don't."

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...Are you feeling okay, Gumshoe?

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Wow, Phoenix. Rude.

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I can't even come up with a sassy retort but this is an awesome way to start a case: murder, Christmas, and one-liners about Christmas while committing murder. Perfect.