Hello! I’m Sara Spirit-Small and I am the creator of the Ratattorney AU. The gist of it is, Phoenix Wright is a borrower who knows a lot about the law and does a little Ratatouille situation with Maya Fey to practice law. More or less the entire series continues on as normal, but with the added Frasier-style farce comedy of Maya not knowing how to be a lawyer but successfully convincing people that she is one. You may be asking many questions, not the least of which is “why?” to which I’ll respond... I’m a slut for g/t dynamics, especially borrowers, and mixed-size families, while also being a very big fan of the Ace Attorney franchise, and this is able to combine all of those into one neat little package that has taken over my entire brain for the last two months or so.
I wanna thank @musicallygt @might-be-tiny-gt and @sa-gt-tarrius because I could not have made this au this expansive without their input and a lot of the posts collected here either originated from one of them, was added to by them, or only exists because of their influence.
This post will be continuously updated with future Ratattorney content, and I’ve divided every tasty little tidbit into neat little sections for you all to enjoy. So without further adieu,
Chronological Order:
Phoenix’s First
Mock Trial With L’il Miles (@musicallygt)
Post-DL-6 (@musicallygt, also featuring Maya’s design by @might-be-tiny-gt)
Borrowing from Dahlia (@musicallygt)
Meeting Mia (@musicallygt)
Meeting Mia (extended edition)
Mia
Courtroom Field Trip (@musicallygt)
Mia’s Murder
Mia’s Murder 2 (@musicallygt)
I can’t defend... but YOU can... (@might-be-tiny-gt)
The First Investigation
Court is Now in Session (@musicallygt)
I Miss Her
It’s Over
What’s it like?
Storm
Turnabout Samurai
You Up?
BOFA
Edgeworth’s Childhood Home
Merry Christmas (@musicallygt)
Reuniting with Edgey (@might-be-tiny-gt)
A Touching Moment at the Detention Center (@musicallygt)
Three Secret Weapons
600,000 Volts
Edgeworth Learns the Truth
What Time Is It? It’s Valentimes!
Lana 1 (@musicallygt)
Lana 2 (@musicallygt)
Ema Finds Out
Meeting Pearly
Ini, Mimi, Miney... Moe the Clown?
Franziska
The Lost Turnabout
Spider-Man vs the Flash
Farewell, My Turnabout 1
Farewell, My Turnabout 2
Farewell, My Turnabout 3
Bridge to the Turnabout
Bridge 2 the Turnabout
Post-Disbarment Maya & Edgeworth
Character Development & Worldbuilding:
Phoenix’s fear of heights
Phoenix and other borrowers
Phoenix’s living situation
Headpats
Mini M&Ms are a Flavor Tube
A borrower’s badge
Beans?
The Hoodie Thing
Twitter
Short King
Hamster Ball
Doll clothes
Phoenix’s Bed 1
Phoenix’s Bed 2
The Royal We
Documenting These Precious Moments
It’s Called A Micro-Wave For A Reason
He’s A Little Confused, But He’s Got The Spirit
World’s Greatest
The Duality Of Butz (i still have not officially decided what size this man is so he simultaneously exists in both borrower and bean form, schroedinger’s tiny, if you will)
Dollhouse 1 (@musicallygt)
Dollhouse 2 (@musicallygt)
Nick Steps Up
Ladders
RATATOUILLE!
Scale it Down
Clinginess
Retiring
Quirky Teenz
Bored in Kurain
The ol’ Whip-Turn
The ol’ Whip-Turn 2
Prosecutie
Circus Folk
The Inherent Homoeroticism of Courtroom Rivalry
Franmaya vibes (@musicallygt)
Borrowernapping
De Killer’s Stupid Plan
Godot’s Coffee
Refusing to Learn
Franziska’s Nickname
Franziska Bullies Phoenix
Borrower Kay
Clueless Gumshoe
Maya’s Adoring Public
Nick’s Side Hustle
Nick & the Weird Girls (@musicallygt)
Adopting Trucy
Trucy’s name
Kristoph
Earthquake
Trucy’s Favorite Illusion
Borrower Court
Trucy & Apollo
Athena & Borrower Aura (@might-be-tiny-gt)
Nobody Tells Apollo Nothin’
Everyone But Apollo
Apollo, Athena, & Kay
Tines.
BONUS (memes, non-canon AUs of AUs, etc.):
The Post That Started It All
The Great Ratattorney: Adventures (random tidbits, not a complete thing by any means. Never say never, though :eyes:)
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss
Manipulate, Mansplain, Malewife (@sa-gt-tarrius)
The Above Two Posts, Now Illustrated
Ratattorney: The Musical (@musicallygt)
The Ratattiniest Tourneybout (@sa-gt-tarrius)
My The Ratattiniest Tourneybout takes
With might-be-tiny-gt‘s OC Dion (@might-be-tiny-gt)
there's this little fairy in my house that likes to make out with other fairies right where I can see because it knows it pisses me off and I can't fucking do anything about it because they're a protected species
Imagine waking up to find yourself in one of those "the mice and other small animals have a secret civilization hidden from humans" settings. And you've been turned into a mouse and you're horrified to discover that you were already living in that sort of setting but there's some sort of weird perception filter that causes mice to appear as nonsapient animals acting on instinct instead of the sapient creatures they actually are. Like, human brains cannot comprehend the mouse society. It's like an entirely separate wavelength of the same reality. Language becomes squeaks, furniture becomes scraps and rubbish, furnished homes become a dusty hole. You had no idea it was there, because you couldn't have any idea.
And if that existential horror wasn't enough, it becomes clear that the perception filter works both ways, and humans no longer appear sapient to you. You can read the books in your local mouse library just fine, but the human road signs? Incomprehensible scribbles with no rhyme or reason. The humans are lumbering, unpredictable creatures which fashion large structures with bizarre, barely comprehensible purposes. They don't seem sapient, they seem monstrous. Just as wild as a mountain lion or an eagle, and just as threatening, yet their excess materials are strangely useful. It's terrifying. Every once in a while you manage to identify something with how it is in your human memories, you can extrapolate what the humans must be doing or saying because you remember what the human context is, but you cannot recognize human civilization anymore. Because you're a mouse now, living in a mouse's reality. And nobody else has been through this, so nobody else in this mouse world can understand what it is you're going through. And you're so small.
Anyway would that be messed up or what? Give me some mildly horrifying mouse world isekai.
borrowers. are. feral. dolls. and im horny about it again. borrower who keeps sneaking into my dollhouse to try on the clothes and admire the furniture and pantomime this life he's secretly falling in love with and I let him for months until he lets his guard down and after he slips in one day I close up all the exits and tell him he's mine now. and he's not as opposed to this as he thought he would be.
the next time the other borrowers see him he is so clean and beautiful and well fed and glassy eyed and obediently allows me to play with his body and it is the most terrifying thing they’ve ever witnessed
Part 2, which is Rosalina putting Mario through her silly shenanigans🤭🤭 The Spongebob references were my bestie's @akiiame-blog idea🤭 and after she said it, I had to draw it out😌
Also, dw, Rosalina doesn't harm Mario at the end! She's merely teasing him cuz she's feeling silly atm😌
(Credit goes to DingityDingus on Twitter for Rosalina's design/outfit!)