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[prosecutormiles]

Manfred von Karma is a Jerk

I was thinking about the timing of von Karma's attempt to frame Edgeworth for murder.  Now, obviously, it makes a lot of sense to have done it when he did, due to the anniversary of Gregory's death and the fact that the statute of limitations was due to run out that year.  But I can't help but feel like there's more to it than that.

The date was definitely significant, and it was probably the entire reason von Karma acted when he did.  von Karma's greatest weakness was his narcissism that he would be able to convince Edgeworth to confess to his “crime,” and that no one would ever find him out. Had he been content to just convict Edgeworth, then Hammond's death should have been enough, and that could have happened any day, any year.  Getting him to confess to DL-6 was probably the back up plan, should someone actually be able to see through the Hammond murder.  He was trusting someone else to carry out his instructions, after all; he couldn't ensure that it would be done perfectly. Doing it on the last possible day Gregory's murder could be tried ensured no one would be able to poke around the investigation files or figure anything out.

So I'm not arguing against any of that.  If he was going to get Edgeworth to confess, there was literally no other time to do it. However, that doesn't mean there couldn't be further motivation.

Consider: fewer than three months before Turnabout Goodbyes, Miles Edgeworth lost his first case.  Ever.

Fewer than three months before von Karma implicated Edgeworth for murder, Phoenix destroyed Edgeworth's perfect win record.

And what happens when a von Karma loses their perfect win record? Franziska tells us in Farewell, My Turnabout that they are no longer worthy to carry the von Karma name.

Let's also not forget that, despite being a disciple of von Karma, Rise From the Ashes tells us that Edgeworth never dabbled in falsifying evidence.  Yes, he coached witnesses, concealed inconvenient evidence, things like that, but his reaction to finding out he had used forged evidence to convict someone was not the reaction of someone who had knowingly done it before.

However, I doubt von Karma felt the same way about it.  A 40 year win record is infinitely more impressive than a four year win record, and I really doubt he could have kept it up for 40 years without making up his own evidence.  Nor do I feel his ethics would keep him from doing so, since the single most important thing to him was perfection.

What does that mean?  It means that von Karma didn't teach Edgeworth all his dirty tricks.  It means that he knew at some point, Edgeworth was going to get himself into a fight he couldn't win.  It means he was setting Edgeworth up to fail.

Manfred von Karma was not content to merely murder his rival, to take his son and raise him to go against all of Gregory's principles, to sculpt Edgeworth into the very thing Gregory devoted his life to fighting, and finally, to drag the Edgeworth name through the mud by not only framing him for murder but also encouraging the belief that he had been the one to kill his own father.

No. First, he wanted to break Edgeworth.  He wanted to see Edgeworth suffer through the realization that he wasn't good enough, that he would never live up to expectations.  After Gregory died, von Karma was the closest thing Edgeworth had to a father figure, and he wanted this to hurt as much as possible.

This was the Miles Edgeworth that stood on the witness stand and demanded he be put on trial for his father's murder.  This was the Miles Edgeworth who had nothing left to fight for -- the one that von Karma tried to destroy.

...this is probably just me being overdramatic and overthinking things, but that's just what I do.

[tmae3114]

On Chronal Stability and Warlic’s Memory Problems

The things I come up with writing fanfic, honestly

Okay, so, after Zargon’s history gets changed during the Wormhole Saga, we find out that not only have the wormholes been weakening the fabric of reality with chronal instability and that Dean Warlic’s own chronal stability has been irreparably damaged. One of the side-effects that we see of this is that he starts having memory problems.

So - while writing a fanfic that referenced said chronal instability - I started wondering, why does it give Warlic memory problems specifically? And then everything got away from me, as it is wont to do.

(Please bear in mind that all of this stuff is based off of my personal interpretations of a bunch of stuff in the game and I could be missing details)

Firstly, I started thinking about what chronal stability actually is. And, from what we hear of it in the game, my thinking is that ‘chronal stability’ is the strength of a person or object’s positioning in time itself. If someone/something is chronally stable, then they are properly connected to their own time period and held in place. They are, quite literally, stable in the time that they inhabit and live.

That’s how I think it applies to people and objects, anyways. As far as the fabric of reality is concerned, I think that the chronal stability is the actual existence of whatever apsses for a ‘timeline’. There is a defined past, present and future. There is what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen.

This interpretation explains how the wormholes cause chronal stability, as they open up all over time and space. In doing so, the lines between time periods get blurred. With Yokai, for example, all of the visitors from the time of the game see themselves as from the present, but as they’ve gone back in time, they’re simultaniously from the future as well. The people of Yokai are from the past to the visitors, but are the present to themselves and their time period. I think these sorts of occurances tangled up the time stream/fabric of space-time and trying to reconcile people being past and present/present and future caused the chronal instability that Warlic references.

So, with that thinking out of the way, onto the second subject of this thing, Dean Warlic’s memory problems.

We are explictly told that Warlic’s chronal stability is damaged, and in such a way that it can’t be fixed (though the specific wording is “there is no cure for the damage”) which leads to his memory problems.

My theory for why chronal instability caused this effect, specifically, is linked to my interpretation of what chronal stability is.

I think that what happened is that with his chronal stability damaged, Dean Warlic is partially disconnected from his position in space-time and may be experiencing multiple time periods at the same time.

Or, at the very least, his mind is.

If chronal stability works the way that I think it does, then perhaps Warlic - or his mind - is flitting between the ‘past’ and the ‘present’ that he is connected to, resulting in his memory problems! Or maybe there are multiple sets of memories from these time periods existing in his mind at once!

He isn’t actually forgetting events, his chronal instability affects his mind such that the memories of the things he’s ‘forgotten’ aren’t there, because as far as he knows, they haven’t happened yet. A similar thing could apply to forgetting names, as could be partially in a time period where he hasn’t met the person in question yet!

[roguearrow]

chaoticdisneylover replied to your post: I just wanna let you know that you remind me of my sister, who is also my best friend: she was also born of Valentine’s Day, she has a half Japanese friend name Cynthia, she loves Mark Wahlberg, she is a bookworm & she has OCD about her CD/book/game collection. Just thought I’d share. :)

I know! That’s what I told her! She was looking at me like O.o wtf? LoL.

Haha! I can just imagine it! 

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What if... what if (follow me here)... We're in different realities, but our worlds are on such a close wave length, there's repeats and tons of odd similarities. And like, in your world, we're sisters while in my world, I'm an only child. What if. What if? 

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I've been watching too much Doctor Who

[edmuretulliuscicero]

This is retarded because I'm ranting about an advert but...

I just saw one for the Accident Advice Helpline, and there's something about that that's really irked me for a while...it's when she says that if you've been injured through no fault of your own then you should call them so you can get 'the compensation you deserve'...I don't know what it is about this part, but it really irritates me...I mean, just because it wasn't your own fault, it doesn't mean it was your employer's or the property owner's or whatever, right?

Am I wrong for thinking that? Am I wrong for thinking that it's possible for it to be literally no one's fault that someone was injured at work or something, and that in that case there shouldn't be any compensation given, because, as I said, it's no one's fault...I mean...I'm probably wrong, but still...

Ugh...this stuff just annoys me, to be honest. Responsibility is such a hard thing for people to accept.