This is silly and maybe too AU of a question, but if Goldenflower had the opportunity to raise Fireheart as a kit (like. Let’s say a Rosy situation but with Nutmeg, where she’s desperate to have at least one kit where she knows it will be in good paws), would she have named him Fire- or would she have picked something else?
That's a good question. Knowing ThunderClan's love for "Strong" names, Fire- and its associates would still be on the table - that is, Blaze- and Spark-. I could see her going with Spark- to reference his small size and infinite potential to turn into a real fire. If not a fire name... maybe Roe- or Ginger-. Roe deer are nice and big compared to a cat, and Ginger- just sounds good, fittingly for someone named Golden-.
he’s rude he has no volume control he cries in court he punches his clients he’s my sonsband he’s the light of my life. greg davies vc its LITTLE APOLLO JUSTICE
alright so i don’t know that i’d call any of what i do here a character analysis. i know you sent this in response to my post with klavier writing advice, so i’ll try to do the same here. this is a collection of things i try to keep in mind when i write apollo.
1. he’s rude
this one’s great. followers may know this about me, but i am also rude. it’s come up in my posts sometimes, because i actually have such poor manners that it becomes a problem for me every now and then. i swear a lot! it just comes out of me. sometimes, i have to write characters who don’t swear, or who swear very little, and that’s hell. that is hell for me. it’s a miracle i haven’t cursed yet in this post. just makes it easier to express shit, you know?
but apollo swears. i promise you that. apollo justice swears like a fuckin sailor. i…… will be honest i can’t be assed to find it, but there is a post on here where a lovely tumblr user broke down the speaking styles of various aa characters in the japanese original. if anyone wants to go find it and let me know, be my guest!! but what i remember about that is that apollo justice has a pottymouth. and ever since i’ve read that, i have clung to it with all my might. look me in the eyes. let apollo justice say fuck.
he also has no social skills. he isn’t rude on purpose! although i think sometimes he can be. i think he can be a mean little pissant when he doesn’t like someone. you know he would have ended daryan crescend’s life then and there if they hadn’t been in court.
but anyway, i think sometimes he is also just pretty bad at talking to people. he’s a lawboy! he’s built to practice law! he doesn’t know how to do anything else!! when he sees that vera is scared in the detention center, he makes the perhaps worst attempt at smalltalk we ever see in the entirety of the series. he doesn’t know how to be tactful, and he isn’t going to learn, because aside from law apollo is also all about truth. he sees lies, and he’s a bad liar himself, but sometimes lying is expected of you in social situations, and he’s not going to do it, and he won’t like it when other people do it. he’d rather be rude. and he will be. he will be very rude.
2. he has no volume control
as a person with adhd. very nice to write. i’ve never uttered a quiet sentence in my life. everything i’ve ever said i’ve screamed at the top of my lungs. also not on purpose! it just comes out that way.
if you write apollo justice, just remember to make him scream now and then. whenever he’s remotely excited about anything? scream. have him animate it with his body too! apollo’s sprites don’t just slam the desk, he hits it with both fists! he jumps back in surprise when something happens, and he pokes his big old forehead when he has to think. he’s an animated guy, and whatever reaction feels exaggerated to you in the moment is probably the one to go for.
3. he cries in court
and now, for something completely different.
he’s a little softie. :] we all remember apollo being in tears when he thought trucy had been kidnapped, even though he barely knew her then. he also mentions journaling in canon, where he goes back and leaves intricate retellings of his adventures in his diaries. also!! he really enjoys lamiroir’s music. for all that he’s loud and brash and impulsive, at the end of the day, the man probably sits down with a cup of tea and a soft-lit desk lamp to write about his day.
i would also like to take this moment to remind everyone of his reaction to meeting plum kitaki.
???:
You, kid with the hair. You want something?
Apollo:
Urk! M-M-Me? No, not a thing! Bye!
Trucy:
Apollo! We can't leave without questioning her! What if she knows something!
Apollo:
B-But th-the Kitaki Family...! (They're the biggest organized crime syndicate in town!)
???:
If you're going to ask something, ask it. If you're man enough.
Apollo:
Waaaaugh! R-Right!
Trucy:
Yay! Way to whip him into shape, ma'am!
Apollo:
(Does she know no fear!?)
Plum:
I'm Plum. Plum Kitaki. Wife of the fourth head of the Kitaki Family business. Friends call me Little Plum.
Apollo:
I-I'm l-little Apollo Justice, attorney at law. *gulp*
that’s right. he’s little apollo justice. :) cmaaahn. he’s just a little guy, and it’s also his birthday.
4. he punches his clients
ok, he punched one client.
i’m bringing these up in this order though because i think apollo’s impulsiveness is a really fun juxtaposition to him shaking and sobbing at having to speak to a woman on the street and in broad daylight, across from an active police scene swarming with cops no less, just because her name is kitaki. because i still think he IS impulsive.
i’ve had klavier bring this up in exorcism because it’s still one of my favorite apollo bits:
Klavier:
Let us imagine you are walking through the park. You see two men facing each other. One with a pistol trained on the other. ...What would you do, Herr Forehead?
Apollo:
Well, I... I guess... I would try to stop them. I'd probably shout, "Stop!"
Klavier:
And you, Fräulein?
Trucy:
M-Me? Well... I'd probably scream, "Eeeeeek!"
[a bit later]
Stickler:
Tossing the pistol aside, he fled from the scene.
Apollo:
[Hold it!]
You didn't try to apprehend the criminal?
i just… i mean, who would. who in their right mind would “try to apprehend the criminal.” i’d shit my pants, klavier, that’s what i’d do in that situation.
but apollo seems pretty sure that he would intervene, and you know what? i believe him. i think if apollo justice walked through a park and saw a guy shoot someone and then take off, he would fully chase after him like a fucking rabid dog, and then he’d probably jump him and call the cops, and when they’d get there they’d find bite marks on the guy for some reason.
he just also gets really scared when he sees mafiosi, instead of attempting to arrest them. essentially i just think, apollo sees something, anything, and reacts to it in the biggest, wildest way possible. a mafioso will have a normal conversation with him and apollo will scream and cry. a passerby will hold a knife to someone’s throat and apollo will single-handedly beat him to a pulp. phoenix wright will smile at him and apollo will uppercut his childhood hero. it doesn’t have to make sense. it just has to be batshit.
5. other stuff
two more things i’ve thought about a lot while learning to write apollo are his loyalty and his confidence.
loyalty first: there is not an ounce of misplaced loyalty in this man. once it became clear that kristoph was the borscht bowl club killer, apollo was on him, and he took him down. i fully believe that if phoenix had been the killer, apollo would have done the exact same to him. there is one moment in turnabout succession when kristoph first takes the stand, where apollo kind of gulps and thinks that this still feels like he’s his mentor, but he gets over that PRETTY quickly lol. and he wasn’t thinking about sparing kristoph for being his mentor, he just remembered to stand up straight and be a good lawyer in front of him.
confidence second. i get. SO bothered. when people write apollo without it. you listen to me. this five foot nothing freak thinks he is the best thing since sliced bread, and as a german person it’s difficult for me to say this about bread, but he’s right.
apollo thinks he’s fucking fantastic. he’s VERY proud of his vocal routine, he thinks it’s GREAT that he screams every thought he’s ever had. he’s really nerdy about law, he tells plum and trucy that he loves long and boring procedures as a lawyer, shamelessly. he very firmly believes in his hairstyle. everything you see apollo justice do he does on purpose. (which also makes me think that he knows EXACTLY what he does when he rolls up his shirt sleeves every morning. whore.)
the few times we see all of this slip is when he has to deal with rock star klavier. there’s a couple of times where he thinks that he wishes he could be as cool as klavier, but i’ve honestly never read that as apollo suddenly becoming self-conscious. i genuinely think he’s just annoyed that there’s someone whose shtick (being a very weird very loud lawyer but tall and with a guitar) looks cooler than his own shtick (being a very weird very loud lawyer but short and with no guitar). apollo thought he was hot shit before he met klavier and he continues to think he’s hot shit after he’s met klavier, but now he also thinks that he should be rich and famous for being apollo justice because that would make him even cooler. and, again, i kind of agree.
i think that’s mostly it? he’s a good guy and i like him. he gets annoyed with his clients for being weirdos sometimes, but there is that underlying theme in aa4 where all of apollo’s clients did commit a crime, just not murder, and apollo never drops them for it. he is an almost exact replica of hercule poirot in that he is short, weird, REALLY sure of himself, and doesn’t care if people commit crimes except if it’s murder, in which case he cares so much that he becomes a feral animal. all he needs is a mustache. and he’d probably think he’d look really cool with one too.
yes I do !! if i can just redirect you to this ask and this ask you'll find most of the fics i've enjoyed in the klapollo tag. ik it's been a while since someone's asked me for them but i don't really have any new ones lmao... you could also check out my ao3 bookmarks to see if i missed anything in the twitter thread mentioned in the first link but i highly doubt it :')
Since yall established in iterum lore that another thing that seers do is a sort of fortune-telling for kits’ futures, I was wondering if you have any examples of what those fortune-signs would’ve looked like for cats like Bluestar or Tigerclaw for example :0
It can vary quite a bit, how a seer sees what they do! Sometimes they're outside when the kits are born and receive a sign from a broken twig; sometimes they visit first and just look at the newborns, and then words and images come to their mind; sometimes they dream days before the litter comes and then piece together what that dream meant for each kitten. And sometimes they see something that's not at all intended for the kitten they're reading! There's no one way to read the future.
Plus, you can run the risk of being wrong. Remember that fate is malleable, whatever Spottedleaf tells you. Rarely, if ever, does a seer predict something incorrectly, but it has happened. Usually, it occurs with a kit that develops an immense amount of willpower as they grow, strong enough to throw the heavens into disorder if they so desire. Those are the ones that are either live on eternally as heroes or die forgotten to the claws of Horoa.
I don't have signs and visions listed for every single cat, but I can tell you that when he looked upon Tigerkit (since his mentor was less than welcome in the nursery), Comfreynose (Featherwhisker) felt a shock of fear, followed by a grief so heavy he almost collapsed under its weight. He just told Tigerkit's mother to keep him close and show him as much love as she could. She had a bad feeling in her stomach for days after that.
I'm doing a reread of AK right now, and idk if this has been asked before, but when Rusty's recounting his dream, BEFORE he mentions feeling at home in the forest (safe to assume that's ThunderClan) he mentions having had dreams in a territory with grass that's so tall he needs to rear up to see above it--is that mean to be WindClan? Is that a nod to what Yellowfang says later, about how he could've fit into any clan, ThunderClan just happened to get their paws on him first? [1/2]
And if so, what was the other place he mentioned, with the stone formations? Was it meant to be one of the other clan territories, or like, the Mother? Intentional or not, it felt like such a clever bit of foreshadowing for that conversation, as well as a fun way to showcase how adaptable Rusty is capable of being, considering how different each of the clans are--both physically and otherwise. [2/2]
Despite looking the exact same, there are two distinct species of red dropseed growing in proximity to each other in the Serengeti! I couldn't find if they could interbreed or if they're like giraffes and just happen to look exactly like each other, so.
