#complete turnabout

[artful-browniebites]

i just read it and i gotta say i love your complete turnabout au on ao3!!!!! its so fun seeing the ace attorney and ghost trick characters interact with another andojsdcnjojlscnaedits just so… joyful!!!!! its awesome!!!

Oh!!! Yay!!! I'm so glad you liked it :D I'm still pretty happy with it, and I'm glad it comes through that adding the ghost trick characters made me have so much more fun with it, even with the minor role they were given :)

[browniefox]

Finished writing Detours, which means that now all the time I usually spent writing it is free. Gonna start using it for revisions on an original manuscript, but also hey, why not make some progress on Temsik Turnabout while I’m at it.

[johnny-guitarr]

so i’ve been rereading @browniefox‘s The Complete Turnabout because i’m completely obsessed with it forever and always, and i wanted to do some quick fanart!!! klavier and phoenix’s relationship is so important to me :’)

[neni-has-ascended]

A question about "Complete Turnabout"

@athena-cykes-ace-attorney:

Hello Nenilein,

I’d been reading “Complete Turnabout” recently and noticed that there haven’t been any updates for a long time. I’ve also played through the beginning of the game. I’ve been getting into writing fanfiction recently and I just wanted to ask if you’re ever returning to writing Ace Attorney Fanfiction. Did Spirit of Justice just completely drive you out of the fandom and the fanfiction? Or are you just done with that part of your writing?

Hello, sorry for the late reply. So, let’s get into this.

I’m a super flighty nature. It often causes me to start projects and then jump to the next, not taking into account how the new project might divert my attention away from the old projects, especially because I find it hard to even force myself to keep my attention on the old project if I have new ideas. It’s a problem I’ve honestly been working to overcome, especially because I never really abandon old projects. I mean it, I still have every single tiny, useless thing I’ve ever started working on in my Dropbox and occasionally randomly pull them up and make new additions to them or edit them, even if the thing has been dormant for years. Complete Turnabout is no exception there,

The big problem with getting back into actively finishing the Fanfic is... Well, there’s several, actually. And yeah, Even though I still actively think about the fic a lot (like with a million other things), it makes it hard to go back. Here they are, most important to least important:

1.) Complete Turnabout no longer matches my current style of writing and doesn’t reflect my skill level.

The Fic represented a huge turning point (ha ha) for me in my “career” (using the term losely) as an author, since this was where, influenced by an important person in my life, I threw out everything I thought about writing before and gradually came to use a completely different style of writing, one which I’ve kept developing to this day. CT reflects a huge part of this transitional phase in my writing. The thing is, I haven’t stopped progressing as a writer ever since I last actively wrote on it. There’s so many things I’ve started and stopped doing, so many techniques I’ve learned and a lot of humor I found funny back in the day now only makes me cringe. It’s not like I find all of CT entirely unreadable now. But the first 10 to 15 chapters are garbage. Unadulterated and absolute trash. You couldn’t force me to write like this anymore these days. So if I wanted to go back to finishing it, I’d feel myself compelled to rewrite half the fanfic from scratch, which would be a massive undertaking and would clash with my already almost non-existence time management abilities.

2.) The in-fic Court Record is fundamentally broken. 

To me, a huge part of the fic was the reader’s ability to guess along while reading and feel as if they could actually move around through the settings and throw evidence at places and people like in the series proper. Unfortunately, my inability to update the CR properly has turned this into a mess I was deeply ashamed off at latest by chapter 25. If I wanted to go back and continue the fic I would HAVE to rework this feature of the fic from ground up, maybe even program a little web-page to make it work for everyone or something. I want to do that one day, but right now I am a creative garage stuffed to the brim with unfinished arts and crafts projects and I need to take some time to clean myself out and finally get things in order.

3.) OMFG Spirit of Justice

Yeah, as you correctly guessed, that game was like... the straw that didn’t just break the camel’s back but put the camel into a coma that only the most advanced veterinarian science could possibly retrieve it from. It wouldn’t be so bad if I just didn’t like the game, I mean, there’s a ton of stuff I don’t like in Gyakuten Kenji 2, and I still use its characters and concepts quite prominently and passionately. No, the problem is what Spirit of Justice did to friggin’ Apollo! That friggin’ game messed up his character timeline and underlying motivations so badly, I have no idea how to write around this bullshit stuff anymore. I have no idea what the writers were thinking there, all I know is that this is DEFINITELY not the kind of thing Shu Takumi envisioned when he wrote Apollo’s character. The character was envisioned to be young, passionate, but down-to-earth and an everyman. Spirit of Justice turned him into a fully fledged DanganRonpa character, and not the “Ultimate Luck” type. I have no idea how to work with this!!

4.) I really want to do everything ever, now, immediately, all at once, god, give me 20 arms and 5 more brainssssss

As some people following my antics for some time might have realized I have a teeeeensy problem keeping my priorities straight and tend to start, like, 5 new projects every month. I’m working on a TobyFox-multiverse themed comic right now, wrote a script to an A Hat in Time adaptation comic, I have an ongoing Kingdom Hearts fanfic retelling an alternate universe version of Birth by Sleep, I am working on a Youtube Series about the meaning of the Tarot Arcana as used in the Persona games, I sew 3 Cosplays a year and take part in various nerd competitions, I am working on my final University thesis on the application of religious themes in JRPGs, I have been writing on a novel for 3 years, have started working on several different video game projects with friends (all but one abandoned right now), started and abandoned a web-novel project, I draw, I stream, I play Trading Card Games on Weekends, I am actively looking for a job, and, damn for some dumb reason just a year ago I thought getting myself a pet would be a great idea, too!

If it were up to me, I’d finish all these things. Every last one of them. But as it is, I’m forced to set priorities. Right now, I am working hard to at least bring the most important/recent of these (One of the game projects, my novel, the comic project and my Master’s Thesis) to a satisfying finish. After that, I will pick other ideas back up and work on them. But I really, really, really need to learn to not just start things, but also end them.

It’s been a journey, and it will keep being a journey from here on out. But I’m glad there’s people who love what I do. Making people happy with my creativity is my dream, and I’ll fight to keep making it happen, no matter how much effort it takes.

I thank you for being happy with what I’ve made so far. I thank you with all my heart. Here’s me praying that I will make more things in the future that will make you just as happy. And here’s me praying that I will be disappointing people less by not finishing the things that made them happy in a timely fashion.

That’s what I had to say here. I hope it helps. I am sorry if it’s not what you wanted to hear. Honestly, it’s not what I like to hear from myself either...

Still, I thank you, so much,

Many Greetings, Nenilein

[browniefox]

hello! really loved your "The Complete Turnabout" fic you wrote! its a really cool take on the alternate universe but not really trope! if i may, and I hope this isn't out of place to say this, but i was hoping you could potentially update the Ghost Trick tag on it with it including "major spoilers" or at least "spoilers"? i know the fic doesnt include that many references to GT, but i feel the one about who the black cat is, is kinda.., kinda a big spoiler. if thats okay! im speaking as someone who got into GT later, thankfully i didnt remember most of the references so i went in mostly spoiler free but just thought i'd throw that out there since the HD remaster has released and more people are bound to know GT now!

I’m so glad you liked Complete Turnabout!

And yeah, that’s a completely fair request. Sort of like you said, at the time of writing there was no sign of Ghost Trick getting a remaster or rerelease on modern consoles, and I just sort of assumed - to be very honest - that even for all my request people play the game, nobody would lol, and kind of like you mentioned, those who did would hopefully forget about the brief little kitten scene.

But yeah, now updated to better warn about ghost trick spoilers inside!

[artful-browniebites]

Some colors :) Not really settled on Klavier just yet but thought I'd add him anyway

[browniefox]

i promise promise promise i'm working on temsik turnabout i just have so much writing i do these day for my self for other fics and for school.

In the mean time take this:

"Why can't you just, you know..." The taller man in the white coat gestures around him, movement encompassing the red and black that spirals around them mesmerizingly.

"Death is hard on some people. And anyway, I think he's still asleep." The much smaller man, if he had ears to flick, would've flicked them. But unfortunately, he'd currently prioritized the importance of facial expressions, so instead he just grimaces.

"You won't know until you try." The white-coated man points out. The short man rolls his eyes.

"Who's the expert here?"

"Alriiiiiight, no need to hiss at me." The tall man says, voice easy even as his eyes give away how seriously he's taking this conversation.

"And isn't he going through enough right now? Amnesia, I mean, that's... it's a lot." The smaller man looks down, face unreadable for a moment. The tall man sighs, however, already knowing what the other is thinking.

"... we can wait, then. But what happened at that lake? And what if he wakes up and doesn't know what's going on?" The taller man tries one last time. The smaller man shrugs.

"It'll come with time. You should learn patience, sometime."

"As if you're one to talk about patience! Don't think I haven't heard the best stories about you from Jowd!"

The smaller man regrets having a human face, as it turns very red. He sniffs and turns his head away.

"I like to keep a schedule, Is that a crime? And doors are heavy! I need help!... if nothing has changed, in another week, we'll confront him, okay? There's... the amnesia might be linked to all of this, after all." The smaller man admits.

The taller man nods, and the red and black nothing fades back to reality.

Before the week is up, Phoenix is dragged out of Gourd Lake a second time.

[browniefox]

Hello! I recently finished reading your Complete Turnabout fic and I loved it. Very interesting take on a swap AU. I hope I’m not being rude by asking, I was wondering.. By chance will you finish/continue the Temsik Turnabout fic?

I kinda have a lot of questions but I’ll just ask these two adjacent to my first: Is there a reason why canon Phoenix and CT!Phoenix swapped in the first place? Also do the red thread/blue thread symbolize anything or is that just for show?

I lied I have one more question, is it possible we could see a short story of what it was like for CT!Phoenix to be in canon Phoenix’s world? Or of canon Phoenix adjusting to being back in his own world after CT’s event?

Hope I’m not intruding by asking too many questions, there’s just a lot of things in CT that weren’t answered that I’m really curious about.

You're not intruding at all! i always want to talk about Complete Turnabout!

I actually do want to finish Temsik Turnabout! Dang has it already been four months since I updated? For some reason or other, writing this summer has been difficult for me, so most of my focus has been put towards updating my currently long fic, Detours, weekly (which uh I still need to finish the chapter for today lol). But I've started the next chapter of Temsik Turnabout, and I have a pretty good idea of what I want to tackle in the fic.

I plan to go into why Phoenix and CT!Phoenix swapped places, but the basic idea Kristoph tried to drown CT!Phoenix and put Maya's magatama on CT!Phoenix so that if he did get found, she'd get blamed for it. However, the magatama through uh essentially magic bs (and also the meteor at the bottom of Gourd Lake I mentioned oh so briefly in CT) kept CT!Phoenix's spirit tied to his body. However, CT!Phoenix realized he needed help and reached out for some one, unknowingly making contact with Phoenix. Why canon Phoenix? IDK, lol, maybe because he had the relationships that would lead him to the best outcome, or maybe because Phoenix also needed help in a way.

The red and blue threads are mostly just for show. They're the respective Phoenix's connections to their original world and what, when everything was said and done, could lead them back to their original worlds and bodies again. At one point the red string was also supposed to represent that Phoenix was the one sort of maintaining the swap, tho he was unaware of it, and that it was kind of putting a stress on him like on a spirit level, but tbh idk if I kept it like that or not.

I definitely would like to write more about what CT!Phoenix's time in 'canon' was like, I had plans to do a short fic that just kind of jumped around to things he experienced, people he met, his reaction to things. At this time I can't really say one way or another if I'll ever get around to writing it tho. And I could see myself writing maybe a oneshot to how Phoenix is adjusting to being home, what he tells others, how things are the same and how they're different, but again like all of this it depend on how much time I find for writing, how much I can actually get myself to writing, and if I do have free time outside of writing Detours, it's probably going to be devoted to writing either Temsik Turnabout or working on one of my original story ideas.

And feel free to ask questions! There are some things I plan to answers in Temsik Turnabout, but seeing as it might be a bit until we get to them, I'm open to answering or talking about them here too.