#gregray

[neutrallyobsessed]

Hello hello!!! you are the first person I've seen with as much of a passion for het ships as I, lol... I especially love taking yaoi and yuri and hetifying it!! it makes them sm better :3333. I ask u about the following (the genderswapped character doesnt really matter!) -het krisnix

-het odonaru

-het klapollo

-het nahyupollo

-het edgestace

-het gregeddie

-het baroryu

-het asoryu

Waaaah nice to meet you!! Hell yeah finding more hetship enthusiasts 🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤

I prefer just using the already existing characters, sometimes the dynamics that I like are already available without needing to change anything, tis a bit less work, can give some spotlight for the ever neglected girlies and less light to the ever popular fandom's otps (that are SO trash most the times!) 😭

That being said, I can enjoy some genderbending 👀 thinking of designs n stuff its always cool and fun~ anyway the ships💥💥

Krisnix: UFFF when the guy and the gal engage in psychological warfare, all so subtle yet sexy, it is a lot more interesting like this and I imagine it in a ♂Kristoph x ♀Phoenix way cause it's less typical to have the well groomed man and the disheveled mess woman, tis a nice subversion~~

Odonaru: With this order of names we're implying an Apollo or Polly in a more dominant role which rocks undoubtly 🫶 we love to see either Nick or Phoebe rather smitten by the younger lawyer they took under the wing >w<

Klapollo: Nahh this doesn't work in any way or in any universe or in any alternative version. No matter if it's Klavier or Klavie, they aren't either Apollo's or Polly's type💔

Nahyupollo: Wawawawawa🥺🥺🥺 well this one's a bit conflicting cause 1) they have history togheter, meaning I can't just throw it off as a lawyer/prosecutor ship and 2) gender/relations are somewhat relevant to Nahyuta which means the interactions might differ from what we have in canon, so it's difficult for me to build upon further hmm hmmmm. It still on good graces for the pseudo-cest, can never go wrong with that one ☆

Edgestace: THIS ONE'S SO CUUUUUTE AAAAAAAAAAAAAA turning Eustance into Stacy cause she'd be an adorable smug-smirker ditzy girl that Edgeworth could not resist to teach her well~♡ (Myles could not have the patience for Eustace tho I fear xv)

Gregeddie: This one could also slap as OM/YW ship, THE AA lawyer/assistant classic but outright MILF, greying hair, wrinkles and glasses Gregoria could also go really hard 0w0. That being said, Edgeworth's other parent must be out of the picture, I will not break a happily married spouse with kid☝️

Baroryuu: This one doesn't rock with me cause I simply don't like Lawyer/Prosecutor ships, pretty confrontational, I prefer them more when there's already a nice relationship between the characters (or doesnt take too long to get there, or we are shown more of their potential friendship relative to the time we've seen them as rivals... if that makes sense xP) That being said, Leg👁 (xd)

Asoryuu: This one oughta be the best one cause it works in every scenario, they are friends who already care for each other since the beggining, it is clear and obvious why could anyone would ship them and they'd be right. It doesn't matter who's the boy and who's the girl cause Ryuunosuke sure will be the one totally smitten by Kazuma x33

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has someone asked you about gregory/raymond... if they have, uhh, edgeworth/raymond!! shieldsworth, both ways

Raymond deserves to get it on, as a treat! Shieldsworth Sr. Gregory was Ray's sexual awakening, and in this essay I will--

Shieldsworth Jr.

I think Baby Miles had a bit of a crush on Ray, and then nearly 20 years later, Edgey is like "oh my god am I still down bad for this loser???", and I think that is very poetic (and of course Ray would lovingly poke fun, free hugs and whatnot)

Sauce Here!

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Comship Bracket Round 1 | Segment 4 | Poll 4: Bwen VS Gregray

Bwen (Ben Tennyson x Gwen Tennyson), Ben 10

Gregray (Gregory Edgeworth x Raymond Shields), Ace Attorney

Voting ended onAug 18, 2023

Antis DNI

Propaganda for both ships provided under the cut

Bwen Propaganda (Incest - Cousins, Species Difference - Gwen is part Anodite)

"During the original series, Ben and Gwen were almost always bickering, arguing, name-calling (calling each other "Doofus" or "Dweebs"), making fun of each other, or fighting. They had a love/hate relationship. However, deep down they really do care about each other as shown on various occasions throughout the show. Especially in Secret of The Omnitrix, when Ben would go far lengths to keep Gwen out of danger. Such as transforming into Four Arms, despite the fact that the Omnitrix's self-destruct mode countdown would only accelerate. When he found out that she was still alive, he ran through the open field of heavy fire in order to hug her.

In the Omniverse continuation, even though Gwen went to college early in the show, both have openly stated that they miss each other a lot (hugging one another before she left in The More Things Change: Part 1). Gwen ALSO runs to hug Ben when he returns to Earth in The Frogs of War: Part 2. While I'm also very much an original continuation type of girl, their bickering relationship is toned down immensely in the 2016 reboot with more heartfelt and considerate moments between Ben and Gwen looking out for each other."

Gregray Propaganda (Age gap - Gregory is 35 and Raymond is 19 at earliest, Necro if in current time setting)

"When we meet Ray in canon, he's 36 and still wears Gregory's hat and trenchcoat in his memory, and is also just. Super gay on main for him. Meanwhile, Gregory stated in his will that Ray inherits his law office should anything happen to him, and they only knew each other for maybe a little over a year, so that's pretty gay. Also, Ray canonically spent the night at Gregory's place a LOT and that's a super gay thing. And Ray's entire thing is just to be gay on main. So. They're just Like That."

[toxicsludgeyaoi]

Toxic Sludge Yaoi Preliminaries: Ace Attorney Edition!

Zeikcest Vs Phantomquill Vs Gregray

(Only ship with an image submitted was Gregray. Note: The two ships with the highest percentage of votes will proceed. Vote for your favorite.)

Which Ace Attorney Ships Should Proceed?

Zeikcest (Barok Van Zeiks/Klint Van Zeiks)

Phantomquill (The Phantom/Simon Blackquill)

Gregray (Gregory Edgeworth/Raymond Shields)

Voting ended onOct 2, 2023

Note: propaganda may or may not include spoilers for this media. Read at your own risk. Propaganda under the cut.

Zeikcest propaganda:

"how can you not. they're murdery prosecutor brothers with a giant age gap and barok does nothing but yearn for his dead murdery older brother the whole time cmon they're perfect"

Phantomquill propaganda:

"Spoiler warning for Dual Destinies (mostly the last 2 cases). Blackquill, a prosecutor, was trying to figure out the identity of The Phantom, an international spy. So The Phantom killed Blackquill's biggest ally, which forced him to take the blame for the murder (to protect this person's daughter). So he ended up in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Six years later, The Phantom assumes identity of detective Bobby Fulbright, and under that disguise works together with Blackquill, who was allowed to prosecute again (despite being on death row). Their dynamic somehow contains a two-way power imbalance, since Simon is able to boss "Fulbright" around and insult him (being his direct superior), yet also "Fulbright" is technically his handler, and solves Blackquill's behavioral problems by... tasing him. They work together for most of the game. The Phantom forced Blackquill to take the blame for yet another murder. After it was revealed that Bobby Fulbright was in fact The Phantom in disguise (a man he was chasing all these years, the one who ruined his life, ended up right by his side), Blackquill cut his mask, thereby causing Phantom's breakdown. Blackquill took The Phantom into police custody at the end of the game. The jailer becomes the jailed. Great stuff."

Gregray propaganda:

"they're problematic because I got bullied off of twitter for shipping them"

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something something teenaged weird girl archetype carrying a torch for the man who gave him a place and a person to call home and only years later when he’s older does that man see him in a new and unexpected light

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somehow in AA I’ve taken the shipping section of my brain and constructed three separate situations where two people were in love with the same person, and then that person got murdered

we got Raymond and Badd, who both had feelings for Gregory, but he was killed before either of them worked up the courage to say so - I don’t think Miles finds out about this until much, much later

we got Lana and Diego, where Lana dated Mia in college and still has lingering feelings for her, while Diego dated her up until the time of his poisoning, and now they’re both stuck in prison and miss her

and we got Datz and Amara, where Dhurke eventually fell for Datz when they were living together with the kiddos, but Dhurke’s feelings for Amara hadn’t faded either when he discovered she was alive, so all three of them were just set to live as a rebel polycule until Dhurke’s life was cut short

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Gregory: *breathes*

Raymond: I would literally die for you Mr. Edgeworth

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The parallels between Raymond and Adrian break my heart, and because of it I will forever be pushing my Raymond-Adrian friendship agenda. (But if you wanna know why - and okay a lot of it is because of how I personally view the characters, but still - you’re gonna have to go under the cut, because this accidentally got too long to handle.)

I mean, they’ve both got such similar stories! Yes, some of it is based on my own headcanons (which are VERY long so I won’t go into them), since we don’t know for sure what led them to meet their mentors, but I have to think that the reason Gregory and Celeste were such inspirations to them is because before they met them, they felt profoundly lost. Working for them didn’t just give Raymond and Adrian a role model - I think it gave them a whole new lease on life.

(The bitter irony being that the very people who gave them that lease on life would soon lose their own.)

And, well, this is entirely my opinion, but I don’t know that Gregory and Celeste were just role models in their eyes, if you catch my drift.

There’s being inspired by someone, admiring someone, wanting to be like someone… and there’s the attachment these two had to their mentors. Seventeen years after Gregory’s death, Raymond is still working in an office that bears his name, and wearing his clothes, when no other lawyer who has lost a mentor has done the same - held on so tightly to a memory. Adrian is shown to have been intensely dependent on Celeste (who was quite fragile, herself, considering her actions) to the point of trying to emulate her entirely as a coping mechanism after her death, even trying to take her own life because she couldn’t stand to live without her. Their wounds manifest as grudges- Raymond’s unfair one toward Miles for what he sees as him turning his back on Gregory’s memory, and Adrian being so furious (and rightly so) at Matt and Juan that she tries to frame Matt for Juan’s murder.

Now, I’ve had a good number of role models in my life - friends, teachers, etc. - who have had a positive impact on me. It would be, and would especially have been in the time which I directly knew them, devastating to lose them as suddenly and painfully as Raymond and Adrian did. But I don’t think my grief for them would have driven me to those lengths - I question whether I would go to those lengths even if I lost my own parents. So I have to wonder if it was more than that.

I have to wonder if it was love.

There are certainly stances that contradict this - in Raymond’s case, much of the fandom concludes that he must have seen Gregory as a surrogate father (which used to be my only stance in regard to Raymond’s feelings - even now, I do still like that theory, too), and in Adrian’s, the anime writers, apparently having thought that she seemed like too much of a lesbian, decided to declare her and Celeste to be sisters. And while those are valid interpretations (though I and most of the fandom are quite unhappy with the real homophobic-feeling choice to make Adrian and Celeste biological sisters instead of just saying they were like sisters or something), I don’t think a more romantic sort of affection is any less valid than those. Even going beyond their reactions to losing them, you can look at how Raymond’s eyes light up when Gregory does literally anything, and see how though we never meet Celeste, she is clearly Adrian’s entire world. Can any of us non-aro folks really say we’ve never fallen for someone who inspired us?

The parallels don’t end there, either. If you subscribe to the theory of love, then they both share a degree of impossibility, real or perceived. Gregory and Celeste are their superiors and if that weren’t enough, Gregory is quite a bit older than Raymond, and Celeste is getting engaged. Their mentors also strike me as people whose sharp intelligence, outward confidence, and great proficiency in their field (as well as them just being sweethearts) hides insecurity and a profound loneliness - seen by Gregory’s struggles with social interaction, and the fact that being dumped by her fiancé was enough for Celeste to feel it wasn’t worth being alive. So the people they inspired, and unknowingly captured the hearts of, reach out to them - not out of a belief that anything will ever come of it (Ray and Adrian’s self-esteem is too low for that), but just out of a desire to know them, to befriend them, to help them realize that they aren’t alone, and that they’ll always have someone there for them. Sometimes, even just making them smile for a moment is enough.

Part of them, I think, wanted to confess someday, to free them of this white-hot anxiety in their chests, but they postponed it. They could wait until they were braver, and older, and more confident.

(...How could they have known they wouldn't have enough time?)

So I like to think that for the brief period of time when Adrian is in prison, breaking down, fearing she’ll be imprisoned and possibly executed for a murder she didn’t commit, it is Raymond that offers to be her defense attorney should the case go to trial.

Because Raymond looks at Adrian, hears her story and her circumstances, and she reminds him of himself all those years ago.

Luckily, it never comes to that, and Adrian is set free, but I think maybe, by chance or deliberately, the two of them meet up again and become friends, as well as shoulders to lean on. Who could understand better, right?

And they stay friends, as they grow older, and find love in other places, and move on.