AA headcannon part 13: The lack of Wrightworth on this blog is a crime and today I fix that with a list <(=w=)>
• The first few times Nick tries to get Edgeworth out on a date to make them actually official, he gets rejected
• But it's for weird reasons like "I do not have the time for dating." or "You'd grow bored with a man like me, you know how reserved I am." or "I can't provide the things you need in a partner, Wright."
• Phoenix did NOT chase this man all these years to get turned down for anything less than a lack of mutual feelings, and he calls him on the fact he hasn't heard Miles say he doesn't share the feelings he has
• Edgeworth, of course, is about to say something to the affect of "I'm sorry, but I do not think of you as anything more than a dear friend." but is entirely unable to spit the lie out, making incoherent noises and getting flustered this isn't an emotion he's able to repress on account he has no experience with this one
• When Phoenix wears him down and takes him out on a date, it's to somewhere nice and private, probably a smaller restaurant he knows Miles hasn't been to
• After the first few, Miles insists on being the one taking Phoenix out for a change
• He panics at not knowing what's an appropriate date setting, completely overcompensates by taking him to somewhere really expensive, and instantly regrets it when they walk through the doors and his broke, lost boyfriend is already uncomfortable in the fancy environment
• After every date where Phoenix walks Miles to his door, Pess insists on greeting the attorney the moment the door opens and Nick is happy to pet and baby talk the dog for as long as he's allowed to
• Miles will never admit it, but he smiles the entire time and would let it go on longer if he weren't sure Wright would attempt to take Pess home if they got along any better
• Edgeworth is the first person Trucy calls when Phoenix isn't picking up the phone
• Yeah, usually it's because our clueless, spikey haired, trouble-magnet left the thing at home or forgot to charge it and hasn't realized it's dead, but she does worry
• Doesn't have to for long, Miles is fully prepared to call any number of other people to ask if they've seen him. He doesn't want to go without being totally sure
• With his luck the time he'd assume Wright was doing alright as always would be the time he really needed help
• Phoenix initiates 90% of any contact between them if it's physical, but Miles does 90% of the planning things because Phoenix's time management is awful
• They both clean a lot. Nick is low-key scared if he doesn't clean he'll go back into a depression because he's started linking it together like 'mess = alcoholism' and he can't go through that again, he's come a long way since then
• Miles thinks that theory is without any logic or sense, that he's worked up for nothing, but if a clean house makes Phoenix feel better, he's gonna help clean it. (not like he doesn't already do his part, but he's mindful of the fact it does mean something)
• When they argue over something, it's always something small. An open fit of bickering is never over anything more than a mild frustration or an inconvenience...
• It's when they aren't arguing that there's a serious problem.
• Wright hates conflict. He's bad at dealing with it, it's all complicated, someone gets hurt, wounds take forever to heal, ect. He will take every chance to avoid it
• Will actually resort to overworking himself at the office sooner than come home and suffer through another night with Miles' back turned to him in their shared bed
• Not being able to hold Miles eats him up inside, and he legitimately cries when they aren't cuddling or holding hands or something while they're in bed. He's just so worried Edgeworth is going to be distant and cold again, that they're losing progress
• Edgeworth is great with physical problems he can solve on his own, no help required, just a few hours at most or a project to work on is perfect and clear. Emotions, however, are a whole other level for him
• Does he apologize? Even if it's not something he did would the sentiment be a fitting one? Maybe he should back off? If he tries to reach out will Phoenix shatter under his palm like those nightmares he used to have? Worse, will Wright snap at him like some kind of angry beast?
• After his mom died, Gregory went to a lot of therapy and picked up a lot of tricks for handling difficult feelings, and was always sharing them with young motherless Mililes, but no one's been around to talk Miles through his feelings since Gregory died.
• Overall, it just leads to long bouts of silence from the both of them when things get serious and they are both so lost
• Thank our respective gods for Trucy, she picks up on that shit SO fast and will not hesitate to get her siblings together for some Wright/Edgeworth couple therapy • • • Athena mediates for them by monitoring their emotions and Apollo to make sure they're not lying to get away from each other Trucy glares when one of them is clearly trying to beat around the bush
• Overall, it's a surprisingly healthy system for them a d they're much better for it
