#superdrama11

[askaceattorney]

Dear Mr. Cadaverini,

Oh, um...  Your granddaughter remembered me, did she?  How about that?  Heh heh!  I’m, uh...I’m sure she’s innocent, like you said, but...I feel like you might have a little more luck with one of those family lawyers you mentioned.  I’m not saying I refuse, of course, just...I thought you might want to consider your options, you know?

(What kind of mob boss asks a private lawyer to defend a family member?)

-Phoenix Wright

[askaceattorney]

Dear Kay,

I think that is an excellent idea.

If you are truly serious about pursuing a career in law, I will certainly offer any help I can provide.

Themis is supposed to be a prestigeous academy, if not a bit pricey.  Just remember all those dates.  You’ll need them for citing precedence.

-Miles Edgeworth

[askaceattorney]

Dear New Fan,

Why thank you.

All I can really tell you is what I tell everyone else when they ask.  Character voice is derived primarily from dialect and motivation.  For example, Edgeworth is very formal and straightlaced but he has his fanboyish side for the Steel Samurai and has gone on record calling Pearl “Pearls”.  There’s the side he shows people and the side he kind of draws attention away from.  Every person and any good character should have some duality like that and recognizing that keeps writing them from falling flat.

Secondly, the characters aren’t mouth pieces.  They’re people with a canon setting; not your personal wants or desires.  That’s a big one.

Dear Crazyarielxd,

Thank you as well.

I try to maintain my anonymity, but I’m located in CST.  I have the blog set up to run a queue so it posts automatically once every two hours whether I’m in front of my computer or not.

I think I answered the second question last letter but for the third, the most difficult questions are ones that the character should be able to answer that I cannot.  That can be cause by either me simply not knowing something or an answer that’s never been given in the games.

On average, I’d say I get somewhere between 10-20 letters a day, but only 12 go up in a 24 hour period.  That results in the current three month wait for letters to be fully processed.  I try to keep about 60 letters in the queue in case of emergency, but I have about 1500 letters in the inbox right now.  Give or take.

Dear aceattorney-imagines,

Hey, sup?  This is that blog I’m shouting out right here.

(Link in letter)

Dear superdrama11,

That’s a very difficult question to answer because this sort of situation is teetering on the edge of either direction.

The phantom is the person who killed Metis and Clay.  He sabotaged our nation’s space program.  There’s every reason in the world for him to be disappeared into a government facility, never to be seen again, no matter how people react to him.  Actually, Apollo not wanting to avenge Clay’s death would be pretty in character for him after receiving Athena’s forgiveness.  Athena, too, wouldn’t feel a burning need to avenge her mother after all these years.  Though I don’t see either of them being particularly forgiving.

I guess that’s just my big hesitation towards that rewritten ending.  I feel like the phantom’s getting off too easily.  He is, after all, a mass murderer and a threat to national security.  Blackquill wouldn’t be the one doing the interrogations.  Closed doors would be doing the “interrogations”.

So to answer the question, I don’t have a good answer.  You could write any of those characters as accepting or rejecting the phantom’s explanation and there would be support for either side.  I doubt even they know what they’d really be feeling about it.  If nothing else, I’d have some dissent among them just for a little tension and reconciliation.

Dear Anonymous,

I think you’ll find that, since the games take place in LA, those are American badges.

Dear Steve,

There’s a line.  Please be patient.

Dear nohmasked,

I know, right?  Life was so much easier when I wasn’t popular.

Dear nuuneyraegon,

Man, people really like asking me about this game.  No, I still haven’t played it, I’m afraid.

I’ll tell you what I will be playing, though.  Trails in the Sky Second Chapter is out on Thursday!  Woo!

(Original letter)

Dear hunter,

Yes.  His personal is actually Sherlock Holmes to tie into all the new Personas being historical and literary figures.  In Ace Attorney world, Holmes is both!

Real answer: That’s concept art for PLvsAA that went unused.

(Original letter) (Link in letters)

Dear Comic Enthusiasts,

Okie dokey.  There we go, folks.  For all your Hiimdaisy comic needs.

(Original letter)

Dear Anonymous,

Yes, that’s what I meant.  I can be blunt sometimes but I rarely ever try to be a complete jerk.  I was just taking the time to make a stupid toilet joke because I am 12 years old.

Dear hoppypoo2,

I doubt there’s any relation.  I hope their isn’t, honestly.  Maya’s already the Master of Kurain, she doesn’t need to be literal royalty on top of it.  Although that would play even further into Pearl’s fantasies.

Dear greatblueskies,

I’m always down for more older Maya concepts.  If you wish to keep it private, I can simply enjoy it in silence.

Dear hamsterboy3,

Gumshoe and Maggey are basically canon already.  That’s just cheating.

I could actually see Lauren and Larry working out.  With their combined lack of common sense and self esteem they’d probably be perfect for each other.

Human interactivity isn’t really Simon’s strong suit and these characters have never met.  There’s no way to tell.  Though I will say I don’t think I could wrap my head around Maya being with anyone but Phoenix.  There just isn’t anyone else as important to her.

I hate Klavier and Ema, honestly.  She clearly cannot put up with him and he makes no effort to smooth things over.  He even made a fool of her on the stand with that whole “I knew Lamiroir was blind and could speak English the whole time and didn’t tell anyone” thing.  I know this one’s popular, but it’s also one of my least favorite.

I can’t must any sort of emotion for Larry and Lotta.

Will admittedly had a thing for Adrian, but I can’t see the poor guy pulling it off.  She’s way out of his league.  Sorry, big guy.

Finally, Spark should only be paired with the cutting room floor.

Dear Proto Badger,

I know, right?  Only 58 days until Christmas!

Dear Anonymous,

It’s not like I know her personally, but she and her team gave us a masterfully localized Ace Attorney series so she's cool in my book.  She also voiced Franziska’s objection, so I can only hope she appreciates her footprint in this cultural icon.

Dear laine4466,

I think that sort of thing is just going to happen.  Certain changes and judgment calls are par for the course, and as long as it’s never anything major, no serious complications should arise.

Probably the biggest inconsistency is Guy Eldoon and his noodle stand when Maya’s favorite food was burgers.  I’d have personally localized him as just a “food cart” that sold burgers, hot dogs, and, of course, noodles.  Regardless, we know Maya’s favorite is still burgers.  She just had a soft spot for a salty bowl every now and then.  Maybe Eldoon’s was a cheaper alternative Nick could talk her into.

So I don’t think there’s any worry.  Name puns will still happen, LA will still have a large Japanese population, and the nation of Kurain won’t even know what hit it.

Dear Julia,

My scenario is a locked room murder.  Apollo was upset with Thalassa for her leaving him at an orphanage and they went into a room to speak one on one.  While in there, she applies the eye drops she needs because of her eye surgery.  Little does she know, they’ve been laced with atroqunine and she dies 15 minutes later, also hitting her head to throw off the scent of the poison and add another wrinkle.

Naturally, Apollo is arrested and his fury at being abandoned is cited as motive.

-The Mod