if narumitsu are dating, edgeworth calls phoenix his partner. phoenix if he reveals their relationship at all calls edgeworth his boyfriend but normally just says "edgeworth" with no identifier. edgeworth thinks boyfriend is juvenile which is why he won't say it. phoenix agrees which is why he insists on saying it. he thinks it's funny to say "my boyfriend, the chief prosecutor". however he thinks edgeworth calling him his partner makes them sound like colleagues. edgeworth is like, that's the idea. this debate settles when they finally get married and both generally stick to "husband" (edgeworth reverts to partner when stressed) but maya gets up to give her best maya speech and is like "edgeworth i don't know what you expected when nick's been introducing me as 'this is maya, she's my... uhh, she's maya' for almost twenty years"

















