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He’s goin as a defense attorney for Halloween!!

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The Inherited Turnabout: Perfect Ending

Katherine admits that she hid the missing sherbet sculptures in the mansion freezer; upon investigation, the body is discovered and the Dover autopsy report is proven to be a forgery. This exposes the corruption of both Manfred von Karma and Chief Prosecutor Blaise Debeste, and (combined with Badd showing the recording proving that von Karma had Rip Lacer blackmail and very likely torture Jeff Master during the interrogations) results in their arrest.

Dane Gustavia is put on the stand, and Gregory proves that he was the culprit in the murder of Isaac Dover. Gustavia’s breakdown has him pump air into the taffy until it balloons up and explodes over the courtroom and everyone in it. Gustavia is taken away and Master is given his Not Guilty verdict. Court is adjourned but Gregory, Ray, Miles, and several janitors and bailiffs stay behind to clean up the taffy. The earthquake causes structural damage to the courthouse, but nobody was trapped or injured or otherwise harmed.

Badd manages to track down the children who went missing on the night of the murder and find them better homes.

After the trial, Gregory, Ray, and Miles watch as Jeff and Kate happily reunite; as an extra thank-you from the father-daughter duo, they get invited to guest-star in an episode of Piece of Cake. And there was much singing and dancing and dessert-making and silly dessert-themed outfits.

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4/2/2019 MARKS THE DAY DANE GUSTAVIA WAS ARRESTED FOR ISAAC DOVER!!!!!

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The more I think about this the more I cry

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“It happened 18 years ago, during the winter… All the buildings were covered in snow, coating the entire town like a layer of frosting. And it was in this very place, that the incident occurred. This was all before Uncle Ray became a defense attorney…”

“The IS-7 Incident, 18 years ago. …Gregory Edgeworth’s last case. Isaac Dover was murdered at the venue of a dessert contest… And his body was discovered in the chocolate treasure chest made by Jeff Master. The victim died from blood loss after being struck in the head with a rock salt lamp. The murder weapon was found hidden inside Delicia’s candy castle. Then… in the victim’s room, where no one had searched yet… All of Dover’s sherbet sculptures had melted.”

“Jeff Master, alone in a dark cell, arrested on false charges. I must expose von Karma’s lies if I am to save him…!”

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The Inherited Turnabout

Gregory Edgeworth, Raymond Shields, and Katherine Hall all screaming at Jeff Master through the glass in the detention center: I'M GON' GET YOU OUTTA THERE. I PROMISE YOU, I'M GONNA GET YOU OUTTA THERE. YOU DON'T BELONG IN THERE. I'M GONNA GET YOU OUT! I'M GONNA GET YOU OUTTA THERE. IMMA DO EVERYTHING IT TAKES, TO MAKE SURE YOU GET OUTTA THERE! YOU DON'T BELONG IN THERE!

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Solving this once and for all

Reblog if you would hug raymond shields. Like if you would not.

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I haven’t seen this info posted on Tumblr, so I figured I’d write it up for everyone’s reference: let’s talk about attorney’s badges!

Shortly after I started Ace Attorney I idly googled “Japanese attorney badge,” expecting to discover this was another legal fact that AA had just made up wholesale. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be 100% legit! Japan really does have lapel badges for attorneys. They’re called kisho, and they’re taken quite seriously. Attorneys’ badges come from the Japan Federation of Bar Associations. Technically JFBA only lends the badges to attorneys, so you have to return yours if you’re disbarred (Phoenix), convicted of a crime, declared bankrupt (?), or declared dead (presumably they don’t make you do that last one in person). 

Badges are not interchangeable, should never be lent to someone else (Phoenix), and if you lose yours, you have to apply to the Bar Association to get a new one made (plus they post your name in the Corner of Shame in the government’s official gazette so everyone knows you lost your badge, ha ha). You have to get a new one made just for you because each badge has the attorney’s unique ID number engraved on the back – if you examine Phoenix’s you’ll see his ID is 26381.

There’s no specific badge for defense attorneys, but there is one for bengoshi (left photo) – trial lawyers, the kind that actually stand in a courtroom – and a separate badge for prosecutors (right photo), so by process of elimination you can tell someone’s a defense attorney.[1] The bengoshi kisho is a stylized sunflower (that’s why Phoenix gets drawn with sunflowers) and definitely not a chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemums are the symbol of the Imperial Household, and bengoshi specifically don’t have one because they aren’t expected to take orders from the government – they answer to the law.

Bengoshi are supposed to wear their badges when performing any kind of legal duty, and in practice most do wear them all the time when working. Attorneys on a case can do things civilians can’t – for instance, investigate crime scenes, visit suspects, and demand certain types of information from the government – and the badge is a handy way of proving an attorney’s identity. Put another way…yes, Phoenix really does go around showing everyone his badge.

On the other side of the courtroom, the prosecutor’s badge is a symbol called shuso retsujitsu, made of white chrysanthemum petals, gold leaves, and a red sun. The name means “autumn frost, scorching sunlight,” which is so perfect for Edgeworth, like, he’s exactly dramatic enough to wear something with a name like that. Symbolically this phrase is supposed to evoke “the harshness of punishment and the constancy of principles expected from the prosecutor.”

Most sunflower badges are made of silver metal with a gold coating. Ema confirms that Phoenix’s badge is the same in Rise from the Ashes. Over time, the gold coating starts to wear off the badge. A silvery badge is thus an informal status symbol among bengoshi because it means the bearer has been an attorney for a long time. Near the end of the first AA game Phoenix comments that his badge might be developing “a luster,” which may mean that he hopes it’s starting to look a little silvery now so people will stop calling him a rookie.

Most of this post is based on the info here, so if you want to know even more, check it out.

[1] In Japanese the suffix -bengoshi can be used to address an attorney politely, so you don’t need to guess with -san, -sama, etc. - you can just say “Naruhodou-bengoshi.” If you set UMvC3′s language to Japanese, Phoenix will address Jessica Walters/She-Hulk as “Walters-bengoshi.”

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WE’RE IN THE AAI2 TIMELINE BABY !!!! HAPPY TURNABOUT TARGET DAY

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Talk about Miiiiles!

Anonymous said: Talk about your son!Anonymous said: Talk about Miles

A slight upturn on the corner of his mouth.

“Simply put…? He’s my light. I’d do anything for him.”

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talk about Sara

Anonymous said: talk about your wife?

… There’s so much to talk about. Sara and I grew up together, and I married my best friend. That’s nearly twenty years of shared history between us. I could talk about how we became friends when we were 9, how we started dating in high school, how we kept in touch while in different colleges, how we found each other again and got back together… But we’d be here for hours, if not days.

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Talk about Tyrell Badd.

Anonymous said Talk about Detective Badd!

His personality is difficult to get a read on. I’ve seen how kind he can be, but he’s not particularly sociable. Though I do consider him a friend, I don’t know if he feels the same…

(I’ve tried to invite him to tea or lunch a few times, but he just looks away in a huff and mutters something about my profession…)

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Talk about Manfred von Karma

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“… Ever since I first heard of him, I had hoped that all the dark rumors and horror stories that I heard about Prosecutor von Karma were exaggerations. They were not.”(I would say that they do him no justice but, ‘justice’ and ‘Manfred von Karma’ don’t belong in the same sentence.)

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Talk about the Judge

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“I have nothing but respect for His Honor himself; though I often find the trials that he runs have a tendency to be stressful and frustrating.”

(Is his fickle nature his own personality, or a sign of his age? Sometimes I wonder if he should retire, for both my clients’ sake and for his own…)

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