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I'm not in shock abt excelsius winner anymore but man I lost interest in this account again 😔

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there's no way it's excelsius there's now ay

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chief prosecutor please get me away from these defense attorneys. , , chief prosecutor please

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AAI2 SPOILERS!!!

Imagine being a sheltered kid, living in comfort and prestige. You're top of your class, and despite made fun of, you know that your accomplishments are proof that you are better, so you pay no mind.

Your father turns out to be corrupt, a murderer even. All your accomplishments are paid and not of your own merit. You did not deserve your status, and even your own father tells you you are nothing without him.

Again, imagine being a sheltered kid, living in comfort and prestige. Your father has thrown away vital evidence. In desperation, you dig through garbage. You have never smelled worse in your life, no underlings to do the work for you. You might get sliced by the scrap metal around, but you do not care. You let your tears flow, throwing garbage by garbage. You have to do something right for once in your life. This is something only you can do. You do not know how long has it been, but you've found something.

However, deep down, you knew your efforts weren't enough. Maybe he was right that you were useless all along.

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Why don't you just make Eustace disappear? He is clearly a lost cause.

Now, now. No need to get into that kind of talk. I’m not a monster, y’know.

He may be a bit slow, but he’s still my son. Even still, I wouldn’t make anyone disappear. I’m hurt that you’d even mention something like that.

He just needs some guidance. Someone like me to point him in the right direction, y’see. I’m sure that soon enough he’ll stop being such an idiot. He’s a good boy, after all.

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[request box] young bastard trio, going swimming + young bansai/blaise

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AAI2 SPOILERS!!!

I HATE YOU BLAISE DEBESTE DIE DIE DIE

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🔥Day🔥 26

(I don’t know if this would count as spoilers, but I blurred it anyway just in case. View the unblurred image under the cut!)

Randomly got struck with inspiration for this + just felt like drawing Blaise again

I thought his character animations were really fun with his whole motif being fire- like man is just casually wielding an open flame

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Correction, why the fuck is YOUR last name winner? It sounds dumb.

Because I’m a winner. Don’t worry, I know you’re jealous. No need to lie.

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where were you on February 10th, 2007 around midnight?

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Sleeping. Like a normal person. What’d you expect my answer to be?

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Have you ever at least considered being a good father to your son? Not everyone has the opportunity to see their child to adulthood.

- G. Edg (Summoned as courtesy of Maya)

You really went ahead and got someone to channel you from the dead just to lecture me about my parenting? Says a bit about you, y’know.

I’m a great father. Quit projecting your sadness about not getting to see your own son on me.

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your wife "disappeared" yeah? what happened to her?

You’re a curious one, aren’t you..?

But I suggest you stop digging your nose into other people’s business.

She just disappeared, y’see. Nothing else to it.

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Eustace is a fine name, I'm just questioning why you made his last name winner.

…because it’s my last name. I think that’s obvious enough, y’know.

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... Why did you name your son Eustace of all things?

Why Not? Maybe it’s the first thing I thought of. It’s not a bad name, is it?

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I saw in an interview that the GK2 writer did consider writing about Manfred, Gant and Blaise but he thought it wouldn't be a fun game to play. If that game WAS made, what do you think it would be like in terms of story and gameplay?

I'm obviously not sure how exactly *Capcom* would make this game, but I can write you an outline of a version of it that I at least wouldn't be disappointed by!

Hope everything makes sense, I'm writing this at 4 am. Under a cut because wow did this get Long.

There'd be AAI-style gameplay, with the usual interrogations and the logic mechanic. That one would be modified in such a way that you're not only piecing facts and events together, but uncovering people's emotional weak spots. Once you find them, they're added to the organizer and you can object with them during interrogations to pressure characters into saying what you need them to say to win the case. Also, outside of interrogations, Gant can use Perceive.

Unlike regular AAI, this one would include actual trial segments, at least in the final case. Now, I'm pretty sure the reason regular AAI does *not* do this is because it's simply hard to incorporate cool twists if you're playing as the prosecutor. As the defense, if the prosecution says the case happened like this and you prove it happened differently, that's fun and exciting! But if you're the one saying it happened like this, and then you just ... prove exactly that ... yeah. That would feel kind of flat. So the way that this would work is similar to the last day of RftA, where Phoenix has at least a rough plan in mind to prove Gant did it from the beginning, but we the audience aren't in on it and watch him unravel it testimony by testimony. Basically the tension would be in the "how" rather than the "what".

On to the story. I know the common idea for a game like this is that Manfred would be the main character, but with what we canonically know about him - a perfect record and nothing ever really going wrong before Greg came along - it would be hard to write meaningful conflict for him, external or internal, and I feel like a game as dark as this one would have to be in order to do its cast justice wouldn't work without plenty of both.

So: except for the segments in court, Gant is the protagonist. A detective who joined the force out of idealism, but who's growing increasingly frustrated and disappointed in the law because of how little justice he feels he actually gets to create, between having to let obviously guilty culprits walk free because some loophole makes the evidence proving their guilt illegal and feeling like he's forced to uphold the letter rather than the spirit of the law more often than not. Insert sad backstory of Blaise (a minor antagonist/rival character in this game) destroying his faith in prosecutors by accepting bribes by a corrupt politician Gant risked his life to apprehend and losing the trial on purpose, thereby also ruining any chance of them being held accountable for their crimes in the future because of double jeopardy.

Manfred fills the sidekick role, but as more of a mentor character than an assistant, showing Gant how to manipulate people, evidence, and the law itself to get the results you want. Although Gant knows Manfred's obsession with perfection makes him dangerous, he's also the only prosecutor he still feels fully comfortable working with, because he's the only one he knows for sure will never betray him like Blaise did and lose on purpose, and Gant reasons that as long as he makes sure they only ever convict people who are actually guilty, it's morally okay for him to use Manfred and his methods as a "weapon" to arrive at that goal. His trust in Manfred - or rather his trust in himself to keep Manfred under control somewhat - gets shaken throughout the game, though; if Manfred can forge evidence to fool the court, he could also manipulate evidence to fool Gant. Can he really be sure he's only arresting the right people?

Manfred also gets to be the viewpoint character for a mostly comedic filler case with incredibly low stakes blown incredibly out of proportion because of how big a threat even small things pose to his perfection.

Blaise, as said before, is a minor antagonist/rival who keeps impeding their investigations and generally making their lives harder (think Verity and Eustace pre-AAI2-4) Every once in a while he's actually useful, providing vital information, but always at a cost. Maybe his and Gant's shared backstory is revealed in a flashback case.

Remember what I said earlier, about Gant worrying about Manfred deceiving him? At around the 75% mark of the game, Gant finds out this has happened at least once, whether by Manfred deliberately framing an innocent person or by going so far with his methods that the resulting injustice completely outweighed the justice of the guilty verdict. With this knowledge, every single other case they worked together now seems suspicious too. Gant confronts him. They end up beating the hell out of each other, and Gant has his Dark Night of the Soul moment where he despairs over the fact that he became a detective to fight for justice, but is unable to stop injustice when it happens right in front of him. The next day he decides to report Manfred to the PIC, even at the cost of incriminating himself by confessing to all the ways they broke the law together, but when he arrives at the building, Manfred is there, waiting for him with a deal: he knows how to get around double jeopardy, and he'll help Gant finally bring the politician Blaise let walk free to justice if he agrees to tell no-one what he knows.

Gant is conflicted at first, but agrees eventually, and they get to work. Now - if this game was actually made, they would of course base this on Japanese law, and I don't know much about that. I've read that in the US, at least, double jeopardy does not apply if it's proven the judge accepted bribes from the defendant to pronounce them not guilty, because then the defendant was never "in jeopardy" in the first place. So, at least in this outline, that's what Gant and Manfred are doing now: framing the judge from back then for taking bribes. Gant feels conflicted again - this is his first time deliberately framing an innocent, but Manfred convinces him that one innocent man going to prison will be worth the justice the politician's victims were denied for so long. (Manfred doesn't care about the justice aspect too much, of course - he just knows it'll convince Gant to stick to the deal).

They succeed, the case is retried. Blaise ramps up his efforts to stop them, worried about his positive public image suffering for losing a case with such a high-profile suspect if they're found guilty now. He fails, of course - Gant and Manfred win, the politician's original victims come up to thank them, and Gant thinks to himself that if the price of fighting the world's many unnecessary evils is employing some necessary evils in turn, it's one he's willing to pay after all. There's some RftA foreshadowing in the end credits with Gant saying to himself that since Blaise has aspirations of becoming Chief Prosecutor one day, he'll need to find a way to control the Prosecutor's Office somehow to ensure they act according to *his* idea of justice, not Blaise's.