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another piece for @aablrfeystivus !!! this time, for @stelladoesstuff / @foolishstepladder >:3

i LOVE LOVE LOVE franmaya AND i’ve been trying to figure out how to draw franzi for a bit so this was like the PERFECT thing for me. 10/10 had so much fun drawing it.

(also the boyz being beat up was just like. a lil bonus. for me ( ´ ▽ ` ).｡ｏ♡)

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Every day I think about if ppl treated any other country the way they treat japan + korea

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Athena and Taka's formal introduction

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two see right ft. one glimmerous fop

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happy 23rd anniversary ⚖️

*please don't tag as ship

separate images below:

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Narumitsu week Days 2 and 3: Truth and Free day

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With an average life? Do I need to lie to make my way in life?

(variations under cut)

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Skipped a few steps

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TRUTH SEES EVERYTHINK

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i hope they do actually announce a new ace attorney game but instead of anything anyone actually expects or wants its just a rhythm game where the characters dance around crime scenes.

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Franziska and Pearl have so many parallels man

Franziska von Karma. Raised in a household where she’s placed on this pedestal as this perfect child, but also kind of fighting to be the ‘best’ against her adoptive brother. Never really escaping those expectations until the very man who set them is placed in custody, and even then… that was her world. She doesn’t know a life outside of living up to the expectations of her father, and fighting tooth and nail for respect from everyone else.

Pearl Fey. Raised by her mother and expected to hold up the Fey name. Seen as this perfect little daughter who’ll have immense channeling capabilities and take on the family mantle. Having that same scenario of a parental figure placing high expectations on you… but having those unhealthy pressures removed at a much younger age than Franziska had. Escaping that mentally abusive environment at an age where she can still learn and develop a less warped view of the world, and put more faith into her new role models (ie Phoenix and Maya).

Pearl’s childhood is what Franziska’s really could have been had Von Karma’s crime been revealed a decade before it was. Had the truth of DL-6 emerged in its initial trial, her life would have mirrored Pearl’s. But instead, they’re direct foils.

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Feel like doing some art today, throw some AA characters into my inbox/comments <3 (Anyone from AA1-6 and AAI1-2, haven’t played TGAA)

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save me nayucorom

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The fact that edgeworth’s office is on the 12th floor will never not be funny to me. There’s no way girlypop’s taking the elevator so is he like?? Just walking up and down 12 flights of stairs everyday ???

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thinking about growing up next to a murderer. thinking back on sunday family outings and thursday game nights and how they slowly became less and less frequent over the years. thinking back on how you were always trailing behind him, trying to impress him and prove your worth. thinking about years and years of trust, of hero worship, of foolishness. thinking about how some things as mundane as strawberries have been ruined for you forever because of a few summers spent in germany picking fruit to eat straight off the stem. thinking about working up the nerve to visit prison for months and months, and when you finally do, you are informed your visit has been rejected. thinking about how people don't just become murderers overnight. thinking about reconciling the kind older brother you knew who had debating club on wednesdays and helped you with your essays and whose favourite drink was pink lemonade with the stranger staring back at you from the newspaper headlines. thinking about clearing out your apartment, so cluttered and yet still so empty, spraying solution everywhere to catch any last dregs of poison, finding none, and for some sick, twisted reason, feeling disappointed about it. thinking about how he didn't care enough to even try to kill you.

thinking about whether he ever even cared at all.

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This is the real reason he and Phoenix never get married.

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cruel irony