#.....gavin mob family? that's a text post for another time i'm meant to be having dinner soon

[shoeshineyboy]

okay so now it’s not 2am, here’s an expansion of that Magnifi shooting Thalassa theory that I was going on about yesterday, and where I think they May have been planning on taking the AA4 storyline. readmore-ing it because I ramble

there’s a theory somewhere that Troupe Gramarye is a front for the mafia and honestly I think that’s where they were going. there was an emphasis on organised crime in AA4, and up to this point, Ace Attorney was pretty good at not just bringing things in and throwing them aside. not only were the Kitakis present, but the back room in the Borscht Bowl Club was said to have been used by the mob, too. that in consideration, I’m gonna assume that Magnifi had mafia connections, and I’m going to disregard Jove and say that Apollo was born from a Romeo and Juliet (or, West Side Story, I guess) type situation with another mob family, hence his father not being present. maybe he’s dead, I doubt he’s that important....... unless he’s Valant. but that’s a stretch and I’m not going anywhere near that (yet)

anyway.

I’m disregarding my own previous Gavin parents headcanon, now, and throwing it out there that they were private investigators, hired by. someone. to look into the shit with Troupe Gramarye and, specifically, Magnifi. they got friendly with the other magicians, and, after Magnifi found they were getting too close, he had one of them killed. the other was framed for the murder, and sentenced to death because of it, bribery and fake evidence definitely coming into play. more on them and how that affected the boys... maybe in another post, because this is about the Gramaryes. during the rehearsal, Magnifi shoots Thalassa in order to have material with which to blackmail Valant and Zak. he’s able to keep control over them, and what they say, until his death. he asks them both to shoot him in a power play, but shoots himself, the same way he shot his daughter, leading to both men blaming the other until the truth comes to light.

...........Kristoph was playing the long game with Zak. Kristoph has definitely had dealings with the mob before, and, while I don’t think for a second that he’s the kind of person to give enough of a shit about his parents like that, I do think there’s the possibility that they were involved in... something a little deeper than the investigating, something that’d completely destroy the family’s reputation if it came to light. and Kristoph himself likely got involved in it, too. if we assume that Kristoph has been paranoid about this since he learned it, and definitely throughout his legal career, there was an element of cat and mouse with him and Zak. killed a man with a bottle because he was an evil human being? nah. he killed a man with a bottle because it would destroy everything if said man spoke out.

that last paragraph is something I came up with just now. anyway enjoy,