#Amara X Dhurke

[vexinglyvolatile]

ace attorney memes i made part 8

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[indefensezine]

💝 INTEREST CHECK RESULTS 💝

Thank you all for your patience! We are so grateful for the positivity and feedback we've received from you. Here are the results of the interest check!

We will be proceeding with the creation of both a physical zine and The Great Ace Attorney mini-zine add on! Contributor Applications will open on July 12th, so stay tuned 🥰 CARRD 💛 INFO DOC

Read more to see your requested ships ✨

Interest Check Listed Ships: Phoenix Wright x Miles Edgeworth, Phoenix Wright x Iris/Dahlia Hawthorne, Phoenix Wright x Kristoph Gavin, Phoenix Wright x Professor Hershel Layton, Apollo Justice x Klavier Gavin, Apollo Justice x Clay Terran, Mia Fey x Diego Armando, Mia Fey x Lana Skye, and Athena Cykes x Juniper Woods

Most requested ships: Gregory Edgeworth x Tyrell Badd, Phoenix Wright x Godot, Apollo Justice x Simon Blackquill, Eddie Fender (Ray Shields) x Katherine Hall, Athena Cykes x Pearl Fey

Other Requested Ships by Attorney

Phoenix: Larry Butz, Zacharias Barnham, Rouge (PLvsPW), Dick Gumshoe, Shi Long Lang, Jake Marshall, Herman Crab Mia: Aura Blackquill

Apollo: Ema Skye, Wocky Kitaki

Athena: Sasha Buckler, Trucy Wright, Robin Newman

Gregory: Manfred von Karma

Calisto: Aura Blackquill, Dee Vasquez, Yatagarasu Throuple, Shi Long Lang

Dhurke: Datz Are'bal, Amara Khura’in

Jill Crane: Jack Cameron

Poly Ships

Phoenix x Edgeworth x Gumshoe, Phoenix x Edgeworth x Larry, Phoenix x Edgeworth x Lang, Phoenix x Edgeworth x Kristoph, Mia x Aura x Lana, Apollo x Klavier x Ema, Apollo x Klavier x Simon

These ships were sent in to us by you, and is no way a definitive list. Please do not hesitate to pitch other ships! ⚓

[turnabout-cosmic-clockwork]

HEY, ACE ATTORNEY ROLEPLAYER. 🙂

Are you…

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a literate, character-driven writer?

searching for a laid-back group of AA superfans and/or a detailed plot which is — we promise! — shockingly easy to jump into?

(bonus point) a fan of the glorious cast of more minor characters who give the series life?

YOU MIGHT BE WHO WE’RE WAITING FOR.

TURNABOUT COSMIC CLOCKWORK is a small but passionately active AA Discord server covering all of the games (yes, even PLvsPW). We’re strictly 18+ but prohibit ERP, though other mature themes do occur in line with the theme of the series.

Something has gone wrong with time itself. Many of the famous faces you recognise have been caught up in it, having found a mysterious new phone about their person which allows them to enter a chatroom full of familiar and new people in the same situation. Moreover, there are these weird blue portals showing up. Step into one, and you can find yourself in another part of the timeline entirely.

Rayfa’s found out about the revolution early and somehow wound up friends with Matt Engarde. Kay (2019) has adopted Miles (2027). Athena (2028) and Metis (from mere days before her demise) had a mother-daughter dinner while Aura (days after Metis’ death) tries to come to terms with what her grief made her do will do? Might have done? Tenses have become kind of hard to manage. Especially with Esmeralda Tuspells time-hopping to capture the likeness of all the most interesting future criminals, and Apollo briefly finding himself in the midst of Sholmes’ experiments in 1900…

Come and join the party: can you help us figure out what’s gone wrong with reality, and hopefully stay vaguely sane along the way? Or add to the madness… we’re open to that too.

Vital stats

18+, mature themes (no ERP or drug use)

No upper or lower word counts; we ask that you’re literate and happy to meet prose partners’ word count and play speed

No strict activity checks: we like to see you regularly, but don’t prescribe X posts per week

Up to 6 characters per writer

Reserve characters for two weeks while you whip up a sheet for them

Hop into the IC chatrooms any time for casual fun, start up DMs with friends or to make introductions to someone new, and write narrative threads 1:1 or in groups in our well-organised IC forum.

Many of the main characters are taken but anyone else you can think of is wide open. The list below is extremely non-exhaustive, but we’d especially love…

AA1-3

Dick Gumshoe — Chief Prosecutor Edgeworth hasn’t given anyone a pay cut in too long

Pearl Fey — Trucy would love a friend of similar age

Adrian Andrews — Matt like, seriously needs to call his manager, dude

Mike Meekins — we miss(??!) the tinnitus from the megaphone

Diego Armando - where would we be without our coffee-loving tragedy?

AA4-6

Apollo Justice — Klavier misses Herr Forehead, and we probably need someone to tell us WE’RE FINE.

Amara Sigatur Khura’in — Nahyuta and Rayfa need their mom; Dhurke misses his wife; and Thalassa and Datz are capable of making new friends just fine, but they’d love to see her again too

Juniper Woods — Athena’s got her mom back, but she’d still love to talk to her bestie

Herman Crab — we don't have a modern doctor… but will a vet suffice?

AAI

Justine Courtney — Sebastian needs a good (?) influence on his side!

Shi Long Lang - Bring us the wolf!

Great Ace Attorney

Mael Stronghart — Londoners feel like everything is out of order without their fearless legal leader

Genshin Asogi — the Professor has returned. One Asogi may not be enough

Rei Membami — Susato is perfectly capable of taking down wrongdoers on her own, but a combo attack with her dear friend is far more powerful

Herlock Sholmes — the game is afoot! There are mysteries yet to solve here. Iris Wilson - we need our little lady genius!

[eyedelater]

ace attorney spirit of justice post

i was going to play the whole game without bothering to post about it, but now i've had enough thoughts that i have to put them somewhere. they are disorganized and out of order and include full spoilers.

the game would have been $30 on switch but it was like $16 on iOS. what did i miss out on for saving my $14? i don't care. there's only so much you can miss out on when it's a visual novel. also, i remembered the reason i didn't play this game when it came out on iOS several years ago. it's because the app is very careful to list which iOS versions and devices the game will work on, and it will warn you not to purchase content if you're on any other version or device. and that was before i had gotten my first job, so i didn't have ~$16 to spare on a game that might not work. so i forgot about it. anyway i took the plunge this time and it worked fine on my ipad whose iOS version is not on the supported list.

i didn't start writing this post until the middle of the 5th and final case. i think we're about to defend dhurke in court and i have to note that i love that idea. and there's the fact that the justice minister was such an evil son of a bitch and now he's dead and that's kind of objectively good. also, the character designs in this game are quite good, especially the outfits.

red flag: when mere bailiffs in your "peaceful" country are carrying assault rifles at all times. they don't even do that in america. as of 2023.

i liked apollo's near-drowning cave adventure. and dhurke saved him with his left arm, which seems to be fine and only lives in a makeshift sling for stylistic reasons. on a gut level i'm displeased that the solution to the puzzle box requires one of the panels to be half-turned, even though i know puzzle boxes don't have strict rules any more than any other kind of brain teaser.

datz is so cute for a 46-year-old insurgent. he has the biggest mouth ever. that one face he makes strongly evokes enel one piece's big moment, but that's fair. now listen closely to me. up until recently, an important personal policy of mine has been as follows: "NO HOT DADS!" it's a hard-and-fast rule related to my personal taste/distaste and nothing else. but i think a really fun and good ship would be the dilf x dilf ship of datz x dhurke. so i can make a small exception. they can have a revolutionary ossan love that is perfectly righteous, true, and appropriate. maybe. (i do know that datz is no one's dad.)

i love apollo justice. he's the best and the cutest. i love his forehead and his vest and his antennae. but in real life, people with naturally very loud voices are unpleasant to be around <3 tone it down <3

when we see that photo of dhurke looking like apollo's spitting image with little apollo and little nahyuta and datz is like "yeah there he is with his Biological son nahyuta (Zero resemblance Whatsoever) and his Foster son apollo (clone)" it's like (everyone in the audience side-eyes each other) uh-huh… that being said, i don't remember anything that was said about apollo's family history in previous games apart from lamiroir being his and trucy's mother. also dhurke's eyebrows are trifurcated while apollo's are only bifurcated. that's plausible deniability. maybe jove justice is dhurke's brother or something? [he's not.] and if queen amara was dhurke's wife, was she nahyuta's mother, and then, were her genes 100% dominant so that nahyuta looks like a clone of her and not like dhurke at all? [note added in later: it seems that was the case.]

ace attorney games sure do include characters' ancestry as twists a lot of the time. maybe it's unavoidable in a human drama?

i think 35-year-old miles edgeworth has glasses because they couldn't think of any fun talky animations to give him so they had to give him some glasses-adjusting poses

how much taxpayer money is nahyuta spending on international flights for ema skye every 2 days

the idea of channeling an ancient figure like the founder or kee'ra is so fun and cool. i can't help but feel like it probably won't come to that, though. also, the fact that they preserved her true face not on any flat painting but on a mini sculpture in the round inside a tricky snowglobe thing was really cool. now they just need her name and maya could totally channel her. or i guess the queen could. [note added in later: of course they didn't channel her. ace attorney always has to step right up to the plate and not even swing.]

the high priestess carries on the rich tradition of being a smug know-nothing, a tried-and-true charming character archetype. i can get behind it. she's doing her best. her english voice actor was no good, though. are there no little girl voices available?

it's very interesting to have a revolution subplot (or rather, underlying main plot) where we the audience can and should eventually be like, "oh. the revolutionaries are very clearly and obviously the ones who are correct." though in the end, even after the revolution succeeded, it's still a monarchy.

i wonder how people with dissociative identity disorder feel about uendo in the fourth case. the story didn't go into the fact that in order to end up with DID, someone generally has to go through a staggeringly traumatic childhood. though you could kind of get that impression from owen… i don't know. i heard about a case where a victim with DID testified as many of her different alters in a court of law, in real life. is it disrespectful to portray DID in fiction at all? it's fair to say that in most cases, they do a shit job. i didn't feel like it was really played as a joke in this case... except for the way he used it conveniently for his rakugo characters... i guess that does count as playing it as a joke.

the 4th case must have been fun to localize, huh? you can't pretend rakugo is anything but rakugo.

you know, i thought that maybe i had been imagining it and that i was longing for something i shouldn't have expected, but after comparing nahyuta's reactions in court, i really do think van zieks's reactions in DGS were not as satisfying as they could have been. it's like, he's the most stoic prosecutor we've ever gone up against and there was absolutely nothing silly about his reactions (except throwing glasses of wine all over the place, which, like i said, gets old. and it's not that funny in the first place. it's more... aggressive.) like at least nahyuta's most drastic reactions are a little bit humbling, a little bit humiliating, you know? he loses his composure. van zieks doesn't lose his composure in that way.

they certainly did a good job of making nahyuta a lovably aggravating opponent.

is any ace attorney case NOT a locked-room mystery? good grief

nahyuta says, "Her Eminence thinks highly of my prosecutorial skills." but didn't you lose 3 or 4 cases in this game already? and one guilty verdict you got was nullified the next day?

when we were opposing phoenix in court and he got really upset and put his head in his hands… that was so alarming! it's like, we're not him! ah! we can't go over there and be him to fix it! for once, we don't know what he's thinking when he's breaking down like that! though it was easy enough to figure out.

the fact that khura'in is totally a theocracy is glossed right over. like check it out! we're a deeply religious ethnostate where there is no line between church and state! but don't worry— everyone in the whole country agrees that it's ideal… right? like even if they bring back defense lawyers, there still might be some problems worth addressing.

edgeworth let out a Nghoooooooooh! and it was cravat-related! it was all worth it just for this.

i have to kick phoenix wright's ass and also apollo justice's ass because they climbed into a manhole and cave respectively without thinking to bring a light source with them. you can't tell me you didn't expect it to be dark. you can see that it is dark from the outside.

"Founder's Orb left with Datz." とても嫌な予感がする…

the way armie became agoraphobic as a result of a different phobia (in her case, fire)… that really hit hard for personal reasons… huegh

oh so datz brought us back the Orb after all. i am honestly shocked.

dhurke's tit shadow

ok so they had to kill off dhurke so he can't live happily with datz. and they had to go on and on about his everlasting het love with amara. maybe that dilf x dilf ship was a pipe dream in the first place. but what else am i supposed to do when i come across not one but two characters who make me want to bend my no hot dads rule?? give me a break.

i cried when apollo left the nest to start his own musty law office. make all your dads proud, apollo...!

in the great ace attorney, there was the sad ex-jailer who was wearing an implausibly perfect facial disguise in which even the shape of his nose was greatly altered, and that pissed me off due to its implausibility. in this game, there was another implausibly perfect disguise, which was queen amara posing as nayna, wherein her facial structure, eye color, nose, body type, posture, and weight were all perfectly disguised. there's a limit to how good disguises can be before it becomes BS. narratively.

now i'm in the bonus story and we're up against edgeworth and he took his glasses off for the trial. (slams table) what? why did they do that? what is the logic behind this? glasses aren't only a leisure time thing. glasses are an all the time thing if you need them. and whether you're near-sighted or far-sighted, you need them in the courtroom, as important objects and people appear at both near and middle distance. does this imply that edgeworth's glasses are cosmetic only? even then, there's no reason to take them off before a trial! if you're going to change his character design, commit to it! ahh but the edgeworth shrug, smile, and shake head movement is wonderful as always. ok, could it be that the glasses did not render nicely in a 3/4 view so they gave up and excluded them completely? i think that has to be it. they couldn't get glasses to work in a 3/4 view so they gave up. weak...

(you have unlocked: minor pet peeve: when characters with glasses take their glasses off without good reason. no one who wears glasses in real life would do that.)

edgeworth told the judge that he doesn't plan on getting married. of course this is because it's still illegal to get gay married in japanifornia :( so he can't officially get gay married to his common law husband of many years, phoenix wright.

i don't have any large overarching opinions to sum up about the game except that it's an ace attorney game as good as any other, and as such, it was worth playing. it felt a lot more similar to the older games than the great ace attorney chronicles did.

[leniiva]

Ace Attorney (my own) relationships romantic or non

Athena X Juniper- romantically ships

Klavier X Apollo- Romantically ships

Miles X Phoenix- Romantically ships (isn't this Canon yet?)

Miles & Phoenix & Larry- Best buds relationship

Trucy and Apollo and Miles and Phoenix- Dad simulator

Dahlia X Phoenix- Please no, it's dead

Iris X Phoenix- dead

Maya & Phoenix- Best sibling relationship

Miles & Franziska- adopted siblings

Jove X Thalassa- Good romantic ship

Zak X Thalassa- Only here because Zak helps make best character ever

Trucy X Pearl- Asexually loves each other

Trucy & Apollo- Capcom TELL THEM!

Amara X Dhurke- Yes

Apollo & Trucy & Nahyuta & Rayfa- best siblings ever

Clay X Apollo X Klavier- Y E S

Clay X Apollo- Ehhhh?? Okay anguish

Nahyuta X Ema- Great 👌

Nahyuta X Simon Blackquill- The same as Nahyuta X Ema

Mia X Lana- Some good shit right there

Nahyuta & Rayfa- more of their relationship please ! I need more of these two being siblings!

Zak's face X A hard hit from a metal bat- Already Canon

Kristoph X Phoenix- Wtf?

Godot X Coffee- More Canon that Miego will ever be

Mia X Diego- Tried to like it but failed

If you like any of theses ships then props to you! Ship what you like and have fun.

[hermercifulness]

I don’t know what says about me that the only man/woman ships from Ace Attorney that I’m actually interested in - Dhurke x Amara and Jove x Thalassa - are also doomed since a character from each pairing is already dead in canon.

[sweet-suzume]

young Dhurke & Amara Much inspired by this FFXV fanart.  (but Daria’s art is just great in general, really!)  Dedicated to you, @bayalexison!  To be colored...soonish.

[fandombasedmoodboards]

Really quick and lazy Dhurke x Amara because this line made me think of them.

Yes I’m aware that I used this line for Apollo and Clay but hey we’re allowed double up

Made by: Mod Yu

Fandom: Ace Attorney

Ship: Dhurke sahdmadhi x Amara Sigtar Khura’in

[hotel-japanifornia]

this fandom has some rabid shipping fans. Like boi it's deadly, be careful. I wish people wouldn't give you such awful labels just because you dislike one of the more popular ships. (in my case indifferent to them)

Yeah me too. It’s something I’ve never really understood because while Ace Attorney does have some canonical couples (Miego, Ron X Desiree, Magshoe, Amara X Dhurke), they’re never the primary focus of the games. Ace Attorney is much more heavily focused on providing close, healthy, platonic relationships and I love it for that.

[datzpose]

☆ Did you ever try to check up on Apollo during all those years?

Make Datz be honest! [x]

“I wanted to, yeah. That’s something I promised Dhurke when he decided to take the kid back to America… it was the only way I was comfortable letting him go, if I could keep an eye on him still and bring him back when he was grown.”

“Never happened, though… at least, I never succeeded. Dhurke had to go even deeper underground after the whole thing with Queen Amara happened, and I was constantly out gathering intel ‘n’ finding safehouses ‘n’ raisin’ hell to throw Ga’ran’s goons off his trail. Even if I wasn’t locked up half the time, taking care of the rest of the Dragons had to come first… never had a spare minute to properly look him up before the trail went cold. It eat me up thinking about it, so after a while I just… stopped thinkin’ about it. Hoped he was doin’ okay wherever he was and moved on.”

[waiuld]

There's nothing wrong with dhurke either way. He's not even that dark, even for a Middle East character or any character. Pretty sure the anon was trying to "expose" you as a racist or something while acting friendly. On a side note, it's bad that Dhurke and his own wife is an underrated ship

Well it just shows that different people view characters differently and that’s fine by me. I should have given him a little darker tone after posting it (it’s too late now lol)

And yes Dhurke x Amara is surprisingly not as popular as I thought despite being canon :C They’re so lovely together aaa

[muninnhuginn]

Top 5 Ace Attorney cases?

This is probably going to be very stereotypical and my attempts at explanations are bad but oh well :x. I had to look up the case numbers to double check, oops. Not in any particular order:

1-5 You get to meet Ema :3. This case makes Edgeworth’s motives for leaving a lot clearer than it would have been without too. I know a lot of people say the pacing for this is way off but I like that it’s so long because when you’ve defeated it it makes it so worth it? This was the case that stepped up in difficulty for me. I think it was the first time I accidentally messed up enough to get kicked back to earlier so either it was more difficult or the Blue Badger threw me entirely off :P. But the fact it was more challenging, I liked a lot.

4-1 It sets the vibe for Apollo Justice really well and doesn’t have a whole load of panty jokes :V. Also I like the soundtrack for this game a lot but can’t bring myself to like any of the other cases enough without their drawbacks to put them on here. (Like the case “eight years ago” (iirc could be wrong) where suddenly Phoenix was massively confident and actually remembered Payne’s name despite it only being like two weeks from the end of 3-5, OOC :V) Basically, this case is what imo AJ had the potential to be but never quite made it after the first case.

6-5 The twist was great and I figured it out, yay me (I mean that genuinely. Once you realise the twist everything anyone says suddenly becomes kinda darker :x). I think partly because the case is so long you just get lots of everything? And whilst I think it messed up with Nahyuta/Amara/Ga’ran a bit (by which I mean, there is zero subtlety with them and their potential was somewhat wasted imo) it did really well with other stuff. Like, weirdly, Inga, and then obviously Dhurke; Rayfa too. It also made me like Apollo a lot more than I had done beforehand. (Cornered Heart ftw)

AAI2-3 You get to play as a particular character :D. And *a lot* of things depend on how this case went if you think it through. It was nicely done for it to fit in so well. And then you get the parallels with everyone when you switch back to the other character which I appreciate.

3-5 So, three reasons for this. One: it links in with all the stuff about Mia from 3-1 and clicks it all together really nicely (even if some of the hints were scattered around in cases like 3-4 which, uh, I really didn’t like). Two: You get to play as Edgeworth for the first time and the interactions around him defending are great. Three: it just works really well as a closer for the original trilogy imo. I do regret I’d had parts of this spoilt for me before playing though :

No Dai Gyakuten Saiban because I’ve not played them (not patient enough to wait for the whole game translations) and am only just getting around to watching it atm. Asougi laughing like Dhurke creeps me out though :P. None of the Layton crossover either because not played it.

[bushiiido-blog]

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Mun name: AlyBrittny “Aly” Loire OOC Contact: Tumblr IMs, Skype, KiK, Snapchat, & Discord. Though I’d recommend the last four of them beside the IM because it’s easier tbh (for mutuals only.)

Who the heck is my muse anyway:

This smexy, sassy, warrior monk DILF is Sir Auron (Final Fantasy X™) himself. 

In Kingdom Hearts 2/2.5 FINAL MIX, Auron was a guardian and a former warrior of Hades as he was assigned to assassinate his nephew, Hercules. But he turned his down by saying, “This is my story, and you’re not part of it.” And yes, he is dead and just a fucking ghost, mind you.

In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice, he’s the Legendary Prosecutor, Auron Sahdmadhi. His fraternal twin brother is Dhurke, and if you played the game and read this verse, well you know how this goes so far my dudes and yes he’s alive and fine whoo. ┐_(ツ)_┌━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

Points of interest:

Auron is a strong, silent, and wise warrior monk, saying what he thinks is the best for the scenario before the outcome. He can be strict, but his habit is insulting others with quick comebacks and dry wits. He carries a sword called Battlefields of War, which is a cool huge zanbatou-like sword. He also likes to think of himself as a “Guardian”, protecting his family or friends before himself. Auron likes eating cranberries which is good for your kidney kiddos and his coffee black, nothing else.

What they’ve been up to recently:

KH 2.5 Aftermath: After he was sent to the light, he came to Radiant Garden and met up with the world’s powerful wizard, Merlin. After a cup of tea and meeting with human-like fairies, The Gullwings, he declined the offer, but Merlin convinced him with some “negotiations”. He’s now a member of Radiant Garden Restoration Committee, helping the town from the Heartless... until he can find a job soon, to be honest.

PW: AA - SOJ Aftermath: Auron Sahdmadhi is now the Chief Prosecutor of Khura’in, as he gathers more prosecutors and helps his brother’s children restoring the legal system. He reads the case reports of the regent and his student, Nahyuta. Sometimes, he’ll travel the world and be in the meetings of his old friends. 

Where to find them:

KH 2.5: You can find him in the Underworld (previously cuz he IS dead.) or postly, he’s roaming around in Radiant Garden preventing the Heartless and whatnot. Or you can find him in the small house on the hill the Committee lend it to him, just chilling there. 

PW: AA - SOJ: You can find him in his office at the Palace, since Amara watched over his old office for 23 years. He goes everywhere around the world just to gather more prosecutors (but sometimes he goes into the cases in a foreign country), so keep an eye out my dudes.

Current plans:

Hmmm... nothing much, I guess??? I guess putting him in SOJ verse is fine with me, and talking to other AA RP blogs is what I wanted (And thanks so much, lovelies! You guys are hella okay?), soooooo kinda wondering if you KH RP blogs wanna talk with this old man??? ｡(*^▽^*)ゞ

Desired interactions:

I do want Auron to have more friends and more enemies. Perhaps I wanted him to tease others just for fun and no reason because he’s a fukin jerk??? Or maybe him talking to Sora, Donald, and Goofy and just make thIS DILF SO HAPPY PLEASE GUYS ANYTHING ¯\(◉‿◉)/¯

Offered interactions:

KH 2.5 Aftermath: I just want him to help the Committee the best he can before he can find a job for real. (Also if your muse wants to offer him a job, please do.)

PW: AA - SOJ: Not sure, but hey anything is fine just as long as you read his about page.

Current open post/s:

тнιѕ ιѕ мy ѕтory and yoυ're noт parт oғ ιт. ( ;;OPEN ) <-- no one has talked to him cuz he scary lookin lol 

Anything else?:

I want you all to have fun and just follow the guidelines. Thanks for reading! ♥

Stolen From: @iustitaex​ & @theburgermaster​ (okay one last time and I love you all I’m sorry)

Tagging: ALL OF YOU  ♥

[datzpose]

☆ were you in love with dhurke?

Make Datz be honest! [x] 

“Sure was! Been that way from the start – never stopped feeling that way, either.”

“Didn’t have a chance, of course, with him all head-over-heels for Amara… but I was never too upset about that. It’s good enough for me that I got to be his brother-in-arms for twenty-odd years, and I was able to fight for his family and what he believed in.

“I’m a little mad he didn’t let me die for him before he went ‘n’ got in that tussle with Inga, but we’ve been friends too long for somethin’ like that to get in the way. I ain’t gonna stop fighting for him, whether he’s here or not, whether I’m mad or not – that’s what love is!”

[hermercifulness]

Since shipping Dhurke with Jove is a thing, I would like to present an idea: what about shipping Dhurke and Jove's wives with each other? Amara x Thalassa, anyone?

Amara and Thalassa would have a LOT they could talk about: as of the end of Spirit of Justice, both Amara and Thalassa have been widowed; each woman also have two children, with their sons knowing each other since childhood, and both were forced to be separated from at least one of their children for many years.

Also, imagine Thalassa perform and sing for Amara.

[datzpose]

23, 28, 48

What is Datz’s shoe size? [x]

✨ Probably around US 13-14. Big hoofs, good for running with.

What is the most common lie he tells himself?

✨ That he’s satisfied doing things for the people he loves for nothing in return, and he doesn’t care if someone values him less than he values them.

✨To be fair, it’s true most of the time. He’s usually content just by making the people he cares about happy and keeping them safe, whether or not they see him as anything more than an obnoxious scoundrel. He only found out himself that there could be exceptions to it after Dhurke died, and he realized that the reason he felt so betrayed and hurt was because he thought that after 25 years of unconditional loyalty, he deserved enough of Dhurke’s respect and trust that he wouldn’t be kept in the dark about something so important.

✨He does expect some consideration in return and can be hurt very deeply by other people not appreciating his worth, and he’s still working on accepting that.

Who would he sacrifice himself for?

✨ Dhurke first and foremost, but that ship’s already sailed. Next would be any of Dhurke’s children or Amara (he doesn’t like Amara, but he’d still take a bullet for her in a heartbeat), and anyone else he knows is devoted to Dhurke’s ideals and/or has a better chance than him of making Khura’in a better place -- which is a very low bar, now that there’s no more revolution to make Datz useful.