#Misty Morgan

[skyefeys]

one thing about ace attorney is it's incredibly adept at doomed siblingism. mia and maya. edgeworth and franziska. lana and ema. iris and dahlia (and valerie). misty and morgan. ini and mimi. apollo and trucy. klavier and kristoph. the list is long and each one is utterly gut-wrenching

[exaltedfuzz]

Oh my gosh, your Ace Attorney as dogs is so good. The Apollo is 200% on-model. Like they are all good choices, but that one just RADIATES Apollo-energy. I also love the Feys being (nine-tailed?) foxes!! Do you imagine them getting more tails as they age? :vc Slobbering Gant is EXTREMELY CURSED though. -10/5 stars. V. cute LanaMia. Any other characters you have breed-ideas for?

Ok! Few parts to this ask. First off, thank you! Glad you like Pupollo.

Here's a little handy guide to the Feys. They're foxes in a yokai way because of the spirit channeling. Tail number is about spiritual power I think. So Dahlia and Iris are just normal.

Agree with the Gant assessment.

I'm a big lanamia fan. (Which can be pretty easily seen from my blog.) Here they are again. Glad you liked them!

I have some more breed ideas, and I'll probably end up making a part 2. Don't want to spoil anything... Obviously Kristoph is an Afghan hound like his brother, though, so here he is.

Thanks for the ask!

[cheziechezo]

Fey family with the color wheel challenge

[ramlightly]

@enjolieblue 's Archon and my Morgan are getting along GREAT

[sirgawainofgalifrey]

Narumayo day 5: Roleswap!

Maya is studying law under Miles so she can be a lawyer and meet her sister in court.

I really wanted to go for how the world was different.

[relicsongmel]

Thinking about Iris' very open disdain for spirit channeling and how it seemingly contradicts many other elements of her character.

Let me explain—Iris prior to the end of BttT is a woman who only knows facades, covering up the truth, and only presenting herself exactly as she wants others to see her. We see this over and over again throughout the course of the story: she hides her real identity while dating Phoenix, she does damage control for Dahlia and Godot to help them avoid blame for their crimes, and she is extremely selective about which information she chooses to disclose to specific people depending on whatever role she finds herself playing in that moment (daughter, girlfriend, accomplice, etc). Her demeanor as a whole is also rather meek and unassuming, and she's shown to be exceptionally kind; she expresses favorable opinions on most everyone she meets, even those continuously treated poorly by other characters (like Larry) or those that have objectively done reprehensible things (like Dahlia).

All of this stands in stark contrast to her saying in no uncertain terms that she hates spirit channeling:

This stands out to me because it is one of very few things that Iris is completely forthright honest about in the early portion of this case. After spending all day avoiding Phoenix and now carefully dodging his questions towards her in hopes of preventing the truth of her deception from coming out (all of this while actively avoiding her responsibilities at the Inner Temple because of Larry's "blackmail" letter which also threatened to expose her "secret"), why is this the one bit of truth she chooses to divulge here? Or rather: why is this the one thing she seemingly cannot lie about?

Obviously the answer lies in Iris' past and the permanent damage that was done to her and her family due to the politics of the Fey clan, with the Kurain Channeling Technique at the root, and the DL-6 incident as the event that brought everything to ruin. Iris bore witness to her mother Morgan losing the title of Master of Kurain due to her inferior powers and the despair that caused her, then three years later saw her aunt Misty who, despite purportedly being so much better than her mother, made a mistake while channeling that led to an innocent man's conviction, disgracing the Fey name and causing her to flee the village in shame. With this in mind, it makes sense that Iris would feel so strongly about spiritual powers doing more harm than good; after all, she has firsthand experience of the damage that can be done to the women that have it.

But what of the women that don't have it—namely, Iris herself? What happens to a spirit medium, born of the Fey bloodline, daughter of the then-master of her channeling school, when she's shown to not have any spiritual powers? I'm of the opinion that Iris' hatred is not only a product of what she's seen happen to her mother and aunt, but also very closely tied to what is, essentially, her earliest failure in life—after all, what good is a medium who can't channel? Fey women are raised to believe that their worth is linked to how well they can perform the service of their clan, which is the same reason why Maya beats herself up for failing to channel Mia in Turnabout Goodbyes and Pearl does the same with Dahlia later in this case. In a sense, Iris' hatred of spirit channeling is an externalization of her own self-hatred—unlike Dahlia, who mainly copes by lashing out and seeking revenge on those who wrong her, Iris is far too gentle and loving to lay blame on any one person. But all that repressed guilt and anger still has to go somewhere—and it manifests through this one small crack in her otherwise flawless facade. The one thing she cannot bring herself to find beauty in no matter how much she tries. The one thing that should have given her purpose but didn't—leaving her no choice but to mold herself beyond recognition over and over into roles that aren't truly her own, but at the very least give her meaning where she was denied it before.

And knowing her? She probably hates that flaw more than anything.

[hotel-japanifornia]

While Misty's family was blessed in spiritual ability (Misty being the Master; Mia as mentioned by Maya in 1-2; and Maya as evidenced by when she called away Mia's spirit and made it impossible for Pearl to call away Dahlia's spirit despite her being stated to be the stronger of the two.), Morgan's family was blessed in physical ability.

This is evidenced by Pearl being able to run all the way to a courthouse from her mountain village (something that takes place two hours by train) and knocking out a fully grown man with a slap all before she reaches her double digits. Dahlia survived the fall into the Eagle River, a place where anyone who falls in there is never found, at the age of fourteen. And Iris well...she carried the body of a fully grown woman and stabbed her. That takes...some physical effort at least.

[frogs-in3-hills]

oh you know that’s just what siblings are like

[Image description: A digital painting focusing on Morgan Fey from Ace Attorney. The line art is thick and watery with detailed shading. Morgan stands on an arched hill covered in grass and light vegetation. It’s daytime, and there’s a large, bent tree behind her that stretches from one side of the scene to the other. Storm clouds creep in from the edges. Morgan is holding out both of her hands like a conductor, her eyes closed and her mouth open as if in a prayer. The Master’s Talisman dangles from her fingers. At her feet, Misty Fey lies face down on the ground, dead, her hair unbound and cascading down the hill like a waterfall. A soft glow emanates from the Talisman. End description.]

[thebrightsilverlining]

Ace Attorney Family Tree

For funsies I tried to make a family tree! Everything listed here is canon! If you wanted to have fun, instead of describing Phoenix and Maya’s friendship the normal way you could technically call Maya: Phoenix’s daughter’s brother’s brother’s cousin.

[maimreddwhite]

[star-light-shadows]

Is it just me, or is it very strongly possible that how powerful a Fey's spirit medium powers are is directly connected to how open their heart is?

Maya's defining characteristic is that she's got a big heart. She's goofy and bubbly, and she's emotionally mature enough that we know that being so is a choice for her.

Pearl is an innocent little kid with zero darkness in her heart who's always happy to help those she trusts with her seemingly boundless energy and who believes in fairytale romances despite living in a society where romance falls apart in 99% of cases.

Misty Fey, for whatever little time we get to see her, is a sweet and caring motherly figure.

But Morgan, the one whose spiritual dominance over the school was usurped by Misty despite being older, is a bitter old hag of a woman who was probably a snobbish bitch even before being usurped.

What if the reason Misty usurped Morgan is the same reason why Pearl is a prodigy in the field? Because the more open your heart is, the more spiritual prowess you have.

Kurain Spirit Mediums are meant to act as conduits for connection between the world of the living and the people long past, and to do so their job is quite literally to let spirits inhabit their bodies. It only makes sense that in order to do either of these jobs correctly their heart needs to be open and pure.

[aslightaddity]

I love you concept of old Maya fey. I love imagining what the fey girls would look like when they age, would their grey hairs be edgeworth-grey or closer to something like Amara and Nayhuta (which apparently is described as silver or grey or smth??)

I love imaging old grandma-esk Maya randomly dropping her lore and her adventures with pheonix to the acolytes’ horror. She would definitely have hard candy on her at all times the type that has assigned acolyte to watch her and keep her from getting into chaos like she did in her youth.

I love the thought of finally one fey happily growing old after so many years and reviving the tradition or even building on from those traditions. I love you weird aunt Maya. I love you old Maya

[nyaagolor]

Assorted little guys that got stuck in the sketch stage

[didanagy]

THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS (2018)

dir. lasse hallström and joe johnston

[reddbuster]

Ace attorney is about a lot of things. It's got themes of corruption, about family, betrayal, and revenge. And we see these things in every case in the trilogy. Even in the most hated cases like turnabout big top, we see these themes displayed very plainly (if not particularly well). We see how, no matter how good you think you are, no matter how perfect you try to be, bad circumstances can can turn your world completely on its head. We see how this stuff can affect a family for generations. And nowhere is this seen more clearly than in the Fey family. The Feys are at the centre of everything in the trilogy. Every major character is deeply and messily involved with them, whether they know it or not. And really, they're more than a family. The Feys and the Kurain Channeling Technique are an institution that, like the courts, have a bloody history full of corruption. If Ace Attorney in the broader scale of things is about the flawed nature of the justice system, the Fey family is almost like a microcosm of that. They're both a generally shitty family and an example of a long standing establishment whose flaws have gone unchecked. Which is why the Fey women themselves are to me the culmination of everything the trilogy is about.

The Kurain Channeling Technique has a long and prestigious history across multiple countries. Pre DL-6 the Feys were all highly respected and had a lot of influence through all of their their political and legal connections. It's made pretty clear that this legacy is...REALLY important to those living in Kurain village. Like, more important than their children. Which is why said children were raised to believe that their value is dependent on their power, because raising powerful heirs is what keeps the clan's reputation alive. And then THOSE children will go on to do the same thing to their children, and etc. etc.

A prime example of this is Morgan Fey and her relationship with Misty. The title of master of Kurain is supposed to go to the elder sibling. Morgan must've dreamed of inheriting that title for SO long. In a world where you're always fighting to prove that you matter, the title of Master means security. It means you've solidified your title as the one who matters the most. So when the village went against tradition to give that title to Misty it would have stung so bad. And Misty probably felt kinda shit about it too. Because now not only does she have the weight of the entire Fey Legacy on her shoulders but the literal value of her sister's life. Because if Misty, the one that was so much better than her sister that the uber-traditional Kurain decided to ignore tradition, can't do a good job as the master, than what does that make Morgan? Their relationship, probably the only semi-healthy relationship the 2 of them had, disintegrates, and the both of them are alone. So, when Misty is called to investigate DL-6 and disgraces the Fey name, of course she leaves. She has destroyed the only thing in the world that gave her worth. She took what little reputation Morgan had left and kicked it deeper into the mud until it was funny submerged. Her whole life she's been nothing but a curse to those around her. There's nothing left to do but run away.

[some-zer0]

Forever obsessed with the way that Bridge to the Turnabout revolves around Morgan, Diego, Iris, and Misty deciding they alone know what's best for the people they care about, with that assumption being inherently false due to it having been constructed on outdated, heavily biased memories

Morgan wants Pearl to be Master because SHE wanted to be Master, so she assumes her plan's the best thing for Pearl, even though we can clearly see that it would ruin Pearl's life

Diego's using Maya as a proxy for Mia, believing that since he couldn't save Mia he has to save Maya, but his grief blinds him to the fact that he doesn't actually have a personal relationship with Maya

Iris is, once again, going along with a plan because she assumes others know best, but she's also an ambiguous enough character that you could interpret her as trying to fulfill an obligation to Pearl (her sister), Maya (the future Master), and Phoenix (who she wasn't able to protect last time)

And Misty is trying to save her daughter, but she's also the one who ran away when Mia and Maya were children, thereby putting them directly in danger of Fey clan politics in the first place

Diego, Iris, and Misty have multiple opportunities to tell Pearl, Phoenix, or Maya what's going on, but they're so set on viewing them a certain way that they can't see them as they really are. Like, Phoenix has been Maya's closest friend and biggest supporter since Mia's death, and he's a major caretaker of Pearl too, so why not let him know what's happening? Pearl genuinely doesn't know what Morgan's asking her to do -- she could almost certainly be talked out of the channeling if she understood that Maya would be in danger, so why not tell her? And Maya has already been involved in several extremely dangerous situations, including a previous plot by Morgan, so why not tell her? Especially since it's her life on the line?

Bridge to the Turnabout is a story of good intentions, but ultimately all that those good intentions did was rob Maya, Pearl, and Phoenix of their agency and lead to unnecessary tragedy