#apollo BEST BOY

[im-still-watching-anime]

“apollo justice trilogy” im CRYING it’s what he DESERVES

[shitpostingkats]

Now I haven’t played Apollo Justice but from what I gather Apollo is very iconic because an international celebrity rockstar basically threw himself at his feet like “I am head over heels for you, wanna date????” and Apollo (rightfully) went “This is a murder trial????”

[doctorsiren]

The Blue Lanterns represent “hope” and they are support for the Green Lanterns

Guys it’s literally perfect for their dynamic I’m 💖💖💖

[yellowistheraddest]

just some silly guys

[heartkade]

For qsmp requests: maybe a trump (dantdm and maxos kid)? He looks so cute in the egg design post you made in May. I wanna see more of himmmm

Btw I love your art and designs. It is so cute <3

sweet baby trump <3

[nyaagolor]

idk if yall have seen the Great Mouse Detective but I'm here to make the Kristoph / Ratigan parallels. Show the courts who you really are ya filthy animal

Bonus:

[we-hate-plantains]

rest in peace grantaire, you would have loved denny's

[heresronnie21]

Not to be a hater but where did the trend of shipping apollo with teenage characters esp jason/nico/percy come from? I mean it gives me an incredible amount of ick but that's fine I know where the block button is, but like did u not read the same books as me? Did apollo's arc fly over your head? Did u just skip the part where he let go of his past mistakes in romance and realised he didn't need a partner to fix him or make him worthy of love? Where he showed us his flirty persona was just a cover for his loneliness and isolation, especiallyfrom the other olympians? Where he learnt his worth by building a community?? Where he found solace in his friends and his children and especially meg?? Where he realised he didn't need a partner to fix him

[synthshenanigans]

I can't be normal about something can I?

Yet another art of @socialc1imb's au that took too damn long to draw (think ibis said it was like 2 days worth of time save me (i still dont know how to do backgrounds and back lighting hel p))

[tw blood and spoilers for Skys au ig?]

(This art is quite long so I know tumblr is gonna crunch the HELL outta this thing. So if it looks like hella pixelly, tappin on it should make it look better lol)

Some cropped versions below of parts I really liked! (mainly ya boi Apollo lol)

[mavie-wisegirl]

[daydreamingduckling]

Finally got the chance to see Noah tonight 💙 and Dan surprised us in the encore!! 💛

[feralpercy]

"How are my prettiest girls in all of camp?" Aphrodite asks, her voice light as she twirls a curl from one of her youngest children.

Piper grins, sharing a few looks with her siblings and turns around.

"Hey percy!" Said boy turns to the group with a raised eyebrow. He says something to his father before coming over.

"Mum just asked how the prettiest girl in camp is doing." She tells him, grinning.

Percy grins back. "I'm good, thank you lady aphrodite."

Aphrodite's eyebrows furrow in confusion as her children chatter around her.

[characteroulette]

OKAY FINE LET'S GO OVER THIS IN MORE DETAIL

here's why backfill works in the original trilogy while it doesn't for the Apollo trilogy.

So, our cases are: Dahlia Hawthorne (Phoenix had a girlfriend???) and Clay Terran (Apollo had a bestie???)

For Dahlia, it's written into the narrative so it's a bit of a bad comparison, but it's the best I got. Of course Phoenix never wants to talk about it or acknowledge it. He was so betrayed by someone he loved that it's too much hurt to bring up in casual conversation. (You'll notice how in the beginning of 3-5, even after the player has been given pretty much all the pieces, Phoenix continues to refuse to talk about it. Maya starts needling him about his weirdness around Iris and still, and still, and still, Phoenix refused to say a word.) (And this is sticking to his previous characterisation!! In the first game, he doesn't talk about his connection to Edgeworth until the final case, 1-4. In JFA, he refused to talk about what happened with Edgeworth until 2-3, at the last possible second. And even then he doesn't really explain why he reacted so badly until 2-4. It feels natural because we've had examples of Phoenix doing this shit before, so it makes sense that he has a life outside of the narrative that he just doesn't want to share with us.)

Not only is Dahlia integrated through the narrative as naturally as she can be, she's also integrated well into the characterisation of those she's attached to. Phoenix's bad reaction to Edgeworth's thing in JFA starts making *more* sense when taking his time with Dahlia into consideration. Edgeworth's cold and controlling approach to court is a product of Von Karma, but Dahlia's hand in his first ever case helps add to that "no more surprises" mentality he's got when we first meet him. (And even his turnaround in 1-3!) The only one who kinda suffers characterisation wise from Dahlia being a thing is Mia, in my opinion, but only because of what the narrative had to do. She's so traumatised by this case that she stayed out of the courts for a whole year?? Not the impression she gave off in the first or second games. (But it can be excused through the passage of time. Dahlia's impact was about four years removed from 1-1 and all.)

Dahlia being such a huge thing in Phoenix's backstory doesn't feel tacked on or added for the sake of drama, despite being exactly that, because of how it was integrated.

Now, contrast, Clay Terran.

For starters, who even IS Clay Terran? He's Apollo's bestie (reportedly) and is an astronaut, loves space, and is willing to drug his idol/coworker in order to play along in a farce to prevent a spy from hijacking the station. Okay, sounds great! *We never meet him on screen in the one case he's important for.*

(Quick note, I tend to treat 5-4 and 5-5 as the same case in my brain because 5-5 is just an extension of 5-4. And 5-4 is already interrupted timeline-wise by 5-1 so. You can forgive me for this.) (DD is a real doozy of a timeline wtf were they thinking)

Anyway all this to say, Clay Terran is not important. He's a victim, so the most we get about him is just backfill. Posthumous characterisation, which works when your character isn't so important that you're basing one of your three main leads on it for their heel turn. (Another momentary gripe, I feel like they really leaned into this because it was their only idea for Apollo. "Make everyone wonder wow, Apollo's so different now! What happened to make him like that?" Is a fine idea in isolation, but in practice it really just makes Apollo feel like a completely different character from the one we spent all our time with in AJ.)

Okay so second important question: Who is Apollo Justice? He's an eager no longer so naive kid who's a little loud, a little cranky, and willing to put his trust into his clients and those he comes to know over the course of his journey. Fantastic. This applies only to AJ; in DD, he is willing to mention a friend he's got *constantly* and also wayyy too quick to attach himself to his new coworker, Athena. (It's an issue of story as to why this happened, once again. Apollo had to be on great terms with Athena for the drop to hit as hard as it does in 5-5. He had to mention this otherwise unknown friend for everything in 5-4 to even function.)

But anyway. The reason Clay Terran doesn't work where Dahlia Hawthorne did is simply because. Apollo's whole characterisation had to be tweaked for Clay to even exist whereas Phoenix's whole characterisation was fitted into Dahlia's existence.

Phoenix keeping secrets about his past? Believable. He's done it before. It's congruent. Apollo blabbing about an element that otherwise didn't exist before? Excuse me, uh, you have a friend??? Incongruent I hate it.

(They really had to jam Apollo mentioning Clay into both 5-2 and 5-3, didn't they? Apollo talking about this otherwise unmentioned friend threw me for the biggest loop, mainly because the Apollo I got to know in AJ and form ideas about never had any friends before being forcibly adopted into the Wright family. It seemed out of the question before DD was a thing; he was too grumpy, too lonely, too lacking in extraneous past life details for me to even consider his having a friend, let alone a bestie whom he would throw away everything for.)

You can absolutely explain all of this away but it won't convince me. They jammed Clay Terran into the narrative as sloppily as they did Dhurke and Khura'in and I will die mad about it.

[corvidonia]

these are just quick scribbles but im thinking about dionysus growing up...

[stardustedknuckles]

Now that the lesbian Doberman has moved with her humans to Costa Rica (😭) my favorite dog at work has got to be Apollo. Apollo is pretty clearly a rottie/husky and my favorite things about him are that he never gets into trouble (only mischief) and he's the only dog that lets me hug him and put my chin on his head. I'm polite and don't take up too much of his time, and he doesn't care what I'm doing as long as I hold his front paws up so he can see over the door. I am always very happy to see him and I can say that about so few individual dogs. He's very smart (hence the mischief) and has a lot of personality in a way that isn't said as a euphemism for "I want to punt him through the ceiling" the way we talk to the parents of shithead dogs. He's just a very good boy. That's all.

(not pictured here: his proud fluffy tail usually curved over his back)

[just-a-dam-fangurl]

Let’s make this look like Nico Di Angelo’s search history, I’ll start:

What is the age limit for a McDonald’s Happy Meal?