Why was phoenix Wright falsely accused of murder? What even was the evidence? Literally WHY did he eat it? What the fuck??
This has been rotting in my asks since March 21st. Time to answer it I think
Okay, MAJOR SPOILERS FOR PHOENIX WRIGHT; ACE ATTORNEY 3: TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS INCOMING!
This is gonna be long.
So, let us set the scene. There was this girl called Dahlia Hawthorne, she was the daughter of Morgan Fey of the Fey Clan and a jeweller iirc.
The Fey Clan is supperrrrrr important but the clan and Dahlia's backstory are too complicated to be easily summarised. But, basically, Dahlia doesn't possess a special ability the rest of her clan has, Spirit Channeling. Which made her an outcast and made her mother hate her. That's why her last name is Hawthorne, not Fey.
Anyways, basically, Mr.Hawthorne and her mom, Morgan Fey, suck balls. And she has an older stepsister called Valerie Hawthorne.
They got her a a private tutor for school when she was 14 called Terry Fawles. Terry's whole deal is complicated especially since he is clearly mentally undeveloped but he was a creep and "dated" Dahlia (he was in his 20s).
Dahlia grew tired of her parents' bullshit and decided to use her creepy pedo tutor as a way to escape.
She plotted with Valerie n Terry to stage a fake kidnapping where Terry holds her hostage on top of a place called Dusky Bridge and asked for a very expensive diamond from their dad as ransom. But the Hawthorne sisters planned to stab Terry in the back and get him arrested.
It didn't go well. iirc Dahlia got scared and jumped off the bridge into the river hundreds of feet below.
The police concluded that she died. But Valerie found her.
They lost the diamond in the high current of the river, but Dahlia got herself a new life as "Melissa Foster".
Now, here's where it gets interesting. Remember the Fey Clan? Well, she has this older cousin called Mia Fey and her aunt is called Misty Fey.
Misty Fey is the Head of the Kurain Channeling School and the master of the Fey Clan. That's why Morgan wanted Dahlia to have more powerful spiritual powers and shit, to strip her sister of that title.
Anyways, in December of 2001 a defense attorney I will refrain from naming because of a huge twist in Ace Attorney 1 was killed in a courthouse elevator. There were no leads on who could've done it, and the only two possible suspects where the attorney's 9 year old son and a court bailiff.
So the police secretly got Misty Fey to channel the spirit of the attorney to tell them who killed him. But here's the thing, the victim was passed out when he died. He didn't know who killed him.
Anyways, a buncha shit happens, Misty Fey's credibility is thrown out the window, the case remains unsolved and the Fey Clan is in shambles.
The incident was dubbed the "DL-6 Incident" and I am not even exaggerating when I tell you this is single-handedly the most important event in Ace Attorney lore because it causes a huge butterfly effect that starts the problems of literally every. Single. Character. In the original trilogy. I wish I was kidding.
After this whole fiasco, Misty Fey goes into hiding, leaving her eldest daughter Mia to carry the weight of having to be Kurain's master.
But Mia doesn't want that. Mia wanted to become a defense attorney for reasons I am forgetting atm but definitely because of DL-6 too.
So she leaves for law school where she befriends (fucks) the now ex-Chief Prosecutor Lana Skye but that ain't important. That forces her little sister Maya to become next in line for the role of the Master but that isn't too relevant to Phoenix eating evidence.
Now, years after DL-6 and the Dusky Bridge incident, something happens. I don't fully remember the details, but Terry Fawles was being carried somewhere from prison before he broke out and met up with Valerie (remember her?) because she left him a message.
After he meets up with her, Valerie is found dead. Like murdered.
This case involves too many details I am mostly forgetting, but one of the witnesses for the case was Melissa Foster- Dahlia Hawthorne. And, spoiler alert: she killed Valerie because Valerie wanted to come clean about the fake kidnapping.
And who was Terry's defense lawyer? Ha. Mia Fey, fresh out of college and on her first case. She is accompanied by her soon-to-be-probably-boyfriend (she's a bicon) Diego Armando as her co-counsel, trust me he is relevant.
Shit happens, Dahlia's disguise is revealed in the middle of court. Terry is shocked, betrayed and confused. How could his Dahlia stab him in the back? (SIDE NOTE: TERRY IS A FUCKING PEDO. WE SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THIS. HE SUCKS.I ALMOST THREW UP WRITING THAT LAST SENTENCE)
Anyways, Terry fucking dies by suicide. How? He drank poison in a glass vial in a necklace that Dahlia had given him, and told him to drink if he stopped trusting her. It makes sense in context, I just really need to replay this case.
So Terry fucking dies on stand and Dahlia gets away scot-free.
Mia breaks down, Diego says one of the most earth-shattering iconic lines in the series, breaks a coffee mug with his bare hands and everything sucks.
Except, we're still not at the end. Oh no, we're just getting started.
Diego, in all of his cocky stupidity, decides to talk to Dahlia in the courthouse library. Seriously how is he so fucking stupid like I love him but what the hell.
Now, I don't remember how but that idiot left her alone with his coffee. I didn't mention this, but, Dahlia has glass bottle necklace identical to Terry, also containing poison.
A poison that activates faster with coffee. A poison called atroquinine*.
*this is speculation iirc, as it was never mentioned in T&T I don't think, but it was an important, albeit fictional, poison in Apollo Justice; Ace Attorney.
You can see where this is going. So while Diego stupidly drinks his poisoned coffee, Dahlia makes a run for it and runs into none other than PHOENIX WRIGHT. You know, the title character? The whole reason we're here?
He was an art student at the time, studying law at the side and reading up court cases for, you probably didn't guess it, reasons he is unaware are related to the DL-6 Incident. I told you it was important.
Now, Dahlia is what you would call a femme fatale. And young Phoenix (or Feenie as fhe fandom calls him for distinction) is a fucking moron.
So when pretty-girl-and-now-serial-killer-probably Dahlia Hawthorne offers him a pretty glass necklace, HE FUCKING TAKES IT. HE FUCKING TAKES THE ONLY PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT COULD INCRIMINATE DAHLIA. HE FUCKING DOES IT.
This causes a...bit of an obstacle in Dahlia's way, since he won't return the necklace no matter what. Moreover, Diego, as she would later find out, did not die. But he was in a coma, and if he were to awake- she'd be in deep shit.
This was the end for Dahlia Hawthorne...
Or was it?
I must make a confession here, there's something I have been consciously omitting from the beginning.
It's an easy twist to figure out once you play the game, but it's very important, so if you want to stop reading here I totally understand.
...
Okay, done? Here we go.
Dahlia has a twin sister called Iris. And they're fucking identical, except that Dahlia has red hair*.
*though some speculate it is hair dye as nobody else in her family have red hair. It could be from Mr. Hawthorne, but it is very unlikely as Valerie has black hair like Iris.
Dahlia wanted to kill Phoenix to get the necklace back, afterall, what's another name added to her list of victims anyway? Iris stops her.
You see, Iris was sent away alone to live in a place called Hazakura Temple when she was young with this nun called Sister Bikini. Therefore, she is very spiritual, despite not possessing the Fey Clan's abilities either, and is one of the two main nuns at the temple. And her title is literally Iris Hazakurain.
Iris didn't want her sister's soul to carry any more sins, and decided to get her hands a little bit dirty.
Her plan was simple; fake-date Phoenix for a few weeks as Dahlia, ask for the necklace back and then skedaddle. And him and Dahlia were in the same university so it was easy!
However, Iris didn't account for something, Phoenix is a guy with a lot of abandonment issues.
He doesn't want to give her the necklace unless she provides a valid reason, because he is scared she'll abandon him once she takes back that "symbol of their love"...look, he becomes smarter down the road, okay?!
Another thing she didn't account for was that she would end up actually falling in love with Phoenix. (Istg if NaruMitsu/WrightWorth didn't exist, Feenris would be my top ship). And what was meant to be a fake relationship that lasted at most a few weeks, ended up being a serious 8 month long relationship.
And Dahlia, starting to get impatient, decided to take matters into her own hands...
Here's where shit hits the fan, one of Dahlia's ex-boyfriends, Doug Swallow, asked to meet Phoenix.
You see, Doug dated Dahlia 8 months prior, when she poisoned Armando. He was a chemistry student (iirc), and needless to say he started to get suspicious when certain chemicals- most notably, atroquinine -were starting to go missing from the lab after they started dating.
He did some digging around, connected the dots and figured out that Dahlia had something to do with Valerie's murder, Terry's suicide and Diego's poisoning.
Despite having no solid proof, he wanted to warn Phoenix.
Phoenix didn't believe him. He truly was inlove- just with Iris, not Dahlia. He didn't know that at the time.
So when this guy he never talked to before walks up to him, says he's his girlfriend's ex and straight up accuses her of being a murderer, needless to say he was pissed off and pushed him at the ground.
I don't fully remember what happened next, but Dahlia, never passing on the opportunity to commit sweet, sweet homicide, steps in and fucking kills Doug. In front of Phoenix.
I don't remember what happened to Iris, but Dahlia had managed to get her out of the picture before this incident.
Dahlia, ever the manipulator, somehow convinces Phoenix to not testify against her AND she frames him for the murder, and uses her failed attempt at murdering him to her advantage.
"What failed murder attempt?" you may ask, well, the answer is: Dahlia fucking poisoned his cold medicine bottle. SHE FUCKING POISIONED HIS MEDICATION.
So, his medicine bottle was found on the crime scene- and laced with atroquinine. Girliepop really has a thing for poison- honestly slay, I'm a toxicology nerd, I get it.
Phoenix goes to the famous Grossberg Law Offices for help, where Mia Fey, who works there btw, fucking jumps in to help the moment she finds out Dahlia will be the main witness.
Mia has been depressed since the Terry Fawles' case, and on a quest for vengeance against Dahlia after Diego went comatose. And this was the chance for revenge presented to her on a silver platter.
She becomes Phoenix's defense attorney (and later mentor btw) with the help of her boss and mentor, Marvin Grossberg.
Marvin is um...he sucks. He's a silly goofy old man but he literally caused everything bad that ever happened in Mia's life because the defense attorney for the Bailiff from the DL-6 Incident (remember that?) was a guy who worked for him so he attended the channeling of the DL-6 victim and he's the one who revealed Misty's involvement in the whole case and BASICALLY ORPHANED MIA AND MAYA BECAUSE HE COULDN'T KEEP HIS GODDAMN MOUTH SHUT.
This will become relevant later in the timeline during the events of Ace Attorney 1 (this is all backstory revealed in AA3) where he becomes an even bigger asshat in Case 2-1; Turnabout Sisters.
All you need to know about the case is that when Mia corners Dahlia and asks Phoenix to hand over the glass vial necklace she gave him to be tested for traces of atroquinine, PHOENIX FUCKING EATS IT. HE FUCKING EATS THE ONLY PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT COULDVE SAVED HIM FROM EXECUTION. HE FUCKING CHEWS IT, NOT EVEN SWALLOWS IT, CHEWS ALL OF IT WITH THE METAL PIECES.
AND HE FUCKING LIVES. PHOENIX "EATS NECKLACES" WRIGHT LIVED AFTER EATING POISIONED GLASS AND METAL. IN THE MIDDLE OF A TRIAL THAT COULD LEAD TO HIM GETTING THE DEATH SENTENCE.
AND SOMEHOW THEY STILL WIN THE CASE. BY A MIRACLE, THEY FUCKING WIN.
AND DAHLIA GETS THE DEATH SENTENCE SO HAPPY ENDING FOR EVERYONE, RIGHT? RIGHT?!
NO, NO, NO HAPPY ENDING. BECAUSE DAHLIA SOMEHOW MANAGES TO BECOME EVEN WORSE IN THE PRESENT TIMELINE.
After all of this, you would think that Dahlia is the main villain of the entire original trilogy. She is not. She is fucking not. The main villain is the guy who caused the DL-6 Incident, I am not fucking kidding, he is an actual character. It's always the DL-6 Incident, IT'S ALWAYS THE FUCKING DL-6 INCIDENT.
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Okay so- if you saw my aroace chr headcannon list, you probably saw Adam from Hazbin Hotel on there! It's been a while since I have written an essay, but honestly I really wanted to expand on my asexual Adam thought and @kiichu asked me to so here we go ;)
[ Just. Don't expect any actual thoughtful analysis. I am mostly just grasping at straws and projecting because I kin the dude ]
[ Oh yeah and I will reference the Trans Genesis AU a lot. Nope, Stanley and I did not abandon it. Sorry not sorry ]
First things first, let's look at his first appearance in episode 1.
Needless to say, he was a bit of an asshole. But something really stuck out to me.
In one of the scenes, he was recounting a date/one-night-stand he had to Charlie (because of course he was).
He clearly seemed to be describing the dinner date itself in detail, but he literally just caps it off with "and then we fucked, and it was awesome".
This line can be read in a few different ways, depending on your view.
1. They didn't actually fuck, the woman ditched him or didn't exist to begin with and he's lying to seem cooler.
2. It wasn't awesome (*at least for him, but yk could go both ways) and he wasn't about to go into detail about his less-than-stellar sexual encounter (I feel. Really uncomfortable writing this, I am too ace for this shit).
3. The logical explanation of the writers not wanting to include it for rating reasons and because of the episode's already short run time and also because we as the audience don't really need to know that. Though I think that if that were just that, a better alternative would've been that Adam either continues describing the date or starts describing the sex and either Lute or Charlie (or both) stop him.
For my interpretation of the ace Adam, we'll go with the second interpretation.
Allos love pointing out how "asexuals can still date/have sex" but they always neglect one thing: that's not exactly how sex-favourable and sex-neutral aces work.
I can't speak for everybody on the spectrum (especially since I am mostly repulsed), but wanting to have sex doesn't mean you feel sexual attraction.
So yeah this doesn't disprove him being asexual, though I am aiming for a very different interpretation.
Sex-repulsed Adam.
NOW, PLEASE HEAR ME OUT I KNOW I SOUND CRAZY!!
Ace men rarely get any representation, and a lot of men (especially cis men, but trans men too) don't realize they're ace or are actively in denial about it because of this thing called ✨toxic masculinity✨
I don't think it's too much of a hot take to say that Adam clearly falls into a lot of toxic masculinity stuff.
Being literally the first man, the original dick (or the original pussy if we're talking about the tgau), he is probably expected to uphold these harmful beliefs of masculinity or at least thinks he has to to be taken seriously (or be percieved as cis at least-).
Therefore, he's probably is in deep, deep denial of his asexuality and tries to cover it up by, well, sleeping around I guess (*hopefully not with human souls because i don't need any of the implications that come with that).
But that doesn't necessarily mean he enjoyed it, you know.
Now I don't wanna go too deep into this honestly quite depressing line of thought, so to keep it brief that's probably why he wouldn't go into detail about that one night stand- even though he totally seems like the type of guy who would talk about this stuff in excessive and unnecessary detail (can you tell I love torturing this guy. I mean if yk the TGAU you probably already know but shush).
That or because a lot of aces literally cannot talk about sex seriously. It has to be a joke or about an ao3 smut fic.
*ahem* Moving on-
The infamous "Now, I'm going to FUCK you" scene that every Adamsapple shippers love (no hate to Adamsapple shippers btw, except @roryheart fuck you Rory /lh silly (I love you buddy don't take this seriously)).
Just. Just look at his face when Lucifer says it.
It could just be pure confusion, which is quite understandable tbh.
Or we could go with the funny interpretation of Adam being so autistic and ace, he thought for a second that Lucifer was actually hitting on him this whole time and he just didn't notice. Purely because this has actually happened to me before and I wanna project-
Moreover, he looks lowkey disgusted by it and just attacks Lucifer immediately.
Whatever, now we get to the ✨angst potential✨ of ace Adam.
Elaborating on the bit of toxic masculinity from earlier, maybe he thinks that his aversion to stuff like is why both Lilith (and presumably Eve) cheated on him with Lucifer, because he wasn't a real man.
And if we wanna get really depressing, all we have to do is just remember that his only purpose was to have as many children with Eve (and previously Lilith) as possible to populate the Earth.
Yeah, sounds like a total nightmare scenario.
I have a few other ideas, but they're really half baked and not really well put together and stuff- idk I just think ace Adam is a cool idea.
Sorry if this wasn't exactly the essay any of you were looking for but I genuinely just think it'd be fun and kinda interesting to explore really.
Btw gonna make "sobek rants" exclusively for angry rants and gonna repurpose "brainingsewer" for essays and analysis and stuff. Not that anybody really cares about my tagging system.
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