#dgs major spoiler

[holi-moon]

[twifairy]

Giant spoilers for TGAA 2 but I gave the main cast's dead moms names, faces, and Court Record profiles. And I wrote up some details on my headcanons and sprite edit process.

All ages listed are my headcanons for how old they were when they died (which like. Yikes.)

These are all edited from existing sprites/official artwork with veeeery minimal actual hand drawing in case anybody thinks I suddenly got really good at imitating Nuri's style lmao.

Sumire Asogi (34)

Same age as Genshin, who also does not have a canon age for whatever reason. I assume he's the same age as Yujin, Jigoku, and Klint though, making him 33 when he dies. Kazuma's mother canonically dies a year after. This also makes Kazuma's parents both concerningly 19 when he was born??? I don't think the devs thought too hard about that at the time but I'm choosing to included in my hcs lmao

"Sumire" is a joke name. Sumire means violet and there are FOUR whole Sherlock Holmes characters named Violet, which is probably the most common female name in the books. As a nice coincidence, violets represent honesty in hanakotoba, tying into the truth theme

Sumire actually has no Kazuma in her face! She's a Courtney Sithe recolor with Kazuma's bangs. I did stare at Kazuma's prosecutor portrait to try and nudge their eyes to be more similar though

Ayame Mikotoba (25)

She's 1-2 years younger than Yujin

Obviously this is just Susato squished around lol. If I were to do it again I'd alter her hairline, I think Susato got that from Yujin

My main aim was to make her look like Susato's tearful smile sprite. Any time I see that sprite I think "this is what her mother must've looked like."

Lillian van Zieks (30)

She's 3 years younger than Klint

LADY BASKERVILLE MY BELOVED. Her married name ofc. I think I pulled "Lillian" from "Lilith" because.... vibes I guess. I also hc Klint calling her Lily so she also gets to have a flower name, and so Iris' father shares her nickname habit.

Lily's eyes are hazel because iirc, the Baskervilles in the book all/mostly have hazel eyes and Iris has her father's eyes.

This was the hardest one to make despite the canon image of her. Her base was Tusspells, herself, and obviously, Iris.

Also here's each woman with her husband and child for the sake of comparison:

[caluupin]

been catching up on TGAA/DGS !! :D

[kazumasdiary]

so in case 2-1, menimemo has this line:

“ Nobody here in Japan knows anything about it! They don't know that the guy never made it to England! That he died on that steamship! And that he'll never- “

and then in case 2-3, susato says this:

“Our government tried to cover the fact up, it seems. They erected a grave on the cliffs by our home town...”

so, if there’s a grave, but no one else knows about kazuma’s death . . . were susato and mikotoba the only ones at kazuma’s funeral? did he even get a funeral at all?

and- what must that have done to susato? with one friend dead, and the only other person who knows an ocean away, alone and surrounded by secrets that everyone knows but no one will explain

did they tell her to keep quiet? presumably she would have at least mentioned it to rei, and from there it probably would have spread to the rest of the university. did they tell her that she couldn’t? that she couldn’t say anything about kazuma’s death?

when susato comes back, she says she’s done keeping secrets, and it’s not a stretch to say that’s probably because of the things that have been kept from her. but maybe it’s also, just a little bit, because she’s spent the last four months lying about her friend’s death, and she won’t do it anymore.

[squishlordkiwi]

I keep noticing small language things and other parallels when it comes to AA & DGS XD I almost always listen to a combination of all my dubbed relaxing game OSTs while I'm writing. I think it's because both played relatively close to each other tonight, but Edgeworth's theme from JFA onward and Kazuma's grand reveal have similar naming schemes.

Edgeworth's is 「大なる復活～御剣怜侍」 (or the other way around; romaji for it is ounarufukkatsu - mitsurugireiji), its English title being "Triumphant Return - Miles Edgeworth." Kazuma's is 「大なる帰還」 (ounarukikan), and in English it's "His Glorious Return." I guess they're also pretty close in English, but the difference in endings (復活 vs. 帰還) is really the word that changes instead of the adjective (大なる, which roughly means "great" in both cases).

I'm relying a lot on google since I'm still a beginner when it comes to speaking Japanese b u t I only got curious about this because the actual verb for "to return" is 帰る (kaeru), which shares the same kanji with 帰還 and then it went downhill from there.

復活 (fukkatsu) is actually closer in English to resurrection or revival, which makes a lot of sense considering the first time the player actually hears Edgeworth's theme. If I remember right (it's been a hot second since I've played JFA), the first time you hear it is in the police department in 2-4 after Edgeworth butts into Franziska and Wright's conversation after being presumed dead for... I don't remember how long oops. There's the literal revival of him being not dead and coming back to Japanifornia, but also the metaphorical revival of him learning to be a better prosecutor.

帰還 (kikan) roughly translates to repatriation, which is a big word I didn't know until I googled it. Oxford says it means "the return of someone to their own country," which is of course super interesting with the context of when it plays in DGS2. It's during the scene where it's revealed who the Professor is and Kazuma gets his memories back. You can interpret it in the way of his memories returning to their rightful place, essentially "coming home," or in the way that home isn't necessarily a place and he's been "reunited" with his father and/or friends after so long. OR (I'm spitballing here as the ideas come to me) it's super weird in the sense that the meaning doesn't match since Kazuma wasn't born in England, but it could mean repatriation in the sense that he's "freeing" Genshin's spirit by destroying the waxwork and retuning it back home, Japan or Karuma or wherever it is.

Okay I'll shut up now byeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[skyedancer-rae]

In which Susato finally gets an honest answer from the world’s worst witness (and gives Ryunosuke yet another reason to fear her).  I think she should be allowed to throw a hallowed chalice just once.  As a treat.  (Also, my headcanon is that she and Barok can get away with this, but if Ryuu or Kazuma tried to throw a hallowed chalice into the candelabrum, it would be an instant penalty.)

A short follow-up to the post-game comic about day drinking during the trial that I posted the other day here. I posted this pic to Twitter but forgot to post it here as well.

(Image description:

A scene of Susato and Ryunosuke standing at the defense’s bench, with Susato on the left.  She is throwing her right hand out to the side, flinging a hallowed chalice toward the nearby candelabrum.  The chalice has shattered and wine hovers in the air.  She pounds the desk with her left as she says, “Did you or did you not see the defendant with the victim on the day in question?”  A wavering speech bubble pointing off screen to represent the witness says, “I didn’t!”

To Susato’s left stands Ryunosuke, shoulders hunched up as he stares sideways at Susato with wide eyes.  His left hand is pointed out as if he had been about to make a statement before Susato’s outburst.)

[gamer-in-training]

In Great Ace Attorney, you defend Soseki Natsume. I recently found out that this is the man who wrote ‘I Am A Cat’ which is a famous Japanese book about a cat and his thoughts. The cat dies at the end, a fact that broke my heart when I read the book. I don’t care if Mr Soseki is innocent, he has committed the crime of breaking my heart and should be sentence to jail if not for anything else but to save the people of the ace attorney world the pain I endured because of this man.

[legendary-pancakes]

Protect them all! - art collab with @twist-dg (her lines, my colouring).

see her part [here]

comments and alternate version under the cut:

This was a really fun challenge to do! We have really different lineart styles and relatively similar colouring and shading styles.

My lines and colouring:

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

We won't ever get it, but I think it would've been cool to see an antagonist/client who hates Edgeworth specifically because of what he did as von Karma's student. Like someone whose loved one -- I want to say 'sister' because AA, but I think it'd be pretty cool if it was their father -- was wrongly convicted and given the death sentence because he silenced witnesses or presented faulty evidence or something similar, and there's no fix to it. The case ends with the truth being revealed and ringing hollow, because they don't want revenge, not really; maybe they just want the verdict overturned, but even that doesn't change anything, because the person is gone, and whatever damage could have been done has been done, and they just have to live with it, all of them. I think it'd be interesting to see how Edgeworth and the people around him handle that confrontation -- the idea that you can change and try to fix your mistakes the best you can, but there are some things you'll never be able to atone for. Not really. And you just have to keep living.

[khattikeri]

ok i finished tgaa 2-3 earlier today and like. i think i'll forever be insane about how susato literally directly calling kazuma's name doesn't jog his memory but seeing his father's face as a wax figure replica DOES. ace attorney really is just a longrunning series about ghosts and fatherhood and trust

[courtmouseboy]

guys what if lady B helped Klint with his hunting. what if they worked together and Klint took the fall because his wife was about to iris

[yeetushaitus]

misc aa sketches

been playing dgs and omg i love gina and hosonaga so much theyre literally everything to me

MAJOR spoilers for aai1 under the cut

i havent touched aai1 in like 2+ years so i dont rlly remember what happens but omg. yew is literally perfect i love her so much

[garden1a]

MAJOR LOOKISM SPOILERS CHAPTER 516‼️

First and foremost thank GOD.

No because I knew he was going to be okay there’s absolutely no fcking way he was gonna die to a dying weirdo (how is he still fcking standing btw gun is so annoying😭)

Okay, now I say he was pretty stupid for this because now he is for sure guilty as fck😭 if he somehow survives this I would put him in jail asap.

So basically what I think is happening (I think, probably not) is that all of the money is going to CRYSTAL AS INHERITANCE😱😱😱😱😱

However… the reason why he desires power and money is now unclear (to me at least😫.) Was he money hungry because he didn’t like the life he had and wanted the best for his daughter or was it because he was just too prideful to lose all the money he gained by himself…

And also where does Jake’s brother come to all of this. I even forgot his name😬 oops

idk I feel like the undoing of this is so bland…for lookism I would expect to have Charles Choi crumble in front of everyone obviously not because of the red paper but something else. He’s the main antagonist for god’s sake and for him to just suicide is such a buzzkill 😒

And

DG looks absolutely livid

Maybe the first other emotion we see of him besides:

😇

For the record, this is a webtoon about appearances and how it affects society. We were talking about high school bullies and now we’re into national gang issues 💆🏻‍♀️

[kazumasdiary]

i keep thinking about how olive green's whole murder plan is also a kind of test.

because she didn't know her fiance was murdered. she didn't really consider the possibility of murder until she heard soseki talking about his gas leak. perhaps she suspected something beforehand- "i'm going to buy strychnine" is a pretty big jump to make from "my fiance died in an accident"- but if she hadn't overheard soseki, she probably would have accepted the explanation that duncan's death was an accident, and left it at that.

she wasn't sure. she was setting up a plan to murder a man and she still wasn't sure if duncan's death was an accident or not.

like, she sends the letter to william shamspeare, but the letter specifically says, "i have information regarding duncan ross's death." if shamspeare hadn't been involved, he might not have heeded the letter- he might have brought it to the police, or the landlord, or just ignored it. he might not have left his apartment at all.

he does, though. and when she goes to briar road, his flat is empty. but that's not confirmation- maybe he was scared he'd be hurt if he didn't follow the instructions, or maybe he didn't know what else to do. she doesn't know for sure.

so she executes a murder plan that will only kill him if she's right.

she wanted the truth. but she wanted revenge, too, for her and for duncan, and the two are inextricably linked- the crime committed against her, and the crime she committed in order to know what had happened. she set it up so that her revenge would give her the truth- if shamspeare died, then she knew she was right.

but then she fails. she loses both: shamspeare survives, and she now knows the truth but she's made it unusable. she can't come forward with the knowledge that her fiance was killed, because the only way she can prove she knows that is to admit to her own attempted murder- and who will believe her then?

(and she and duncan are poor. she's not wealthy enough for the police to care- what are the chances that they would have discovered her murder, thrown her in prison, and stopped there? her murder was a lot more clear-cut than shamspeare's, so it's likely that her crime would be discovered first, and no one is going to bother investigating the claims of a poor woman already arrested for murder.)

we've seen people commit murder in the name of vengeance before. ashley graydon does it in 1-5, and we'll see it again with enoch drebber in 2-3. but i think olive green is the first person we see to tie truth and vengeance together- to make "getting revenge for the loss of a loved one" and "finding the truth behind the loss of her loved one" one and the same. and it backfires on her, in the end- but it was the only way she could see forward, to actually find closure for what she'd lost.

(hey, kazuma. remind you of anyone?)

[couldtransitionsaveher]

KAZUMA ASOGI from THE GREAT ACE ATTORNEY

JUSTIFICATION:

"[MAJOR TGAA 2 SPOILERS MOD PLEASE TAG "#tgaa spoilers" and "#dgs spoilers"] her entire arc is about how she was trying to avenge her father before she was found amnesiac and molded into someone she wasn't and she tried so hard to fit into that white british masculine model she could never become in order to gain enough respect to save her father and she has a breakdown when she realizes both that Society™ will never truly see her as one of them despite how much she masks and also that she never had to do all that shit anyway. there are better ways to put this but unfortunately it is midnight here. your honor the defense rests" - Anonymous

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[sevarix-blogs]

so guess who started case 2 earlier <- on the brink of tears

so i will say that i had an inkling this would happen :(((( but still :((((((((

but i feel herlock makes up for it a teeny bit meet my new best friend herlock sholmes :3

I'M SO SORRY PLEASE KEEP PLAYING I PROMISE IT GETS SO GOOD!!!

herlock sholmes is incredible, i think you will continue to enjoy him hehe

also i will remind you that it is probably good for you to filter "#dgs spoilers" bc there are some pretty major spoilers i will rb but i always make sure to tag them 🫡