#esp the klav

[rainily-03]

new icon :] the girl ever

[image ID: a digitally drawn bust of Lynx Landau from Honkai Star Rail. she is smiling slightly and lit by warm yellow light from above. End ID]

[woolydemon]

will I get banned if I post shirtless non top surgery transmasc ppl. will I get in trouble for that

[sushiisiu]

need the same energy people have for klavier speaking german w apollo spilling into khura'in phrases. esp since hes so closed off and never mentions his past. the first time it happens klavs shocked like you know khura'inese? and apollos like yeah its my first language i guess (trying to be evasive) i feel like he'd also get slightly homesick or nostalgic sometimes and put on channels from khura'in to doze off to just to hear something familiar. n klavier is ecstatic to be privy to this side of apollo that he knows very few people have seen.

[ritzcuit]

thinking abt klav dar morality and stuff is so fun to me but it's soooo unsatisfying bc ill NEVER HAVE ANY ANSWER EVER. sigh! and also it's deeply tainted by my own beliefs. SIGH!

i like them being pre-gavinners young and childish and "oh well, clearly, Bad People do Bad Things" a thing they both agree on. very confidently. i like a daryan who like, you'd think he was a delinquent kid, a shitty brat.... but tbh i just don't think it would be the case. i think MAYBE he got in some fights.... but i don't think he was the full blown like, "always in trouble good for nothing no future" esque punk.

i think if he was cool enough to be a delinquent he wouldnt be in the FUCKING GAVINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!COUGHS UP BLOOD

i think klavier went into law bc kristoph (obviously) and daryan went into law bc of klavier more or less..

i think of them having really confident discussions on like. well why don't evil people just not be evil. right? "oh clearly something would have to be wrong with you to murder someone." esque beliefs. "normal people can't do something so fucked up." stuff like that...dumb self assured kids. esp klavier, who i don't have interesting thoughts on bc i dont care about him LOL

like they get a little older. and get into law. and it's cool. and fucking awesome. and aging makes them a little less tightass about everything. they get independent they make music they get exposed to the wider world etc.... i think daryan stays looser about it overall, about crime and shit. and then daryan moves to a different division and quits working w klav on cases and blah blah

taking the music as a metaphor for their view on crime probably, how klavier freaking over [the missed cue] whereas daryan insists that it's Not A Big Deal... which, like, for the case specifically, it did turn out to be a big deal, but i'll pretend like it's indicative of their views overall, where daryan's willing to let tiny things slide and where klavier pointedly won't. Bc it's about the principle of the thing.

i think klavier goes back to being a tightass. i think when he was 17 and looking like a little lesbian was probably the Coolest he ever was. idk what happened between then and canon that made him regress into being a kristoph 2 but it's fun to me if something did happen... i just don't care. probably not the disbarring? or i guess it could be. i dont CAREEE about him

all this to say, i really like thinking about a klavier looking back on daryan and wondering [what went wrong], because either something went wrong, or he had always been friends with an Evil Person. and for years he's just never noticed that daryan was Evil and capable of Murder and Covering up and Lying. and stuff.

which of course was a question he was already going through with kristoph, or maybe pointedly *not* going through? daryan is close to him but not as close as kristoph and the crimes weren't so fucking premeditated so it's maybe an easier entry point for this whole thought process for him. "your best friend botched a drug smuggling and snuffed a cop who was gonna rat him out" is a hard pill but not as hard a pill as "whatever the fuck kristoph was up to" NELKNDLKNGFD

And it's fun to think about... him trying to get answers from daryan directly. like tell me are you a bad person? are you? or like, what happened? and when did it change? and how long and why? and it's like. there isn't an answer! daryan doesn't have one! and it's just a shitty thing to ask. as if klavier's shattered sense of comfort is the real issue here and not "daryan is in prison for murder"NELKNDFKLN it's just fun... it's just fun... was it always you? or was it like, the system? who changed you? and daryan's so uncomfortable. and it pisses him off so bad.

i just like it. it's so cutie. two boys who thought they had such a sure view of the world realizing in the most simple of ways that Oh, No, it turns out we're all directly capable of crime in various shades of culpability and evilness can't be cleanly prescribed like that. and it was a deeply flawed and stupid way of viewing the world, especially if the person who told you that in the first place was one of the cruelest people either of you knew up to that point LIKEEE. messyyy lol. it's so cute.

Like like like daryan who already always had an aggressive demeanor and kind of rubbed people the wrong way but klavier always insisted he's an upstanding person and one of the people klavier trusted most ... someone who klavier probably had to defend a lot just in conversation. and it wasn't misplaced? like klavier wasn't lying! being an asshole isn't a crime and doesn't make someone evil. but in hindsight oh it's tainted foreverrrr.

also again the daryan who's watching klavier have this like internal crisis of faith and he's like can you do this elsewhere. Like i'm in prison right now i don't need thinLKNFKLDFNGKNDFG HELP

[musicallygt]

Human Klavier to borrower Ema: You are little, so I shall be gentle with you and protect you <3

Sizeswap Klavier and Ema:

YES EXACTLY DHHDHDHDHDHDHDHD

[atroquinine-my-love]

This “discord in their heart” thing is sounding less scientific/based on psychology and more mystical

[hychlorions]

yoo i love ur klapollys, esp when you talk about them in length in ur tags. i wanted to know ur opinion on if they would get married, if yes who would propose, how would their wedding and married life would go, if they would adopt a kid etc?

omg this is literally the best ask i've ever received AKJSHD i will keep this brief

edit as i'm typing this: it is not brief i am putting it under read more

i think they get married!! klavier is a romantic and a performer, so he would absolutely THRIVE at a wedding; apollo likes needless procedures, things being legal, and also the benefits (and admittedly the fancy suits. and the cake. and... and klavier... because duh *starts sobbing*)

as for who would propose, i do like the idea of klavier proposing! it's stupid but mostly it's because of this weird thing i have with my friends where we make apollo fall more in love with him over the most inane things??? for example: saving pasta sauce for toast, making dice-shaped hard candies with stuff like gold foil and edible flowers inside the one time apollo expressed a desire to eat dice, shopping locally, bringing his own cup to fucking starbucks... if you're wondering how that fits in with the idea of klavier proposing, i have Feelings over lab-made gemstones, so apollo gets to have those Feelings too, and klavier proposing with a ring with lab-made stones—apollo drops to his knees and proposes on the spot. never mind the fact that klavier was already doing that in the first place. speaking of proposals most of my ideas are always like? they both have rings hidden somewhere in the house but klavier always brings it out first. apollo never lets him get to the question though. or klavier just outright forgets to ask

their wedding, and this is the one thing i am dead set on, is a disaster. it's all because of kay, clay, and trucy, aka the chaos emeralds; and, according to my friend, operation: B.I.G. A.S.S. (Best I love you Gavin Apollo Spectacular Seremony with an S... they tried, at least) which is actually their attempt at giving klapollo the coolest wedding possible. athena is not originally in this operation bc juniper is the wedding planner and as much as she loves trucy and messing with apollo she loves her stress-free girlfriend more. that and also she's listened to apollo's stressed out rants enough to know she doesn't want one after smthn as big as a wedding. as fate would have it she gets involved though</3 but to her credit she does try to get phoenix to stop them, but narumitsu is busy in their little corner going "ah remember trucy and kay's super special operation for our wedding?" (which was also a disaster btw) in any case, many curtains are set on fire, many doves are set free, phoenix loses an eyebrow, and apollo can feel his blood pressure rising. klavier tries to calm him down by holding his hand but apollo almost breaks it from how hard he grips it

long story even longer they end up in the hospital. for the spice and the funnies and also the silly goose anesthesia trope i am breaking klavier's leg. i've never broken a bone before (flex) so i'm just hoping there's a chance they'll give you nitrous oxide for bone pain... i mean teeth are bones too or whatever. for extra funnies i want him to pass out but beforehand he makes apollo lean in so klavier can tell him something but all he says is "tell trucy... this was the best... wedding... ever..." i can't tell if that's a lie or not actually. as long as trucy’s happy<3 ANYWAY i am getting off-topic but my one purpose for breaking klavier’s leg is for him asking apollo to marry him but apollo, who wants to mess with klavier, tells him he’s already married and like. you can just SEE the light go out in klavier’s eyes. apollo has to reassure him that yes, he’s married, but also he’s married to klav but all it does is make klavier cry harder?? and when apollo asks him why it’s apparently because “i don't remember the wedding… i wanna remember how handsome you looked” AND IN RESPONSE APOLLO’S LIKE “well i'm still in my suit, you're technically in a gown? (lol) we can get married again so you remember, alright? so stop crying” AND THEY DO. AND EDGEWORTH OFFICIATES. AND KLAVIER PUTS THE RING ON THE WRONG FINGER. AND—

anyway after that? klavier jokingly tells trucy that if he ever gets married again she definitely has to plan it and apollo glares and says “you better pray there’s no second wedding” and klavier just blinks and goes “why? don't you want to do a renewal of vows?” which, you know, KLAVIER, WE JUST GOT MARRIED, WHY ARE YOU ALREADY THINKING SO FAR AHEAD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH—

Their married life is pure domestic bliss, don’t ask me for more details because i will short circuit and never answer. i think a lot of people have headcanons about who takes the other’s last name though, to which i say: they definitely just append the other’s last name to the end of theirs, so klavier gets to keep his branding and apollo gets to stay a lawyer pun. idk i guess klavier justice or apollo gavin just don’t do it for me… hyphenating is way catchier imo. they also don’t get kids??? they don’t feel like the type, and as someone their age… yeah</3 no thanks. as compensation though i do think they have hundreds of cats and dogs<3 (actually four cats and two dogs. there’s more to this but this reply is getting SO long i’ll have to end it here)

anyway that’s it for my klapollo marriage thoughts ! i’m sorry you had to read them all, or you’re welcome i guess@?#@?# n thank you for reading ^^ idk how people feel abt long replies. as a peace offering here is THE first klapollo thing i ever drew, which i am just now realizing it foreshadowed my entire life up to this point, aka my current klapollo domesticity era

[aceprosecuties]

This is unedited and probably out of character but I wanted some Simon-Klav friendship with angsty and drunk Klavier.  This is pure self-indulgence.  Mentions of Kristoph, Apollo, Ema, and Daryan; could be read as slight Klapollo references.  Approx. 2300 words.  (I might at some point revisit this and make it longer idefk) 

“Since when do you drink at the office?”

Once again, Simon found himself staying overly late at work – it had been dark for at least two hours, and he originally thought that he was the last person around.  Hell, even Edgeworth had gone home already; Simon really wished his boss would just hire a new prosecutor already. Because of how short staffed they were, he and the more experienced prosecutors had been working overtime for more than a few weeks now, and it was starting to take a toll.  

The paychecks were nice, but Simon would like some time to his own hobbies once in a while…which was why he was particularly happy about the fact that it was Friday and he actually had Saturday off.

He was about to finally leave, but noticed that Klavier Gavin’s light was on, and invited himself into his coworker’s office with barely a knock on the ajar door.  When he did, he saw Klavier drinking whiskey straight from the bottle, hence why he asked his question.  Klavier’s cheeks and nose were a little red, indicating that he had to have been drinking for some time now.

But his eyes were also red.  And not in the drunk sort of way.

Klavier had shrugged at the initial inquiry, not even bothering to try and hide what he was doing.  Instead, he just took another swig.

“…Maybe you should take it easy, Gavin-dono.” Simon walked over and pulled the bottle from Klavier’s hands.  He met no resistance and so he put the bottle somewhere out of reach.  “What is this all about?”

“…Herr Blackquill, it’s rude to come in without knocking,” Klavier slurred, echoing a sentiment that Simon had said more than a few times to him in the past.

“I’m aware, but I figured since you’ve done it to me so much I would return the favor now.  Turnabout is fair play, you know,” Simon retorted, smirking.  “But you have yet to answer my question.”

Klavier just stared at his empty hands, remaining silent and refusing to look up at Simon.  Rather than try and press the topic further (for the time being, at least), Simon sighed and pulled out his phone, looking up the number to call a car.

“Well, I can’t just have you passing out here alone, so I’ll-”

“Do you think I’m a bad person?”

Simon’s fingers stopped, his thumb hovering over the call button on his touchscreen.  Although he was now staring dumbfounded at Klavier, his coworker still did not lift his gaze.  “…Why the hell would you ever ask something as ridiculous as that?”

Again, Klavier shrugged, as if he was trying to pass off such a deep question as an innocuous query.  When he said nothing else, Simon knew what he had to do – he pressed the call button on his phone, asking for a car to drive him from the prosecutor’s office to his own apartment.

“Alright, let’s go.”  While he did want to continue that conversation, he didn’t want to force anything right now, so he just held his hand out for Klavier, who finally looked at him confusedly.  “Obviously I’m not going to leave you here by yourself.  Or in your own apartment, by the way.  So you’re coming back with me.”  

Surprisingly, Klavier didn’t object.  Maybe he was too tired to…or too drunk…or both.  However, when he took Simon’s hand he still managed to stumble after standing up, and looked alarmingly pale when he tried to move. “…I need to sit back down.”

“You sit back down and we’ll end up staying here all night.”

But Klavier refused to move.  With an irritated sigh, Simon ended up doing something that made him more than grateful for the fact that no one else was around right now: he brought one of his arms under Klavier’s knees and placed the other on the man’s back, scooping him up so that Simon was carrying him, bridal-style.

“H-Herr Blackquill, what are you-!”

“You throw up on this coat and I’m billing you for the dry cleaning,” Simon interrupted.  Klavier’s hands locked around his neck for support, and luckily Simon heard no further protest.  He carried Klavier to the elevator and down, not putting him down until their car had eventually arrived.  And when he did, it was with a shocking amount of care, almost as if he was afraid that handling Klavier too roughly would somehow break him.  

He hopped into the back seat as well, not even minding when Klavier put his head on Simon’s shoulder to try and use it as some sort of uncomfortable pillow.  

Simon was expecting him to pass out or something, but heard Klavier speak softly after a few moments of driving in silence. “Why did Apollo leave?”  

“Justice-dono?”  Simon hadn’t expected Klavier to use the defense attorney’s real name rather than his affectionate nickname, and he tried to angle his head enough so that he could maybe catch a glimpse of Klavier’s face.  “Athena told me that he was helping Sahdmadhi-dono rebuild the legal system in Khura’in.  Did…he not tell you?”

“Sort of.  It’s been hard to get in contact with him…”  Klavier trailed off.  “I don’t think he really cares, anyway.  He’s seemed…annoyed with me lately, for some reason.”  Klavier didn’t know if he was reading too much into it or if he had greatly upset Apollo somehow.  “Maybe he’s been talking more with the Fräulein Detective…”  Ema also left for Khura’in without so much as a call or notification.  

It all made Klavier feel very lonely.  And disregarded.  

“Justice-dono and Skye-dono have been very busy.  I wouldn’t look too into it.”  Still though, did Apollo not even give Klavier a courtesy call…?  That would seem uncharacteristically…thoughtless of him, especially given how important he was to Klavier.  

“Maybe…”

Klavier again trailed off, and Simon wondered if he could get Apollo’s number from Athena…

When they arrived at Simon’s apartment building, Simon once again carried Klavier; it was a bit obnoxious trying to go up the stairs and open the door, but he managed well enough.  He placed Klavier on his couch gently, and was about to go get some asprin and water but was stopped when Klavier all of a sudden grabbed his wrist.  

“Don’t leave.”

“I was just going-”

“Please…don’t leave me alone like everyone else.”

That was alarming.  Simon motioned for Klavier to make room on the couch, and sat down, facing the fellow prosecutor.  “Klavier. Talk to me.”

“…It’s just…”  Klavier took in a shaky breath – it was obvious he was trying to hold back tears, and he hugged himself as if that could make all of his pain and fears suddenly go away.  “Everyone I care about…leaves.  Herr Forehead, the Fräulein Detective, my bandmates, Daryan…”  In his mind, Daryan deserved a separate mention from the rest of his band, given his particular importance to Klavier.  

He again inhaled, stiffening as he said the next name:  “…Kristoph…”

Simon held his breath – he remembered Kristoph. He never really got to meet him, but there were enough rumors around the prison about the man: despite there being frightening mobsters and assassins and gangsters incarcerated, Kristoph was one of the most feared. People called him “the Devil” since he – much like the fallen angel Lucifer – had a beautiful face and a silver tongue and a poisonous smile that could supposedly kill you as soon as you looked at it.  He remained in solitary for the most part, though Simon was one who was actually able to see him after his second trial – Kristoph seemed unhinged and mad, screaming about betrayal and Phoenix Wright.  

“People compare me to him, you know.”  As Simon was mentally imagining the elder Gavin, Klavier spoke again.  “They don’t always say it, but I can see it. The way they look at me sometimes. Herr Wright still hates me because he sees Kristoph, I know it.”

“Klavier that’s-”

“Maybe that’s why Apollo didn’t even bother explaining things to me,” Klavier continued, finally allowing his fears and sadness to have a voice.  “He thinks I’m just like him, deep down.”  Tears were flowing from his eyes now, and he laughed, though there was no joy in it.  “It’s my own fault, for keeping this damn hairstyle. I just…couldn’t change it.  I couldn’t…”

His words devolved into incoherent sobs.  His shoulders shook and his body trembled, and Simon didn’t know exactly what to do to comfort him.  

“Klavier…if anyone actually knew you, they’d know that you’re nothing like your brother.”

“Then why do they all leave, Simon?  Do they all hate me?  Are they afraid I’ll end up like him eventually?  Kris…he was good once…he was.”  Klavier told himself that every single day since Kristoph went to jail, because thinking the opposite was far too painful.  Again he became hysterical, once in a while just muttering his brother’s name in an anguished whisper.  

Simon grabbed Klavier’s shoulders tightly, forcing the man to look at him.  “You are nothing like him,” he repeated.  He didn’t have an answer as to why everyone seemed to leave though…he didn’t know what to say.  “You need to believe that, regardless of everyone else, Klavier.”

“But-”

“Silence.”  Simon’s catchphrase did not have its usual harshness, but Klavier still winced. Simon wasn’t good at this, he knew; he wasn’t the best person to go to for comfort, but he could at least try and alleviate some of Klavier’s fears.  “I haven’t left, have I?”  

Klavier shook his head.

“Right.  And it’s because I know that this comparison is rubbish.”

Klavier appeared to calm down, but otherwise remained unconvinced.  Simon stood up and when Klavier opened his mouth to speak, he just said, “I need to get you some asprin and water otherwise you will not be able to function in the morning.  I’ll be right back.”

Simon left to head to his bathroom. Unfortunately, he was in there longer than he originally thought, because he was unable to find the medicine in its usual spot.  When he finally emerged, he noticed that Klavier was no longer on the couch.  

He heard soft crying from his bedroom.

And when Simon entered, the first thing he noticed was his floor: covered in blond hair and droplets of blood.  

“Klavier!”

Klavier was sitting at his desk chair, and somehow had had enough coordination to grab his katana from off its place on the wall – he was holding the sword by the blade as he tried to cut off pieces of his hair.  Blood was flowing from his hands down his arms and dripping onto Simon’s floor, but Klavier didn’t seem to notice.  Blame it on the drink numbing the physical pain.

Simon rushed over and forced Klavier away from the katana as quickly as possible without hurting his hands more.  “Fuck, Klavier, what were you thinking?”  His voice was amplified due to his worry, and he tossed his sword away.  He knelt down and grabbed Klavier’s hands in his own; they were sliced by the palms and the fingers.  

“Do not move.”

Simon ran back to his bathroom and quickly located some antiseptic and bandages before rushing back, grateful that Klavier was in the same spot he left him in. Once again, Simon knelt down; he wiped away the excess blood before putting the antiseptic on the wounds.  “Why did you do this?”

“I can’t look like him anymore.  I just…needed to cut it.”  Klavier’s voice was soft and vulnerable, like a child after getting caught doing something he knew he wasn’t supposed to be doing.  

“By using my katana and maiming your own hands?”

“I’m sorry…I just was afraid I would change my mind if I didn’t do it now…”

Simon sighed as he wrapped the bandages around Klavier’s hands.  When he looked up, Klavier’s cheeks were wet with tears and his hair was disheveled and uneven – he did not do a very good job with his impromptu haircut.  “My sword is not meant for hair, Klavier.  These injuries could have been far worse.”

“Sorry,” Klavier repeated.  

Simon finished up his hands and told Klavier to stay again.  He started looking through his desk drawers until he found what he wanted: a pair of scissors.  After grabbing them, he stood and positioned himself behind Klavier, gently grabbing hold of some of the hair that managed to survive the chop.  

“You might need to go to an actual hairdresser tomorrow but I can at least try and fix this up a little bit.”  

And Simon snipped and snipped, trying his best to even out Klavier’s hair as best as possible, until it no longer even went past his shoulders.  When he finished, Klavier’s hair didn’t look bad, but it definitely would require some reshaping in order to fit Klavier’s personality.  

“Now…into the bed.”

Klavier turned and looked at Simon with questioning eyes.  “I’m not even okay with leaving you in a different room, so you’ll stay in my bed.”

“But what about you?”

“I usually sleep on the floor anyway, so this is fine.”

Simon helped Klavier up, stripped him of his jacket and jewelry, and tucked him into his bed, but not before finally forcing him to take asprin and drink some water.  

“You don’t have to worry about me leaving, you know,” Simon whispered after Klavier closed his eyes.  “As much as you annoy me sometimes…you’re my friend.”

Before going to sleep, Simon texted Athena to get some very important information.

And the next time Apollo Justice checked his voicemail, he was met with a message from a very angry Simon Blackquill ordering him to call Klavier otherwise he would “personally fly to Khura’in with the goal of relieving Apollo’s head from his shoulders.”    

[kageyama-ritsu]

me, sitting up from bed with cold sweat: a case in khu’rain where apollo is accused of murder and klavier takes a plane ride to pose as a defense attorney and help him out

[stardustclay]

“Also, I plead the fifth on where I get my sources from.” 

It may or may not have been from Klavier.

[woolydemon]

let me be insane for a moment, is that ok (thinks abt Scooby Doo/Ace Attorney crossover)

[klavierforte]

ooc.

anyway hi hello errybody esp those who just followed!! i’m maddie, good to meet you.

i am a mostly private klav just for my own sanity, my life is kind of hectic so keeping things low key for me is super important

im gonna work on my drafts for lari and saige and then prob gonna stream a rewatch of haikyuu for anyone who might be interested in joining me as i descend back into volleyball anime hell. i will post a link ooc to the room so yall can join, i’ll probably watch 2-3 episodes

[bindingties]

Disbarred Klavier who's working with the WAA for the mean time... Klavier who knows what Wright pulled with the bloody ace... what. if. we. c o m b i n e

(( OH NO

Klavier finding out, while working for the WAA, about the bloody ace would just……… holy shit……… HOLY SHIT. esp if we work with the angle of Nick having stepped up to help Klav get his badge back

HOLY FUCK ))

[96percentdone]

Apollo Justice for the ask meme?

How I feel about this character: Polly?! I’m love him. The perfect man. He’s literally. I mean have you seen him. 1) he’s smol 2) he tries too hard 3) he’s kinda snarky 4) he’s a fucking dork. BUT ALSO LIKE. The potential for Apollo is fucking real and AA4 was an amazing game fight me, and like. It’s too bad it never got a sequel because I would have loved to see how his relationship with the cast (esp Klav and Trucy) and the law would have developed! I love PollyAll the people I ship romantically with this character: Klavier. That is it. The end. Klapollo. My non-romantic OTP for this character: Man it sure is nice that Apollo has a wonderful younger sister named Trucy who he definitely knows he’s related to. It’s a good dynamic. Also so is the one with Ema. My unpopular opinion about this character: Uh. does me saying I like AA4 better than T&T count. kjfldkmfjgh. Uh. I like him way better than Nick. how’s that.One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: Boy I sure do wish there was an Apollo Justice 2. Shame Ace Attorney ended right then.

[lambentplume]

dramatic lawyer simulator things i can’t stand and will provide VERY little explanation about (i am a coward)

- people shipping ryuu and bvz - long haired edgeworth concept art... looks like a colonizer to me i CAN’T lmao. - c//yke//squ/ll (unless it’s metis/aura lmao) - women really do get the short end of the stick in these games huh. i am a fan of the trilogy but it does show its age Very Frequently - magic panties. capcom WHY - the pun names in soj. actually the way khura’in is handled in general like ........ hmmm don’t like the way this culture is conceived as backwards and all the character names are jokes it rubs me the wrong way ... - the fact that the one person who Could have been Canonically nonbinary ended up not being one, and then was an asshole for no reason (nahyuta i wanted to LOVE you) - edgeworth’s new voice clips - klav’s 3d-ness and that ... objection ew - canon ray shields creepo behavior (someone in some stream chat was like “fanon ray is the gay uncle who takes you to costco” and i am like god i wish that was real) LITERALLY his story is so compelling and he would be SO MUCH HIGHER on my fav list if it weren’t for the part where he is CREEPY - if larry butz had a proper arc and became a good person (aka became less of a creepy fuck and it stuck esp the part in 3-5 where he is helpful) i would Love him so much but instead he is a disaster and never learns i hate him but i see the potential for him to be so much better - gumshoe and the salary bullshit like .... come on WE KNOW the prosecutors are ALL FUCKING RICH and gumshoe carries the entire force on his fucking back ik it’s supposed to be a lighthearted jest but it NEVER fucking changes and i am just . easily pissed at classism - the mood matrix (athena i love u i just don’t like ur truth telling gimmick’s mechanic sorry) - im actually bad at the game i wish i was good at it lol

[meanderfall]

Klavier: "Ah, I like your expression. So full of confidence." Do you now, Mr. Gavin. I can't help but feel like this is code for something along the lines of 'You're cute when you're all fired up and about to give someone a verbal beat down.' And then he goes, "Easy there, little attorney" and I just adkajdjk. It's hard to tell if he's being mocking or not, but he really doesn't seem like the type, so with all the pet names and compliments it really does sound more like soft flirting doesn't it.

AND THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER TIME WHEN HE WAS LIKE “oh, i like your swagger. Hit it.” Klavier is so supportive during trials and im just like klav!!!!! now is not the time to flirt!!!!! (but actually do it bc it makes me happy.)

Oh shit, Klavier is kind of freaking out. He really does not like the fact that she forged a page for evidence. Didn't Phoenix say earlier that Klavier was the prosecutor in the case where he was disbarred for "forging evidence"? (Which I still do not believe a word of, for the record. Even if I'm proved wrong though I'll still love him, he'd only do it for a very good reason.) I guess the case has bad memories for him? And "soiled, sullied mentor"? Dang, he really does not like Phoenix does he?

NNNNNNN I WANT TO EXPLAIN AND SAY THINGS BUT I CANT BC I DONT KNOW IF YOU FINISHED THE CASE YET BUT SUFFICE TO SAY THIS CASE IS!!! REALLY TOUGH ON HIM!!!!!

he is so mean to phoenix but i headcanon that he has to believe that phoenix is a bad guy because otherwise....

(as u know, i spend like waaayy too much time on tvtropes and apparently, we’re supposed to be super confused about what happened during that trial 7 years ago. bc klavier keeps looking for the truth and we trust him more and more, an seven years makes less and less sense bc klavier stripped phoenix of his badge and there’s no way phoenix would use forged evidence so what happened??? but none of that went through my head while playing lmao, i was so enamored of klav like straight away that i never really thought about it and i was just like ‘there has to be reason that makes phoenix and klavier to be good people bc theres no way they’re bad.’ i have a problem)

HA! I was right! It wasn't Phoenix, no one could possibly say he was the devil, especially during that time period. She was looking at Klavier though, so I'm gonna go out on limb and say it was his brother? Kristoph tried to frame Phoenix in the first case, so it'd make sense that he'd have tried to do it before. And Klavier does look a lot like his brother, what with the hair. No one would say Klavier's the devil either, but Kristoph? He absolutely has a certain menace to him so I could see it.

there is actually a specific reason that vera uses “devil” when describing the client but i cant say why!!!! You’ll see!!!!

i mean. apollo ended up staring at klavier too when they first met bc he looked so much like kristoph. so, y’know.

Oh my god, look at baby Klavier with the short hair!! What a fuckin punk, I love him. And a cute, itty bitty baby Trucy! And Phoenix's snark is back! Oh how I've missed thee; I love Apollo dearly but it's just not the same lol. This is still back when Phoenix's face said everything he was thinking too, because Klavier totally just called him the fuck out for thinking he was out of his league lmao. And hello Gumshoe! This is all really great for me despite the fact that I know it will go to ruin.

THIS SECTION IS SO HARD BC YOU KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN, AND YOU’RE HAPPY TO SEE THESE PEOPLE BUT YOU KNOW IT CAN ONLY END IN TRAGEDY ESP IF YOU’RE PLAYING AND YOU WANT TO AVOID IT BUT YOU CANT, U HAVE TO GO THROUGH WITH IT AND EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE

but yes, being in phoenix’s head again is so great!!!!!!! and punk klav, he’s only seventeen what a baby protect him. AND TEENY TINY TRUCY WITH THE BIG EYES AND OVERSIZED HAT AND CAPE IT’S JUST THE CUTEST

phoenix had no poker face back then lmao 

Klavier pulling out all these song lyric references has me living. I am a very music oriented person so I was pretty much destined to love this music boy from the get go, but this is a whole other level. It's one thing to be musician, it's another to be a Total Music Nerd like we see here. Although... something just occurred to me. His bangs later on are about the same length as they here but he grew the back out... did he give himself a mullet?? I mean it looks fine, but still.

IT IS THE BEST, YOU CAN JUST TELL HE LIVES AND BREATHES MUSIC, I LOVE HIM LET ME PROTECT ME

FKLDJHFGH ANON P L E A S E I DONT WANT THAT MENTAL IMAGE THANK YOU