#klavier answers!

[captured-love]

hello klavier gavin. you're my goat. im back. can you confirm this again

"Ach, this one isn't true. Herr Forehead would never break up with me <3 "

[lopsaii]

Ongoing stepladder debate

[lungthief]

Any chance we can see some Roleswap Lana and Kristoph?

i dont usually do requests BUUUUUT…i Really wanted to draw them anyway so. here u go

[blackfire5561]

Been thinking about Gavinners album covers lately

[feralforbeanix]

Some ace attorney textposts

[jynxedshapeshifter]

i was trying to think of what klavier's cologne/body wash/whatever would smell like for reasons. i decided he'd use axe body spray (because vibes) and looked it up and axe has a scent called apollo which smells like sage and cedarwood. sage and cedarwood is a very klavier scent imo (no i will not explain). if we assume klavier just prefers axe's apollo scent and has since before he met apollo, i think he'd have a hell of a time trying to explain to apollo that his body wash's fragrance being called apollo is genuinely a coincidence lmao

on this note there's also an axe scent with a blue label called phoenix that smells like crushed mint and rosemary so do with that what you will

[rendevok]

The feeling of butterflies 🦋💕 - my piece for the @unfoldingmelodyzine, a kapollo charity zine

Also please check out the fic, of metamorphosis and butterflies by cosmicpoet on ao3

IDs in alt texts. More deets & a breakdown under the cut! ^^

This zine also offered a separate, behind the scenes breakdown of pieces; so you can see my thoughts & step-by-step process here!

It was a real honor to be a part of this project, as well as collab with Gabe on this very romantic scene for klapollo; we even made a playlist together (which u can enjoy)! There are so many things about this work that really pushed my skills and made me really proud of it, but i have to say… my favorite detail is the butterflies! If you can find all 29, then bravo!

[2p42m]

|| fräu detective, do you mind...? 🌇

[hyperfixatinator]

My take on the "Klavier can hear the game's ost" headcanon:

Klavier's hearing ability isn't exactly like Athena's, but it could be a different variation of it.

Unlike Athena, Klavier's hearing is more tuned to areas and events rather than the specific emotions of individual people. He can sometimes hear the general vibe of a person's overall personality (example: character themes), but it doesn't get much sharper than that. It's the difference between Athena hearing someone feels tense Vs. Klavier hearing the whole situation getting tense (example: the Suspense themes).

This opens up some possibilities.

This hearing power is why Klavier started creating music. These melodies he grew up hearing keep him connected to the world around him in a unique way, and he wanted to add his own influence to it.

Klavier thinks it's just a weird form of synesthesia. He's a little embarrassed about it, so he rarely brings it up.

It's largely based on intuition. His brain pretty much converts his gut instincts into musical cues for him to follow. As a result, he's very smooth in social situations and has a knack for avoiding danger (except when other music drowns out his internal musical cues, like when his guitar caught on fire as he was playing it).

He can hear when the WAA are using their abilities, too (Apollo's perceiving, Phoenix's magatama, Athena's therapy sessions, ect.). I personally headcanon it was Klavier who told Blackquill about Apollo's bracelet trick.

He spent years training himself to hear his own air guitar.

Klavier's intuition based hearing is pretty accurate, but it's not foolproof. Kristoph and Daryan are proof enough of that.

You know how Athena hears discord whenever someone's emotions are conflicted in some way? Klavier gets that, too, but it's different. The discord Klavier hears is triggered by his own denial of a situation, when his conscious mind strongly rejects what his subconscious had already picked up on. The less room for doubt there is, the louder it gets. It'll even start blaring super loudly into his ears in short bursts if it gets bad enough (those detuned guitar riffs that play during his head-in-hands breakdown animation).

Because of the above point, this is part of the reason why Klavier left the court to focus on his band for a while. He needed to take his mind off the Gramarye trial and drown out the discord with his own songs.

[ask-klavier-and-apollo]

Beginner horror story. Go easy on me please :(

Ahem…

Daryan Crescend.

"You've gotta be lying about being a beginner. That was terrifying."

[captured-love]

Did I ever tell you why you were named Klavier, mein bruder?

"Nein, no way that's true!!"

[ask-the-turnabout-terror]

APOLLO GOT WHIPPED IN THE FACE??

WAS HE OKAY???

“He was fine, his nose just hurt a bit.”

“Klavier did offer to soothe it with a kiss- and while Apollo declined, I think the warmness of his cheeks probably distracted him from the pain.”

@thepollyjustice @rockgodklav

[ask-the-chief-prosecutor]

How do you get an attorney to realize you’re flirting with him? It doesn’t take that long, does it? I figure you’re the professional here…

- Hopeless Romantic @lovewithoutparole

“Klavier, I can smell your cologne on this note. I would also hope to think a prosecutor like you would no better than to ask me for romance advice.”

[lungthief]

Just discovered your Klema situationship art I'm enthralled

eee thank you :') it means so much to me that people are enjoying it, their dynamic is my absolute favorite to write/draw and i adore them as characters

tbh it was one of those things that began as a joke and then made a lot of sense to me once i started actually thinking about it—like ema and klavier both strike me as the kind of people who are pretty cavalier about physical intimacy but very guarded when it comes to emotional intimacy, so yknow. having a coworkers-with-benefits relationship would come easily as a sort of begrudging “they’re hot and it’s convenient and i don’t have to worry about all the messy emotional stuff because we agreed we don’t want that” thing (and in klavier’s case he doesn’t have to worry abt ulterior motives or whatever bc ema straight up Does Not Give A Shit that he’s famous and dislikes him quite a bit at the beginning) and also like. they both could use some stress relief lbr

anyway i think it’d be really interesting to see these two people—one of whom wears a very flirty, outgoing facade and another who is outwardly very prickly and jaded—slowly realize that they both have a bit of a kindred loneliness about them and actually develop a friendship out of something that was intended to be entirely perfunctory. especially after the events of AJ i mean holy shit talk about bonding over Sibling Issues

for ema specifically i think there’s initially a lot resentment toward klavier in terms of his success (prosecutor at 17/got a famous defense attorney slash friend of hers disbarred/international rockstar) and her own perceived lack thereof (failing to become a forensic scientist) which kind of weirdly drives her to start the whole thing in the first place after klavier repeatedly indicates that he’s attracted to her—like “well he may have done all these impressive things but he still wants me desperately despite how openly inimical i’ve been to him so he’s not above me” which like. first of all girl go to therapy but second of all her perspective then can shift a lot over time when she gets to know him little by little and finds out that he also has a lot of horrific insecurities and considers himself kind of a fuck-up and is crumbling quite a bit under the weight of everything

also it is just like. inherently very funny. like you know they absolutely do not advertise this arrangement literally at all so any time anyone else finds out that they were sleeping together at one point it completely alters that person’s perception of reality

anyway all this to say love them love messy fucked up characters with messy fucked up baggage and intimacy issues sorry for writing a literal dissertation about this. I Care Them

[rockgodklav]

how do you invite your crush to one of your own concerts with a 20% off ticket 😭 capitalism truly won.

“Acchhh…. Don’t remind me!”

[jynxedshapeshifter]

can u explain the 'kris killed the gavin parents' hc , or is it js 'hes evil and killer so'? Also i'd like to hear motive!!! (Also yaauy npd kristoph mention on your blog :3)

At least part of it is how fucked up the Gavins' backstory is implied to be. Klavier implies that even up to Turnabout Succession, he was under Kristoph's control in some manner (he specifically asks Kristoph if he's spinning out of his own control or Kristoph's). I've mentioned it a few times but Klavier seems to have had a pretty good opinion of Kristoph during Zak's trial, but that opinion changed at some point before Turnabout Succession's main story, and even during Turnabout Succession's 2026 sections, Klavier's begging for proof that Kristoph attempted murder and commissioned forged evidence, implying even during the 2026 sections of Turnabout Succession, he doesn't want to believe Kristoph's as shitty as he's being accused of being (and this is confirmed when Klavier says himself he wanted to believe Kristoph).

Additionally, Klavier has one hell of a fawn response to Kristoph exclusively. I analyzed it a lot more in-depth here, but basically Klavier defaults to going along with what Kristoph says while Kristoph's on the witness stand. Fawning like that, especially to the degree Klavier does it, is usually a trauma response (it's not always but the vast majority of the time it is, as far as I can tell). He doesn't respond to conflict with anyone else this way; under any other circumstances, he defaults to a fight response (for example, when conflict arises with Daryan, he tends to get into arguments with him, and he's pretty aggressive during both Turnabout Serenade and Turnabout Academy. This results in him taking out his emotions on Apollo and Athena in Turnabout Academy, although Apollo gets the brunt of it). Klavier's fawn response is so intense, in fact, that Trucy and Apollo mention it multiple times.

TL;DR for that specifically, Klavier and Kristoph's dynamic stands out enough as Fucked Up to me that I think there must be some equally as Fucked Up history between them. There could be worse than Kristoph killing his and Klavier's parents, but considering how Kristoph is, I think just Kristoph killing his parents would be enough to irreparably fuck up his and Klavier's relationship, which brings me to his motive.

I actually think Kristoph's motive for killing his parents is similar to what I think could've been Excelsius's motive for killing Eustace's mom (which is just implied but I 100% think Excelsius killed Eustace's mom). It would take away avenues for Klavier to ask for help when/if Kristoph started abusing and/or manipulating him, if he wasn't already (and it's worth noting that there's a pretty decent chance he was, because a kid's formative years are the first 8 years of life).

I also think it's worth noting that red flags for NPD start showing quite early. I think there's a chance Klavier and Kristoph's parents noticed this, then tried to get him help and he refused. I think it's 100% possible Kristoph was so peeved about it that it became a motive for murder (and we know his motives for his crimes tend to be petty or fueled by paranoia. If his parents implied that his behavior was a problem, and he got upset enough, in Kristoph's case specifically it could absolutely become a motive for murder).

Klavier's age might've also been a factor. Kristoph and Klavier are 8 years apart; Klavier's 24 in AJ:AA, and Kristoph's 32. With this 8 year age gap in mind, and the fact that red flags for NPD start showing early, I wouldn't be surprised if Kristoph got jealous of the attention Klavier was getting and killed their parents in retaliation. Why wouldn't he kill Klavier instead of his parents if that was the case? As an adult, Kristoph exhibits a desire to be the center of attention (although to a lesser extent to Klavier), and this trait probably would've been well-developed by the time he was a teenager. Going back to how child development works, your personality is usually fully developed by age 8. Assuming Kristoph embraced the traits he had that negatively impacted other people from a young age, he probably got a lot worse as he became a teenager due to the lack of intervention.

This also brings me back to Kristoph and Excelsius parallels. Excelsius used Eustace to build up his own ego and emotionally abused and manipulated him to keep him close. I wouldn't be surprised if this was Kristoph's reason for keeping Klavier around, especially because this seems to be part of why he kept Apollo around. I don't think Kristoph's reasoning for keeping Apollo around was anything genuine. At best, Kristoph was keeping Apollo around to boost his ego (as Apollo does look up to Kristoph, which is why he's so torn over loyalty at one point in Turnabout Trump) and at worst, Kristoph was keeping Apollo around to genuinely train him for nefarious reasons. Kristoph takes Apollo listening to Phoenix's testimony as a personal betrayal, and tries to emotionally manipulate him into standing down (his specific dialogue there is "Et tu, Justice? You would betray me, your teacher?").

We know Klavier trusted Kristoph, even looked up to him, during Zak's trial; he kept Kristoph anonymous when he mentioned the prosecutor's office getting a tip about forged evidence, and trusted him at his word. Klavier is either the worst judge of character in the entire franchise or Kristoph manipulated him into thinking he wasn't the piece of shit he is.

ANYWAY. Klavier and Kristoph's dynamic is Fucked Up enough that I think something had to have happened at some point to cause Klavier's quite extreme fawn response and I don't think Klavier is that bad a judge of character. We even see how he decides to trust people BEFORE he's betrayed by Daryan or Kristoph, and in Daryan's case, mention is made of him seeing an opportunity and taking it, so it's not like he's a consistent criminal like Kristoph is. Daryan probably didn't have as many red flags, if any, while Kristoph very likely did, and Klavier was conscientious enough to realize something was off about Kristoph knowing Phoenix was going to present forged evidence.

I very much think he could've been motivated by his ego and desire for attention to kill his parents. An 8-9 year old is going to get more attention than a 16-17 year old, and I don't think the chance of him killing his parents and taking in Klavier, who, at the age of 8 or 9, would be a perfect pawn for him, would be lost on him. When Kristoph was a teenager, Klavier was at the right age for Kristoph to essentially be able to shape him into whatever he thought would be most useful to him; in this case, he could've shaped Klavier into someone who wouldn't question him and would essentially go along with whatever he wanted (which could explain why Klavier basically lets Kristoph do his job for him for a time in Turnabout Succession). Kristoph very likely fed off the attention he'd inevitably get from raising Klavier, and Klavier wouldn't (and didn't) realize anything's wrong until he's older.

So basically: my reasoning is Kristoph and Klavier's dynamic being all kinds of fucked up, which includes the implication that Kristoph manipulated Klavier into never questioning him (which I don't think he would've been able to do if their parents were around, although I do acknowledge there could be other explanations for this, such as Kris and Klav's parents being neglectful), and I think Kris's motive would've been a combination of his ego and a desire for attention that he refused to get help for.