#kristoph is such a lame villain

[jojolimons]

just finished apollo justice

alas i do not have a favorite part of the game to quote

[ritzcuit]

kristoph fans piss me off so bad like not only did you fall for the most bbc sherlock ass uninteresting "invented black psychelocks to trick ppl into thinking he has depth" flop lame villain ever but half of them are like Squeeee hes nailpolish that means hes so gay fag genderqueer kween work hes a womannnn! Im progressive btw

[aftermathing]

Hello I'd love to ask about your kristoph !!! Tell me about her !!

HELLO!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING, I LOVE TO SHARE MY SILLY AUS AND HEADCANONS!!

(SPOILERS FOR ACE ATTORNEY 4 AND 5)

So I adore Kristoph Gavin and I got tired of pretending to hate him because the rest of the fandom thinks he's lame and sucks.

To be fair, the way I write Kristoph in personal stories and art is a lot different than how he is in canon, because my interpretation is a lot cooler and tries to answer some of the questions that canon neglects.

So!! My version of Kristoph Gavin:

Is possessed by a demon. It explains the fucked up scar on his hand and his sudden desire to commit murder out of simple jealousy. It's like a Venom type relationship where the demon can manifest itself outside (but still attached to) his body and talks to him and he responds verbally. • Is the Phantom. This part only works if there is a demon. When I played Dual Destinies and the villain was revealed to have a wounded hand, I got SO excited!! I was like ? Kristoph? Gavin backstory?? Klavier's cameo is going to turn into him being a full witness??? But alas.... - So in my personal silly version of the story, Kristoph, having escaped from prison using the demon's ability to alter his face and mimic voices (and still feeding this demon through murder), is once again upset that someone is trying to find him out. He beats Detective Bobby Fulbright's face in and steals his clothes, dumping his lifeless body outside of the Gyaxa science center. Bobby survives in this, but it takes many months of physical therapy once they're able to identify his mangled face, and many years of surgery to restore his face to even remotely resembling what it once looked like. Simon is there to support Bobby just as much as Bobby desired to support him. Anyway, after upholding the front of the Coolest Defense Attorney in the West for years, Kristoph's stoic mask was destroyed by Phoenix Wright (his ex-fiance), Apollo Justice (his former apprentice), and Klavier Gavin (his hated younger brother, who he could no longer manipulate once the truth was revealed), leaving him a shell of his former self. After escaping from prison and hiding his identity by wearing the faces of others, including Phoenix Wright's, Kristoph Gavin as we knew him was completely gone. The Phantom's breakdown showcased his loss of identity, having been lying for so long that he could no longer remember which face was his own. Kristoph is murdered in the demolished courtroom under the open sky.

UNTIL HE IS RESURRECTED WITH DEMON MAGIC AND RETURNS TO JAPANIFORNIA!!! WITH AMNESIA!!!!????

Also, about Kristoph being she/her, I only headcanon that in the universe where she is normal and not possessed. Both Kristoph and Klavier are she/he/theys and it kind of pisses them off to be so similar lol

My random Kristoph headcanons:

He lives in a quaint old house filled with antiques that probably belonged to their dead great aunt or something. All the furniture is floral print and covered with crinkly plastic. He makes guests take their shoes off at the door.

Speaking of family, his father died when he was very young, and his mother is aggressively Christian. Kristoph was the pride of the family until Klavier was born and subsequently grew into a gifted and multitalented student, prosecutor, and musician. Of course this fueled Kristoph's jealousy of his brother.

His dog, Vongole, is a borzoi! Klavier got custody of her, but he set her up as Kristoph's emotional support animal in prison. For those who don't know, that's a thing in Ace Attorney! Established in AAI, prisoners get esa, like Dogan with his dog and Blackquill with his falcon.

He named his dog Vongole because he loves seafood. It's all he cooks in his house. He can cook, of course, he's a bachelor!

He smokes cigarettes, and probably weed when Klavier visits. He burns a lot of incense to hide the smell.

He is into BDSM. I'm sorry i know that's random but I just think it's extremely funny for the proper serious suit lawyer man to like roping and whipping people. It's a control thing, which is a huge aspect of his character. I will elaborate in a post about this specifically if anyone wants AGNVFJB

He played the clarinet in high school. It is an instrument just as elegant and despised as he is!

His favorite color is pink. The ribbon around his neck is pink and Vongole has a collar to match!

He is queer and omnisexual! (The flag matches his color scheme lol)

He befriended and started dating Phoenix before he found reason to hate him, which is arguably worse than him pulling that shit on a stranger. Phoenix was lonely after Miles went abroad again, and the two got coffee, and it blossomed from there. Kristoph was aware that Phoenix was suspicious of him after a while, but they both held the belief of keeping your enemies close. Phoenix would joke about his food being poisoned every day, and Kristoph would humor him with a faux fake-innocent smile.

He has never uttered the word "love" in regards to anyone but Vongole. Not his mother, not his brother, not his boyfriends.

While they were working together, he and Apollo worked out together. I think this is so fucking hilarious.

This is crazy I know but in the aus where he has amnesia and/or doesn't kill anybody, he trains to become a prosecutor with Klavier. He feels that in order to make up for his disdain in the past and the utter shitshow that was Klavier's courtroom debut, he wants to practice law together so that Kristoph's debut can be with his brother. Also he's dating Shi-Long Lang I KNOW hear me out!!! Miles left Lang for Phoenix, and Phoenix left Kristoph for Miles, so Lang and Kristoph can meet in the middle :) Kristoph needs a strong man with a gun to make sure he doesn't sneak off to poison anyone else. Also I just think Kristoph is subconsciously attracted to weirdos because it's very funny and the pattern started with Phoenix.

He made exactly zero friends in prison. Normally I like to think Prison Gang like Blackquill, Keyes, and Godot are all pals, but he was not at all part of any cliques and sat in his cushy chair in solitary confinement for years, just muttering "Wright" over and over.

His voice sounds like J Michael Tatum's typical fancy gentleman voice!

HE is the one to change his hair after everything. He can't bear the thought of looking like Klavier, who has earned the right to exist exactly how he pleases. His hair is a point of shame now, after it exploded in court. He now styles it as he does in my icon, based on his concept art!!! (DRAWN BY CYANCEES <3333)

[troofless]

yeah so after finishing soj (not yet aai1 and 2) apollo justice is my favourite character, and my second would be klavier if only he got more freaking screen time just saying. favourite villain is still kristoph because seriously how often do you get a chance to convict your boss??? followed by fulbright which could have been better if his final breakdown wasn’t something lame like ‘i don’t know who i am???’ because just ‘fulbright’ being the killer was a great twist of its own

as for prosecutor rankings, they’d go:

klavier=edgeworth>blackquill>von karma>>godot=nahyuta

my five favourite chapters off the top of my head are Turnabout Trump (first great case, killer was truly unexpected and NOT THE OTHER WITNESS ON THE STAND and again, the adrenaline rush you get when convicting YOUR BOSS), Turnabout Revolution (so. many. apollo. cgs. and backstories. and daddy dhurke. and funny datz moments. and best witness armie buff.), Turnabout Serenade (KLAVIER GUITAR ON FIRE, best klavier ‘simple on the inside finding the truth’ moments, klavier being so ruffled), Farewell, My Turnabout (Edgeworth and Phoenix working TOGETHER, also that cutscene of TAKE THAT and the phone spinning is hilarious) and Bridge to the Turnabout (again, Edgeworth coming back and screaming NOOOOOOOOO when Larry’s ‘Psycho-Locks’ come one and also more Edgeworth trauma moments with the earthquake).

Turnabout Serenade > Turnabout Revolution > Turnabout Trump > Bridge to the Turnabout > Farewell, My Turnabout

[inlovelawyers]

Shelly DeKiller or Adrian Andrews!

Sorry I took this long, have been busy this weekend!Though I love Adrian, I’m gonna do Shelly!

1. favorite thing about them: he’s very serious about his own code.

2. least favorite thing about them: he’s a killer??? He kills people for money???

3. favorite line: “…People are not always who they appear to be.”

4. brOTP: His cat? How was it called? Shoe, right?

5. OTP: Nope :v

6. nOPT: Pretty much everyone.

7. random headcanon: he likes Edgeworth in a weird way since he “helped” him to find the truth at the P.I.C. and the whole Zheng Fa’s incident. Can’t blame him, everybody loves Edgeworth.

8. unpopular opinion: he’s not a great villain as people may think. Sure he’s bad, but comparing to Von Karma? Dahlia? Kristoph? Pretty much lame.

9. song I associate with them: this one.

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

10. favorite picture of them:

ASSASSINS FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

[caffeinatedtomato1]

Finally finished Apollo Justice! I really enjoyed it!! I really want to see more of Apollo - I absolutely love Phoenix, but Apollo was kind of overshadowed by him even though the game is named after Apollo. Hope a future release will come back to these new characters! (As I've heard, it hasn't really happened with the rest of the games, and I guess we won't get or will have to hope that another game talks about Kristoph's psyche locks.) I really hope it wasn't some lame cop out to giving him a deeper story rather than generic villain. Honestly I kind of like the one comic someone made that I just reblogged about Kristoph wanting to open his own nail salon - like that sounds like a legitimately interesting backstory for him!

[celestialily]

Ace Attorney/Pokemon villains

Giovanni: Dee Vasquez - mob boss family - blows smoke in people’s faces just to intimidate them - loves pets 200% more than humans - got 99 problems and blackmail solves nearly all of them

Maxie: Kristoph - nerdy-ass glasses - escalates rivalries by 5000% - super disturbing laugh - *eye twitch* - holds grudges until the day they die

Archie: Marlon Rimes - really, really lame pirate puns - r i p p e d - never gets out of the water - #bro - 24/7 down to fight a whale

Cyrus: The Phantom - emotions are for the weak - #space aesthetic - better off living in another dimension - how are you fucking human

Ghetsis: Manfred Von Karma - what are you even wearing - phenomenally shitty father - “put that child back where it came from or so help me-” - obsessed with perfection

Lysandre: Damon Gant - casually nicknames everybody - hair may or may not be on fire - “blood orange” - tries way too hard to befriend children

Guzma: Wocky Kitaki - tries to be badass - more of a doofus - actually being manipulated - loves his family/team - fashion disaster in human form

Lusamine: Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in - killer stylist - 10/10 transformation sequence - proud owner of “why the fuck do you have children” award - really weird obsession with magical/extra-dimensional shit - is your hair... possessed by any chance?