#real mvp maya fey

[nowwheresmynut]

draw maya graciously preventing me from showing miles a pic of his dad's dead body for no reason

He'll be haunted forever by this knowledge.

[beardedhandstoadshark]

Which characters from your choosen fandom had the biggest impact into the story ?

Aside from main characters and characters who explicitly exist to have a big impact on the story, cuz that seems too easy…

In that case…Larry Butz from Ace Attorney.

It sounds. So stupid. To pick this random annoying loser guy above all others (especially over Morgan Fey, who’s in some way directly or indirectly responsible for like half the major backstories in the og trilogy)

But if Larry didn’t steal Edgeworth‘s (red suit guy with tissue cravat) lunch money in grade school,

Phoenix (MC, blue spiky hair guy) wouldn’t have been blamed for stealing it,

so Edgeworth could never have defended him

Larry couldn’t have jumped in too

The three would never have become friends

Phoenix would never have a reason to switch from an arts? major to law after being defended from a murder suspicion, so he can "save“ Edgeworth

Aside from regular defendants, multiple important characters would have been declared guilty for murder and received the fricking death penalty, including Larry himself, Edgeworth, and Phoenix’ sidekick Maya

The murderer of Edgeworth‘s dad would’ve continued being responsible for even more deaths than already these past few decades

Just. The entirety of Edgeworths character arc in general (which spans over 1.5 games and also made him a fan-fave)

Mayas psycho aunt Morgan would still be around (who essentially caused half the other backstories) and indirectly be the head of a place full of spirit mediums (…because dead people are real and can possess others here. It’s a whole plot mechanic)

Professor Layton would’ve been stuck in Medieval England (though I think he could handle the witch trials rather well himself on his own tbh)

Every time Larry shows up he‘s in some way responsible for a piece of major key evidence that ends up turning the whole trial around. Both in the main games AND the spinoff where you play as Edgeworth

Said thing with the spinoff leading to the head of a government getting overthrown

Phoenix being an attorney leading to him not being an attorney anymore, adopting a kid, and being around for the sequel trilogy and therefore indirectly impacting all the stuff that’s happened there as well. Like Maya not being dead, so she can do some stuff here, leading to ANOTHER government being completely changed.

This series ended with three separate legal systems completely changed, all because some guy called Larry Butz stole lunch money and thus created the beginning of the most impactful romance between colorcoded finger-pointing attorneys in all of story-telling.

And even more butterfly effect - chain of the vents things in these games I can’t even remember.

For a guy who‘s explicitly written and also actually played to be the biggest loser in the entire cast of this whole franchise, he surprisingly often turns out to be the MVP.

(…also Morgan Fey already has people analyze her impact on this series back and forth. Sooooo here’s something new! Never said I had to pick the most impactful character :3)

[synnefo-nefeli]

Well prepare yourself to get quite a bit of Franmaya related things (I'm in a hella Franmaya shipping mood) for example Phoenix and Maya being wing people for each other and Franziska and Miles having tea and talking about their crushes on Phoenix and Maya

Haha my body is ready! I can totally see that on Phoenix and Maya’s parts. Maya will rib and joke Phoenix about his crush on Miles. Phoenix will try to be Mr. “I’m a serious lawyer” but really it turns to"-omigod Maya was he looking at me?!!!! Was he?!“ And Phoenix would just casually slip to Fran, "I read her (Maya) diary- she likes your whip and fancy hair…”So yeah they’ll both be obnoxious on the other’s behalf around Fran and Miles.

Conversely I think Fran and Miles help each other in their own repressed ways. Miles will be on a “that man!!! rant™ ” and Fran will be like, “ugh fine, I’ll ask him out for you!” And Miles will try to deny it since he’s a TsunTsun, and Fran will try to give Miles grief over being foolish and not being out with his feelings and then Miles will sip his tea and say, “If that’s the case, have you asked Ms. Fey already-or are you waiting for me to ask Ms. Fey out for you?”

And then they’ll both be sitting there blushing/stewing over their cups of tea wondering how on earth they both fell for two walking disasters like Phoenix and Maya.

If they get together post-og trilogy, then the real MVP of successfully matchmaking these four goes to Trucy.