#spoilers over. i'd like to think the client/rival is really lovely too. they obviously despise edgeworth but it's not like antagonistic | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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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.

#and for phoenix especially the idea that you can love 'monsters' because it wasnt an accident that led to the wrong verdict being handed #it was a choice. a choice edgeworth made just like all the people whose crimes phoenix unveiled in court with triumph and fanfare #because it was justice.#miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #ace attorney #ace attorney phoenix wright #i feel like everyone knows edgeworth's done things to get innocent people convicted but they don't /know/ it you know?#we've never had to look at the effects of that head on and decide for ourselves how guilty or innocent those actions make edgeworth #dgs kind of did something like this with uhh spoilers major spoilers here look away barok and kazuma but theirs is slightly different #spoilers over. i'd like to think the client/rival is really lovely too. they obviously despise edgeworth but it's not like antagonistic #or particularly vengeful simply because there's no point. of course it ends with everyone reaffirming their loyalty to edgeworth #but i think it should feel at least a little lacking.#ofc a story like this wouldnt work any time after aai because edgeworth has come to his own conclusions about this by then #so i think it would have had to been before jfa or during jfa if at all which is why i said would've been nice #though i do think there's something to be found in the idea of him having settled everything and living positively only for this case #to come cleave his life in two. i think there's something to be said about how people who've wronged a person can go on to live happily #while you're left picking up the pieces of a broken life and pushing forwards because you have to. always carrying a pain you're never able #to reconcile. i think that's pretty interesting too #i think it'd be interesting if it was a client and if phoenix didnt know at first that he was going to try and oveturn edgeworth's case #it's only partway he realises and then he gets upset/defensive thinking it's some weird ploy to undermine either of them #but the client is just confused and tells him they came to him because he was good and he can refuse if he wants to.#and you have to choose to continue. to doubt edgeworth. idk i just think it would have been fun

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