#trials and tribulations: there sure are

[heliological]

here's my proposal for renaming all the main series ace attorney games so their names make thematic sense. thank you

aa1 - ace attorney: trials and tribulations rfta - phoenix wright: ace attorney aa2 - ace attorney: spirit of justice aa3 - ace attorney: dual destinies aa4 - apollo justice: ace attorney aa5 - ace attorney: rise from the ashes aa6 - ace attorney: justice for all

[trlvsn]

too much "phoenix's long seven years of plotting", not nearly enough "mia's years of research on redd white and years of waiting for dahlia's downfall"

[outoftoucherlocksholmes]

ironically i came down with a fever while working on this so like don’t worry phoenix i get you

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I have never seen this man in my life.

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[gumdefense]

Where was T&T going with this

[saltplane]

I think pizzahead would be the type to love to share his dreams and also call at odd hours to do it like he loves talking and sharing his thoughts with people

[verycharismaticdragon]

seeing ppl post their bq nendos reminded me (pio's saga in particular hiiiii), but I only had time to locate the photos today. anyw throwback to that time i put kaoru's faceplate on binghe nendo (bcus, you know, red eyes) and got bing-ge

[strawwritesfic]

[forcedhesitation]

maaaaaaaaaaan. ridiculous to be calling DBD "pathetic" because it couldn't get licensing for various final girls. as if it hasn't always been because of some bullshit on the end of the copyright holders. fuck, we would have gotten more material from Hellraiser, had it not been for the copyright holders. we lost Stranger Things temporarily because of the copyright holders being out of touch with fans and greedy. Ghostface exists in the game because luckily, the character of Ghostface isn't actually owned by Big Bad Viacrap.

also like. DBD isn't Fork Knife. it's just not. and if I'm not mistaken-- it's not like Fork Knife has any horror character that DBD doesn't, apart from Eleven and Hopper. Eleven could never be in the game anyway, because any character added has to be over 18/a legal adult (for legal reasons). and we have Steve, Nancy, and Jonathan instead. It makes much more sense that they chose those characters for the game, as this followed S2, which made Steve one of the most popular characters from the show. so much so that he can even contend with Eleven in popularity.

and let's not downplay the fact that DBD does have other, very, very impressive licenses in it. such as Silent Hill. that was the first big thing Konami let happen with the ip in YEARS. Resident Evil was...HUGE. Wesker's chapter brought in an unprecedented number of players and anyone who played survivor at that time knows that for WEEKS, all you would get was Wesker after Wesker. We have Chucky and Tiffany, voiced by their original VAs. Sadako from the original Japanese Ringu, not the American version of the same concept! You can play as the Xenomorph, and the Xenomorph Queen! Vecna, from D&D is a killer, and he is voiced by Mr. Matt Mercer! We have Ash Williams, Alan Wake, Leon. S. Kennedy, Cheryl Mason, and very soon Lara Croft! and then After her-- we are getting Castlevania!! So there is no shortage of incredible of characters from horror that are in this game, and it's disrespectful to act like the people who work on this game don't care enough about it to try their fucking hardest to give fans the best possible licensed chapter dlcs they can. it's not their fault if the copyright holders want something different.

Besides, I think it's gross to suggest that DBD doesn't have a claim to the title of "Horror Hall of Fame" just because it doesn't have specific licensed characters in it. what about all the amazing original characters that the game has? do those suddenly not count, just because they do not include super well-known characters from popular old horror movies? A lot of these popular old horror movies don't include/don't give much of a spotlight to people of colour, so the original chapters often give the devs the room to add diversity to DBD's cast of characters, whereas a license might have otherwise not allowed it. and many of these original characters even have nods to existing horror media, like the End Transmission chapter drawing inspiration from both the horror-survival game SOMA, and the sci-fi horror movie/comic book Virus. Does the hard work that the many talented members of the DBD team put into making this original chapter, among many others, mean nothing, just because Sidney Prescott or Sally Hardesty aren't in the fucking game? I should hope the fuck not.

[youredreamingofroo]

he's like some sort of scared... wet cat...

[13eyond13]

Where's all the kinda morbid funny dark lesbian manga that also focuses on adult characters huh

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

I'm thinking about Dahlia and Iris again. I'm thinking about how Iris had to bury her sister four times in her life and never got the chance to say goodbye once.

Thinking about we don't really know what happened in the Terry Fawles case, because we only hear about it from Dahlia's lips (and why should she tell us the truth? She owes us nothing), and how possible it is that Iris was there when he first started tutoring them, was there when he began "falling for" her sister, was there and was so kind and sweet and vulnerable that all it would have taken for her to have been his victim instead of Dahlia was a slight turn of the head, a little look to the side, and how Dahlia could not allow that to happen.

Thinking about how Dahlia's first death -- the death of Dahlia Hawthorne as Iris Hawthorne's sister -- comes with the death of Iris Hawthorne herself by Dahlia's own two hands, because it is the only way; two halves dying as a whole to save one of them. Thinking about how Dahlia's next step was to kill "Dahlia Hawthorne", because she has no use for that name unless it ties her to her sister. Thinking of how she goes back to Iris for that, offers her the chance to do to Dahlia what Dahlia did to her and free them both, at last, from this horrible, poisonous family so they can just be together again, whole again, sisters again, just the two of them, like it has been from the beginning. And Iris wants that so badly, she agrees, but she can't do it, because she is good, and kind, and they aren't alone anymore, because Iris has Sister Bikini now, and maybe things can be different. But they can't. Thinking of how the second time Dahlia Hawthorne dies, she dies with her hatred of her sister burning her tongue, but then she climbs out of that river reborn and loves her all over again, because she can't stop. It's her sister, and maybe things can be better now that Dahlia Hawthorne is dead, and it isn't perfect, but she's free of all the people who hurt her, and she still has Iris.

And it is better. For five years. And then her past catches up with her, and Dahlia Hawthorne comes back with a vengeance, and, this time, she isn't going away. Thinking about how, no matter how hard they pushed her, no matter how easy it would have been to fabricate a story about the girl at Hazakura Temple and how it was her who was at the bridge that day, Dahlia never breaks, never breathes a word about her sister because she won't do that to her. Thinking of how Dahlia is reminded of Iris's "betrayal" and immediately chooses to trust her again anyway. And thinking of Iris, and how she becomes "Dahlia" in her third life -- becomes a person who is openly resilient and smart and loyal and loving and is Iris but is her sister as well, and she can't tell how much of her is whom. Thinking of how the third time Dahlia dies, it is as a direct result of Iris's actions and inaction. Thinking of how Iris believes that this time, the time it truly matters, Dahlia's death is at her hands, and she has finally fulfilled her role as her sister's executioner. Thinking of how Dahlia's third death is also the death of Iris, but, this time, neither of them are saved, and Iris is left with the only part of her that is truly her own: weakness.

Then, at last, the final time. The time Dahlia says she never loved Iris, but still calls herself her "other half"; and the time Iris isn't allowed to speak of her sister, both narratively and mechanically because you're never allowed to ask her about Dahlia, but still manages to push through and say that she loves her, she always has. The time when they meet on the mountains, and, for a few moments, it's just them again, like it has been from the start, and it's almost as if Dahlia hasn't died and Iris has come like she promised and things are going to be okay. Almost, but it isn't. And so, Dahlia dies for the final time, again in a place far from Iris, where her sister never has the chance to say goodbye, but it isn't the end. Because Phoenix is here, and Dahlia's final death has returned to Iris what her third death took away, and she is finally, finally able to tell the truth. And the truth, as they say, sets her free. Because Phoenix tells her that the death of Dollie was not the death of Iris. Because she has always been smart, and kind, and resilient, and loyal, and more. Because he recognises her when they meet again. Because she is, and has always been, the person he thought she was. Because she has always been Iris, even when she was Dahlia.

And so, Dahlia's final death does precisely for her sister what her first death did all those years ago, but it goes further, too. Because Iris is now not only free.

She is whole.

[stromer]

sorry quinner. but this is a big deal to ME

[akascow]

ive had three separate coworkers (that i rarely talk to) tell me i give off bi vibes

[snackugaki]

snackugaki deep lore is I read all the little things y’all put in tags and commentary that I never get around to addressing because I drop off art like kids at the pool and go back to twirling out in the ether and I have a response to this since I used the powers of extrapolation and Paramount’s little fact sheet as a makeshift design brief to keep myself from drowning in too many possibilities while designing my precious daughter in bay font.

I based my darling girl, 

on Meiko Kaji, seen here (cw tw for blood, violence)

and a quick little exaltation write up on her career by one Richard Art-Eater Lee (a cool dude)

https://twitter.com/Richmond_Lee/status/1353193259422498816

[zelreedsandwrites]

*aggressively refreshing ao3*

Please please please don’t make me go back to writing please I just wanna read—