#turt lawyer au

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(that is a puddle of tears, to clarify)

i'm kinda sad right now so yes i am introducing this wild venn diagram that is the fucking ace attorney/rottmnt AU that's been popping in and out of my head for the past few weeks

edit: yeah actually i should've just put the cut in to begin with - spoilers for the first game! (the drawings reference the 4th case but. they're relatively vague enough i think)

the cast is messy, but so far

leo is phoenix

mikey is maya ("let's go out for PIZZA! cmon, leo!")

raph is gumshoe (and like. the main reason why this happened to begin with)

donnie is miles (this is a wild version of the separated!au)

draxum is von karma

splinter is (was.) gregory edgeworth

karai is (was.) mia

edit: god april's probably larry and casey's probably fran // april and casey are up for debate - one's larry and the other is franziska but i don't know who

i don't know how anything in this universe would work, all i know is that 1) draxum is a certified asshole and in this universe mikey hates his guts, 2) don watched his dad die, 3) leo and karai get to reunite and there's a lot of crying involved inbetween, and 4) all the boys are still very much siblings (somehow? maybe they all got separated but don and leo just happened to exist closer together when they were young) so don't fucking try anything

anyway - this is all dumb, and i still get mad every time i remember how phoenix and maya just left miles on the ground that one time

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he puts up one hell of an emotional barrier in this au huh

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seeing gumshoe's trenchcoat in red and miles' suit jacket in purple is...strange. anyway, here's don not lying on the ground of the detention center

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Hi ! If I may for your Ace Attorney AU I think that April should be Larry and Casey should be Franziska. April could be a "crime magnet" that always end up as a witness and can't keep her job because of it. I know that it's a shame because we can't have sibling Donnie and April like that but hey Larry has knew Miles as long as Phoenix so April and Donnie can still be childhood friend/adopted sibling in this ! Beside Casey personality fit well with Franziska and something interesting can be done with her relationship with Draxum ! And maybe even Splinter if she had know him before his murder ? Or through Donnie's stories of him 🤔.

Anyway feel free to not take into account my opinion on this, it's your AU after all. Though I wanted to share that I think that the rottmnt fandom deserve a fic were the turtles are important witness to a murder, someone is wrongfully arested and Phoenix is the defense attorney. Just thinking about how the boys would probably wound up April into testimony in their stead only for her to be discovered. About how she has to explain herself and tell she'll bring out the true witnesses if they keep an audiences to a minimal and the one present has to vow silence on what they'll discover. Then the boys arrive. All hail Chaos. After some panic people are like "you know everyday in the court of law is already so goddamn weird, this might as well happen ?" and calm down. Then Ralph, Leo, Donnie and Mikey proceed to be your average crazy AA witness (and I see them just testimony together because at this there's mutant in this court people don't care anymore 😂) but they actually provide very useful information. What between Ralph straightforwardness, Leo ability to detect anytging suspicious quicly, Donnie knowledge in technology and Mikey artistic eyes I think they would make very good and useful witness to solve a case. Just thinking about all this make me smile 😄.

Anyway I had forgot about that crossover but now it live rent free in my head again so thank you 😁 !

omg someone else knows enough about ace attorney that the post i made isn't just complete, utter nonsense-

GAH you're right about casey being fran and april probably being larry lmao - "shame this means we can't have april/donnie siblinghood stuff" FDHHDJ THIS FEELS LIKE I'M BEING CALLED OUT because YEAH...i know in my heart that casey fits better as fran bc it kinda aligns with her need to prove herself worthy but. that means i don't get april constantly calling donnie her Little Brother and it just severely annoying him cause it's just, well, True

i like that idea of just april being super unfortunate and just has to be defended constantly (though hm. too bad i don't think she quite fits the Maya role in this scenario lol), so larry does kinda make sense for her. and OH for the 4th case...april as a clutch witness to help her oldest friend out, even though he's so dickish now;; for the games i do see larry/miles/phoenix as the bff trio so perhaps this is better

casey and donnie's relationship i feel would be kinda different from miles/fran relationship since i don't really get any sibling vibes - maybe more like rivals to friends and dealing with all the trauma caused by draxum by the end of the trilogy, or something. casey knowing splinter through donnie if he opens up to her later on would be nice too - maybe a little through draxum badmouthing him as well? this is a mess but idc

ok ok so wait for your thoughts it's like - april is the fake witness then after a turn of events it's revealed she's (like every other witness) lying on the stand to protect her boys. boys come in - man what if Nobody bats an eye and it's because one of them is like "we're cosplayers :)", and everyone immediately forgives this except phoenix - and it's a mess and they're all terrible at being good witnesses bc they're teenagers who've never stepped inside a courtroom ever. they'd all have such sick breakdown animations my god

and ofc phoenix wins but it's after he gets like. repeatedly threatened by a 14 year old with a magic sword. every so often leo make a portal just to smack his face from the defendant's stand if he screws up.