#wink wink nudge nudge kind of asks 😭🙏 thats all

[lorillee]

i present you the question of when during aa4-1 would phoenix have had the time to forge the evidence having been in police custody and unable to contact his daughter… plus half that case is parallels to spoilers so

real quick i would like to preface this with a comment on spoilers/implied spoilers: PLEASEEEEE do not spoil me 😭🙏 the fun of liveblogging is knowing like nothing and going in completely blind and the wording of this aggressively implies phoenix did not forge the evidence. to be clear im not mad at you or anything but if i am under a grossly wrong misconception. and im mad about it. please let me be grossly wrong and mad so i can be embarrassed about it later in the liveblog 😭😭😭 especially if that misconception is clearly something the game wants me to be under 😔🙏 like something like this is fine

because it doesnt tell me anything about how im wrong or in what direction and ive already gone on record saying theyd better give me some sort of a reason for why he is the way he is. and if this ask had come from somebody who i knew hadnt played the game then id be like "well thats a valid question let me think about it for a minute" but this is very clearly "he didnt forge the evidence bestie 💀💀💀" it... its definitely a spoiler 😭😭😭 all i ask is that yall use a little bit of discretion and let me figure it out for myself (even if the text has to walk me through it personally. never forget my aa3 liveblog to my friend where i figured out godot was mias "dead" boyfriend as soon as diego showed up and did not piece together that he was mistys real murderer until phoenix literally said the thing about there only being some things you could see in the dark. and even then i was in denial about it 💀🙏)

to be fair. at the later point it was almost 4:30 am and my brain had completely shut off and the amount of critical thought happening here was in the negatives. but still. actually wait since we're here i want to share my most favorite bit of dramatic irony from the entire liveblog

to be honest my aa3 liveblog slayed and my biggest regret is not subjecting everybody here to it. REGARDLESS. since you have posed this question i do, in fact, have an answer >:]

consider, for a moment, phoenix's canonical messing with the crime scene. it doesnt take a terrible amount of creativity to figure out how he feasibly couldve forged evidence - he looks around, and with the added knowledge of the removeable bookcase and the fact that nobody else was in the room or has come up or down the stairs he's been in front of the whole time, figures that whoever killed the victim did it from the position of the secret entrance. he looks at the table for any signs of a struggle or blood and notices that one of the cards has been switched out. considering the drama that just occurred and the fact that he is a renowned poker player, he recalls exactly the cards that were there before and realizes that the criminal took that particular ace with him.

he checks the replaced card and notices that the back color is different - this is incredibly importance evidence incriminating the true murderer (somebody who is colorblind and/or was not present for the game in any capacity), so its critical that this remains as is. guessing the stolen ace had blood on it, he procures another copy of that exact card (you cannot tell me they only had two decks in the entire bar), gets a cloth or gloves or something and takes the murder weapon and presses it to the wound to get blood on it so that he can drip it onto the card. knowing that his time is running thin, phoenix hides the forged evidence somewhere in the bar so trucy can come back and get it for him. phoenix is taken in by the police for being the prime suspect.

like any good daughter, trucy comes to visit him in the detention center. phoenix tells her to go get something for him at where he's hidden the card in the bar (you cannot tell me that he cant do this because the guard would be paying attention to what he's saying - our clients have said all sorts of crap and never faced any sort of consequences for it) and asks her to give it to apollo during the trial. seems pretty cut and dry to me tbh