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wubbybubbly · 6 hours ago

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do you ever read a take and go, “wow, I’ve thought about this way harder than you”

#💬#it’s so funny like I can immediately come up with several counterarguments and evidence off the top of my head

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wubbybubbly · 20 hours ago

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it’s honestly really nice to have kinger as my favorite because I always get attached to characters that spawn discourse

#💬#zooble is probably my second favorite and caine my third (though he’s a bit contentious)

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wubbybubbly · 1 day ago

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The little-known 10th circle of hell, known as "Favorite character is extremely popular but you are also extremely particular and everyone is wrong".

#fandom #I’ve learned to mostly accept it though #now I just laugh because I can’t afford to be annoyed anymore

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wubbybubbly · 9 days ago

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Let's talk about how Edgeworth addresses Maya, because I think it's super interesting!

"Ms. Maya Fey" when introducing her to the court. He's a professional, after all.

"Maya Fey" on a separate occasion.

Does he ever call her "Ms. Fey"?

No. He does address Mia as "Ms. Fey!"

As a matter of fact, Edgeworth uses "Ms. Fey" to only address Mia. He never addresses Maya as "Ms. Fey".

What about after this trial?

He just calls her Maya!

And to her face? Still "Maya".

And then in 3-5, still "Maya Fey"/"Maya".

Besides reserving "Ms. Fey" for just Mia, I think there's a really interesting reason he calls her "Maya" so informally considering his formal tendencies.

Yes, it involves the Japanese version of the game.

"Mayoi-kun...."

"A. Mitsurugi kenji." / "Oh. Prosecutor Mitsurugi."

In Japanese, Edgeworth calls her "Mayoi-kun" after 1-2, where he addresses her as "Ayasato Mayoi" during her trial. If you have a basic understanding of Japanese honorifics, you might be familiar that "-kun" is usually reserved for men and boys. Maya (and Mia) call Phoenix "Naruhodo-kun", as an example. They both use the honorific to imply that Phoenix is a subordinate (which is a touch scandalous coming from Maya, considering she's both younger than him and not even a practicing attorney, but Phoenix never corrects her.) It can also be used for male classmates in school.

There is a reason, however, that women are sometimes addressed as "-kun", and that's in the workplace! It's common for male coworkers to call their female subordinates "-kun", especially if they are a more familiar coworker.

(Edit, slight correction/addition: addressing a female coworker as "-kun" is more common and even seen as more polite than "-san" for a subordinate in settings like parliament and courts!)

As for Edgeworth, he certainly caught that Phoenix addresses Maya as "Mayoi-chan", but it's probably too familiar for him, so he wants to use a more respectful honorific for her, and something more familiar than "-san", which is similar to "Mr."/"Ms." So, he calls her "Mayoi-kun"! (He also calls Kay Faraday "Mikumo-kun", for similar reasons.)

So I can see why the localizers would scratch their heads as to how they would localize "Mayoi-kun". The nuances of using that honorific can't be translated easily, so between calling Maya "Ms. Fey" (and probably also agreeing that ought to be reserved for Mia) and just "Maya", they ultimately decided to just stick with her first name.

#ace attorney #maya fey #miles edgeworth #this is why I get so disappointed when fanworks make him address maya as “miss fey”#he sounds needlessly stiff

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wubbybubbly · 10 days ago

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characters who are undead. characters who die in the end and so they've been dead from the start. characters who are chased by death. characters that chase death. characters who died and came back to life. characters that die again and again and again. characters who consider their past self dead. characters who were born in someone else's corpse. characters that claw their way out of the grave. characters whose deaths leave such a gaping wound that even their absence is still a presence. characters who are emissaries of death. characters who are alive but consider themselves dead. characters whose deaths are ambiguous. characters whose existences are defined by death.

#fandom #I love the multidimensionality of edgeworth’s relationship with death #both literally and figuratively

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wubbybubbly · 11 days ago

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save me characters doing fucked up things out of self-preservation…..characters doing fucked up things out of self-preservation save me………..

#fandom #when edgeworth fucks off for a year to reevaluate his role in the courtroom #disappearing from the prosecutor’s office with zero indication that you’re coming back is. hm. you fucked up there buddy #as far as phoenix and franziska were concerned he went into hiding and severed himself from prosecution forever #and that severance from his old life signified a *personal* rejection of phoenix and franziska #they perceived that rejection in different ways but their anger stemmed from a similar place. they had no closure. he just ran away #and that’s such a shitty thing to go through! having someone abandon you so suddenly like that (even if they didn’t mean to) is awful!#so it makes sense why edgeworth’s absence carries the weight of an actual death even though they knew he was alive #I do get him though. idk what I would’ve done if I was in his position either. he was damned if he left and damned if he stayed #vanishing like that hurt phoenix and franziska but I still understand why he kept his distance from them #they couldn’t comprehend the kind of identity crisis he was having and imposed unfair expectations onto him #honestly any decision edgeworth made was going to cause a mess tbh #but the one he did make is thematically important because phoenix and franziska are cut from the same cloth #phoenix quits defending/runs away in the bad ending and franziska attempts to quit prosecution/run away in the true ending #they’re all mirrors of each other

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wubbybubbly · 13 days ago

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it’s always the people who are so adamant about being right that admit to have not touched the source material in a while, or ever. sigh

#💬#how are you so outspoken about a narrative that you don’t respect

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wubbybubbly · 16 days ago

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I love deltarune because you can technically be your favorite character

#💬

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wubbybubbly · 18 days ago

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what the fuck was this subplot

#deltarune

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wubbybubbly · 18 days ago

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#deltarune

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wubbybubbly · 18 days ago

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