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Dec. 11th, 2018 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
22degreehaloSo, I have a yearly tradition of writing a Christmas fic titled after some Christmas song. I've managed it every year for quite a while, but this year has been a weird one (I'm kind of in-between fandoms right now and coming off a Writing Mode cycle into a Reading Mode cycle where I just want to read everything and horde knowledge until I can expend it all on writing again), so it's almost two weeks into December and, uh, I still don't know what to do lol. I thought that I'd eventually just come up with some cute Ensemble Stars (probably SubaHaji) or Bandori (who knows??) fluffy fic, but there's just still so much story for both that I haven't read yet and I don't wanna get something wrong...
However, I do have one idea I came up with last month - since I've been watching through NyanCave's AAI2 playthrough (I'm almost done with case 2 but not quite finished yet but I'm reaaaally enjoying it!) I've really had Ace Attorney on my mind. I wanna watch through the live action film, and my girlfriend has been meaning to play through the games for aaages... And Ace Attorney is just one of those fandoms I've been in for AGES - some of my earliest fic was some very simple Phoeinx/Edgeworth stuff - and while I read heaps for it back in the day, I never ended up finishing an actual fic. But every so often I come back to it and end up wanting to make something! Heck, just last year or so I started aseason_of_kink fic for Phoenix/Edgeworth that I'd like to get back to... (It was for the square Anonymous and the interpretation of that is really interesting IMH!)
...buuuuut there are issues. First of all being that this is a serious fic with multiple scenes so there's no chance of me finishing it before Christmas lol. But y'know whatever, as long as I have a Christmas fic around that time of year I'll be happy - I'm honestly more concerned about upholding my tradition than the number of readers I'd get or whatever, haha.
The second, and arguably bigger issue, is that I really wanted to write a fic involving Trucy shortly after Phoenix adopted her, but... I just... I barely remember what happened in Apollo Justice, y'all, and it is easily my least favourite AA game (even less so than AAI1), and it's all so confusing, and I don't wanna make any dumb mistakes!! But I looked up a timeline trying to clear things up and it kind of didn't, especially since it turns out a lot of AAI2 things happen around the same time as the Magnifi trial so I have to skim 'cause I don't wanna get spoiled :') Like, I really like Trucy and I love non-blood family and I love that Phoenix is her dad and I love the idea of figuring out how they settled into their relationship and of exploring how Edgeworth could fit into all that... but NGL my acceptance of the canon nature of Phoenix being disbarred and spending like EIGHT YEARS (??? more time than he was ever a lawyer lmao) just this broken man? reluctant at best!!! Apollo Justice was honest to god one of the most depressing fiction experiences I've ever had, mainly because I just couldn't stop thinking about how long Phoenix had to deal with being in that state, after he'd been such an inspiration for me getting interested in law, when I just wanted to play an optimistic game where things work out... and then it's just like 'welp you thought you knew this character but them IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU LEFT something AWFUL HAPPENED and changed them COMPLETELY and they've been this way for longer than you ever knew them' and just
ugh. But I can ACCEPT that it is CANON now, and seeing Phoenix get back on his feet in DD and SoJ definitely softens my sad feelings. Now, I think I'm ready to probe the interperiod angst. But god I do not freaking remember all of that Gramarye stuff and I just want to ignore all of them lmao;;; Like TV Tropes says something about Valant looking after her 'for a few years' ???? when was this??? was it after Phoenix adopted her?? But why would he if Valant was around?? Or was he sent to jail? Do I have to account for him??? ...probably not. But I don't like the doubt. And I don't wanna have to watch a replay or something. Might just end up having to do more wiki diving.
Anyway on a better note the timeline is actually pretty interesting, so here's some things I discovered:
* Phoenix and Edgeworth (but not Larry?) were born the same year as me, 1992. This brings up some, I think, pretty clear continuity errors in the game, as not ONCE during the classroom trial do we see anyone covertly playing Pokemon on a gameboy or quoting Spongebob Squarepants.
* Klavier is the same age as Kay Faraday and Debeste. Which makes me really want to know how embarrassing young Klavier was during AAI period.
* Franziska actually became a prosecutor BEFORE Edgeworth. Which kinda makes it even funnier that Mia was all intimidated by Edgeworth being a prosecutor at only 21!!! in their first case when Franziska had (admittedly, in another country) already been prosecuting for a full year at the age of, what, 14?
* I never really thought about it but it would've been entirely possible for Edgeworth to prosecute the trial when Mia defended him. He probably at least saw his name as a defendant. Wonder what he thought. Definitely would've made for one hell of a different reunion.
* It's really funny seeing all of these important details about births and deaths and trials and then just 'Miles Edgeworth goes on a one month trip overseas.'
Sooooooooooo guess I'll do some more reading and figure it out......
However, I do have one idea I came up with last month - since I've been watching through NyanCave's AAI2 playthrough (I'm almost done with case 2 but not quite finished yet but I'm reaaaally enjoying it!) I've really had Ace Attorney on my mind. I wanna watch through the live action film, and my girlfriend has been meaning to play through the games for aaages... And Ace Attorney is just one of those fandoms I've been in for AGES - some of my earliest fic was some very simple Phoeinx/Edgeworth stuff - and while I read heaps for it back in the day, I never ended up finishing an actual fic. But every so often I come back to it and end up wanting to make something! Heck, just last year or so I started a
season_of_kink fic for Phoenix/Edgeworth that I'd like to get back to... (It was for the square Anonymous and the interpretation of that is really interesting IMH!)...buuuuut there are issues. First of all being that this is a serious fic with multiple scenes so there's no chance of me finishing it before Christmas lol. But y'know whatever, as long as I have a Christmas fic around that time of year I'll be happy - I'm honestly more concerned about upholding my tradition than the number of readers I'd get or whatever, haha.
The second, and arguably bigger issue, is that I really wanted to write a fic involving Trucy shortly after Phoenix adopted her, but... I just... I barely remember what happened in Apollo Justice, y'all, and it is easily my least favourite AA game (even less so than AAI1), and it's all so confusing, and I don't wanna make any dumb mistakes!! But I looked up a timeline trying to clear things up and it kind of didn't, especially since it turns out a lot of AAI2 things happen around the same time as the Magnifi trial so I have to skim 'cause I don't wanna get spoiled :') Like, I really like Trucy and I love non-blood family and I love that Phoenix is her dad and I love the idea of figuring out how they settled into their relationship and of exploring how Edgeworth could fit into all that... but NGL my acceptance of the canon nature of Phoenix being disbarred and spending like EIGHT YEARS (??? more time than he was ever a lawyer lmao) just this broken man? reluctant at best!!! Apollo Justice was honest to god one of the most depressing fiction experiences I've ever had, mainly because I just couldn't stop thinking about how long Phoenix had to deal with being in that state, after he'd been such an inspiration for me getting interested in law, when I just wanted to play an optimistic game where things work out... and then it's just like 'welp you thought you knew this character but them IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU LEFT something AWFUL HAPPENED and changed them COMPLETELY and they've been this way for longer than you ever knew them' and just
ugh. But I can ACCEPT that it is CANON now, and seeing Phoenix get back on his feet in DD and SoJ definitely softens my sad feelings. Now, I think I'm ready to probe the interperiod angst. But god I do not freaking remember all of that Gramarye stuff and I just want to ignore all of them lmao;;; Like TV Tropes says something about Valant looking after her 'for a few years' ???? when was this??? was it after Phoenix adopted her?? But why would he if Valant was around?? Or was he sent to jail? Do I have to account for him??? ...probably not. But I don't like the doubt. And I don't wanna have to watch a replay or something. Might just end up having to do more wiki diving.
Anyway on a better note the timeline is actually pretty interesting, so here's some things I discovered:
* Phoenix and Edgeworth (but not Larry?) were born the same year as me, 1992. This brings up some, I think, pretty clear continuity errors in the game, as not ONCE during the classroom trial do we see anyone covertly playing Pokemon on a gameboy or quoting Spongebob Squarepants.
* Klavier is the same age as Kay Faraday and Debeste. Which makes me really want to know how embarrassing young Klavier was during AAI period.
* Franziska actually became a prosecutor BEFORE Edgeworth. Which kinda makes it even funnier that Mia was all intimidated by Edgeworth being a prosecutor at only 21!!! in their first case when Franziska had (admittedly, in another country) already been prosecuting for a full year at the age of, what, 14?
* I never really thought about it but it would've been entirely possible for Edgeworth to prosecute the trial when Mia defended him. He probably at least saw his name as a defendant. Wonder what he thought. Definitely would've made for one hell of a different reunion.
* It's really funny seeing all of these important details about births and deaths and trials and then just 'Miles Edgeworth goes on a one month trip overseas.'
Sooooooooooo guess I'll do some more reading and figure it out......
