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servesyouwright) wrote2015-09-07 05:30 pm
servesyouwright) wrote2015-09-07 05:30 pm
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OOC Info
Name: Tossino
Age: 29
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Tossino + Tossino#3597
Current Characters: Mordecai
IC Info
Name: Phoenix Wright
Canon: Ace Attorney series
Age: 33
Appearance: Link
Canon Point: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the beginning of Turnabout Corner
Background: Link
CRAU: N/A
Personality: The primary attribute I’d pick to describe Phoenix Wright would be passionate. A bit too passionate, perhaps. When younger, this passion presented itself as very strong emotions and, frankly, completely absurd actions. Because he refused to believe that his girlfriend was a murderer, he decided to actually eat a small pendant in the shape of a glass bottle that might have had poison in it (don’t worry, he got better). And, what he’s most famous for: After reading about his childhood friend, Miles Edgeworth, allegedly forging evidence and manipulating witness testimonies as a prosecutor, he decided it was up to him to find Miles and figure out what happened to him. The Miles he knew would never do something like that. But when Miles wouldn’t return his calls, he decided his only option was to change his major to law, become a defence lawyer, and meet him in court. He changed his major because he was “the only one who could save Miles”. What do you mean most people don’t change their career for their estranged childhood friend?
Eventually, he does also figure out that he likes being a lawyer because it feels like he can really make a difference. He takes particular pride in defending those with especially hopeless-looking cases. AKA those who seem to have no one on their side.
So it turns out that being a defence lawyer was his calling. The courts of the States in the Ace Attorney universe are known for favouring the prosecution. In order to avoid getting overloaded with cases, they’ve also implemented a system in which trials have to be over in three days, and they normally start only a day or two after the first suspect has been apprehended. Add the fact that the defence is normally left entirely out of the investigation and gets next to no information about the case, and the defence is always left at a great disadvantage. It’s Phoenix’s passion and stubbornness more than anything else that gets him his victories. There’s no mistake he’s a smart person, but he struggles to think ahead and connect all the dots in a timely manner. Often, he has to piece together his case and the order of events on the spot, in court. He is, however, very good at that. It can often seem like he’s making things up, and every now and then he does just throw things at the wall until something sticks.
His true magnum opus, however, is what he and his mentor Mia would call turning your thinking around, which means to go over the basics of the case again and ask yourself if you’ve made the wrong assumptions somewhere along the way. In one particular case, The Stolen Turnabout, the real culprit tried to get away with murder by creating an alibi for himself, claiming he’d been elsewhere committing a robbery. When operating under the assumption that the murder and the robbery happened on the same night, whoever committed the robbery couldn’t have committed the murder. Phoenix worked out that the robbery happened a couple of nights before the murder, ruining his suspect’s alibi. Although, in comparison to a lot of his cases, he figured it all out before the trial. Usually, he can figure out what the pieces are, but putting them together takes a bit more time.
Although it’s something he’s gotten better at controlling with age, he’s a very emotional person. It’s a running joke in the series that the Wright family are notoriously bad at hiding what they’re thinking. I’d say those strong emotions are a big reason why. At his current canon point, necessity has made him work very hard to hide them better, and he’s gotten pretty good at it. Enough so that he can be unbeatable at poker. He gets some help from his daughter Trucy, who basically has a superpower to spot people’s tells, but he gets plenty of those victories himself. Even so, he’s still emotional. When he was younger, he’d get physically violent to stand up for his loved ones. If he’s under enough emotional distress, he struggles greatly to connect his thoughts.
He could easily be too good for Hell, if it wasn’t for that violent streak when he was younger. In his recent pursuit of truth to get to the bottom of who really forged the evidence that got him disbarred, he’s done a lot of questionable things. The most recent one is truly forging evidence, and risking Apollo Justice’s career when making him present that evidence. He’s also illegally recorded conversations and, even before his disbarment, he would frequently break into places to find evidence. Despite all this, he feels the strongest guilt about failing his client, Shadi Enigmar, at the trial that got him disbarred. Shadi ran to avoid a guilty verdict and, after staying hidden for seven years, returned only to immediately be killed. He left behind his daughter, Trucy, who Phoenix had been looking after for seven years. With Shadi’s death, he feels even stronger that he’s failed them both. This guilt, along with his actual crimes, is what gets him sent to Hell.
Weaknesses/Temptations: Especially at this stage in his life, he’s willing to do a lot of questionable things for the sake of ~the truth~. Once he learns he might in fact not be dead, he’ll want to figure out how to get back and get to the bottom of any secrets of Penance, and he might not trust the whole redemption thing.
He can also potentially sin to protect those he loves.
Also, paradoxically, he could sin in order to do something he’d still consider to be good.
Sins:
Manipulation
Assault
Contributed to the death of Doug Swallow
Failed Trucy Wright
Failed Shadi Enigmar
Robbery
Breaking and entering
Evidence forgery
Knowingly falsely accusing innocent people and causing emotional distress
Powers/Abilities: Through the use of the magatama in his possession, Phoenix can see the “locks” on people’s hearts, AKA when they are intentionally or unintentionally hiding a secret. It’s usually something they fear revealing.
Items: A magatama with a year’s charge on it
A small camera inside the emoji pin on his beanie
A cellphone (it still has buttons even though he’s from 2026)
SAMPLES
Network: [ Under normal circumstances, the man who appears in this recording would be sporting a five o’clock shadow. He’s shaved today, though, and his beard doesn’t grow that fast, so he’s looking less unkempt than he often does these days. Isn't Hell way too hot for a beanie, though? (It is pretty hot. He's suffering. But also The Vibe is important.)
He should be more well-versed in technology than he is, but it takes him some fiddling to get the angle right on the camera. Never mind that was born ’92. As soon as he’s satisfied, he manages a smile.
If you squint, it doesn’t quite reach his eyes. ]
Hello, everyone. I’m still kind of wrapping my head around this whole Hell and the afterlife is real thing, but I thought I’d introduce myself, and … issue a challenge.
My name is Phoenix Wright. I’m a professional poker player.
[ (In a manner of speaking, at least.) ]
I thought I’d ask if anyone would like to play some real games where you don’t need to play for pieces of your soul. I mean, I sure hope there are tables like that around, but I also like playing people one on one. I’ve gone undefeated for seven years. Think you can beat me?
[ He’s unlikely to keep his streak going without Trucy around to allow him to cheat, but he doesn’t actually care about that. He’s just bored, and trying to network. Sort of.
After an airy laugh, he fiddles with the phone for a moment, then manages to cut the feed. ]
Log: TDM
Name: Tossino
Age: 29
Contact:
Current Characters: Mordecai
IC Info
Name: Phoenix Wright
Canon: Ace Attorney series
Age: 33
Appearance: Link
Canon Point: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the beginning of Turnabout Corner
Background: Link
CRAU: N/A
Personality: The primary attribute I’d pick to describe Phoenix Wright would be passionate. A bit too passionate, perhaps. When younger, this passion presented itself as very strong emotions and, frankly, completely absurd actions. Because he refused to believe that his girlfriend was a murderer, he decided to actually eat a small pendant in the shape of a glass bottle that might have had poison in it (don’t worry, he got better). And, what he’s most famous for: After reading about his childhood friend, Miles Edgeworth, allegedly forging evidence and manipulating witness testimonies as a prosecutor, he decided it was up to him to find Miles and figure out what happened to him. The Miles he knew would never do something like that. But when Miles wouldn’t return his calls, he decided his only option was to change his major to law, become a defence lawyer, and meet him in court. He changed his major because he was “the only one who could save Miles”. What do you mean most people don’t change their career for their estranged childhood friend?
Eventually, he does also figure out that he likes being a lawyer because it feels like he can really make a difference. He takes particular pride in defending those with especially hopeless-looking cases. AKA those who seem to have no one on their side.
So it turns out that being a defence lawyer was his calling. The courts of the States in the Ace Attorney universe are known for favouring the prosecution. In order to avoid getting overloaded with cases, they’ve also implemented a system in which trials have to be over in three days, and they normally start only a day or two after the first suspect has been apprehended. Add the fact that the defence is normally left entirely out of the investigation and gets next to no information about the case, and the defence is always left at a great disadvantage. It’s Phoenix’s passion and stubbornness more than anything else that gets him his victories. There’s no mistake he’s a smart person, but he struggles to think ahead and connect all the dots in a timely manner. Often, he has to piece together his case and the order of events on the spot, in court. He is, however, very good at that. It can often seem like he’s making things up, and every now and then he does just throw things at the wall until something sticks.
His true magnum opus, however, is what he and his mentor Mia would call turning your thinking around, which means to go over the basics of the case again and ask yourself if you’ve made the wrong assumptions somewhere along the way. In one particular case, The Stolen Turnabout, the real culprit tried to get away with murder by creating an alibi for himself, claiming he’d been elsewhere committing a robbery. When operating under the assumption that the murder and the robbery happened on the same night, whoever committed the robbery couldn’t have committed the murder. Phoenix worked out that the robbery happened a couple of nights before the murder, ruining his suspect’s alibi. Although, in comparison to a lot of his cases, he figured it all out before the trial. Usually, he can figure out what the pieces are, but putting them together takes a bit more time.
Although it’s something he’s gotten better at controlling with age, he’s a very emotional person. It’s a running joke in the series that the Wright family are notoriously bad at hiding what they’re thinking. I’d say those strong emotions are a big reason why. At his current canon point, necessity has made him work very hard to hide them better, and he’s gotten pretty good at it. Enough so that he can be unbeatable at poker. He gets some help from his daughter Trucy, who basically has a superpower to spot people’s tells, but he gets plenty of those victories himself. Even so, he’s still emotional. When he was younger, he’d get physically violent to stand up for his loved ones. If he’s under enough emotional distress, he struggles greatly to connect his thoughts.
He could easily be too good for Hell, if it wasn’t for that violent streak when he was younger. In his recent pursuit of truth to get to the bottom of who really forged the evidence that got him disbarred, he’s done a lot of questionable things. The most recent one is truly forging evidence, and risking Apollo Justice’s career when making him present that evidence. He’s also illegally recorded conversations and, even before his disbarment, he would frequently break into places to find evidence. Despite all this, he feels the strongest guilt about failing his client, Shadi Enigmar, at the trial that got him disbarred. Shadi ran to avoid a guilty verdict and, after staying hidden for seven years, returned only to immediately be killed. He left behind his daughter, Trucy, who Phoenix had been looking after for seven years. With Shadi’s death, he feels even stronger that he’s failed them both. This guilt, along with his actual crimes, is what gets him sent to Hell.
Weaknesses/Temptations: Especially at this stage in his life, he’s willing to do a lot of questionable things for the sake of ~the truth~. Once he learns he might in fact not be dead, he’ll want to figure out how to get back and get to the bottom of any secrets of Penance, and he might not trust the whole redemption thing.
He can also potentially sin to protect those he loves.
Also, paradoxically, he could sin in order to do something he’d still consider to be good.
Sins:
Manipulation
Assault
Contributed to the death of Doug Swallow
Failed Trucy Wright
Failed Shadi Enigmar
Robbery
Breaking and entering
Evidence forgery
Knowingly falsely accusing innocent people and causing emotional distress
Powers/Abilities: Through the use of the magatama in his possession, Phoenix can see the “locks” on people’s hearts, AKA when they are intentionally or unintentionally hiding a secret. It’s usually something they fear revealing.
Items: A magatama with a year’s charge on it
A small camera inside the emoji pin on his beanie
A cellphone (it still has buttons even though he’s from 2026)
SAMPLES
Network: [ Under normal circumstances, the man who appears in this recording would be sporting a five o’clock shadow. He’s shaved today, though, and his beard doesn’t grow that fast, so he’s looking less unkempt than he often does these days. Isn't Hell way too hot for a beanie, though? (It is pretty hot. He's suffering. But also The Vibe is important.)
He should be more well-versed in technology than he is, but it takes him some fiddling to get the angle right on the camera. Never mind that was born ’92. As soon as he’s satisfied, he manages a smile.
If you squint, it doesn’t quite reach his eyes. ]
Hello, everyone. I’m still kind of wrapping my head around this whole Hell and the afterlife is real thing, but I thought I’d introduce myself, and … issue a challenge.
My name is Phoenix Wright. I’m a professional poker player.
[ (In a manner of speaking, at least.) ]
I thought I’d ask if anyone would like to play some real games where you don’t need to play for pieces of your soul. I mean, I sure hope there are tables like that around, but I also like playing people one on one. I’ve gone undefeated for seven years. Think you can beat me?
[ He’s unlikely to keep his streak going without Trucy around to allow him to cheat, but he doesn’t actually care about that. He’s just bored, and trying to network. Sort of.
After an airy laugh, he fiddles with the phone for a moment, then manages to cut the feed. ]
Log: TDM