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❥ Name: Miles Edgeworth
❥ Canon: Ace Attorney
❥ Canon Point: Just post-Ace Attorney Investigations 1. As in two days after. Because I'm a jerk.
❥ Fandom OC Approval: N/A

❥ History: Ace Attorney wiki
❥ CRAU?: N/A

❥ Personality:

It doesn't matter how many underhanded tricks a person uses... The truth will always find a way to make itself known. The only thing we can do is to fight with the knowledge we hold and everything we have. Erasing the paradoxes one by one... It's never easy... We claw and scratch for every inch. But we will always eventually reach that one single truth. This I promise you.

- Miles Edgeworth, Ace Attorney: Justice for All, "Farewell, My Turnabout"

What is a feeling??? How do I handle it: Edgeworth is blessed (cursed?) with resting bitch face. And resting bitch-ness. He sometimes can't tell when he's acting cold or condescending towards people, and he generally just has the social skills of a grapefruit. However, he does have a soft spot for kids, probably because his childhood was so violently interrupted. He is kind and empathetic to a young Kay Faraday, even after she's kicked him in the shins, because his own father was murdered in the very same courthouse.

(During the period of time between Ace Attorney Investigations 2 and Apollo Justice, it's mentioned that he's grown very fond of Phoenix's daughter Trucy, and even attends Trucy's magic shows. He's later seen using Phoenix's nickname for Pearl.)

In addition to his complete lack of social skills, Edgeworth's default state is "tsundere". He claims that he finds people like Detective Gumshoe and Kay Faraday bothersome, but he doesn't; Gumshoe is one of his oldest companions and Kay is like a daughter to him, but good luck getting him to admit that. He generally gripes about Phoenix and Maya, but he literally flies halfway across the world when he hears that Phoenix has been hurt, not to mention that he even subs in for the man as a defense attorney for a day, the exact opposite of his profession. He even goes to great lengths to help people who are important to him, like his adoptive sister Franziska. When Kay is in danger, he runs to help her, and goes full Dad Mode when Calisto Yew has her at gunpoint. That doesn't mean he'll coddle them; he tells Franziska that if she quits being a prosecutor just because she's lost, he won't feel sorry for her.
If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my worst: Miles Edgeworth has two intense phobias: Elevators and earthquakes. This is because in the DL-6 incident, prior to Manfred murdering his father, he and his father were trapped in an elevator during an earthquake. He will refuse to use an elevator if stairs are available, and earthquakes (or anything resembling them, such as turbulence) send him into a PTSD attack, with effects as diverse as curling up in a ball on the floor and shaking to completely passing out for several minutes at a time.
I regret so much but I'm working on myself: Edgeworth pursues justice, as he thinks all prosecutors should, and he has a deeply-ingrained sense of honor. Even when he was being raised and taught by von Karma, that sense of honor was still there, albeit warped. The "honorable" thing was to uphold the name of von Karma and obtain the perfect victory, but he knows better now. While he now aims for ensuring that justice is done, he'll still use every legal method available to him in order to get a witness to tell the truth. When people insinuate that as a disciple of von Karma he's manipulating testimony and forging evidence, he gets very quietly angry. Don't bring up his adoptive father or say they're alike - that's one of his berserk buttons. Miles has rejected his tactics and abjured the man himself. He won't lie when he is pursuing the truth, and when it comes down to the wire, he values pursuing the spirit of justice (heyyy) over the letter of the law. This holds true even when only the use of illegally-obtained evidence can force a confession from someone who sits outside normal legal means, which sits poorly with him. As he rationalizes it, though, "There is no limit to the law. Any limit that exists was set there by man. When a person goes beyond that limit, the law, too, crosses into new territory! For what reason were laws invented?"
Feeling a bit deathy: Three things shattered Edgeworth's arrogant self-image: Suffering his first loss, discovering that his adoptive father killed his biological father and his entire life since age eight had been a lie, and finding out that he'd inadvertently used falsified evidence in a case that put an (admittedly guilty) man to death. That was the final straw, and he wrote a note that he left on his desk: "Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth chooses death." While it read as a suicide note, Edgeworth simply has the social skills of a grapefruit and meant it as the prosecutor in him had died, and he went to study other legal systems to figure out what being a prosecutor truly meant to him. (It's left unclear whether he actually intended to commit suicide/attempted it or not, although my headcanon is that he was at the very least thinking about it.) Then he wandered back into the local Criminal Affairs Department with Starbucks a year later to roast his sister for being a sore loser, and surprisingly nobody punched him.
Majoring in gay anime: Although he tries to keep it under wraps, Edgeworth is a poorly-concealed mega-fan of the Steel Samurai, a super sentai series, and will infodump about it at the least provocation. He's such a fan that he hides manga in one of his law books to read on a plane, so he still looks like An Intellectual while being a giant weeb. He also enjoys the Signal Samurai, a show that he and Phoenix watched when they were kids. He's also been known to make Star Wars references, so it can be inferred that he's an all-around secret nerd.

❥ Abilities: I'm only including this here because it seems to be his Dumb Lawyer Superpower: Logic. Basic logic and deductive reasoning. That's it. That's his superpower. Everyone else is very impressed with his logical skills and inferences. So I guess his "ability" is being able to occasionally use his one brain cell to investigate crimes and catch people in lies and contradictions. Nothing supernatural, nothing outside of the norm, but everyone treats it as such, so...he's super smart?

❥ Extras:

Edgeworth will follow Diacht. Honor 'n' such, baby.
Edgeworth will be bringing his prosecutor's badge and Signal Red keychain with him.
Since I'm drawing from the English localization, it's been made explicitly clear that the localized versions take place in Los Angeles rather than Japan. (Eat your hamburgers, Apollo.) The head of the English localization team has said that her headcanon is that it takes place in a universe where anti-Japanese sentiment and anti-immigrant laws never took hold, so that's as good as canon for me.

SAMPLE
Miles Edgeworth just could not catch a break.

In the past week, he'd been involved in a murder on an airplane (and passed out due to his damnable panic attack), been kidnapped and hit in the head with a sword, found a corpse in his office (and had a gun pulled on him in said office), and stayed up all night solving a double-murder-slash-international-incident linked to a case from ten years ago, because of course it always came back to something from the past.

Also, he'd been accused of murder. Again. But that was getting to be old hat.

He'd done his job, he'd prosecuted Ex-Ambassador Quercus Alba for murder and heading up the long-running smuggling ring, and he'd gone back to his office to finish going through the case files to wrap up both KG-8 incidents once and for all. There was quite a lot to deal with, and he didn't want to risk taking the files home to finish things up there. Files from KG-8 had been stolen before, after all.

At somewhere around 3 am, not even the most caffeinated tea he had could keep him awake anymore. I'll just lie down for a moment, he thought, settling down on the couch. Then I'll get back to it. He closed his eyes for a nap.

And woke up somewhere else.

The "NNGHOOOOOOOH!" he let out was enough to make the...thing...above him step back, but not quickly enough to keep Edgeworth from sitting up too quickly and banging his head on it. "Augh!"

"Please be careful," the thing said. Was it a robot? It looked like a robot.

"I'm having a nightmare," he said to himself. "I am having a nightmare."

"You have been brought to Havenwell--"

"Where. Is. That," Edgeworth said through his teeth.

"The world of Aellyn," the robot said. "You have been brought here to help save our world--" and it might have been the shock or the nascent concussion or the extreme anger at being kidnapped again, but Miles Edgeworth picked that particular time to pass out.

This just wasn't his week.

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