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turnaboutson) wrote2020-05-16 01:04 pm
turnaboutson) wrote2020-05-16 01:04 pm
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OOC INFORMATION
Name: Alex
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Are You Over 18?: Yep
Other Characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Miles Edgeworth
Age: 26
Canon: Ace Attorney
Canon Point: Just post-Ace Attorney Investigations 1. As in two days after. Because I'm a jerk.
Character Information: Ace Attorney wiki
Personality:
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.) He goes to great lengths to help people who are important to him, like his adoptive sister Franziska. He has very few people in his life who he is close to, and he considers them his - he doesn't want to lose them like he lost his father. 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 cases and no longer has a perfect record, he won't feel sorry for her.
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, something that would have gotten him disbarred if he'd been found out. He worries about Maya when she's trapped across the Eagle River in the dead of winter, hoping that she'll be all right until the bridge is repaired and the rescue party can reach her, and he does everything he can to further the investigation while Phoenix Wright is out of commission. He even summons a special task force to hunt the assassin who'd kidnapped Maya in order to force a specific defense from Phoenix. If you've earned his friendship, he's as devoted a friend as you'll ever have...even though he'd try and deny it.
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.)
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. And God help you if you trip that anger. It's like a smoldering flame, and if you deserve it, then he will come down on you with the fury of God's own thunder in the bounds of the law. And he's pretty brutal about it.
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?" He has also used bits of the law to corner the guilty, such as when he and Phoenix tricked Chief of Police Damon Gant into admitting crucial evidence into relevance in a trial under the principles of evidence law. This evidence proved Gant to be guilty of the murder, not Phoenix's client, and Edgeworth knew that would happen, thus using the system in the way it was intended rather than letting the powerful wiggle out on a technicality. This is further demonstration of how he pursues justice in conjunction with the "enemy" rather than going after an easy win when it would be convenient. (This case occurred just before he "chose death", making it part of why he questioned his entire worldview about von Karma's creed of victory above all versus the true prosecutor's path of justice, win or lose.)
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.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
- Principled
- Thorough
- Logical
- Protective
- Confident
- Dramatic
- Proud
- Loyal
- Just
- Truth-Seeking
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION?: Fits! That'll probably...break him less.
Opt-Outs:
- Vampire
- Demon
- Shade
- Lich
- Waldgeist
- Simulacrum
Roleplay Sample: May 2020 TDM
Extra: 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.
Name: Alex
Contact:
Are You Over 18?: Yep
Other Characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Miles Edgeworth
Age: 26
Canon: Ace Attorney
Canon Point: Just post-Ace Attorney Investigations 1. As in two days after. Because I'm a jerk.
Character Information: Ace Attorney wiki
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"
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.) He goes to great lengths to help people who are important to him, like his adoptive sister Franziska. He has very few people in his life who he is close to, and he considers them his - he doesn't want to lose them like he lost his father. 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 cases and no longer has a perfect record, he won't feel sorry for her.
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, something that would have gotten him disbarred if he'd been found out. He worries about Maya when she's trapped across the Eagle River in the dead of winter, hoping that she'll be all right until the bridge is repaired and the rescue party can reach her, and he does everything he can to further the investigation while Phoenix Wright is out of commission. He even summons a special task force to hunt the assassin who'd kidnapped Maya in order to force a specific defense from Phoenix. If you've earned his friendship, he's as devoted a friend as you'll ever have...even though he'd try and deny it.
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.)
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. And God help you if you trip that anger. It's like a smoldering flame, and if you deserve it, then he will come down on you with the fury of God's own thunder in the bounds of the law. And he's pretty brutal about it.
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?" He has also used bits of the law to corner the guilty, such as when he and Phoenix tricked Chief of Police Damon Gant into admitting crucial evidence into relevance in a trial under the principles of evidence law. This evidence proved Gant to be guilty of the murder, not Phoenix's client, and Edgeworth knew that would happen, thus using the system in the way it was intended rather than letting the powerful wiggle out on a technicality. This is further demonstration of how he pursues justice in conjunction with the "enemy" rather than going after an easy win when it would be convenient. (This case occurred just before he "chose death", making it part of why he questioned his entire worldview about von Karma's creed of victory above all versus the true prosecutor's path of justice, win or lose.)
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.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
- Principled
- Thorough
- Logical
- Protective
- Confident
- Dramatic
- Proud
- Loyal
- Just
- Truth-Seeking
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION?: Fits! That'll probably...break him less.
Opt-Outs:
- Vampire
- Demon
- Shade
- Lich
- Waldgeist
- Simulacrum
Roleplay Sample: May 2020 TDM
Extra: 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.