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Franziska Von Karma - Blog Posts
The Ace Attorney crew, but with a little magic.
Franziska: daddy daddy look my name is siska and im a poet, i speak german just to show it, and i, just turned nine, u can write- wait daddy no, dont walk away, DAD WHAT
FRANZY!!!!!!!!
perfectionist (pt. 2)
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tag as ship for an instant block theyre siblings you freaks
THEY SHOULDVE HUGGED IT OUT 💔💔💔💔💔
Sincerely yours,
Phoenix Wright.
Here’s our girl
Still not very good at digital art but I don’t mind how this one turned out :)
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EVERYTHING YOU SAID YES
Notice that Miles never mentions following in MVK's footsteps or the "von Karma creed/blood/name" when talking about his motivations to prosecute. (Compared to Franziska who mentions it as soon as she is introduced in 2-2). Miles only talks about the DL-6 incident and his father's death and punishing himself in relation to why he became a prosecutor instead of a defense attorney.
Now I'm not saying Miles wasn't influenced by MVK, I'm sure he was. But ignoring the reasons that Miles explicitly tells us, and instead claiming brainwashing or abuse, is doing a huge disservice to both Miles's and Manfred's character.
Manfred is a petty, cowardly man who killed a man over a penalty and ruined Miles's life. And considering all the issues Miles and Franziska has, I believe he is also quite a flawed parent. Manfred being abusive, homophobic, sexist, etc however, is not canon (him calling Miles "worthless" is a mistranslation!!).
So yeah, I rest my case. Miles, Franziska, and Manfred are some of my favorite Ace Attorney characters and Manfred not being Pure Evil™️ honestly makes all the angst and pain so much more delicious.
“Manfred von Karma brainwashed Miles into becoming a prosecutor!”
*scratches head*
Not gonna lie, I was one of the people who believed in this claim until a friend told me otherwise and I started replaying Turnabout Goodbyes recently.
It's really wild to me how almost all of Manfred's mischaracterization can be tied back to Miles' mischaracterization from the AA fandom LMAO
Fandom telephone can be such a curse sometimes.
Sobbing thinking about how much I love Phoenix and Franziska's rivalry in Justice for All.
The fact that both of them are so attached to winning their cases because they don't know who they are outside of being a lawyer. Phoenix says "let me defend you" and Franziska says "our battle begins now" because they don't know how else to say "don't leave me behind". Phoenix hides his negative emotions because "for a lawyer, the worst of times are when you have to force your biggest smiles" and Franziska hides her vulnerability because "a Von Karma is someone who is destined to be perfect".
Both of them react with anger and bitterness at getting abandoned. Phoenix blames himself for Miles' disappearance and Franziska blames Phoenix because they'd rather do that than feel utterly helpless. And they are too busy fighting each other to realize they both love Miles, they both want to save him, but they're both incredibly wrong about how to do it.
This!! I do get why slow burn wrightworth is so popular and I personally prefer them getting together right after the events of AA3 (Miles being there for Phoenix during disbarment is a NEED okay?), but I totally get this. Sometimes two less than healthy people getting together will end in ruin but what about hope? What about the fact that you don’t need to be fully healed to be loved? What about communication and trust and working together and finding the truth? They clash but also fit perfectly in court, so why not in their personal lives too?
And gosh, Farewell My Turnabout would hit so much harder if they were together in the trilogy (and by that, OP, I assume you mean all three games). “We aren’t some sort of heroes. We’re only human, you and I”— Love does not “save someone”, it does not fix everything but that doesn’t mean you should stop fighting.
Hell, all of Justice for All would hit so much harder. Now Franziska has more reason to believe Phoenix “killed” Miles. Now Franziska’s deep hurt disguised as a desire for vengeance has a whole new layer of pain: your foolish love killed my little brother, so I cannot show that I love him. I must fight him and I must win and then he will never leave me behind again.
And when Phoenix says “I decided that the Miles Edgeworth I knew had died… At least, that’s what I told myself”, it would hurt even more because the Edgeworth he knew wouldn’t have abandoned him, and the Edgeworth he knew would have been saved by his love.
(Side note, everything I said about JFA I believe to be true for canon as well. It would just be amplified and more heartbreaking if narumitsu were together during the original trilogy)
Also it is so hard to find fanfics with this concept but this is the closest I’ve found, enjoy! (We need more fanfics with this premise please)
I Turn To You (For My Comfort) Phoenix and Miles get together post Turnabout Goodbyes
if i woke up (next to you) Phoenix and Miles get together post Farewell My Turnabout
Turnabout Groceries and it’s sequel Home for (Almost) Christmas (which is not finished currently) AU where Phoenix and Miles adopt Trudy and Kay respectively before the events of the first game and narumitsu get together post Turnabout Samurai
Wow this is such a long reblog but OP you truly inspired me.
I can certainly see why people are obsessed about the slow burn reading of narumitsu, the one where they wait for 7, 9 or even more years before they ever do anything romantic together, but. Their relationship in the trilogy era could be so, so interesting and complicated and yet so. Warm and full of comfort.
Just... Two traumatized and mentally ill men trying their best to figure out this relationship thing. Phoenix remembering what it's like to have a romantic partner again, after being betrayed, after being left behind, and now confronting his abandonment issues. Edgeworth learning how to love somebody, and now trying to express it, perhaps searching for his own ways of doing so.
Yes, they encounter a number of problems. Edgeworth gets this nagging feeling at times that he's too broken for a romantic relationship, that he's a parasite leaching on another person's care and affection, thus at times he acts aloof and withdrawn. Phoenix gets paranoid that he'll end up completely alone again very soon, whenever he notices Edgeworth getting so cold all of a sudden. Edgeworth genuinely thinks at the worst moments that the right thing to do is to just break up right now so he doesn't waste any more of Phoenix' time. Phoenix is anxious that one day Edgeworth can just disappear on him again without saying a word. Edgeworth feels forever indebted for everything Phoenix did to help him, and now when he notices his partner struggling he wants to do the same for him, but he doesn't even know why Phoenix is troubled, and even less about how to help him. Phoenix is less than honest sometimes on how he feels because he really thinks that his problems are nothing compared to Edgeworth's, but he can't help but feel bitter nevertheless that his partner isn't that helping. And then feels like a petty person for that bitterness and knows that he can't be actually cross at Edgeworth for not being a mind-reader. If truth be told, they both think that the other "has it worse", so they both make the same mistake of not opening up fully until something not very good occurs.
"But why didn't you tell me anything??" They both ask each other. Often. But the important thing is, is that they get to ask that eventually. Say sorry to each other. And then move on knowing each other a little bit better, and maybe not repeating the same mistake in the future. At least, the chances are lower now.
Would it be unhealthy for them to be together in that era? Well, depends on your definition of the word 'unhealthy', but I'm a firm believer that it's better to figure out things together, with your loved one, and that's what they are doing. Healing goes much smoother when you have mutual support. And sometimes hurt people can understand and help other hurt people better than any 'healthy' person can. You are in pain, and I'm also in pain, so I understand how you feel and want to help you get through this. It's all about trust and empathy. And isn't it the core of narumitsu and their relationship?
So basically, while it takes a lot of work for them to be together at this point, it is worthwhile. And that is why I prefer the interpretation that they have something going on already in the trilogy. I really want them to struggle, but make it work. I want their relationship to begin not in the best possible moment, perhaps, but to grow more comfortable and mature with years regardless. It is not ideal and far from the perfection, and that is exactly why it's so real and beautiful.
—Well, how do you like it, Uncle Bubu?
— ...a fire.
This is what happens when you leave your daughter and the gen. prosecutor alone. RIGHT, MR. VON KARMA???
ps. a gift drawn for a wonderful friend 🥰
Asked twitter to give me letters and numbers and sketched some expressions!!
Ace attorney fandom hit me like a train (I dont wanna be here mom take me back home(((()
An animation of Franziska and Maya which I gave up on you can clearly see who's my favorite out of the two
And some text thingies, one of those is for a Dandy's World ask
Everyone read Mizu’s fic right now 🫵😠💣
My shitty little black and white one-pagers!
Pulp horror au!!! I kind of miss this one actually, I should do another thing for it sometime
mostly ace attorney but there is a lil cinnamaroll gajinka (which is a humanized form of a non human character of you don’t know) that i did with my friend and idk she’s kinda cute
she’s the only glimpse of color i have in my sketchbook so that’s something lol (plus the franziska too ig but i colored cinnamaroll first)
eyes
the eyes of many
i’m tempted to make this digital so i can see it in color
ok ok i tried something new and i think i like it??
Ace Attorney characters with random color palettes :D
i saw someone else do this and thought it looked fun so here’s my try!
this was pretty hard but i had fun :))
a gift for my sister inspired by our extensive discussions about the tremendous potential of an ace attorney kart racer....... RACE ATTORNEY
Finally posting my Ace Attorney x Dungeons and Dragons AU designs and some silly stuff (Sorry that Edgeworth and Phoenix are low quality I lost the original file and those were the only two I didn't upload anywhere else besides my TikTok)
POSE REFS WERE USED (thanks to my bestie @peacesign-luv for helping me pick out races and classes)
I was planning to make 17 stickers as giveaways for the event, but I only managed to make 7 because I ran out of money :(
Bonus Idea, grrrr
