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- I Made Steel Samurai my phone background and I made my ringtone the theme song . . . I might have a Miles Edgeworth situation on my shoulders ��
- Playing Dual Destinies and noticed that Apollo's badge looks a hell of a lot like the cardboard badge that Furio used
- Found this on the Cuphead Wiki, Silverworth.
- Anyone know if there is a full body, high resolution photo of this image?
- I found a bug in 1-5 in the 3ds Trilogy (May have been found already)
- In which cases, in your opinion, did you not feel that justice was served?
- Sketch dumps I did after finishing aai, aai2 and apollo justice
- Kristoph Gavin, mentor of Apollo Justice
- Do you like this style? fanart by debeedraws
- Ace attorney head canons episode 54,870
- Layton VS Ace Attorney Media Chart
- Anyone started the series with a game that isn't AA1?
- It's cuter than you think (I'll explain it in the comments if you want)
- A Comprehensive Guide to What Trucy Isn't
- favorite cross examination theme?
- WAIFU TOURNAMENT ROUND #7
- Collaborative, Ace Attorney tabletop roleplaying game !
- Case Openings
- Can Rayfa be considered an assistant?
- If Ace Attorney 7 is created, can it survive amongst other games without the help of it's fanbase?
- Have you guys pre-ordered The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles? I just did.
- Franziska!
- Hey guys I think I actually have an unpopular opinion
- Drew Trucy Wright, idk why but I just felt like it
- A sunny day with Klavier☆ (oc)
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| Found this on the Cuphead Wiki, Silverworth. Posted: 26 Jun 2021 07:03 AM PDT
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| Anyone know if there is a full body, high resolution photo of this image? Posted: 26 Jun 2021 03:46 AM PDT
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| I found a bug in 1-5 in the 3ds Trilogy (May have been found already) Posted: 25 Jun 2021 02:17 PM PDT
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| In which cases, in your opinion, did you not feel that justice was served? Posted: 26 Jun 2021 07:47 AM PDT In my opinion.
3.Every case that involves Shelly de Killer. [link] [comments] | ||
| Sketch dumps I did after finishing aai, aai2 and apollo justice Posted: 26 Jun 2021 07:54 AM PDT | ||
| Kristoph Gavin, mentor of Apollo Justice Posted: 25 Jun 2021 05:32 PM PDT
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| Do you like this style? fanart by debeedraws Posted: 25 Jun 2021 06:03 PM PDT
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| Ace attorney head canons episode 54,870 Posted: 26 Jun 2021 09:37 AM PDT Okay I think everyone knows what these are I'll just start 🥶 Pearl doesn't bring up Maya x nick anymore because she has a major plan she's working on that involves them both thinking she's over it. Every time Apollo or Athena says "I'm fine!" Phoenix sees a bunch of psyche locks. He wonders how many he has. Godot eventually got out of prison, and decided to move away and have a fresh start. He said goodbye of course, he didn't ditch. No hard feelings between him, Wright, iris, and Maya. Iris and Phoenix still occasionally meet. They mutually agree it would be to awkward to date, but remain very good friends. She helps him with stress a bit. Kristophs demon hand comes from a cult. I imagine that being in his backstory that they cut :( Klavier tried to get him out of the cult, but the cult already took a hold of him. Kristoph was an actual good defense attorney before the cult put a demon inside him. He still retains his human side tho, which is why he took in Apollo. Apollo is kinda jealous of how Phoenix's hair stays spiky, even without gel and being trapped in a beanie for 7 years, as Apollo has to use half a container of gel a day to keep his horns up. Athena and Julie both have a crush on Apollo. Athena ignores it since junie likes him, but junie suspected athena likes him too and now is also trying to ignore it. They both cried when he moves to Kurai'n but are doing good now. Blackquill still visits aura and if she ever gets out she will always have a spot as her assistant if she needs it. Bobby died fighting the phantom. I just don't like imagining Bobby going out in a sneaky way. Which is weird since we technically never met him. Phoenix's hair is a supernatural thing representing his moral state. At the start of his career his hair is fully spiky. When he gets disbarred and uses forged evidence his hair gets mushy, which he hides with the hat trucy conveniently gave him. He then returns to law, and his hair spikes up again, with one single strand hanging out to remind him never to stray from the path of justice again. (This is why it immediately grows back when blackquill cuts it off) Athena had normal hair before meeting Wright, but after seeing a picture of him in his prime and meeting Apollo and seeing his horns, she tried her best to have a wacky yet normal looking hairstyle, and she kinda succeeded. Remember the psyche lock thing? I think when Wright says he's fine black locks come up. Kristoph, the seven years, Maya getting kidnapped again, being on trials where you will die if you lose like three times in a short period of time, high pressure to end a dark age of the law, his daughter getting held hostage, and Apollo leaving really took a toll on him. He may wish to take a vacation before he passes out and dies of stress. Don't worry Phoenix, Athena can take care of things while you're fucking Maya- I mean hangin out with Maya in Mexico, in Athena Cykes ace attorney, right capcom? And finally: Edgeworth is a redditor. [link] [comments] | ||
| Layton VS Ace Attorney Media Chart Posted: 25 Jun 2021 05:25 AM PDT
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| Anyone started the series with a game that isn't AA1? Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:16 AM PDT I started Justice For All instead of AA1 by mistake, I did the whole first case and then a friend told me that was the wrong game. Anyone did something like that? [link] [comments] | ||
| It's cuter than you think (I'll explain it in the comments if you want) Posted: 25 Jun 2021 10:29 PM PDT
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| A Comprehensive Guide to What Trucy Isn't Posted: 25 Jun 2021 07:41 PM PDT (Note: This was meant to be an analysis of Trucy in 4-2. However, the first section became long enough to be its own post, so I'm posting it by itself. The second half, the analysis of Trucy in 4-2, will probably come later.) In the past, I've written a few posts analyzing Trucy in DD and SoJ. In my analysis of 6-2, I came to the conclusion that 6-2 Trucy is a simplified, condensed, and fundamentally altered version of her AJ self. Overall, while I certainly like Trucy in 6-2, I was disappointed with how she was written, and I consider 6-2's portrayal of her a misinterpretation of who she used to be in AJ. Later, I wrote about Trucy in DD, and this time I barely had anything positive to say. Trucy in DD is a non-character who is irrelevant to the cast and to the plot, with all of her personality, depth, and relationships removed. In the absence of these crucial things, the game treats her as a tool to benefit other characters and plot points rather than as a person in her own right. DD represents the beginning of unfortunate trends with Trucy that SoJ, besides 6-2, continues. Finally, I made a list of some observations comparing Trucy in AJ with her appearances in DD and SoJ, highlighting ways in which she has been Flanderized and otherwise changed. All of this begs the question: exactly who and what was Trucy in AJ, and what, in my opinion, makes her so good? I've recently replayed AJ, so I'm ready to answer this question, looking specifically at 4-2, the case where Trucy is introduced. I hope to be able to offer a new perspective on AJ Trucy and on Trucy in general. What Trucy Isn'tTrucy in AJ is a subtle character, and as a result, a variety of interpretations of her character have emerged over the years. To make matters more complicated, DD and SoJ portray Trucy poorly and at odds with her original appearance, leading to common perceptions of her character that aren't actually true in AJ. In order to establish a starting point for discussing Trucy in depth, we all need to be on the same page about some of her basic traits. To determine what Trucy is actually like, then, we first have to clarify what she isn't. Note that in this section I'll be talking about Trucy generally, not necessarily in 4-2. Trucy is not:
Trucy is not a Maya clone. This idea seems to have decreased in popularity over the years, but I still see it occasionally, and as perhaps the most major misconception, it needs to be addressed. In a Capcom Unity interview with Shu Takumi, Takumi explains some of his thought process behind writing Apollo and Trucy. He reveals that when writing Phoenix in the trilogy, he had Phoenix say whatever he himself would in the given situation. He then wrote Maya to fit well with Phoenix, making Phoenix and Maya intuitive and natural characters. When writing AJ, however, Takumi needed a new protagonist and deuteragonist, and he couldn't take the same approach twice. He explains his strategy:
Takumi wrote Apollo and Trucy as "opposites," or inversions, of Phoenix and Maya, respectively. He took Phoenix and Maya and "turned them upside-down," making Apollo and Trucy into their own distinct characters. Apollo makes it clear that he's not a Phoenix clone as soon as he punches Phoenix in the face. And Trucy... well, it'd be easier to list her similarities with Maya than her differences. What are her similarities? Well, they're both cheerful teenage girls who hide their feelings, and... oh. That's it. That's not a character description. That's an archetype. Yes, Maya and Trucy share the same archetype, just like Phoenix and Apollo share the same archetype. As they should; Trucy is an inversion of Maya, just like Apollo is an inversion of Phoenix. Trucy and Apollo fill the same general roles that Phoenix and Maya did, but at the same time are very different characters, Trucy especially. And that brings us to the next point, that Trucy isn't only an inversion of Maya, but also a subversion. To explain this, we need to place Trucy in the context of AJ's main cast, which is designed as a subversion of AA1's main cast. Apollo starts as a Phoenix fanboy, similar to Phoenix himself, before losing his idealism and Phoenix's signature belief in others; Kristoph starts out as an experienced mentor like Mia before being revealed to be a murderer; Klavier, being Kristoph's brother, seems to be a corrupt prosecutor like Edgeworth but is actually honest and tries to find the truth from the start; and Ema and Phoenix present a grimmer perspective on their trilogy selves just by being put into a new situation. All of these characters initially resemble their AA1 counterparts and fill the same general roles, but they do so in new ways by being very different characters with their own personalities and relationships. They're subversions. This pattern applies to Trucy as well. She resembles Maya at first, being a cheerful teenage girl with an eccentric outfit who is the protagonist's assistant. However, by being an inversion of Maya's character, she represents a subversion of Maya's archetype and role, and in doing so she subverts the standard protagonist-assistant dynamic as well (to be discussed later). How is Trucy an "opposite," an inversion, of Maya? In several ways, but I can list a few major ones here. Whereas Maya is a village girl, Trucy is experienced and street-smart. And it's certainly not the only way in which Trucy is smart. She's extremely intelligent and perceptive, often figuring out details faster than Apollo does. Think, for example, about the contradictions she points out in 4-2 while Apollo is struggling to keep his confidence, or how in 4-3 she notices the connection between the lyrics of The Guitar's Serenade and the events of that day before anyone else, even Klavier. Or think about more minor moments, like how she often corrects Apollo when he gives wrong answers in court, or how she notices when witnesses are nervous. Trucy is extremely intelligent, quick-witted, and perceptive. Or, as Phoenix emphasizes at the beginning of 4-2, when he meets Apollo in the hospital:
Trucy really is a "genius." Maya, in contrast, is a little bit of an airhead. I don't say that to criticize her character, I say that to explain how Trucy is an inversion of her. Maya has moments when she provides great insight, such as when she's the first person to think of the possibility that von Karma murdered Gregory, or when she comes up with a strong argument to protect Godot. I don't mean to say that Maya is stupid, I mean to say that moments that show her intelligence are far less prevalent and consistent than Trucy's are; and this struggle to be useful, in fact, is an important part of Maya's character, just as Trucy's usefulness, intelligence, and perceptiveness are an important part of hers. Beyond being very smart and capable, Trucy is also a performer. She's a professional, a prodigy in her field and skilled with her perception ability, whereas Maya is still mastering the Kurain Channeling Technique throughout the trilogy. As a performer, Trucy is witty but deadpan, secretive, and keeps collected under pressure, while Maya is silly, speaks without thinking, and makes impulsive decisions in stressful situations. Trucy is mature, tending to act older than her age. Think about how she handles the business side of the agency and works to support Phoenix from eight years old, or how she coaches Apollo and encourages him after he reveals Shadi Smith's identity. Maya, on the other hand, has many strong moments of maturity, but in general tends to act younger than her age. Lastly, Maya puts on an act for her friends so they don't worry about her and consider her a burden, while Trucy puts on a facade for the entire world around her due to a variety of reasons. They're both performative, but in opposite ways. And overall, likewise, Trucy and Maya are opposites; Maya is an average teenager, whereas Trucy is an extraordinary teenager pretending to be average. I haven't even mentioned other important details, such as Trucy's darker, morally gray side. (You only need to look at Trucy's first appearance in the game to see that, but we'll also get into the topic later.) As a final point, then, a thought experiment: if you replaced Trucy in AJ with trilogy Maya, ignoring plot complications, would events play out differently? I sure think so, and you should think so too. The surface level similarities Trucy and Maya share are a result of Trucy reusing Maya's archetype, but by being an inversion of Maya, Trucy is a subversion of her as well. As applies to AJ's entire main cast, subverting the archetype puts Trucy in a position to feel familiar at first, but to be from a distinctly new era of the series, to have relationships, themes, and stories that her trilogy counterpart never could've had, and vice versa. Trucy is not a Maya clone, but rather an extremely unique character.
Trucy is a unique character, and that's because she's more than a magician. Magic is her job, and she's passionate about it, and it's an important part of her identity. However, she is a person first and a magician second. This misconception comes primarily from DD and SoJ, which forget the fact that Trucy used to be more than a magician. DD turns Trucy into a walking magic panties joke (though maybe "walking" is a little too generous, given that she rarely leaves the office), and when she's not doing her magic panties trick, she's probably making another magic-related joke or comment. SoJ continues this trend. Even 6-2, the case that's supposed to be dedicated to exploring Trucy's emotions, does so purely in the context of Trucy as a magician and nothing else. Her emotional conflict here is based almost entirely on the Gramarye creed, a retcon that very conveniently ties her struggles to her job as a magician: "A true entertainer always keeps a smile on their face." The case doesn't acknowledge Trucy as anything beyond a magician and treats her job as her entire identity, even when she has so many facets outside magic that could be explored. This excessive fixation on Trucy as a magician is one of my issues with her portrayal in the case, and I discuss it in greater detail in my 6-2 analysis. AJ, in contrast, treats Trucy as a human being who happens to be a magician rather than as a magician who happens to be a human being. Magic is important to her personality and identity, and I won't deny that, because it's true. And I'd hope it's true, because she's a professional magician from a family of professional magicians. The difference with AJ is that Trucy is written realistically, so that she's passionate about magic and often draws connections to it, but also clearly has other interests and a life outside being a magician. Think of Trucy's obsession with the Gavinners, for example, or her hobby of picking locks, or her knowledge of movies and TV. She has interests outside of magic. Or think of smaller details, like the fact that she goes to school, or likes Eldoon's Noodles, or keeps her normal clothes in the zig-zag cabinet, or helps Phoenix cheat at poker with her perception ability. She has a life outside magic. These insights into Trucy's life go a long way to establishing her as a person with an organic life who happens to be a magician, but such contextualizing details are rarely brought up in DD and SoJ in favor of magic, magic, and magic. It's as if DD and SoJ don't realize that Trucy is allowed to exist and do things that don't involve magic. Trucy's response to being held hostage? It involves magic. Trucy's reason for being absent during 6-4? It involves magic. Trucy's one and only kind-of-interaction with Pearl? It involves magic. Trucy's one and only kind-of-interaction with Edgeworth? It involves magic. Oh, but wait, Edgeworth's other connection to Trucy is that he's gone to her magic show! And for good measure there's the one case that focuses on Trucy, and it treats her only as a magician and nothing else. Have you, by chance, picked up on the fact that Trucy is a magician? It's kind of subtle, so you might have missed it. But I really don't want you to miss it, so just to be extra sure, let me clarify it for y— ...Ahem. More bitter than hell itself... that is a Trucy fan. That's not a bad motto, actually. But anyway. That contextual perspective is the more difficult way to look at it, but we can think about it the easy way, too. What does Trucy actually say and do in AJ? Well, I can tell you what she doesn't say and do. The joke about Trucy forcing unwilling lawyers to be her assistant is common in DD and SoJ, but Trucy uses it exactly zero times in AJ. The magic panties joke is extremely common in DD and SoJ, but it's referenced—not even used—exactly three times in 4-3 and 4-4 combined, and Trucy only accounts for one of those references. This is as it should be, because the magic panties were meant to be a single-case joke only relevant in 4-2. In AJ, Mr. Hat is more important to Trucy than her magic panties, but he also only appears rarely, and his appearances mark significant moments. And when Trucy does make magic references and jokes in AJ, which is relatively infrequent, the key point is that they are varied. One time she uses fake blood, other times she mentions catching bullets in her teeth and shooting a cat out of a gun, later she asks to steal equipment to help with her trick coin routine. (I've recently replayed AJ and have a pretty good memory, and I'm struggling to remember any other magic jokes or references she makes. They really are infrequent.) When the magician side of her identity comes out, it is varied, and there is believable breadth to it. You can imagine Trucy as a magician performing her daily shows at the Wonder Bar, and that, in turn, makes her a believable person. Now compare this to the magician we see in DD and SoJ who is little more than her magic panties and is only played for laughs. She's not believable at all, either as a magician or, even worse, as a person. I've mentioned what AJ Trucy doesn't say and doesn't do, as well as what she does infrequently. So what about all the rest of the time? All the rest of the time, is, well—is her being a person, saying and doing things that have nothing to do with magic. Trucy in AJ is a person first and a magician second, and it's vital to keep this in mind in order to understand what she's actually like. She's a magician, yes, and she cares a lot about magic, yes. In many respects, she's not "normal." But she's also an intelligent, mature, empathetic, deadpan middle school student with her own hobbies and interests, a teenager with her own hopes, desires, worries, and fears. Not that she always lets those feelings show easily. Speaking of which...
Trucy is very often putting on an act and hiding her thoughts and feelings. Along the same lines, she is neither naïve nor innocent. Instead, she is fully aware of everything she does and is not afraid to take questionable, morally gray measures to accomplish her goals. Until I edited it recently, the very first sentence of the Ace Attorney Wiki's section on Trucy's personality read, "Trucy is bright, energetic, and very naïve." (italics added) Looking back into the page's history, this line was added in 2009, meaning that it's been there for twelve years. As a wiki editor myself, I know these things happen. However, I need to emphasize that calling Trucy "very naïve" is nothing short of misinformation. "Very naïve" is how she seems at a surface level, but it is absolutely not how she is. At the end of AJ, when talking with Thalassa, Phoenix expresses how important Trucy and Apollo are to him. He proceeds to think to himself that he has a special responsibility for Trucy, while a previously unseen sprite of her crying appears:
This line represents the only direct mention in the game that something is going on under Trucy's facade, and as such serves as a reveal that she is a more complex character than she may initially seem. Accordingly, people often call Phoenix's line here lazy writing; it tells about Trucy's feelings rather than showing them, and it's shoved in right at the end of the game without any prior build-up to hastily give Trucy depth that the rest of the game forgot to give her. It's a reasonable opinion, and I don't blame anyone for holding it. I'd believe it myself, if it were true. It certainly seems true. It, however, is not. In fact, I wasn't being accurate in my description in the previous paragraph. Phoenix's line here doesn't serve as a reveal at all. Rather, it serves as a re-contextualization of Trucy's character in the player's mind, a "Were you paying attention?" check at the end of the game. The clues were always there. I know I didn't pick up on them in my first playthrough, so Phoenix's line did come as a surprise to me. Again, however, that line does not serve as a reveal in itself, and it does not explain anything new; it is a suggestion for the player to look closer, to discover what Phoenix sees about Trucy that they don't. What, then, are these clues that show that Trucy is frequently putting on a persona and hiding her feelings? Well, in the Japanese script, Trucy refers to herself in the third person using her name (Minuki) and speaks childishly and formally. Referring to oneself using one's name in Japanese has a connotation of cuteness, and is often done by children. We established earlier that Trucy is very intelligent and mature, but in dialogue she seems childish. Why is that? Because she's acting. She wants other people to see her as a cute, naïve girl and miss the fact that she's extremely intelligent and astute. She puts on a persona to hide her true nature and to manipulate others' perception of her. Combined with her formal way of speaking in Japanese, such as how she refers to Apollo as Odoroki-san, this facade makes for an ideal image for a stage performer like her to have; it's not a coincidence that her theme means "Child of Magic" in Japanese and English. She seems to be an innocent and polite girl, while her actual, more complex feelings stay hidden. That's all very nice and interesting to know, but most of us don't play the game in Japanese, and Trucy doesn't refer to herself in third person in English, because that just wouldn't work. So how does this help us find clues about Trucy's facade in the English script? Well, luckily for us, AJ has a particularly amazing English localization. It may not always be obvious, but everything I just mentioned about Trucy in Japanese is carried over intact to Trucy in English. I said that Trucy speaks childishly and formally in Japanese. In English, too, Apollo and Trucy have opposite speaking styles. Whereas Apollo tends to avoid non-standard contractions like "gonna" but uses colloquial words and phrases, Trucy tends to use non-standard contractions and cute diction but avoids colloquial words and phrases. Put more simply, Trucy has a casual speaking style, but her actual word choice and syntax tends to be polite and sophisticated, especially considering she's only fifteen years old. She uses professional-level language in a cute way; childish and formal, just as she wants to appear. Likewise, Trucy often makes a show of not understanding a basic fact or a word's pronunciation or meaning, despite clearly knowing it. And I haven't even mentioned that Trucy frequently switches to a business- and salesperson-like, formal style of speech at a moment's notice. Trucy saying "Daddy" as a teenager is strange. But have you ever thought about why she does it? You could come up with a deep psychological theory, if you wanted, but the obvious reason is much simpler: it sounds cute. In Japanese, Trucy says papa (note Phoenix's beanie), which is typically used by children. "Daddy" is the same, being childish and cute; again, just as Trucy wants to appear. And every time Trucy uses the word "Daddy," she reinforces her act. Have you ever thought about why she says "Polly"? It sounds cute, and every time she says it, she reinforces her act. Or what about Trucy asking for a "new mommy"? She's not actually asking for Phoenix to get married, it's an act to sound childish and throw Apollo off-guard, and Phoenix, knowing Trucy well, understands what's really happening:
Stage mode is engrained in Trucy's identity. She's an extraordinary teenager in the guise of an innocent and naïve child, and if you seriously believe that she is naïve and oblivious and that her actions and words can be taken at face value, you've fallen for her act, too. I haven't yet touched on the emotions that, according to Phoenix, Trucy is hiding under her facade. I'll do so when I get to discussing 4-2. But what I have done is to highlight the more general clues—and these are the much weaker clues compared to what I'll show later—that Trucy wears a facade in the first place, and that while she acts like an innocent and naïve child, this couldn't be further from the truth. Trucy is a morally gray, manipulative, genius character prone to acting and lying, and neither Apollo nor the player can ever fully trust her. As long as the player does trust her and take her at face value, however, they will see what she wants them to see, which is not her actual self, but a misleading, one-dimensional image.
Trucy isn't naïve or innocent, but on the other end of the spectrum, she isn't a jerk, either. This is another false perception that comes primarily from DD and SoJ, though AJ may also contribute to it for some people. You're allowed to find Trucy annoying, as you are for any character. But that's not what I mean here. I'm referring to the idea that Trucy is consistently rude and insensitive to other people, and this is not true. It is, by the nature of trying to prove a negative, difficult to show that Trucy isn't a jerk in AJ, but it is very easy to show how her unpleasant tendencies were ramped up in DD and SoJ. The change begins as soon as Trucy is introduced in DD, where the joke of Trucy making a lawyer her unwilling assistant appears for the first time, after not having been used once in AJ:
She then makes fun of Apollo's forehead when Jinxie throws a charm on it, and he's distressed. Note that despite Klavier constantly calling Apollo "Herr Forehead," no one actually made fun of his forehead in AJ; "Herr Forehead" referred to a failed contradiction with Meraktis' forehead that Apollo had tried to point out:
As some examples of the ways Trucy teased Apollo in AJ, she said he looked cute when he was scared, suggested that he enjoyed searching through trash cans, and told him he looked great presenting her magic panties in court. One, she didn't tease Apollo all that frequently, unlike 3DS Trucy; she quite frequently threw him off with her acting, but that wasn't directed against him. Two, she balanced her teasing with an equal or greater amount of support and encouragement, which 3DS Trucy doesn't do, making her seem more rude. Third, when she did tease Apollo in AJ, it was a specific kind of teasing. It wasn't malicious or even really insulting, it was mostly flustering, making Apollo surprised and indignant. This is in contrast to 3DS Trucy, who often directly makes fun of Apollo, usually resorting to his forehead or voice. There's a reason AJ Trucy stays away from insults: she's polite. If Apollo returns to Meraktis' garage on the second day of the trial, he can have a conversation with Trucy about what happened the previous day:
As a performer, Trucy is polite. She jokes about it in this exchange, but it's true. And because, as established, Trucy is almost constantly acting as a performer, she is almost constantly polite. It's part of her persona. She teases people, but she does so in a polite, indirect, and seemingly innocent way. She doesn't get angry, even with people she clearly dislikes, like Daryan. She doesn't outright force others to do anything they don't want to do. Instead, she emotionally manipulates them or relies on her enthusiasm to lead people to say yes. You'll probably tell me emotional manipulation isn't nice. And no, it really isn't. But she doesn't do it rudely or insensitively, which is my point here. Much of this changes in DD and SoJ, which forget about Trucy not being rude and insensitive, instead making her rude and insensitive for the sake of turning her into a joke character. Examples are limited because her screen time is limited, but there's still plenty to work off of. In addition to her tendency to force Apollo and Athena to help her with dangerous magic and to her directly making fun of Apollo, think, for example, of how she signs Apollo up for a list of odd jobs as soon as he returns to the agency. You'd think she'd be more considerate of everything he'd just gone through, and that she might be more thankful to have someone she considers her brother back safe. "Considerate" isn't something Trucy is in SoJ either. 6-2 is a special case, featuring Trucy as an actual character, a rarely seen phenomenon. But as soon as it ends, Trucy reverts. And I mean literally as soon as it ends; right after Apollo gets Trucy acquitted of a murder charge and saves the agency, Trucy tricks Apollo into unwillingly taking part in her show, locking him in a coffin and embarrassing him in front of a national audience. That's not something AJ Trucy would've likely done. She would've told Apollo up front what she wanted, and Apollo would've either agreed or disagreed. But here, Trucy is made into an inconsiderate jerk for the sake of a joke. 6-DLC takes this problem and makes it even worse, making Trucy seem almost like a psychopath in how she chases Athena around the whole case to force her to participate in dangerous tricks. Athena is even afraid for her life. Do you remember when I said that AJ Trucy doesn't outright force people to do anything they don't want to do? This is what I had in mind. This is absolutely not something AJ Trucy would've done, who always made a point to be polite and considerate. And again, it's only played for a joke. Of course, Trucy isn't always rude and insensitive in the 3DS games, but in general, they give a false impression of her personality. So is AJ Trucy the nicest person to ever exist? Definitely not (and thankfully not, because that would be boring). She has moments of being unhelpful when it would really be best for her to help, like when she refuses to tell Apollo how the illusion worked in 4-3. I could go into an explanation of how that relates to her character, but ultimately, yes, it's not justified. AJ Trucy has moments of being a jerk, but they are few and far between, and in the same series where Maya assaulted Phoenix with the Shichishito and a metal bar on separate occasions and laughed about it, they're pretty minor. In the end, if you still consider Trucy a jerk, that's fine. This is more subjective than my previous points. I'm only trying to put the perception of Trucy being a jerk in perspective, so that we keep her Flanderized appearances separate from her original appearance, and so that we don't get the wrong impression about what Trucy is actually like. As will be described later, Trucy is considerate of other people, cares about other people she has little connection to, worries about other people, and does any number of other positive things. I'm not here to call Trucy the best person ever, because she isn't. I'm just pointing out that despite the impressions you may get from DD and SoJ or even from AJ, Trucy is not a huge jerk, but rather makes a point of consistently being polite, and remembering this can help to clarify her interactions with other people. _________________________________________ Overall, Trucy is not a Maya clone, but a unique character; not someone who exists only to do magic, but a believable person with her own life; not an innocent and naïve girl, but a teenager you need to be careful about trusting and taking at face value; and not a jerk, but someone who is very often polite and considerate. A lot of these details are interconnected, so that they form a bigger picture when considered together. There are other things I consider misconceptions about Trucy that I could write about, but I chose these specifically because they seemed the most relevant to discussing Trucy in 4-2. Hopefully I'll post the actual analysis that I originally meant to write later, but for now, I'll leave it here. What do you think? [link] [comments] | ||
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:37 AM PDT Future games should have elaborate case opening sequences with a money shot at the end. Like Sly Cooper had for all of his epeisodes. [link] [comments] | ||
| Can Rayfa be considered an assistant? Posted: 26 Jun 2021 07:36 AM PDT She even has a theme that is surprinsingly upbeat, she is a under age anime girl that has a relation to spirit channeling, that sounds pretty much like an ace attorney assistant [link] [comments] | ||
| If Ace Attorney 7 is created, can it survive amongst other games without the help of it's fanbase? Posted: 26 Jun 2021 09:12 AM PDT | ||
| Have you guys pre-ordered The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles? I just did. Posted: 25 Jun 2021 03:56 PM PDT
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| Hey guys I think I actually have an unpopular opinion Posted: 25 Jun 2021 06:42 PM PDT 2-1 was legitimately a solid opening case. Having Phoenix experience temporary amnesia was an excellent premise for a tutorial, and it established a well-liked recurring character in Maggey Byrde. It stands on more solid ground than 1-1 in those regards. [link] [comments] | ||
| Drew Trucy Wright, idk why but I just felt like it Posted: 25 Jun 2021 11:25 AM PDT
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| A sunny day with Klavier☆ (oc) Posted: 26 Jun 2021 10:03 AM PDT
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