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Abraxas Application
OOC INFORMATION
Player Name: Smurf
Are you over 18?: Yes
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Other Characters in Game: N/A
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Phoenix Wright
Canon: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Canon Point: Post-Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
Background: Wiki link
Suitability: Phoenix is a soft touch with a firm belief in the importance of mercy and thoughtful application of law. He’d very much want to get involved first in getting the imprisoned PCs their day in court, so to speak. If circumstances force him into the war (and they will), he’ll want to insert himself into any pre-existing international courts to keep the war as fair as it can be, and if there are no international courts that make decisions about war crimes or mediate conversations, then he’d want to look into setting one up.
On top of this, he’d also like to learn how to use magic. At first it will be because his daughter loves it so much and it could come in handy, and then it will become a matter of finding ways to even the playing field between himself and powered individuals so he can learn how to heal, pull up shields, or the like.
Powers: Phoenix has no supernatural powers. He has an item that helps him see people’s secrets, but since items don’t carry over, he won’t have it.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.
When Phoenix brings up an ‘important event in his life’, he brings up a fake trial when he was a child. A classmate’s lunch money was stolen, and it appeared as if Phoenix was the only one who could have stolen it. The class put together a ‘trial’ that convicted him of theft and demanded he apologize to his classmate, with the teacher’s approval. Phoenix was devastated and heartbroken, but the boy whose money was stolen, Miles Edgeworth, stood up for him and declared that since there was no conclusive evidence that Phoenix stole the money, then this trial was a sham. That incident planted a seed in Phoenix’s head to become a defense attorney one day.
Phoenix will always bring this up as the primary seminal moment in his life—the moment that allows him to empathize with all his clients who’ve been falsely accused—even though he’s been falsely accused of murder twice and that really should’ve been a bigger memory for him.
The reason I believe that this is the event Phoenix keeps going back to even though there are objectively more traumatic moments for him is because it was the start of a trend in his life. At his lowest point, when he feels the most alone and like everyone is convinced he’s a bad person and there’s nothing he can do to change their minds, someone comes to save him. His best friend (and arguably love interest) Edgeworth, his mentor Mia Fey, his daughter Trucy, and his protégé Apollo Justice all fill this role for him at some point. And every time this happens (this cycle of rising from the ashes as it were, ho ho ho), he is doubly dedicated to filling that role for someone else and saving people like he believes he’s been saved. In this sense, his job as a defense attorney fits this sense of cosmic reciprocity for him.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by?
His explicit governing belief is to always believe in his client to the bitter end. Frankly, this intense faith in people has gotten him in trouble in the past and can border on pathological at times. (Examples would be swallowing evidence of his own girlfriend trying to kill him to protect her from conviction, knowing it likely had poison on it; as well as insisting on defending four separate people who sincerely confessed to murder and who had significant evidence supporting their confession.) So far he’s almost always been right about a person due to his keen sense of people and/or his magical truth-telling rock, but the few times he’s wrong about people shatters him.
Less explicitly, Phoenix believes very strongly in the power and inherent justice of the courts, even if he’s seen time and time again how laws aren’t always the same as morals. He believes in due process and in everyone’s right to a robust defense. (He has been known to play fast and loose with lesser laws, however, like theft or forgery.)
But I think if you drill down deeper, Phoenix believes in mercy. He believes in kindness, forgiveness, and in the responsibility of the strong to protect the weak. He’s not one to self-reflect frequently, so he wouldn’t be able to give a specific code of conduct he lives by if you asked him, but he lives his life with the intention of saving and protecting people who really need someone in their corner.
What quality or qualities do they admire most?
There are four qualities Phoenix admires most: kindness, resilience, a firm sense of right and wrong, and intelligence. A sense of right and wrong and a basic sense of kindness is a baseline requirement for any respect from Phoenix because they’re so essential to his worldview, but it’s difficult for him to really approach a person as an equal if they are not also resilient and intelligent. He and his friends go through a lot of crap throughout his canon, and as he gets older, he is more easily put off by people who seem to crumble at adversity. This is to say nothing of intelligence; Phoenix is the kind of man who is astonishingly brilliant in some ways and dumb as a rock in others, and he gets along best with someone who can complement him by being smart in the ways he’s not.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?
At Phoenix’s canon point, there are a lot of parts he doesn’t like. He’d been forced into a very undignified position for seven years where he was disgraced and disbarred, had a child he had no way of financially supporting, and had to badly play piano, play poker, and rely on his child’s magic show’s income to make ends meet. He made an eight-year-old a financial pillar of the household, leaned on her financially until she was fifteen, and then took advantage of a new attorney (Apollo) who admired him by giving him forged evidence to present in court. He could have ruined Apollo’s life and gotten him disbarred before he had a chance to practice law at all with that stunt, and he accepted Apollo punching him in the face for it. To top it all off, he was an alcoholic too for this whole time, to the point where he swapped the labels on his drinks so he could sneak them into the hospital after he was hit by a car.
The point here is that Phoenix has been forced to develop a ruthlessly practical streak he doesn’t like one bit, and he did a lot of things that he didn’t like at the time and he doesn’t like now. He hates everything he became in that time, and he’s trying to put all of that behind him as much as he can. The trouble is that it’s a part of him, and he needs to make peace with it.
He also is internally struggling with the understanding that he is a mentor to Apollo and Athena now, and he is therefore responsible for their emotional and professional well being. He especially seems to struggle with the idea that he's a role model now, likely because he doesn't really think he's worth modeling. He doesn't give it away externally, though, and does his best to be a reliable boss and a warm and understandingdad friend. Phoenix believes in Athena when she doesn't believe in herself, and he also warmly accepts Apollo back into the fold without hesitation after Apollo left the office and accused his coworker of murder.
What is their sign, and why?
Phoenix is The Lovers because his whole life hangs on his relationships with others. He chose his whole career based on the idea that he could save Edgeworth from himself because Edgeworth had been his friend years ago in grade school. His mentor was murdered, and he faithfully not only takes care of her sister and cousin, but he also takes care of her plant and keeps her office. His ex-girlfriend tried to kill him and he agonized for years trying to figure out how he didn’t see it coming. His client disappeared and abandoned his child, so Phoenix adopted that child as his own.
Phoenix collects people. He needs them in a way that he doesn’t acknowledge, because he does not do good work (or sometimes any work at all) if he doesn’t have someone at his side to just be there with him. He even comments on such when he's alone in the office, realizing how deeply lonely he is when there isn't someone by his side. He has a lot of love to pour into others, and he needs a lot of love in turn, and you can see it in the way he leaves massive imprints on every person he meets and every person he meets leaves imprints on him. You can also see it in his fundamentally forgiving and warm nature, which has attracted many people who are loyal to him and who he's devoted to in turn.
SAMPLES & ARRIVAL
Samples:
Phoenix’s TDM!
Arrival Scenario: WELCOME
Player Name: Smurf
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact:
Other Characters in Game: N/A
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Phoenix Wright
Canon: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Canon Point: Post-Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
Background: Wiki link
Suitability: Phoenix is a soft touch with a firm belief in the importance of mercy and thoughtful application of law. He’d very much want to get involved first in getting the imprisoned PCs their day in court, so to speak. If circumstances force him into the war (and they will), he’ll want to insert himself into any pre-existing international courts to keep the war as fair as it can be, and if there are no international courts that make decisions about war crimes or mediate conversations, then he’d want to look into setting one up.
On top of this, he’d also like to learn how to use magic. At first it will be because his daughter loves it so much and it could come in handy, and then it will become a matter of finding ways to even the playing field between himself and powered individuals so he can learn how to heal, pull up shields, or the like.
Powers: Phoenix has no supernatural powers. He has an item that helps him see people’s secrets, but since items don’t carry over, he won’t have it.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.
When Phoenix brings up an ‘important event in his life’, he brings up a fake trial when he was a child. A classmate’s lunch money was stolen, and it appeared as if Phoenix was the only one who could have stolen it. The class put together a ‘trial’ that convicted him of theft and demanded he apologize to his classmate, with the teacher’s approval. Phoenix was devastated and heartbroken, but the boy whose money was stolen, Miles Edgeworth, stood up for him and declared that since there was no conclusive evidence that Phoenix stole the money, then this trial was a sham. That incident planted a seed in Phoenix’s head to become a defense attorney one day.
Phoenix will always bring this up as the primary seminal moment in his life—the moment that allows him to empathize with all his clients who’ve been falsely accused—even though he’s been falsely accused of murder twice and that really should’ve been a bigger memory for him.
The reason I believe that this is the event Phoenix keeps going back to even though there are objectively more traumatic moments for him is because it was the start of a trend in his life. At his lowest point, when he feels the most alone and like everyone is convinced he’s a bad person and there’s nothing he can do to change their minds, someone comes to save him. His best friend (and arguably love interest) Edgeworth, his mentor Mia Fey, his daughter Trucy, and his protégé Apollo Justice all fill this role for him at some point. And every time this happens (this cycle of rising from the ashes as it were, ho ho ho), he is doubly dedicated to filling that role for someone else and saving people like he believes he’s been saved. In this sense, his job as a defense attorney fits this sense of cosmic reciprocity for him.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by?
His explicit governing belief is to always believe in his client to the bitter end. Frankly, this intense faith in people has gotten him in trouble in the past and can border on pathological at times. (Examples would be swallowing evidence of his own girlfriend trying to kill him to protect her from conviction, knowing it likely had poison on it; as well as insisting on defending four separate people who sincerely confessed to murder and who had significant evidence supporting their confession.) So far he’s almost always been right about a person due to his keen sense of people and/or his magical truth-telling rock, but the few times he’s wrong about people shatters him.
Less explicitly, Phoenix believes very strongly in the power and inherent justice of the courts, even if he’s seen time and time again how laws aren’t always the same as morals. He believes in due process and in everyone’s right to a robust defense. (He has been known to play fast and loose with lesser laws, however, like theft or forgery.)
But I think if you drill down deeper, Phoenix believes in mercy. He believes in kindness, forgiveness, and in the responsibility of the strong to protect the weak. He’s not one to self-reflect frequently, so he wouldn’t be able to give a specific code of conduct he lives by if you asked him, but he lives his life with the intention of saving and protecting people who really need someone in their corner.
What quality or qualities do they admire most?
There are four qualities Phoenix admires most: kindness, resilience, a firm sense of right and wrong, and intelligence. A sense of right and wrong and a basic sense of kindness is a baseline requirement for any respect from Phoenix because they’re so essential to his worldview, but it’s difficult for him to really approach a person as an equal if they are not also resilient and intelligent. He and his friends go through a lot of crap throughout his canon, and as he gets older, he is more easily put off by people who seem to crumble at adversity. This is to say nothing of intelligence; Phoenix is the kind of man who is astonishingly brilliant in some ways and dumb as a rock in others, and he gets along best with someone who can complement him by being smart in the ways he’s not.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?
At Phoenix’s canon point, there are a lot of parts he doesn’t like. He’d been forced into a very undignified position for seven years where he was disgraced and disbarred, had a child he had no way of financially supporting, and had to badly play piano, play poker, and rely on his child’s magic show’s income to make ends meet. He made an eight-year-old a financial pillar of the household, leaned on her financially until she was fifteen, and then took advantage of a new attorney (Apollo) who admired him by giving him forged evidence to present in court. He could have ruined Apollo’s life and gotten him disbarred before he had a chance to practice law at all with that stunt, and he accepted Apollo punching him in the face for it. To top it all off, he was an alcoholic too for this whole time, to the point where he swapped the labels on his drinks so he could sneak them into the hospital after he was hit by a car.
The point here is that Phoenix has been forced to develop a ruthlessly practical streak he doesn’t like one bit, and he did a lot of things that he didn’t like at the time and he doesn’t like now. He hates everything he became in that time, and he’s trying to put all of that behind him as much as he can. The trouble is that it’s a part of him, and he needs to make peace with it.
He also is internally struggling with the understanding that he is a mentor to Apollo and Athena now, and he is therefore responsible for their emotional and professional well being. He especially seems to struggle with the idea that he's a role model now, likely because he doesn't really think he's worth modeling. He doesn't give it away externally, though, and does his best to be a reliable boss and a warm and understanding
What is their sign, and why?
Phoenix is The Lovers because his whole life hangs on his relationships with others. He chose his whole career based on the idea that he could save Edgeworth from himself because Edgeworth had been his friend years ago in grade school. His mentor was murdered, and he faithfully not only takes care of her sister and cousin, but he also takes care of her plant and keeps her office. His ex-girlfriend tried to kill him and he agonized for years trying to figure out how he didn’t see it coming. His client disappeared and abandoned his child, so Phoenix adopted that child as his own.
Phoenix collects people. He needs them in a way that he doesn’t acknowledge, because he does not do good work (or sometimes any work at all) if he doesn’t have someone at his side to just be there with him. He even comments on such when he's alone in the office, realizing how deeply lonely he is when there isn't someone by his side. He has a lot of love to pour into others, and he needs a lot of love in turn, and you can see it in the way he leaves massive imprints on every person he meets and every person he meets leaves imprints on him. You can also see it in his fundamentally forgiving and warm nature, which has attracted many people who are loyal to him and who he's devoted to in turn.
SAMPLES & ARRIVAL
Samples:
Phoenix’s TDM!
Arrival Scenario: WELCOME