Hey, fun fact: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies and Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice are about to become abandonware.

The Nintendo 3DS eshop will close at the end of this month. Capcom refused to release physical copies for these two Ace Attorney titles and they have not been ported to the Switch. That means that unless you've already purchased them, these two entries into the Ace Attorney franchise will cease to exist on April 1st.

See this character? She's awesome, isn't she. This entire character is about to go up in smoke when the two games featuring her become unavailable for purchase.

This is why physical copies are important, people. There is a used copy of Apollo Justice sitting on the shelves of my local GameStop right now for new players to discover. But if you want to experience a full third of the Ace Attorney pair of trilogies for the first time, you're about to be S.O.L.

Looking back, I think this scene was among those that hit me the hardest upon playing through Stormblood for the first time.

After several failures in quick succession - losing two vital strongholds to the Resistance and driving the Ananta to summon a primal - Fordola has been ordered to report directly to Zenos. As she approaches the throne room, she and one of her subordinates pass a pair of Garleans ranked not much higher than her. The men call her “savage,” among other things, and suggest that her failures were only to be expected for someone of her heritage, but so too do they imply that she only ever received her command in the first place through sleeping her way to the top.

The look on Fordola’s face in response is what gets me: in that moment, she’s so much more sad and hurt than she is angry. She even keeps her subordinate from fighting back on her behalf, to spare him further trouble; it definitely isn’t for her own sake, since she walks into the throne room expecting to meet her death, just like everyone else who has disappointed Zenos so far.

And Zenos is possibly at his most terrifying yet right here, as he focuses all his attentions on Fordola. He notes her fear, and she responds that she is only afraid of “dying having achieved naught” - to which Zenos describes her powerlessness as a “raging inferno” that’s a threat to herself and to others.

Fordola accepts the viceroy’s criticism without protest, as ready as ever to meet her end… and then Zenos changes tack. He orders Fordola to say what is truly on her mind and takes hold of her possessively, threatening to take her eye if she refuses to speak. It takes only a moment for her to scream what she wants: the power to bring vengeance to everyone who has ever looked down on her.

And right then and there, Zenos offers her exactly what she’s looking for: the means to “transcend” her weaknesses, and another chance to risk her life to achieve great things. It goes without saying that Zenos has his own agenda - yet no matter what his plans are for the young Ala Mhigan pilus, he makes a point of emphasizing that his plan will allow her to fulfill her dreams. This more cunning and manipulative side of Zenos isn’t often in the forefront throughout the story, but it’s used here to devastating effect on a young woman who has been forsaken by both Ala Mhigans and Garleans for her entire life: he breaks down her last shreds of confidence, forces her to divulge her deepest secrets, then tells her that only he can give her what she wants and needs.

I can certainly understand people who don’t like Fordola, especially given the horrible things she’s done and condoned throughout the story - but she’s easily one of my favorite characters in this expansion so far. This was the scene that drove that home for me, because it presents her in all her multifaceted glory: as a loyal friend and commander, a young woman manipulated by the one figure in her life she has left to trust, and - maybe most importantly - a passionate Ala Mhigan fixated on finding some sort of self-worth through battle and combat.

Meta | Deconstructing Dio [JJBA]

In which I subject Dio Brando, his history and relationships to a detailed analysis.

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There’s something that’s been tormenting me that I need non-KH-player Smash fans to understand.

At the end of Kingdom Hearts 3, to cut a long story short, Sora misuses a powerful magic so hard and so often that the universe itself goes “Alright, that’s quite enough of that” and yeets him outside of reality.

When the other characters learn about this, they start hypothesizing about what kind of place Sora might have ended up in. What they conclude is that a world outside of reality must necessarily be a world of “unreality.”

And what they conclude about a world of unreality is that the most likely form it could take is “a fictional world.”

Now.

Remind me what aspect of the Smash Bros universe the Sora trailer heavily emphasizes? Right before Mario takes up the Kingdom Key and Sora drifts in through the keyhole he opens?

That it’s all make-believe.

In other words, that Super Smash Bros is a world of unreality and fiction.

There is a non-zero chance that Smash Bros is part of KH’s ongoing plot and it’s killing me.

Nomura is 100% going to make Sora’s Adventure Mode (or whatever the story paths are called in Smash) plot relevant to the next KH title.

based on @greentrickster ’s Kristoph Gavin: Bastard Attorney AU in which every in game asshole is involved in one very long trial the dialogue is from @the-gavinners ’s absolutely stunning tags

The only way I could think of tweaking this would be to replace Udgey with Ga’ran, have Matt Engarde as the defendant, and “Bobby Fullbright” as the detective.

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This is absolutely canon.

Chihiro isn’t trans.

I hate when people don’t understand that Chihiro is a boy. He is not trans despite your odd beliefs. He said he was a boy and wanted to tell everyone he was, did everyone just miss the entire point of his character so they could pretend he was trans? It’s infuriating and people should feel ashamed. No one can even disprove this because in his student plan thing in v3 it ends with him successfully telling everyone he’s a boy and feeling proud of himself. It’s not that complicated. He’s not trans.

I agree wholeheartedly.

I’ve started writing up all my thoughts on the Lightwardens and there’s a lot. 

Sorry, not sorry? 

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I think a part of the “Forgiven” naming scheme is based on Vauthry’s point of view. Most Sin Eaters are people who are having their sins “forgiven” as they’re converted. But Vauthry is “Innocence”, and thereby has done nothing wrong.

JJBA Theory: Jotaro Doesn’t Actually Know Anything About Poker

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Literally me after 14 years of following this insane series.