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逆転裁判４ Case 4 - Yes I am FINALLY FINISHING APOLLO JUSTICE
I am aware I am a jillion days late
but that is not the point
The point is, I have to stop and take a break before my HEAD EXPLODES, but if I do I will lose all of the imaginary color-coded post-it notes scribbled hastily and stuck on various bits of my brain. Unless I get it all down, of course.
VERY WELL THEN.
The Arumajiki Troupe
Old master Tensai, his only daughter Yuumi, and his two disciples Baran and Zack. Yumi and Zack were married, and their daughter Minuki was born with Baran's skin tone. WAY TO GO, GUYS.
Yumi was then shot in an accident - Baran, at least, honestly believed it was an accident - while the three were practicing their most dangerous act. To this day, they don't know whose bullet killed her. (But Zack had the motive, you see.) Just after she was shot, Reporter McCreepo started hovering around, and bizarrely enough the media vulture actually made friends with the grieving widower. (Suspicious? Nooo.) Baran disliked him.
It was sometime later that old Tensai came down with a terminal case of TERRIBLE. Left with three painful months to live, he sent notes to both his disciples. [Come shoot me. I'll prep the gun.] And he prepared the two guns the boys used, one of which must have killed his daughter. That's fucked up, guys.
Zack came in at 23.05. He says: Tensai was sleeping. He took the gun, shot the clown doll in the forehead instead, and that woke the old master up. He couldn't kill him. They had a last conversation, and he left, taking his gun with.
Baran came in at 23.20. He says: Tensai was dead. He took the gun, shot the clown doll in the forehead instead, and went to get the doctor.
As-yet unpunctured evidence: Between 23.05 and 23.15, Tensai wrote his last will and testament, leaving everything to Zack. It was the last page of his diary. It was ripped out.
**Punctured evidence: At 23.10, Tensai appeared to stop his own insulin dosage, indicating that he was dead at that point. IT SEEMS that Baran added to the existing dosage to make it look as if he stopped earlier than he did. Which would THEN indicate that he was alive at least past 23.15, and Baran did not want this fact known.
**Punctured evidence: Between 23.05 and 23.15, Tensai appeared to write an innocuous page in his diary, now proven to be forged. That was done to discredit Zack and destroy Phoenix. But I don't think Baran had anything to do with that, even if he did have motive to eliminate Tensai's will. His reaction was all wrong.
===> SO. This much does not fit: Baran knew Tensai lived through Zack's visit. Baran faked the insulin to fake the time of death. (And clear his own name?) But Baran did not know about the will. So it was ripped from the diary before he got there? Surely he would have noticed. Perhaps Baran killed Tensai and then did the insulin thing to frame Zack in revenge, because he thought Zack shot Yuumi. But that doesn't fit either, not with his honest conviction that Yuumi's death was an accident.
... Meanwhile, 8-year-old Minuki smiled at everyone and showered them indiscriminately with love. And she helped her daddy escape just before he was declared guilty of murder. And then Phoenix adopted her.
Oh, by the way, she also has psychic powers. But Zack doesn't, which would seem to indicate that it's all from Yuumi. So is Yuumi connected with the Feys, or is this a different branch of magic? (I could still think Minuki and Pearl are related, largely because I don't believe the gesture artists are that lazy in such a thoughtfully constructed game.)
SEVEN YEARS LATER, the statute of limitations on missing persons is almost run out and Zack's to be declared legally dead. Just three days before that happens, he reappears long enough to have a talk with Creepo and draw up a document passing all the rights to the Arumajiki name, style, technique, and stage rights over to Minuki. He can do this, remember, 'cuz of the will Tensai wrote (that nobody knows about. Guh.)
But that very night Zack is killed, while under a pseudonym, and Phoenix is framed for the murder.
THAT mess has to be straightened out, and who should be found guilty but the defense lawyer Smiling Bastard, elder of the brothers Garyu. Phoenix totally suspected it from the start, which was why he employed Smiling Bastard and his junior partner Apollo Justice as his defense; it was the only way to turn and twist that trial around and get Smiling Bastard thrown in jail. See below.
Anyway, by the time that trial's done the seven years are up. Without either Tensai's will or Zack's transferral out in the open, all rights to the Arumajiki name fall to Baran. Zack is declared legally dead (aside from being, unbeknownst to most, actually dead) and Baran prepares for the ARUMAJIKI COMEBACK TOUR. He aids in the magic-trick aspect of a joint prosecutorial rock/ exotic opera concert and that's where, in-game, he first appears. Minuki greets him as Uncle Baran, and is happy to see him.
Now the tour's almost open, the curtain's almost up. And Phoenix has documents that could stop it all and give everything to Minuki. His beloved, adorable, innocent daughter.
The Brothers Garyu
Smiling Bastard, elder of the Brothers Garyu, has been a well-respected defense lawyer for a very long time. When Phoenix was stripped of his badge, SB was the only one of the association to object. That's how they met.
But let's start at the beginning, shall we? So far as I know.
Tensai was shot. The last page of his diary was torn out.
Smiling Bastard took this page and went to Toboroku Studio, home of a man skilled at forging paintings. He employed not Papa Studio, but his nine-year-old daughter, to forge an innocuous diary page. He smiled at her, and gave her gifts, and told her things to make her feel better. She said later he had the face of a demon, or maybe an angel. He smiled so kindly.
He then took the forged page, gave it to eight-year-old Minuki, and told her to give it to Phoenix. And he tipped off the prosecutor's office: [The defense will present evidence, forged by Papa Toboroku of Toboroku Studio.]
So when Phoenix resorted to the paper given him by a small, innocent girl, the prosecution was ready, and immediately called Papa Studio in to testify that he forged it. It destroyed Phoenix, and destroyed Zack's case.
Phoenix was stripped of his badge. Smiling Bastard objected. The now-discredited Phoenix and Smiling Bastard became friends, and were friends for seven years. Or so they say.
The prosecutor benefited enormously from this trial. It was his first, and with the anonymous tipoff he was able to discredit a famous defense lawyer and pull off a near-perfect victory. And who was this, but Rock Star, the younger of the Brothers Garyu.
I suppose Smiling Bastard thought he was doing the boy a favor.
SEVEN YEARS LATER, Zack shows up. He hands Phoenix this transferal. And then Smiling Bastard kills him with a juice bottle and frames Phoenix perfectly for the murder.
Phoenix sees what he did there, tampers with the crime scene, and forges one piece of evidence. The resulting mess is sorted out in-courtroom between Apollo Justice on defense and Rock Star on prosecution; it leads them down the wrong path at one point, but takes them to the right conclusion. Smiling Bastard is found guilty. And Rock Star, after seven years of successful prosecution, has to face the fact that his older brother is a murderous weasel. And an inkling of the terrible truth behind his Case One occurs to him then.
Smiling Bastard goes to jail, and Rock Star takes a break from excavating his past in order to put on a bitchin' joint rock concert with exotic opera and magic tricks. During which, I note as an aside, his keys are stolen, his guitar is set on fire, and his second guitarist murders his operatic co-star's manager and frames her pianist for the crime. Whom he then has to prosecute. The kid just can not catch a break.
Which sadly remains quite true, now, in this last case.
Toboroku Studio
Papa Studio couldn't sell a painting to save his life; his wife got fed up and left him with his bitty daughter. He started copying paintings and selling the forgeries to make a living, and Bittygirl Studio grew up surrounded by the tools of his trade and little else. They couldn't afford other toys.
Once, she was kidnapped, or there was an attempt at least. And so Bittygirl Studio was afraid of the outside world, and never went out of the house. She was nervous around strangers, too; had a bad habit of biting her fingernails, whenever they talked to her.
One day, a mysterious stranger came to them and offered Papa Studio just scads of money; not for a direct copy, but a forgery. He didn't show his face to Papa Studio, but he and Bittygirl Studio spoke for a very long time. He won her over with smiles and presents: there was a rare stamp of her favorite magicians, and a crystal bottle of very nice nail polish. He told her it would protect her from bad people, in case she ever had to leave. She made him the diary page, fixed it up all nice so it looked just like the handwriting on the real one. It was fun for her. And when he left, she put the stamp in a little frame, and kept it.
There was also a red envelope left on that little table. I don't know what for yet, or maybe I just don't recall. x_x
SEVEN YEARS LATER, Papa Studio took the stamp out of the frame, licked it, stuck it on the envelope, and dropped it in the mail. He very shortly dropped dead.
Being the only other person who was in the house, Bittygirl Studio is the only suspect in the poisoning of her beloved father. So she has to go outside - for the first time in seven years!! - and go to court. She picks up her sketchbook, puts on a brave face, and goes with the police.
During her trial, prosecutor and defense push and pull, pick apart every bit of her testimony, and drive the poor girl to utter distraction. She starts biting her nails. She very shortly drops dead.
There. I think that's everything. Ish.
but that is not the point
The point is, I have to stop and take a break before my HEAD EXPLODES, but if I do I will lose all of the imaginary color-coded post-it notes scribbled hastily and stuck on various bits of my brain. Unless I get it all down, of course.
VERY WELL THEN.
The Arumajiki Troupe
Old master Tensai, his only daughter Yuumi, and his two disciples Baran and Zack. Yumi and Zack were married, and their daughter Minuki was born with Baran's skin tone. WAY TO GO, GUYS.
Yumi was then shot in an accident - Baran, at least, honestly believed it was an accident - while the three were practicing their most dangerous act. To this day, they don't know whose bullet killed her. (But Zack had the motive, you see.) Just after she was shot, Reporter McCreepo started hovering around, and bizarrely enough the media vulture actually made friends with the grieving widower. (Suspicious? Nooo.) Baran disliked him.
It was sometime later that old Tensai came down with a terminal case of TERRIBLE. Left with three painful months to live, he sent notes to both his disciples. [Come shoot me. I'll prep the gun.] And he prepared the two guns the boys used, one of which must have killed his daughter. That's fucked up, guys.
Zack came in at 23.05. He says: Tensai was sleeping. He took the gun, shot the clown doll in the forehead instead, and that woke the old master up. He couldn't kill him. They had a last conversation, and he left, taking his gun with.
Baran came in at 23.20. He says: Tensai was dead. He took the gun, shot the clown doll in the forehead instead, and went to get the doctor.
As-yet unpunctured evidence: Between 23.05 and 23.15, Tensai wrote his last will and testament, leaving everything to Zack. It was the last page of his diary. It was ripped out.
**Punctured evidence: At 23.10, Tensai appeared to stop his own insulin dosage, indicating that he was dead at that point. IT SEEMS that Baran added to the existing dosage to make it look as if he stopped earlier than he did. Which would THEN indicate that he was alive at least past 23.15, and Baran did not want this fact known.
**Punctured evidence: Between 23.05 and 23.15, Tensai appeared to write an innocuous page in his diary, now proven to be forged. That was done to discredit Zack and destroy Phoenix. But I don't think Baran had anything to do with that, even if he did have motive to eliminate Tensai's will. His reaction was all wrong.
===> SO. This much does not fit: Baran knew Tensai lived through Zack's visit. Baran faked the insulin to fake the time of death. (And clear his own name?) But Baran did not know about the will. So it was ripped from the diary before he got there? Surely he would have noticed. Perhaps Baran killed Tensai and then did the insulin thing to frame Zack in revenge, because he thought Zack shot Yuumi. But that doesn't fit either, not with his honest conviction that Yuumi's death was an accident.
... Meanwhile, 8-year-old Minuki smiled at everyone and showered them indiscriminately with love. And she helped her daddy escape just before he was declared guilty of murder. And then Phoenix adopted her.
Oh, by the way, she also has psychic powers. But Zack doesn't, which would seem to indicate that it's all from Yuumi. So is Yuumi connected with the Feys, or is this a different branch of magic? (I could still think Minuki and Pearl are related, largely because I don't believe the gesture artists are that lazy in such a thoughtfully constructed game.)
SEVEN YEARS LATER, the statute of limitations on missing persons is almost run out and Zack's to be declared legally dead. Just three days before that happens, he reappears long enough to have a talk with Creepo and draw up a document passing all the rights to the Arumajiki name, style, technique, and stage rights over to Minuki. He can do this, remember, 'cuz of the will Tensai wrote (that nobody knows about. Guh.)
But that very night Zack is killed, while under a pseudonym, and Phoenix is framed for the murder.
THAT mess has to be straightened out, and who should be found guilty but the defense lawyer Smiling Bastard, elder of the brothers Garyu. Phoenix totally suspected it from the start, which was why he employed Smiling Bastard and his junior partner Apollo Justice as his defense; it was the only way to turn and twist that trial around and get Smiling Bastard thrown in jail. See below.
Anyway, by the time that trial's done the seven years are up. Without either Tensai's will or Zack's transferral out in the open, all rights to the Arumajiki name fall to Baran. Zack is declared legally dead (aside from being, unbeknownst to most, actually dead) and Baran prepares for the ARUMAJIKI COMEBACK TOUR. He aids in the magic-trick aspect of a joint prosecutorial rock/ exotic opera concert and that's where, in-game, he first appears. Minuki greets him as Uncle Baran, and is happy to see him.
Now the tour's almost open, the curtain's almost up. And Phoenix has documents that could stop it all and give everything to Minuki. His beloved, adorable, innocent daughter.
The Brothers Garyu
Smiling Bastard, elder of the Brothers Garyu, has been a well-respected defense lawyer for a very long time. When Phoenix was stripped of his badge, SB was the only one of the association to object. That's how they met.
But let's start at the beginning, shall we? So far as I know.
Tensai was shot. The last page of his diary was torn out.
Smiling Bastard took this page and went to Toboroku Studio, home of a man skilled at forging paintings. He employed not Papa Studio, but his nine-year-old daughter, to forge an innocuous diary page. He smiled at her, and gave her gifts, and told her things to make her feel better. She said later he had the face of a demon, or maybe an angel. He smiled so kindly.
He then took the forged page, gave it to eight-year-old Minuki, and told her to give it to Phoenix. And he tipped off the prosecutor's office: [The defense will present evidence, forged by Papa Toboroku of Toboroku Studio.]
So when Phoenix resorted to the paper given him by a small, innocent girl, the prosecution was ready, and immediately called Papa Studio in to testify that he forged it. It destroyed Phoenix, and destroyed Zack's case.
Phoenix was stripped of his badge. Smiling Bastard objected. The now-discredited Phoenix and Smiling Bastard became friends, and were friends for seven years. Or so they say.
The prosecutor benefited enormously from this trial. It was his first, and with the anonymous tipoff he was able to discredit a famous defense lawyer and pull off a near-perfect victory. And who was this, but Rock Star, the younger of the Brothers Garyu.
I suppose Smiling Bastard thought he was doing the boy a favor.
SEVEN YEARS LATER, Zack shows up. He hands Phoenix this transferal. And then Smiling Bastard kills him with a juice bottle and frames Phoenix perfectly for the murder.
Phoenix sees what he did there, tampers with the crime scene, and forges one piece of evidence. The resulting mess is sorted out in-courtroom between Apollo Justice on defense and Rock Star on prosecution; it leads them down the wrong path at one point, but takes them to the right conclusion. Smiling Bastard is found guilty. And Rock Star, after seven years of successful prosecution, has to face the fact that his older brother is a murderous weasel. And an inkling of the terrible truth behind his Case One occurs to him then.
Smiling Bastard goes to jail, and Rock Star takes a break from excavating his past in order to put on a bitchin' joint rock concert with exotic opera and magic tricks. During which, I note as an aside, his keys are stolen, his guitar is set on fire, and his second guitarist murders his operatic co-star's manager and frames her pianist for the crime. Whom he then has to prosecute. The kid just can not catch a break.
Which sadly remains quite true, now, in this last case.
Toboroku Studio
Papa Studio couldn't sell a painting to save his life; his wife got fed up and left him with his bitty daughter. He started copying paintings and selling the forgeries to make a living, and Bittygirl Studio grew up surrounded by the tools of his trade and little else. They couldn't afford other toys.
Once, she was kidnapped, or there was an attempt at least. And so Bittygirl Studio was afraid of the outside world, and never went out of the house. She was nervous around strangers, too; had a bad habit of biting her fingernails, whenever they talked to her.
One day, a mysterious stranger came to them and offered Papa Studio just scads of money; not for a direct copy, but a forgery. He didn't show his face to Papa Studio, but he and Bittygirl Studio spoke for a very long time. He won her over with smiles and presents: there was a rare stamp of her favorite magicians, and a crystal bottle of very nice nail polish. He told her it would protect her from bad people, in case she ever had to leave. She made him the diary page, fixed it up all nice so it looked just like the handwriting on the real one. It was fun for her. And when he left, she put the stamp in a little frame, and kept it.
There was also a red envelope left on that little table. I don't know what for yet, or maybe I just don't recall. x_x
SEVEN YEARS LATER, Papa Studio took the stamp out of the frame, licked it, stuck it on the envelope, and dropped it in the mail. He very shortly dropped dead.
Being the only other person who was in the house, Bittygirl Studio is the only suspect in the poisoning of her beloved father. So she has to go outside - for the first time in seven years!! - and go to court. She picks up her sketchbook, puts on a brave face, and goes with the police.
During her trial, prosecutor and defense push and pull, pick apart every bit of her testimony, and drive the poor girl to utter distraction. She starts biting her nails. She very shortly drops dead.
There. I think that's everything. Ish.
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but there are still twists twists twists coming.
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Btw how is Perfect Prosecutor? It won't be stateside till next year!