ARTUVEN, apollo justice

a bracelet, gold, strange swirls that come together to form an enigma. "'pollo wears jewlery!" the other boys crowd around, snorting laughter at the clunky piece of metal that looks like it belongs to a once world-renowned actress. a stage performer, perhaps - apollo considers this later as a lady cleans his new cuts and bruises with warm water and soap -, someone who considers fancy jewelry second to life itself. will mama come back? he asked the question once, early on, and the lady smiled and said 'of course she will' while a thousand tiny needles drilled into his wrist like shots. It hurts, don't do it. Even children have natural instinct to guide them now and again.

the cuts and bruises grow - scars form from wounds not properly closed while he growls under his breath at the boys who think they own the place just because they're the oldest. The bracelet comes off and stays off; not that he doesn't like fighting, it's just not worth the payoff of getting scolded again and again. he meets a boy one day, someone going through what he experienced so many years ago. he becomes friends with a boy that says he's not like the others - and why should he be? the world is filled with filth preying on the poor and unfortunate and helpless. so help them, the boy says. and he does, in the only way he knows how.

you're smarter than the others, the teachers say, so he studies. you should use your brain instead of your fists, so he does. the name of phoenix wright circulates around the law students who share the same ideals and ambitions he does, and he finds friends - true friends, the ones that he doesn't feel the need to hide from. as he studies and rises to recognition in his school, the man in the blue suit rises to fame - phoenix wright the invincible lawyer, can any criminal escape his gaze? one day, he'll find the truth that phoenix wright always brings to the light.

except for the day he doesn't. forgery, apollo hears, the disgrace of a lawyer who was too good to be true. the rumors among aspiring attorneys begin to change, morphing from theories of phoenix wright's fall from grace to a new lawyer, the 'coolest attorney in the west'. it's a new player to this game, one that he supposes there's no harm in playing along, even if for awhile. when his friends slap his back in congratulations for an internship turned job with the hottest new defense attorney, apollo can't help but feel that something isn't quite right. the bracelet comes back on, drills pins and needles back into his wrist and he doesn't know why.

phoenix is not a god - he's rude, crass, cynical and self assured, unmistakably human. the first time apollo punches someone again is over a card and a drop of blood too convenient to be the truth. sometimes, justice is dealt in trials that aren't the prettiest. and sometimes, the closest people are the ones hiding the truth all along.

(Evidence is everything in court, Mr. Justice.)

now who's the lawyer too good to be true?

phoenix wright is not a god. even back as a lawyer in all his former glory, there are questions he still can't answer. what does a man(one that was a boy not too long ago, chasing stars with him outside of school) who's about to fulfill his lifelong dream do to deserve death? what is he supposed to believe when the odds are stacked between choosing one friend and another? what does he do when the bracelet presses into his skin like the world's on fire - 'she did it, she did it', it says, a lie detector that's never failed him before. he's always thought that the truth is so simple, a matter of black or white. but what is the truth, exactly?

finding the truth, that's what he promised himself he'd do at any cost necessary. This time proves to be no different.

(i'm fine, i'm fine, is what he's always said. say something enough times and it becomes the truth, evidence or not.)


PERCEIVE - an ability that he supposedly inherited from his mother, apollo's senses are enhanced to superhuman levels, allowing him to catch lies and contradictions. the theory is that when a person lies, they exhibit certain nervous ticks - apollo's 'gramarye eye' allows him to see them, no matter how small. although there are those that suppress their nervous ticks because they're aware of them, any nervous energy causes a person to unconsciously tense and apollo to tense in turn. when this happens, his bracelet - made of a special metal that molds directly to the wearer's skin - will immediately begin to feel small, alerting him to a feeling apollo usually can't pinpoint on his own. his bracelet is much more sensitive than his eye, which apollo only uses when he needs to force the truth out of a person.


beginning of case 4 in dual destinies. apollo left the office in order to find the truth about his best friend's murder, covering his gramarye eye with bandages because the reactions he got from it seemed to implicate a co-worker and close friend. due to certain circumstances from previous cases, he sports bandages on his arms to cover the wounds underneath(there's nothing physically wrong with his eye, for the record). he has a blue space center jacket draped on his back as a constant reminder of his best friend, whose murderer he's determined to bring to justice.

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