picture prompt meme!

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the picture prompt meme

 

• See my characters in this post?
  
• Respond to them with a picture (or two, or three...)
  
• pictures can be from this tumblr, weheartit, or anywhere else you an think of!
  
• Then I make up a setting based on the picture.
  
• ( Link to any pictures that are NSFW, please! ) No NSFW pictures, please.

 

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I can't help it, they must talk about PSYCHOLOCKS soon

[mr_lawyer_there]

[Phoenix mumbles something too incoherent to be understood, but his eyebrows are knit together and he is frowning as if someone was bothering him in his sleep.

But eventually, his eyes open, and he blinks groggily. The lawyer pulls himself up into a sitting position, rubbing his eyes and groaning. He sits bolt upright when he realizes who is standing close by and turns his head toward that person's general direction. And wait - was that person holding what he thought - ]

E-Edgewooooouch!

[Instinctively he backs away, and backs straight into the wall against which the bench was located, hitting his head.]

Naturally. ;)

[truthsnomiracle]

If you awaken in this manner on a regular basis, that would explain quite a bit.

[mr_lawyer_there]

[If you greet people in this manner on a regular basis, that would also explain quite a bit...]

Hey, when I fell asleep, there was no one in this corridor! And then the first person I see waking up is you looming over me like some harbinger of doom...

[He swings his legs off the bench so his feet are back on the floor.]

[truthsnomiracle]

Unless answers concerning why you fell asleep here of all places to begin with would be incriminating in some way, doom is hardly part of the equation.

BRING ON THE TWO PARTER

[laurice]

[See Larry.

See Larry run.

See Larry run with a carnation pink rose in his hand and a goofy smile on his face.

See Larry run with a carnation pink rose in his hand and a goofy smile on his face over a long bridge without any safety railings. The bridge spans a wide but thankfully slow-flowing river, but he doesn't pay any attention to it at all, because he's determined to reach Aeris. He waves with his free hand and completely misses a slick puddle on the bridge.

We're talking about the Butz, so his foot slips from under him and jerks toward the edge of the bridge, and he flails once his balance is thrown off.]

Aeriiiiiiiiiiiii - !

[With a yell, he falls right into the river. At least he managed to save the rose by tossing it onto the bridge (and not in the puddle he slipped in) before he disappeared below the surface.]

[laurice]

[It's autumn and the air has gotten colder. Still, that doesn't keep Larry from bundling up to go to a park and paint and draw pictures of all the leaves changing color. He has set up his easel and all his materials, and has started a bit of a sketch.

Larry is so cheerful that he even sings - rather off-key, though.]

The treeeeeees are aliiiiiive with the sound of colooooooor...

[mr_lawyer_there]

I dropped in to see if you were done with the whole smuggling ring case you got caught up in and all...

[Which isn't wrong, right?]

[truthsnomiracle]

Larry, would you terribly mind restraining your artistic excursions to the visual arts alone?!

[Wait, where did that come from?...

Ah. Yes, there's a rather different shade of red near the ground in the distance off to the left. And the one clad in it is rubbing his temple...]

[truthsnomiracle]

In the strictest sense, yes. However, altogether too many people insist on turning it into a media frenzy.

[Edgeworth takes a couple of steps backward, then opens the door to his office with his free hand.]

[prosecutory]

[He couldn't explain it, really. There was a strange, faintly glowing object at his feet - like the magatama he had borrowed from Phoenix, but this one was golden. Thinking that Phoenix or one of the Feys had dropped it and would want it back, Edgeworth bent down to pick it up, but the moment he touched it, the magatama (or whatever it was) started glowing more fervently until it bathed the prosecutor's palms in golden light.

His eyes widen, and he freezes - not wanting to hold this magatama any longer but at the same time not wanting to drop it or leave it behind.]

What the...?!

[This Edgeworth is too shocked to say anything more, and seems to be mesmerized by the light.]

[mr_lawyer_there]

The media, huh...well, it is a pretty big case.

[Phoenix steps into Edgeworth's office; it feels like an eternity since the last time he was inside. Not much seems to have changed, though...]

[truthsnomiracle]

[As if the situation weren't strange enough, that reaction prompts what seems to be another of himself to round a corner, wearing a cape that matches his vest but otherwise dressed identically. This Edgeworth looks pleased even as he raises his finger to his temple.]

This would seem to serve as evidence that the capabilities I obtained upon my displacement were no mere fluke.

1/2

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth steps in after Phoenix, then closes the door.]

Indeed, and quite the mentally taxing one at that.

[truthsnomiracle]

[The prosecutor glances down at the magatama again uneasily.]

(That case was rather labyrinthine as well...)

[laurice]

[Larry stops in mid-sketch - although belatedly, and he winds up making a long crooked line with his pencil in his surprise.]

What -

[He turns and glances around - and finds the different shade of red.]

C'mon, Edgey, I gotta expand my horizons!

[mr_lawyer_there]

[Phoenix turns back to Edgeworth; he hasn't forgotten that he had seen Edgeworth with the magatama, and extends a hand for it.]

Oh...thanks, by the way. I didn't know I dropped it.

I figure the answer to this one is up to the individual Phoenix; I see a few possibilities.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth hands it over quickly, as though ridding himself of something embarrassing to be seen carrying.]

Er, if I might ask... Why did you lend... this to me that day?

[prosecutory]

[Edgeworth whips around and takes a giant step back, his jaw dropping with a gasp. At least he doesn't drop the magatama; he cups his hands around it to keep it from falling to the ground.]

Wh...Who are you?!

[Somehow, that seems like a good question and a foolish one at the same time...]

Hmmm...I guess I can give it a try since I barely think about Phoenix headcanon.

[mr_lawyer_there]

[He blinks when Edgeworth quickly returns the magatama, and looks at it as though wondering if it had gotten dirty or had caused Edgeworth some great personal wrong. But as far as he could see, it was still its normal, glowing green self.]

Well...I thought you'd need it in case some people weren't going to give up their secrets so easily. And I knew I could trust you to keep Iris from getting declared guilty.

[Phoenix shrugs.]

Besides, I also wanted to be sure about...about Iris.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Because it is, other-Edgeworth. Given that this is all proceeding according to plan and part of the answer is good new information to know, though, the caped Edgeworth humors his double, gracefully answering with a sweeping bow:]

Miles Edgeworth -- ally of the Archival Foundation and reputed "atheist cleric".

(And here, I suppose, comes the obvious objection.)

[truthsnomiracle]

In brief, you thought only in terms of its utility, and nothing more?

1/2

[prosecutory]

[Edgeworth opens his mouth and shuts it again, his eyes even wider than when he had found the golden magatama. He transfers it into just one hand and stares at the other Edgeworth as though the latter had said...well...

Actually, what he said was already preposterous enough in itself. "Atheist cleric"? Really? It was like a paradox. The first Edgeworth opens his mouth again...]

[prosecutory]

OBJECTION! April Fool's was a month ago!

[Then his free arm extends, and his pointer finger is already doing what it is supposed to do.]

[truthsnomiracle]

While doing so, it's vital to be able to distinguish between a horizon and the edge of a cliff.

[mr_lawyer_there]

Uh...yeah. Were you expecting any other reason? If my head didn't feel like a pinball in an arcade that time, I probably would've explained further...