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.

 

Comments

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]

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

[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...

[truthsnomiracle]

I considered other reasons, including the rather likely scenario that you simply weren't thinking straight at all, as well as the possibility that you wished to force me to question my assumptions through exposing me to the Psycholocks.

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[mr_lawyer_there]

[Maybe I really wasn't thinking straight at all when I actually gave Edgeworth the magatama...]

Question your assumptions -

[mr_lawyer_there]

[Wait. Did he just say - ]

[mr_lawyer_there]

Pfffft...

[Phoenix bites his lip but it's obvious that it's difficult for him to contain his laughter. His eyes are already practically glowing with amusement.]

[mr_lawyer_there]

...

Say that again for me one more time, Edgeworth.

[truthsnomiracle]

I said that I considered the possibility that you wished to force me to question my assumptions through exposing me to the Psycholocks, Wright. Why do you look so amused by that?

1/2

[mr_lawyer_there]

[Phoenix snorts; it's even funnier the second time, and raises a hand to his mouth. It's no good, because he ends up snickering instead, and has a good snicker for a few moments until...]

Pfff...ah ha ha...I'm sorry, it's because - h-heh - when Pearls taught me how to use the magatama...

[mr_lawyer_there]

[He calms down at last, takes a deep breath, and smirks, his voice completely deadpan.]

She called them Psyche-Locks.

[truthsnomiracle]

Wh-why are you laughing?! You were barely coherent, Wright!

[...And Edgeworth was barely listening once Phoenix started spouting something as seemingly nonsensical as instructions for the use of a supposedly spiritually-charged artifact. Eye-roll-inducing, that was...]

[mr_lawyer_there]

[Phoenix tries to remain silent and create a serious reply but again bursts into a laughing fit.]

P-Psycholocks...t-that's a g-g-good one! [He doubles over, clutching his stomach as he continues roaring with laughter.] Oh man...

[truthsnomiracle]

OBJECTION! That wasn't a joke and I refuse to be mocked over a miscommunication!!

[mr_lawyer_there]

I know...which is why it's really funny!

[Phoenix is breathing hard in between laughs and has to steady himself on your shelves, Edgeworth.]

["Psycholocks"...it makes me think of creepy-looking locks with crazy faces mocking anyone who'd try to break them...

Maybe that's what Edgeworth thought when he was breaking those Psyche-Locks...!]

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth turns away, crossing his arms.]

If all you can bring yourself to do in the face of this topic is to imitate the unidentified defendant from my last case, then I fail to see why I should bother discussing it further!

[mr_lawyer_there]

[Phoenix finally manages to can it, gasping but no longer laughing. He straightens up, and raises his hands in surrender; his mouth twitches as though he wants to laugh again, but he nods and regains his composure.]

Sorry, sorry. A-Anyway, I wasn't questioning you or anything when I passed the magatama to you.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Now that his dignity isn't suffering an all-out assault, Edgeworth begins to cool down... though he's still turned away for the moment as he continues his own effort at recontaining himself.]

...Indeed, if you didn't have the utmost faith in me, such a questionable scheme as placing a prosecutor behind the defense bench wouldn't have occurred to you. Clearly, you weren't thinking of me as a prosecutor at all at that time.

[mr_lawyer_there]

Well, I couldn't think of anyone else who could defend Iris...anyone else I could entrust her life to.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth glances over his shoulder, his cool mask already back in place.]

Funny -- I had assumed that you made the decision during the course of my visit to the hospital. Not only was there no guarantee that I would appear from overseas, but it would be like you to improvise in such a manner.

[mr_lawyer_there]

I made the decision as soon as I could think of her. No one could channel Mia at that time, and I...didn't know a lot of other defense attorneys.

That left you.

[truthsnomiracle]

Hmph. As though someone would allow a person claiming to be the alleged ghost of a murdered defense attorney to take that station to begin with! Such a person would undoubtedly be considered either a rather bold liar or not of sound mind!

[Edgeworth's confidence, however, seems faked enough to someone as familiar with him as Phoenix for the denial to fall flat. Who is he trying to convince again?]

[mr_lawyer_there]

...even a cardboard badge could fool the judge, Edgeworth. Besides, a defense attorney would technically still be representing the accused.

[Pause. Edgeworth seems to have suddenly gotten defensive. Phoenix takes one step closer to him.]

By the way...she isn't just an "alleged ghost". If she were, why else would the Hazakura case unfold the way it did?

[truthsnomiracle]

I... I don't know...

[Edgeworth turns his head away from Phoenix sharply and takes his own elbow into a death grip. To be confronted by him about that paradox of a case on the mountain leaves the prosecutor feeling cornered. Here is the man he trusts like no other, talking to him about the case whose solution conflicted with what ought to be reality -- a solution that very man is responsible for, after having apparently inadvertently thrown one of the premises on which Edgeworth built his view of reality into question. The conflict is enough to make Edgeworth want to scream.]

[mr_lawyer_there]

Edgeworth...

[Phoenix has one hand in his pocket - the pocket with the magatama in it. But he knows he wouldn't need it. Not with Edgeworth. It wasn't that the prosecutor was an open book; Phoenix knew that Edgeworth trusted him. He didn't need the magatama to know that his friend was being bothered, or what was bothering him so much. The evidence was all over their conversation.]

You were present during both trials, right? You saw the Psyche-Locks for yourself. And you saw...you saw Dahlia...