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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[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...

[truthsnomiracle]

Please, Wright. It would take more than a mere flashy spectacle to convince me! That was hardly the first time it ever appeared as though the deceased stood in a court of law!

[...As for the part about the Psycholocks Psyche-Locks? Edgeworth's silence is rather damning, especially given the body language displayed as he gave the magatama back to Phoenix earlier...]

[mr_lawyer_there]

Objection!

[Phoenix is still far enough to point his finger safely without hitting Edgeworth's head.]

Do you really think Godot would let himself go to jail easily for a spectacle? If he wanted to get off the hook, he could've just said everything was fake!

If it was only a spectacle to you...then where's your evidence?

[truthsnomiracle]

OBJECTION! [And you get pointed right back at, Phoenix... though Edgeworth is definitely looking pale as he does so.] Even the evidence he was aware of leaves little room for doubt that he was the one to deal the killing blow; to dispute the allegations of... of channeling would have ultimately gained him nothing! Furthermore, he clearly had a fondness for the Fey clan; to deny what they claim to do would have offended them!

As for evidence... consider the victim's history! Am I supposed to believe that the fraud who led the police force astray seventeen years ago actually channeled someone this time?! Not to mention, if the supernatural legitimately existed, such things would be accounted for in the law, making the secrecy involved unnecessary!

[mr_lawyer_there]

[Phoenix's pointer finger wavers when he notices how pale Edgeworth looks. That wasn't like his friend at all.]

Objection! Present definitive evidence that channeling isn't real and the Feys have been using special effects all this time! Did you see any wires or lights or mirrors in court, huh? And how do you expect locks to magically appear in front of people?

[truthsnomiracle]

[And Edgeworth's already let indication of it being tied to the same events that snowballed into the last time he didn't seem like himself slip out. After all, the events in the elevator weren't the only layer to DL-6's trauma...]

OBJECTION! Do you expect me to strip-search a young lady who rendered aid I hardly deserved to receive from her?! Or perhaps, instead, you expect me to do so to a little girl?!

[As valiant an effort as he's making to keep the illusion of confidence in his voice, though, there's desperation in his eyes as he makes this excuse...]

[mr_lawyer_there]

I never said you had to! I only asked for evidence!

[Phoenix lowers his finger; he sounds more like he's pleading than arguing now.]

[If I keep using the evidence argument against him, I don't think I'll be going anywhere. It's more like Edgeworth will keep on denying this till the day he dies...]

[truthsnomiracle]

I-is it so important to you to keep believing in that... that cheerleading they do for you?!

[Nice projection there, Edgeworth.]

[mr_lawyer_there]

Edgeworth. [Phoenix's voice is firm, but sympathetic. Then his tone becomes quieter.]

It's more than just cheerleading. There aren't any special effects. You know that. You've seen it for yourself.

[truthsnomiracle]

It may be said that "seeing is believing", but I argue that it takes more than seeing to truly believe.

[And Edgeworth's return to his "wrapped" pose just might be enough to give away that he knows full well that he can't escape by this route, no matter how desperately he may want to.]

[mr_lawyer_there]

...I think you've done more than see at this point. So have I.

[Phoenix looks at his best friend emphatically. He folds his arms over his chest.]