I think it’s really neat how the original trilogy lawyers and the new trilogy lawyers think about secrets differently.
On one hand, you have Phoenix and Edgeworth. To them, secrets are an item, kept in a box and locked within your heart. In order to figure out what it is, you have to locate the box, find the key, and unlock it. Whether that’s with evidence and bluffing (psyche-locks) or logic and contradictions (logic chess) you use concrete details to unlock the truth.
On the other hand, there’s Apollo and Athena. They view secrets as a feeling, hidden behind a wall. Something that you repress but still seeps through, however small. They use more subjective tactics based on psychology and an understanding of people as emotional beings. They find the cracks in the wall, and they knock the wall down. Perception finds where the nervousness slips through, and the Mood Matrix sees a person’s emotions as they truly are, not as they intend them to be.
I haven’t quite worked out how this relates to their characterization and worldview yet, but I know it makes sense in Edgeworth’s case, having been raised in a household where emotions were a weakness, evidence was everything, and logic and perfection always ruled.
I’m sure it’s been done similarly in the past for the Ace Attorney games and their protagonists’ backstories, but something about this was really weird to me??
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Okay so here’s the post theorizing about Jove and Thalassa and their relationship with her family.
(content warning for discussions of abuse)
There’s one main idea at the core of all this: Jove and Thalassa purposefully ran away from the troupe, and there was a permanent rift between Thalassa and the rest of them ever since she was forced to return with his passing.
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