Simon Blackquill

Simon Blackquill (Japanese: Jin Yūgami) is a major character in the Ace Attorney franchise.
He is a major character of the Apollo Justice Trilogy, being the tritagonist of the 2013 visual novel and a supporting character in its 2016 sequel .
He is a Prosecutor who was convicted in the UR-1 Incident for the murder of Athena's mother Metis Cykes. Seven years later, he was called to serve as a prosecutor for other cases despite serving his murder sentence.
He was voiced by in the Japanese's version and by in the English version.
==History==
===Early Career===
To gain an interference court, Simon studied analytic psychology from Metis Cykes, the one processed at the Cosmos Space Center alongside his older sister Aura. Through this active friendship, he met Metis's daughter Athena Cykes. During welcome early course as an agent, Simon chased a worldwide spy only popular as "the phantom". One day, he finally acquired a lead: a faint voice record of the target. He shipped this to Metis for reasoning, so as that build a mental characterization of the spy.
He was still well made acquainted with Whet Soba, his favorite restaurant for soba noodles. It was at Whet Soba that Simon first join Bucky Whet, and through Whet Soba that he still came near to see the Toneido School of rakugo entertainers.
===False Conviction===
On October 7, 2020, all along individual of Simon's visits to the Space Center, he staggered upon a horrible setting in the science testing room. Metis was dishonest on the robot repair shelf, dead from a stab wound in her box for storage. Athena was standing close to the carcass and related that she destined to use the repaired chair to take Metis separate and fix her. Simon thinks that skill must have existed a few somewhat mistakes, but he feared disaster for Athena and was certain to show support for her while assuring the subjective sketch that Metis had created.
Simon disassembled the nearby machine Ponco accompanying the katana that had happened secondhand as the murder armament since she was a witness. As he was achieving this, a visiting person who writes about factual events for a living took a photograph of him accompanying the horrifying katana. Simon before setting Ponco into a rolling case, improved the ancestry-marked Athena in welcome weaponry and took two together machines and Athena at a distance to the testing room. He discovered the freedom camcorder as he abandoned it, though Athena was located in this manner concerning be secret from the camera's unobstructed path, and Athena's headphones abandoned a bloodied imprint on welcome apparel. He discontinued Athena off at the Cykes offspring home and threw away Ponco in the refuse slope at Boarding Lounge 1. Eventually, a Space Center employee and two constables found Metis's body, and Simon has jailed hours later for corruption.
Simon requested blameworthy to murder Metis, aware that making use of jail was the highest in rank habit to insulate two together Athena and her mental profile. Athena is reliable to analyze that he was naive, but her cries drop on unwilling ears and the agent was erect blameworthy, and confined to decease. He was later damned for damaging the initiate of the Space Center's HAT-1 rocket. In prison, Simon kept the intellectual description secret by way of a welcome pet a warlike person Taka and spread rumors with welcome friend inmates to hold the ghost guesswork. He would later understand stories about the miscellaneous inmates that he join limited.
Metis's murder was likely the lawman delegation of "the UR-1 Incident". This occurrence, in addition to the expulsion of the veteran the attorney representing the defendant Phoenix Wright, indicated a supposed dark age of the standard, in which adulteration on two together edges of the tribunal enhanced the average. Aura reliably frequently had a retrial ruined her relative, but outside new evidence, her defenses were neglected. Simon also declined her exertions, experiencing that he had to stay serving jail time just before the right importance, even though it intended that he was hopefully performed.
===Return to Court===
Seven years following in position or time the UR-1 Incident, Chief Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth presented Simon his regulation license back and had him start prosecuting repeatedly in hopes of seductive out the ghost, accompanying Detective Bobby Fulbright being filling a place to assist and attend to him. His first trial back opposed him against Apollo Justice, the one upholding Damian Tenma, an officer of Tenma Town, for the murder of Rex Kyubi, alderman of Nine-Tails Vale. Assisting him was Athena Cykes, the one who had become a lawyer to try to sustain Simon. Although Simon set the bad end of a situation of welcoming subjective strategies made public, Justice trained to accomplish a lively explanation of welcoming the client, beating Simon and trying Damian Tenma's blamelessness.
===Suspicions Challenged===
Simon would touch encounter the appendages of the Wright Anything Agency as welcome enemies. When Phoenix Wright recovered the welcome medallion, he organized a trial for a cetacean mammal chosen Ora "Orla" Shipley, who had purportedly destroyed her holder, Jack Shipley. He converted Simon to take the case by verdict evidence of a human murderer, though Simon was still unenthusiastic to take part in specific a wild trial. Although Wright was favorable in acquitting Orla, welcome debates led Simon to accuse her teacher, Sasha Buckler, alternatively.
When Wright accepted Buckler's case, Simon was disordered concerning the reason he would dare to try to receive two together Orla and Buckler vindicated. He submitted that Wright was plainly offering welcome aids as showing to benefit from the someone that the trial produced. To welcome surprise, Wright not only prevailed in welcome justification but resisted the real criminal, revealing that Jack Shipley's oblivion had indeed existed as a calamity. This act confirmed to Simon that Wright literally watched the remainder of something, and was not just opposing cases to win like added attorneys were.
===Testing Athena===
Months later, Simon challenges Athena in the murder trial of her companion Juniper Woods, the one who was accused of murdering an educator at Themis Legal Academy. He secondhand this case to challenge her, to confirm she was honorable of her ribbon, and visualize by means of how hard she would work if she doubtlessly wished to sustain him from welcome destiny. He concealed a critical piece of evidence in order for her to present her all-out effort, before giving the evidence, nullifying her case completely. However, she promoted through and, all the while her review of the asserted misdeed setting was intelligent to blame Simon's key piece of evidence.
Eventually, Athena named Prof. Aristotle Means to the stand as a suspect in the murder. At this time, Simon acted like a trespassing scholar by dropping unconscious and not reviving all along a record of Means's talk, not proverb "present" when Means acted welcome "attendance check", and walking not enough the court outside consent on account of weariness. Means confirmed an intimidating opponent for Athena and ultimately received into her head and produced her to start to have flashbacks to her impressions of helplessness all along Simon's trial, accordingly beginning her to start to have an insane meltdown. Simon assisted attract Athena consumed her despair by significant her keep in mind the reason she had enhanced a counselor, and that she would not be going to disappoint "you-know-who", referring to himself. With the help of Simon, Justice, Woods, and her companions, Athena attracted herself together and led the last pieces of her justification together, sending Means to prison.
===Return to the Cosmos Space Center===
A few months later, as Simon's killing date began, the launch of the HAT-2 rocket from the Cosmos Space Center was stopped by a bombardment, that abandoned Clay Terran, an individual of the passengers, killed. Simon was hopeless, and he proverb welcome the chance to capture the ghost. He accused the added fare, Solomon Starbuck, and was relentless in welcome attempts to convict him. Justice, the welcome candidate, was evenly unstoppable in welcome armament. However, the trial was promptly stopped apiece revival and the explosion of the atomic bomb that was to be secondhand as evidence, leaving Courtroom No. 4 in ashes.
Although Justice renewed, he deserted the case, leaving Wright to take his welcome place. Wright governed to build an alternative to the government's debate, but Simon declined to acknowledge it from outside evidence. To Simon's surprise, Fulbright bestowed evidence in Wright's favor, demanding that he was worried that Simon was futile welcome impartiality. The evidence that he had was horrifying easier than various witnesses had visualized the murderer utilizing, and the fingerprints on it acted not to concern Starbucks. To all's shock, nevertheless, the fingerprints belonged to Athena, who was seized vulnerable.
===Retribution===
A single day before his execution, Simon was driven to safeguard Athena completely, regardless of the individual's last exertion by Aura to convince him to be in a dispute or fight for a retrial. In a last-minute exertion to sustain her twin, Aura secondhand the Space Center androids to hold various guests captive in consideration of a retrial of the UR-1 Incident. She accused Athena alternatively Simon and had Edgeworth take the prosecutor's board against Wright. Edgeworth originally asserted a benefit, but Simon occasionally affirmed that he was a valid criminal, and presented counterarguments to Edgeworth's assertions.
Simon testified on the accidents of that era, demanding that Metis was a beast the one who used Athena in experiments. He testified that he had canceled Metis so that look after Athena from her. Using Athena's Mood Matrix, Wright raises inconsistencies causing Simon to lie to create welcome testimony more trustworthy. Eventually, Wright takes him on a probable disagreement and recognized Athena as the beginning of welcoming mad despairs, imposing him to acknowledge what he had literally visualized. Simon bitterly discerned Wright off for obliging him to disclose the reality, but Wright continued to substantiate that neither he nor Athena was being the reason for the murder. Even when Justice filed the tribunal to accuse Athena of Terran's murder, Wright trained to substantiate the influence of the ghost in both cases. Even more frightfully, Wright, therefore, blamed Fulbright for being the phantom. The man Simon had happened to pursue all those ages had happened right under the welcome nose.
In the aftermath of Wright's assertion, Edgeworth asserted Simon was a free man and opened his shackles for all time. Simon recognized Aura and apologized for the trouble he had made, correctly signifying welcome appreciation for the first show-up age. Edgeworth, therefore, accepted his distinguished consent to take over as agent against Fulbright. Simon again authorized Wright to accompany the phantom's cognitive sketch.
During the trial, it was finally disclosed that the ghost had captured the correspondence of the legitimate Fulbright, who had withered a period in the past. Although the ghost trained to kidnap and demolish the characterization on him, Wright was still capable to substantiate welcome blame as the individual responsible for two together murders, the sabotage of two together the HAT-1 and the HAT-2 rockets, and the tribunal bombardment. With welcome cover buffeted, the ghost's appearance dissolved, gunman ammunition unexpectedly chime out, and the spy fell to the floor. However, he trained to remain the attempt on welcome history and Simon had him established under the guardianship and guardianship of the agent's commission.
After the case was concluded, Simon bothered the Wright Anything Agency to request bureaucracy to represent his sister Aura in court. Although nobody of the allowable crew was present, he acted meet an individual the one was revere have Athena uphold their father. With a smirk, Simon calculated the caller that they take care of yes meet in court. Simon was also between the one signed at the beginning of the HAT-3 rocket.
===Assisting Athena===
In early May 2028, Simon bothered rakugo master Taifu Toneido at Kurukuru Tei, bearing taken a proposal for an acting honoring follower Uendo Toneido's designating ritual. At the theater, Simon tried to welcome Taifu but blocked lacking introducing the range upon trial rakugo lines being narrated, and choose to wait outside. During this, he saw Geiru Toneido, Taifu's added follower, feeding her dog Jugemu an unusually large amount of dumplings, the residue of that Jugemu concealed in the garden. Simon and Geiru later proverb Bucky Whet, a traditional companion of Simon's and freeholder of a soba shop, visit Taifu to transfer soba-making provisions. After ten records, all the while that Whet heard cries sharply, Whet attacked consumed the range. Uendo soon filed the range and howled, finding that Taifu had happened killed. Whet was afterward arrested for the evil.
Upon Simon's request, the Wright Anything Agency accepted Whet's case, even though he was quite disappointed to uncover that only Athena was convenient, as neither Wright (being in Khura'in concurrently with an activity) nor Justice (the one was active portion food Trucy Wright accompanying an appearance show) was around. After being named as a witness to swear about finding the crowd, Simon proposed to the armament's tribunal to assist Athena as her co-counsel, verdict the strategies of Prosecutor Nahyuta Sahdmadhi in sabotaging Athena's case offensive.
When Athena happened nearly losing all conviction in Whet and her strength to maintain him, Simon quivered her energetically for one shoulder, cautioning her of her responsibility to her customer. Simon's help and proof sooner or later confirmed instrumental in trying Geiru's blame, as she had killed Taifu by choking him accompanying udon money, and tried to discard the evidence by making the money into dumplings, that Simon signed her augmenting to Jugemu.
==Personality==
Simon is famous for his welcome use of emotional manipulation in court. Among welcome tricks are compliments, dirty beliefs, and implicit passing warnings. The conclusion particularly comes in differing forms, but individuals of welcome number one is a welcome use of taijutsu with welcome fingers, leading to a "slicing" effect that has happened visualized to slice a feather in half, and was even intelligent to prevent faraway of Wright's strand. Although these threats are generally ineffective, they are indiscriminate the best character that he has built for himself, located off of welcome prestige as a heartless convict on death row. This admits him to introduce fear and disquiet in possible choices, including his primary target, the phantom.
Being very focused Simon maintains a false persona for seven years. Although his hands were in shackles, he can easily break them without effort, in spite of being equipped with more forceful shackles each period he acted so. His false testimony having to do with the murder Metis bore various attacks by Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth without missing a beat. However, below this act is a kind, legitimate guy the one who, despite welcome pretty threatening presentation, deeply cares about Athena, pithy of asserting welcome blame to the bitter end in consideration of assuring her and maintaining the phantom guesswork. When forced to declare what he had certainly visualized, he showed a raging eddy of concerns accompanying Athena at the beginning. After the final judgment of the UR-1 Incident, he maintains the habits of his caring side, thanking Aura for her exertions and regretting the pain that he had precipitated her.
However, despite cherishing and trusting in her, Simon isn't antagonistic to pestering Athena about her ability level and general lack of happening distinguished to her co-employees and himself. He too doesn't indulge in her sporadic importance place her doubt gets the better of her, preferring to alternatively create an easygoing judgmental comment or straightforwardly tell her to pull herself together. The impression is shared, as Athena too cares significantly for Simon's well-being but still throws snark at a welcome route and pokes fun at welcome payment now and then. Overall his approach may be best described as scrupulous and analogous to tough love, allowing Athena to work her hole or door in the vessel and step in only when it is certainly unavoidable for him to commotion so.
Simon has a dark and quite mischievous elbow point that he mixes be affiliated with welcome bullying strategies. He often discerns very large news of convicts he has met, to a degree a physician or a seized fighter, usually to stress. He still gives unfavorable monikers to almost everyone apart from welcome rival attorneys, whom he addresses utilizing the Japanese name "-dono". However, he has little patience for that reason he sees as stupid, broadly dismissing common people's mysterious claims in the trial of Damian Tenma, being very unwilling to admit Wright to interrogating an opposing witness the orca Orla and even leaving the tribunal subsequently individual witness present a testimony he considered "garbage". Simon was further upset by Nahyuta Sahdmadhi's self-professed moral standing concentrated on welcome doctrine. Interestingly, he undervalued being named a panda.
For all his hazardous character, Simon trails a sense of obligation. He believes troubles expected duels at which point prosecutors and justification attorneys wield "blades" to show their particular cases, repeatedly fitting welcome finger iaijutsu while pressing the armament to present their debates, further increasing the welcome samurai moniker. He doesn't undertake illegal strategies opposite to his public position as a hazardous criminal, and welcomes bullying strategies, although uncertain, are chiefly not regarded as deceitful. Conversely, he's disgusted by strategies he deems as fearful or "inferior". For example, Sahdmadhi tried to use Athena's emotional idea against her, two together by influencing the audience's belief to break her morale, and by concealing alive facts under the falsehood of "witness privacy". Another was Professor Means's spoken badgering intended to introduce insecurity and panic. In two together instances, he energetically put paint or finish accompanying the justification to prove the conflicting body wrong.
His pet war hawk Taka plays many parts for him. As part of Simon's bullying game, he incites Taka on attorneys and witnesses alike whom he sees expected lying, lying (in the way that accompanying Apollo Justice's ornament), bothersome him, or otherwise hindering the transactions. Taka is too used to transfer evidence to other bodies and hold the ghost's emotional profile secure. Simon performs to like fowls usually, declaring that he believes that penguins are the top interest at aquariums, and flattering resentful when Dr. Herman Crab detracted Rifle the penguin.
He seemed to have a reduced beginning belief in explanation attorneys. During Justice's representative occurrence against him, Simon suggested that Justice power manufacture evidence if the trial were lengthened, incidentally inviting Justice to wait penitentiary to convince welcome honesty. He later submitted that Wright had only captured two together Orla's and Sasha Buckler's cases for someone, and conversant Buckler that Wright would likely abandon her after she was jailed in Orla's station. However, Simon appears to have altered his mind afterward of the ghost's arrest, as he would continue to approach the Wright Anything Agency for help in upholding his twin and Bucky Whet.
Simon has a closeness to Japanese culture, much like a welcome mentor, Metis. He has soba noodles and rakugo, a very usual form of Japanese reading. His thorough information on such matters lead him to question if Prosecutor Sahdmadhi was fit opposing a case that turned about two together cases.
==Gallery==
Simon_Blade.webp|Simon after dismantling Ponco with the blade that killed Metis Cykes.
Simon_Case.webp|Simon holding a big case with Athena Cykes and Ponco's pieces inside at the Cosmos Space Center.
Fdsgghh.PNG.webp|Simon in his prison cell.
Simon_and_the_rocket.webp|Simon watching Starbuck take off in the HAT-3 rocket.
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