Ace Attorney - Headcanons

## PHOENIX WRIGHT

* Phoenix Wright is considered the Ace Attorney and even went through the strangest of cases, including a case with a certain mad dog of Shimano sometime in his carrier and reference to Project X Zone 2. And true to his canon self, he has adopted a girl who is a magician named Trucy Enigma and even mentored Apollo Justice who in turn mentored Athena Cykes.

## MAYA FEY

* Maya Fey is the Master of the Kurain Channeling Technique and, subsequently, the head of the Fey clan. A close friend of defense attorney Phoenix Wright, she was his primary assistant for the majority of his career between the years 2016 and 2019, mainly by participating in his investigations and providing co-counseling duties during trials. She has also frequently ended up as Wright's client, with the most known trials out of any client in the history of the Wright Anything Agency.
* It’s implied that she, Pheonix might like each other more than friends maybe given her sister died by the hands by the one and only arrogant, self-centered and extremely flamboyant CEO of Blue Corp better known as Redd White.

## MIA FEY

* Mia Fey is the mentor of Phoenix Wright, older sister of Maya Fey, cousin of Pearl Fey. She was a defense attorney, knowing for her undying belief in her clients that she made contact with. She started out at Grossberg Law Offices, then eventually created her own criminal defense law firm, Fey and Co. Law Offices. She was also Phoenix Wright's boss and mentor, and she left her firm to him after her death in the hands of Redd White. Her younger sister, Maya served as Wright's assistant during his law career, and would sometimes use her spirit channeling abilities to allow Mia to assist Wright.

## PEARL FEY

* Pearl Fey is the daughter of Morgan Fey, who lost her claim to the title of Master to her younger sister Misty. Pearl is a prodigy among spirit mediums, having "intense spiritual power", and also having knowledge of the Fey clan that exceeds that of Misty's daughter Maya, who is expected to assume the title of Master. Though Pearl and Maya have a very close, loving relationship, Morgan, in her attempts to regain her main family status, attempted twice to get rid of Maya in order to place Pearl in position to become the Master instead.

## MISTY FEY

* Misty Fey was the Master of the Kurain Channeling Technique and head of the Fey clan, as well as an important figure in the DL-6 Incident, in which the police called her in to channel the spirit of Gregory Edgeworth. After the DL-6 Incident, Fey went missing for 17 years until she was discovered, post mortem, to have become a popular children's book author by the name of Elise Deauxnim. She was killed whilst foiling a plot to kill her youngest daughter, Maya.

## TRUCY WRIGHT

* Trucy Enigma, and now Wright, is a professional stage magician at the Wright Anything Agency who has also served as an investigate partner for the lawyers in the agency. She was born into the Gramarye family of magicians, her biological father being Zak Gramamrye and her grandfather being Magnifi Gramarye. Phoeix Wright adopted her shortly after her father's disappearance.
* Trucy Wright even mentored the Ultimate Magician, known as Himiko Yumeno, the Ultimate Mage, even that Himiko calls herself, at one point since the Danganronpa referenced Ace Attorney in Dangaronpa 2 by Ibuki Mioda.

## APOLLO JUSTICE

* Apollo Justice is a defense attorney who has operated in the United States and Khura'in. He started off working for Gavin Law Offices, but after his first trial, he was taken under the wing of Phoenix Wright at the Wright Anything Agency. Along with co-counsel Trucy Wright, prosecutor Klavier Gavin, and mentor Phoenix, Justice participated in a test trial for the Jurist System in 2026, which was an effort to reintegrate the jury into court proceedings. In 2028, Justice was an instrumental figure in the final days of the conflict between Queen Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in and the Defiant Dragons. Afterward, he established his own firm in Khura'in to help rebuild the country's legal system.
* His bracelet, inherited from his long-lost mother, helps him to focus on the nervous habits of other people. When Justice feels his bracelet getting tighter while talking to someone, he knows that they are hiding something from him.
* He was considered by Athena Cykes that he was the brother that she never had.

## ATHENA CYKES

* Athena Cykes is a specialist in analytical psychology, which she studied in Europe, and has the special ability to pick up subtle emotions from witnesses' voices, which she can then examine using a program called the "Mood Matrix". The Mood Matrix is linked to her A.I. partner, Widget, who hangs around her neck and changes color with her emotions.
* Athena Cykes, along with his mother lived at the Cosmos Space Center as a child. She enjoyed her time at the institution with the employees affectionately referring to her as "princess", she in turn, viewing them as family. However, as a child she was very withdrawn, mostly due to her strengthened hearing ability being so pronounced that it gave her sensory overload when around large groups of people. Due to this, Athena often avoided others and missed many days of school. However, Athena did manage to bond with a schoolmate named Juniper Woods, who would also often miss school, due to her poor health.
* Athena Cykes was required to wear heavy and uncomfortable headphones as a child as part of her mother's research. For years, Athena incorrectly assumed that the headphones were amplifying her power. She hated having to wear them, and held some resentment towards her mother for making her do so. Athena felt that Metis was treating her like a guinea pig for her experiments. It would be many years until Athena found out that the headphones were actually sound-dampening, and that her mother was attempting to rein in her ability so that she could lead a more normal life.
* Athena Cykes also grew close to the facility robots Clonco and Ponco that Metis had created, with the young Athena considering them part of her extended family. However, her sheltered upbringing left her oblivious to the finer differences between humans and robots. If one of the robots suffered from a malfunction, she would try and treat it like she would a human, by wrapping it in bandages. Conversely, when Metis would repair the robots using the disassembly table located in the robotics lab, Athena believed it would work on humans too, and often asked her mother if she could be "fixed" there when she was hurt, although her requests were always denied.
* On October 7, 2020, Athena Cykes went to see her mother in the robotics lab in order to show her a drawing she had recently finished. When she arrived, however, she stumbled upon an intruder dressed in Metis's Noh mask and space center jacket, with the bloody body of her recently murdered mother beside him. In a panic, Athena grabbed a utility knife and stabbed the man in the right hand. The masked man's blood splattered onto a moon rock. The intruder retaliated by kicking her, which knocked her unconscious, before fleeing the scene. After she came to, Athena tried to wake her mother. In her childlike state of denial and still not quite understanding the difference between humans and robots, she had Ponco move Metis to the robot disassembly table, thinking the machinery would be able to "fix" her like it did the robots.
* At that moment, Metis' student, prosecutor Simon Blackquill, arrived. Athena, covered in blood from the ordeal, explained to him — with a smile and a "far-off look in her eyes," as Blackquill would later recall — what she intended to do. Blackquill, thinking that Athena had killed her own mother, used the murder weapon, Metis's katana, to forcibly dismantle Ponco, before removing Athena and the pieces of the robot from the lab. By the time Athena had returned to the Center, Blackquill had been arrested for Metis' murder.
* Blackquill's trial was held soon afterwards. Athena tried to speak out in his defense, saying "his heart is screaming that he didn't kill her," but was ignored because no one understood what she meant. Blackquill pleaded guilty and was soon convicted, leaving Athena traumatized by the ordeal and causing her to repress many of her memories of that day. After the incident, Athena stopped going to school; she lost touch with Juniper Woods as well, though the two would later start exchanging letters.
* Once she was old enough, Athena went to Europe to study law and psychology in the hope of someday returning to free Blackquill. She took with her two gifts her mother had given her: Widget and a small piece of moon rock made into an earring. Psychology had been Metis' specialty, and Athena would later remark that studying it somehow made her feel closer to her mother.
* Athena Cykes could be considered the sister that Apollo Justice has never had.

## GODOT

* Godot's true name is Diego Armando, a senior defense lawyer working at Grossberg Law Offices. He had spiky black hair and wore a red dress-shirt with a black tie. He was fond of referring to women as kittens, and often used metaphors revolving around such names.
* Armando was Mia Fey's aide when she took on her first case, giving her advice as she went through and urging her to continue on the attack. Near the end of the trial, their client, Terry Fawles, died on the stand as a result of drinking poison given to him by the real killer, Dahlia Hawthorne. Angered by the outcome, Armando crushed his mug of coffee in his hand, which subsequently began bleeding. Soon afterward, the two lawyers started dating, with their boss Marvin Grossberg referring to them as such.
* He had no preferences for his coffee tough his preferred one is no cream and usually in anger he would throw the coffee Mug with some coffee in it thankfully cooled down at someone’s head

## LARRY BUTZ

* Larry sometimes goes under the name Laurice Deauxnim, He is Phoenix Wright's oldest friend and first client, and a childhood friend of Miles Edgeworth as well. Overemotional and unmotivated, he has been involved in Wright's and Edgeworth's investigations from time to time, nearly always appearing with a different occupation and clothing. Butz also changes girlfriends frequently, with each relationship ending with him being unceremoniously dumped. He had at least five jobs and nine girlfriends in the space of three years before seemingly settling on becoming an artist and picture book author.

## MILES EDGEWORTH

* Miles Edgeworth is Phoenix Wright's rival and chief prosecutor and by the time of the Mask-DeMasque trails, he had become an international prosecutor who has prosecuted in five other countries, as well as being known as the top prosecutor in his homeland. His goal as a prosecutor is to seek out the truth above all else, and to use the power of the law to save people.
* Edgeworth has known Wright ever since he defended him, alongside Larry Butz, from all the students in elementary school after they falsely accuse Wright for taking Edgeworth’s lunch money.

## DICK GUMSHOE

* Dick Gumshoe is a homicide detective at the police department. He usually works with Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, but has also worked under Manfred and Franziska von Karma, Winston Payne, Godot, Shi-Long Lang, Sebastian Debeste, and Klavier Gavin. He has been in charge of most of the cases that Phoenix Wright took on before the latter's disbarment, mostly due to the fact that most of Wright's cases pit him against Gumshoe's prosecutor colleagues. He generally takes care of the initial investigation, and is usually the first to take the stand during a trial to testify and give basic facts about a case. He would occasionally help Wright depending on the circumstances behind the case at hand. He also shares a particularly strong bond with Edgeworth and is always trying to help him out, even when it means going behind other prosecutors' backs.

## FRANZISKA VON KARMA

* Franziska von Karma is the daughter of and student of the late and devilish father, Manfred von Karma and prosecuting Attorney. She was the prosecutor for most of Phoenix Wright's cases from June 2017 until March 2018, as well as an acting prosecutor for the trial of Iris of Hazakura Temple. She also aided Interpol in their investigation into an international smuggling ring, as well as another investigation into a black market auction. She enjoys using the terms "fool" and "foolish" to describe people who are, in her opinion, inferior. She is also known to carry a whip with her at all times, which she will often use on almost everybody she meets with very little provocation.

## KAY FARADAY

* She is is the second Yatagarasu, a self-proclaimed "Great Thief" who "steals" the truth. She assisted Miles Edgeworth during his investigations into an international smuggling ring and his fight against the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee (P.I.C.). Her greatest asset in investigations is "Little Thief", a device that can create holographic simulations.

## SIMON BLACKQUILL

* Simon Blackquill is a prosecutor who was convicted in the aftermath of the UR-1 Incident. Seven years later, he was called to serve as a prosecutor despite serving his murder sentence. Blackquill is known for his use of psychological manipulation in court, as well as his pet hawk Taka, to intimidate others and bend them to his will. His conviction and tactics in court earned him the nickname of the "Twisted Samurai".

## WINSTON PAYNE

* Winston Payne is a prosecutor often called the "Rookie Killer" due to his tendency to defeat novice defense attorneys. He is notable for being the first courtroom opponent of Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice, as well as the second opponent of Mia Fey.
* According to himself he never lost a case during his first seven years as a prosecutor. If true, this means he held a perfect record for longer than both Miles Edgeworth and Franziska von Karma. At some point before the murder of Byrne Faraday, Payne entered into, and won, a competition to name the hot dogs in the courthouse's vending machine.

## DAHLIA HAWTHORNE

* Dahlia Hawthorne is a student of Ivy University, niece of Misty Fey, ex-boyfriend of Doug Swallow, stepsister of Valire Hawthorne and ex-girlfriend of Pheonix Wright and she was executed for her crimes.

## REDD WHITE

* Redd White is the CEO of Blue Corp, ironic his name is Redd White, but the reason it's called Blue Corp, because it is his favorite color is blue and his reputation is very well-documented as in his blackmail and the murder of Mia Fey.

## APRIL MAY

* April May is the secretary at Blue Corp and staged the witness of Mia Fey's murder until finally being arrested, along with Redd White.

## SHI-LONG LANG

* He is an elite investigator who has the highest successful arrest rate out of all Interpol agents. He was known for mass investigation tactics using a large team of 100 subordinates. However, he was relieved of his authority over his officers following his controversial handling of the arrest of a mole within his ranks.

## KLAVIER GAVIN

* Klavier Gavin was also the lead vocalist and guitarist of his own rock band, the Gavinners, before they disbanded so he could continue practicing law full-time. And he is also the younger brother of Apollo Justice's former mentor, Kristoph Gavin.

## MATT ENGARDE

* Matt Engarde was an action star who played the titular character in Global Studios' The Nickel Samurai. He was the defendant in the murder of Juan Corrida.
* Two years prior to his trial, Engarde dated his manager Celeste Inpax. Adrian Andrews, who would later become Engarde's manager, described them as being happy. However, he broke up with Inpax one day. Later, he learned that his rival Juan Corrida was planning to marry her. Knowing that it would hurt Corrida deeply, Engarde confessed to his fierce rival that he had dated her first. Corrida called off the marriage; heartbroken again, Celeste Inpax hanged herself, allegedly leaving a suicide note that was hidden by the man who found her body, Juan Corrida.

## THE JUDGE

* Not much is known about the Judge, but from Maya Fey guessing that the message and his reaction was that it was revealed that as a child, the judge presumably received the same message on his school report card every year: "Has poor hearing, and often makes mistakes as a result", but although in some court sessions that he respects Phoenix Wright that hopefully that he would decide if the defendant is guilty or innocent.

## JUSTINE COURTNEY

* Justine Courtney is a judge and member of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee. She is tasked with observing the movements of prosecutors in order to determine who is unfit for the task, an activity the Committee calls the "Prosecutor Purge". Miles Edgeworth was one such prosecutor under evaluation; Courtney attempted several times to replace him with the incompetent Sebastian Debeste, son of former Chief Prosecutor and head of the Committee Blaise Debeste. Following the death of her cousin Amy Marsh, she adopted Amy's son John as her own child.

## JOHN MARSH

* John Marsh is an actor working at Global Studios. He notably had a starring role in the 2019 movie The Great Monster Moozilla vs. Gourdy. Marsh was one of the suspects of the murder of the president of Zheng Fa.
* The secret son of Zheng Fa's President Di-Jun Huang and diplomat Amy Marsh, John Marsh's early life was marred by tragedy. By the time he was born, Amy had left her job at the American embassy in Zheng Fa. Amy invited Huang to meet their son at her new place of work, the Happy Family Home orphanage, but Amy could not make it to the meeting. After that, John's father never came to see him. Amy passed away in 2014, leaving her cousin Justine Courtney to adopt John. Courtney raised him as if he were her own and became very protective of the young boy and proud of his achievements.

## MANFRED VON KARMA

* Manfred von Karma was a renowned prosecutor who went undefeated for forty years straight, earning him numerous "King of Prosecutors" awards, before finally meeting his match in Phoenix Wright. He was Miles Edgeworth's mentor, responsible for teaching him everything that he knows about prosecuting until 2016. He was also the father and mentor of Franziska von Karma. For all the cases that he took on until Robert Hammond's murder case, only one was left unsolved, and all of the defendants that he prosecuted were convicted, much to his fury.
* And he is said in the court that he is a member of the Council of Apocalypse and he is also one of the villains that reveals to be calm under pressure, like Jinpachi Mishima from Tekken, even that the fact that there are ruthless tyrants, harbingers of destruction, monstrous entities.