Calisto Yew

> "I made myself a pawn, in the hopes that someday, I'd become a queen... but it never really worked out that way."
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## Calisto Yew

* Normal
* Mental Breakdown

## Biological Information

### Eye Color

Brown

Calisto Yew is a player character, played by Fruitbat, in The Toxic Turnabout. She's snarky, tough, manipulative, and hates being controlled; when she is forced to answer to higher-ups at Pennan Inc., in exchange for her freedom, she struggles greatly to reconcile her identity.

## Backstory

Calisto ran away from her home in Kansas at a young age, and began a life of crime in Los Angeles, Japanifornia. Her mother named her Lyma, after the Lymantriinae family of moths, but as she moved around and grew older, she took on different names and identities. At one point, she went by the name Kanna, and was deeply affected by the death of her mentor, a boy named Cyrus. She went on to become a member of the Yatagarau, where Byrne Faraday expressed romantic interest in her, but she declined him.

## The Toxic Turnabout

### Being Used

After her arrest at the end of *Miles Edgeworth Investigations*, Calisto Yew spent plenty of time in jail, utterly stuck. When Pepper Pennan sent her a letter, offering to bail her out for her services, she accepted... but as time went on, despite their insistence she kept quiet, Calisto rarely did as they said, and frequently shared the letters she had been receiving with police, in an attempt to clear her own name. In return, their threats became more severe, culminating in torturing Gage Hotrodd, and implying that they would kill Dick Gumshoe.

### Mental Breakdown

The stress of knowing she was, at least in part, responsible for Gage Hotrodd being tortured to near-insanity, and that the fate of Detective Gumshoe rested entirely in her hands (along with the physical strain of a concussion and serious laceration to her neck), Calisto sought escape in the only way she knew how: trying to become someone new. She shaved off her hair, changed her style of clothes, and donned the dark sunglasses she had worn as Shih-na.

### "Relationship" with Gage

Calisto met the thug, Gage Hotrodd. when he and Pepper Pennan got in a strange fight with herself, the rest of the party, Phoenix and Trucy, and her idol, Shelly de Killer. Hotrodd was placed under arrest, although Calisto assured him that if he told her what he knew, she would defend him in court. Gage, falling in love on the spot, did as he was told... only to be shortly removed from the prison, and repeatedly shocked via electric chair for selling out his superiors. When taunted, he begged for Calisto to come and save him.

She did indeed end up stumbling across his body outside the Hiel-Yu Hospital, where he was delirious with pain. He asked her to kiss him, which made her angry enough to strike him in his vulnerable state, but she gave him the courtesy of sending him to a public hospital, where he would hopefully recover.

However, before the ambulance arrived, Gage managed to make a run for it, and ended up at the homes of one of his friends, who took him in. He tried to take his own life, but failed; that night, he remembered something that the people around him had said while he was in the electric chair, about luring Calisto to Pennan, Inc., and was able to make it to make it there in time to save the lives of the party from Casper Python.

Gage helped Phoenix, Edgeworth, Connie, and Gumshoe escape from the basement of Pennan, but he and Calisto sacrificed their own lives. As they waited for Casper Python to kill them, the two of them shared a heart-to-heart, and Calisto was, for the first time she could remember, vulnerable with him. Gage apologized for objectifying her, and the two embraced.

Just in the nick of time, the rest of the party managed to immobilize Python, and Gage and Calisto survived.

### Returning Home

After all of this happened, Gage gave Calisto his phone number and she left. She returned to her apartment, where she threw out all of her old things she had used in her delinquent lifestyle, and went to the bus station, to try to get a bus back to her mother's house. She called Gage, to say goodbye, and then, without looking back, she left.