Kylie Badgai

> "I’ve known this final chapter of my life has been coming to a close for a long time now… but I am happy to see that the next one of yours is opening. [...] You have survived much, and I hope you survive to see much more."
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## Biological Information

### Family

Hannah Badgai (daughter)

Kylie Badgai was a gangster, arrested for the murder of Ronan Hyde. She was the main culprit in The Toxic Turnabout.

## Pre- AA DnD Canon

Kylie Badgai was married to James Badgai, elementary school science teacher, and they have a daughter named Hannah. Much of what Badgai did was to protect her daughter; according to a letter she sent to Connie V. Icheon, "I cannot undo things done before she was born, and it isn’t so easy to leave a mob as you would think. I’ve spent my life doing what I had to, and little more. Besides, shouldn’t a woman do what she loves?"

## The Toxic Turnabout

Badgai is introduced briefly in the first session of The Toxic Turnabout, where she deals cards for Phoenix Wright and Viper Hypnalis; she later pushes Calisto Yew to the ground and flees the scene of Ronan Hyde's death. The players eventually caught up to her, when she returned to get her phone (which she left behind), and she was taken into custody. As an infamous crime lord, Badgai had been a target for law enforcement for many years, and she confessed to every crime she was accused of, including shooting Ronan Hyde four times in the head after he began begging her for money. She was shortly placed on death row.

### Pennan, Inc.

While she was in her jail cell, Casper Python approached her, and attempted to enlist her help in trapping and killing everyone who had begun looking into his business, explaining his plan to ensnare the party in detail. However, Badgai declined his offer, citing sympathy for them. Python informed her that she could not tell a soul of what he had said, or her daughter would suffer.

Badgai hastily sent a letter to Edgeworth, unable to warn him outright that he was in danger for fear that Python would know it was her who had tipped him off, telling him to call her jail cell, and disguised it as a LAPD memo. Before his call came, though, Pepper Pennan, a co-worker of Python and money launderer, showed up at her cell as well, trying to figure out what had incited Ronan Hyde's death. Unbeknownst to the two of them, Edgeworth was listening in through the phone line, and heard Pennan attempt to extract the reason that she had killed one of his employees. Badgai insisted that she knew nothing about why he had wanted money, but informed him that she had confessed to the crime for the integrity of it.

### The Music Box (and Granny)

After Pennan left, she told Edgeworth to steal Connie Icheon's music box from under her nose. Although she was tell him so, she knew that the music box contained an antidote to a poison Casper Python planned to use on at least one of them, and that her best chance to save the party was to slowly deliver the clues to him so that he figured it out slowly, on his own. When he did as she instructed, she hired Shelly de Killer to leave a note with Calisto Yew, informing her to "Open it from the bottom", and protect the party from the thugs Python was sending after them, in an attempt to kidnap one of them as bait. Both counts were successful: all lives were spared, and they had the instruction but didn't know what it meant. Next, after it became clear that the music box had come from Connie's grandmother, Tiffany Da Ville, and that she would not give Connie the key, Badgai sent out some of her own underlings to steal the key, and she delivered it to Viper.

### Death

These actions were among Badgai's last, as she was executed within a few weeks. As a final act of kindness (and pettiness), for Connie's sake, she made sure Connie's well-disliked grandmother was arrested for embezzlement. Mrs. Da Ville was kept in Badgai's former jail cell.

## Trivia

* Badgai sent two letters, one to Edgeworth and one to Connie, and signed both, "Long live the law."
* The puns in Kylie Badgai's name are *kill* and *bad guy*, respectively.
* Badgai's appearance is based on a passing line in *Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney* by Olga Orly to the "famous gangster Badgai." Her deubt as a woman instead of a man inspired the phrase, "Women can be Badgais, too."