Imaginal Casements

They are making a Phoenix Wright movie.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2011/05/26/phoenix_wright:_ace_attorney_set_to_come_to_the_big_screen

. . . and it's being directed by Takashi Miike -- I'm not sure whether to be pleased or worried, but it might definitely be interesting. I believe they're doing the 4th case of game 1. I wonder who they'll be casting as Manfred von Karma . . .

Even if this will lack the glory of the Takarazuka production (group of singers in red chant, "Edgeworth!") it definitely, definitely interests me.

Title: AU: the power of narrativium
Requester: starsandtildes
Series: Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney
Requested Topic: What if Edgeworth's daddy didn't get shot in an elevator in 2001?
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/857773.html


Edgeworth took a moment from delivering a glance of lethal courtesy to von Karma (since his father was already doing it much better), and instead looked at the woman behind the prosecutor. She was young and elegant, in a sharp suit with well-cut hair, and for some reason she had a riding whip hooked to her belt. She must be the famous prosecutor's daughter, Franziska von Karma.

She looked back at him in much the same way.

His father said something irreproachable yet vicious about von Karma's habit of adjusting evidence.

Von Karma said something unprosecutable yet precise about Edgeworth's father no doubt cooking the books in order to save his thoroughly guilty clients.

Edgeworth's and the girl's eyes met, and somewhere lovebells sounded, cannons went off, doves fluttered, trains went through underground tunnels, tidal waves crashed, and Romeo and Juliet gave up and went for a break.

Edgeworth's father commented on the number of innocent people von Karma had no doubt condemned to the death penalty.

Von Karma mentioned the number of thorough-going criminals that Edgeworth's father had released on society.

Little tweety bluebirds sang Franziska, Franziska at the back of Edgeworth's mind, and from the blitzed look on Franziska's face, she too was imagining facing him in court and all the delightful logic they could chop, the proof they could uncover, the truths they could dissect. And possibly other things afterwards.

Title: don't shoot the messenger
Requester: starsandtildes
Series: Phoenix Wright / XXXholic
Requested Topic: Phoenix Wright character of your choice (pre-disbarment greatly preferred) + Yuuko's shop.
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/724310.html

"No, Mr von Karma, I'm afraid Yuuko-san is not available."

"No, Mr von Karma, I'm afraid she said that she had urgent business to drink -- um, to handle."

"Yes, Mr von Karma, she did remember you had an appointment, and she said that she'd left something for you."

"Yes, Mr von Karma, here it is. This lamp. She said that if you did find an honest man, please would you not murder him with it, not even defense attorneys."

". . . no, Mr von Karma, I have absolutely no idea what she meant. None at all. Really. Please put me down now?"

(Note: the Greek philosopher Diogenes, among other things, is said to have walked through the streets carrying a lamp in the daytime, claiming to be looking for an honest man.)

Title: there is none without guilt, no, not one
Requester: finer_verities
Series: Phoenix Wright
Requested Topic: There are ten years of missing scenes in between DL-6 and 3-4, and Edgeworth's changed a lot in between those, so something of that transition. Younger Miles, von Karma, any take on the relationship you find reasonable (it's my trainwreck pairing of choice but I realize most people don't go in for that).
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/685692.html


"No," von Karma said. "Nobody is innocent."

"But, sir," Miles said, as tentatively as he could, "what if the police had made a mistake? The fault would be all on their side. In such a case, if the prisoner were innocent --"

Von Karma snorted. "You are obstinate, boy. Nobody is innocent. That man who shot your father seemed innocent enough. But look what he did. Better that a hundred such rot in jail than that one guilty man goes free."

And like so much of what von Karma said, of course it was true. It was so obviously true.