Juniper Woods is a very kind girl, and one of the easiest sorts to make friends with. She will always try to greet people with a smile or a hello, if not both. Though she can be a bit of a recluse, especially when it comes to meeting new people, she will do her best to accomodate other people over herself. She values friendship more than anything else in the world, and when she makes friends with someone, she tries her best to keep those friends. She even went as far as wear a friendship bracelet that her friend Robin Newman made for the two of them and their other best friend, Hugh O'Conner. Because of how much she values friendship, she will do whatever she can to keep her friends out of trouble and even from getting into trouble if she can help it, though sometimes her morality will shine through more and she will do what is morally right, though she tends to avoid what is morally wrong because if one of her friends does something that's terrible, she will want to not believe that it could possibly be true.
When it comes to her friends, Juniper tries to do as much for them as she can. As has been shown in canon multiple times, Juniper brings fruits and vegetables that she grows in her garden to give to her friends to show her support for them. She's given her best friend Athena an orange and her other good friend Apollo a lotus root, and gives them knowledge based around them. She also is a major worrywart about her friends when they're in danger, which she has shown for Apollo countless times when he helped save her from getting hurt by shielding her body when debris was falling during an explosion.
The good thing about her kindness is that when others around her are smiling and laughing, it causes her to generally do the same and feel more upbeat and optimistic about things. However there is a major downside to her kindness she tries to show. She's quite naive and can easily be manipulated by those who feign kindness and use her for their own means. She is easily trusting of others which lends more vulnerability to being lied to. She also gets nervous and frightened very easily and can do so when the situation is tense or nerve-wracking for her, or if others around her are also nervous, worried or frightened. Though sometimes she will try to perk others up, it's often difficult for her to be the light at the end of the tunnel. She also emotionally crumples easily under the weight of cruel stares or people just plain being mean to her.
Sometimes, she can put on a brave face and do what is necessary to get things done. Being Student Council President at Themis Legal Academy, Juniper thought it necessary to put aside her usual fright and nervousness with a serious look that would set an example of what all students should be. She can readily accept responsibility and follow directions to near perfection, as long as they are well within the bounds of her physical capabilities. This even caused her to not call her best friend Athena by her nickname 'Thena', in order to keep up the example she was trying to set for the other Academy students.
Juniper is a very outdoorsy person, and enjoys playing in the forest, especially given her home is centered in a forest on top of a mountain. She loves gardening and exploring in the wilderness, and watching the wildlife in the forest or even parks. Though you won't see her picking flowers or messing with nature, as she adores what naturally can grow within the earth's soil.
She is physically frail and has a weak constitution, in that she's unable to stay long in areas with unclean air, and gets her fair share of sicknesses from this. It also spreads to her nervousness and easily being frightened, to where when this is the case she will begin coughing and sometimes get into coughing fits. She always wears sunflowers on her so that she has something to breathe into to calm herself down in case nobody's around to cheer her up. Her coughing, unfortunately, makes it very difficult to get much in the way of speaking out of her, so she doesn't tend to do well in exceedingly tense situations or anywhere where she feels frightened or traumatized, which due to canon exist in a few places.
If there's one thing she's determined to find above all others, however, it is the truth. Juniper, believing that the truth always should come before 'the end justifies the means', is adamant about doing what she can. Because of this, she dislikes it when people lie or deceive others for their own personal gains. She can at least understand when people do so to cover for others since she can't really speak for herself on the matter. In a world where many new law students are trying to justify their trial wins by forging evidence, Juniper is seeking to help dispel this and show that the truth is more important.
Juniper's motivations center around her friends and the truth, though when it comes to a decision between the two she will tend to choose friends, though this has been shown to be questioned as she told on one of her best friends for presumably paying money for good grades, which she deemed much more important than keeping ties with him, though she felt extremely bad for it and refused to admit it later.
Overall, Juniper is someone that's fueled by friendship and will do what she can to help her friends when necessary, though she won't go too terribly far if things are getting well out of hand. She might rely on her friends to keep herself going sometimes, but she can put on a brave face when necessary and stick it through to the end.
Background: Not a whole lot is known about Juniper's past, except that she went to elementary school with Athena Cykes, who she became good friends with because they were both out of school so much. Because of this, Juniper ended up visiting Athena at her home which was located at GYAXA, in the fourth floor Robotics Laboratory. Seven years before the current time, Athena quit coming to school entirely and Juniper visited the Space Museum inside GYAXA often to try and look for her, but she never saw her face to face again for seven long years. They exchanged letters back and forth as Athena had moved to Europe. At that time, the 'Dark Age of the Law' had begun to take shape, and a few years later, Juniper decided she would try to make a difference by becoming a Judge. So at the age of 15, she joined the Themis Legal Academy and began studying in the judge course.
During her third (and presumably final) year in the judge course, at the age of 18, Juniper learned of students going down the dark road and forging evidence and the like. Her mentor and Professor of the Judge Course, Constance Courte, recruited her to tell her when people were going down the dark road so that she could help them. This led to people finding out about it and passing around rumors that there was a 'snitch' among their ranks. She ended up even snitching on one of her best friends, Hugh O'Conner, who was in the lawyer course, for bribing for good grades. She then found Hugh later that night stumbling across the hall from the Art Room with one of his hands dripping with blood, and she refused to tell anyone about it.
Juniper was one of the judges who submitted a mock trial script to be used during the school festival. Hers won out, ultimately, and she was to play the defendant in said mock trial. During the trial, however, it was found that Professor Courte had been murdered and was found on the stage outside the school. As the murder looked like it happened exactly as in Juniper's script (nobody but Juniper and Courte knew the contents of it), she was arrested for the murder. That same day she had met Athena again for the first time in seven years, and Athena took on her defense. That day she also met Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice, who were also lawyers seeking the truth. Juniper hid a lot of the facts from Athena in fear that Hugh really was the one that murdered Courte (as the only people out and about during the mock trial's seating were Hugh, Juniper and their other best friend, Robin) but on the second day she accepted Professor Means, the other professor that taught the lawyer course, as her defense. Athena, not wanting someone else defending her best friend with 'the end justifies the means' as their motto, worked to find out what was wrong and got the truth out of Junie by proving she was lying to her. Juniper confessed what she knew about Hugh and thanks to this info, Athena was able to get her a not guilty verdict and Professor Means was found to be the actual murderer, having murdered Professor Courte the night before the mock trial and hiding her wrapped up as a statue. It was at the conclusion of this trial that it was found that Juniper had a crush on Apollo.
A couple of months after that, Juniper came to the courthouse to cheer Apollo on and lend her support while he was taking on a case that dealt with the murder of his best friend, Clay Terran. She had brought with her a stuffed animal named Bum Rap Rhiny, who was part of a campaign to eliminate false charges and forged evidence. A bomb was brought in inside a stuffed animal named Phony Phanty, who was the other part of the aforementioned campaign. Unfortunately, somehow it got reactivated and though Juniper tried to flee the courtroom with everyone else, she tripped and fell. Apollo came to her rescue and used his body as a shield, saving her from harm but causing him to get severely wounded. Juniper was then arrested for the courtroom bombing and the murder of Detective Candice Arme, who was found dead in the blown up courtroom. Athena ended up having to go solo defending her until Phoenix Wright came to her rescue, and together they found out the truth about Apollo rescuing Juniper. During the trial Juniper was given special permission to wait in the lobby, where Apollo told her he was going to look for some evidence to clear her name. She had to go back to the courtroom so she left him to his search. Unfortunately after the trial they went to visit Apollo in the destructed courtroom and found his unconscious body with a bloody rock near him. Juniper blamed herself for letting this happen to him and was even more shaken up the second day of court. Phoenix and Athena fought hard and got her a not guilty verdict, however, and she was acquitted of her charges. She then learned later about Apollo taking a leave of absence and still partially blamed herself for all of it.
A few days later, she was visiting the Space Center after Athena got arrested for the murder of Clay Terran (after the previous accused, Solomon Starbuck, was found innocent) and found Phoenix Wright and his adopted daughter Trucy, who questioned her about Athena's past. She told them about Athena living there as a child and everything she knew about her, and said she would be rooting for them.
Afterwards she left the Space Museum and when the trial started for the case, despite her trauma of the courtroom bombing, she sat in the gallery and watched the trial unfold, lending her support to Athena (and Apollo when he showed up later). At the end of it, she was seen speaking to someone about growing peppers in her garden.
A short time afterwards, Juniper found herself in the strange Ruby City, and a few of her friends came along with her. They took one of the houses in the residential area and lived there for many months, until most of them disappeared. Juniper disappeared shortly afterward.
It has been a month since Juniper's visit to Ruby City, and it's like a distant memory to her.
Abilities: The only thing Juniper is accomplished at is gardening. She is currently still finishing up learning how to be a judge at trials.
[CANON] Juniper Woods | Ace Attorney | Not Reserved
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Age: 27
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CHARACTER
Name: Juniper Woods
Canon: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Age: 18
Timeline: Post-Dual Destinies
Personality:
Juniper Woods is a very kind girl, and one of the easiest sorts to make friends with. She will always try to greet people with a smile or a hello, if not both. Though she can be a bit of a recluse, especially when it comes to meeting new people, she will do her best to accomodate other people over herself. She values friendship more than anything else in the world, and when she makes friends with someone, she tries her best to keep those friends. She even went as far as wear a friendship bracelet that her friend Robin Newman made for the two of them and their other best friend, Hugh O'Conner. Because of how much she values friendship, she will do whatever she can to keep her friends out of trouble and even from getting into trouble if she can help it, though sometimes her morality will shine through more and she will do what is morally right, though she tends to avoid what is morally wrong because if one of her friends does something that's terrible, she will want to not believe that it could possibly be true.
When it comes to her friends, Juniper tries to do as much for them as she can. As has been shown in canon multiple times, Juniper brings fruits and vegetables that she grows in her garden to give to her friends to show her support for them. She's given her best friend Athena an orange and her other good friend Apollo a lotus root, and gives them knowledge based around them. She also is a major worrywart about her friends when they're in danger, which she has shown for Apollo countless times when he helped save her from getting hurt by shielding her body when debris was falling during an explosion.
The good thing about her kindness is that when others around her are smiling and laughing, it causes her to generally do the same and feel more upbeat and optimistic about things. However there is a major downside to her kindness she tries to show. She's quite naive and can easily be manipulated by those who feign kindness and use her for their own means. She is easily trusting of others which lends more vulnerability to being lied to. She also gets nervous and frightened very easily and can do so when the situation is tense or nerve-wracking for her, or if others around her are also nervous, worried or frightened. Though sometimes she will try to perk others up, it's often difficult for her to be the light at the end of the tunnel. She also emotionally crumples easily under the weight of cruel stares or people just plain being mean to her.
Sometimes, she can put on a brave face and do what is necessary to get things done. Being Student Council President at Themis Legal Academy, Juniper thought it necessary to put aside her usual fright and nervousness with a serious look that would set an example of what all students should be. She can readily accept responsibility and follow directions to near perfection, as long as they are well within the bounds of her physical capabilities. This even caused her to not call her best friend Athena by her nickname 'Thena', in order to keep up the example she was trying to set for the other Academy students.
Juniper is a very outdoorsy person, and enjoys playing in the forest, especially given her home is centered in a forest on top of a mountain. She loves gardening and exploring in the wilderness, and watching the wildlife in the forest or even parks. Though you won't see her picking flowers or messing with nature, as she adores what naturally can grow within the earth's soil.
She is physically frail and has a weak constitution, in that she's unable to stay long in areas with unclean air, and gets her fair share of sicknesses from this. It also spreads to her nervousness and easily being frightened, to where when this is the case she will begin coughing and sometimes get into coughing fits. She always wears sunflowers on her so that she has something to breathe into to calm herself down in case nobody's around to cheer her up. Her coughing, unfortunately, makes it very difficult to get much in the way of speaking out of her, so she doesn't tend to do well in exceedingly tense situations or anywhere where she feels frightened or traumatized, which due to canon exist in a few places.
If there's one thing she's determined to find above all others, however, it is the truth. Juniper, believing that the truth always should come before 'the end justifies the means', is adamant about doing what she can. Because of this, she dislikes it when people lie or deceive others for their own personal gains. She can at least understand when people do so to cover for others since she can't really speak for herself on the matter. In a world where many new law students are trying to justify their trial wins by forging evidence, Juniper is seeking to help dispel this and show that the truth is more important.
Juniper's motivations center around her friends and the truth, though when it comes to a decision between the two she will tend to choose friends, though this has been shown to be questioned as she told on one of her best friends for presumably paying money for good grades, which she deemed much more important than keeping ties with him, though she felt extremely bad for it and refused to admit it later.
Overall, Juniper is someone that's fueled by friendship and will do what she can to help her friends when necessary, though she won't go too terribly far if things are getting well out of hand. She might rely on her friends to keep herself going sometimes, but she can put on a brave face when necessary and stick it through to the end.
Background: Not a whole lot is known about Juniper's past, except that she went to elementary school with Athena Cykes, who she became good friends with because they were both out of school so much. Because of this, Juniper ended up visiting Athena at her home which was located at GYAXA, in the fourth floor Robotics Laboratory. Seven years before the current time, Athena quit coming to school entirely and Juniper visited the Space Museum inside GYAXA often to try and look for her, but she never saw her face to face again for seven long years. They exchanged letters back and forth as Athena had moved to Europe. At that time, the 'Dark Age of the Law' had begun to take shape, and a few years later, Juniper decided she would try to make a difference by becoming a Judge. So at the age of 15, she joined the Themis Legal Academy and began studying in the judge course.
During her third (and presumably final) year in the judge course, at the age of 18, Juniper learned of students going down the dark road and forging evidence and the like. Her mentor and Professor of the Judge Course, Constance Courte, recruited her to tell her when people were going down the dark road so that she could help them. This led to people finding out about it and passing around rumors that there was a 'snitch' among their ranks. She ended up even snitching on one of her best friends, Hugh O'Conner, who was in the lawyer course, for bribing for good grades. She then found Hugh later that night stumbling across the hall from the Art Room with one of his hands dripping with blood, and she refused to tell anyone about it.
Juniper was one of the judges who submitted a mock trial script to be used during the school festival. Hers won out, ultimately, and she was to play the defendant in said mock trial. During the trial, however, it was found that Professor Courte had been murdered and was found on the stage outside the school. As the murder looked like it happened exactly as in Juniper's script (nobody but Juniper and Courte knew the contents of it), she was arrested for the murder. That same day she had met Athena again for the first time in seven years, and Athena took on her defense. That day she also met Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice, who were also lawyers seeking the truth. Juniper hid a lot of the facts from Athena in fear that Hugh really was the one that murdered Courte (as the only people out and about during the mock trial's seating were Hugh, Juniper and their other best friend, Robin) but on the second day she accepted Professor Means, the other professor that taught the lawyer course, as her defense. Athena, not wanting someone else defending her best friend with 'the end justifies the means' as their motto, worked to find out what was wrong and got the truth out of Junie by proving she was lying to her. Juniper confessed what she knew about Hugh and thanks to this info, Athena was able to get her a not guilty verdict and Professor Means was found to be the actual murderer, having murdered Professor Courte the night before the mock trial and hiding her wrapped up as a statue. It was at the conclusion of this trial that it was found that Juniper had a crush on Apollo.
A couple of months after that, Juniper came to the courthouse to cheer Apollo on and lend her support while he was taking on a case that dealt with the murder of his best friend, Clay Terran. She had brought with her a stuffed animal named Bum Rap Rhiny, who was part of a campaign to eliminate false charges and forged evidence. A bomb was brought in inside a stuffed animal named Phony Phanty, who was the other part of the aforementioned campaign. Unfortunately, somehow it got reactivated and though Juniper tried to flee the courtroom with everyone else, she tripped and fell. Apollo came to her rescue and used his body as a shield, saving her from harm but causing him to get severely wounded. Juniper was then arrested for the courtroom bombing and the murder of Detective Candice Arme, who was found dead in the blown up courtroom. Athena ended up having to go solo defending her until Phoenix Wright came to her rescue, and together they found out the truth about Apollo rescuing Juniper. During the trial Juniper was given special permission to wait in the lobby, where Apollo told her he was going to look for some evidence to clear her name. She had to go back to the courtroom so she left him to his search. Unfortunately after the trial they went to visit Apollo in the destructed courtroom and found his unconscious body with a bloody rock near him. Juniper blamed herself for letting this happen to him and was even more shaken up the second day of court. Phoenix and Athena fought hard and got her a not guilty verdict, however, and she was acquitted of her charges. She then learned later about Apollo taking a leave of absence and still partially blamed herself for all of it.
A few days later, she was visiting the Space Center after Athena got arrested for the murder of Clay Terran (after the previous accused, Solomon Starbuck, was found innocent) and found Phoenix Wright and his adopted daughter Trucy, who questioned her about Athena's past. She told them about Athena living there as a child and everything she knew about her, and said she would be rooting for them.
Afterwards she left the Space Museum and when the trial started for the case, despite her trauma of the courtroom bombing, she sat in the gallery and watched the trial unfold, lending her support to Athena (and Apollo when he showed up later). At the end of it, she was seen speaking to someone about growing peppers in her garden.
A short time afterwards, Juniper found herself in the strange Ruby City, and a few of her friends came along with her. They took one of the houses in the residential area and lived there for many months, until most of them disappeared. Juniper disappeared shortly afterward.
It has been a month since Juniper's visit to Ruby City, and it's like a distant memory to her.
Abilities: The only thing Juniper is accomplished at is gardening. She is currently still finishing up learning how to be a judge at trials.
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