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A note for CR AU applications
Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
Re: [CANON] Machi Tobaye || Ace Attorney || Reserved || 2 of 3
There was in fact a second, hidden reason for the constant contact, however--though blind, Lamiroir was billed as "the landscape painter in sound," supposedly because she painted what she saw through her music. Her production team was unaware of her blindness when they billed the catchphrase, and by the time the mistake was caught, it was too late... so Machi pretended to be blind instead and kept up the deception while actually leading her and drawing symbols into her hand to signal important things that she needed to "see." Lamiroir's blindness was a very closely kept secret, and in fact its secrecy was also part of their contract, as was Machi's perfectly normal vision.
At some point, however, Machi found himself in need of a very large sum of money, far more than he could ever hope to make, and ended up agreeing to help a Stateside police detective named Daryan Crescend smuggle a very rare cocoon--called a Borginian cocoon--into the United States for money. This was an extremely dangerous operation, as the transport of said cocoon was highly illegal and being convicted of its smuggling carried a death sentence in Borginia. This was in part because of the cocoon's uses--on the one hand, it was required to make a potent curative--the only cure, in fact--for a rare but fatal disease called 'incuritis.' On the other hand, it could also be synthesised into an extremely powerful poison, called atroquinine. Nigh-undetectable, atroquinine was fast-acting and untreatably lethal, even in small doses. Despite this, Machi got the cocoon to the States, a feat he accomplished by hiding it inside a guitar belonging to a famous prosecutor/rock star named Klavier (Daryan, by the way, was a bassist in said star's band)... a guitar that Lamiroir had gifted to the man after meeting and composing a song with him. Klavier, unaware, vacuum-sealed and express-shipped the instrument to the U.S., bypassing many checkpoints and safety points with his legal status--basically, he had it handled as evidence, and thereby inadvertently prevented the cocoon's detection. Unfortunately, Lamiroir's new manager, Romein LeTouse, was an undercover agent who was looking for cocoons, among other things. And when Lamiroir and Machi went to Britain to do a concert with Klavier's band... LeTouse was murdered. In the middle of the concert. With his own gun. Machi was accused of the crime, largely on the premise that he was one of the few available (i.e. not on stage) at the time of the murder and he was the only one small enough to escape through the air vents, which were the only conceivable exit. And, too, there was the delicate international status of the crime itself (not to mention the scandal of the trial itself), and a political desire to get things wrapped up as quickly as possible. As the trial went on, it was first concluded that the murder was apparently both staged and committed to the lyrics of the song Lamiroir and Klavier had composed together. The truth of Machi's vision--and Lamiroir's--was revealed quickly, making it clear that Machi could very well have seen to commit the murder. Later, however, outside evidence and testimony revealed that Daryan had in fact both set up and framed Machi after killing LeTouse, using the song to get away with it. Machi himself had secretly destroyed the cocoon during the concert, on Daryan's signal, which was issued when Daryan realised they had been discovered. Unfortunately, in order to convict Daryan of this, they first had to get Machi to talk--something they could only do after discovering he could understand English, albeit in a limited fashion. Despite Daryan's pleas and arrogant dismissal of Machi, the pianist finally confessed, revealing that he had actually witnessed the crime, and--frightened--hidden behind a dresser before fleeing up through an air vent, where he had been caught by Daryan and knocked out, who had then set Machi and the corpse up in a way that mimicked the lyrics. Once caught in the dressing room, Daryan had murdered LeTouse in panic and framed Machi afterwards.
In short, Machi was not guilty of murder.
He was, however, guilty of perjury, and what was--in his home country--a capital crime. Just as bad as murder, as far as the end result was concerned.
The revelation that the United States did not view it as harshly was a key reason that Machi was absolved of the murder charge to begin with--had Apollo not declared this to the court, he may very well have gone to death row. Instead, Daryan, losing control, revealed his own guilt, and Machi was absolved of one crime but found guilty of another, and he has spent the past eight months in prison. It is from this point in canon that I pull him.
[CANON] Machi Tobaye || Ace Attorney || Reserved || 3 of 3
First Person: [Descending from the train, Machi wanders the station in confusion, agitation, and no small amount of distress. A small, young-looking boy with pale porcelain skin and fine blond hair, he is dressed in the blue and white stripes indicative of prison garb. His shoes are blue loafers, the kind with no laces.
Much of his face is obscured by a pair of large black reflective sunglasses.
He has no idea what just happened or how he got here, but he can't be here--he doesn't know where it is, but he has to find out and get back immediately.
He clutches the watch tightly, fearfully; it is from the corner of his eye that he spots the posters, and it is from there that he reads it--slowly, perhaps, and with a bit of difficulty, but eventually he gets the point.
Except that the point is even worse.
He hesitates before opening the watch, making sure first that he is standing in an alcove, a little corner of obscurity where his back is to the wall, his shoulders against the bricks, before flipping the cold metal device open.
A few minutes later, the face of a fragile, doll-like boy appears on the network, his expression--and vision--hidden by the impassive black sunglasses over his eyes.]
.....I.... I am need help.
Third Person: Machi sat on the floor of the living room, impatient but quiet. The furniture around him was stripped, and actually much of it had been reorganised and repurposed--the better to support the comical structure in the far corner that Trucy had dubbed a blanket fort. Machi thought it looked more like a childish attempt at a shantyhome, but (predictably) hadn't actually said that.
What he'd said instead was 'okay.'
That was also what he'd said when she'd told him to take charge of it while she was gone.
Well, it was what he'd said after "but--" and she'd cut him off and told him it was very important, which he severely questioned, but (again) not out loud. Maybe if it hadn't been Trucy, but...
Oh, who was he kidding--he got pressed into a lot of things because he either had sense enough to keep his mouth shut or else not enough sense not to keep his mouth shut.
Either way, now he was in charge of a 'blanket fort.'
It wasn't like he had anything else to do today.
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