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Re: Miles Edgeworth | Ace Attorney | Not reserved
Name: Miles Edgeworth
Canon: Ace Attorney
Age: 26
Timeline: a couple of days after AA.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality:Miles Edgeworth is well-known in the United States of America for being the ‘Demon Attorney’. Until a few years ago, he lived up to that nickname quite accurately. Edgeworth despises criminals – for at least two reasons. First, he witnessed the murder of his father and hero, Gregory Edgeworth, at the tender age of nine. Second, after his father’s death, he was adopted and trained by Manfred Von Karma, a man who was famous for having a 40-year perfect record of guilty verdicts (and taking pride in it). Von Karma vigorously trained his ward to be ruthless like himself. While Edgeworth never intentionally used forged evidence (despite rumours that suggested otherwise), he went by the belief that it was impossible to tell whether or not a defendant was guilty and used it as a justification to try and convict all defendants. Tactics included being intimidating in court and telling witnesses not to reveal certain things which could risk an acquittal of the defendant.
Miles Edgeworth, however, began to change when he came across his childhood friend and defence attorney, Phoenix Wright. First, he lost two trials in a row against Wright. To make matters worse, Edgeworth managed to gain first-hand experience of what it is like to be the defendant by being falsely accused of murder himself and it was Wright who defended him and saved him from a certain death sentence. To top it all off, the prosecutor later found out that a defendant he had convicted a long time ago was actually innocent and the decisive evidence used in that trial was (unknown to Edgeworth when he was prosecuting in that trial)forged.
These series of incidents forced Edgeworth to deeply question the morality of his actions and whether or not he had a right to be a prosecutor anymore. As a result, he left America to find out what being a prosecutor really meant and when he returned, he brought a new goal with him – not to win a trial but to find out the truth behind a case.
The ambition to find the truth actually defines a lot of Edgeworth’s character. While he maintains a hatred for crime, it is incredibly important to him to get the right culprit in jail. He will use whatever methods to achieve this aim – even to the point of occasionally being callous (he once resorted to using a witness’ background of attempted suicide, against that witness’ consent - this may not be the kindest thing to do but the truth is what matters and if upsetting someone is a consequence, so be it).
While Edgeworth no longer follows the path of Von Karma, he still retains a few traits that earned him the ‘Demon Prosecutor’ title. He is incredibly cocky and condescending in court (eg. Once, when Wright managed to ask a question in bad English, Edgeworth tells him, “Wright. I thought years of school would have taught you how to construct a sentence. If you can't make a sensible sentence with a subject, then I'll make one for you” and gives him a rather patronising mini-lecture about constructing a sentence).
Edgeworth is also incredibly intelligent – as proven by the fact that he had his first court debut as a prosecutor at the age of 20 and would have debuted at 19 had the trial he was supposed to be prosecuting not gone horribly wrong. In Ace Attorney Investigations, Edgeworth’s intelligence is used in the game via an ability called ‘Logic’ – where the player pieces together facts that Edgeworth knows to reach a conclusion. In other words, Edgeworth is pretty good at working things out and putting bits of information together to come to a reasonable conclusion. He also apparently won various awards at school when he was a child.
While Edgeworth is incredibly smart logically, however, his social smarts are actually pretty terrible. Being raised by Von Karma, a man who was not known for displaying affection, probably did little to help his social skills. Being only 20 when he made his court debut, Edgeworth probably studied vigorously and it is possible that he did not get much of a chance to form many personal relationships. Even now, he is only 26 and still works incredibly hard, having prosecuted in five countries for several months and saying that he has had to become completely fluent in a language while doing so. Again, even an extremely intelligent man such as Edgeworth would have probably had to work really hard and thus gained little time for social interaction.
Another point that proves that Edgeworth is not very well-versed in social interaction is he that was taught by Von Karma to glare at people to intimidate them – something that he still does, although not always intentionally. He also lacks people smarts. Edgeworth’s good looks attract the attention of quite a few women in the series. However, he is mostly unaware of this (except in the case of Wendy Oldbag, whom he cannot stand) and does not appear to notice when women like Lauren Paups and Ema Skye have crushes on him. Furthermore, Edgeworth used to find it really difficult to express his own personal feelings. In the first game, when Maya stopped him from being declared guilty in his trial and was held in contempt of court as a result, Edgeworth tried to tell Phoenix to thank her for him but instead ended up saying, “....Tell her to watch what she says in court”. However, his gratitude is later expressed (albeit rather subtly) when he pays to bail her out of jail. When Phoenix successfully gets him an acquittal, Edgeworth even struggles to say a simple “Thank you”.
However, personal relationships is something that Edgeworth is slowly getting better at. In the second game, after Maya is feed from the assassin Shelly De killer, he awkwardly tells her that he is relieved to see her okay.
Another trait of Edgeworth’s is that although he can still be a bit of a jerk at times, he is a much kinder person than he lets on. When Wright falls off a burning bridge and ends up in hospital, and Edgeworth hears of it, he catches a private jet straight back to America to see what is wrong and, reluctantly, agrees to temporarily replace him as a defence attorney for a client. He also once comforted a child who was distressed at losing her father, knowing very well what it is like to suddenly lose a parent at that age. Although he does not always show it, Edgeworth does greatly care about his friends.
He is incredibly prideful and hates showing his weaknesses. In the first game, when the prosecutor is falsely convicted of murder and the guilty verdict is overturned by Larry Butz’s testimony, he just coolly tells Phoenix that “I’ve seen worse”, while Phoenix can see that Edgeworth is “sweating bullets”. Additionally, in few incidents in Ace Attorney Investigations (and when Edgeworth acts as a pseudo defence attorney in Wright’s abscence in Trials and Tribulations) if Edgeworth gets a contradiction wrong, he will sometimes try to hide it by saying something along the lines of, “I was just testing you!”
While Edgeworth tends to have a cool and level-headed attitude, he can easily get annoyed when things do not go his way in a trial or when people embarrass him. When Larry Butz tells Gumshoe that Edgeworth used to cry as a child when he failed at things such as folding a paper crane, Edgeworth loses his cool and angrily tells them both that he can make “a perfect quarter inch without a single flaw”. It is also noted that Edgeworth is a huge fan of the TV show ‘The Steel Samurai’. Because of his pride and because ‘The Steel Samurai’ is a children’s programme, however, he tries to keep his love for it a secret and if someone (such as Franziska or Gumshoe) suspects his fanboyism, he will get ruffled but deny it adamantly.
That said, however, while he is somewhat arrogant, Edgeworth hates being in the spotlight and often tries to credit other people for his achievements. He was not particularly happy about receiving the Prosecutor’s Trophy.
One of Miles Edgeworth’s greatest weaknesses, however, is his deadly fear of earthquakes (and anything resembling them such as air turbulences). It is one weakness that he really cannot hide, as much as he would wish. When an earthquake occurs, Edgeworth’s reactions will vary – from curling up into a ball and either shaking or sobbing or, in the worst case, fainting. The reason for this can be traced back to his father’s murder – which happened when both father and son were trapped in an elevator together caused by an earthquake. For many years, Edgeworth suffered constant nightmares of the incident and secretly had this horrible fear that he might have accidentally killed his father. Thanks to the efforts of Phoenix Wright, this was proven to be untrue. PTSD is not easily gotten rid of however, and while Edgeworth no longer has nightmares, he has yet to stop fainting or breaking down from an earthquake and still has a phobia of elevators (always preferring to use the stairs). While he is trying to get over these phobias, he has yet to at his current point in canon.
End!
Abilities: Miles Edgeworth has no supernatural abilities and is a completely normal human being. His biggest strength is his bloody good brain. When in a crime scene, Edgeworth will examine anything that is relevant or suspicious, note it down and try to piece it together to come to a reasonable conclusion. Other things he is apparently good at is playing the flute and playing golf – he has won awards for both.
Edgeworth’s intelligence is also proven by the fact that he is very good at gathering up evidence before a trial in order to ensure that the trial goes his way, often preparing for contradictions that the defense attorney might present (although this does not always work as the attorney sometimes comes up with something which Edgeworth is completely unprepared for).
Another thing that Edgeworth is skilled at is that he is good at manipulating certain witnesses into making them give information to him when they normally refuse to talk. This is shown in Ace Attorney Investigations 2 in a gameplay mechanic called ‘Logic Chess’ – Edgeworth takes into account the witnesses’ words and emotions as if he were watching an opponent’s moves on a chessboard and asks certain questions to trick them into spilling out the information that he wants.
Even though Edgeworth is good at reading people, though, this does not make him a mind-reader or that those who are exceptionally good at hiding their sinister nature cannot fool him (delving into Ace Attorney Investigations 2 spoiler territory: During Case 2, Edgeworth ended up trying to acquit Sota Sarushiro, a seemingly timid and nervous circus clown, of murder. While Sarushiro was not actually the murderer in Case 2, it turned out that not only was he the murderer in Case 5, but also that he was indirectly responsible for the killings in Cases 1, 2 and 4 by manipulating the real killers into doing the deeds so that they would be caught by Edgeworth.).
First Person: http://towerofanimus.dreamwidth.org/744865.html?thread=74897569#cmt74897569 and http://towerofanimus.dreamwidth.org/742613.html?thread=74751957#cmt74751957
Third Person: This could not be real.
Edgeworth had been in this strange place for five days.
Five days.
Despite this, however, every single person said the same thing. Everyone was trapped in another world. The place was called Ruby City. There are people brought from different timelines. Even his friends who happened to be here said the same thing.
“Ugh. Why is it that everyone I met there is talking utter hogwash?” he muttered to himself as he stood in front of one of the bookshelves in the library. The prosecutor had been looking for information about Ruby City too. Needless to say, he had found absolutely nothing useful so far.
Suddenly, Edgeworth spotted one particular book on the bottom shelf. On the spine read, “Steel Samurai Ultimania Part V.”And the spine was gold.
Within a few minutes, Edgeworth managed to find another, larger book about law. Then he sat down at a table in the far corner, giving a slight smile.
Seemingly, he was reading a plain old law book. If anybody asked him, he would tell them that he was studying what type of law would work in the city.
…Or was he?
Re: End!
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