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These were our entries, finalists and otherwise, in the OC Contest 09 Fanart Division 

Character's Name: Flonnie (Surname unknown); also professionally known as ‘Eye’ Spy
 

Age: 20 (Phoenix arc); 27 (Apollo’s arc – he kept at his job until then)

Occupation: Unemployed

Brief Physical Description: Flonnie stands at 174 cm tall and has shoulder length blond hair. He looks lively and he is ready to react and run when the need arises. He loves the role of the Baker Street Irregulars in Sherlock Holmes and treats them as his role models. He hence always turns up looking like a little boy living in the wrong era. He wears an old, large, brown beret he had found off the streets. He wears leather gloves as he is careful not to implicate himself in any murder or crime in the crime scene. He is partial to leather – his wrists and neck sport leather straps. His eyes are bright blue and he brims with confidence. He is agile and usually makes sure he is not seen at the scene of the crime – with the exception of the trial of Dick Gumshoe, where he purposefully made his presence known to be taken by Lotta’s camera to qualify as a witness.

Brief Personality Description: Flonnie is an intelligent youth with a sharp, sarcastic sense of humor. He manages to poke fun at the court during cross examinations and may land the attorney a hefty penalty. He has a cheery outlook in life and is unfazed by gore, blood and violence. He has trouble trying to make ends meet without a job and would usually give information at the right price – or so he says. His insistence of the exchange of payment for information lessened as he became good friends with Phoenix Wright, but his friendship doesn’t come cheap – his company alone is enough to land people with a headache. The said headache may come from the creative, impromptu nicknames he uses to address people he meets – and the nicknames get more outrageous when he decides to be your friend. Though Flonnie makes his friends, contacts and enemies within 5 minutes (and one will know which category they belong to via the ridiculousness of their nicknames), these relationships tend to last for life. Flonnie has no home and his wandering lifestyle made him hard to find when one needs him – and that usually meant he is unable to help anyway.

Flonnie usually works alone and his lack of identification documents makes checking into hospitals a problem. Running is the only defense he could hope to have in a dangerous situation – he is unarmed and untrained in self-defense – and if he were to sustain an injury, he cannot be treated in a hospital. Therein lies the irony of his job – culprits culpable of committing murder will do anything to get rid of any witnesses in the scene, especially if they’ve seen something they weren’t supposed to, and thus his life is always in danger. He suffers from extreme hemophilia*, and being renowned for being a man who sees nearly all the crimes in the streets of the district doesn’t reduce his risk of getting injuries.

Connection to canon characters (if applicable): Some people have the eyes. Though they do not have the eyes of the Garmarcyes or the users of the magatama, they lurk in the shadows and act as the eyes of the police department, paid to observe and take note of crimes happening around them. They need not witness the crime itself – just take note of the people in the vicinity, of sounds and other odd happenings. Though useful in determining and confirming certain facts and witnesses of crime scenes, they do not interfere with the crimes they watch, because most of them have neither the power nor the ability to do so. Time after time, the police have found themselves dependant on these ‘eyes’, and when there was a movement to cut down on the number of ‘eyes’ on the road in 2010, the ‘Not Guilty’ verdicts increased drastically.

‘Eyes’ are unable to qualify as reliable witnesses, because they are paid to observe – and information is easy to make up if an ‘Eye’ did not catch the crime. Hence, these jobs, usually given to certain members of the public who are exceptionally observant, are now given to those who used to have connections to the police, as their accounts are deemed to be more reliable and useful than those of the public. As with the usage of spirit mediums in their investigations, the police kept their involvement secret as it would create unnecessary hubbub, debates and embarrassment. They are instructed to keep in the shadows, so that they will never be called upon as witnesses in court.

To the police’s eternal shame, one set of ‘eyes’ did make it to the witness stand. Defense attorney Phoenix Wright have found an unknown witness at the crime scene, captured on one of Lotta Hart’s enlarged photographs, on top of one of the nearest overhead lamps. Convinced that this man was the answer to the case at hand, he persuaded the judge to extend the trial for another day. Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth relented, deciding to give defendant Dick Gumshoe another day’s trial, while wondering why this witness was never brought to light by the police.

Flonnie’s first appearance in court ended with his job being officially stripped away from him to save due humiliation on the police department, before the use of ‘Eyes’ in the police becomes publicly known. However, he continues to provide information to the police, prosecution and defense on the people involved in the cases and perhaps even the case itself, at the right price. He was called upon as a witness in quite a few of Phoenix Wright’s, Apollo Justice’s and Miles Edgeworth’s cases because he ‘happened to be there, at the scene of the crime’. The good judge considers him to be a regular witness in court who has ‘coincidentally’ witnessed one too many crimes.

He has a long standing feud with Detective Gumshoe as the detective considers his work to be unscrupulous and ‘illegal’, as he makes his living watching somebody else’s misery whilst doing nothing to stop it. This rivalry started back then when he worked as a CSI – after Gumshoe realized who had started the trend of calling him ‘Dick’. Flonnie risked his job and an injury on his arm in the trial of Dick Gumshoe to expose and become the sole decisive evidence in his defense – so as to convict the real murderer and set Gumshoe free. But, really, Gumshoe doesn’t need to know that.

Brief Background: To qualify to be an ‘Eye’, one must have connections to the police. Flonnie is not exempt from this rule. He has a degree in forensic science to better his chances of working as an ‘Eye’ in the police department. He took up a job as a crime scene investigator in the police department for a year before changing it.

He, too, has his motivations for being an ‘Eye’. Ten years ago, his family was murdered by a dangerous serial killer, and he was the sole survivor in the tragedy. He was brought to the stand as a witness in court. However, Flonnie could not recall anything but the screams of his family. He couldn’t, because he had kept his eyes tightly shut in his hiding place when the crime took place out of the fear of blood and violence – a recent fear then due to the discovery of his blood condition.

It had hit him, then, that he could do nothing to bring the true murderer to justice. He could never take revenge for his family without knowing who killed them.
The murderer walked free.

That night, Flonnie brought a pair of fighting fish home, a gift from his lawyer. On a whim, he put them in the same tank and watched as they ripped each other apart. One died of multiple wounds, and the survivor died later due to excessive blood loss. The ten year old did not flinch as he watched. He then fished them out of the tank and buried them in his garden, blood, guts and all. He apologized to the fighting fish for his rash action and made a promise.

“I shall see all the crimes that are being committed – and expose the truth,” he vowed as he stood in front of their graves.

It was years later that Flonnie finally realised who his family’s murderer was. By then, it already ceased to matter – the murderer is dead. Officially, the case remained unsolved to this day. Flonnie did not want to degrade the name of an already dead person. He sold his house, buried his identification documents (save his bank book) in a safe place, and left his past behind.

Character's Name: Jordan Penn/HIROI Hon'ya
By Yeon

Age: 15

Occupation: Journalist/Fanboy/Court Aide

Brief Physical Description: Standing at a mere 156 centimetres tall, Jordan has short, dark hair and brown eyes. His half-framed glasses give him a slightly muddled but intelligent look. He dons a light green Apollo Justice jacket (custom-made) which is adorned with badges of the defense attorney he admires, each of them painstakingly crafted by Jordan himself. Underneath he sports a pink and white striped shirt and a pair of khaki knee-length pants. Jordan wears low-cut sneakers without socks, and is usually seen clutching a notebook and a mechanical fountain pen.

Brief Personality Description: Jordan is a nerdy, somewhat arrogant kid who hates people who aren't serious in their work (Hobonix is one example). Though optimistic and friendly, his tongue becomes sharp whenever he catches someone slacking off or doing anything wrong, most of the time accompanied by a flash of lightning across the lens of his glasses and a snarl. He gets overexcited easily, but can make logical, though usually obvious, deductions when the time comes. He enjoys helping Apollo in investigations and during court, taking down important notes and constantly reminding Apollo to check the Court Record.

He holds a high degree of respect for Apollo, who he believes is the perfect example of justice. Jordan constantly writes articles about his 'mentor' and sends them to his school newspaper for publishing (no one actually reads them). One of his dreams is to find a big scoop, preferably something to do with the underworld and crime, then prove himself as one of the world's greatest journalists, thus he latches onto Apollo like a parasite.

Connection to canon characters: After Trucy leaves the Talent Agency to sit under waterfalls and go through rigorous magician training, Apollo meets Jordan and defends his father in a case, and the two become partners in justice. Apollo finds him rather irritating at times, but useful nevertheless.

Jordan has helped Apollo through many trials by producing evidence in the form of notes, quick sketches (though badly drawn) and background details dug up with the help of his journalism.

Brief Background: Jordan's father, Quille, had been accused of stealing funds from his company and then killing his boss, by slipping poison into his tea each day for a month. Though it was true that the Penn family had been near bankruptcy, Jordan knew that his father, a righteous man, would never do something as evil as murdering another human being. Jordan, desperate to look for an attorney, found a flyer for the Wright Talent Agency, thought they worked cheap, and found Apollo Justice. After a series of elaborate attempted bribing and wailing, Apollo agreed to defend his father -- in the end, the real killer was found to be a secretary who had usurped funds in order to pay for her boyfriend's loanshark debts.

After the trial, Jordan hired himself to work at the talent agency ('Jordan Penn, Exceptional Journalist') though the most Hobonix is able to pay him is a few dollars an hour, thus sparking off this burning flame of hatred for Phoenix Wright, ex-Ace Attorney. Wright doesn't seem to care much.

*Hiroi Hon'ya means 'spacious bookstore'.

Character's Name: Willow Winfred (Japanese write as 目時 树Mdoki Itsuki)

Age: 22

Occupation: Prosecutor & keyboarder of the Gavinners

Brief Physical Description: As seen in the picture, Willow has black short hair but dyed it to a midnight blue. His shining grey eyes and cream skin which are inherited from his mother. About 185 cm looks a little bit thin but health well build. He usually wear casual outfits when he starts work but after business time he will change to a racing suit. He dresses with good taste, often followed by changes in fashion. But he still will wear a tie or a scarf at most time.

Brief Personality Description: Different from his outside appearance, He is a little bit shy, always blushing when Klavier teases him, and he does not like to speak to strangers. He loves classical music and can play the piano very well. In his free time he will spend most of time riding motorcycles and the other time to play piano. He is a motorcycle maniac. Because of the motorcycling he sometimes gets a speeding ticket and makes Ema angry. He likes her cheerful personality, but Ema is not very friendly to him (because he is Klavier’s friend and a member of the Gavinner). Willow is a gentle person who does not believe that his sister is a murderer (this will be explained later).

Connection to canon characters (if applicable): Work mate and best friend of Klavier, Client of Kristoph

Brief Background: Willow has one brother and one sister, Jared and Katherine; they are both younger than him. Willow and Jared are half-brothers, they have the same mother. Willow and Katherine are full brother and sister (At first just Katherine knows that). Willow’s father Gregory is chairman of a big company. Gregory scrambles to Willow’s mother from his good friend. When they married Gregory didn’t know his wife was pregnant. When Willow was born Gregory didn’t know Willow was not his son. After a year Jared was born. Willow’s mother discovered that her husband cheated on her during their marriage. So she asked for a divorce from her husband and disappeared. That made Gregory very angry, he tried to find her and kill her. Two years later Katherine was born. When Willow was ten years old, Gregory found his ex-wife and killed her. Willow’s mother wrote all the truth in a notebook. No one knows the truth of her death except the murderer.

Because of his mother's death Willow wanted to become a coroner from an early age, but his father would not allow this, so he decided to run. When Willow ran away from home Gavin’s brothers helped him. Willow and Klavier were schoolmates. Klavier knew the reason why he wanted to become a coroner and told him if he becomes a prosecutor he can still help victims and find the truth. After that Klavier became his best friend and Willow became more talkative. He became hooked on motorcycles and rock music. He still loves classical music.

When Willow was twenty years old, he borrowed his brother’s car and had an accident the same day. On the same day Gregory was killed and everyone thought Jared was the murderer. Klavier looked after seriously injured Willow, and Kristoph accepted his commission in order to defend Jared. Katherine is Willow’s student, Willow teaches her piano on Sunday. When Willow stays in the hospital, she frequently went to visit him. Klavier feel that Katherine has a secret and starts to make inquiries. One day Klavier found the note book which Katherine lost, and then he knows a big secret about Willow’s background. That notebook is the key of evidence. Jared successfully washes away murder suspects and Kristoph finds the real murderer. Everything Katherine had planned, including the crash, but at first she just wanted Jared to have an accident. Katherine admitted the crime that she committed and also told Willow that their mother had been killed by Gregory.

Willow received a heavy blow; everyone thinks Willow will leave his job. However, he wiped away his tears and continued to smile. After this case, he becomes more mature. Willow becomes a prosecutor when he is nineteen. After that Willow and Klavier worked together and joined Klavier’s rock band.

Character's Name: 藥師寺 緋鳥（やくしじ ひとり/ Yakushiji Hitori)/Syn Donaghy)
By Tuesday
First Place!

Age: 29

Occupation: Prosecutor

Brief Physical Description: She 's shorter than most of females who are in her age, and she looks a bit younger as well. She has long brown hair and dark blue eyes. She usually wears a green shirt and a white coat with a blue dress inside. Because of her personal interest, she always bring an orange shape handbag with her.

Brief Personality Description: Usually she's friendly and warm. However,for some reasons she can never really trust anybody or tell them her real feeling, which makes some of her friends (like Ema) really unhappy with that. She decideds to change her personality after she had become friends of Apollo and Trucy, but failed.

Although She's nice and warm at the most of time,she can be really serious in courts and never step back. Because of what she experienced, she's sort of conceited in her deep heart, but she always act as a modest person in her daily life.

Connection to canon characters (if applicable): She is Apollo's elder sister.They had the same father but Syn is not Thalassa's daughter. Her mother's name was Angela Donaghy.

Brief Background: About thirty years before the stories of GS4 occurred, Syn's parents were used to be modern youths who were eager to enjoy their life. However, Syn's father was scare and ran away after he found that Angela accidentaly had a baby before they got marriged. Two years later,Angela started to travel all over the country to look for him and successfully found him in a strolling band after three or fours years. At the time Syn's father had already eloped with Thalassa, and Thalassa had got pregnant.

Syn's father promised to Angela that as far as she kept silence about their kid, he would offer them some money regularly. Angela was really angry and sad but she could do nothing but staying with the band in the following years. However, one and half years later, Syn and Apollo's father died in a stage accident, and Thalassa vanished off with her baby dramatically. Angela also died within the next 5 years.

Syn was send to a public elementary school. She studied really hard and graduated from a law school.She studied about law for another two years and became a prosecutor at the age of 25.

Four years later, she learned from a colleague(it was Klavier, actually) that a young attorney was attracting the lawyers' attention recently. She was curious about the young man whose name was Apollo and wanted to learn more about his background. She was astonished when she suddenly realized that the boy might be her younger brother who disappeared more than ten years ago. She started to suspect what really happened before and after her father's death. She had no idea that if Apollo would be willing to help her, so she tried her best to get close to him, prosecuted a few cases which he took. She was beaten by the young man but she was happy to find that the baby she played with had become a person she could be proud of.

In the process of getting familiar with Apollo, Trucy and Phoenix, she started to ask herself a question again and again:Do I have to ask for help from Apollo? He might be at risk because of me.Now Apollo has got a real family which he must be desire to have for many years, do I really have to tell him that I'm his sister and stand between him and his family?

Finally she decided to hide the truth and went to face the answer on her own, but she was wrong, because she became the victim of Apollo's next case...

Character's Name: Justin Kase
By Robo Jing
Second Place!

Age: 37

Occupation: Professor at Weston University

Brief Physical Description: Justin stands at about 6' 2'' (188 cm) tall, he is only slightly toned and rather thin. He has a narrow face and has distinct half moon-shaped glasses sitting on the bridge of his nose. He is usually slightly slouched because of his ridiculously massive backpack over his broad shoulders.

Brief Personality Description: Justin is always 100% sure that he is prepared for every situation and tends to get a little haughty when someone questions his preparation. Justin is generally a very confident person even when everyone else isn't so confident that he knows what he's talking about. When being questioned in testimony, he is constantly leafing through his pockets and his coat searching for something that may help him with his explanation. He never stays focused when someone is talking directly to him, he usually stops them saying "oh I have just the thing for that....!". When describing what he 'witnessed' and his testimony turns out to be a false accusation, Justin buckles under the pressure and gets extremely worried and depressed. In the end it seems like someone who was always on top of things for everything wasn't prepared for the final outcome.

Brief Background: Born in New York, he studied to become a professor from a young age. Being a full-time faculty professor, he hoped to work his way up to department chair and then ultimately become a dean. When loosing the chance to become the department chair of Weston University, Henry Dobahn (the victim) had gotten the position instead by being much more prepared for the position. Afterwards Justin vowed to never again be unprepared and changed his life by being overly prepared. Hoping this would put him on the right track everything is turned upside-down when Mr. Dobahn is murdered two weeks after becoming the department chair and Justin is blamed for his death.

Character's Name: Angelo Gant

Age: 63 (At the time of GS4)

Occupation: Corrections Officer/executioner (Though he believes himself to be ‘priestly’).

Brief Physical Description: Tall, broad shouldered, and has a glowing fake tan. Angelo takes pride in his unique appearance of frosting hair and often is seen wearing a collection of black, off-white and green. He is also wears triangular sun-glasses; however they serve no purpose other than to add to his ‘dominating’ appearance.

Brief Personality Description: Loud, boisterous, and secretively paranoid. Angelo is prompt and witty when in public; and quick to result to facts or proverbs for answers then telling people what’s really on his mind. However, in private, he’s a whole different monster.

Connection to canon characters (if applicable): Younger brother to Damon Gant. As the resident prison warden, Angelo has been exposed to many of the criminals that have been put away. This includes some like the infamous Manfred Von Karma, his own brother Damon, conducting the final rites to Dahlia Hawthorne’s execution, making extra precautions for Matt Engarde’s ‘threatened’ status by De-Killer, or preparing a ‘comfy’ suite instead of a cell for Kristoph Gavin.

Brief Background: Perhaps at one time during the days of Angelo’s youth, he would have enjoyed nothing more but to take the life of a humble priest. Sadly, this was not the path that was meant for him, and law enforcement was the route he was due to follow.

As a Gant family tradition to dabble in the law, Angelo took the task of being the overseeing prison warden at the state penitentiary, and has been for many years. He’s pridful in what he calls ‘final judgment’ and believes that if something needs to be done, he’s the one to do it. Because of this, Angelo served not only as a prison officer, but as an executioner and performer of final rights; getting his hands into every facet that the penitentiary offered.

As the golden years of Diego, Mia, Phoenix and Edgeworth came and pass, Angelo experienced criminals who were out of the ordinary. They were people who needed ‘extra’ care. The idea of having ‘order’ amongst the inmates was certain, but the idea of order wasn’t enough for Angelo as he eventually locked the barred down on his own brother. They needed to be utterly controlled. Without losing his grip on his public image, Angelo took siege from the inside, drove fear into the hearts of his inmates and paranoia amongst themselves. No one could be trusted to them, and only those with a high enough bank account were ‘omitted’ from this treatment. And even then, for Kristoph Gavin, money wasn’t enough to keep him from facing his own fate after being held accountable two more times.

Any ‘loosening’ hold on the prison inmates were punished, or in other cases, wrongfully ‘disposed of’ with their death’s covered up as misdemeanors. Which prison inmate will speak up against this man? Godot who serves his time in waiting for his moment to be released on good behavior? Tigre, who’s idea on how inner circle crime works? Or perhaps Daryan, who’s previous law enforcement training can lead him to see the truth behind all these ‘accidental’ deaths. All of these inmates are in danger, as long as Angelo Gant reigns supreme as the head warden.

Character's Name: Zeth Gant

Age: 27 (A year older than Phoenix / Miles)

Occupation: Lawyer / compulsive gambler

Brief Physical Description: Tall, average build, has short skunk coloured hair (Black with a wide white stripe down the middle), wears green tinted glasses (Has poor eyesight without them), tanned skin. In court, he has a similar colour scheme to Phoenix, blue shirt, Red tie, suspenders, arm bands to hold up his sleeves, and black pants /shoes.

Brief Personality Description: Zeth has a cool, and sometimes cold personality, and rarely takes personal interest in people. When he does take personal interest in someone, he's very passionate about it. As a friend, he demands complete trust, but in return, he'll protect you with his life. As an enemy, he will gun you down with law, and evidence, and other darker means if necessary. His compulsive gambling side make his personality erratic and wild- alot of people can't handle not knowing what he's thinking cause he tends to gamble alot in real life- sometimes in court. If something isn't challenging enough for him, the likelihood is he'll make it more interesting by gambling with it. He also has a very high sense of honour.

Connection to canon characters (if applicable): Son of Damon Gant, Trained under Diego Armando, Later returned to law working under Phoenix Wright.

Brief Background: Zeth was born into a Mafia family that assisted Damon Gant's career to Chief of Police dispite his dirty dealings, but in return, Damon's son had to fill the position of Lawyer to protect the family. Not wanting to be bonded by his mafia ties, Zeth fought against being a lawyer the whole way, so Damon conned lawyers all around the country to take him in and train him to WANT to be a lawyer. Zeth drove off everyone one of them by running down their law firms, till Diego Armando started finding out too much about one of the family's dark dealings. Damon Gant blackmailed Diego into training Zeth. Diego managed to do so, befriending Zeth in the process. Zeth told Diego about his plan to leave his family, but Diego fell into a coma soon after agreeing to free Zeth. Zeth fled to New Zealand for 7 years to train in forensics to develop his gift with forging evidence, so what happened to Diego wouldn't happen again, and returned when he heard that Diego was awake again. Bribing Phoenix by working for him for free for a month, Zeth proved to be a valuable asset to Wright Law with his uncanny ability to twist the evidence to his favour, untill Zeth framed Phoenix for murder. What were his reasons? The rest is spoiler for my fanfic Turnabout Attorney :)

Character's Name: Jan K. Pohn
By Ama
Croik's Choice!

Age: 25

Occupation: Not Applicable -Mental Patient-

Brief Physical Description: Average build and height with pale complexion and sunken eyes. His hair is in a constant state of disarray. As of recently, there is a rather large bandage on his neck.

Brief Personality Description*: Jan has dissociative identity disorder(DID) or, as its more commonly known, multiple personality disorder. He has not one but 4 personalities which all share the same body. Within the institution, Jan is known for being polite and well-mannered. While he seems to get a long with the staff and patients, he is often seen arguing with himself.

Rocko is a middle-aged thug with a propensity for foul language and physical violence. He is incredibly protective of Jan and often appears when Jan feels threatened.

Tijera is a vapid college student who seems mostly concerned with gossip and personal appearance. She has a lot of enthusiasm for the things she likes but can get easily confused with things outside her small realm of understanding. Tijera comes and goes when she pleases and is probably the strongest of the alters. She will often appear when Jan has something to hide.

Paige is a mischievous elementary school student. He enjoys playing pranks on others and cracking juvenile jokes. Paige tends to manifest when Jan is extremely worried. He thinks that his jokes put Jan at ease.

* Jan’s name is a play on the game “Jan Ken Pon” which is the Japanese equivalent of “Rock, Paper, Scissors”. Each one of these personalities represents a different gesture. Before one of the personalities appears, the game is played and the winner gets to take over. Jan is completely unconscious during these times which leave him with no memory of what has taken place.

Brief Background: Jan's condition existed long before his admittance into the Sakurai Institute. Unfortunately, the files concerning his early life are deemed inaccessible. It was only after an incident involving Rocko that Jan was finally sent to live at the institute where it was expected he would be able improve his condition. Unfortunately, Jan does not see the need to get rid of his alternate personalities and up until recently, was quite happy living with them.

That was until his roomate was found strangled to death in their room at the Institute. He, or more specifically, Rocko, was accused of killing the patient. While insanity seems a likely plea, the prosecution has chosen to hold Rocko accountable for the murder. Jan’s psychiatrist, Dr. Wagu, and Nurse Aiko have both chosen to testify that Rocko had on several occasions made threats towards his roommate. Thus, a case for premeditated homocide.

Jan has no recollection of the events and maintains that Rocko is innocent. His case is high profile since Jan isn't trial but one of his alternate personalities is.

Character's Name: Rima Evencalm
Japanese Name: Rima (kanji for principle and just) Yuumaru (kanji for evening and calm)

Age: 23

Occupation: Prosecutor

Brief Physical Description: Rima always has that serious look and deathly glare on her face which makes her feared by many (even the judge). At the same time, she gains a few secret fans because she's cool and stylish. She wears eyeglasses even though she has good vision. This is due to the fact that she looks more frightening whenever she wears it. Her eyeglasses also serves as a "mask" to hide her true personality.

Brief Personality Description: Many people fear Rima not only because of her scary glare, but also because of her short temper and very serious and bossy personality. This is Rima's way of distancing herself from people because she doesn't fully trust people. She also has the tendency to get violent and sadistic. Other than being violent and sadistic, she's also a crazy driver. But behind that scary and strong-looking image, she's actually kind and perky yet, klutzy, naive, emotional and lacks self-confidence.

This "other side" of her surfaces when she takes off her eyeglasses. She's also an otaku and is secretly a cosplayer. She spends her free time playing video games or reading manga. Of course, she's also a Steel Samurai fan. She's also a skilled artist and cook.

Connection to canon characters (if applicable): Rima is a key witness in the murder of her family -- a case that Edgeworth handled. The case lacked evidence to give the defendant a gulity verdict, and Rima's testimony is the only thing that can close the case. Before the trial started, Rima's grandmother, being an influential person, spread rumors about Edgeworth tampering evidence and witness testimonies, and as the trial went on, people started to accuse Edgeworth of such doings. Because of this, and Edgeworth's determination to win, Rima gained confidence and ended the case herself (leaving Edgeworth and the judge at awe). She also learned to trust others (though, she's still having trouble now). Edgeworth inspired her to become a prosecutor, and hopes that they could meet again someday... if he remembers her ;p

Being cool and stylish, she gained fans. Although, these fans fear her as well, so they keep it a secret from her. Among her fans are Maggey Byrde, Ema Skye, Detective Gumshoe, and the ever hopeless romantic Larry Butz. Larry is the only one who openly screams to the world how he admires Rima, and the only one who's not scared of her serious look, deathly glare, and sadism. Instead of getting scared because of such characteristics, Larry thinks that women with such traits, like Rima, are hot.

Brief Background: Rima's mother came from a family of influential businessmen, and runs a top-notch company, Darkendoom Co. Rima was supposed to be the succesor of the family business, but she doesn't want to because she finds it boring, and instead of running a business, wants to become a computer programmer and make games. Rima's mother and siblings were murdered by her grandmother. She was saved because at the time of the murder, she wasn't still at home, and by the time she got home, she witnessed the murder happen. Her grandmother's motive was to let her adopted granddaughter to succeed the family business, and not Rima nor her siblings, because she hates them, and Rima at that time was a deliquent.Rima, 19 years old and a computer programming student at that time, meets Edgeworth who takes the case -- the last case he took before facing Phoenix Wright. At first she didn't want to cooperate because she doesn't trust people. Eventually, through Edgeworth's efforts (to win the case and maintain his perfect record), she opens up and slowly gains self-confidence. Her grandmother got a guilty verdict and ended up getting executed. Because of this incident, Rima decides to be a prosecutor and follow Edgeworth's footsteps. Rima was also a gangster member.

Character’s Name: Mark Mycroft

[sounds like "mark my craft": an old, similar saying of “mark my words”. Means to swear an oath, or to be so sure of something that you would gamble your job/reputation. It also alludes to signing a piece of art. Name inspirations were from literature: Mark Twain the writer, and Sherlock’s canon brother, Mycroft Holmes.]

Age: 42 [April 2nd]
[…because 42 is “the answer to life, the universe, and everything.” Also note that his birthday is... 04/02.]

Occupation: Director of the District Case-file Archives [mostly cold cases] / Ex-Novelist / [Unofficial Investigator]

Mark’s vast knowledge of case history from managing cold-cases led him to write a popular series of detective novels. His in-depth story writing skills, and obsessive compulsive-like attention to detail has gained some attention here and there, but not enough for himself to actually admit his skills as an actual investigator.

[surfaces now and then to assist characters in a few difficult cases. In the GK system, you can convince/bribe him to become an investigation partner [if for some odd reason Gumshoe isn't there], and in the PW system you must question him several times to gain vital information, eventually granting full access to the Archives. ]

Breif Physical Description: A man who wears a beige-ish suit, grey shirt, and teal tie with a matching pair of surgical gloves. The many ridges in Mark’s orange hair are based off of an armadillo’s armour, and he constantly has a stray lock of hair at the back of his head which resembles a “?” mark. This stray piece can be quite expressive of Mycroft’s emotions. [when surprised, it stands on end like a “!” point.]

Mark’s hands currently suffer from severe nerve damage, leaving him with almost no dexterity. As a result, he is unable to sign his own name, dial phone numbers, or play Nintendo DS among other simple things. If examined, there is evidence of previous surgeries [to repair his hands], and a few burn scars. Because of this, Mark covers his hands with a pair of CSI latex gloves.

Brief Personality Description: Able to strike out the impossible, using improbable methods. Mark Mycroft is easy-going and unconventional, but still manages to be professional. Trusts science and reasoning to solve even the smallest problems. Can read people like a book due to his eccentric nature, and keen sense of awareness. Despite this, he is often left clueless when it comes to socializing with others. Instead, Mark is attracted to anything which begs for an answer, although lacks motivation to actually take action and prove his point. Has developed a cynical outlook on life ever since discovering he would never be able to persue his passions [writing, puzzles and violin].

Has a lazy habit of staying indoors, shutting himself within his office, or lounging among the halls of the archives in his housecoat. [All of which he spends his time doing absolutely nothing.] Only takes on re-opened cold-cases which he couldn't dump onto another person's lap, although sometimes ends up helping on fresh cases when he “needs a puzzle to pass the time”.

Constantly trying to avoid the spotlight, although has a tendency to steal the scene by mistake when he mentions a clue he thought the investigators already found].
Always blames himself for problems he can't solve and tries to avoid unnecessary talking unless something needs to be said, which often gives others the impression that he doesn't care. Mark treats his robotic assistant J.o.s.h.u.a. as if he were the son he never had, even though he knows it is just a highly advanced artificial intelligence. [Likewise, J.o.s.h.u.a. addresses Mycroft as “Little sir”, which is how he addressed Mark when he was a kid.]

Connection[s] to characters: Frequently corresponds with Lana Skye [during her time in office] to get caught up on matters at the Prosecutor’s Office [an up to date correspondence is needed for the Archives and High Prosecutors Office in order for each side to do their jobs properly]. Has run into Detective Gumshoe [quite literally], and has worked an international murder case alongside Miles Edgeworth. Neither of them got along with each other during this time [each tried to boss the other around, which led to several moments of awkward silence], although they did solve the case in the end. He has also been acquainted with Lisa Basil of Blue Screens Inc. thanks to his assistant J.o.s.h.u.a. Has mentioned he is “in debt to a Phoenix…” Whether or not this is alluding to a particular trial or some sort of poker debt is unknown.

Background: Born and raised in Canada with his parents and their servant, J.o.s.h.u.a. His mother was a journalist and his father a military surgeon. [They both met each other in a war-torn country, of all places...] Growing up as an only child with more than busy parents, Mark would often be left alone in J.o.s.h.u.a.’s supervision until his parent’s returned. Through it all, Mark had no one to share his childhood memories with, aside from an artificially intelligent robot. This lack of connection with another living human, is one of the reasons for his social awkwardness.

As young adult, Mycroft pursued a job in corporate law. He proved to be rather good at it despite his age, although over time he began to charge his clients over the top prices for his skills. He didn’t even care who he turned down at this point.

One case in particular, he was out most of the night instead of visiting his parents like they had agreed. And… When he got home he discovered that his father had been taken away by force [by a client he turned down], and his mother in tears, devastated. [Mark constantly blames himself for this. If he had only been there earlier…]

Mycroft soon moved to the U.S., bringing J.o.s.h.u.a. along as his personal assistant. With a bit of help he founded the District Case-file Archives. Here he was able to work amongst unsolved murders to hopefully find the truth about what had really happened to his father. [Mark suspects he is dead, but maybe… just maybe he’s…]

Time passed, and Mycroft had been so immersed in the mysteries within the cold-cases that he began publishing a series of detective novels based on the most interesting cases. The novels became moderately well known, but came to a sudden stop after his hands lost their dexterity. Rumors say this was caused by stray earthquake debris which crushed his hands. Unable to pursue his passion of writing, the Archives, along with his powers of observation and deduction are all that he has left.

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