Ten Things I Learned From Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler

A Meeting of Souls

I swear if there’s a AA/GT crossover game/movie and Sissel doesn’t interact with Mia Fey then…I just don’t know.

Maybe I should have drawn Pearl instead of Maya, but Maya is such an adorable space-case and I love her to bits.

[ID: the "I wish all X a very pleasant evening" meme edited to say "I wish all Ace Attorney fans a very Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas" end ID]

dandelions are magic. literally tiny suns in the grass that turn into the moon and then the stars when you blow on them. fucking insane.

So I’m obsessed with the idea of a Mia game. I know it’s very unlikely to ever happen but one can dream. I adore the concept, but something I’ve always wondered is what would actually be the point ? Because we know Mia’s story and the story surrounding her. There isn’t much left to explore, right ? We know what her life story is, we know the Fey lore, etc.

But then I thought, that’s on the assumption that this hypothetical game is… only played when she’s alive.

This is just a ramble post not a serious analysis so this is gonna be messy, but bear with me. I think it could be very interesting for a Mia game to have sections from when she was alive and sections after her death. It could explore her character in more depth, seeing how she was as a living person in more detail and how she dealt with her own death, and also the grief her death caused to other characters. Something I’ve seen a lot of people talk about is how they wish Phoenix and Maya’s grief was explored more thoroughly, and this could be an opportunity for that. There could be scenes of Phoenix talking with us while Maya is channeling us outside of court, seeing through Mia’s eyes their reactions to her corpse, scenes of Mia and Maya communicating with their “writing on a notepad” technique, etc.

Now how would the death sections play ? Honestly I have no idea. As I said I’m just putting ideas down instead of thinking through the millions of factors involved in game design. Maybe it could be like investigation sections, where you listen in on conversations of relevant characters as a ghost and investigate the crime scene without being hindered by the police, since they obviously don’t know you’re there, then throw hints at the defence during trials ? There could be a mechanic of having to signal which evidence to look for, like subtly moving evidence on the desk so the relevant ones are most visible for the lawyer to notice. With ghost powers. Idk how ghosts would function in the ace attorney universe but hey this could be an occasion to explore that too.

I’m saying “lawyer” instead of just Phoenix because honestly idk how you could have Mia help Phoenix in new cases without messing with the trilogy story, so maybe it could be a new lawyer. Again i’m just spitballing here

In short, Mia game pls capcom

To all the other childfree and antinatalist people: you're doing great. Keep following your path, lit by your own inner light.

Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

Chandlo and Snorpy Head Home

"Mia kind of sucked actually" yeah geez she only grew up in a resentful death cult, got parentified at age 12, fled the only home she's ever known to avoid being pitted against that same sibling she had to raise, graduated law school alone, overcame trauma and depression to start a successful law firm alone in her mid-20's, and spent whatever free time she had researching emotionally painful cold cases and planning to take down a corrupt CEO. even if therapists existed in the trilogy (real therapy, not Athena's bs), when would Mia have had the time? she covered an incredible amount of ground just breaking free of Kurain and adapting to the world outside the village - again, without anyone she could entirely trust to catch her if she fell. but still, she changed and grew as a person in just the 3-year span we knew her. she got much better at managing her anxious and aggressive tendencies. she was more openly supportive toward Phoenix than any adult was to her. and she was literally TRYING to open up more to Phoenix and Maya on the night she died, by introducing those two halves of her life to each other despite the risks! if Mia Fey "sucked", then how high a standard should women be held to, hmm?

so what i’ve collected over the past few years is:

Papier-Mâché Critters Traipse and Trot in Delighful Sculptures by Diana Parkhouse