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goddamn superheroes
... razzum frazzum, I just tried to make a start on the other superhero AU, and I was doing okay before I realized I was writing to Phoenix's canon motivations, which I had changed fairly significantly for the AU.
DAMMIT
I guess I could roll with it, but it's thematically jarring if Phoenix becomes a lawyer for Edgeworth, then becomes a superhero for Edgeworth and the lawyer thing just kind of falls to the back of the prose.
I wonder if I even need to keep this bit, actually. It does serve to establish Phoenix's motivations, and his power, but his motivation for being a lawyer isn't as important in this AU as it is in canon, and it would be easy enough to establish his empathy some other way. I was thinking of it as the first moment that made him actually think he could become a hero, and it does establish how much things change right off the bat by giving Phoenix that power. But there's not any real reason I can't just flash back to it, either.
And the really important thing about Phoenix becoming a hero isn't that the courthouse thing was the first time he thought it was possible, it's that seeing Edgeworth as a villain makes him realize he has to do it. So I should probably lead off with AU1-2, anyway, instead of "lol so this one time when Phoenix was in college..."
Blah. Stupid AUs. XD
DAMMIT
I guess I could roll with it, but it's thematically jarring if Phoenix becomes a lawyer for Edgeworth, then becomes a superhero for Edgeworth and the lawyer thing just kind of falls to the back of the prose.
I wonder if I even need to keep this bit, actually. It does serve to establish Phoenix's motivations, and his power, but his motivation for being a lawyer isn't as important in this AU as it is in canon, and it would be easy enough to establish his empathy some other way. I was thinking of it as the first moment that made him actually think he could become a hero, and it does establish how much things change right off the bat by giving Phoenix that power. But there's not any real reason I can't just flash back to it, either.
And the really important thing about Phoenix becoming a hero isn't that the courthouse thing was the first time he thought it was possible, it's that seeing Edgeworth as a villain makes him realize he has to do it. So I should probably lead off with AU1-2, anyway, instead of "lol so this one time when Phoenix was in college..."
Blah. Stupid AUs. XD
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Couldn't he become a lawyer for Edgeworth, become a hero for Mia, and then be completely blindsided that Edgeworth is also around the whole hero scene? It's not quite the same thing, after all - Edgeworth would never say I WANT TO BE A SUPERHERO WHEN I GROW UP as a little kid, and with his villian costume, his identity is kind of hard to ascertain. I have visions of his helmet getting blown off in epic combat.
Then, once the Edgey-is-a-villian-omg is established you could have a nice canon-ish turnabout; Edgeworth becoming a hero for Phoenix. The deciding to stand up for TRUTH rather than victory in the courtroom can be mixed up with the internal journey about the heroing at the same time. I think it cheapens the characterization you get from the source material if you make the superhero part more important than the lawyer part, anyway, adorable as it is. The hero thing was a coincidence, almost. Lawyership is what Phoenix and Edgeworth CHOSE to do with their lives before they ever found out about their powers.
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I do feel really weird about tucking the lawyer thing into the background and bringing out the omgsuperheroes, but I'm trying to make the characterization line up as closely as possible. Edgeworth still wanted to be a lawyer, and Phoenix was still influenced by him to also become one.
Truthfully, I'm bothered if I give the lawyer thing too much weight, because if it's too close to canon then why am I writing an AU? Why am I not just writing canon-fic? Part of the challenge for me is making the same essential character development work in a different context: superheroes instead of lawyers. They're lawyers too, but if the focus is on the courtroom and them being lawyers and the reasons they're lawyers, then there's really no point in even writing about superheroes. At least, that's what I think.
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*nods* You ought to have a decent balance of "day in the life" type things, though. I always thought Superman was downright wrong to focus so little on Clark Kent; Spiderman was cooler for me because he also had to cope with being Peter Parker.
That makes sense, though it wasn't the way I was looking at it~! My original view of your concept must have been different overall, I guess. As long as you make it clear that the lawyer thing is also a big part of it, I suppose you're right in that it's not really necessary to go into the nitty-gritty of it the way you would if you were writing canon fic. The overall JUSTICE theme certainly carries over from one universe to the other. >D
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It certainly does. XD So, that cool? I mean, I'm converting entire case plotlines into EPIC SUPERHERO ADVENTURES. Honestly, with that, their lives as lawyers are probably pretty mundane. (Secret: possibly the biggest reason they're still lawyers is because it would be really obnoxiously hard to come up with a whole new set of civilian roles for them that matched up thematically. XD I'd have liked to replace the lawyer element entirely, just so it wasn't conflicting with the superhero element, but my brain just stops when I try to go there. So, they're lawyers.)
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*wants the DVD set ;_;* I keep trying to make non-fans into converts by linking them as well as facilitating the fans themselves, but it is an UPHILL BATTLE.
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We Warsians are a small, embattled company on a hostile alien world. With giant skull-jellyfish making life difficult every so often. ^_^;;;
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Whatever works!
And giant floating Megatron heads. Fortunately, we will always have the power of ROCK ATTATCHED TO STICK!!!1 to save us.
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Thank goodness for the power of Rock Attached To Stick. We humans would still be lion food if it wasn't for that.
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