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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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Thank goodness for the power of Rock Attached To Stick. We humans would still be lion food if it wasn't for that.