miles edgeworth needs therapy
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Miles Edgeworth doesn’t like elevators, and anyone who knows anything about him knows why. However, during the years he spent as the ward of Manfred von Karma, he was not always given opportunity to avoid them. As such, he developed a strategy to avoid embarrassing himself— but it was not foolproof.
This is the story of three times when Miles Edgeworth (at the ages of 10, 19, and 24) panicked in an elevator and received no comfort— and one time (at the age of 32) when things went differently.
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- Part 1 of miles edgeworth needs therapy
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In the Edgeworth household, there is a Santa Claus. For the record, Gregory Edgeworth intends to respect his son’s intelligence— he has a whole speech prepared, and is planning to give the speech when Miles is 12, or sooner if he deduces the truth for himself and asks.
In the von Karma household, there is no Santa Claus. This fact is unspoken— the custom is altogether foolish.
On Christmas 2002, Miles Edgeworth notices the absence of any ‘To Miles, From Santa’ labels— and, unfortunately for his own psychological well-being, his logic brings him to a certain mistaken conclusion.
This belief is dispelled unceremoniously after four years, but the damage is already done. Many more years later, Phoenix Wright learns of this episode in his partner’s life, and responds with a sweet gesture.
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- Part 2 of miles edgeworth needs therapy
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“I didn’t want to pressure him to explain, sir, but… I think it has something to do with the death of his father.”
Klaxons blared in Manfred von Karma’s mind, though externally he remained perfectly composed. He had asked the night nanny about the content of Edgeworth’s recurring nightmare in the hope that learning the boy’s fears would grant him a new weapon, but this was a potential security risk of the highest degree. What did Miles Edgeworth know?
(That night, he finds out exactly what Edgeworth knows… as well as what Edgeworth thinks he knows. Manfred gains a better new weapon than he could ever have anticipated, and over the years, he uses it to do plenty of damage.)
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- Part 3 of miles edgeworth needs therapy
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“…Merry Christmas.” Miles barely heard the words before the deafening shot rang out and the muzzle flash filled his vision, and fractions of a second stretched into aeons for him as the unstable rickety dark vessel where he was trapped was no longer the boat but the elevator and he was no longer twenty-four but nine and it was the nightmare all over again but this time he knew with certainty that it would have a different ending— this time, remarked a part of Miles’ brain that he usually went to great lengths to suppress, it would end justly.
(The events of December 25th 2016, the second-worst day of Miles Edgeworth’s life, told from his perspective.)
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- Part 4 of miles edgeworth needs therapy