worms212
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Apollo tips his head against the window and thinks of years spent watching the holiday season pass him by from behind a wall of glass, too parent-less and too sad and not culturally-Christian enough for Christmas in sunny Los Angeles. The lights, the music, the tinsel and fake snow and the false smiles of supposedly happy families, it all always seemed like sentimental veneer to him—as though holiday cheer were something of a commodity, peddled to people with far simpler lives and far happier families than his.
He thinks, now, that he may not have it entirely right. He may, in fact, just be lonely.
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Or: At the end of a tumultuous year, Apollo visits LA for his first proper family Christmas. -
heart beats like a tambourine by worms212
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
17 Nov 2025
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"Having been adrift for so long, Apollo is certain of only one thing: that Clay’s orbit is what keeps him tethered to anything at all. Apollo was orphaned and left with no family, over and over again. The only thing he could do is make his own from scratch, even if it’s just the boy next to him, and no one else."
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Or: Clay and Apollo, Apollo and Clay, locked in perpetual orbit forever, marching to the beat of their own drum. -
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The doctors warned him that the concussion could cause mood swings, especially combined with the pain of his other injuries and his very fresh grief, but he didn’t think it would be so hard. He thought that once everything was all said and done, that he’d feel better—that finding Clay’s killer would be enough catharsis, and that once he got some sleep he would be able to function without this horrible weight crushing his chest or this deep, deep agony clawing at his insides. Foolish, really, as Apollo has lived with the pain of loss his whole life.
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Or: The dust settles, everyone goes home, and Apollo has the biggest physical and mental breakdown of his life. It's a long road toward actually being fine, but it turns out he doesn't have to walk it alone. -
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Trucy searches his face. It’s true that since she’s arrived, Apollo has seemed brighter; stronger, healthier, smiling and self-assured. But here on the mountain, surrounded by the crickets and the foolish moths and Datz’s struggling herb garden, he just looks tired. And sure, it’s 1AM, but it seems deeper than that—a bone-deep sort of tiredness she recognizes from last Christmas, when Apollo was sickly and depressed and barely able to get out of bed.
Some things never leave you. Trucy knows that well; there’s a hole in her own heart that she hasn’t ever been able to fill, no matter how much she tries.
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Or: A year after Apollo moves to Khura'in, his baby sister pays him a visit. This is Trucy Wright, on growing up, wasting time, and telling your brother you love him, maybe not in that order. -
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He tells himself it’s all just a game and nothing he’s doing is wrong, and really, who cares about the proper way of doing things? Lawyers? Phoenix isn’t a lawyer anymore. He’s not claiming to be anything of the sort. He’s just a guy pushing thirty and already washed up, working for chump change and table scraps—the fighting kind, usually, but a bowl of borscht sometimes, too.
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Phoenix Wright, savior complexes, and pitiable brothers-of-daughters.Series
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He opens his eyes and looks at Mr. Wright, who’s looking a little teary-eyed himself. He stares at him a moment, tilting his head, trying to fit the true shape of Mr. Wright into the infallible, haloed form of his dead foster father. He finds that it, like most things, was only ever a mirage—an illusory idealized shadow of an imperfect man.
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Even though Phoenix can’t explain it, he feels a certain sympathy for Apollo Justice. A sense of regret. What must it be like, to work day-in and day-out for a man like Kristoph Gavin, manipulative and petty and not the perfectly virtuous man he pretends to be? Kristoph Gavin’s ivory tower will fall one of these days, soon if Phoenix has any say in it at all, and Apollo’s going to have to watch it crumble. There won’t be any protecting that kid from the fallout, no matter what Phoenix does.
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one-shots focusing on sojiro sakura of persona 5 and the relationships he has with his kids.
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