some doodles for a concept i’ve had for a few days now — klavier gavin: investigations, featuring weirdgirl gavinners superfan pearl fey and newly friendless/brotherless klavier gavin. they’ve both been a pawn in their most trusted family member’s game and always apologize for things that were never their fault, so they learn how to really start healing together :]
random assortment of tgaa doodles once again
what did i even caption this. klapollie
ryuu's not good very bad horrible day (colorized 189X)
transcript: "I kinda feel silly for admitting this, but, I've actually really nervous, this is my first- WERE GONNA - *EXPLOSION"
I saw a take about how it was weak writing, or bad development/a bad character introduction not to let Athena stand on her own in her introductory trial, and I have to disagree.
I think that asserting that Athena has a bad or weak introduction falls into the trap of expecting every strong (meaning well written) female character to be a strong (meaning empowered/aggressive) female character.
Dual Destinies has plenty of flaws but I don't think Athena's handling is one of them, I think people misunderstand her.
Yes. Athena needs someone to stand with her in court. Athena's strength is that she is able to stand in court *at all*-- standing in court is literally a phobia and a PTSD trigger for her, which she's built her life around overcoming.
Understanding Athena as a lawyer hinges on understanding her reaction to her backstory, and understanding her neurodivergence and how the two play into one another.
Let's take it from the top.
Athena–
Athena is 19 when she's introduced. She is the youngest defense attorney we're introduced to. Phoenix and Apollo were both in their 20s when they started handling cases. More importantly, unlike Franziska who started prosecuting at 16, Athena is not a prodigy. She very much studied and deliberately worked to get where she was when she did.
Athena is 19 when she's introduced because she is on a strict timetable. If she doesn't get her job done ASAP, the entire reason that she became a lawyer will be moot.
Athena got into law in order to save the life of Simon Blackquill, who has gone to jail for a murder that Athena *knows* that he didn't commit.
She was a *tiny baby child* with autism and a sensory processing disorder, and she still got on the witness stand to try to tell everyone what she saw. This backfired, and ended up compounding her trauma due to the stress of attempting to testify, and caused courtrooms to become a major PTSD trigger for her.
After Simon gets put in jail, and she is sent to Europe she literally spends her life trying to do two things–
Athena was a shy, quiet, withdrawn child who didn't communicate her thoughts and emotions well.
As an adult, Athena is extremely outgoing, and all of her emotional performance is strongly exaggerated.
Juniper in the text remarks on the change in Athena, and how different she is.
Athena has literally spent years of her life learning how to effectively mask her autism and present her emotions in a way that is understandable to and comfortable for neurotypicals.
She has done this specifically so she can better become a lawyer, and better communicate her emotions and observations to people– which was what she was unable to do as an autistic child to save Simon.
Athena is masking basically all the time, and it is HARD for her.
Every time we see her in court she is dealing with an active PTSD trigger, masking her autism, and dealing with overstimulation due to her empathy/sensory processing disorder.
It's no shock that she's the psychologically based character— her entire character arc is built around her own psychological issues and difficulties and working through them.
I say again, it is a miracle that Athena is standing in court at all.
And this isn't really subtext. This is actual in the game text. We watch her have literal PTSD breakdowns in court in the game. She literally says in the game she has a phobia of courtrooms due to what happened to her as child.
So yes, Athena needs someone to stand with her in court.
No, it doesn't make it weak writing, or a weak introduction.
And it doesn't make Athena a weak character.
She's a fucking hero for being there at all and I love her.
Beanix is definitely a mixed bag of a father. Like don't get me wrong I'm certain he was very supportive to Trucy and loved her SO very much,, like she's literally his world but I know for a FACT he accidentally fully left her at the store a few times
wake up post transfem krisgav go back to sleep
(please do not tag as genderbend!)
"... sometimes I wonder, were you ever real?..."
Blackbright is everything, I desperately need more content with them.... The potential is huge...
Also belated happy Apollo Justice Trilogy, everyone!
A typical dance of deduction
EDIT: realizing perhaps this video is not as ubiquitously known as i thought it was and also (judging by the fact that the post has way more notes than the video has views) nobody's clicking on the yt link (and therefore not reading the credit in the description) so i'd like to take a moment to direct everyone to the original video this is based on by BugOlively. im so obsessed with it that i made this whole fuckin thing. please watch the original also. they chose the poses/stock photos and the music and animated it. i just gave it a coat of paint <3
+Bonus images under the cut!!
I think Apollo doesn't let it go under 20% if he can help it
obligatory sonic fandub video
Kristoph is office siren, change my mind
these are like from 2020-2021 so hopefully, i get the drive to update these sooner or later TT feel free to ask me questions about it over on @aaroleswapau!
this is a long one so more stuff under the cut!
klapollo fans have you seen the new drama cds from the trilogy it is so gay. first one has apollo, phoenix and ema going to klav's solo concert and apollo changing his mind on klav's music because of their experiences together in court and geeking out and then klav invites him on stage to duet love love guilty together. this is so huge this is enormous bro. look at this. polly sounds so cute
EDIT: ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE WHOLE THING IN THE REPLIES
