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Your Name (Or what you tend to go by): Otter
Personal LJ: themodestotter
AIM, MSN, Y!M, or E-mail address: AIM: PrinceofHitsuzen
Character's full name (western style): Miles Edgeworth
Your character's series: Phoenix Wright
What your character is going to be: Citizen

IN-DEPTH Background/personality info on your character, as well as any character development that occurs during the series:

Miles Edgeworth adored his only parent, his father Gregory, a defense attorney, when he was a child. Even when he was only ten years old, he had a great dream of becoming a defense attorney, and he demonstrated it once in his class for a kid he didn’t even know who had been accused of stealing lunch money, saying that “Without any evidence, you can’t call someone guilty.” This kid turned out to be Phoenix Wright, and they became fast friends.

But this isn’t important yet. We’ll get to it later.

Once, after watching his father in a case, Miles got trapped in an elevator during an earthquake. With him, his father, and the security guard altogether in the same elevator, air was getting very thin. Slowly going insane, the guard, started attacking him, but his father got in the way. Noticing the gun the guard had dropped, Miles threw it, trying to break up the fight. He heard a gunshot, and then promptly passed out from air loss.

He would wake up to find his father dead, from being shot in the chest.

A case proceeded, but evidence was so sparce, that the court called upon a psychic medium, Misty Fey, to channel the spirit of Gregory to point out his killer. He accused the guard, Yanni Yogi, of the crime. But, the defense attorney called everything a farce, and Yanni got away scot free.

After the incident, later named DL-6, Miles was taken in by Manfred Von Karma, a prosecuting attourney, and his daughter Franziska. He purposely cut off all of the people he knew, including Phoenix, who tried to get in touch with him, but failed. During this time, Karma became his mentor, and he forsook the ways of the defense attorney, now believing that every verdict should be guilty, so no-one who was actually guilty would get away with it.

Many years later, he became a prosecuting attorney at the young age of 20, being called a genius of his time. But he had also been accused of being a “demon attorney,” of making backhanded deals and interfering with evidence to get a guilty verdict. This is how Phoenix, currently going to art school, heard of Miles for the first time in nearly 10 years. Making a risky decision, Phoenix dropped out of art school to go to law school, knowing that if he does well, someday, he’ll get to face Miles in court.

Four years later, Phoenix got his wish, defending his late-boss’ (Mia Fey, yes, she is the daughter of Misty Fey) little sister, Maya Fey, in a murder trial. Since Maya was being accused of killing her big sister, Phoenix was positive (and right) that she was innocent. But Miles believed that everyone is guilty, no matter what, and fought his hardest to put Maya in jail. However, for the first time in his entire career, he was defeated by the rookie Phoenix. Gumshoe, a detective involved in the case, and a friend of Miles, was incredibly surprised, saying that this was the first time he had ever seen Edgeworth look so shaken up, and that he even spent a whole day in his office staring blankly, saying “Wright…” over and over again.

A month later, they faced off in court again, in another unrelated murder case. However, in the last part of the case, when even Miles knew that the defendant wasn’t guilty, he began to double team with Phoenix against the guilty “witness,” and earned a not guilty verdict for the defendant. However, after this, Miles told Phoenix that he never wanted to see him again.

The next case, didn’t allow this however, as Phoenix was defending Miles himself!

Having been accused of the murder of Robert Hammond, the man who had defended Yanni Yogi in the DL-6 case all those years ago, the case seemed shut as soon as it had began. And the prosecuting attorney was Manfred von Karma, no less! Karma, being cold blooded and ruthless, showed no mercy, even though Miles was his surrogate son. All hope seemed lost.

During this time, Miles began to grow more concerned over a re-occurring dream of his. It is of him, and his father, in the elevator ten years ago. Except this time, he sees the gun go off before he passes out, and watches his father die. He becomes certain that when his father accused Yanni, he was only doing it to protect him.

And so, when Phoenix finds Yanni Yogi the actual murderer of Robert Hammond (He actually wanted to be found guilty, so he could die), and the attempted murderer of Miles (For causing the whole mess), guilty, Edgeworth ends the court proceedings by confessing guilty for the murder of the DL-6 incident.

Okay, now listen close, because this part gets REAL sticky.

Despite his reluctance, Phoenix forces Miles to let his defend him again in the next case. Phoenix is in crunch time, because the date the DL-6 case is officially closed is in only one day! But he works his butt off, and finds out that, of all people, Karma is the real killer in the DL-6 incident, and was also the one that convinced Yanni Yogi to try and kill Hammond and Miles!

The day Miles and his father were in the elevator, was also the day that Karma lost his first case ever, to Gregory Edgeworth himself! Reeling in defeat, and having an ego the size of Asia, Karma was properly pissed. After the earthquake, he passed the elevator shaft that Miles was stuck in, and was shocked when he was shot shoulder, by the pistol that Miles has thrown! Now in a fine rage, he took his own pistol, and shot Gregory in the heart, wanting to erase everything that ever proved he had lost a case.

Phoenix, by the slimmest odds, the questioning of a parrot, and the use of a metal detector, proved Karma guilty of the DL-6 incident, therefore making his defendant, Miles, not-guilty. Karma had been planning this for so long, even taking care of Miles just to exact his defeat in the end, and was so shocked that he had been unraveled that he went crazy in the middle of court, having to be drug into jail kicking and screaming.

Mile was upset that Karma had cared nothing for him, but was overall relieved that he was really not the one who had killed his father. Begrudgingly, he thanked Phoenix, who in turn confessed to him that the whole reason he had become a defense attorney was so he could meet him again.

A few months later, in the final case of the first game, Edgeworth is forced to prosecute against a women he looked up to, the chief of his department, Lana Skye. In this case, he learned that he had been used by several other attorneys in his first case years ago, giving the guilty verdict to a man who had been innocent. Guilty that he had been used, as well as having been prosecuted for two murders, he mysteriously disappeared from the offices, leaving a note saying, “Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth chooses death.” So, Miles was absent for most of Justice for All, the second game in the PW series. With no clue as to where he may have gone, if he had gone anywhere at all, he had been presumed dead. Even Phoenix was sure that he had committed suicide, and refused to speak to anyone about it. Only two people were unconvinced. One of them was Franziska, von Karma, Miles’ “little sister“.

She took over the role of prosecutor, at the possibly-illegal age of eighteen (holy fuck) with enough sass and whipping power to back her up ten-fold. Unfortunately for her, however, the game is named Phoenix Wright for reason. So she loses twice in a row, against impossible odds, mirroring her brother before her.

(To be perfectly honest, she wasn’t nearly as vicious or backhanded as Miles was in the courtroom. I don’t remember her messing with evidence or witnesses the way he did. However, the cases in JfA were WAY harder than the ones in AA. Gamefaqs anyone?)

Oh yeah, and that other person that was unconvinced of his death? Gumshoe, of all people. Miles had been contacting him secretly for some amount of time, presumably to keep tabs on Phoenix and his cases with Franziska. We’re not sure exactly where he was, but it’s generally assumed he fled country for Europe. Anywho, after catching wind of a killer case headed Phoenix’s way, he hops a flight to America

(Btw, the original Gyakuten Saiban takes place in Japan, of course. So really, he was in America. And went back to Japan. Also, the von Karma’s are from America in the original version. Yet more proof that Japanese people think we’re all crazy.

Although, the fact that they chose LA as the setting for PW still makes me laugh. Hello, homosexual capitol of the world.)

So, he makes his GREAT REVIVAL (That one’s for you, Pasket) at the criminal affairs department during Phoenix’s investigation of the current case against Matt Engarde. Miles has more or less figured out the whole thing, damn prodigy. But then again, Phoenix probably would have too, if it wasn’t for the fact that his assistant was being held hostage by an assassin with no eyes and his face stitched up the middle like a baseball. Miles doesn’t know this, however.

Phoenix runs him up and down about how much of a jackass he is, and none of us can really blame him, because we all know that Miles is a closet bastard, really. It’s part of his appeal. But still, Miles takes it in stride, saying that he left to find his purpose, and the “meaning of being a prosecutor.” He never says straight out as to what it is, hooray for speculation! It’s better this way.

Miles leaves Phoenix with a present of mind-blowingly crucial evidence. Here, anyone with half a brain can figure out what really happened, but Phoenix doesn’t, as usual. It really makes you wish the mic on the DS would work for more than just yelling objection, and explain the whole case to our broadsided but lovable title character.

The court proceedings the next day were all set and arranged with Franziska as the prosecutor. But when she isn’t there at the stand like usual, you find out that, le gasp, she was shot right outside of the courtroom! Of course, Miles is the one that brings you this news, and announces that, despite his sisters wishes (and whippings) he will be taking the prosecutors stand.

Of course, he’s way different than he used to be. No low handed tricks, just straight up mad skills. Really, really mad skills. This case made me want to tear my hair out several times. Because, well, you’re not really aiming for a guilty verdict anymore, you’re in it to save Maya. So things are a little… different. I don’t want to spoil anything more than I already have though. So I can’t really get into it anymore.

Anyhow, Miles works to helps Phoenix get the correct verdict, practically everyone you’ve met in the game pools together their resources to help you, and if you choose all of the right evidence, you get a really satisfying ending. There’s a lot of heart melting dialog, (including some between Fran and Miles that totally made me cry like the little girl that I am) a party, Maya downing an unknown amount of food, etc etc.

Nick and Miles sort of awkwardly apologize to each other, and Miles takes the next plane back to Europe with his sister. But we STILL haven’t seen the end of him, trust me.

Although practically unmentioned in the third game (other than in Mia’s flashback, which is mostly about Diego. Damn there are a lot of hot guys in that chapter. Diego’s manly man-ness makes Edgey look like a total pussy in comparison. That was a pun, btw. Did anyone catch it? Probably not.) Miles makes another awesome appearance.

In the final case of the Phoenix Arc of the series, Larry, a childhood friend of Miles and Phoenix, makes a hurried call to Europe, saying that Nick’s life is in serious danger and that he better get his ass back down to LA if he knows what’s good for him. (I’m being vague because I don’t know all the details yet myself, and lol spoilers. I’m sure I’ll have finished the game within a week of Oct 22nd though)

This is where Miles enters Avoria

As for personality, Miles really isn’t a bad person, but he is very goal-oriented, and also VERY intense. While he can communicate pretty well with people he knows, he can be awkward and terse around strangers. He enjoys using a lavish vocabulary, and explains everything very thoroughly. His favorite past-times are reading books, playing strategy and puzzle-type video games, and watching samurai dramas. Also, he has a crippling fear of earthquakes, and dark, enclosed spaces, due to the trauma he had as a child.

By PW3, he’s gotten his life a bit more in order and is less jaded that he used to be. Also, less corrupted in the courtroom. And probably a little better with people in general. Still an asshole though. <3

(Holy crap, I doubled my bio. Can anyone else tell I love this character? Because I do. :D)

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