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CHARACTER
Name: Bobby Fulbright
Canon: Ace Attorney
Age: 33
Timeline: Post Dual Destinies. To be specific, I’ll be taking him from right after he’s had his breakdown, but right before he gets shot.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: As Bobby Fulbright, he is absolutely obsessed with justice. Every moment he can, Fulbright proclaims his loyalty to justice and righteousness, often citing it as his motivation or reason for action. Because of his obsession with justice, Fulbright feels that it is his duty to help the needy and the distressed, and this can be easily manipulated to do things in a person’s favour, as shown in his interactions with Athena Cykes, where he is manipulated into providing information to her and Apollo. If you were to claim that he was a bad guy, or that you were in need, Fulbright would feel obligated to help in any manner or disprove that he is bad, even if doing so would violate rules or commands. But this obsession for justice is also a boon to him, as he cannot be threatened into action nor can he be bribed and thus can be trusted to stay true to himself. An example of this is when Blackquill threatens him with violence, and later tries to bait him with a payrise, both of which he ignores.
Because of how easily it is to manipulate him, people tend to think he’s not very intelligent. This not the case though. Fulbright makes his arrests on reasonable logic, though he lacks the insane thought processes of the defense lawyers that allow them to catch contradictions. However, his intelligence is often overshadowed by his strong sense of justice, which may make him engage in stupid actions. But he is definitely not stupid. Case in point: his yellow-tinted shades. Yellow-tinted shades improve contrast so you can see distance with clarity in dim light. One would think that choice in sunglasses doesn’t matter, but he considers even the smallest details in relation to his profession, so he certainly is not dumb. Having said that, he can be a little unobservant and lack common sense (as Ace Attorney characters usually do) sometimes, such as when his shoes got stolen from right off his feet twice. He also has a habit of forgetting things in his excitement, like forgetting to fully read the results of a fingerprint test after reading that it proved one little thing. Both of these are mistakes that you wouldn’t expect an average person to make, hence a slight reputation for stupidity. However, he is truly dedicated to his job, and will put in 110% effort in whatever task he’s been assigned, making him a reliable detective and partner.
Fulbright is an extremely emotional man, often portraying his feelings in such an exaggerated manner that some people would think he might be faking it, or maybe a little too eccentric. His comes off as being very, very enthusiastic and that often puts off people. When his logic is challenged, he’s quick to respond with anger, but when he’s actually proven wrong, he takes it critically and winds up and moping. But if there’s a chance he’s actually not wrong, he bounces back immediately, much to the annoyance of whoever was just proven wrong. He’s also quite bad at hiding inner conflicts from people, and it’s usually pretty apparent what the man is feeling. However, all this outlines Fulbright’s basic personality: that he’s an honest and earnest man who wants to make a difference in the world.
As the international spy known as the “Phantom”, he has abandoned everything. His identity, his life, his memories, his face, even his personalities and emotions. He abandons everything and takes on everything from the person he chooses to impersonate. As stated by his psychological profile, he is unique in that he feels almost no emotion. He mostly doesn’t feel happiness, joy, anger, frustration, sadness, fear, surprise or confusion. He can’t feel love, nor can he trust. This gives him unique advantages and disadvantages. Since he mostly doesn’t feel fear, he is able to perform crazy feats that most would hesitate in performing, such as jumping onto an unstable ladder three storeys up from a moving corridor positioned twenty feet away. He’s also able to evaluate situations rationally and determine the course of action that puts the least risk on him, in terms of revealing his identity. But, the consequence of feeling almost no emotion is that he cannot connect to anyone. He can’t love or trust anyone, and thus can’t rely on anyone when he is forced to confront what little emotions he has. As proven when his crimes are finally pinned on him, he is unable to deal with his emotions after years of never feeling any.
The phantom is extremely intelligent and is very apt at covering up his tracks. He’s very careful about slip-ups and is good at laying logical traps to cover for himself. Because he lacks fear, his acting is superb and holds up well under pressure. It’s also due to his lack of emotions that he is able to act as if he doesn’t recognize people he met under a different guise, or act as if he is not the true culprit. It is impossible to read his true thoughts and it would be impossible to determine his guilt just based on behaviour. In all, the phantom is a cold, logical spy that can impersonate people down to the smallest quirk, making it nearly impossible to catch him.
If there is one thing the phantom can’t understand, it’s trust and love. He doesn’t feel any emotions, so he can’t form bonds of trust or love and can only rely on himself. This is also why he believes things like Apollo Justice’s ability to catch nervous tics and Athena Cykes’s ability to hear the emotions of the heart at silly little tricks that should not be able to pass as evidence in a court of law. They’re reflective of emotions and thoughts, but those can easily be manipulated (as he later proves in court), and therefore should not be admissible as a topic to pursue. It’s sort of unfortunate that the judge is a man of feelings too, or his argument would have made sense and he would have gotten away with it.
Background: Fulbright as we know him in the game is actually an international spy known as the “Phantom” who was sent by some organization or nation to sabotage the HAT-1 space rocket launch. At that time, he did not appear as Bobby Fulbright, but rather impersonated someone else. His mission was to sabotage the rocket launch, but he also had another objective. The police had managed to obtain a voice sample of him, and they’d had it analyzed by a psychologist living in the Space Center, Metis Cykes. That in turn produced a psych profile on him, which he felt was dangerous and needed to be eliminated at all costs.
So, while on his mission, he broke into the robotics lab to attempt to retrieve the profile and murdered Metis. He was then found by Athena Cykes, Metis’s daughter, who managed to stab him in the hand and got his blood on a moon rock in the room. He knocked Athena out and hid the rock in the Hope capsule, which was to be sent to space in the HAT-1 rocket. After hiding evidence of his relation to the crime, he then moved on to sabotage the launch, but failed, allowing the capsule to be sent into space with the Hope probe. Presumably he disappeared from the building then, mission failed.
Around six years later, take a year or so, he killed the real Bobby Fulbright, impersonated the man, and wormed his way into the police force. He was assigned to be Prosecutor Blackquill’s handler [as Blackquill was convicted for the crime the spy perpetrated] and detective partner a year before the attempted HAT-2 rocket launch.
“Detective Fulbright” made his first appearance to the lawyers of the Wright Anything Agency when Apollo and Athena took on Damian Tenma’s case. He unwillingly aided them in their investigation and appeared in the subsequent trial as the professional witness. He was also the head detective in the next case Athena took, where he again unwillingly aided them and appeared as the professional witness in the trial. The very next case after that involved the attempted launch of the HAT-2 rocket, and the murder of Apollo’s best friend Clay Terran.
For the case, Fulbright was called upon as the professional witness for the trial, which was later cut short when a bomb specialist announced that a bomb was about to go off and everyone was forced to evacuate. Phoenix, who took over for Apollo [who was injured in the bombing], met Fulbright in the Space Center in his investigation after the trial. Fulbright seemed tormented by something, but he didn’t reveal what was tormenting him. However, uncharacteristically, Fulbright offered to help the two a hundred percent, allowing them to access the crime scene and giving them whatever information they require. After finishing their investigation, the two went off to find the witness Fulbright mentioned in their discussions and check other places. They came back to Fulbright again, intending on getting more information from him. After getting the information, Phoenix managed to get Fulbright to speak about what was bothering him.
As Blackquill was a convict, Fulbright wondered why he was allowed to stand in court. He also told Phoenix and Athena that Blackquill had a personal grudge against their client, so Fulbright felt he could no longer trust Blackquill’s judgment and asked for the defense lawyers’ help. Phoenix assured Fulbright that he’d do his best to ensure the right man was convicted, and feeling thankful, Fulbright promised to find decisive evidence for them and ran off.
As promised, in the trial on the next day, Fulbright appeared to present the decisive evidence Phoenix needed. The evidence got the defendant a Not Guilty, but it was soon discovered that the evidence, which was supposed to hold the killer’s fingerprints, had Athena Cykes’s fingerprints. Fulbright was distraught, having just accidentally indicted one of the defense lawyers as the criminal, and the trial ended with Athena being put under arrest.
Phoenix met him again at the Detention Center, where Fulbright was about to interview the bomber that interrupted the trial of Clay Terran’s murder. The bomber claimed that while he did kill someone, he didn’t set off the bomb. After that declaration, he was ushered away for questioning. Fulbright then told Phoenix that he’s interviewing Athena now and left. Phoenix left to investigate the Space Center, and then came back to the Detention Center where he caught Aura Blackquill talking to Prosecutor Blackquill, her little brother. Fulbright was unfortunately there and caught in the crossfire between the two siblings. Aura soon left in frustration and Phoenix attempted to get some answers out of Blackquill. Unfortunately, Blackquill didn’t want to talk, and returned to his cell.
Fulbright was understandably worried, and Phoenix questioned him about Blackquill’s past. Halfway through, they’re interrupted by a call from Fulbright’s phone. Fulbright answered the phone, and discovered that the robots at the Space Center took the visitors as hostage. He and Phoenix made their way to the Space Center, where the person controlling the robots made her demands known. She wanted Athena Cykes to be brought to her. However, Phoenix, knowing the hostage-taker was Aura Blackquill, convinced her to have a retrial over the murder her brother was convicted of. Aura, liking the idea, told Fulbright to prepare a court in an hour. Fulbright was flustered, telling her that it would be impossible, but went to try anyway. Unfortunately, he was unable to find an empty court to hold the trial in that hour, but Phoenix saved the day by suggesting they used the bombed court.
So the trial was held in the bombed court, where they go over the case that happened seven years ago. Fulbright appeared to read out Aura’s testimony, and was dismissed for the next witness. They managed to determine that Athena was not guilty of killing her mother, but before the judge could end the trial, Apollo interrupted, asking that they now determine Athena’s involvement with Clay’s murder. The trial proceeds, and they wound up accusing Fulbright as being the phantom that not only killed Metis and attempted to sabotage the HAT-1 launch, but also sabotaged the HAT-2 launch, and killed Clay Terran.
He was put on the stand to testify about this, where Fulbright did his best to deflect suspicion. However, as Phoenix repeatedly pointed out contradictions in his testimonies, Fulbright became less caring about maintaining his act and more concerned about whether they could actually prove he committed the crimes, and thus prove he was the phantom. He tried to claim that the phantom was holding his family hostage, but Edgeworth interrupted the trial, bringing in information that the real Bobby Fulbright was actually dead. The man standing before them was an impersonator.
“Fulbright” revealed that he was just wearing a mask and impersonating the deceased detective, and went through several masks as he claimed they cannot pin the crime on him. It was revealed that the spy was the one that bombed the courtroom in an attempt to destroy the moon rock that held his blood on it. However, it wasn’t fully destroyed and it was confirmed that his blood was on it. However, the spy claimed the rocks weren’t from the moon rock in the lab, and that they had no way to prove that it was. But Phoenix revealed the evidence that could prove this and forced him to confront his deepest fear: that he would die. Afraid and now wanting an identity, the phantom freaked out and tried to find his real face, but he was sniped by an assassin hiding in the bombed courtroom. Luckily, the shot missed his vital organs so he was alive and was subsequently incarcerated by the police.
Abilities: Fulbright has no magical abilities to speak of. However, he does have an unnatural ability to imitate people’s appearances and mannerisms. He uses masks detailed enough to pass for real skin and allow sweat to pour though, and he’s so good at impersonation people don’t suspect it until the background of the person he is impersonating is researched. He’s also very capable of impersonating voices, so much that Apollo and Athena thought Phoenix was objecting to himself when the phantom impersonated Phoenix.
First Person: Dear Mun Post 1, Dear Mun Post 2, Holly Heights Post
Third Person: [Reused from Holly Heights application.]
At first, when they'd called him up to testify about his relation to phantom, or rather, accused him of being the phantom, he wasn't worried. It was a huge leap of logic that they'd taken, to come to the conclusion that he was the one they were chasing after. Just because he'd ordered a specific ladder to be lowered out of all the possible ladders didn't mean that he was the phantom. It was rather silly, how the blue defense lawyer had come to that conclusion.
Yet, somehow, they had not only managed to discover that the lighter was in actuality, a gun, but they had also managed to prove that the prints on the lighter were not Athena Cykes, the woman he'd planned on pinning the murder on. To make it worse, the defense was using all sorts of silly tricks to reveal the truth bit by bit. Perceiving tics to find a lie, or using emotion as evidence? It was utter nonsense! And yet, Blackquill and the judge were playing along with it. The whole court was mad and only he could see it.
It was when they began talking about the moon rock that he felt something bubble up inside him. It churned in his stomach and left him feeling somewhat ill. What was it, he thought faintly to himself. It was something he'd never felt before. ...No, it was...
Fear.
No, he didn't feel fear! He didn't feel anything! But repeating that mantra was useless now. Even if he tried to deny it, he knew. He knew that was he felt was fear. And as the blue lawyer chipped away at him, and closer and closer to the truth, that fear grew.
He had just one last defense now. They had to prove that the rock with his blood on it was the same moon rock that was in the lab seven years ago. There was no way they could prove that! But he saw the lawyer's face, and he knew that he'd lost. They'd proved that it was he who murdered the psychologist and sabotaged the rocket. There was nothing left now. He was fully exposed, and any moment now, he could be shot.
His throat constricted, and he had difficulty breathing. But opened his mouth and tried to speak. What came out was his admission of guilt.
"I-I'm afraid!"
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CHARACTER
Name: Bobby Fulbright
Canon: Ace Attorney
Age: 33
Timeline: Post Dual Destinies. To be specific, I’ll be taking him from right after he’s had his breakdown, but right before he gets shot.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: As Bobby Fulbright, he is absolutely obsessed with justice. Every moment he can, Fulbright proclaims his loyalty to justice and righteousness, often citing it as his motivation or reason for action. Because of his obsession with justice, Fulbright feels that it is his duty to help the needy and the distressed, and this can be easily manipulated to do things in a person’s favour, as shown in his interactions with Athena Cykes, where he is manipulated into providing information to her and Apollo. If you were to claim that he was a bad guy, or that you were in need, Fulbright would feel obligated to help in any manner or disprove that he is bad, even if doing so would violate rules or commands. But this obsession for justice is also a boon to him, as he cannot be threatened into action nor can he be bribed and thus can be trusted to stay true to himself. An example of this is when Blackquill threatens him with violence, and later tries to bait him with a payrise, both of which he ignores.
Because of how easily it is to manipulate him, people tend to think he’s not very intelligent. This not the case though. Fulbright makes his arrests on reasonable logic, though he lacks the insane thought processes of the defense lawyers that allow them to catch contradictions. However, his intelligence is often overshadowed by his strong sense of justice, which may make him engage in stupid actions. But he is definitely not stupid. Case in point: his yellow-tinted shades. Yellow-tinted shades improve contrast so you can see distance with clarity in dim light. One would think that choice in sunglasses doesn’t matter, but he considers even the smallest details in relation to his profession, so he certainly is not dumb. Having said that, he can be a little unobservant and lack common sense (as Ace Attorney characters usually do) sometimes, such as when his shoes got stolen from right off his feet twice. He also has a habit of forgetting things in his excitement, like forgetting to fully read the results of a fingerprint test after reading that it proved one little thing. Both of these are mistakes that you wouldn’t expect an average person to make, hence a slight reputation for stupidity. However, he is truly dedicated to his job, and will put in 110% effort in whatever task he’s been assigned, making him a reliable detective and partner.
Fulbright is an extremely emotional man, often portraying his feelings in such an exaggerated manner that some people would think he might be faking it, or maybe a little too eccentric. His comes off as being very, very enthusiastic and that often puts off people. When his logic is challenged, he’s quick to respond with anger, but when he’s actually proven wrong, he takes it critically and winds up and moping. But if there’s a chance he’s actually not wrong, he bounces back immediately, much to the annoyance of whoever was just proven wrong. He’s also quite bad at hiding inner conflicts from people, and it’s usually pretty apparent what the man is feeling. However, all this outlines Fulbright’s basic personality: that he’s an honest and earnest man who wants to make a difference in the world.
As the international spy known as the “Phantom”, he has abandoned everything. His identity, his life, his memories, his face, even his personalities and emotions. He abandons everything and takes on everything from the person he chooses to impersonate. As stated by his psychological profile, he is unique in that he feels almost no emotion. He mostly doesn’t feel happiness, joy, anger, frustration, sadness, fear, surprise or confusion. He can’t feel love, nor can he trust. This gives him unique advantages and disadvantages. Since he mostly doesn’t feel fear, he is able to perform crazy feats that most would hesitate in performing, such as jumping onto an unstable ladder three storeys up from a moving corridor positioned twenty feet away. He’s also able to evaluate situations rationally and determine the course of action that puts the least risk on him, in terms of revealing his identity. But, the consequence of feeling almost no emotion is that he cannot connect to anyone. He can’t love or trust anyone, and thus can’t rely on anyone when he is forced to confront what little emotions he has. As proven when his crimes are finally pinned on him, he is unable to deal with his emotions after years of never feeling any.
The phantom is extremely intelligent and is very apt at covering up his tracks. He’s very careful about slip-ups and is good at laying logical traps to cover for himself. Because he lacks fear, his acting is superb and holds up well under pressure. It’s also due to his lack of emotions that he is able to act as if he doesn’t recognize people he met under a different guise, or act as if he is not the true culprit. It is impossible to read his true thoughts and it would be impossible to determine his guilt just based on behaviour. In all, the phantom is a cold, logical spy that can impersonate people down to the smallest quirk, making it nearly impossible to catch him.
If there is one thing the phantom can’t understand, it’s trust and love. He doesn’t feel any emotions, so he can’t form bonds of trust or love and can only rely on himself. This is also why he believes things like Apollo Justice’s ability to catch nervous tics and Athena Cykes’s ability to hear the emotions of the heart at silly little tricks that should not be able to pass as evidence in a court of law. They’re reflective of emotions and thoughts, but those can easily be manipulated (as he later proves in court), and therefore should not be admissible as a topic to pursue. It’s sort of unfortunate that the judge is a man of feelings too, or his argument would have made sense and he would have gotten away with it.
Background: Fulbright as we know him in the game is actually an international spy known as the “Phantom” who was sent by some organization or nation to sabotage the HAT-1 space rocket launch. At that time, he did not appear as Bobby Fulbright, but rather impersonated someone else. His mission was to sabotage the rocket launch, but he also had another objective. The police had managed to obtain a voice sample of him, and they’d had it analyzed by a psychologist living in the Space Center, Metis Cykes. That in turn produced a psych profile on him, which he felt was dangerous and needed to be eliminated at all costs.
So, while on his mission, he broke into the robotics lab to attempt to retrieve the profile and murdered Metis. He was then found by Athena Cykes, Metis’s daughter, who managed to stab him in the hand and got his blood on a moon rock in the room. He knocked Athena out and hid the rock in the Hope capsule, which was to be sent to space in the HAT-1 rocket. After hiding evidence of his relation to the crime, he then moved on to sabotage the launch, but failed, allowing the capsule to be sent into space with the Hope probe. Presumably he disappeared from the building then, mission failed.
Around six years later, take a year or so, he killed the real Bobby Fulbright, impersonated the man, and wormed his way into the police force. He was assigned to be Prosecutor Blackquill’s handler [as Blackquill was convicted for the crime the spy perpetrated] and detective partner a year before the attempted HAT-2 rocket launch.
“Detective Fulbright” made his first appearance to the lawyers of the Wright Anything Agency when Apollo and Athena took on Damian Tenma’s case. He unwillingly aided them in their investigation and appeared in the subsequent trial as the professional witness. He was also the head detective in the next case Athena took, where he again unwillingly aided them and appeared as the professional witness in the trial. The very next case after that involved the attempted launch of the HAT-2 rocket, and the murder of Apollo’s best friend Clay Terran.
For the case, Fulbright was called upon as the professional witness for the trial, which was later cut short when a bomb specialist announced that a bomb was about to go off and everyone was forced to evacuate. Phoenix, who took over for Apollo [who was injured in the bombing], met Fulbright in the Space Center in his investigation after the trial. Fulbright seemed tormented by something, but he didn’t reveal what was tormenting him. However, uncharacteristically, Fulbright offered to help the two a hundred percent, allowing them to access the crime scene and giving them whatever information they require. After finishing their investigation, the two went off to find the witness Fulbright mentioned in their discussions and check other places. They came back to Fulbright again, intending on getting more information from him. After getting the information, Phoenix managed to get Fulbright to speak about what was bothering him.
As Blackquill was a convict, Fulbright wondered why he was allowed to stand in court. He also told Phoenix and Athena that Blackquill had a personal grudge against their client, so Fulbright felt he could no longer trust Blackquill’s judgment and asked for the defense lawyers’ help. Phoenix assured Fulbright that he’d do his best to ensure the right man was convicted, and feeling thankful, Fulbright promised to find decisive evidence for them and ran off.
As promised, in the trial on the next day, Fulbright appeared to present the decisive evidence Phoenix needed. The evidence got the defendant a Not Guilty, but it was soon discovered that the evidence, which was supposed to hold the killer’s fingerprints, had Athena Cykes’s fingerprints. Fulbright was distraught, having just accidentally indicted one of the defense lawyers as the criminal, and the trial ended with Athena being put under arrest.
Phoenix met him again at the Detention Center, where Fulbright was about to interview the bomber that interrupted the trial of Clay Terran’s murder. The bomber claimed that while he did kill someone, he didn’t set off the bomb. After that declaration, he was ushered away for questioning. Fulbright then told Phoenix that he’s interviewing Athena now and left. Phoenix left to investigate the Space Center, and then came back to the Detention Center where he caught Aura Blackquill talking to Prosecutor Blackquill, her little brother. Fulbright was unfortunately there and caught in the crossfire between the two siblings. Aura soon left in frustration and Phoenix attempted to get some answers out of Blackquill. Unfortunately, Blackquill didn’t want to talk, and returned to his cell.
Fulbright was understandably worried, and Phoenix questioned him about Blackquill’s past. Halfway through, they’re interrupted by a call from Fulbright’s phone. Fulbright answered the phone, and discovered that the robots at the Space Center took the visitors as hostage. He and Phoenix made their way to the Space Center, where the person controlling the robots made her demands known. She wanted Athena Cykes to be brought to her. However, Phoenix, knowing the hostage-taker was Aura Blackquill, convinced her to have a retrial over the murder her brother was convicted of. Aura, liking the idea, told Fulbright to prepare a court in an hour. Fulbright was flustered, telling her that it would be impossible, but went to try anyway. Unfortunately, he was unable to find an empty court to hold the trial in that hour, but Phoenix saved the day by suggesting they used the bombed court.
So the trial was held in the bombed court, where they go over the case that happened seven years ago. Fulbright appeared to read out Aura’s testimony, and was dismissed for the next witness. They managed to determine that Athena was not guilty of killing her mother, but before the judge could end the trial, Apollo interrupted, asking that they now determine Athena’s involvement with Clay’s murder. The trial proceeds, and they wound up accusing Fulbright as being the phantom that not only killed Metis and attempted to sabotage the HAT-1 launch, but also sabotaged the HAT-2 launch, and killed Clay Terran.
He was put on the stand to testify about this, where Fulbright did his best to deflect suspicion. However, as Phoenix repeatedly pointed out contradictions in his testimonies, Fulbright became less caring about maintaining his act and more concerned about whether they could actually prove he committed the crimes, and thus prove he was the phantom. He tried to claim that the phantom was holding his family hostage, but Edgeworth interrupted the trial, bringing in information that the real Bobby Fulbright was actually dead. The man standing before them was an impersonator.
“Fulbright” revealed that he was just wearing a mask and impersonating the deceased detective, and went through several masks as he claimed they cannot pin the crime on him. It was revealed that the spy was the one that bombed the courtroom in an attempt to destroy the moon rock that held his blood on it. However, it wasn’t fully destroyed and it was confirmed that his blood was on it. However, the spy claimed the rocks weren’t from the moon rock in the lab, and that they had no way to prove that it was. But Phoenix revealed the evidence that could prove this and forced him to confront his deepest fear: that he would die. Afraid and now wanting an identity, the phantom freaked out and tried to find his real face, but he was sniped by an assassin hiding in the bombed courtroom. Luckily, the shot missed his vital organs so he was alive and was subsequently incarcerated by the police.
Abilities: Fulbright has no magical abilities to speak of. However, he does have an unnatural ability to imitate people’s appearances and mannerisms. He uses masks detailed enough to pass for real skin and allow sweat to pour though, and he’s so good at impersonation people don’t suspect it until the background of the person he is impersonating is researched. He’s also very capable of impersonating voices, so much that Apollo and Athena thought Phoenix was objecting to himself when the phantom impersonated Phoenix.
First Person: Dear Mun Post 1, Dear Mun Post 2, Holly Heights Post
Third Person: [Reused from Holly Heights application.]
At first, when they'd called him up to testify about his relation to phantom, or rather, accused him of being the phantom, he wasn't worried. It was a huge leap of logic that they'd taken, to come to the conclusion that he was the one they were chasing after. Just because he'd ordered a specific ladder to be lowered out of all the possible ladders didn't mean that he was the phantom. It was rather silly, how the blue defense lawyer had come to that conclusion.
Yet, somehow, they had not only managed to discover that the lighter was in actuality, a gun, but they had also managed to prove that the prints on the lighter were not Athena Cykes, the woman he'd planned on pinning the murder on. To make it worse, the defense was using all sorts of silly tricks to reveal the truth bit by bit. Perceiving tics to find a lie, or using emotion as evidence? It was utter nonsense! And yet, Blackquill and the judge were playing along with it. The whole court was mad and only he could see it.
It was when they began talking about the moon rock that he felt something bubble up inside him. It churned in his stomach and left him feeling somewhat ill. What was it, he thought faintly to himself. It was something he'd never felt before. ...No, it was...
Fear.
No, he didn't feel fear! He didn't feel anything! But repeating that mantra was useless now. Even if he tried to deny it, he knew. He knew that was he felt was fear. And as the blue lawyer chipped away at him, and closer and closer to the truth, that fear grew.
He had just one last defense now. They had to prove that the rock with his blood on it was the same moon rock that was in the lab seven years ago. There was no way they could prove that! But he saw the lawyer's face, and he knew that he'd lost. They'd proved that it was he who murdered the psychologist and sabotaged the rocket. There was nothing left now. He was fully exposed, and any moment now, he could be shot.
His throat constricted, and he had difficulty breathing. But opened his mouth and tried to speak. What came out was his admission of guilt.
"I-I'm afraid!"