Confessions
Title: Confessions
Fandom: Ace Attorney
Characters: Edgeworth, Larry
Summary: Larry (Laurice) Butz has something of a confession, as well as need for advice, and turns to Miles Edgeworth for help
Notes: Written for the following Kink Meme prompt:
I've read some wonderful fics featuring some of the male cast (Miles, Klavier, Kristoph...) being actually female-to-male transgenders. And when I thought about it, one character came to my mind...
Larry. What if the most loveable (yet so hopelessly unloved) man was once a girl/woman? Perhaps that's why he keeps himself as manly as he is? Perhaps that's why the type of women he's after dump him one after another? Perhaps there's something deep about Larry after all? (...or perhaps he's just as clueless about everything as he seems to be)
Something general, or something. Drunk or not-so-drunk Larry slips/tells the truth to Edgeworth who knew young Larry for such a short period of time that he didn't know/realize and thus has been clueless about it all this time? (Or Phoenix, but I think Edgeworth's more logical choice...)
tl;dr: I'd just like to see something serious and/or sad with Larry who has once been a girl and still gets dumped for being what he really is.
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“Edgey, I need to talk to you.”
“Why don't you bother Wright, Butz? I happen to be quite busy at the moment.”
After a moment, Miles noticed that Larry was still standing there. He also had not resorted to his usual whining that Miles had once again forgotten he had changed his name to Laurice Deuxnim. He sighed, tapped his pen on his desk. “Why are you still standing there, Bu- Laurice?”
“Nick wouldn't be able - he'd get all blushy and not know what to say. But I thought I might be able to talk to you. You're one of my two best friends, and I think you're the most likely to understand.”
“Is it pressingly urgent or can I finish up here first?”
“Um, you can finish here, that's all right. Just, you know, I'd like to talk sometime soon.”
“I'll finish these by five, shall we meet somewhere at six?”
“My place? Um, I know it's kinda weird, but I don't want to talk about it in front of a lot of people, in public or anything.”
“Fine. Leave your address with my secretary and I will be there at six.”
*
As he knocked on the door (not as bad an apartment as he would have expected from the Butz, really), Miles did have to admit to some slight curiosity. And that tone - had Larry ever had such a serious note in his tone before? Maybe Nick had heard it, but Miles couldn't remember hearing it before.
“Edgey! You came!”
“You don't have to be surprised. I said I would come. Have I given you reason to doubt me?”
“Oh, um, sorry Edgey, come in, it's just - well, the latest girl, Therese, she broke my heart and I don't know... she was so sweet and beautiful and wonderful just like an angel and...”
“Larry. You've been through a hundred of these breakups before. If you expect me to sit here while you babble on about your newest perfect girl and how she's dumped you...”
“No! Well, kind of. It's not that she dumped me. Well, it is, but that's not why I asked you here. Well, it is, but-”
“Larry. Would you arrive at some sort of point?”
“Laurice.”
“Laurice, then.”
“No, I mean - did you know Laurice is a girl's name? I thought maybe if I used it I'd get girls that didn't care, but it didn't work.”
“You aren't making sense.”
“I... Laurice is my birth name.”
“Your parents named you for the wrong gender? This is what this is about?”
“Yes, no, I, when I was born they thought I was a girl.”
“They thought you were a girl.”
“This is what I love about you Edgey, Nick would be getting all weird and blushing now, but you're calm and looking at me like I'm nuts, which I probably am, but I was born with girl bits and everything. You know.”
“You were...”
“But I didn't like being a girl and I acted like a boy, and I even had some operations done so now you wouldn't know I've got girl bits down there, because I don't really feel like a girl.”
“Ah.”
“Every time I start to get close to a woman, you know, and it gets where things might get intimate - well, I kind of have to tell them. And then they get all freaked out and I end up alone again, and it's really hard to pretend... I don't like telling them. I don't like always losing the people I love just because I don't have the right stuff down there.”
“...are you sure you wouldn't rather Wright give you advice?”
“Edgey, come on! You know he'd be all red and tongue-tied now, and wouldn't know what to say.”
“I'm not sure I know what to say either, except that if a woman runs away from you for something like that, then she's probably not the kind of woman you want anyway, and you should keep looking. I'm sure there's some steadfast woman out there who can manage to put up with you, and you need someone who can take whatever twists and turns you throw at her.”
Miles suddenly found himself an object of attack, as Larry grappled him. “You're the best friend ever, thanks, Edgey!”
“You're.... welcome.”
“That was what I had to talk to you about. Do you want to go out and do something now? Or hang out and chat?”
“Actually, I should be taking Pess for his walk. He'll be wondering where I am.”
“Oh. Right. Another time?”
“Most likely.”
As Miles made his way to his car, he allowed himself a hint of a smile. Who knew Larry - Laurice - had such hidden depths? Maybe there was hope for him after all.
Fandom: Ace Attorney
Characters: Edgeworth, Larry
Summary: Larry (Laurice) Butz has something of a confession, as well as need for advice, and turns to Miles Edgeworth for help
Notes: Written for the following Kink Meme prompt:
I've read some wonderful fics featuring some of the male cast (Miles, Klavier, Kristoph...) being actually female-to-male transgenders. And when I thought about it, one character came to my mind...
Larry. What if the most loveable (yet so hopelessly unloved) man was once a girl/woman? Perhaps that's why he keeps himself as manly as he is? Perhaps that's why the type of women he's after dump him one after another? Perhaps there's something deep about Larry after all? (...or perhaps he's just as clueless about everything as he seems to be)
Something general, or something. Drunk or not-so-drunk Larry slips/tells the truth to Edgeworth who knew young Larry for such a short period of time that he didn't know/realize and thus has been clueless about it all this time? (Or Phoenix, but I think Edgeworth's more logical choice...)
tl;dr: I'd just like to see something serious and/or sad with Larry who has once been a girl and still gets dumped for being what he really is.
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“Edgey, I need to talk to you.”
“Why don't you bother Wright, Butz? I happen to be quite busy at the moment.”
After a moment, Miles noticed that Larry was still standing there. He also had not resorted to his usual whining that Miles had once again forgotten he had changed his name to Laurice Deuxnim. He sighed, tapped his pen on his desk. “Why are you still standing there, Bu- Laurice?”
“Nick wouldn't be able - he'd get all blushy and not know what to say. But I thought I might be able to talk to you. You're one of my two best friends, and I think you're the most likely to understand.”
“Is it pressingly urgent or can I finish up here first?”
“Um, you can finish here, that's all right. Just, you know, I'd like to talk sometime soon.”
“I'll finish these by five, shall we meet somewhere at six?”
“My place? Um, I know it's kinda weird, but I don't want to talk about it in front of a lot of people, in public or anything.”
“Fine. Leave your address with my secretary and I will be there at six.”
*
As he knocked on the door (not as bad an apartment as he would have expected from the Butz, really), Miles did have to admit to some slight curiosity. And that tone - had Larry ever had such a serious note in his tone before? Maybe Nick had heard it, but Miles couldn't remember hearing it before.
“Edgey! You came!”
“You don't have to be surprised. I said I would come. Have I given you reason to doubt me?”
“Oh, um, sorry Edgey, come in, it's just - well, the latest girl, Therese, she broke my heart and I don't know... she was so sweet and beautiful and wonderful just like an angel and...”
“Larry. You've been through a hundred of these breakups before. If you expect me to sit here while you babble on about your newest perfect girl and how she's dumped you...”
“No! Well, kind of. It's not that she dumped me. Well, it is, but that's not why I asked you here. Well, it is, but-”
“Larry. Would you arrive at some sort of point?”
“Laurice.”
“Laurice, then.”
“No, I mean - did you know Laurice is a girl's name? I thought maybe if I used it I'd get girls that didn't care, but it didn't work.”
“You aren't making sense.”
“I... Laurice is my birth name.”
“Your parents named you for the wrong gender? This is what this is about?”
“Yes, no, I, when I was born they thought I was a girl.”
“They thought you were a girl.”
“This is what I love about you Edgey, Nick would be getting all weird and blushing now, but you're calm and looking at me like I'm nuts, which I probably am, but I was born with girl bits and everything. You know.”
“You were...”
“But I didn't like being a girl and I acted like a boy, and I even had some operations done so now you wouldn't know I've got girl bits down there, because I don't really feel like a girl.”
“Ah.”
“Every time I start to get close to a woman, you know, and it gets where things might get intimate - well, I kind of have to tell them. And then they get all freaked out and I end up alone again, and it's really hard to pretend... I don't like telling them. I don't like always losing the people I love just because I don't have the right stuff down there.”
“...are you sure you wouldn't rather Wright give you advice?”
“Edgey, come on! You know he'd be all red and tongue-tied now, and wouldn't know what to say.”
“I'm not sure I know what to say either, except that if a woman runs away from you for something like that, then she's probably not the kind of woman you want anyway, and you should keep looking. I'm sure there's some steadfast woman out there who can manage to put up with you, and you need someone who can take whatever twists and turns you throw at her.”
Miles suddenly found himself an object of attack, as Larry grappled him. “You're the best friend ever, thanks, Edgey!”
“You're.... welcome.”
“That was what I had to talk to you about. Do you want to go out and do something now? Or hang out and chat?”
“Actually, I should be taking Pess for his walk. He'll be wondering where I am.”
“Oh. Right. Another time?”
“Most likely.”
As Miles made his way to his car, he allowed himself a hint of a smile. Who knew Larry - Laurice - had such hidden depths? Maybe there was hope for him after all.