Application/Important OOC Information
Name: HotAndCold/AF
Personal LJ: hotandcoldrp
Contact info: Whisper my name 3 times in front of a mirror and--*shot* AIM: DecepticonAF e-mail: decepticonaf@aol.com
Character Name: Miles Edgeworth
Character Series: Phoenix Wright
Age: 26
Background: When Miles Edgeworth was 9, life was blissfully simple: his father, the famous defense attorney, Gregory Edgeworth, was The Shit, and there was nothing young Miles wanted more in the world than to be like his father. He got an opportunity to do just that one day, early in his 4th grade year: the 38 dollars that compromised his lunch money for the week was stolen while the class was in gym and a trial was held to determine the guilty party. The accused was fellow student Phoenix Wright, who had skipped gym on account of illness. The entire class was convinced of Phoenix's guilt with two exceptions: Miles, who reasoned that his guilt couldn't be determined without evidence, of which there was none; and Larry Butz, secretly the real culprit. The "case" was deemed unsolvable and the 3 boys became fast friends afterwards.
That is, until late December of that year, when a horrible incident that would come to be known as DL-6 occurred. Miles went with his father to court that day, where Gregory went up against the infamous prosecutor with a perfect record, Manfred von Karma. While von Karma was the victor of the case, Gregory did manage to catch him in the act of using forged evidence, leading to the first and only penalty von Karma ever received in court. After the trial concluded, Gregory and Miles, along with court bailiff, Yanni Yogi, boarded an elevator to exit the courthouse. However, a massive earthquake struck while they were on the way down and the power in the courthouse went out, trapping the three inside the elevator. They remained there in the dark for hours, and, towards the end, Yanni and Gregory became irritable. They argued and eventually began to fight. Miles, in an effort to stop them, grabbed Yanni's pistol from the elevator floor and threw it at the two. The pistol struck the floor and went off, and Miles heard a horrible scream before he promptly passed out from oxygen deprivation.
He woke up in a hospital and was given horrible news: his father had been fatally shot. Miles was distraught and subconsciously suppressed the memory of having thrown the pistol, although the scene would haunt his dreams for years to come. It wasn't long after that that the trial was held against Yanni Yogi. Both Miles and Gregory, who was channeled by the spirit medium, Misty Fey, testified that Yanni had shot Gregory. However, at the behest of his defense attorney, Robert Hammond, Yanni pled temporary insanity caused by stress and oxygen deprivation. Robert Hammond was just about the only one to benefit from said plea: while he managed to win the case and remove the charges against Yanni, Yanni's fiancé committed suicide and he became essentially unhireable; Misty Fey was publicly discredited and regarded as a fraud, causing her to retreat into hiding, leaving two daughters behind; and young Miles became a very, very embittered child. He let go of his dream to become a defense attorney like his father, and decided to become a prosecutor to punish criminals like Yanni and, subconsciously, himself.
This decision was helped along by none other than Manfred von Karma, who took the boy in and raised him alongside his daughter, Franziska, in Germany. Despite the fact that Miles was 7 years her senior, Franziska treated him as a younger brother, but eventually Edgeworth did grow up and leave Franziska behind as he returned to the United States, something Franziska was not exactly pleased about.
Edgeworth became a prosecutor at the age of 20. His first case was State vs. Fawles, against defense attorney Mia Fey, for whom this was also her first case. Fawles had been previously convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Dahlia Hawthorne 5 years ago, but had escaped from prison and met with Dahlia's older sister, Valerie, and apparently murdered her, as well. Throughout the case, it became apparent that the real murderer was Dahlia herself, as she'd faked her death those 5 years earlier. However, Mia couldn't present hard evidence to prove it, and when she pressed Fawles to testify, he committed suicide on the witness stand by ingesting poison given to him by Dahlia earlier. This affected Edgeworth deeply and he blamed the results on his own inexperience.
Edgeworth's first big case was two years later: the case of State vs. Darke, also known as SL-9. Darke was a serial murderer, whose latest and last victim was the previous prosecutor on the case, Neil Marshall. Darke had been brought in for questioning by Marshall and supervising detective Damon Gant, but managed to escape the interrogation room, fleeing into the shared office of Gant and Lana Skye. There he encountered Lana's younger sister, Ema, and attempted to kill her before being stopped by Marshall. The two men struggled and while Marshall managed to K.O. Darke, Darke apparently managed to score a killing blow in the struggle. Unfortunately for Darke, he finally left evidence in this murder, and when the case fell to Edgeworth, he got Darke saddled with a guilty verdict and the death penalty. Unfortunately for Edgeworth, there were suspicions that the evidence used was falsified, and rumors of Edgeworth falsifying evidence and testimonies, along with the title of the Demon Prosecutor, would hound him for years to come.
He continued to be an undefeated prosecutor until two more years later, when he once again met Phoenix Wright, now a defense attorney. The case in question was State vs. Fey. Mia Fey, defense attorney and Phoenix's mentor, had been found murdered in her law offices, with Phoenix and Mia's younger sister, Maya Fey, at the scene. A scrap of paper with Maya's name written on it in blood was found near Mia's body, so Detective Dick Gumshoe arrested Maya on the spot. The crime was allegedly witnessed by April May from her hotel window, who testified that Maya had done it, but Phoenix managed to deftly blow some holes in her testimony and prove that April was not staying alone in her hotel room, and while she had an alibi at the exact time of the murder, whoever was with her did not. The man with her turned out to be Redd White, talkative businessman and blackmailer extraordinaire, and when Phoenix tracked him down, Mr. White managed to turn things around and get Phoenix landed in the defendant's seat. Mr. White took the witness stand the next day in court, but Phoenix managed to expose his lies and get to the truth of the matter: Redd White was the real murderer. Phoenix and Maya were proved without a doubt to be not guilty and Edgeworth suffered his first loss.
About a month later, Phoenix and Edgeworth met in court once more, in the case of State vs. Powers. Will Powers, star of the popular children's television show, Steel Samurai, was accused of murdering Jack Hammer, the actor playing his archnemesis. It was during this case that he first encountered the fearsome security lady, Wendy Oldbag, who instantly fell head-over-heels for him, much to his chagrin. Throughout the trial, it became readily apparent that the killer was not at all Will Powers, but the producer, Dee Vasquez, who did it in self-defense, as Hammer was attempting to murder her because she was blackmailing him. However, Phoenix failed to present definitive evidence and Vasquez was about to leave the stand when Edgeworth interjected and asked her to testify again about finding the body. During this testimony, Vasquez slipped up, and once again it was Edgeworth that caught her, rather than Phoenix. Eventually, Vasquez was convicted.
2 months later, as the statute of limitations on DL-6 approached, which would close the case forever, Edgeworth received a letter from Robert Hammond, asking to meet with him at Gourd Lake late on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve, Edgeworth went out with Hammond on a boat in the middle of Gourd Lake, where Hammond drew a pistol and fired into the water twice before throwing himself from the boat. A witness who heard the shots called the police and Edgeworth was arrested soon thereafter. While jailed, Edgeworth contacted several defense lawyers, but they all strongly refused his case; after all, he'd defeated the lot of them in court, and the prosecutor for this case would be none other than Manfred von Karma himself. There was only one attorney willing to take Edgeworth's case-the one attorney he very pointedly didn't want taking it: Phoenix Wright.
Eventually, Edgeworth relented and allowed Phoenix to take the case. Phoenix battled von Karma impressively and as the trial progressed, more and more about DL-6 became relevant. As this happened, Edgeworth came to realize that the scene that haunted his nightmares-the thrown pistol and terrible scream-was more than just a nightmare: it was a suppressed memory. Edgeworth became convinced that he was the real murderer of his father, and even though Phoenix managed to prove that Hammond had been murdered by Yanni Yogi, who'd then disguised himself as Hammond and went out on the boat with Edgeworth to frame him, Edgeworth promptly took the stand and demanded to be found as the guilty party in DL-6. Phoenix, however, was having none of this, and finally uncovered the truth of Gregory Edgeworth's murder: the murderer was none other than Manfred von Karma himself, and the terrible scream that Edgeworth had heard just before losing consciousness was also von Karma's, as the pistol Miles had thrown had indeed fired, shooting von Karma in the shoulder.
2 months after that, Edgeworth was awarded the King of Prosecutors award on the same day of evidence transferral between the police department and the prosecutor's building. Chief of Police Gant requested that Edgeworth bring a small piece of evidence from a closed case with him back to the prosecutor's office. Edgeworth complied, and while he was in his office doing so, Chief Prosecutor Lana Skye stabbed a man in the trunk of his car. Lana was arrested and Edgeworth was assigned as the prosecution in the case, once again butting heads with Phoenix Wright.
Throughout State vs. Skye, it became increasingly apparent that the case of SL-9 was heavily related to this one. Eventually, it turned out that Gant was the true murderer in both this case and SL-9. He murdered Detective Bruce Goodman for wanting SL-9 reopened and investigated further, and he murdered Prosecutor Marshall and arranged things to pin it on Ema Skye so that he would have blackmail material on Lana Skye when she re-rearranged things to pin it on Darke and protect her sister. This way, Gant would have control over both the police department and the prosecutor's department. It also became very, very apparent that the evidence used in SL-9 had, in fact, been forged, much to Edgeworth's dismay.
He abandoned the prosecutor's office and traveled abroad for about a year, leaving behind only a note reading "Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth chooses death." While he was traveling, he thought very long and hard about what he was doing with his life and what, exactly, it meant to be a prosecutor. He eventually came to the conclusion that what was really important wasn't the guilty verdict, but, rather, obtaining the truth, one way or the other. The battles between defense and prosecution weren't there to determine winner and loser, but to figure out what really happened and with whom guilt truly lies. Finally satisfied and at peace with the loss of his perfect win record, Edgeworth returned to the states, where Franziska von Karma and Phoenix Wright had been butting heads in the courtroom.
Edgeworth and Phoenix were reunited while the latter was in the midst of carrying out investigation for the case of State vs. Engarde. Nickel Samurai actor Matt Engarde stood accused of the murder of rival action star Juan Corrida. Since Franziska was the prosecutor for the case, Edgeworth was free to discuss it with Phoenix and he wished, and shared two crucial pieces of evidence with him, despite Phoenix's rather standoffish behavior. The first was the suicide report of Celeste Inpax, Corrida's ex-manager, who was rumored to have left a suicide note hidden by Corrida himself. The second was the report of the attempted suicide by Adrian Andrews, Engarde's manager and former mentee of Celeste Inpax.
On the courthouse steps the next morning, Franziska was shot in the shoulder by an unknown attacker, and Edgeworth physically dragged her away from the courthouse and to a nearby hospital. Once she was in good hands, Edgeworth returned to the courthouse and took the case on himself. He noticed that Phoenix was unusually tense while trying to prove that Andrews was the real murderer, and very unusually despaired when the proceedings ended for the day without a verdict. He also noticed the card Andrews was fiddling with and when he got her to show it to him more closely after the proceedings closed, it was his turn to despair, as the card was the calling card of the assassin Shelly de Killer and Andrews had recovered it from the crime scene.
Immediately afterwards, Edgeworth went to the hospital to visit Franziska. There he also encountered Phoenix and explained the card to him. In turn, Phoenix explained why he'd been acting unusually at the trial: Maya Fey had been kidnapped by de Killer and her ransom was an acquittal for Engarde. Edgeworth immediately went to organize a rescue team before continuing his investigation. It eventually became apparent that Engarde was the one who had hired de Killer to murder Corrida. Phoenix, Edgeworth, and the rescue team that Edgeworth had organized promptly broke into Engarde's house, but de Killer had already taken Maya and fled.
The battle in court the next day was long and furious, as both Phoenix and Edgeworth battled their hardest to stall as long as possible until Maya was recovered. During a recess in the court session, Gumshoe reported that de Killer's current hideout had been discovered and raided, and although de Killer escaped with Maya once more, he did leave behind some potentially crucial evidence. Gumshoe, who at this point had actually been fired from his job, grabbed the evidence and ran for it, intending to bring it to the courthouse as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, he got into a car accident along the way. Edgeworth contacted Franziska, who had placed a tracking device on Gumshoe, and then returned to court.
Franziska, thankfully, pulled through in the nick of time and brought the evidence she recovered from Gumshoe to the courthouse. While the judge had already reached his decision and refused to allow them to be submitted to the official record, he did concede to allow Phoenix to present one piece of evidence to one witness. Phoenix presented a recording of de Killer performing the murder that had been recorded by Engarde for use as blackmail to de Killer himself. De Killer was not pleased in the slightest by this breach of trust and released Maya, along with declaring Engarde as his next target, thereby granting Phoenix the ability to petition for the guilty verdict that Engarde deserved.
Engarde was declared guilty, and then Franziska left in a huff when she saw that Phoenix wasn't upset to have his perfect win record broken. The rest of the core cast went out to a glorious dinner in celebration, but Edgeworth left early. He went to an airport, where he confronted Franziska as she made her departure. There, he challenged her decision to stop prosecuting, because while they stood as equals at the moment, he would not stop moving forward, so if she did, she would once more find herself left behind in his shadow. Franziska took the challenge to heart and promised that she would return.
Not long after, Edgeworth left to travel abroad once more, this time studying and participating in foreign judicial systems. He was gone for about a year before he received a sudden, panicked phone call from Larry Butz, begging him to return to the states ASAP, because Phoenix was in serious need of help. Edgeworth immediately chartered a private jet and visited Phoenix in the hospital. There, Phoenix explained what has happened: Elise Deauxnim had been murdered at Hazakura Temple up in the mountains, and while he was trying to run across a burning suspension bridge to warn Maya, the bridge collapsed, causing him to fall into the river below. Phoenix also asked him to defend the accused nun, Iris, and gave him two particular items: a Magatama, a small item charged with spiritual power that would allow him to see the lies in peoples' hearts; and Phoenix's own defense attorney badge.
Edgeworth investigated the case, aided by Gumshoe. He also made some arrangements in the Prosecutor's Office so that the judge for this case would be one he had encountered only once before and would therefore probably not recognize him. He also arranged for Franziska von Karma to be the prosecutor-not because he thought she would go easy on him, of course, but because she wouldn't raise a stink over the defense attorney actually being a prosecutor when she'd been itching for the chance to crush Edgeworth beneath her heel and prove that she had finally surpassed him. The trial was a fierce battle, but in the end Edgeworth managed to prove the possibility that both the scene of the murder and the murder weapon were, in fact, something entirely different than what was assumed.
Phoenix had managed to (mostly) recover by that afternoon, and Edgeworth turned the case back over to him, returning to the city to look into Iris's past, since he had the peskiest feeling that he'd met her before. Before long, word came that the bridge to the Inner Temple where Maya had been trapped had been repaired, but there was a lock on the cavern Maya was in that could only be unlocked by Iris. So Edgeworth escorted Iris to Hazakura Temple and took her to the Inner Temple, but before they arrived, an earthquake struck, and Edgeworth, still a sufferer of extreme seismophobia thanks to DL-6, temporarily passed out. When he regained consciousness, Iris was gone. However, Phoenix found her easily, as she'd simply gone to the Inner Temple anyway, concerned that it may have collapsed during the earthquake. Unfortunately, 4 more trick locks appeared on the cavern door during the earthquake and it would take about a day to open them all.
While she was working on that, Edgeworth investigated the real crime scene: the garden next to the Inner Temple. While he was there, he had a conversation with Phoenix about Dahlia Hawthorne, Iris's twin sister. Although Dahlia had gotten off scot-free from Edgeworth's and Mia's first case, Mia later managed to prove her guilty of another murder, as well as the attempted murder of Phoenix himself. However, it was impossible that Dahlia was involved in this case: her execution had been carried out a month prior.
Phoenix proved otherwise in court the next day. Dahlia, it turned out, was quite heavily involved in the case, thanks to the Kurain Channeling Technique. After all, Elise Deauxnim was secretly Misty Fey, Master of Kurain and mother of Maya Fey. She had channeled Dahlia that night to keep her from being channeled by the unsuspecting Pearl Fey, and was murdered by Godot to keep Dahlia from killing Maya. Iris simply took the body and arranged it somewhere else to keep suspicion away from Maya. Following the resolution of the case, Edgeworth went out to dinner with the group.
Personality: Miles Edgeworth is serious business. He approaches everything with absolute gravity, because, well, he doesn't really know any other way to approach things. His mother presumably died when he was very young and from there on out he was raised by lawyers. Edgeworth grew up surrounded by law and under the deathly serious watch of Manfred von Karma, all of which served only to accentuate his own natural seriousness and maturity. The "Edgey" nickname Larry gives him is more than just a fond shortening of his name; it's a fairly accurate description of his natural disposition as well: Edgeworth is almost constantly on-edge. His default expression is one of several varieties of glare, and he even states in monologue that he was taught that when something glares at you, it's only polite to glare back. However, his seriousness sometimes gets the better of him, as he occasionally ends up taking completely ridiculous things absolutely straight-faced. He takes the alleged Director Hotti at his word, despite what an obvious creep Hotti is, and mistakenly refers to Psyche-Locks as "Psycholocks".
Edgeworth is also, resultantly, socially stunted. While he is perfectly polite to strangers and incredibly confident in court, he has difficulty interacting with people when they get beyond the "casual acquaintance" point. While he's improved over the three years he's been friends with Phoenix (even if he does seem to spend most of that time abroad), he still tends to avoid eye contact when he isn't wearing a glare on his face and he usually isn't sure exactly what to say or how to say it if it's not related to court matters. He even has difficulty finding the words to thank Phoenix after 1-4.
In court, however, is another matter entirely. In court, Edgeworth is in control. Law is Edgeworth's element, and it is at the prosecutor's bench that he shines, with a confidence bordering on cockiness. Discovering the truth and seeing justice delivered are Edgeworth's passions in life, and he is unwavering in his dedication to it.
Edgeworth is not the sort to waver in his dedication to anything, regardless of how small or silly. Larry shares an amusing anecdote about how in art class at grade school, young Miles was so bad at origami that "he couldn't even fold a dollar, let alone a crane" and even became so upset at this failure that he bawled even as the rest of the class tried to comfort him. As soon as Larry finishes his tale, however, Edgeworth angrily declares that he can make a completely flawless quarter-inch paper crane, no small feat. While he isn't the obsessed perfectionist that von Karma is/was, he never gives anything any less than his absolute best and is very disdainful of faults in himself and others.
Edgeworth's absolute best is, generally speaking, quite good. He is undeniably a genius and an incredibly dedicated one, at that. He started prosecuting at the young age of 20, and didn't lose a single case for four years. Between the second and third games, he spent his time in foreign countries, observing and participating in their judicial systems. If Phoenix asks him about it, he talks about how one must gain complete mastery of a language before participating in the courts. Edgeworth has a masterful grasp of language, generally using vocabulary that is advanced, but no so advanced that it's impossible to follow. He gets to his points directly and deftly. His logical facilities are quite sound and he places his faith most easily in hard evidence.
Item Lost: His briefcase. Or, perhaps to be more accurate, the contents of his briefcase. His briefcase holds his current case files, which is all very important information to him and necessary in his position as a prosecutor.
Memory Recovered:
2% spent on his early 4th grade year--the stolen lunch money trial and his friendship with Phoenix and Larry. (Age Event)
1% spent on some basic childhood memories. (Age Event)
2% spent on State vs. Fawles (case 3-4), up until the recess. (Age Event)
1% spent on how to drive. (Tanabata Ball)
1% spent on learning of his father's death. (Superpowers Event)
1% spent on being adopted by von Karma. (Superpower Event)
8% spent, 1% unspent (Oktoberfest Event)
Inventory:
-1 flashy red sports car
-1 totally stylin' magenta(?) suit
-1 excellently frilly cravat
-1 adjectiveless tool box
-1 copy of Beginner's Law
-2 copies of Intermediate Law (1 on prosecution, 1 on defense)
-2 copies of Advanced Law (1 on prosecution, 1 on defense)
Money: More than enough.
Job: Court Worker ($15/hour * 40 hours/week - $300/week [rent] - $39/week [groceries] = $261/week)
Housing Assignment: Memoria Apartments, Room 306
Personal LJ: hotandcoldrp
Contact info: Whisper my name 3 times in front of a mirror and--*shot* AIM: DecepticonAF e-mail: decepticonaf@aol.com
Character Name: Miles Edgeworth
Character Series: Phoenix Wright
Age: 26
Background: When Miles Edgeworth was 9, life was blissfully simple: his father, the famous defense attorney, Gregory Edgeworth, was The Shit, and there was nothing young Miles wanted more in the world than to be like his father. He got an opportunity to do just that one day, early in his 4th grade year: the 38 dollars that compromised his lunch money for the week was stolen while the class was in gym and a trial was held to determine the guilty party. The accused was fellow student Phoenix Wright, who had skipped gym on account of illness. The entire class was convinced of Phoenix's guilt with two exceptions: Miles, who reasoned that his guilt couldn't be determined without evidence, of which there was none; and Larry Butz, secretly the real culprit. The "case" was deemed unsolvable and the 3 boys became fast friends afterwards.
That is, until late December of that year, when a horrible incident that would come to be known as DL-6 occurred. Miles went with his father to court that day, where Gregory went up against the infamous prosecutor with a perfect record, Manfred von Karma. While von Karma was the victor of the case, Gregory did manage to catch him in the act of using forged evidence, leading to the first and only penalty von Karma ever received in court. After the trial concluded, Gregory and Miles, along with court bailiff, Yanni Yogi, boarded an elevator to exit the courthouse. However, a massive earthquake struck while they were on the way down and the power in the courthouse went out, trapping the three inside the elevator. They remained there in the dark for hours, and, towards the end, Yanni and Gregory became irritable. They argued and eventually began to fight. Miles, in an effort to stop them, grabbed Yanni's pistol from the elevator floor and threw it at the two. The pistol struck the floor and went off, and Miles heard a horrible scream before he promptly passed out from oxygen deprivation.
He woke up in a hospital and was given horrible news: his father had been fatally shot. Miles was distraught and subconsciously suppressed the memory of having thrown the pistol, although the scene would haunt his dreams for years to come. It wasn't long after that that the trial was held against Yanni Yogi. Both Miles and Gregory, who was channeled by the spirit medium, Misty Fey, testified that Yanni had shot Gregory. However, at the behest of his defense attorney, Robert Hammond, Yanni pled temporary insanity caused by stress and oxygen deprivation. Robert Hammond was just about the only one to benefit from said plea: while he managed to win the case and remove the charges against Yanni, Yanni's fiancé committed suicide and he became essentially unhireable; Misty Fey was publicly discredited and regarded as a fraud, causing her to retreat into hiding, leaving two daughters behind; and young Miles became a very, very embittered child. He let go of his dream to become a defense attorney like his father, and decided to become a prosecutor to punish criminals like Yanni and, subconsciously, himself.
This decision was helped along by none other than Manfred von Karma, who took the boy in and raised him alongside his daughter, Franziska, in Germany. Despite the fact that Miles was 7 years her senior, Franziska treated him as a younger brother, but eventually Edgeworth did grow up and leave Franziska behind as he returned to the United States, something Franziska was not exactly pleased about.
Edgeworth became a prosecutor at the age of 20. His first case was State vs. Fawles, against defense attorney Mia Fey, for whom this was also her first case. Fawles had been previously convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Dahlia Hawthorne 5 years ago, but had escaped from prison and met with Dahlia's older sister, Valerie, and apparently murdered her, as well. Throughout the case, it became apparent that the real murderer was Dahlia herself, as she'd faked her death those 5 years earlier. However, Mia couldn't present hard evidence to prove it, and when she pressed Fawles to testify, he committed suicide on the witness stand by ingesting poison given to him by Dahlia earlier. This affected Edgeworth deeply and he blamed the results on his own inexperience.
Edgeworth's first big case was two years later: the case of State vs. Darke, also known as SL-9. Darke was a serial murderer, whose latest and last victim was the previous prosecutor on the case, Neil Marshall. Darke had been brought in for questioning by Marshall and supervising detective Damon Gant, but managed to escape the interrogation room, fleeing into the shared office of Gant and Lana Skye. There he encountered Lana's younger sister, Ema, and attempted to kill her before being stopped by Marshall. The two men struggled and while Marshall managed to K.O. Darke, Darke apparently managed to score a killing blow in the struggle. Unfortunately for Darke, he finally left evidence in this murder, and when the case fell to Edgeworth, he got Darke saddled with a guilty verdict and the death penalty. Unfortunately for Edgeworth, there were suspicions that the evidence used was falsified, and rumors of Edgeworth falsifying evidence and testimonies, along with the title of the Demon Prosecutor, would hound him for years to come.
He continued to be an undefeated prosecutor until two more years later, when he once again met Phoenix Wright, now a defense attorney. The case in question was State vs. Fey. Mia Fey, defense attorney and Phoenix's mentor, had been found murdered in her law offices, with Phoenix and Mia's younger sister, Maya Fey, at the scene. A scrap of paper with Maya's name written on it in blood was found near Mia's body, so Detective Dick Gumshoe arrested Maya on the spot. The crime was allegedly witnessed by April May from her hotel window, who testified that Maya had done it, but Phoenix managed to deftly blow some holes in her testimony and prove that April was not staying alone in her hotel room, and while she had an alibi at the exact time of the murder, whoever was with her did not. The man with her turned out to be Redd White, talkative businessman and blackmailer extraordinaire, and when Phoenix tracked him down, Mr. White managed to turn things around and get Phoenix landed in the defendant's seat. Mr. White took the witness stand the next day in court, but Phoenix managed to expose his lies and get to the truth of the matter: Redd White was the real murderer. Phoenix and Maya were proved without a doubt to be not guilty and Edgeworth suffered his first loss.
About a month later, Phoenix and Edgeworth met in court once more, in the case of State vs. Powers. Will Powers, star of the popular children's television show, Steel Samurai, was accused of murdering Jack Hammer, the actor playing his archnemesis. It was during this case that he first encountered the fearsome security lady, Wendy Oldbag, who instantly fell head-over-heels for him, much to his chagrin. Throughout the trial, it became readily apparent that the killer was not at all Will Powers, but the producer, Dee Vasquez, who did it in self-defense, as Hammer was attempting to murder her because she was blackmailing him. However, Phoenix failed to present definitive evidence and Vasquez was about to leave the stand when Edgeworth interjected and asked her to testify again about finding the body. During this testimony, Vasquez slipped up, and once again it was Edgeworth that caught her, rather than Phoenix. Eventually, Vasquez was convicted.
2 months later, as the statute of limitations on DL-6 approached, which would close the case forever, Edgeworth received a letter from Robert Hammond, asking to meet with him at Gourd Lake late on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve, Edgeworth went out with Hammond on a boat in the middle of Gourd Lake, where Hammond drew a pistol and fired into the water twice before throwing himself from the boat. A witness who heard the shots called the police and Edgeworth was arrested soon thereafter. While jailed, Edgeworth contacted several defense lawyers, but they all strongly refused his case; after all, he'd defeated the lot of them in court, and the prosecutor for this case would be none other than Manfred von Karma himself. There was only one attorney willing to take Edgeworth's case-the one attorney he very pointedly didn't want taking it: Phoenix Wright.
Eventually, Edgeworth relented and allowed Phoenix to take the case. Phoenix battled von Karma impressively and as the trial progressed, more and more about DL-6 became relevant. As this happened, Edgeworth came to realize that the scene that haunted his nightmares-the thrown pistol and terrible scream-was more than just a nightmare: it was a suppressed memory. Edgeworth became convinced that he was the real murderer of his father, and even though Phoenix managed to prove that Hammond had been murdered by Yanni Yogi, who'd then disguised himself as Hammond and went out on the boat with Edgeworth to frame him, Edgeworth promptly took the stand and demanded to be found as the guilty party in DL-6. Phoenix, however, was having none of this, and finally uncovered the truth of Gregory Edgeworth's murder: the murderer was none other than Manfred von Karma himself, and the terrible scream that Edgeworth had heard just before losing consciousness was also von Karma's, as the pistol Miles had thrown had indeed fired, shooting von Karma in the shoulder.
2 months after that, Edgeworth was awarded the King of Prosecutors award on the same day of evidence transferral between the police department and the prosecutor's building. Chief of Police Gant requested that Edgeworth bring a small piece of evidence from a closed case with him back to the prosecutor's office. Edgeworth complied, and while he was in his office doing so, Chief Prosecutor Lana Skye stabbed a man in the trunk of his car. Lana was arrested and Edgeworth was assigned as the prosecution in the case, once again butting heads with Phoenix Wright.
Throughout State vs. Skye, it became increasingly apparent that the case of SL-9 was heavily related to this one. Eventually, it turned out that Gant was the true murderer in both this case and SL-9. He murdered Detective Bruce Goodman for wanting SL-9 reopened and investigated further, and he murdered Prosecutor Marshall and arranged things to pin it on Ema Skye so that he would have blackmail material on Lana Skye when she re-rearranged things to pin it on Darke and protect her sister. This way, Gant would have control over both the police department and the prosecutor's department. It also became very, very apparent that the evidence used in SL-9 had, in fact, been forged, much to Edgeworth's dismay.
He abandoned the prosecutor's office and traveled abroad for about a year, leaving behind only a note reading "Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth chooses death." While he was traveling, he thought very long and hard about what he was doing with his life and what, exactly, it meant to be a prosecutor. He eventually came to the conclusion that what was really important wasn't the guilty verdict, but, rather, obtaining the truth, one way or the other. The battles between defense and prosecution weren't there to determine winner and loser, but to figure out what really happened and with whom guilt truly lies. Finally satisfied and at peace with the loss of his perfect win record, Edgeworth returned to the states, where Franziska von Karma and Phoenix Wright had been butting heads in the courtroom.
Edgeworth and Phoenix were reunited while the latter was in the midst of carrying out investigation for the case of State vs. Engarde. Nickel Samurai actor Matt Engarde stood accused of the murder of rival action star Juan Corrida. Since Franziska was the prosecutor for the case, Edgeworth was free to discuss it with Phoenix and he wished, and shared two crucial pieces of evidence with him, despite Phoenix's rather standoffish behavior. The first was the suicide report of Celeste Inpax, Corrida's ex-manager, who was rumored to have left a suicide note hidden by Corrida himself. The second was the report of the attempted suicide by Adrian Andrews, Engarde's manager and former mentee of Celeste Inpax.
On the courthouse steps the next morning, Franziska was shot in the shoulder by an unknown attacker, and Edgeworth physically dragged her away from the courthouse and to a nearby hospital. Once she was in good hands, Edgeworth returned to the courthouse and took the case on himself. He noticed that Phoenix was unusually tense while trying to prove that Andrews was the real murderer, and very unusually despaired when the proceedings ended for the day without a verdict. He also noticed the card Andrews was fiddling with and when he got her to show it to him more closely after the proceedings closed, it was his turn to despair, as the card was the calling card of the assassin Shelly de Killer and Andrews had recovered it from the crime scene.
Immediately afterwards, Edgeworth went to the hospital to visit Franziska. There he also encountered Phoenix and explained the card to him. In turn, Phoenix explained why he'd been acting unusually at the trial: Maya Fey had been kidnapped by de Killer and her ransom was an acquittal for Engarde. Edgeworth immediately went to organize a rescue team before continuing his investigation. It eventually became apparent that Engarde was the one who had hired de Killer to murder Corrida. Phoenix, Edgeworth, and the rescue team that Edgeworth had organized promptly broke into Engarde's house, but de Killer had already taken Maya and fled.
The battle in court the next day was long and furious, as both Phoenix and Edgeworth battled their hardest to stall as long as possible until Maya was recovered. During a recess in the court session, Gumshoe reported that de Killer's current hideout had been discovered and raided, and although de Killer escaped with Maya once more, he did leave behind some potentially crucial evidence. Gumshoe, who at this point had actually been fired from his job, grabbed the evidence and ran for it, intending to bring it to the courthouse as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, he got into a car accident along the way. Edgeworth contacted Franziska, who had placed a tracking device on Gumshoe, and then returned to court.
Franziska, thankfully, pulled through in the nick of time and brought the evidence she recovered from Gumshoe to the courthouse. While the judge had already reached his decision and refused to allow them to be submitted to the official record, he did concede to allow Phoenix to present one piece of evidence to one witness. Phoenix presented a recording of de Killer performing the murder that had been recorded by Engarde for use as blackmail to de Killer himself. De Killer was not pleased in the slightest by this breach of trust and released Maya, along with declaring Engarde as his next target, thereby granting Phoenix the ability to petition for the guilty verdict that Engarde deserved.
Engarde was declared guilty, and then Franziska left in a huff when she saw that Phoenix wasn't upset to have his perfect win record broken. The rest of the core cast went out to a glorious dinner in celebration, but Edgeworth left early. He went to an airport, where he confronted Franziska as she made her departure. There, he challenged her decision to stop prosecuting, because while they stood as equals at the moment, he would not stop moving forward, so if she did, she would once more find herself left behind in his shadow. Franziska took the challenge to heart and promised that she would return.
Not long after, Edgeworth left to travel abroad once more, this time studying and participating in foreign judicial systems. He was gone for about a year before he received a sudden, panicked phone call from Larry Butz, begging him to return to the states ASAP, because Phoenix was in serious need of help. Edgeworth immediately chartered a private jet and visited Phoenix in the hospital. There, Phoenix explained what has happened: Elise Deauxnim had been murdered at Hazakura Temple up in the mountains, and while he was trying to run across a burning suspension bridge to warn Maya, the bridge collapsed, causing him to fall into the river below. Phoenix also asked him to defend the accused nun, Iris, and gave him two particular items: a Magatama, a small item charged with spiritual power that would allow him to see the lies in peoples' hearts; and Phoenix's own defense attorney badge.
Edgeworth investigated the case, aided by Gumshoe. He also made some arrangements in the Prosecutor's Office so that the judge for this case would be one he had encountered only once before and would therefore probably not recognize him. He also arranged for Franziska von Karma to be the prosecutor-not because he thought she would go easy on him, of course, but because she wouldn't raise a stink over the defense attorney actually being a prosecutor when she'd been itching for the chance to crush Edgeworth beneath her heel and prove that she had finally surpassed him. The trial was a fierce battle, but in the end Edgeworth managed to prove the possibility that both the scene of the murder and the murder weapon were, in fact, something entirely different than what was assumed.
Phoenix had managed to (mostly) recover by that afternoon, and Edgeworth turned the case back over to him, returning to the city to look into Iris's past, since he had the peskiest feeling that he'd met her before. Before long, word came that the bridge to the Inner Temple where Maya had been trapped had been repaired, but there was a lock on the cavern Maya was in that could only be unlocked by Iris. So Edgeworth escorted Iris to Hazakura Temple and took her to the Inner Temple, but before they arrived, an earthquake struck, and Edgeworth, still a sufferer of extreme seismophobia thanks to DL-6, temporarily passed out. When he regained consciousness, Iris was gone. However, Phoenix found her easily, as she'd simply gone to the Inner Temple anyway, concerned that it may have collapsed during the earthquake. Unfortunately, 4 more trick locks appeared on the cavern door during the earthquake and it would take about a day to open them all.
While she was working on that, Edgeworth investigated the real crime scene: the garden next to the Inner Temple. While he was there, he had a conversation with Phoenix about Dahlia Hawthorne, Iris's twin sister. Although Dahlia had gotten off scot-free from Edgeworth's and Mia's first case, Mia later managed to prove her guilty of another murder, as well as the attempted murder of Phoenix himself. However, it was impossible that Dahlia was involved in this case: her execution had been carried out a month prior.
Phoenix proved otherwise in court the next day. Dahlia, it turned out, was quite heavily involved in the case, thanks to the Kurain Channeling Technique. After all, Elise Deauxnim was secretly Misty Fey, Master of Kurain and mother of Maya Fey. She had channeled Dahlia that night to keep her from being channeled by the unsuspecting Pearl Fey, and was murdered by Godot to keep Dahlia from killing Maya. Iris simply took the body and arranged it somewhere else to keep suspicion away from Maya. Following the resolution of the case, Edgeworth went out to dinner with the group.
Personality: Miles Edgeworth is serious business. He approaches everything with absolute gravity, because, well, he doesn't really know any other way to approach things. His mother presumably died when he was very young and from there on out he was raised by lawyers. Edgeworth grew up surrounded by law and under the deathly serious watch of Manfred von Karma, all of which served only to accentuate his own natural seriousness and maturity. The "Edgey" nickname Larry gives him is more than just a fond shortening of his name; it's a fairly accurate description of his natural disposition as well: Edgeworth is almost constantly on-edge. His default expression is one of several varieties of glare, and he even states in monologue that he was taught that when something glares at you, it's only polite to glare back. However, his seriousness sometimes gets the better of him, as he occasionally ends up taking completely ridiculous things absolutely straight-faced. He takes the alleged Director Hotti at his word, despite what an obvious creep Hotti is, and mistakenly refers to Psyche-Locks as "Psycholocks".
Edgeworth is also, resultantly, socially stunted. While he is perfectly polite to strangers and incredibly confident in court, he has difficulty interacting with people when they get beyond the "casual acquaintance" point. While he's improved over the three years he's been friends with Phoenix (even if he does seem to spend most of that time abroad), he still tends to avoid eye contact when he isn't wearing a glare on his face and he usually isn't sure exactly what to say or how to say it if it's not related to court matters. He even has difficulty finding the words to thank Phoenix after 1-4.
In court, however, is another matter entirely. In court, Edgeworth is in control. Law is Edgeworth's element, and it is at the prosecutor's bench that he shines, with a confidence bordering on cockiness. Discovering the truth and seeing justice delivered are Edgeworth's passions in life, and he is unwavering in his dedication to it.
Edgeworth is not the sort to waver in his dedication to anything, regardless of how small or silly. Larry shares an amusing anecdote about how in art class at grade school, young Miles was so bad at origami that "he couldn't even fold a dollar, let alone a crane" and even became so upset at this failure that he bawled even as the rest of the class tried to comfort him. As soon as Larry finishes his tale, however, Edgeworth angrily declares that he can make a completely flawless quarter-inch paper crane, no small feat. While he isn't the obsessed perfectionist that von Karma is/was, he never gives anything any less than his absolute best and is very disdainful of faults in himself and others.
Edgeworth's absolute best is, generally speaking, quite good. He is undeniably a genius and an incredibly dedicated one, at that. He started prosecuting at the young age of 20, and didn't lose a single case for four years. Between the second and third games, he spent his time in foreign countries, observing and participating in their judicial systems. If Phoenix asks him about it, he talks about how one must gain complete mastery of a language before participating in the courts. Edgeworth has a masterful grasp of language, generally using vocabulary that is advanced, but no so advanced that it's impossible to follow. He gets to his points directly and deftly. His logical facilities are quite sound and he places his faith most easily in hard evidence.
Item Lost: His briefcase. Or, perhaps to be more accurate, the contents of his briefcase. His briefcase holds his current case files, which is all very important information to him and necessary in his position as a prosecutor.
Memory Recovered:
2% spent on his early 4th grade year--the stolen lunch money trial and his friendship with Phoenix and Larry. (Age Event)
1% spent on some basic childhood memories. (Age Event)
2% spent on State vs. Fawles (case 3-4), up until the recess. (Age Event)
1% spent on how to drive. (Tanabata Ball)
1% spent on learning of his father's death. (Superpowers Event)
1% spent on being adopted by von Karma. (Superpower Event)
8% spent, 1% unspent (Oktoberfest Event)
Inventory:
-1 flashy red sports car
-1 totally stylin' magenta(?) suit
-1 excellently frilly cravat
-1 adjectiveless tool box
-1 copy of Beginner's Law
-2 copies of Intermediate Law (1 on prosecution, 1 on defense)
-2 copies of Advanced Law (1 on prosecution, 1 on defense)
Money: More than enough.
Job: Court Worker ($15/hour * 40 hours/week - $300/week [rent] - $39/week [groceries] = $261/week)
Housing Assignment: Memoria Apartments, Room 306