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Character's Name: Diego Armando --Has recently been going by Godot.
Series: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Timeline: Post Trial and Tribulations
Canon Resource Link:
AAWiki
The Examination of Godot By Aijiru
Physical Description of Character:
Diego is a tall man standing about six foot one with a very long and solid frame at first glance. He's very broad shouldered and hard to overlook with his shock of white unruly hair that feathers back much as the mane of a large cat might, helping give him a presence just as much as his personality does. He's naturally tanned, due to his ethnicity most likely, and allows dark stubble to grow on his face as sideburns and a soul patch, giving a somewhat rougher look to the man.
Always impeccably dressed, Armando wears dark, neatly pressed slacks and well shined shoes on his lower half, and a dark blue to green long sleeved dress shirt, cufflinks in place and armbands above his elbows to take care of the extra fabric. Layered above that he wears a white silk tie, knotted carefully and meticulously at his throat, with a tan and black pinstripe tuxedo vest over it.
His eye color is unknown, do to the fact that he wears visor, steel metal and clunky, that covers the top half of his face to help him see. His jewelry includes piercings in his ears along with a silver band on his left index finger.
Personality:
A man of great intelligence, sharp wit and keen observational skills, Godot is quick with comebacks but slow with actual replies. He doesn’t want people in his personal life, and pushes them away with sharp humor that borders insults, often speaking of those he does not like with disdain and nicknames to belittled not only just in the physical way- the one over his face might help him see, but it also closes him off from the rest of the world, allowing his reactions to not be as easily read as most who show their face. His second and most important mask rest ‘over his heart’, as he says in his own words. He changes his name to Godot after being released from the hospital and enters the law world not as the defense attorney he was famed for as Diego Armando, but as a unknown prosecutor, from defending and trying to get the claim of ‘Not Guilty’ to reaching for the verdict of ‘Guilty’ with everything he has. Godot still is a man who holds himself accountable for all his actions, even actions that he has no control over-such as the death of the woman he loved, almost to the point it drove him mad. He is able to stave off madness though by blaming the person with her at the time, a rookie defense attorney named Phoenix Wright, claiming that he should have been able to protect her. This does mean he is a little old fashioned - Women, while he is well aware of how smart and capable some are - still should be protected. Man's work is still Man's work, and while he accepts that times are changing, he still believes certain areas are better done by men than women and vice versa. To him, a man has a responsibility to those around him, and when one sets out to start a goal, it should be completed no matter what the cost. At this point, revenge and atonement are the goal of the man formerly known as Diego Armando, and true to his driven nature, he will not be stopped until he has them.
Diego, or Godot, has numerous sets of codes that he lives by, his rules, as it is. One of his more favored sayings to explain what he does is to tack on 'That's one of my rules.' To pretty much get away with what he does or explain himself. While only he himself knows what all of these rules are, if one looks at what he what he says and does, sometimes one will find that they are contradictory to one another. Godot never addresses this problem, nor do most bring it up, for fear of having scalding hot coffee thrown on them. All the same, his set moral code, while hard to to define and even write down, affect everything he does. Even from when he was a Defense attorney to the Prosecutor he became. His vision of what the idea man should be is a stalwart hero of truth and justice, who never gives up despite the odds against him. It was his goal to strive to be this kind of person when he was younger, but Diego recognizes that now, twisted by hate and pain of losing years of his life and the ones he cared about, that he is not so. His attempts to regain some of that old dream came out twisted-Directly putting Maya Fey in danger with his nonaction so that he could 'save' her, and leading to the death of the girl's mother by his own hand.
His strengths lie in his word games, his ability to keep his emotions under wraps (or in this case, underneath his visor), and a stubborn streak that has more than likely kept him alive throughout this ordeal. His weaknesses are few, but crippling. Besides his rather frail health, though he never shows it, Diego likely suffers mentally from losing everything in his life because of Dahlia Hawthorne, though it would of gone undiagnosed because of his refusal to let others into his life. He is also incredibly addicted to caffeine in the form of coffee, and only of his own coffee - He has over a hundred and seven (107) blends that he has made himself in his life and drinks well over ten large cups of coffee a day, possibly even up to the twenties or thirties range. While the coffee does in fact keep him going day to day with bad health. he is an addict and he does need help, but once more he will not allow people to try and help him. And of course, this brings us to his eyesight. Godot is very blind, but the visor he wears over the top part of his face allows him to see for the most part. The biggest problem of wearing it seems to be that red filters to white in his vision to make up for giving him sight, therefore he cannot see red on white...Such as blood on snow.
History of the Character:
http://aceattorney.wikia.com/wiki/Godot
Diego Armando was born in 1985. Somewhere along the way, he decided he wanted to become a defense attorney and consequently did. He ends up working for Grossburg Law Offices as the typical cocky, hotshot lawyer who thought he had no limits. In 2012, he mentors a young woman named Mia Fey in her first court case, which ends in disaster for all sides. This case is also the first time he meets Dahlia Hawthorne, and vows to bring her to justice for the horrible things she had done hidden behind a sweet an innocent demeanor. He works on putting all of the clues and finding the evidence of her misdeeds by himself, and along the way falls in love with said Mia Fey and begins dating her. On August 27th, 2012, he meets with Dahlia Hawthorne to tell her he has collected all of the evidence he needs to put her behind bars, gloating in his cocky fashion and telling her to turn herself in now. He becomes distracted momentarily and during that time, she slips poison into his coffee, which kills him within a few minutes right there in public. She was never caught or suspected in the death.
Fast forward to five years later, in 2017 and a man - Comatose, weak, and near blind, wakes up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee that the doctor had brought in. Diego Armando had not died, but simply had fallen into a near death state and had been forgotten about. Distraught and driven near insane with what had happened to him, and then finding out that his lover, Mia Fey had been killed only the year before on top of that, he becomes bitter, with revenge as his goal. After months and months of rehabilitation he is finally able to leave, and reenters the courtroom- Not as Diego Armando the Defense Attorney, but as Godot, a ruthless Prosecutor.
In the next few months, he attempts to destroy Phoenix Wright, Mia's young protege in the law, in the courtroom every chance he gets. He blames Phoenix for Mia's death because he had been around at the time, but mostly to rid himself of the agony and guilt, to transfer it onto someone else. Destroying Phoenix 'Trite' becomes his goal in live, in the name of the woman he loved.
In the beginning of the year 2016, he finds out of a plan to kill Mia's younger sister and Phoenix Wright's assistant, Maya Fey. He attempts to interfere with it without telling anyone else, recruiting the help of Misty Fey (Maya's long thought dead mother)and Iris Hawthorne (the twin sister of Dahlia)to stop it. It ends up going horribly wrong, and and in a blind rage, Godot kills Misty Fey, who was possessed by the spirit of the dead Daliah.
Maya is saved, but in a long drawn out battle in court, it is finally revealed that Godot is the murdered, and who Godot is exactly - The man once known as Diego Armando. When Phoenix goes in for the final strike with his last piece of evidence, Godot sees the spirit of Mia over the other's shoulder, and her realizes that he is defeated, and what he has done wrong. He confesses to his crimes, apologies to Phoenix and Maya, and feels as though a burden has been lifted off of his shoulders as he shares a cup of coffee with the Defense Attorney after casting aside his Alias...back to the man he once was.
SAMPLES:
Personal LJ Sample:
[There is a long pause as the device records nothing, except a rather audible gulp or two of coffee. Then finally-]
Ha...! 'Use this'? I wasn't aware that the police department had a thing for playing games.
Can't say this looks much like Los Angeles, though. Or out of California at all.
[He pauses for a considerable amount of time, more than likely to take in his snow covered surroundings with leisurely sips of coffee. Little does he know it will likely be his last for some time here in this place.]
I don't think we're in the golden state anymore, Toto. Someone on the other end want to fill me in?
Or better yet, one of you could direct me to the nearest cafe. The metal of this thing starting to stick to my skin. [He's talking of his visor, obviously, but unless one recognized the voice they would not know such.]
Third-Person Sample:
Godot #107 - His own personal and admittedly favorite blend. But this is not the one that he shares with Phoenix Wright that day in court. The one he shares is # 84, a little less bitter, light with flavor that seemed uplifting.
He had created that blend back in the days when he had been truly happy.
But the trial is over, and the the bailiff has waited for the two to finish, it could not last forever. Godot- No, Diego now, compiles by making things easy for them, the expression touching his mouth ever cocky - The fact that his eyes were hidden from sight kept it from being revealed what the smile truly meant.
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law--"
He exhales quietly after a moment, nodding when asked if he understood though his mind is elsewhere as he makes that walk down the hall. He thinks of Maya, the poor girl who he had put in danger just to try and redeem himself, when all he had to do was go to Phoenix to avoid the entire thing. Mia, who up until moments ago he had thought would want what he was doing-No, he knew better than that.
“That poor girl.” The older lady says sympathetically to the stranger, hands shaking just slightly as she works on her crocheting. “Waited for my son for four years. Its so sad what happened to them… You should of seen them together, such a perfect pair.”
Godot looks down at her and refrains from saying what’s on his mind, pulling back the waves of emotion with a forced stoic look over his face. Four years…Ha, it was four years to the date since she died. The woman continues. “He didn’t last too long after that… my son I mean. Like he knew he wouldn’t of been able to go on without her. They where like a pair of…oh what’s that bird everyone’s always comparing lovers to these days…?”
“Lovebirds.” He supplies, but goes no further than that. His mother nods, not recognizing her son. “Yes Lovebirds…Did you know that they die of sadness if their mate passes away?”
Diego had been doing the wrong thing from the start by putting the blame on others, and he would not do so anymore. He was just as accountable for the death of Misty Fey, if not more than anybody else. It had been by his hand, after all, that had done it. Even though it was Dahlia's face at the time, and even though he had known better, the blind rage he had not stopped.
A man knew when it was time to face the music, he thought as the doors opened and let the light of outside shine in, bright even behind his visor as they walked out to take him to the detention center.
That was one of his rules.
Series: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Timeline: Post Trial and Tribulations
Canon Resource Link:
AAWiki
The Examination of Godot By Aijiru
Physical Description of Character:
Diego is a tall man standing about six foot one with a very long and solid frame at first glance. He's very broad shouldered and hard to overlook with his shock of white unruly hair that feathers back much as the mane of a large cat might, helping give him a presence just as much as his personality does. He's naturally tanned, due to his ethnicity most likely, and allows dark stubble to grow on his face as sideburns and a soul patch, giving a somewhat rougher look to the man.
Always impeccably dressed, Armando wears dark, neatly pressed slacks and well shined shoes on his lower half, and a dark blue to green long sleeved dress shirt, cufflinks in place and armbands above his elbows to take care of the extra fabric. Layered above that he wears a white silk tie, knotted carefully and meticulously at his throat, with a tan and black pinstripe tuxedo vest over it.
His eye color is unknown, do to the fact that he wears visor, steel metal and clunky, that covers the top half of his face to help him see. His jewelry includes piercings in his ears along with a silver band on his left index finger.
Personality:
A man of great intelligence, sharp wit and keen observational skills, Godot is quick with comebacks but slow with actual replies. He doesn’t want people in his personal life, and pushes them away with sharp humor that borders insults, often speaking of those he does not like with disdain and nicknames to belittled not only just in the physical way- the one over his face might help him see, but it also closes him off from the rest of the world, allowing his reactions to not be as easily read as most who show their face. His second and most important mask rest ‘over his heart’, as he says in his own words. He changes his name to Godot after being released from the hospital and enters the law world not as the defense attorney he was famed for as Diego Armando, but as a unknown prosecutor, from defending and trying to get the claim of ‘Not Guilty’ to reaching for the verdict of ‘Guilty’ with everything he has. Godot still is a man who holds himself accountable for all his actions, even actions that he has no control over-such as the death of the woman he loved, almost to the point it drove him mad. He is able to stave off madness though by blaming the person with her at the time, a rookie defense attorney named Phoenix Wright, claiming that he should have been able to protect her. This does mean he is a little old fashioned - Women, while he is well aware of how smart and capable some are - still should be protected. Man's work is still Man's work, and while he accepts that times are changing, he still believes certain areas are better done by men than women and vice versa. To him, a man has a responsibility to those around him, and when one sets out to start a goal, it should be completed no matter what the cost. At this point, revenge and atonement are the goal of the man formerly known as Diego Armando, and true to his driven nature, he will not be stopped until he has them.
Diego, or Godot, has numerous sets of codes that he lives by, his rules, as it is. One of his more favored sayings to explain what he does is to tack on 'That's one of my rules.' To pretty much get away with what he does or explain himself. While only he himself knows what all of these rules are, if one looks at what he what he says and does, sometimes one will find that they are contradictory to one another. Godot never addresses this problem, nor do most bring it up, for fear of having scalding hot coffee thrown on them. All the same, his set moral code, while hard to to define and even write down, affect everything he does. Even from when he was a Defense attorney to the Prosecutor he became. His vision of what the idea man should be is a stalwart hero of truth and justice, who never gives up despite the odds against him. It was his goal to strive to be this kind of person when he was younger, but Diego recognizes that now, twisted by hate and pain of losing years of his life and the ones he cared about, that he is not so. His attempts to regain some of that old dream came out twisted-Directly putting Maya Fey in danger with his nonaction so that he could 'save' her, and leading to the death of the girl's mother by his own hand.
His strengths lie in his word games, his ability to keep his emotions under wraps (or in this case, underneath his visor), and a stubborn streak that has more than likely kept him alive throughout this ordeal. His weaknesses are few, but crippling. Besides his rather frail health, though he never shows it, Diego likely suffers mentally from losing everything in his life because of Dahlia Hawthorne, though it would of gone undiagnosed because of his refusal to let others into his life. He is also incredibly addicted to caffeine in the form of coffee, and only of his own coffee - He has over a hundred and seven (107) blends that he has made himself in his life and drinks well over ten large cups of coffee a day, possibly even up to the twenties or thirties range. While the coffee does in fact keep him going day to day with bad health. he is an addict and he does need help, but once more he will not allow people to try and help him. And of course, this brings us to his eyesight. Godot is very blind, but the visor he wears over the top part of his face allows him to see for the most part. The biggest problem of wearing it seems to be that red filters to white in his vision to make up for giving him sight, therefore he cannot see red on white...Such as blood on snow.
History of the Character:
http://aceattorney.wikia.com/wiki/Godot
Diego Armando was born in 1985. Somewhere along the way, he decided he wanted to become a defense attorney and consequently did. He ends up working for Grossburg Law Offices as the typical cocky, hotshot lawyer who thought he had no limits. In 2012, he mentors a young woman named Mia Fey in her first court case, which ends in disaster for all sides. This case is also the first time he meets Dahlia Hawthorne, and vows to bring her to justice for the horrible things she had done hidden behind a sweet an innocent demeanor. He works on putting all of the clues and finding the evidence of her misdeeds by himself, and along the way falls in love with said Mia Fey and begins dating her. On August 27th, 2012, he meets with Dahlia Hawthorne to tell her he has collected all of the evidence he needs to put her behind bars, gloating in his cocky fashion and telling her to turn herself in now. He becomes distracted momentarily and during that time, she slips poison into his coffee, which kills him within a few minutes right there in public. She was never caught or suspected in the death.
Fast forward to five years later, in 2017 and a man - Comatose, weak, and near blind, wakes up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee that the doctor had brought in. Diego Armando had not died, but simply had fallen into a near death state and had been forgotten about. Distraught and driven near insane with what had happened to him, and then finding out that his lover, Mia Fey had been killed only the year before on top of that, he becomes bitter, with revenge as his goal. After months and months of rehabilitation he is finally able to leave, and reenters the courtroom- Not as Diego Armando the Defense Attorney, but as Godot, a ruthless Prosecutor.
In the next few months, he attempts to destroy Phoenix Wright, Mia's young protege in the law, in the courtroom every chance he gets. He blames Phoenix for Mia's death because he had been around at the time, but mostly to rid himself of the agony and guilt, to transfer it onto someone else. Destroying Phoenix 'Trite' becomes his goal in live, in the name of the woman he loved.
In the beginning of the year 2016, he finds out of a plan to kill Mia's younger sister and Phoenix Wright's assistant, Maya Fey. He attempts to interfere with it without telling anyone else, recruiting the help of Misty Fey (Maya's long thought dead mother)and Iris Hawthorne (the twin sister of Dahlia)to stop it. It ends up going horribly wrong, and and in a blind rage, Godot kills Misty Fey, who was possessed by the spirit of the dead Daliah.
Maya is saved, but in a long drawn out battle in court, it is finally revealed that Godot is the murdered, and who Godot is exactly - The man once known as Diego Armando. When Phoenix goes in for the final strike with his last piece of evidence, Godot sees the spirit of Mia over the other's shoulder, and her realizes that he is defeated, and what he has done wrong. He confesses to his crimes, apologies to Phoenix and Maya, and feels as though a burden has been lifted off of his shoulders as he shares a cup of coffee with the Defense Attorney after casting aside his Alias...back to the man he once was.
SAMPLES:
Personal LJ Sample:
[There is a long pause as the device records nothing, except a rather audible gulp or two of coffee. Then finally-]
Ha...! 'Use this'? I wasn't aware that the police department had a thing for playing games.
Can't say this looks much like Los Angeles, though. Or out of California at all.
[He pauses for a considerable amount of time, more than likely to take in his snow covered surroundings with leisurely sips of coffee. Little does he know it will likely be his last for some time here in this place.]
I don't think we're in the golden state anymore, Toto. Someone on the other end want to fill me in?
Or better yet, one of you could direct me to the nearest cafe. The metal of this thing starting to stick to my skin. [He's talking of his visor, obviously, but unless one recognized the voice they would not know such.]
Third-Person Sample:
Godot #107 - His own personal and admittedly favorite blend. But this is not the one that he shares with Phoenix Wright that day in court. The one he shares is # 84, a little less bitter, light with flavor that seemed uplifting.
He had created that blend back in the days when he had been truly happy.
But the trial is over, and the the bailiff has waited for the two to finish, it could not last forever. Godot- No, Diego now, compiles by making things easy for them, the expression touching his mouth ever cocky - The fact that his eyes were hidden from sight kept it from being revealed what the smile truly meant.
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law--"
He exhales quietly after a moment, nodding when asked if he understood though his mind is elsewhere as he makes that walk down the hall. He thinks of Maya, the poor girl who he had put in danger just to try and redeem himself, when all he had to do was go to Phoenix to avoid the entire thing. Mia, who up until moments ago he had thought would want what he was doing-No, he knew better than that.
“That poor girl.” The older lady says sympathetically to the stranger, hands shaking just slightly as she works on her crocheting. “Waited for my son for four years. Its so sad what happened to them… You should of seen them together, such a perfect pair.”
Godot looks down at her and refrains from saying what’s on his mind, pulling back the waves of emotion with a forced stoic look over his face. Four years…Ha, it was four years to the date since she died. The woman continues. “He didn’t last too long after that… my son I mean. Like he knew he wouldn’t of been able to go on without her. They where like a pair of…oh what’s that bird everyone’s always comparing lovers to these days…?”
“Lovebirds.” He supplies, but goes no further than that. His mother nods, not recognizing her son. “Yes Lovebirds…Did you know that they die of sadness if their mate passes away?”
Diego had been doing the wrong thing from the start by putting the blame on others, and he would not do so anymore. He was just as accountable for the death of Misty Fey, if not more than anybody else. It had been by his hand, after all, that had done it. Even though it was Dahlia's face at the time, and even though he had known better, the blind rage he had not stopped.
A man knew when it was time to face the music, he thought as the doors opened and let the light of outside shine in, bright even behind his visor as they walked out to take him to the detention center.
That was one of his rules.