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ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER
GENERAL
[Name:] Wendy Oldbag
[Age:] That is and forever will remain a mystery. She stopped keeping track after 20, and who knows how long ago that was ...
[Gender:] Female
[Marital Status:] Married - to a long-absent husband
[Sexuality:] Straight
[Occupation:] Still works her security guard postings, but is getting called up a lot these days to fill in for costumed roles
[Ladder Preference:] If Edgey-pooooo says it’s a ladder then it’s a ladder and anyone who says otherwise is gonna taste ray gun.
CONNECTIONS
[Family:]
Husband: This unfortunate gent has been missing for years, presumably having escaped after copping more than he could bear being stuck married to this woman. At this point, Wendy doesn’t really seem fazed at all - he was a poor specimen of a man anyhow, and she’s on the prowl for better things. She still wears her wedding band though, since it helps to deflect all that unwanted attention (gosh it’s a hard life being so beautiful).
Most recent rumours say he may have escaped to the far away land of Australia.
She has a son she wishes would call more because she just knows he’s going around flying off the rails while not under her eagle-eyed watch and he’ll surely end up some kind of uncultured yahoo of a youth if she doesn’t get a say. Although you have to wonder why she wishes that because when he does, their calls tend to turn into shouting matches ... like mother, like son.
She also has a younger sister who lives in the city somewhere. They’re about as un-chummy as you can get this side of friendly, but they keep in touch - barely.
[Friends:]
Miles Edgeworth: Regardless of what he has to say about the matter, Edgeworth has a special and permanent place in this category. She was smitten the moment she first laid eyes on him three years before; her devotion hasn’t waned a bit since and she makes sure he knows it. She thinks he’s handsome, stylish and clever, adores everything he does, basically worships the ground he walks on, and despite his inevitable polite (but painful) rebuffing of her advances, as she says herself she’s ready and willing to chase him to the ends of the earth.
[Enemies:]
Lotta Hart: They met once, and it wasn’t pretty. Wendy considers Lotta an insufferable motor-mouth of a country hick who took the inexcusable liberty of writing trash about her beloved Juan. When she “borrowed” Lotta’s camera, she didn’t really do it out of malice (mainly just undying nosiness), but all things considered there isn’t a person she would’ve liked more to have stolen from.
Adrian Andrews: Wendy hasn’t forgotten the role Adrian played in dragging Juan through a terrible scandal and soiling his name. She knew about the whole backstory with Celeste, and heard that Adrian was involved in the whole affair, but that’s no excuse for snatching away the dignity of a promising young star. Plus, Adrian desecrated his dead body.
Matt Engarde: This villain is the reason Juan’s career was run into the ground, and the reason he’s dead. Everyone always blabbed about him being the next up ’n’ coming big thing, but he was nothing more than a silly little boy compared to Juan, and if he hadn’t been there to ruin it all it Juan would have had the chance to shine. Now he’s in prison getting his comeuppance, and good riddance!
Cody Hackins: She probably shaved a good few years off her life chasing after this brat. He represents the generation of youth who are a torment to her in her old age.
Dee Vasquez & Sal Manella: Wendy never liked Dee, from the time she took over with her questionable running of Global Studios, those suspected mafia ties, the way she pushed Hammer out of the spotlight. Now that she knows Dee killed Hammer with her own two hands, that just sealed the deal. As for Sal, well, the Steel Samurai and its spin-offs are his brainchildren, so she can hardly complain about that; all the same, he had a hand in covering up Hammer’s death, and that’s not something she’s pleased to overlook.
[Other:]
Phoenix Wright: Wendy’s seen this guy a lot more than she cares for (doesn’t he have a job??), and every meeting with him seems to end with her being badgered and harassed and made to look like a villain - really, when she’s just a harmless old lady. On top of that, when put up next to her darling Edgey-poo, he comes up very much lacking on several fronts: his style, in particular, really offends her.
Maya Fey & Pearl Fey: Wendy knows these two girls as Phoenix’s tag-alongs. Of the two, she knows Maya a bit better, as that horribly perky, hyperactive hippie girl with the top-knot who’s nearly as bad as Phoenix; Pearl she doesn’t know too well, though she has seen her tagging along with Phoenix, and while not having a good reason to dislike her outright, she is automatically dismissive of her as a little kid.
Larry Butz: Her former “whippersnapper co-worker” at KB Security. What a slacker! She used to wonder how he ever managed to get a job there, let alone keep it for more than a day. Nonetheless, she tolerated him since she was able to bully him into showing her something like respect. It was a mild surprise to see him again in the form of her stage husband, and she can’t say she was overjoyed given everything that happened that day, but if nothing else it's good to see that he's still alive and making some kind of semi-respectable living. He's not bad as the Steel Samurai either.
Dick Gumshoe: This bumbling, scruffy detective seems to be there whenever an incident occurs, always tailing after Edgeworth like a loyal dog. Wendy doesn’t think he’s all that great at his job, given that he once spilled the beans for a doughnut.
Will Powers & Penny Nichols: She didn’t think much of either of these individuals during the case at Global Studios, particularly Penny who even in her lack of authority dared to question her testimony. She loved the show that Will went into afterwards though, and thought he was “a hoot” and maybe not such a bad guy after all - as long as he keeps the mask on and doesn’t give the kids nightmares. She hasn’t seen Penny since, and so is more or less indifferent about her now.
Misc other people from AAI (Kay, Ema, Badd, Quercus, Palaeno, Shih-na, Lang, Franziska): Having gotten caught up in two separate murder cases, Wendy happened to be standing around during some important scenes. Since she never properly met most of these people, or only met them once or twice in passing, she has no strong opinions of them as individuals - except maybe for Kay and Ema, whom she was a bit annoyed to see Edgeworth hanging with, and for Lang, who allllmost set her heart fluttering - but she knows roughly who they are and the parts they played in their various crimes and/or investigations.
CHARACTER
[General personality:]
Oldbag is a cranky, crabby old menace. Even so, while she’s very often aggravated and displeased, it’s hard to take her seriously, and she’s more someone that you would laugh at than be afraid of. She has a strangely inflated opinion of herself, and generally feels that the work she does isn’t appreciated, that people don’t respect and appreciate her like they used to. This is one of the things that she’ll very often burst into one of her signature off-topic ranty rambles about - the other being her very particular hatred towards the youth of today, whom she treats with blanket dismissal as she considers them lazy, rude, disobedient and done up in horrendous fashions. Although curiously, she thinks it important to keep children’s dreams alive, at least when she’s working.
She’s a sucker for gossip, and has an incurable need to stick her nose into other people’s business, even if it means sneaking or stealing to get her info - she has a slightly curly view of the rules. She’s fluent in the language of bribery, which is about the only thing that’ll help to loosen her lips when it’s her turn to dish out info. As a witness, she’s inevitably an annoying obstacle to the truth. Flattery and sweet talk may get you on her side, unless you’re a nasty little whippersnapper with a hidden agenda. On the flipside, she’s pretty respectful towards authority.
Less obvious about her is how much of an obsessive fan and swooning devotee she is. Apart from her eternal love for Edgey-poo, she constantly crushes on good-looking well-mannered young men and on stars who tend to end up dead. She’s an obsessed Jammin’ Ninja fan, and would do almost anything to get her hands on a piece of the franchise - even a button covered in blood. When it comes to men, she claims to have the fragile heart of a maiden, being always on the lookout for a sophisticated gentleman to treat her like a true lady. Since the gentlemen she meets tend to treat her as they find her, she’ll be looking for a long while yet.
Oldbag’s not great at using computers. She loves junk food, especially doughnuts.
She’s also a dreadful singer.
[Appearance:]
Same old Oldbag. Her time-worn face shows absolutely no traces of the apparent beauty of her youth. When on duty on a security job, her resemblance to an alien is uncanny.
[Background:]
As a girl, Oldbag was the spoiled little princess of her family until her baby sister was born: if you subscribe to psychoanalysis, you could probably say this is where her hatred of youth was born too. If her own stories are to be believed, she was worshipped by all and sundry and blessed with ravishing beauty, a mouth for poetry, a flawless eye for spotting and attracting young men (but she claims she exercised careful judgement in those days) and all the rest of it; at the same time though, she had a poor time of it in school getting teased over her name and for the tendency even then for everything around her to die, which no doubt contributed to her being so crabby and bitter in her old age.
She joined Global Studios early on and managed to dabble in a bit of acting herself. However good (or otherwise) she was, she probably wouldn’t have succeeded thanks to her terrible disposition, and was put to work on the gates instead to keep intruders out by blabbering and glowering at them.
Much later she was let go from the studios after she “blabbed” on the stand in 1-3 and moved on to find work as a security guard at KB, since Edgeworth so ungraciously declined her offer to be his personal bodyguard, just happening to be on holiday at the time her boss was killed and the company folded and everyone else vanished. These days she’s hired out by an agency to various security jobs, with the occasional call sometimes from the studios to pick up some relief work in minimal-dialogue costume roles (no-one can argue that she’s best seen disguised and not speaking) - she reckons the bigwigs at the studios finally feel bad about giving her the boot. She goes where the wind blows: lately it’s been blowing in Edgey-poo’s direction, and that’s A-OK with her.
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Aaand, feel free to leave any comments/questions/suggestions you might have on this post.
ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER
GENERAL
[Name:] Wendy Oldbag
[Age:] That is and forever will remain a mystery. She stopped keeping track after 20, and who knows how long ago that was ...
[Gender:] Female
[Marital Status:] Married - to a long-absent husband
[Sexuality:] Straight
[Occupation:] Still works her security guard postings, but is getting called up a lot these days to fill in for costumed roles
[Ladder Preference:] If Edgey-pooooo says it’s a ladder then it’s a ladder and anyone who says otherwise is gonna taste ray gun.
CONNECTIONS
[Family:]
Husband: This unfortunate gent has been missing for years, presumably having escaped after copping more than he could bear being stuck married to this woman. At this point, Wendy doesn’t really seem fazed at all - he was a poor specimen of a man anyhow, and she’s on the prowl for better things. She still wears her wedding band though, since it helps to deflect all that unwanted attention (gosh it’s a hard life being so beautiful).
Most recent rumours say he may have escaped to the far away land of Australia.
She has a son she wishes would call more because she just knows he’s going around flying off the rails while not under her eagle-eyed watch and he’ll surely end up some kind of uncultured yahoo of a youth if she doesn’t get a say. Although you have to wonder why she wishes that because when he does, their calls tend to turn into shouting matches ... like mother, like son.
She also has a younger sister who lives in the city somewhere. They’re about as un-chummy as you can get this side of friendly, but they keep in touch - barely.
[Friends:]
Miles Edgeworth: Regardless of what he has to say about the matter, Edgeworth has a special and permanent place in this category. She was smitten the moment she first laid eyes on him three years before; her devotion hasn’t waned a bit since and she makes sure he knows it. She thinks he’s handsome, stylish and clever, adores everything he does, basically worships the ground he walks on, and despite his inevitable polite (but painful) rebuffing of her advances, as she says herself she’s ready and willing to chase him to the ends of the earth.
[Enemies:]
Lotta Hart: They met once, and it wasn’t pretty. Wendy considers Lotta an insufferable motor-mouth of a country hick who took the inexcusable liberty of writing trash about her beloved Juan. When she “borrowed” Lotta’s camera, she didn’t really do it out of malice (mainly just undying nosiness), but all things considered there isn’t a person she would’ve liked more to have stolen from.
Adrian Andrews: Wendy hasn’t forgotten the role Adrian played in dragging Juan through a terrible scandal and soiling his name. She knew about the whole backstory with Celeste, and heard that Adrian was involved in the whole affair, but that’s no excuse for snatching away the dignity of a promising young star. Plus, Adrian desecrated his dead body.
Matt Engarde: This villain is the reason Juan’s career was run into the ground, and the reason he’s dead. Everyone always blabbed about him being the next up ’n’ coming big thing, but he was nothing more than a silly little boy compared to Juan, and if he hadn’t been there to ruin it all it Juan would have had the chance to shine. Now he’s in prison getting his comeuppance, and good riddance!
Cody Hackins: She probably shaved a good few years off her life chasing after this brat. He represents the generation of youth who are a torment to her in her old age.
Dee Vasquez & Sal Manella: Wendy never liked Dee, from the time she took over with her questionable running of Global Studios, those suspected mafia ties, the way she pushed Hammer out of the spotlight. Now that she knows Dee killed Hammer with her own two hands, that just sealed the deal. As for Sal, well, the Steel Samurai and its spin-offs are his brainchildren, so she can hardly complain about that; all the same, he had a hand in covering up Hammer’s death, and that’s not something she’s pleased to overlook.
[Other:]
Phoenix Wright: Wendy’s seen this guy a lot more than she cares for (doesn’t he have a job??), and every meeting with him seems to end with her being badgered and harassed and made to look like a villain - really, when she’s just a harmless old lady. On top of that, when put up next to her darling Edgey-poo, he comes up very much lacking on several fronts: his style, in particular, really offends her.
Maya Fey & Pearl Fey: Wendy knows these two girls as Phoenix’s tag-alongs. Of the two, she knows Maya a bit better, as that horribly perky, hyperactive hippie girl with the top-knot who’s nearly as bad as Phoenix; Pearl she doesn’t know too well, though she has seen her tagging along with Phoenix, and while not having a good reason to dislike her outright, she is automatically dismissive of her as a little kid.
Larry Butz: Her former “whippersnapper co-worker” at KB Security. What a slacker! She used to wonder how he ever managed to get a job there, let alone keep it for more than a day. Nonetheless, she tolerated him since she was able to bully him into showing her something like respect. It was a mild surprise to see him again in the form of her stage husband, and she can’t say she was overjoyed given everything that happened that day, but if nothing else it's good to see that he's still alive and making some kind of semi-respectable living. He's not bad as the Steel Samurai either.
Dick Gumshoe: This bumbling, scruffy detective seems to be there whenever an incident occurs, always tailing after Edgeworth like a loyal dog. Wendy doesn’t think he’s all that great at his job, given that he once spilled the beans for a doughnut.
Will Powers & Penny Nichols: She didn’t think much of either of these individuals during the case at Global Studios, particularly Penny who even in her lack of authority dared to question her testimony. She loved the show that Will went into afterwards though, and thought he was “a hoot” and maybe not such a bad guy after all - as long as he keeps the mask on and doesn’t give the kids nightmares. She hasn’t seen Penny since, and so is more or less indifferent about her now.
Misc other people from AAI (Kay, Ema, Badd, Quercus, Palaeno, Shih-na, Lang, Franziska): Having gotten caught up in two separate murder cases, Wendy happened to be standing around during some important scenes. Since she never properly met most of these people, or only met them once or twice in passing, she has no strong opinions of them as individuals - except maybe for Kay and Ema, whom she was a bit annoyed to see Edgeworth hanging with, and for Lang, who allllmost set her heart fluttering - but she knows roughly who they are and the parts they played in their various crimes and/or investigations.
CHARACTER
[General personality:]
Oldbag is a cranky, crabby old menace. Even so, while she’s very often aggravated and displeased, it’s hard to take her seriously, and she’s more someone that you would laugh at than be afraid of. She has a strangely inflated opinion of herself, and generally feels that the work she does isn’t appreciated, that people don’t respect and appreciate her like they used to. This is one of the things that she’ll very often burst into one of her signature off-topic ranty rambles about - the other being her very particular hatred towards the youth of today, whom she treats with blanket dismissal as she considers them lazy, rude, disobedient and done up in horrendous fashions. Although curiously, she thinks it important to keep children’s dreams alive, at least when she’s working.
She’s a sucker for gossip, and has an incurable need to stick her nose into other people’s business, even if it means sneaking or stealing to get her info - she has a slightly curly view of the rules. She’s fluent in the language of bribery, which is about the only thing that’ll help to loosen her lips when it’s her turn to dish out info. As a witness, she’s inevitably an annoying obstacle to the truth. Flattery and sweet talk may get you on her side, unless you’re a nasty little whippersnapper with a hidden agenda. On the flipside, she’s pretty respectful towards authority.
Less obvious about her is how much of an obsessive fan and swooning devotee she is. Apart from her eternal love for Edgey-poo, she constantly crushes on good-looking well-mannered young men and on stars who tend to end up dead. She’s an obsessed Jammin’ Ninja fan, and would do almost anything to get her hands on a piece of the franchise - even a button covered in blood. When it comes to men, she claims to have the fragile heart of a maiden, being always on the lookout for a sophisticated gentleman to treat her like a true lady. Since the gentlemen she meets tend to treat her as they find her, she’ll be looking for a long while yet.
Oldbag’s not great at using computers. She loves junk food, especially doughnuts.
She’s also a dreadful singer.
[Appearance:]
Same old Oldbag. Her time-worn face shows absolutely no traces of the apparent beauty of her youth. When on duty on a security job, her resemblance to an alien is uncanny.
[Background:]
As a girl, Oldbag was the spoiled little princess of her family until her baby sister was born: if you subscribe to psychoanalysis, you could probably say this is where her hatred of youth was born too. If her own stories are to be believed, she was worshipped by all and sundry and blessed with ravishing beauty, a mouth for poetry, a flawless eye for spotting and attracting young men (but she claims she exercised careful judgement in those days) and all the rest of it; at the same time though, she had a poor time of it in school getting teased over her name and for the tendency even then for everything around her to die, which no doubt contributed to her being so crabby and bitter in her old age.
She joined Global Studios early on and managed to dabble in a bit of acting herself. However good (or otherwise) she was, she probably wouldn’t have succeeded thanks to her terrible disposition, and was put to work on the gates instead to keep intruders out by blabbering and glowering at them.
Much later she was let go from the studios after she “blabbed” on the stand in 1-3 and moved on to find work as a security guard at KB, since Edgeworth so ungraciously declined her offer to be his personal bodyguard, just happening to be on holiday at the time her boss was killed and the company folded and everyone else vanished. These days she’s hired out by an agency to various security jobs, with the occasional call sometimes from the studios to pick up some relief work in minimal-dialogue costume roles (no-one can argue that she’s best seen disguised and not speaking) - she reckons the bigwigs at the studios finally feel bad about giving her the boot. She goes where the wind blows: lately it’s been blowing in Edgey-poo’s direction, and that’s A-OK with her.
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Aaand, feel free to leave any comments/questions/suggestions you might have on this post.