~But I disappointed him
aaa so tired and hungry, gonna eat something BUT FIRST colored another stupid gavin comic, this is my life now apparently
(spoilers for AJ?)
So let's say Klavier's debut case turned out differently (in more than one way for Kristoph to be declared the victor, I guess they caught Zak or something or maybe it was an entirely different case Kristoph forged evidence for), what would happen next? I PRESENT THIS THEORY
Kristoph is basically getting hit with that sledgehammer realization that you get sometimes where the relationship you think you have someone turns out to be completely in your head. This particularly comes into play with grudges against people, where you assume they must feel the same way about you because your own feelings against them are so strong. Confronting proof that reality is not at all what you thought can be one heck of a wake up call, haha. THUS THE FINAL PANEL wherein Kristoph realizes that the reality in his head of Klavier being invested in victory and proving himself better than Kristoph was wrong (and was probably just Kristoph projecting his own feelings onto him OOPS).
There's also a bit of realization that he forged evidence to make sure he won this case for reasons that ended up being entirely imaginary.
It sort of draws from a theory I've seen that Kristoph's black locks are an inferiority thing he has with Klavier that's so repellent to him that he refuses to even acknowledge it (thus why the locks are black), which would actually match up fairly well with some of Kristoph's behavior - rigging the trial against Klavier despite it probably being unnecessary is the big one. The logic goes that Kristoph would resent how quickly and easily Klavier got everything he wanted, being a prodigy and a rockstar and a prosecutor at 17 and so on, while Kristoph presumably worked much harder but made much slower progress. But like with any Kristoph theory it doesn't explain everything (BECAUSE KRISTOPH IS SUCH A BIG BLANK IN PLACEs).
I really do wonder why Kristoph was so intent on winning that trial though. I mean he went to some pretty insane lengths to try and make sure Klavier wouldn't win. It was really important to him, but why? Or am I looking at this the wrong way, and was Klavier's victory totally irrelevant, and the potential fame of the case all that mattered? Did Kristoph possibly not even care that it was Klavier, would he have forged evidence for ANY prosecutor for that case? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY BECAUSE AJ NEVER FILLS IN THE DETAILS FOR ANY OF THESE THINGS
Anyway I hope my background thoughts on this come through, haha. I'm not sure if Kristoph's initial ramble makes it clear enough what he thinks Klavier cares about or exactly what he's realizing. WELL, IF I CAN COME UP WITH CLEARER DIALOGUE FOR IT I'LL FIX IT I GUESS
While I was brainstorming this idea in my head, it started with a lighter punchline... basically Kristoph would be internally gloating about how devastated Klavier would be that he won, but Klavier would come and be positive to him and talk about how they DEFINITELY FOUND THE TRUTH together and all, and Kristoph would've thought something like "this isn't as satisfying as I thought it would be for some reason ^_^". Eventually though as I toyed with the idea this version eventually started to come together.
I didn't think this would take very long but for some reason some panels in this gave me a ton of trouble, blegh.
I liked the sketch version of the last panel, it's always kinda tough cause sometimes things just look better with all the sketchy lines to me but it's so hard to replicate. Anyway
WOULD THIS REALIZATION MAKE KRISTOPH CHANGE HIS WAYS OR AT LEAST TRY TO BACKTRACK WHAT HE'D DONE? Technically at this point he probably wouldn't have killed anyone - if Vera and Drew are still lucky with the poison they could still be alive, and he could potentially go find them and try to take the poison back before they got hurt. He still would've forged evidence to get a verdict though which is a big deal, but actually if it's the canon Gramarye case, Zak actually was innocent, wasn't he? Forging evidence to get the real truth is pretty much what Phoenix did to Apollo in 4-1. Or Kristoph could potentially just leave all those loose ends lying around, who knows haha.
i dunno why but i'm really amused at "guilty love, woo woo woo~", like i hear it in my head and it's not even the actual melody of guilty love, it's some entirely different happy little song
I also posted this at dreamwidth with reluctant ambivalence. Comment here or there, don't matter to me!
(spoilers for AJ?)
So let's say Klavier's debut case turned out differently (in more than one way for Kristoph to be declared the victor, I guess they caught Zak or something or maybe it was an entirely different case Kristoph forged evidence for), what would happen next? I PRESENT THIS THEORY
Kristoph is basically getting hit with that sledgehammer realization that you get sometimes where the relationship you think you have someone turns out to be completely in your head. This particularly comes into play with grudges against people, where you assume they must feel the same way about you because your own feelings against them are so strong. Confronting proof that reality is not at all what you thought can be one heck of a wake up call, haha. THUS THE FINAL PANEL wherein Kristoph realizes that the reality in his head of Klavier being invested in victory and proving himself better than Kristoph was wrong (and was probably just Kristoph projecting his own feelings onto him OOPS).
There's also a bit of realization that he forged evidence to make sure he won this case for reasons that ended up being entirely imaginary.
It sort of draws from a theory I've seen that Kristoph's black locks are an inferiority thing he has with Klavier that's so repellent to him that he refuses to even acknowledge it (thus why the locks are black), which would actually match up fairly well with some of Kristoph's behavior - rigging the trial against Klavier despite it probably being unnecessary is the big one. The logic goes that Kristoph would resent how quickly and easily Klavier got everything he wanted, being a prodigy and a rockstar and a prosecutor at 17 and so on, while Kristoph presumably worked much harder but made much slower progress. But like with any Kristoph theory it doesn't explain everything (BECAUSE KRISTOPH IS SUCH A BIG BLANK IN PLACEs).
I really do wonder why Kristoph was so intent on winning that trial though. I mean he went to some pretty insane lengths to try and make sure Klavier wouldn't win. It was really important to him, but why? Or am I looking at this the wrong way, and was Klavier's victory totally irrelevant, and the potential fame of the case all that mattered? Did Kristoph possibly not even care that it was Klavier, would he have forged evidence for ANY prosecutor for that case? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY BECAUSE AJ NEVER FILLS IN THE DETAILS FOR ANY OF THESE THINGS
Anyway I hope my background thoughts on this come through, haha. I'm not sure if Kristoph's initial ramble makes it clear enough what he thinks Klavier cares about or exactly what he's realizing. WELL, IF I CAN COME UP WITH CLEARER DIALOGUE FOR IT I'LL FIX IT I GUESS
While I was brainstorming this idea in my head, it started with a lighter punchline... basically Kristoph would be internally gloating about how devastated Klavier would be that he won, but Klavier would come and be positive to him and talk about how they DEFINITELY FOUND THE TRUTH together and all, and Kristoph would've thought something like "this isn't as satisfying as I thought it would be for some reason ^_^". Eventually though as I toyed with the idea this version eventually started to come together.
I didn't think this would take very long but for some reason some panels in this gave me a ton of trouble, blegh.
I liked the sketch version of the last panel, it's always kinda tough cause sometimes things just look better with all the sketchy lines to me but it's so hard to replicate. Anyway
WOULD THIS REALIZATION MAKE KRISTOPH CHANGE HIS WAYS OR AT LEAST TRY TO BACKTRACK WHAT HE'D DONE? Technically at this point he probably wouldn't have killed anyone - if Vera and Drew are still lucky with the poison they could still be alive, and he could potentially go find them and try to take the poison back before they got hurt. He still would've forged evidence to get a verdict though which is a big deal, but actually if it's the canon Gramarye case, Zak actually was innocent, wasn't he? Forging evidence to get the real truth is pretty much what Phoenix did to Apollo in 4-1. Or Kristoph could potentially just leave all those loose ends lying around, who knows haha.
i dunno why but i'm really amused at "guilty love, woo woo woo~", like i hear it in my head and it's not even the actual melody of guilty love, it's some entirely different happy little song
I also posted this at dreamwidth with reluctant ambivalence. Comment here or there, don't matter to me!