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Character Name: Godot
(Also, though now infrequently known as Diego Armando. He rarely answers to it.)
Series: Phoenix Wright 3: Trials and Tribulations
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Species: Human
Sexuality: Javasexual. Also straight but not looking; his heart is eternally pledged to a certain lady.
Appearance:
Godot is a handsome man with a terribly mysterious appearance. Well, really, the main thing that's mysterious about him is the difficult-to-miss mechanical visor that he always wears. He's tall, muscular and well-built and appears to be Latino in heritage with tan skin. His left ear is pierced twice and he wears very small silver hoop earrings. His hair is longish, scruffy and pure white, though his facial hair is black and carefully shaved into a chinstrap goatee. Being a lawyer he prefers to be well-dressed even in casuals, favoring button-up shirts and slacks or jeans in white, black, or the few colors he can identify. 99% of the time there is a plain white coffee cup in his hand and a large thermos at his belt.
Personality:
Godot is shrouded in the unknown, from his true face hidden beneath his visor to his real name and identity. This mystery is certainly not accidental and he does his best to remain distant and cool to nearly everyone he meets, rarely taking more than a passing interest in anyone. In conversation he is forever cocky and usually smug, speaking in lofty and dense metaphors that more often than not require him to explain them. He likes to tease and is also fond of coming up with nicknames for people. Even with his cool personality, it's a very bad idea to underestimate him or wear out his seemingly unflappable patience-- he can be ruthless and his temper is sharp and unforgiving. Don't let him fool you, though; underneath all the bitterness and apathy he's a genuinely good person-- passionate, devoted to justice, and willing to sacrifice absolutely anything for the sake of the rare few he's close to.
And of course, Godot cannot be described without mentioning his obsessive love of coffee-- always taken black. Most of his aforementioned metaphors involve it and he is rarely seen without his favorite white cup full of a steaming helping of "pure black magic", one of countless blends that he's personally formulated. He has previously limited himself to 17 cups per trial but his total per day is likely much higher than that, given his mysterious ability to get a cup of coffee no matter where he is. Suffice to say he drinks more coffee than would kill a normal person and his arteries are probably hard enough to deflect bullets by now.
NOTE: This is a Godot from a tweaked timeline presented in Mia's profile-- He has never been a prosecutor.
Abilities:
His abilities all lie in his intelligence and wit. As he was previously an excellent attorney, he has a mind for puzzles and is especially good at piecing together bits and pieces of information into a reasonable conclusion. He's a pretty good poet as well, and can speak a good bit of Spanish if the need arises.
He also possesses the mostly useless skill of deciphering the numerical taste breakdown of any blend of coffee within a sip or two. This goes hand in hand with his strange "ability" to somehow always have a cup of coffee on hand. Perhaps he fills his Thermos full and only leaves his apartment for as long as the coffee will last?
Weaknesses:
Personality-wise, Godot is very bullheaded. He holds grudges with a bitter vengeance and is extremely unforgiving to those who have wronged him, to the point of obsession and irrationality. This includes those who he has only perceived to have wronged him and he is quick and brutal to judge the actions and intents of others. He is also obsessively dedicated to the well-being of the few people he cares about, most evident in the case of one Miss Mia Fey. She is absolutely the most important part of both his "lives" and tangling with her (or anyone connected to her) is begging for an irate and irrational Godot to come beat you to a bloody pulp.
Physically, since the incident in which Godot had to "come back from the dead", he's been in extremely poor health and requires frequent checkups and medication to remain well. His body is weak and he suffers from a laundry list of neurological problems and severe pain. His symptoms are worsened in extreme conditions such as severe heat or cold, and missing his medication is simply not an option. As such, he is very rare to wander outside the borders of his neighborhood or anywhere there isn't a supply center nearby.
Also as a result of said incident, Godot is blind without his visor. Even with it, his vision is poor and he's effectively colorblind-- particularly, unable to see the color red.
Thanks to his condition, he nurses a wounded self-image and is frequently lost in bouts of silent and moody depression, though he will never show this side to others and covers up for it by being a jerk.
Manhattanite or outsider?
Manhattanite. He did not come from another world, but was traveling in Manhattan at the time of the attack.
History:
Diego Armando was a brilliant young defense attorney working under Marvin Grossberg in the city of Los Angeles. Despite his cocky demeanor and devil-may-care attitude, he was considered the finest attorney at Grossberg & Co and you'd be hard pressed to find a better lawyer in a time of need. When Grossberg hired a fresh-out-of-law school Mia Fey, Diego was instantly attracted to her for her brains, her fierce belief in her clients and, well, her beauty. Taking Mia under his wing, Diego served as her mentor and stood alongside her in her very first case. In a shocking twist, Mia's client committed suicide on the stand under the influence of Dahlia Hawthorne, the prosecution's star witness-- the truly guilty party in the murder at hand. Mia was so traumatized watching her client die before her that she suffered a nervous breakdown, and Diego watched in fury as Dahlia left the courtroom a free woman.
Diego was moved by Mia's belief in her client and her devotion to justice, ideals which mirrored his own, and became determined to set things right. He and Mia dedicated the next six months to further investigation of the case and Dahlia, their ultimate goal to put her in jail where she belonged. Over the six month investigation, Diego and Mia fell in love and became a steady couple, though the extent of their relationship is somewhat unclear to anybody besides the two of them. On August 27th, Diego managed to arrange a meeting alone with Dahlia at the courthouse cafeteria, intent on getting some answers out of her. Over the course of their meeting, Dahlia slipped a special poison into Diego's coffee and upon drinking it, his body slowly shut down and he collapsed within minutes.
The shocking murder made newspaper headlines and would go unsolved as Dahlia managed to pass off the damning evidence on a certain hapless college student she met in the courthouse library. It wasn't until eight months later that Mia brought Dahlia to justice in yet another murder, simultaneously linking her to Diego and earning the triple murderess a well-deserved death sentence.
In the media frenzy surrounding the case and with the courthouse's effort to keep things under wraps, it was somehow lost to the public at large that the victim was still alive. Diego had indeed died there on the courthouse floor but was somehow resuscitated as medics transported him to a hospital. Miraculously he clung to life, but remained in a very deep coma doctors believed he would never awaken from.
Five years later, thanks to the aroma of a doctor's morning coffee, Diego finally opened his eyes again. Unfortunately, the poison had weakened his body severely-- the chemicals bleached his hair permanently white, he had gone blind, and his central nervous system and internal organs had been badly damaged. As though losing five years of his life and waking up in a ravaged body weren't enough, Diego learned that Mia had disappeared nearly two years earlier. The public believed him to be dead; there was nobody waiting for him when he woke up. Suffering from psychological trauma, denying his condition and perhaps, clinging a little too hard to the way things had been, he was unable to cope with what had happened. He disgustedly cast away his former life, career, and even his name. From that day on he had become an entirely different person, "Godot"-- the one everybody waits for.
After a long rehabilitation program that also outfitted him with his infrared visor, Godot left the hospital and with nothing else to do with himself, decided that he must find Mia. He began to gather clues to where Mia had gone and tracked her as far as Manhattan. With his thirteen coffee machines and all his medications in tow, Godot set off to New York in the hopes that he could find her-- even having adopted a new identity, he couldn't deny his lingering feelings for her and hoped she could heal the psychological wounds leftover from the incident. He picked an unfortunate time for the trip, though, as Big Mommy was lurking in the shadows and following the attack, he found himself trapped in a strange city with no idea whether his beloved was safe. But whether alive or dead, she was doubtlessly still in Manhattan... and doubtlessly waiting for him to arrive.
Give me your tired
Your undercaffeinated
The wretched refuse of your teeming Starbucks
Send these, the coffeeless, the tepid tea'd to me
I lift my cup beside the golden machine.