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Name: AF
Personal LJ: hotandcoldrp
Contact Info: AIM: DecepticonAF; e-mail: decepticonaf@aol.com; Plurk: hotandcoldaf
Character Name: Miles Edgeworth
Character Series: Ace Attorney
Background: This should cover it all adequately.
Point in Canon: Post-Investigations 1
Personality: Edgeworth is a very independent person. He's kind of unsocial by nature, and while he has no problems socializing when needed (anymore, at least; there was a time when "lacking" would be a charitable description of his social skills), he still generally prefers to be left alone to handle his affairs in peace, particularly when said affairs are personal problems. Edgeworth isn't very fond of talking about himself, but he really hates talking about his problems, to sometimes ludicrous lengths, such as actually trying to run away from Phoenix rather than discuss the fallout of his latest seismophobic episode. It's difficult for Edgeworth to acknowledge his faults (or at least the things he perceives as faults); he feels that if something's wrong with him, he should be able to fix it on his own, and the fact that he absolutely can't do so with the seismophobia is something of a sticking point for him, despite the fact that nobody but him actually blames him for being traumatized.
But for better or for worse, Edgeworth is not usually too fussed about what other people think of him. It clearly annoys him when people think poorly of him, and he won't hesitate to correct someone who is genuinely mistaken about something, but beyond that, the effect is minimal. Edgeworth lives his life in accordance with his own high standards and stringent principles, and that makes it pretty easy for him to judge most of the criticism he receives as unfounded and thus irrelevant. Of course, he also has a habit of disregarding praise he receives in the same fashion-he knows he's good at what he does, and other people telling him that are just wasting everyone's time. Just about the only matter in which he seems to care about his reputation as perceived by others is his enjoyment of the Steel Samurai, which he hides zealously.
What concerns Edgeworth the most, though, is objective truth. That's what he's pretty much dedicated his life to and why he decided to return to prosecuting after the events of the first game. He's ruthless in his pursuit of the truth, even going so far as to tell Adrian that he doesn't care if she commits suicide, so long as she tells the truth before she does. Not that Edgeworth is always honest himself, though; he'll lie in order to avoid a topic he doesn't want to discuss, albeit usually badly. In general, though, he strives to be honest, even if he has to be harsh in doing so. And when not investigating a murder case and therefore treating everyone as a potential suspect, he tends to assume this is something that holds true for other people as well, leading to an almost surprising amount of gullibility for someone so otherwise intelligent and logic-driven.
Also potentially surprising is that for all Edgeworth's practicality, reasoning, and general presentation of a realistic worldview, he actually has a pretty strong idealistic core. This idealism is the cause of his obsession, for lack of a better word, with the objective truth, and his belief that through enough careful examination of evidence and testimony, said objective truth can be found while remaining within the bounds of the law as it stands and that if it can't, then the solution is to change the law, not work outside of it. However, it also leads him in some less rational directions, like the severe offense he takes to having a serial number on his Prosecutor's Badge, or insisting that a father would never deliberately try to harm his own daughter, despite the father in question being a known criminal and someone he's never personally met. Edgeworth has enough experience and intelligence to know that shades of grey exist, but he still prefers it when things are black and white and just generally simple. This doesn't just extend to moral issues; the furnishings of his office are all of the highest quality, but none of them are particularly ornate, and despite being one of the wealthiest characters in the entire series, he is also the owner of the clunkiest and most outdated cell phone, since he is of the steadfast opinion that the one and only function a phone should be capable of is making phone calls.
Edgeworth is a perfectionist. Not an egocentric control freak masquerading as one like the von Karmas tend to be, but truly perfectionistic-that is, when something goes wrong, Edgeworth will first and foremost blame himself rather than anyone or anything around him. While he's enough of a realist to acknowledge that true perfection is impossible, he doesn't view that as an excuse to settle for anything less than as close as possible, and people bringing up his imperfections tends to get his dander up. The story about origami cranes that Larry relates in 3-5 isn't really notable because of how not being able to do something frustrated a young Miles to the point of tears, or even because bringing it up 17 years later still makes him mad, but because in the interim, he's practiced so much that he can now fold even an extremely small origami crane absolutely flawlessly, and he's willing to drop everything he's doing to prove it. Edgeworth is an extremely prideful person, and he doesn't take wounds to said pride very lightly.
As far as personal relationships go, Edgeworth is, to be perfectly frank about it, still pretty bad. As previously touched upon, he can hold polite conversation with little to no problem, but when a friendship becomes a more long-term affair, faults begin to show themselves. Edgeworth is the sort of person who disappears without warning or explanation for over a year and then when he returns, has the gall to not be surprised when someone is angry at him for it, but instead to tell them that they shouldn't be angry at him at all. (This is an example of the earlier point about how living by his own standards and no one else's makes it easy for him to deflect criticism-it's worth noting that he's not always in the right when he does this.) Which brings me to the next point, that Edgeworth is, again, to be perfectly frank about it, kind of an asshole, especially to his friends. He is scathingly sarcastic, frequently snide, and, at times, downright trollish, and the more comfortable he is around a person, the more likely he is to act this way. Which is not to say he doesn't care about his friends-he most certainly does-but he generally avoids showing said care or concern to them directly.
Sample Entry: Testrun'd!
Memory Recovered: 0% spent, 0% unspent
Housing: Room 314 (w/ Isaac)
Personal LJ: hotandcoldrp
Contact Info: AIM: DecepticonAF; e-mail: decepticonaf@aol.com; Plurk: hotandcoldaf
Character Name: Miles Edgeworth
Character Series: Ace Attorney
Background: This should cover it all adequately.
Point in Canon: Post-Investigations 1
Personality: Edgeworth is a very independent person. He's kind of unsocial by nature, and while he has no problems socializing when needed (anymore, at least; there was a time when "lacking" would be a charitable description of his social skills), he still generally prefers to be left alone to handle his affairs in peace, particularly when said affairs are personal problems. Edgeworth isn't very fond of talking about himself, but he really hates talking about his problems, to sometimes ludicrous lengths, such as actually trying to run away from Phoenix rather than discuss the fallout of his latest seismophobic episode. It's difficult for Edgeworth to acknowledge his faults (or at least the things he perceives as faults); he feels that if something's wrong with him, he should be able to fix it on his own, and the fact that he absolutely can't do so with the seismophobia is something of a sticking point for him, despite the fact that nobody but him actually blames him for being traumatized.
But for better or for worse, Edgeworth is not usually too fussed about what other people think of him. It clearly annoys him when people think poorly of him, and he won't hesitate to correct someone who is genuinely mistaken about something, but beyond that, the effect is minimal. Edgeworth lives his life in accordance with his own high standards and stringent principles, and that makes it pretty easy for him to judge most of the criticism he receives as unfounded and thus irrelevant. Of course, he also has a habit of disregarding praise he receives in the same fashion-he knows he's good at what he does, and other people telling him that are just wasting everyone's time. Just about the only matter in which he seems to care about his reputation as perceived by others is his enjoyment of the Steel Samurai, which he hides zealously.
What concerns Edgeworth the most, though, is objective truth. That's what he's pretty much dedicated his life to and why he decided to return to prosecuting after the events of the first game. He's ruthless in his pursuit of the truth, even going so far as to tell Adrian that he doesn't care if she commits suicide, so long as she tells the truth before she does. Not that Edgeworth is always honest himself, though; he'll lie in order to avoid a topic he doesn't want to discuss, albeit usually badly. In general, though, he strives to be honest, even if he has to be harsh in doing so. And when not investigating a murder case and therefore treating everyone as a potential suspect, he tends to assume this is something that holds true for other people as well, leading to an almost surprising amount of gullibility for someone so otherwise intelligent and logic-driven.
Also potentially surprising is that for all Edgeworth's practicality, reasoning, and general presentation of a realistic worldview, he actually has a pretty strong idealistic core. This idealism is the cause of his obsession, for lack of a better word, with the objective truth, and his belief that through enough careful examination of evidence and testimony, said objective truth can be found while remaining within the bounds of the law as it stands and that if it can't, then the solution is to change the law, not work outside of it. However, it also leads him in some less rational directions, like the severe offense he takes to having a serial number on his Prosecutor's Badge, or insisting that a father would never deliberately try to harm his own daughter, despite the father in question being a known criminal and someone he's never personally met. Edgeworth has enough experience and intelligence to know that shades of grey exist, but he still prefers it when things are black and white and just generally simple. This doesn't just extend to moral issues; the furnishings of his office are all of the highest quality, but none of them are particularly ornate, and despite being one of the wealthiest characters in the entire series, he is also the owner of the clunkiest and most outdated cell phone, since he is of the steadfast opinion that the one and only function a phone should be capable of is making phone calls.
Edgeworth is a perfectionist. Not an egocentric control freak masquerading as one like the von Karmas tend to be, but truly perfectionistic-that is, when something goes wrong, Edgeworth will first and foremost blame himself rather than anyone or anything around him. While he's enough of a realist to acknowledge that true perfection is impossible, he doesn't view that as an excuse to settle for anything less than as close as possible, and people bringing up his imperfections tends to get his dander up. The story about origami cranes that Larry relates in 3-5 isn't really notable because of how not being able to do something frustrated a young Miles to the point of tears, or even because bringing it up 17 years later still makes him mad, but because in the interim, he's practiced so much that he can now fold even an extremely small origami crane absolutely flawlessly, and he's willing to drop everything he's doing to prove it. Edgeworth is an extremely prideful person, and he doesn't take wounds to said pride very lightly.
As far as personal relationships go, Edgeworth is, to be perfectly frank about it, still pretty bad. As previously touched upon, he can hold polite conversation with little to no problem, but when a friendship becomes a more long-term affair, faults begin to show themselves. Edgeworth is the sort of person who disappears without warning or explanation for over a year and then when he returns, has the gall to not be surprised when someone is angry at him for it, but instead to tell them that they shouldn't be angry at him at all. (This is an example of the earlier point about how living by his own standards and no one else's makes it easy for him to deflect criticism-it's worth noting that he's not always in the right when he does this.) Which brings me to the next point, that Edgeworth is, again, to be perfectly frank about it, kind of an asshole, especially to his friends. He is scathingly sarcastic, frequently snide, and, at times, downright trollish, and the more comfortable he is around a person, the more likely he is to act this way. Which is not to say he doesn't care about his friends-he most certainly does-but he generally avoids showing said care or concern to them directly.
Sample Entry: Testrun'd!
Memory Recovered: 0% spent, 0% unspent
Housing: Room 314 (w/ Isaac)