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Name: June.
Personal Journal: lesbillion.
Contact Info: AIM: driveyouflat, MSN/email: the_amberholic@hotmail.com
Other Characters: None!
Character Information
Name: Franziska von Karma.
Source Canon: Ace Attorney.
Age: 18.
Role In Canon: Supporting character. A semi-friendly antagonist, if you will.
History: Here!
Personality:
Franziska von Karma is an extremely intimidating woman. Her demeanor is cold, harsh and no-nonsense, and she carries a whip on her person at all times, which she does not hesitate to use on those she deems deserving. As the daughter of the genius prosecutor Manfred von Karma, she herself became a prosecutor at the mere age of thirteen, and during the entire length of her career in Germany - five years - hadn't lost a single case. She refers to herself as a prodigy, and that would be very much justified. It's not difficult to understand, then, why Phoenix Wright was absolutely horrified of her when he first went up against her in court.
What he-and most other people-fail to realize, is that the way she acts is simply borne out of necessity. Her father, in his entire forty-year long career, hadn't lost a single case, and beyond that, had only been penalized once. He ensured that she and her adopted brother, Miles Edgeworth, grew up with a very clear goal in mind: to achieve and maintain perfection. Nothing else is acceptable.
The ideals instilled into her growing up, combined with the perfect trial record she'd upheld until her coming to California, made it so that her ego had grown rather insufferably large. She sees herself as "perfect" - not just in court, but outside of it as well. She acts superior to all those around her, and believes that it is well within her right to do anything that she feels will serve her cause, and that all prohibitions that one would except would get in her way do not, in fact, apply to her. She freely orders others around, whipping them when they appear reluctant or are just too slow to please her - this even includes people whose position is higher than her, like the judge, whom she makes zero effort to act respectfully towards. It seems that the only person she actually respects and looks up to is her late father, who, with his death, fully established his role as a 'legend'. Franziska admires him and wants to bring him pride, even after his death, and even after he's been revealed as a scheming, vengeful, heartless murderer, which she seems to have all but blocked out.
From the way Franziska carries herself, she appears to be very cool and composed - however, she is quick to lose her temper, usually manifesting in inserting the word "fool" and variations thereof in inhuman quantities into her sentences and repeatedly hitting people with her whip. She also seems incapable of acknowledging her losses and personality flaws, more often than not outright denying their existence. Those traits make her appear surprisingly childish, as opposed to her mature, on-top-of-things normal behavior. Most likely, because she was made to take on adult tasks and behave in an adult manner starting at such an early age, her act of forced maturity got in the way of her real maturity's development.
To expand on that point, in court, the only option Franziska sees for herself is victory. She would do absolutely anything in her power to get her guilty verdict, short of straight-up faking evidence - she'd hide details, manipulate witnesses and whip the judge into accepting her line of reasoning. Failure results in fits of anger, occasional whipping of the involved parties to the point of unconsciousness, and banging her fists loudly on her desk - once that's died down, however, she simply writes it off as a fluke or blocks it out of her mind completely. Although she's rarely featured in contexts outside her work, I imagine the same would hold true for matters unrelated to it, as well - even things so minor that they can be considered humorous, similar to how Edgeworth, as a child, was rendered into a sobbing, quivering ball at his failure to make origami animals. Needless to say, she would never in a million years cry over something like that, but she would spend far longer than anyone else would in attempt to achieve mastery over it, and, in case she would fail, would probably disregard the matter as of absolutely no importance-- no sooner than she would, once again, whip anyone involved into unconsciousness.
Though under normal circumstances, Franziska would never admit to doing anything wrong, when faced with the fact that she'd caused harm to others, she does, in fact, feel guilt. She'd never openly show it, of course, but she might attempt to make up for any of the problems she's caused - for example, after Phoenix told her that her ordering Adrian Andrews, who had depended on Franziska's words, to refuse testimony very well near got her declared guilty in court, Franziska shook it off as none of her concern, but later sent Adrian a letter telling her that she could turn to her for help whenever she liked. Similarly, during investigating for a trial at a later point in the series, Franziska was rather harshly told off by the nine years old Pearl Fey for trying to get a guilty verdict for her clearly innocent cousin Maya Fey, and being "mean" towards her in court. Franziska was so shocked that she couldn't even formulate a reply beyond a bunch of helpless stammering. It was evident that she has never been put in place like that, and that she felt quite bad for it. Perhaps unrelatedly, when the trial the next day took place, Franziska uncharacteristically gave up prosecuting it for the sake of helping to rescue Maya, who had been trapped in a cavern and was in mortal danger.
Since her whole life up until the present has been focused on her work, Franziska cares little for things outside of it, such as hobbies, friends and relationships. She sees them as useless wastes of time, and as such, does nothing to seek them out. While casual friendships might develop naturally if anyone felt inclined to actually put up with her for a long enough stretch of time, anything beyond that would likely be met with utmost reluctance. Her mother died when she was young, and being part of a family of overworked overachievers who seemed to care for little else means she had been shown very, very little affection growing up - as a result, she has a very strict personal space bubble and no tolerance of unexpected physical contact, even if it were to be done in a friendly manner.
As a short yet important note-- her whip, although appearing to be nothing more than an entertaining, quirky character item, is crucial to Franziska as a person: it's what helps her establish her domination over others, and as observed by Pearl, she's "just a little girl" without it. She needs it in order to keep up her image of someone to be feared - it's what identifies her as a prosecutor.
Though she appears to have no shortage of pride and self-confidence - far too much of it, in fact - in reality, Franziska is very insecure, and knows that she isn't nearly as capable as she makes herself out to be. The expectations from her father and her surroundings were a terrible burden on her since she was a little girl, and left her with no choice but to do everything in her ability to try to meet them, even though deep down, she never really felt capable of it. The worst part of it all was, perhaps, having to watch her brother, seven years her senior, progress at an incredible speed, leaving her in his shadow with little means of catching up. But that damn well doesn't mean she didn't try, and her efforts were anything if not commendable - in the same year Edgeworth become a prosecutor at the age of twenty, so did Franziska, at the age of thirteen. Still, he always seemed to be one step ahead of her, causing feelings of deep-rooted frustration and resentment towards him to well up within her. The reason she came to California in the first place is to finally get "revenge" against him - having heard he'd lost for the first time to Phoenix Wright and then disappeared, she'd sworn to assume his place in court and to defeat Phoenix Wright herself, thus proving her superiority over Edgeworth and finally stepping out of his shadow.
She was incapable of beating him, however. What's more, when Edgeworth returned at last, he was once again ahead of her; though they had both failed when faced with Phoenix Wright in court, not only had he accepted his losses, but he seemed to have gained something from them -- some sort of revelation regarding what being a prosecutor is really about that Franziska could not, for the life of her, comprehend. After her repeated losses, hearing him talk about it at the end of the trial was what finally made her snap; throwing her whip on the ground, she left the court, and went to leave the country. In the airport, she was met with Edgeworth. It was then that she began to cry in what may well have been the first time in a long, long time, and unexpectedly admitted all the hardships she's suffered and the insecurities she's been feeling to him: even though she knows that she's a skilled prosecutor, she's not perfect like her father - not even close - but she has no other choice but to be. Edgeworth, in response, returned her whip and, in his own Edgeworth-like way, gave her words of encouragement. Pulling herself together, she swore to get better, and finally surpass him once she got back.
I'll be taking her from after this point, so she's in a bit of an identity crisis. On one hand, having failed to live up to the von Karma name and being tired of the expectations surrounding her, a part of her wishes she could just leave it all behind and be her own person. On the other hand, being a von Karma is a major defining trait for her, and even now, she still admires her father and hates that she's let him down. But even more than that - perfection is also of great importance to her, and she is proud of being a von Karma, despite all the anguish it's brought her. Because of that, the defeats she's suffered have shaken her up quite a bit, and made her determined to improve so that she can beat Wright and outdo Edgeworth. So for the most part, she does her best to resume ignoring all her doubts and fears as she immerses herself in her work, and continues to pile up her victories as if she never left Germany. Though Edgeworth told her to think over the real meaning of being a prosecutor, that still seems to be beyond her grasp - as she herself told him, she is very set in her ways, and can't just throw away everything she's been up until now.
But that doesn't mean it's impossible for her to change. It would be a very slow process, and the change would come bit by tiny bit, but it can still happen. Even if she herself isn't completely willing for it to.
Abilities: A skilled prosecutor, can fit the word "fool" more times in a sentence than quite possibly any other human being on the planet, and can inflict much, much pain on one's person using a whip.
Name: June.
Personal Journal: lesbillion.
Contact Info: AIM: driveyouflat, MSN/email: the_amberholic@hotmail.com
Other Characters: None!
Character Information
Name: Franziska von Karma.
Source Canon: Ace Attorney.
Age: 18.
Role In Canon: Supporting character. A semi-friendly antagonist, if you will.
History: Here!
Personality:
Franziska von Karma is an extremely intimidating woman. Her demeanor is cold, harsh and no-nonsense, and she carries a whip on her person at all times, which she does not hesitate to use on those she deems deserving. As the daughter of the genius prosecutor Manfred von Karma, she herself became a prosecutor at the mere age of thirteen, and during the entire length of her career in Germany - five years - hadn't lost a single case. She refers to herself as a prodigy, and that would be very much justified. It's not difficult to understand, then, why Phoenix Wright was absolutely horrified of her when he first went up against her in court.
What he-and most other people-fail to realize, is that the way she acts is simply borne out of necessity. Her father, in his entire forty-year long career, hadn't lost a single case, and beyond that, had only been penalized once. He ensured that she and her adopted brother, Miles Edgeworth, grew up with a very clear goal in mind: to achieve and maintain perfection. Nothing else is acceptable.
The ideals instilled into her growing up, combined with the perfect trial record she'd upheld until her coming to California, made it so that her ego had grown rather insufferably large. She sees herself as "perfect" - not just in court, but outside of it as well. She acts superior to all those around her, and believes that it is well within her right to do anything that she feels will serve her cause, and that all prohibitions that one would except would get in her way do not, in fact, apply to her. She freely orders others around, whipping them when they appear reluctant or are just too slow to please her - this even includes people whose position is higher than her, like the judge, whom she makes zero effort to act respectfully towards. It seems that the only person she actually respects and looks up to is her late father, who, with his death, fully established his role as a 'legend'. Franziska admires him and wants to bring him pride, even after his death, and even after he's been revealed as a scheming, vengeful, heartless murderer, which she seems to have all but blocked out.
From the way Franziska carries herself, she appears to be very cool and composed - however, she is quick to lose her temper, usually manifesting in inserting the word "fool" and variations thereof in inhuman quantities into her sentences and repeatedly hitting people with her whip. She also seems incapable of acknowledging her losses and personality flaws, more often than not outright denying their existence. Those traits make her appear surprisingly childish, as opposed to her mature, on-top-of-things normal behavior. Most likely, because she was made to take on adult tasks and behave in an adult manner starting at such an early age, her act of forced maturity got in the way of her real maturity's development.
To expand on that point, in court, the only option Franziska sees for herself is victory. She would do absolutely anything in her power to get her guilty verdict, short of straight-up faking evidence - she'd hide details, manipulate witnesses and whip the judge into accepting her line of reasoning. Failure results in fits of anger, occasional whipping of the involved parties to the point of unconsciousness, and banging her fists loudly on her desk - once that's died down, however, she simply writes it off as a fluke or blocks it out of her mind completely. Although she's rarely featured in contexts outside her work, I imagine the same would hold true for matters unrelated to it, as well - even things so minor that they can be considered humorous, similar to how Edgeworth, as a child, was rendered into a sobbing, quivering ball at his failure to make origami animals. Needless to say, she would never in a million years cry over something like that, but she would spend far longer than anyone else would in attempt to achieve mastery over it, and, in case she would fail, would probably disregard the matter as of absolutely no importance-- no sooner than she would, once again, whip anyone involved into unconsciousness.
Though under normal circumstances, Franziska would never admit to doing anything wrong, when faced with the fact that she'd caused harm to others, she does, in fact, feel guilt. She'd never openly show it, of course, but she might attempt to make up for any of the problems she's caused - for example, after Phoenix told her that her ordering Adrian Andrews, who had depended on Franziska's words, to refuse testimony very well near got her declared guilty in court, Franziska shook it off as none of her concern, but later sent Adrian a letter telling her that she could turn to her for help whenever she liked. Similarly, during investigating for a trial at a later point in the series, Franziska was rather harshly told off by the nine years old Pearl Fey for trying to get a guilty verdict for her clearly innocent cousin Maya Fey, and being "mean" towards her in court. Franziska was so shocked that she couldn't even formulate a reply beyond a bunch of helpless stammering. It was evident that she has never been put in place like that, and that she felt quite bad for it. Perhaps unrelatedly, when the trial the next day took place, Franziska uncharacteristically gave up prosecuting it for the sake of helping to rescue Maya, who had been trapped in a cavern and was in mortal danger.
Since her whole life up until the present has been focused on her work, Franziska cares little for things outside of it, such as hobbies, friends and relationships. She sees them as useless wastes of time, and as such, does nothing to seek them out. While casual friendships might develop naturally if anyone felt inclined to actually put up with her for a long enough stretch of time, anything beyond that would likely be met with utmost reluctance. Her mother died when she was young, and being part of a family of overworked overachievers who seemed to care for little else means she had been shown very, very little affection growing up - as a result, she has a very strict personal space bubble and no tolerance of unexpected physical contact, even if it were to be done in a friendly manner.
As a short yet important note-- her whip, although appearing to be nothing more than an entertaining, quirky character item, is crucial to Franziska as a person: it's what helps her establish her domination over others, and as observed by Pearl, she's "just a little girl" without it. She needs it in order to keep up her image of someone to be feared - it's what identifies her as a prosecutor.
Though she appears to have no shortage of pride and self-confidence - far too much of it, in fact - in reality, Franziska is very insecure, and knows that she isn't nearly as capable as she makes herself out to be. The expectations from her father and her surroundings were a terrible burden on her since she was a little girl, and left her with no choice but to do everything in her ability to try to meet them, even though deep down, she never really felt capable of it. The worst part of it all was, perhaps, having to watch her brother, seven years her senior, progress at an incredible speed, leaving her in his shadow with little means of catching up. But that damn well doesn't mean she didn't try, and her efforts were anything if not commendable - in the same year Edgeworth become a prosecutor at the age of twenty, so did Franziska, at the age of thirteen. Still, he always seemed to be one step ahead of her, causing feelings of deep-rooted frustration and resentment towards him to well up within her. The reason she came to California in the first place is to finally get "revenge" against him - having heard he'd lost for the first time to Phoenix Wright and then disappeared, she'd sworn to assume his place in court and to defeat Phoenix Wright herself, thus proving her superiority over Edgeworth and finally stepping out of his shadow.
She was incapable of beating him, however. What's more, when Edgeworth returned at last, he was once again ahead of her; though they had both failed when faced with Phoenix Wright in court, not only had he accepted his losses, but he seemed to have gained something from them -- some sort of revelation regarding what being a prosecutor is really about that Franziska could not, for the life of her, comprehend. After her repeated losses, hearing him talk about it at the end of the trial was what finally made her snap; throwing her whip on the ground, she left the court, and went to leave the country. In the airport, she was met with Edgeworth. It was then that she began to cry in what may well have been the first time in a long, long time, and unexpectedly admitted all the hardships she's suffered and the insecurities she's been feeling to him: even though she knows that she's a skilled prosecutor, she's not perfect like her father - not even close - but she has no other choice but to be. Edgeworth, in response, returned her whip and, in his own Edgeworth-like way, gave her words of encouragement. Pulling herself together, she swore to get better, and finally surpass him once she got back.
I'll be taking her from after this point, so she's in a bit of an identity crisis. On one hand, having failed to live up to the von Karma name and being tired of the expectations surrounding her, a part of her wishes she could just leave it all behind and be her own person. On the other hand, being a von Karma is a major defining trait for her, and even now, she still admires her father and hates that she's let him down. But even more than that - perfection is also of great importance to her, and she is proud of being a von Karma, despite all the anguish it's brought her. Because of that, the defeats she's suffered have shaken her up quite a bit, and made her determined to improve so that she can beat Wright and outdo Edgeworth. So for the most part, she does her best to resume ignoring all her doubts and fears as she immerses herself in her work, and continues to pile up her victories as if she never left Germany. Though Edgeworth told her to think over the real meaning of being a prosecutor, that still seems to be beyond her grasp - as she herself told him, she is very set in her ways, and can't just throw away everything she's been up until now.
But that doesn't mean it's impossible for her to change. It would be a very slow process, and the change would come bit by tiny bit, but it can still happen. Even if she herself isn't completely willing for it to.
Abilities: A skilled prosecutor, can fit the word "fool" more times in a sentence than quite possibly any other human being on the planet, and can inflict much, much pain on one's person using a whip.