Character bio

Miles Edgeworth

IC STATS

• CANON: Ace Attorney
• CANON POINT:Post AA6 DLC
• AGE: 36
• SPECIES: Human
• CURRENT GAME(S): elnysa

BIO/HISTORY

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PERSONALITY

• "It doesn't matter how many underhanded tricks a person uses... The truth will always find a way to make itself known. The only thing we can do is to fight with the knowledge we hold and everything we have. Erasing the paradoxes one by one... It's never easy... We claw and scratch for every inch. But we will always eventually reach that one single truth. This I promise you."
  
  Edgeworth has a stoic, sometimes aloof personality. He is calm, level-headed, and methodical in his thinking. He relies heavily on his logic and deductive reasoning skills in order to solve his cases. However, in his later years, he sometimes employs the main character Phoenix’s out of the box thinking in order to assist him in questioning a suspect when his own line of logic fails him. He hates the limelight. He sees no point in trophies and awards and often credits others or circumstances for his successes. He finds ceremonies to be trivial and detract from the true purpose of his work. He also has difficulty with certain names or words. For example, he calls “Psyche-Locks” “Psycho Locks”, and insists that he has been saying it right all along, no matter how many times he’s corrected.
  
  He is a prodigy who had become a prosecutor at the age of 20. In the early days of his career, he was known for his ruthless tactics and would go as far as taking any means in order to gain a guilty verdict, save (knowingly) presenting false evidence, learned from his mentor, Manfred von Karma; which would have gone against his moral code. This fierce hatred towards crime had come from DL-6, a case involving the death of his father. The subsequent trial had ended with what he had thought was the guilty party getting off on an insanity plea, thus leaving the young Miles with a hatred for both crime and defense attorneys. This was augmented by his mentor, who had used this hatred for criminals to groom him to become the perfect prosecutor. Because of this, he used to care only about his perfect win record, which was ultimately overthrown when he went up against his childhood friend, Phoenix Wright.
  
  In many ways, Phoenix acted as a catalyst for the change in his personality. After losing to him, he realized that not all cases were as black and white as he once thought they were. This had led him to question what being a prosecutor meant to him. He ultimately realized that it was his search for truth that now leads him. He had also come to the realization that much of what he had fought for before this event was due to his own ego. After this, he no longer cared about who won or lost as long the case lead to that one singular truth. Because of this he now sometimes cooperates with Phoenix in the courtroom in order to penalize the true culprit. Because of the stigma Miles has faced for his tutelage under von Karma as well as his own strict moral code, he has developed a deep-rooted hatred for corruption and people who abuse their power to fabricate evidence. Because of this, he’s dedicated himself to taking down corruption in the system from within the prosecutor’s offices.
  
  Edgeworth to Phoenix: “We aren't some sort of heroes. We're only human, you and I. You want to save someone? That's something easier said than done, wouldn't you say? You are a defense lawyer. You can't run away from that. You can only fight. That's all you can do.

Although he seems composed when in the courtroom, when put in more social settings, Miles has an awkward and somewhat tactless personality. He naturally tends to glare at people, unwittingly intimidating them as a result. Though sometimes this habit is comical, where he ends up in staring contests with animals, inanimate objects, and even his own reflection. Even though he comes off as condescending, most of the time he is hardly aware of it. Miles has no time to mince words. He would rather blurt out what he’s thinking over trying to smooth down another’s ego or engaging in small talk. When we get a look at his internal monologue in the Investigations games, we can see that he is a little bit of a space case, despite his very poised facade.

He is loyal to a fault and will bend over backward to help those he cares about, even though outwardly he acts as if his friends are little more than nuisances. For example, he once overnight chartered a jet from Germany, when he heard that Phoenix was injured. Not only that but he went to great lengths to stand in as a defense attorney in his steady at his request, with no regard of the possible consequences to his own standing. Another time he was willing to give in his prosecutor’s badge in order to save his assistant Kay from being accused of a crime she didn’t commit. He is very close to Phoenix, whom he feels like he owes a great debt toward, as well as his adopted sister Fransiska. Even though they have a fairly competitive sibling relationship, one can see that they are very close and come to one another’s aid fairly often. He is very protective of young women in general; often coming off as an older brother figure in their lives.

As a boss, he is strict and sometimes cruel, where if his subordinates make a mistake, he retaliates with a pay-cut. And yet they respect him for his obvious dedication in the workplace as well as what it means to be a prosecutor. His workmates, in turn, respect him knowing that he’s simply pushing them to work as hard as they can in creating a thoroughly investigated case. He pushes his friends forward in general, whether it was pushing Phoenix to gain his badge back or to push Franziska to find out what being a prosecutor in her own right was. He ultimately wants people to be the best possible versions of themselves and will help where he can.

Edgeworth has expressed a disinterest in marriage, calling it a useless tradition. However, this view has not stemmed the number of admirers he has; to which he is for the most part oblivious. That is except for the more obvious advances, particularly Wendy Oldbag, to which he reacts to with varying levels of fear and disgust. He is the type of person who values his work more than his personal life. This is pronounced even more so after he became the Chief Prosecutor of his city, and subsequently fired a good deal of the corrupt prosecutors in his district.

Miles has seismophobia. Earthquakes or similar things, like airplane turbulence, are a major trigger for his PTSD. His reactions to this can range from shortness of breath, curling up on the floor and sobbing, to outright fainting. He also avoids elevators, so much so that he would prefer to climb 12 floors every day to get to his office rather than take the elevator. He used to have recurring nightmares of the DL-6 incident, where he had thought that he killed his own father for 15 years. Though the nightmares had ceased after the case was resolved, his fear of elevators and earthquakes still remain. Moreover, after being under von Karma’s tutelage over the course of so many years, he has some pretty serious anxiety and self-esteem issues, relating with the need to overachieve, which he slowly overcame with age. He is a huge fan of the Steel Samurai, a kid’s Sentai style television series. He does however loath to admit it outright. His obsession of the series is at a point where he has a figurine of the Steel Samurai in his office, sometimes hides manga in his law books, and knows an endless amount of trivia on the series. In the 6th game, he flies into a nerd rage when he finds out about a copycat version of the show in another country. He seems to be a purist. One can speculate that his obsession with the show is that it allows him to regain a piece of his childhood that he had felt that he lost. Asides from watching his favorite TV show, Miles seems to enjoy drinking tea and playing chess in his free time. He also has a Pomeranian named Pess, whose well being is paramount to his mental health according to the word of god. Overall, Miles is a flawed man, who has worked very hard to remake both himself and the world he resided in for the better. He sees the bigger picture and would make sacrifices for the good of all. He firmly believes that imperfect men make the law, and the law can be remade to be more just in order to serve the people.

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