Rec-Cember 2025 Day 23: Ace Attorney [50]

[mrsluigivargas]

50 fics on this list and only 3 of them have (tagged) narumitsu can we get a hell yeah —

a heart shaped like a fist by monkeyingaround
General Audiences | Gen
Apollo Justice, Trucy Wright, Klavier Gavin, Daryan Crescend, Ema Skye, Thalassa Gramarye
AU - Canon Divergence
820 words | One-shot
To be fair, Apollo didn't go to the Gavinners concert expecting to punch their lead guitarist. It just kind of happened.

A Match Made in Neo-Olde Tokyo by Feriku
Teen And Up Audiences | F/M
Simon Blackquill/Maya Fey
Romance, Humor, Comedy
31,719 words | 10 chapters
There was nothing wrong with being a fan of the Steel Samurai, but as a grown man, an ex-convict, and a prosecutor with a knack for being the scariest guy in the room in any given situation, Simon Blackquill had no plans to admit his love of the show to anyone... until a certain spirit medium entered his life.
As for Maya Fey, what were the chances she'd meet a REAL samurai, and one willing to watch the Steel Samurai with her, at that? Talk about a reason to celebrate--burgers, anyone?

A Warm Sort of Place by mllelaurel
General Audiences | Gen
Dick Gumshoe, Klavier Gavin, Maggey Byrde, Simon Blackquill
Friendship | 4602 words | 2 chapters
Gumshoe is a comforting presence.

An Insecure Turnabout by Red_Acted (96percentdone)
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Larry Butz
Emotional Hurt/Comfort
2,178 words | One-shot
Crying at the drop of a hat is a quirk of Larry's that you get used to after spending a few minutes around him. Miles has spent several years, and yet despite all those years, all those horribly loud bars and messy break ups, he's never seen anything like this. Larry is crying, and it appears it's Miles' fault.
In which Miles Edgeworth has had enough of being dragged to clubs, but his annoyance is the least pressing issue.

atroquinine girl and the fox with the hole in his heart by kbots
General Audiences | F/M
Vera Misham/Wocky Kitaki
Fluff
7,724 words | One-shot
After a beat, the boy shrugs. “S’cool. You don’t gotta talk if you don’t want. Ma always says I can do enough talkin’ for two.” He pulls a box out of the pocket of his hospital gown - the box of pocky - and offers it out to Vera. “Name’s Wocky. Want a pocky?”
where Vera Misham meets the strangest boy of her life while recovering in the hospital and somehow, against the odds, makes her very first friend

Attuned by CozyRainDrop
General Audiences | Gen
Dick Gumshoe & Miles Edgeworth
Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Character Growth
1,591 words | One-shot
Already he could smell the faint aroma of his favourite evening blend. He highly doubted the hotel would stock it in their rooms. It was expensive. Rare. And it had appeared because someone cared enough to make it appear. To bring it along and brew it while he was still in the shower. It wasn’t a magic trick, just a considerate Detective.
Miles wants to say 'thank you' to Gumshoe.

call it home by gealbhan
General Audiences | Gen
Rayfa Padma Khura'in & Apollo Justice & Nahyuta Sahdmadhi
Post-Canon, Family Dynamics, Grief/Mourning
4,992 words | One-shot
In his roughly three decades alive, Apollo had, objectively, witnessed a lot of strange and monumental things. Watching the Crown Princess of Khura’in and her (and his) older sibling, a world-famous prosecutor in their own right, bicker across the cramped kitchen in his crappy Los Angeles apartment, though, was by all means a new one.

Clipped Wings by TiedyedTrickster
General Audiences | Gen
Simon Blackquill, Athena Cykes, Eustace Winner
AU - Wings, Friendship, Mild Hurt/Comfort
3,268 words | One-shot
Convicts serving hard time or on death row have their pinion feathers clipped, as per law, and for seven years, that has been simply been a fact of life for Simon Blackquill. Except now he's going through his first molt as a free man, which means he'll finally be able to stop walking and start flying again...

Cold Case by RokettoMusashi
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma, Maya Fey & Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey & Miles Edgeworth
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Developing Relationship, Hijinks & Shenanigans
9,489 words | One-shot
Deep into a strangely cold LA winter, unseen from prying eyes... the most despicable, most uncouth, most heinous crime has been committed. Of all the hardship the young Maya Fey has seen since leaving her quaint little commune in the mountains, truly no horror has trifled her on such a level as this.
Someone... has gotten her sick.
Ever the determined truth-seeker, and with years of (totally legit) legal experience under her obi, Maya is going to find out who.

come dine with me by pheenick
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M
Dick Gumshoe/Phoenix Wright
Getting Together, Fluff
5,715 words | One-shot
“It’ll be a long drive,” says Phoenix, cautiously toeing the waters. He spares a glance at Gumshoe and ends up staring openly. Gumshoe smiles. That’s all he does, but Phoenix swears he sees the afternoon sun rising above the clouds.
Or, how Gumshoe gets the guy.

'Debeste' Prosecutor for the Magician Who's Always 'Wright' by nevercomerunning
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Trucy Wright, Eustace Winner, Phoenix Wright, Miles Edgeworth, Maya Fey, Dick Gumshoe
Friendship, Emotional Hurt/Comfort
35,530 words | 13 chapters
or 'The Rise of "Debeste" Magician's Assistant'or 'Puns are Better When You Have a Friend to Assist You'or 'How Trucy Wright Became Sebastian Debeste's Little Guardian Angel’
Trucy adored Sebastian Debeste almost instantly. And before Sebastian even really noticed, Trucy Wright had stubbornly rooted herself in Sebastian's life. He didn't really mind though. Trucy is sort of amazing.

do it for her by TortillaKun
General Audiences | Gen
Maya Fey & Phoenix Wright
Sickfic
3,392 words | One-shot
Maya is sick and doesn't want to go home. With no medicine at the office, Phoenix goes on a little trip to the store to get her something to help, having to deal with his own nerves to make her feel better.

final call by demistories
General Audiences | Gen
Trucy Wright & Phoenix Wright
Family Bonding
2,024 words | One-shot
When Trucy was little, and the Troupe was her life, she knew their show like the back of her hand. Better than.
The cues, the lighting, the blocking, the props—every aspect of their show was burned into her brain.
The Troupe demanded perfection, and Trucy could do perfection.
But now, thirteen years old and years from any performances outside of a bar, she feels maybe a bit over her head.

First Words by BetterDeadAndUnread
General Audiences | Gen
Manfred von Karma & Franziska von Karma
Family Fluff
986 words | One-shot
Franziska von Karma is just over a year old, and she has yet to say her first word.

Forgetmenots and Marigolds by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Gregory Edgeworth, Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth, Franziska von Karma & Gregory Edgeworth
Family, Sibling Love
7,469 words | One-shot
“Truthfully, my intent was to ask you if…” he trails off, clears his throat, re-tries, “I wanted you to accompany me.”
Franziska blinks once, twice. “Accompany you?” she shakes her head, looking at him incredulously. “To—to Gregory Edgeworth’s channeling, Miles? Am I to understand that’s what you’re asking?”
He balls up a little, fidgeting with his sleeve. A short nod, strong even in its lack of confidence.

gone off to the coast by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | Gen
Manfred von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt No Comfort, Introspection, Pre-Canon, Whump
1,361 words | One-shot
The courthouse is burning. Manfred burns with it.

Grounded by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Phoenix Wright, Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth
Hurt/Comfort, Family Feels
2,628 words | One-shot
It's routine, of course—unremarkable and uneventful. A damp nose at his palm, a tug of the leash, a desk or a doorway to curl up beneath. These relative lapses in the day rarely amount to anything. His vision goes fuzzy, he chokes a bit more than he'd like on the still air, and then—as always—he is fine. More than most, in fact, Miles is prepared.
If only any of it made a difference. At the very least, there are people who love him.

hallways, doorways by presumenothing (justjoy)
General Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Phoenix Wright
Missing Scene
609 words | One-shot
Wright has been sitting motionlessly silent on his office couch for what feels like an eternity of hours now, not that Miles can blame him. It’s a minor miracle that the man can still scrape together enough cognitive resources to squint in his vague direction with a furrowed brow.

Hot 'n' Cold by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Canon, Established Relationship
2,769 words | One-shot
“So,” says Franziska, “hot shower?”
Maya freezes a minute, but it’s not quite deer-in-the-headlights as much as it’s hungry-raccoon-in-the-dumpster. Her fuzzy brow scrunches defensively, in that way it sometimes did when she’d rehearsed a conversation in her head.
Interesting.

If by Naem (MistytpedNaem) | General Audiences | Gen | Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey, Charley | 820 words | One-shot
Phoenix talks to a plant. I somehow make a serious fic out of this.

if anyone cares at all by unavoidablekoishi
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Dick Gumshoe & Franziska von Karma
Sickfic
13,336 words | One-shot
As gently as he can muster, because he’s well aware he loses track of his own strength from time to time, he slides a finger under her fringe to tuck it out of the way, and the heat radiating from her face can be felt from inches away. She’s...sweating. Her usual pale complexion is marred with a deep hue of what, in this light, looks like grey, but what Gumshoe can tell is actually bright red.
When the cold air hits her face, she stirs just a little. Not enough to open her eyes, but enough to shift her arm further beneath her head, twisting it to the side. She sniffles, snotty and undignified, and the penny finally drops for Gumshoe.
She’s sick.

Into Two by RescueRabbit
General Audiences | Gen
Apollo Justice
5,606 words | One-shot
He’s still struggling with the thought. He’s always known he had two fathers, in a sense. And he’s always known Dhurke was endeared to his so-called second father. But this is the first time he’s ever felt he really knew the man called Jove Justice. It’s almost like he’s meeting him for the first time, again.

Leopard Lily by frogs_in3_hills
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Viola Cadaverini & Maggey Byrde
Domestic
3,992 words | One-shot
It is not normal the way her vision still fuzzes over like pretty static, and she disappears for hours at a time, waking up with her phone drowned in the sink and her fridge emptier than it should be. She cannot go to the store anymore. She can barely do her job.
Nobody will believe that Viola is not normal. She wonders if she hasn’t given them enough evidence to think so. The only thing she thinks about now is her secret dream, to have her own space in the garden to grow her favorite flower for a very special person.
In which Viola enacts her vengeance through community gardening.

light in the dark by worms212
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Apollo Justice, Phoenix Wright & Apollo Justice
Grief/Mourning, Emotional Hurt/Comfort
3,314 words | One-shot
And then, suddenly, it’s quiet. There’s darkness again, silence. Tentatively, Apollo opens his eyes. He can still see the intermittent glow from the fireworks, but he can’t hear them as anything other than a distant, dull rumble anymore. Edgeworth is there in front of him, a hand on either side of Apollo’s head.
--Fresh off the heels of the UR-1 retrial, Apollo learns the bombing left more than just physical scars. He finds an unexpected ally in Miles Edgeworth, who simply cannot help seeing echoes of himself in Apollo's nascent trauma and grief. Meanwhile, Phoenix proposes a toast.

Metal Masquerade by pictureswithboxes, RokettoMusashi
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma | Slow Burn, Pre-Relationship, Metafiction, AU - Canon Divergence | 167,140 words | 4 out of 8 chapters
Since the day they met, Maya and Franziska have been nervously hovering near one another, dancing around a connection they just can’t seem to make. An off-kilter sick day spent binge-watching Pink Princess changes all of that, as Franziska finds herself thrust into the strange new world of fandom and fanfiction with Maya as her enthusiastic guide.
A metafiction-y love letter of a story about the two of them slowly falling for each other—all they will say, all they will not say, and the catharsis and perils of escapism through fandom.

Mirror Images by estelraca
General Audiences | F/M
Klavier Gavin/Iris
2,869 words | One-shot
When Trucy cons Klavier into taking her up to Kurain Village the winter following the Misham case, Klavier expects to be miserable. Instead he finds himself bonding with one of Maya's older cousins, the two of them sharing troubles and triumphs.

my crown I am by zombiekittiez
Mature | Gen
Rayfa Padma Khura'in, Pearl Fey, Nahyuta Sahdmadhi, Apollo Justice
Religious Conflict | 6367 words | 3 chapters
Pearl Fey cleans the temple like the lowest devotee. She helps translate foreign records into Khurainese, for she is nearly fluent. She stands beside children and frightened women in the docket, helping Apollo and his newly trained lawyers coax testimony from the anxious and weak. They call her the Golden Pearl for the way her light hair catches in the hot Khurainese sun and Rayfa hates her more each passing day.
~~
Or, Pearl Fey comes to Khura’in.

My own rulebook by MagicWhiskers_29
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F, Gen
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma, Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth
Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Queerplatonic Relationships
8,951 words | One-shot
Franziska defines for herself what love is, discovering more about herself along the way.

Notes to Fill the Silence by estelraca
General Audiences | Gen
Klavier Gavin, Ema Skye, Miles Edgeworth, Trucy Wright, Athena Cykes, Eustace Winner, Apollo Justice, Winston Payne, Simon Blackquill
11,839 words | One-shot
Klavier breaks his hand during an investigation, and though it will heal, he finds the intervening weeks difficult.

One for All by estelraca
General Audiences | F/M
Dick Gumshoe/Maggey Byrde, Dick Gumshoe & Miles Edgeworth
Hurt/Comfort
4,799 words | One-shot
Everything was going as planned until the man on the witness stand realized he was going to hang for murder. Gumshoe does what he's supposed to do, protecting everyone in the courtroom, and is badly injured in the process.

Phoenix's Inferno by prospectkiss
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen, Other
Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright, Mia Fey & Phoenix Wright
Poetry, Drama
9,248 words | 10 chapters
With Mia as his spiritual guide, Phoenix must journey through the seven circles of sin to rescue his beloved. Written in verse, and modeled after the classic "Dante's Inferno."

Schlaf, Kindlein, Schlaf by pictureswithboxes
General Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Domestic Fluff
2,500 words | One-shot
"Franziska sniffed and huffed before raising the mug to her lips. Maya watched as Franziska took a long swig of the tea that she may or may not have half-assed making. But Franziska seemed to be enjoying the drink enough to absolutely chug that hot tea."
Franziska von Karma is sick, in this sickfic.

Seam Ripper by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Developing Relationship, Fluff
2,110 words | One-shot
There in the unremarkable shelter of her apartment kitchen, Franziska is unraveling.
Or, rather, she has been for quite some time now. Maya can pinpoint exactly when that first thread came loose. Early—but not that early—in the bed they often shared.

Slow Dance by pantswarrior
General Audiences | Gen
Vera Misham, Apollo Justice, Trucy Wright, Klavier Gavin, Phoenix Wright
Post-Canon, Angst
18,078 words | One-shot
After Vera's trial comes an even more difficult struggle: trying to figure out what a normal life is and how to live it.

Sniffles & Snail Cake by Circuito, RokettoMusashi
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Mutual Pining, Canon-Typical Violence
21,362 words | One-shot
But even German-born Franziska, who treads on these so-called secret, international, missed social cues like they were naught but grass… even she knew that this rule transcended borders. One simply did not reveal when it was their birthday.
--
Sick, overworked, alone, and in America, Franziska finds her birthday this year is shaping up to be kind of a shitshow... that is, until one Maya Fey notices and decides to take matters into her own hands.

Steady by VickyVicarious
General Audiences | Gen
Miles Edgeworth & Phoenix Wright
Friendship, Aromantic Asexual Character, Coming Out, Fluff
2,114 words | One-shot
Phoenix has a question to ask Miles.

Strahlender Karmaritter by RokettoMusashi
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth
Introspection, Dysfunctional Family
15,125 words | One-shot
Papa had said 'knights in shining karma,' and Franziska wishes that was a little more literal, because she thinks perhaps if she had a sturdy, sharpened sword in her hand and the demons of the people were literal manifestations she could slice to ribbons, the cold burning in her chest might be assuaged.
But she’s a knight only in metaphor and her riding crop’s a little dull, so instead she prosecutes.

Sympathy From The Devil by chantolove
General Audiences | Gen, M/M
Nahyuta Sahdmadhi/Simon Blackquill
Sickfic
5,093 words | One-shot
Usually, the benefits of living alone outnumbered the drawbacks so thoroughly that one could forget they existed at all. And usually, the fire and damnation that had come to plague his dreams stayed there, rather than following him into the waking world. But every 'usually' has its 'sometimes'…

the (w)right stuff by worms212
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Trucy Wright & Apollo Justice & Thalassa Gramarye, Phoenix Wright & Apollo Justice
Family Drama, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Light Angst
12,447 words | 2 chapters
"How strange, to feel like the ghost of a dead boy and his father wrapped up in one, to feel Thalassa’s years of grief projected onto himself, a young man she barely knows at all."
OR: After the dust has settled at last, Phoenix sits Trucy and Apollo down for an important revelation. This is the fallout, in a series of vignettes as seen through Apollo's eyes.

The Cafe at the End of the Law by HonestMagpie
General Audiences | Gen
Diego Armando, Godot, Hugh O'Conner, Robin Newman, Juniper Woods, Myriam Scuttlebutt, Simon Blackquill, Klavier Gavin
Character Study
15,518 words | 9 chapters
Themis Academy has a new coffee shop, and the guy who runs it is… real weird.
Cool guy, though.

the only love i ever found by jambi_cafe
General Audiences | M/M, Other
Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright
Love Confessions, Queerplatonic Relationship, Aromantic Character
1,571 words | One-shot
"Have I not made myself clear? I do not spend my time idly. If I am with you, it is because I want to be." Edgeworth speaks with the thoughtfulness and commitment that he brings to everything he does, declaring the above statements as if they are courtroom evidence. Incontrovertible.
Phoenix's heart does an odd sort of thing, filling his whole body with warmth.

the past, the present (and possibly the future) by an_atypical
General Audiences | Gen
Iris & Phoenix Wright, Trucy Wright & Phoenix Wright
Hurt/Comfort
1,891 words | One-shot
“Iris?” She hadn’t spoken to him for five years. While Iris had hoped Phoenix’s visits early into her sentence meant that their relationship could be reignited, the visits kept dwindling in frequency until they stopped altogether within a month. Sometimes, she did wonder how he was doing when she was deep into her meditation. She pictured his spiky black hair, bright eyes, and even brighter smile. And she was reminded why she was so adamant on paying for her mistakes in the first place. But what Iris saw when she turned around was very different than the Phoenix she remembered.
--
aka iris runs into her ex five years later in a grocery store and now he has a five o'clock shadow and a teenage daughter??

The State of Spicy Noodles In Southern California by RokettoMusashi
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F, Gen
Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth, Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Sibling Bonding, Family Feels, Early Relationship
6,317 words | One-shot
“Maya Fey,” she says, “I regret to be the bearer of bad news, but it seems as though my living space is woefully unprepared to properly nurse you back to health.”
“Are you drafting me a fucking work email right now?”

There's something nice about being seen for the right reasons. by gavinnersworldtour
General Audiences | Gen
Klavier Gavin & Simon Blackquill
Future Fic, Fluff
2,687 words | One-shot
It had been years since Klavier had performed on a stage, and years since Klavier had taken on a high-profile trial, and yet, he still found himself stopped in the street by small children and reporters alike to ask whether he was that one guy from a boy band whose brother went to jail. He'd come to terms with the fact that being recognized in the street would fade, but never wholly - it stung nonetheless every time.
So no, he hadn't planned it. But when the Gavinners ex-drummer had called him up and asked him as a favor to step in as a host for a children's television show while the regular host was undergoing emergency surgery, Klavier figured there wasn't any harm in saying yes. After all, he was going to be recognized in the streets anyways.
-
The Klavier Gavin as Mr. Rogers fic that nobody asked for but that has given me severe brainrot.

to rise and ring out too by worms212
General Audiences | Gen
Apollo Justice & Nahyuta Sahdmadhi
Introspection, Family Issues, Light Angst
1,673 words | One-shot
And yet, Nahyuta remembers. Other than Datz, he is the only one left who does: For the first nine years of his life, Apollo ran barefoot and free at Nahyuta’s side, yammering on and on to him in Khura’inese in a voice as loud as a warba’ad’s cry. And here he is again, some 15 or so years later, sticking out like a sore thumb amongst the elegance of a royal family to which his only real connection is Nahyuta.

trust the ground by worms212
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Apollo Justice, Phoenix Wright, Trucy Wright, Athena Cykes
Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Found Family
29,732 words | 3 chapters
The doctors warned him that the concussion could cause mood swings, especially combined with the pain of his other injuries and his very fresh grief, but he didn’t think it would be so hard. He thought that once everything was all said and done, that he’d feel better—that finding Clay’s killer would be enough catharsis, and that once he got some sleep he would be able to function without this horrible weight crushing his chest or this deep, deep agony clawing at his insides. Foolish, really, as Apollo has lived with the pain of loss his whole life.
--
Or: The dust settles, everyone goes home, and Apollo has the biggest physical and mental breakdown of his life. It's a long road toward actually being fine, but it turns out he doesn't have to walk it alone.

Turnabout Substitution by pictureswithboxes
Teen And Up Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma, Pearl Fey & Franziska von Karma, Pearl Fey & Maya Fey, Franziska von Karma & Miles Edgeworth
Case Fic
54,776 words | 8 chapters
'“I must have misheard you,” Franziska said, almost surprised by how flat and cool her voice sounded as she spoke. How easy the words escaped her mouth, forming into the voice of someone cold and clinical, without a hint of the anger she felt in her words. “Because I could have sworn you’d just asked me to act as a defense attorney.”'
When one Maya Fey is in need of legal help, once again, and neither Phoenix Wright nor Miles Edgeworth are available, there is only one person they trust enough to take on the case. And that person is Franziska von Karma, the prodigy prosecutor.

Warm Drafts by Pyrasaur
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M
Dick Gumshoe/Miles Edgeworth
Metafiction, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Mutual Pining
2,881 words | One-shot
Despite having no actual proof that Edgeworth likes Steel Samurai, Gumshoe presents him with a hand-written fan fiction.

Whiplash by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | Gen
Pearl Fey & Franziska von Karma, Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Developing Relationship
6,300 words | One-shot
No good deed goes unpunished... somehow, though, Franziska can't bring herself to regret this one.

(with love) from me to you by RokettoMusashi
General Audiences | F/F
Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma
Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship
3,181 words | One-shot
Their holiday being cut short by Maya coming down sick, well, that was something Franziska didn't mind at all—it was lovely to look after her, and any time spent with her wife was time she found deep joy in.
Her job pulling her away from an ailing Maya's side? Well, she was slightly more furious about that, but Franziska von Karma is nothing if not resourceful.

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