Character: Fandom: Ace Attorney/Gyakuten Saiban Character Notes: History:SPOILERS FOR PHOENIX WRIGHT: ACE ATTORNEY.
Considering how a good 99% of Manfred's actual history is virtually unknown, have some headcanon! If you need clarification on anything, just let me know.
Manfred von Karma grew up in post-war Western Germany, with his ex-Nazi father and...non-Nazi mother, who did her best to shelter him from his father's violent, ego-manical tendencies. Both his mother and father urged him to be 'perfect', although considering that the concept of 'perfect' was different for each parent, this led to Manfred having a very confusing, lonely childhood, striving to meet both of his parents' needs while surviving though a complicated political climate and a recovering nation.
During his teen years, Manfred excelled at school and graduated early. Upon realizing that, after all of the years his parents spent urging him to perfect, they were as imperfect as everone else, Manfred becomes bitter and angry, not to mention confused and unsure of everything he's done with his life so far. Deciding that he desperately needs a change of pace, he departs to the United States to study abroad.
While in the States, he studies law both at an American institution and through abroad studying programs via his original university in Germany. He passes his bar exam at age 25, and begins practicing shortly thereafter.
...believe it or not, Manfred did not start out as being the crazy, perfection-obsessed conniving sonofabitch every Ace Attorney fan is woefully familiar with. Determined to discover a meaning of 'perfection' without the needling of his parents, Manfred stives to win every single case he can, bringing crimminals to justice...using the power of the law (and ONLY the law) as his guide and aid.
However. After years of becoming further disillusioned by the faults of the system, Manfred slowly begins to care more about maintaining his perfect record than seeing justice be served. This record is maintained until the end of his forty year career.
At age 48, his second daughter, Franziska, is born. He has an older daughter, presumably in her early 20's, but she is never directly mentioned in-game. He also has a wife, but details about her are also unknown.
At age 50, Manfred recieves the first and only black mark on his record in his entire prosecuting career; in a case against his rival, Gregory Edgeworth, he is slighted for falsifying evidence, and is given a penalty. He is enraged by this to the point where his thought process is practically incoherant, and later that day, he uses a blackout at the courthouse caused by an earthquake to murder Edgeworth, and begins his complicated fifteen-year-long revenge by taking Gregory's son, Miles, udner his wing. The twisted thing is, he raises Miles to be a prosecutor, everything that his father wasn't, and subtely manipulates the boy into believing that he was the one to kill his father. It was the perfect revenge in Manfred's eyes, and all goes well for fifteen years.
At age 65, he begins his final trial; State v. Edgeworth, in which his pupil is accused of murdering Robert Hammond, a defense attorney who found the initial suspect of Gregory's murder innocent. This is all part of Manfred's plan to finally break Miles, but unfortunetly, all does not go as planned when the upstart attorney Phoenix Wright takes on Miles's defense. Not only is Manfred's plan shattered when Miles is proven innocent, but Phoenix is even able to prove him guilty of Gregory's murder.
After his...rather amusing breakdown in court, Manfred is arrested. Neither hide nor hair of him is seen throughout the rest of the series, and one has to wonder what he's been getting up to since then...
Manfred von Karma [2]
Fandom: Ace Attorney/Gyakuten Saiban
Character Notes:
History: SPOILERS FOR PHOENIX WRIGHT: ACE ATTORNEY.
Considering how a good 99% of Manfred's actual history is virtually unknown, have some headcanon! If you need clarification on anything, just let me know.
Manfred von Karma grew up in post-war Western Germany, with his ex-Nazi father and...non-Nazi mother, who did her best to shelter him from his father's violent, ego-manical tendencies. Both his mother and father urged him to be 'perfect', although considering that the concept of 'perfect' was different for each parent, this led to Manfred having a very confusing, lonely childhood, striving to meet both of his parents' needs while surviving though a complicated political climate and a recovering nation.
During his teen years, Manfred excelled at school and graduated early. Upon realizing that, after all of the years his parents spent urging him to perfect, they were as imperfect as everone else, Manfred becomes bitter and angry, not to mention confused and unsure of everything he's done with his life so far. Deciding that he desperately needs a change of pace, he departs to the United States to study abroad.
While in the States, he studies law both at an American institution and through abroad studying programs via his original university in Germany. He passes his bar exam at age 25, and begins practicing shortly thereafter.
...believe it or not, Manfred did not start out as being the crazy, perfection-obsessed conniving sonofabitch every Ace Attorney fan is woefully familiar with. Determined to discover a meaning of 'perfection' without the needling of his parents, Manfred stives to win every single case he can, bringing crimminals to justice...using the power of the law (and ONLY the law) as his guide and aid.
However. After years of becoming further disillusioned by the faults of the system, Manfred slowly begins to care more about maintaining his perfect record than seeing justice be served. This record is maintained until the end of his forty year career.
At age 48, his second daughter, Franziska, is born. He has an older daughter, presumably in her early 20's, but she is never directly mentioned in-game. He also has a wife, but details about her are also unknown.
At age 50, Manfred recieves the first and only black mark on his record in his entire prosecuting career; in a case against his rival, Gregory Edgeworth, he is slighted for falsifying evidence, and is given a penalty. He is enraged by this to the point where his thought process is practically incoherant, and later that day, he uses a blackout at the courthouse caused by an earthquake to murder Edgeworth, and begins his complicated fifteen-year-long revenge by taking Gregory's son, Miles, udner his wing. The twisted thing is, he raises Miles to be a prosecutor, everything that his father wasn't, and subtely manipulates the boy into believing that he was the one to kill his father. It was the perfect revenge in Manfred's eyes, and all goes well for fifteen years.
At age 65, he begins his final trial; State v. Edgeworth, in which his pupil is accused of murdering Robert Hammond, a defense attorney who found the initial suspect of Gregory's murder innocent. This is all part of Manfred's plan to finally break Miles, but unfortunetly, all does not go as planned when the upstart attorney Phoenix Wright takes on Miles's defense. Not only is Manfred's plan shattered when Miles is proven innocent, but Phoenix is even able to prove him guilty of Gregory's murder.
After his...rather amusing breakdown in court, Manfred is arrested. Neither hide nor hair of him is seen throughout the rest of the series, and one has to wonder what he's been getting up to since then...