Character: Manfred von Karma Fandom: Ace Attorney/Gyakuten Saiban Character Notes: History:
Manfred's past is virtually unknown, with neither hide nor hair of his parents, childhood, teen years or early adulthood seen in the slightest. He became a prosecuting attorney at the age of 25, and maintained a perfect record up until age 65, forty years of constant guilty verdicts. He has a wife, two daughters, and a granddaughter. His youngest daughter, Franziska, is also a prosecutor (began practicing at age 13, she was born when Manfred was 48), and the entire family hails from Germany, although it would appear that Manfred has set up residence in Los Angeles. He also adopts Miles Edgeworth as a son when the boy is nine years old.
At age 50 (28 December 2001), Manfred went up against Gregory Edgeworth, a defense attorney, in a trial that would later be known as DL-6. Having maintained a completely spotless record up until this point, it came as a huge shock when Gregory was able to prove that Manfred falsified evidence for the trial, earning the prosecutor a permanent black mark on his record. Manfred was enraged, so much that he could barely think straight. After the trial, there was a massive earthquake that shook the entire city, cutting the courthouse's power and trapping Gregory, his young son Miles, and a court bailiff named Yanni Yogi in an elevator for five hours. Due to oxygen deprivation (because elevators are airtight in Japanifornia!), Yogi began to panic, eventually attacking Gregory. In his sudden assault, the gun from his belt fell off, and Miles, who was determined to stop the two from fighting, picked it up and threw it. The gun discharged when it was thrown, and the bullet went through the glass viewing window of the elevator and into the shoulder of an unsuspecting Manfred, who had been standing outside waiting for the power to come back on. The combined pain from the trial earlier and the newfound wound through Manfred into a homicidal delirium, and as the power came back on and the elevator door slid open, he picked up the gun and used it to shoot Gregory, who had since passed out (along with the other two occupants) due to the lack of oxygen.
The initial suspect of the case, Yogi, was found innocent due to a plea of insanity, and Manfred was never held under suspicion. Fearful that he would be, however, Manfred took a six month vacation to allow his shoulder to heal, and never got the bullet removed (that would leave a doctor as a witness, after all). However, even after killing the man, Manfred felt that his revenge on Gregory was still unfulfilled. He decided to take in Miles, who was nine at the time, and raised him to be a prosecutor; everything that Gregory wasn't. He also subtly manipulated Miles into believing that he was the one who killed his father (by leading him to believe that the bullet he discharged while throwing the gun hit his father, not Manfred), and while their relationship for the next fifteen years is largely ambiguous, they develop a certain level of mentor-student respect, even if Manfred only sees Miles as a pawn to use in his complicated web of revenge.
Manfred von Karma: take 2 [2/5?]
Character: Manfred von Karma
Fandom: Ace Attorney/Gyakuten Saiban
Character Notes:
History:
Manfred's past is virtually unknown, with neither hide nor hair of his parents, childhood, teen years or early adulthood seen in the slightest. He became a prosecuting attorney at the age of 25, and maintained a perfect record up until age 65, forty years of constant guilty verdicts. He has a wife, two daughters, and a granddaughter. His youngest daughter, Franziska, is also a prosecutor (began practicing at age 13, she was born when Manfred was 48), and the entire family hails from Germany, although it would appear that Manfred has set up residence in Los Angeles. He also adopts Miles Edgeworth as a son when the boy is nine years old.
At age 50 (28 December 2001), Manfred went up against Gregory Edgeworth, a defense attorney, in a trial that would later be known as DL-6. Having maintained a completely spotless record up until this point, it came as a huge shock when Gregory was able to prove that Manfred falsified evidence for the trial, earning the prosecutor a permanent black mark on his record. Manfred was enraged, so much that he could barely think straight. After the trial, there was a massive earthquake that shook the entire city, cutting the courthouse's power and trapping Gregory, his young son Miles, and a court bailiff named Yanni Yogi in an elevator for five hours. Due to oxygen deprivation (because elevators are airtight in Japanifornia!), Yogi began to panic, eventually attacking Gregory. In his sudden assault, the gun from his belt fell off, and Miles, who was determined to stop the two from fighting, picked it up and threw it. The gun discharged when it was thrown, and the bullet went through the glass viewing window of the elevator and into the shoulder of an unsuspecting Manfred, who had been standing outside waiting for the power to come back on. The combined pain from the trial earlier and the newfound wound through Manfred into a homicidal delirium, and as the power came back on and the elevator door slid open, he picked up the gun and used it to shoot Gregory, who had since passed out (along with the other two occupants) due to the lack of oxygen.
The initial suspect of the case, Yogi, was found innocent due to a plea of insanity, and Manfred was never held under suspicion. Fearful that he would be, however, Manfred took a six month vacation to allow his shoulder to heal, and never got the bullet removed (that would leave a doctor as a witness, after all). However, even after killing the man, Manfred felt that his revenge on Gregory was still unfulfilled. He decided to take in Miles, who was nine at the time, and raised him to be a prosecutor; everything that Gregory wasn't. He also subtly manipulated Miles into believing that he was the one who killed his father (by leading him to believe that the bullet he discharged while throwing the gun hit his father, not Manfred), and while their relationship for the next fifteen years is largely ambiguous, they develop a certain level of mentor-student respect, even if Manfred only sees Miles as a pawn to use in his complicated web of revenge.