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APPLICATIONS -- 2010; 001

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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.

Almost 15 years after DL-6 (24 December 2016), Manfred believes that he is almost away scott free. After all, the statute of limitations for the case has almost run out (after fifteen years, an unsolved case is officially closed, and suspects can no longer be apprehended), and no one has ever had any reason to suspect him in the slightest. It's time for the final act of his grand revenge to be placed into action. A while prior, Manfred sent an anonymous letter to Yogi, who had been living a lie for the past fifteen years. His lawyer, Robert Hammond, had him plead guilty during DL-6 in order for him to win the case, when Yogi was, in fact, still perfectly sane. He's held a grudge against Hammond for all of these years, and in his letter, Manfred explains to Yogi how to best act out his revenge. On Christmas Eve, Yogi calls Miles Edgeworth, now a respected (but conflicted) prosecutor, out to Gourd Lake, posing as Hammond and claiming that they having something they need to talk about. He also calls Hammond to the lake that night, only to kill him in his boat rental store and don a disguise to fool Miles into believing he was Hammond. Then, after he and Miles are alone in a point in the middle of the lake, he fires two shots into the water; one was to make a noise so that anybody looking at the lake will notice them, and the other was to make it seem like Miles shot Yogi. Yogi then dives into the water and swims to shore, leaving a shocked Miles alone on the lake, where he is eventually arrested on the suspicion of murdering Robert Hammond (since he was masquerading as Hammond while on the boat with Miles, everybody believes that it was truly Hammond and Miles out on the boat, and as such, that Miles killed Hammond while on the boat). Having Miles arrested is the icing on the cake for Manfred, but it doesn't end here.

Being the meticulous man that he is, Manfred was well prepared should his plan for framing Miles go wrong. And go wrong it did; by the hand of Phoenix Wright, the man who defends Miles and eventually reveals the truth behind Hammond's murder. However.

For the last fifteen years, Miles has believed that he killed his father, partially because of his own hazy memories of the events, and partially because of Manfred's possible hinting at this for the duration of their relationship. The entire case with Hammond has only served to reawaken the memories of the case, and new found guilt wells up in him and causes him to confess to murdering his father as soon as he is found innocent of murdering Hammond. Manfred knew this would happen, and has, in reality, been steering the trial towards this conclusion since the very beginning. It's his act of perfect torture, finally freeing him from the ever-present worry that he may, somehow, still be connected to the murder of Gregory Edgeworth.

...but all thanks to Phoenix, his final plan completely unravels, and the attorney not only proves Miles innocent of Gregory's murder, but manages to prove Manfred's guilt of it right on the day that he would have been free (the final day of the trial is 28 December 2016, the exact day the statute of limitations runs out). His plans have been completely and utterly shattered to bits, and he was arrested, sent to prison, and has not been heard from since.

This is, truly, every canon detail that is known about him or about the events directly involving him. If this still isn't enough then, well. I can't say that I didn't try!

Personality:

Manfred is cold, calculating, and incredibly ruthless. His self-assured, condescending manner is incredibly aggravating, and it would appear that he has little to no respect for anyone other than himself. He is dead-set on his goals, and will not allow himself to be dissuaded in any fashion. Everything in his life is planned (OCD, maybe? It suits him), down to the amount of time a trial will run ("This trial will be over in three minutes!")...and whenever this plan is disrupted, he becomes incredibly angry and agitated. However, he will recover very quickly, and his quick-thinking will easily enable him to construe another method of attack if his previous one happens to fail.

Despite his cold exterior, it cannot be said that Manfred is entirely without compassion. His daughter's attitude towards him shows that he could not have been overly mean to her, given the vast amount of respect she shows for him, even after his is proven guilty of murder. Miles respects him greatly, as well, even though he was only used by Manfred as a pawn in his revenge against Gregory -- which may show that Manfred might have gained some soft of affection for the boy during the fifteen years they shared together. He has a wife, whom I'm sure he does truly loves, although this love might have been twisted and shattered by his evolution into the crazy sonofabitch we see today.

Manfred is also incredibly strong, and sturdy as a tank. He takes a bullet to the shoulder and never gets it removed, although he did take a vacation afterward to let himself heal. His determination is to be admired, as well, given that he retrains a parrot within a day in order to cover up something the bird had said the day before. Manfred is serious business, guys.

He does not take kindly to fools, and if you don't show due respect to him, it will be sure to some back and beat you down later. In a shocking fashion. Literally. The guy carries a tazer in his blazer pocket, and is not afraid to use it.
Other: ...he's a badass. A cold, ruthless, horrible conniving badass, but a badass nonetheless.
Additional Links: The Court-Records entry (”http://www.court-records.net/chara1-4.htm#karma”) on him. You can also go the the TVTropes page (”http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/AceAttorney”) on the AA characters and scroll on down to him.

First Person (entry type):

--tch. To think that I have been degraded to using this...mechanical tomfoolery to speak my mind. An utter disgrace.

...however, I suppose it can be tolerable for the purpose I wish to use it for. After all, a...face-to-face confrontation would not exactly be applicable to a man in my position. I'm sure you know that better than anyone else, Mr. Phoenix Wright? Rather foolish of you to think that you'd be rid of me quite yet, with your charming charades and ridiculous naivete that I will thoroughly enjoy crushing beneath my feet.

...of course, I would not want to rush. This can be saved for another time.

For now, I wish to extend my greetings to all those I may have held contact with before my...incarceration. I do hope our interactions from this point onward prove to be more meaningful and consist of less nonsense dither than they did before. And to those I have not communicated with before and who wish to engage me in conversation...while I will not discourage you from doing so, be aware that I will not tolerate meaningless talk of personal matters or the like. If you have something you wish to say to me, get on with it and spare me the dramatics. I am a busy man.

Third Person: [Set in the aftermath of his trial against Gregory.]

A penalty. A penalty.

He felt his hands quiver and, with a low growl of fury, he lashed out and slammed his fist into the courthouse wall, feeling a dull pain lace up his arm but he ignored it, it wasn't important. No, what was important here was that Gregory Edgeworth was going to pay.

"Foolishness," he muttered, taking slow, drudging steps down the hall towards the building's exit, letting his arm fall down to rest heavily at his side. His fists were clenching, unclenching. Clenching, unclenching. "I am Manfred von Karma. I am perfect, I cannot--I WILL not let myself be sullied by that man--"

...but if he were to be honest with himself, he already was. The Chief Prosecutor had already filed the paperwork for his penalty. It was a dirty word, coiling like black smoke and he waved a hand in front of his face, grinding his teeth in an effort to shoo it away, however intangible it may be. It was dirty. He felt unclean, soiled, blackened by this penalty that draped itself over his shoulders like a cloak, and somewhere in the back of his mind he knew he wasn't thinking clearly, but damn it all if he wasn't listening to that nagging voice at moment.

Everything he'd worked for for twenty five years. A perfect record. Granted, his record itself remained intact. But that little black mark...

Oh, he would get him. He would cover Gregory Edgeworth in black marks of his own, grind him into the ground like the bug that he was and watch him writhe in pain and scream for mercy but, no, Manfred von Karma was too perfect to have the concept of mercy--

--and then the lights went out and the ground shook beneath his feet.

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