#Franziska von Karma had been a practicing lawyer for 7 years when she was the age that Phoenix ate glass
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Everyday I wake up in the morning and I think to myself "How would the other Ace Attorney characters react to the knowledge that Phoenix Wright ate glass at the age of 20?"
And everyday, I laugh to myself for 45 seconds at the thought. Thank you, Ace Attorney, for making Phoenix Wright eat glass.
#ace attorney#by the age Phoenix was eating glass Maya had been abducted trapped in a cave had been framed for murder and had a murder attempted on her#Franziska von Karma had been a practicing lawyer for 7 years when she was the age that Phoenix ate glass#Miles was still recovering from having a gun pulled on him in court and the whole Terry Fawles thing when Phoenix Wright was eating glass#Godot was fucking dead while Phoenix Wright was eating glass#I love ace attorney#Bailey post tm
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This line seems funny in hindsight, with all of the ‘prodigies’ we kept having since than. But... well... just hear me out. When Miles started practicing law, it's clear that he WAS unusually young for a Prosecutor. That's not just an Early-Installment Weirdness thing in AA1, he's being getting "wtf who let this overdressed baby into the courtroom?" reactions in the AAI flashback case as well.
(I'm leaving Franziska out of this post for the most part cause even with all the prodigies we got since her first appreance, she's still a MASSIVE outlier. We never got a prodigy that topped the whole ‘someone let a 13 year old partice law’)
And we don't see much 'prodigies' in the 'previous generation' to Phoenix, like Grossberg and whoever seems just like legit Old Dudes. And if we take Manfred von Karma's '40 years record' 100% accurately, that means he started prosecuting when he was a year *older* than Phoenix Wright. Now, we have out-of-universe reasons for the increase in prodigies and the general Decending Average Age of Lawyers in Japanifornia (The series' wonderfully silly need to constatnly one-up itself. Also ageism, which is less wonderfully silly). But I think an arguement can be made for an in-universe theory as well. Miles and Franziska were clearly outliers at the time, not only brilliant, but also taught from a very very young age by a Legendary Prosecutor. But... something happened, since they appeared in the world of law, to increase the amount of young lawyers.
My headcanon is that Themis Legal Academy (AKA Lawyer High School) was either founded midway through the Original Trilogy Era - or if it is older, it only started offering courses to Literal Teenagers around that same time. What if Sebastian Debeste is one of Themis' first graduates?
Lawyer High School existing also started to normalize the process of allowing in younger people in other law schools as well. Put in also trying to compete with all the young lawyers coming from Germany\Europe and you've got a process through which the average age of a lawyer was reduced in, like, five years.
Also, remember how it’s offical canon since the first game that trials *used* to actually take as long as trials do in the real world and it's only a 'recent law' (at the time of the first game) that they take three fucking days? (The IS-7 incident, the case that Manfred and Gregory fought over took a full year to reach a conclusion). Plus my Themis theory... It means Japanifornia might have STARTED with a Perfectly Normal and Realistic Legal System and it just... slowly started decending into Ace Attorney Wackiness a few years before the games started and never stopped.
That's why I like this headcanon. Thinking about it like that is funny to me. Once upon a time, Manfred von Karma dressing up like a vampire to court might have been the weirdest thing you had to deal with in court and people like Marvin Grossberg had to watch it decend into madness in real time.
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