#Simon Blackquill

[howlidae]

rarepair doodle from last night... feyquill :3

#ace attorney #my art #simon blackquill #maya fey #feyquill

[kiwipineappleparasol]

An Assortment of Scribbles from Late Summer 2022 - End of 2023

#the kiwi scribbling zone #ace attorney #dual destinies #bobby fulbright #athena cykes #simon blackquill #apollo justice #trucy wright #juniper woods #hugh o'conner #myriam scuttlebutt #robin tonate and patches are also here but they’re so minimal idk if I should bother tagging them #Also Doopliss . Doopliss is in one of these . Callback to the Doopliss Phantom Crossover post I made #Actually several of these are Related to previous posts of mine . But I don’t want to bother linking to them #blackbright #i guess . This is mostly tagged to not annoy anyone else . It’s like Barely implied .

[floccesytowne]

aa ship requests from twitter

#ace attorney #franmaya #justquill #claypollo #apollo justice #do i tag every character. #simon blackquill #maya fey #franziska von karma #clay terran #my art #shoves my transfem agenda down your throat

[the-bar-sinister]

Yesterday I talked a lot about the gay subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there's lots of it.

Today, I'm going to talk about the het subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there's lots of it.

Honestly, I could probably end the post there, because that's my whole point.

But I'll elaborate.

I'll elaborate because the Ace Attorney fandom is pretty unique in that a large section of the fandom acknowledges the subtle gay subtext in Ace Attorney, while at the same time absolutely refusing to acknowledge that the blindingly obvious het subtext exists at all, and pretending strongly that it does not.

Headcanons are one thing, but even as slash shippers, we can't actually engage with the text in good faith without accepting that the dominant cultural perspective– the perspective that the narrative assumes and is written with the intention of catering to–  is straight.

An adult, straight, culturally normative audience is who the Ace Attorney is primarily directed at and written by.

Yes, there is deliberate gay subtext in the series. But it's written with the understanding that a queer reading of the text will not be the dominant/majority reading.

The dominant/majority reading of the text, and to a large degree its intention, is a straight one.

We need to accept that, as I said in my post about the gay subtext in the series: 

"Phoenix Wright and Athena Cykes both have obvious subtextually heteronormative romantic partners. To an adult, straight, culturally normative audience, Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey read normatively as an obvious romantic pairing. This is also the case for Athena Cykes and Simon Blackquill. In Great Ace Attorney the same can be said for Ryuunosuke and Susato.

I repeat– to an adult, straight culturally normative audience, the romantic subtext between these characters is clear. If you showed these games to an American movie going public, that would be the obvious read by the audience."

To a culturally normative, adult, straight audience the relationships between Maya and Phoenix and Athena and Simon aren't seen as problematic. They are in fact viewed as the obvious pairing. Male/female age gaps with an older male and a younger female are very often romanticized in heterosexual society, and they are, frankly, romanticized in the text of Ace Attorney, with both Phoenix and Simon being protective toward Maya and Athena.

This is not saying that you have to accept these pairings as canon, or you have to like them. You don't have to at all. You're totally free to reject them and ship other pairings.

The Ace Attorney games are in fact written deliberately without any romantic confirmation so an audience is able to project whatever relationships that they want onto the cast.

But it is not written without romantic subtext. 

A culturally normative audience just naturally assumes that Phoenix and Maya are meant to be together. If you showed the story to an American movie-going public, that would be the obvious, default assumption.

Having gay ships is not the issue here, there's as much subtextual evidence for them as there is for the het ships.

The point is that there is just as much subtextual evidence for het ships.

The issue is that people need to accept that the het subtext is real, and stop pretending that the people who see it are somehow wrong, misguided or outright predatory.

You can't read romantic intentions between Miles and Phoenix's behavior while insisting that the same type of interaction between Athena and Simon is meant to be 100% platonic, or even deliberately sibling-like.

You can't look at official artwork of the characters--such as Maya and Phoenix-- framed in obviously deliberately romantic ways and demand to know what the artwork means. It's meant to be shippy.

You don't have to like het pairings. You don't have to ship het pairings. But you have to admit that het pairings have just as much, if not more, deliberate canon romantic subtext as the gay pairings.

#ace attorney #ace attorney meta #shipping #shipping dynamics #media analysis #queer reading #fandom wank #media literacy #phoenix wright #maya fey #athena cykes #simon blackquill

[sceebybeeby]

⚠️slight blood, MAJOR AA5/DD spoils⚠️

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toxic yaoi or something idk i'm lesbian

#ace attorney #ace attorney fanart #simon blackquill #bobby fulbright #the phantom (girl idk how to tag him) #the hours it takes to make these pieces is so inconsistent #wdym 6 HOURS ??? #tw blood #aa5 spoilers #also someone notice the eyeball please please #my meds haven't kicked in and i'm so hungry dude omgggg #phantomquill #whoops wrong ship tag :3

[hazyla]

I cannot stop thinking about what if blackquill was the prosecutor when phoenix cross examined a god damn parrot

#Ace attorney #phoenix wright #simon blackquill #that one parrot in that ace attorney case #Haz text

[hexadonis]

idk why i just rlly wanted to draw them all as normal office coworkers. worst workplace of all time

#my art #ace attorney fanart #ace attorney #klavier gavin #athena cykes #franziska von karma #simon blackquill #diego armando #mia fey #ema skye #i fr don’t know why i made this

[golden-snackoos]

old misc. ace attorney character fashion prompts

#ace attorney #athena cykes #maya fey #apollo justice #simon blackquill #nahyuta sahdmadhi #juniper woods #rayfa padma khura'in #ema skye #klavier gavin #ghost trick #my-art #don't ask me about apollo's idk what was going on

[chiicakee]

christmas gift for my best friend!

(cross posted on twitter)

#ace attorney #phoenix wright ace attorney #phoenix wright #trucy wright #miles edgeworth #klavier gavin #athena cykes #pearl fey #maya fey #simon blackquill #nahyuta sahdmadhi #apollo justice #franziska von karma #procreate #i was trying out a new brush so if it looks strange that's why lols... #me.png

[stankworth]

Soft spot

#simon blackquill #sebastian debeste #miles edgeworth #ace attorney #my HC is that edgeworth got simon special dispensation to prosecute in Dual destinies so after his badge is in limbo #also i dont want to paint smokng w too broad a brush. but i think simon started assuming he wouldnt live to see long-term effects. #surviving means he actually has to live with the consequences of his actions and the person he's become #my art

[fluorescencefuture]

art of the sequel trilogy prosecutors always looks like this

#Ace Attorney #Gyakuten Saiban #Klavier Gavin #Simon Blackquill #Nahyuta Sahdmadhi #my art

[ministarfruit]

DID Y’ALL SEE THE NEW APOLLO JUSTICE VISUALS BECAUSE WOOO YEAH WOWZA anyway I drew a low budget version of it which you may see here

#ace attorney #apollo justice #I'M SO HAPPY!!!! #yes I will be like this every time we get a crumb of news #trucy wright #phoenix wright #athena cykes #maya fey #how in the hell am I going to tag the rest #ummm #centre characters only! #ema skye #klavier gavin #nahyuta sahdmadhi #simon blackquill #bobby fulbright #miles edgeworth #rayfa padma khura'in

[prommytheus]

blackquill decides that a little bit of possible jail time is worth it to break out the katana at work

#kazuma version coming soon #ace attorney #my art #klavier gavin #miles edgeworth #simon blackquill #nahyuta sahdmadhi #sebastian debeste #aa6

[lorillee]

doodles done during my spirit of justice liveblog

#ace attorney #athena cykes #simon blackquill #apollo justice #phoenix wright #maya fey #nahyuta sahdmadhi #lorillee.png #lorillee liveblogs aa6 #<- i suppose

[huyandere]

asking some real questions

#ace attorney #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #apollo justice #klavier gavin #kristoph gavin #athena cykes #maya fey #ema skye #simon blackquill #trucy wright #aa

[eternaleclips3]

I've come to the realization people never really talk about how defense attorneys are usually the doe eyes to the prosecution's siren eyes and I think its a nice little detail (look at tags y'all)

#I purposefully put a pic of godot with his mask on yes #ace attorney #miles edgeworth #maya fey #franziska von karma #mia fey #prosecutor godot #godot #klavier gavin #apollo justice #athena cykes #simon blackquill #aa trilogy #they can be siren/fox eyes idc