New character (Nintendo Dream, Apr. 21)

Poppy Cox · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:34 pm

Ooooh, so she DOES exist! XD I was just wondering cause I read a thing mentioning her in Defendant's Lobby.

Anyways... I agree that she's most likely the rival. We need some sort of rival. And I think they would show the rival before showing any assistants. And besides, I'm pretty sure that Gumshoes's the assistant pal. :eh?:

Also, I doubt she's Franny's older sister either. She honestly doesn't look like the type to have a seven year old daughter. Granted, I could be mistaken, but she seems too young. :yuusaku:

T3h_Waffleman · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:05 pm

I call dibs on being her fanboy. I also bestow her with the codename Miyuki Takada. No pun, I just like the sound of it.

EDIT: Just realized Miyuki has the word "key" in it. Kinda. The SOUND of it. Me You Key. Maybe that's worth something?

yohen · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:13 pm

MoronSonOfBoron · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:19 pm

I personally prefer calling her "Hanamae Nashi," from "namae nashi," because she has no name as of yet.
And yes, I've started making fanart of her, much as I dislike the possible implications of having a cute girl anywhere near Edgeworth... and the Capcom team is parading her around so much you can't help but wonder if she's going to be a lynchpin of Gyakuten Kenji.

And the aforementioned fanart.

Spoiler: HER TRUE IDENTITY REVEALED

Spoiler: THE POTENTIAL FOR FANSERVICE

Croik · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:23 pm

If you guys are going to be giving her cute nicknames already, please be clear when you use them around the forum that they're not official. I don't want to get a bunch of questioning emails XD;;;

Wooster · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:28 pm

*Twitch* Cross Dressing Beta-Phoenix?

I've obviously been online too long.

MoronSonOfBoron · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:30 pm

You're welcome, Wooster :D

...I've also drawn him in Franziska's dress, do you want those too?

Mr. Bear Jew · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:32 pm

She's too young to be Misty, too old to be Maya, too contemporarily dressed to be a Fey, definitely is not Mia, and looks nothing like any character we've seen so far. I'm holding out for a completely brand new OC.

GUI · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:32 pm

T3h_Waffleman wrote:

I call dibs on being her fanboy.

I can see it now, "Mystery Girl: Mysterious or MYSTERIOUS?!"

It would be amusing for her to be Edgeworth's girlfriend just to see these forums turn into a bomb made of hate.

MoronSonOfBoron · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:36 pm

Well, having to label my fanfic as AU would grant me certain freedoms. It's such a bitch sticking to canon.

JapaneseGIRL · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:06 am

Nintendo Dream

She is 17 years old.
All secret other than age.
An important character.

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Watatata~! · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:21 am

yohen wrote:

[IMAGE COMPARISON]

If you look at the newer Maya art, her face is rounder compared to Mystery!Girl. And their eye structure is different. Also Mystery!Girl is more tanner. Lawyer!Nick and Hobo!Nick have the exact the same eyes but they are just different in proportion.

Ryu · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:19 am

Cartoon theme songs, oh yeah.... thanks!

Atsime · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:34 am

JapaneseGIRL wrote:

Nintendo Dream

She is 17 years old.
All secret other than age.
An important character.

That age eliminates the elder daughter of the von Karmas theory (Although, I thought the older sister would had Blonde hair, or light blue hair anyway).

Curse you Capcom! You make me a curious cat! :beef:

watshisname08 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:03 am

Well I'll just state what many of us are thinking on the board...
Could someone please translate the Nintendo Dream article please...
We'll be patient while someone translates...
Promise...

Pepper's Ghost · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:07 am

Some possible identities~

Maya Fey: Having completed her spirit medium training, she appears as witness in the first case and appears again in case 5 to channel the victim.

Keelee Lockhart: A girl with no connection with previous characters, and links all four cases together through an overly complicated backstory. Most likely an orphan.

Yuffyle Payne: Winston's granddaughter. While Gumshoe acts as the main sidekick in the game, it's Yuffyle who you ask for advice at the beginning of each chapter.

Londrey Scarkoff: A young woman being trained in the martial arts, she is a prodigy defense attourney who uses ninja weapons as her character gimmicks. (Hey, if Franziska got the job at 13...)

~~Ima Oldbag: Sent by her grandmother to win Miles' love for her.~~

All names invented by moi. With the exception of Maya, of course.

SaraLily · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:05 am

I just hope for the creators's sakes that she isn't romanticaly involved with Edgeworth, or they will have angry fangirls after them haha ;)

Komachi · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:17 am

I only have one question here: will the story take place in Japan?(Because someone on another forum read the pages and said it would take place abroad, but I think it makes very little sense...=_=

Thank you..m(_ _)m

Edit：Well...I just got the answer from that guy, he said the game would mainly happen right after GS2...

...So we have Power and Old Bag and Lotta in the new game...well... can the "bell boy" in the trailer actually be Shelly De Killer?

PouchedRat · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:45 am

So um, who else is going to be immature and ram poor Edgeworth into Gumshoe over and over again?

Bad me, bad.

Tinker · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:34 am

Seventeen? And she looks much older than Maya.
Oh Maya, you're such a brat.

EDIT: Is that some rock band case I note there? Not the Gavinners, I guess, since there's a saxophone and no guitars.

G.Gustice · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:44 am

I'm going with a 'key'-related name.Maybe Locket is her last name?

Dick-Gumshoe · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:19 pm

Hmm,she looks like an enemy character or some sort of.We still don know if we find it out.JapaneseGIRL,please but this magazine like you have said. :')

MercuryKitten · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:25 pm

SaraLily wrote:

I just hope for the creators's sakes that she isn't romanticaly involved with Edgeworth, or they will have angry fangirls after them haha ;)

Ooh goodness, that would be suicide for them. xD That's like...four pretty prominent pairings right off the bat that I can think of that involve him and have pretty angry fanbases behind them....

I'm pretty sure they'd keep up with the whole ambigious pairings theme they seem to have going, since apart from a select few most pairings in PW are pretty open-ended. If they ever changed that even to a pairing I like, I would be pretty annoyed since it would go against the idea of the game. It's not a romance-themed game, after all.

And I think I agree with the "Key" related name, unless the artists got bored and decided to randomly draw a key in her hair...
The Key to what, though?

The Goddamned Batman · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:43 pm

So what is it with these guys and teenagers in knee-high boots? I mean, first there's Trucy, then there's this girl.

Someone's got a feeeeeeeeeeeeeeetish........ :igarashi:

Doom Saber · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:54 pm

My speculation is that this female chick is a ninja where the game will carry a haevily ninja theme much like how PW 1-3 has a japanese spiritual theme and AJ having a western magician theme. I guess ninjas are chosen since they are seen as mysterious and magical whereas they can vanish whenever they like, much like magicians.

I would guess that the girl is a sidekick for Edgeworth, but since Gum appears to be the sidekick, she is most likely, the defense attorney. I wouldn't be suprised if she plays a big role in the game like the Feys did in AA1-3 and Trucy in AA-4

Demonic Defense · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:10 pm

That key in her hair will be be megahuge important evidence in the last case. Calling it right now.

Tomoshibi Amatsu · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:55 pm

I still say she's a ninja... or some kinda old fashion person who lives by the code of samurai and maybe she helps Edgeworth and Gumshoe in many ways. After all Edgeworth needs a plucky female sidekick with a gimmick.

Poppy Cox · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:02 am

Hrmmm... if you guys want her to be a von Karma so badly...

She MIGHT be von Karma's eldest daughter's daughter. And if you can't follow that, the granddaughter that he mentioned who had a dog named Phoenix.

She was seven years old during the first game. GS4 takes place around 9-10 years after the first game, I believe. That would make her 17 now.

The same age as the mystery girl.

She doesn't really look like a von Karma to me, though.

Tomoshibi Amatsu · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:07 am

Poppy Cox wrote:

Hrmmm... if you guys want her to be a von Karma so badly...

She MIGHT be von Karma's eldest daughter's daughter. And if you can't follow that, the granddaughter that he mentioned who had a dog named Phoenix.

She was seven years old during the first game. GS4 takes place around 9-10 years after the first game, I believe. That would make her 17 now.

The same age as the mystery girl.

She doesn't really look like a von Karma to me, though.

That wouldn't make sense though as Fransizka never mentioned having any other siblings but Edgey.

Doom Saber · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:28 am

Tomoshibi Amatsu wrote:

Poppy Cox wrote:

Hrmmm... if you guys want her to be a von Karma so badly...

She MIGHT be von Karma's eldest daughter's daughter. And if you can't follow that, the granddaughter that he mentioned who had a dog named Phoenix.

She was seven years old during the first game. GS4 takes place around 9-10 years after the first game, I believe. That would make her 17 now.

The same age as the mystery girl.

She doesn't really look like a von Karma to me, though.

That wouldn't make sense though as Fransizka never mentioned having any other siblings but Edgey.

Actually, in various material, it is said that Manfred has two daughters

Although I cannot remember if the eldest daughter was stated in the game, the granddaughter was in the first game and since Fransizka never had a kid, it is most likely the elder daughter.

Doom Saber · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:29 am

I don't think she is a van Karma because she doesn't have white to bluish white hair nor wears the european 17th century clothing.

Watatata~! · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:02 am

The key in her hair could be a skeleton key.

(MAYBE SHE'S A DEUS EX MACHINA CHARACTER)

Tomoshibi Amatsu · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:04 am

ah she's a master thief that Edgey teams up with because she can do stuff Gumshoe can't.

Poppy Cox · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:13 am

Ah, that's alright. I just found a loophole in my theory anyways.

Edgey's game obviously doesn't take place at the same time as GS4. Not unless Edgey and Gumshoe found the fountain of youth or something. Which I highly doubt.

HyperSomnia · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:21 am

BAH! This woman is no Von Karma!

Not a Fey either but I this girl deffinetly has some ties to Kurain or Hazarukura (sp?). I think she is a new player entirely.

Spoiler:

天才_ · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:28 am

Random Prophet wrote:

Actually I think she looks more like Franziska. She has the same blue eyes and the bangs. MAYBE SHE'S FRANZISKA'S OLDER SISTER. Which would make tons of sense since Miles was a part of the family for fifteen years and we've never seen her yet, despite having proof of her existence. ...looks like she left the 'fam to join the occult or something tho : | maybe she's a Fey Wannabe.

Omg I'd totally love it if she was a Von Karman, because then most likely Franziska would make some sort of entrance. :O

But, she's definately not Maya, and I'm pretty sure she's definately not Misty.
The only thing that slightly resembles Maya is probably the purple scarf and the too-high ponytail. And Misty? Nah, definately not. wayy too young and absolutely no resembles to me.

The way she's looking at Edgeworth ... I dunno.. the look in her eyes. I can't really explain it, but to me, it looks like SHE'S looking at Edgey with some sort of a familiar smile/facial expression thing.

The only thing that I find doesn't 'suit' the Franziska's older sister thing is the fact that it doesn't appear that she has 18th century clothes. But then again, her older sister didn't really turn out to be an insane prosecutor perfectionist person, so maybe her sister was just the 'Black Horse' of the family.

Also, she looks a bit young to be a mother?

I dunno. But the Franziska older sister thing DEFINATELY makes sense.

God, I can't wait for this game. :acro:

Regy Rusty · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:12 am

*ahem*

It has been determined that this game takes place after the end of GS3 (if you haven't read Tuesday's excellent translation of the original article where this is revealed, shame on you! Go read it now!)

Second, JapaneseGIRL has just revealed that the girl is 17 at the time of the game.

This rules out the elder von Karma sister, as well as her daughter (neither of whom do I ever expect to see in the games anyway, especially since the elder sister is only barely canon) due to age requirements.

This also naturally rules out Maya and Misty. I'm quite certain that this is an entirley new character altogether.

Doom Saber · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:30 am

If I had to guess, the new character is a rival of Edgeworth with a ninja molif since she seems to be drawn in shadows and has some distincts between Gumshoe and Edgeworth. Much to the shigrin of female fans, I wouldn't be suprised if the two would deleveop some sort of ambigious friendship and some of us might view as romantic, much like how some can view the ambigious character development between Edgeworth and Phoenix and Aj and Klavier as a romantic one.

Besides, it would be nice to see a main character in an AA to have an ambigious relationship with another character that isn't a dude.

Zeon Twilight · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:41 pm

Doom Saber wrote:

Besides, it would be nice to see a main character in an AA to have an ambigious relationship with another character that isn't a dude.

Heh, good point, not that there is anything wrong with it, but Gotta change the pace now and then

icer · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:46 pm

I know. It's Edgeworth's mother! Someone was channelling her, and they threw that key at her head, so the mystery person was stuck channelling her eternally!
Just joking.

It's someone new. I bet she has some power though, if she's a sidekick. Pity we can't have Ema and her powers of science, but I guess she's supposed to be studying overseas at this point of the timeline.

Or else, she could be some random case-only character, but they only have 40% complete so they have to show off everything they have? Anyone else think she looks a bit like the older guy in one of the screenshots [the one which people called 'Kristoph's dad']

Please, not Edgeworth's girlfriend. It makes no sense with the other games. Edgeworth is definitely either to be paired with Phoenix or asexual.