History Fanfic / DirtySympathy

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Normally, framing someone for a crime that they didn't do would be despicable, but since they were going to murder someone and had already committed severe abuse, it's their just desserts.

* SynchronizedMorningRoutine: The morning of the Vera Misham trial, the narration details how Klavier and Apollo get ready in the morning as they deliberately dress themselves to look vulnerable to gain the sympathy of the jury.

* MorningRoutine: The morning of the Vera Misham trial, the narration details how Klavier and Apollo get ready in the morning as they deliberately dress themselves to look vulnerable to gain the sympathy of the jury.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Klavier and Apollo's sex scene is [[SexyDiscretionShot not explicit]] but described in very glowing terms. Played with by that time, they helped kill a man and are planning to frame another one, so you can't call them good people.

* AdultFear: Apollo and Klavier are trapped in abusive relationships with people that have the power to cover up their murders and they have no where to turn to.
** Being forgotten because you have no family or friends that would miss you.

* [[spoiler: EarnYourHappyEnding: While they lost their careers and can never go back to the U.S., Klavier and Apollo can restart their lives and remain together.]]

* [[spoiler: LeaveBehindAPistol: Discussed by Klavier and immediately defied by Edgeworth, who is disgusted by the idea that he would make them commit suicide]]

* [[spoiler: RecruitingTheCriminal: Edgeworth recruits Klavier and Apollo as his apprentices because they both have extremely good teamwork and a great understanding of the law.]]

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Klavier is initially mistaken to be Kristoph when he and Apollo first meet and Apollo has to remind himself sometimes that Klavier and Kristoph do have some physical differences when he gets startled.
** Klavier [[ExploitedTrope exploits]] his resemblance to disguise himself as Kristoph to frame his brother for murder.
** [[spoiler: Vera Misham]] is afraid of Klavier because he looks so much like his brother.

* [[spoiler: TakingTheHeat: When Edgeworth captures them in Germany and he's trying to figure out who's the mastermind, Klavier and Apollo both try to take the blame in hopes he would let the other go. This complicates Edgeworth's decision as this proves that they [[EvilVirtues both genuinely love each other along]] with the grey areas of their actions.]]

* [[spoiler: TookALevelInBadass: Edgeworth, who's an unoffical consultant and government figure to all of Europe and parts of Asia.]]

* [[spoiler: TreacheryCoverUp: Why Edgeworth won't extradite Klavier and Apollo back to the U.S. All their cases would be put into question, endangering innocents like Wocky Kitaki and Vera Misham. Their convictions could be overturned, which could allow Kristoph his freedom since his final conviction is dependent on a crime he didn't commit and Phoenix would lose his creditability and the progress he made.]]

* WhamLine: Unintentionally, Phoenix destroyed Apollo and Klavier's post Vera Misham trial success and exposed their plot by asking two innocuous questions with the Magatama:
--> [[spoiler: '''Phoenix''' (concerned): Is everything okay back there?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Phoenix''' (trying to lighten the suddenly serious mood after the first question): Just how long have you been madly in love with Prosecutor Gavin? ]]
** [[spoiler: This causes Apollo to break out in Psyche-Locks, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere which drives Apollo to flee]] and he and Klavier [[RunForTheBorder immediately flee the country]].]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Daryan is a {{Domestic Abuse}}r along with his canon aspect of being a DirtyCop, Kristoph is an abusive BadBoss [[spoiler: along with being a poisoner]]. Machi is emphasized as an unrepentant smuggler who while loving Lamiroir, takes advantage of her and he gave [=LeTouse=] a fatal shotgun wound. Lamiroir is a cold-blooded MamaBear, who thought nothing of framing someone and threatening someone with death to protect Machi.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: When Klavier grabs Machi by the [[StandardFemaleGrabArea wrist]], Machi tries to stomp on Klavier's feet [[DefiedTrope but it doesn't work]] because Klavier is wearing motorcycle boots and ends up hurting his own feet.

* AllJustADream[=/=]DyingDream: Discussed [[spoiler: after Edgeworth makes Klavier and Apollo his apprentices instead of turning them into the police, Apollo openly wonders if he's imagining everything and is actually dying of his head injury when Kristoph threw a cup of tea at his head or whether Klavier actually exists. Klavier, horrified by such morbid thinking, is quick to reassure him.]]
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Variant two, with Kristoph as the Giver and Apollo as the Taker. Kristoph controls every aspect of Apollo's life as he provides the latter with employment and transportation, pays his rent and drives the latter around but Apollo is completely dependent on him and has no one else to turn to when Kristoph physically abuses him.

* AmoralAttorney: [[VillainProtagonist Klavier and Apollo]] are one, half the time. While they do their part to find the truth and get the people actually guilty put away, they [[FrameUp framed]] Daryan and Kristoph for crimes they didn't commit and manipulated the witnesses and defendants.

* TheApprentice: [[spoiler: After Edgeworth decides to let Klavier and Apollo go, he offers them the opportunity to become his apprentices if they want to continue practicing law and to make up for what they have done. ]]

** Daryan and Kristoph are a variant. While they’re innocent of murder, both of them are so [[HateSink despicable]] that there’s not a trace of sympathy for either of them.

* BadBoss: Kristoph abuses Apollo physically, emotionally and sexually, controls every aspect of Apollo's life and hired him because he had no one else and no one to turn to.

** Apollo tries to get Machi to implicate Daryan by convincing him that Daryan would help with his smuggling, it goes up in flames when Machi tries to cut a deal with Daryan and then steals Apollo's gun

* BearerOfBadNews: Klavier has the position of telling his bandmates the bad news after Daryan is convicted. Their reactions vary. One cusses him out and despises him for [[AccidentalTruth betraying their friend.]] The other worries about their contract on how their label would react. The last one takes the revelation well and apologizes Klavier for not realizing something was wrong.
* BeneathNotice: Klavier's act of giving Trucy backstage passes and low-priced tickets is his way of making sure Apollo escaped Daryan's notice and to get him to the concert with the excuse of accompanying Trucy.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Klavier and Apollo can never return to U.S. without being sent to jail by Phoenix and both of them lost their careers. Apollo and Trucy never find out they're blood-related and will never see each other again. Phoenix's plans of restoring the Jurist system might be for naught as Kristoph's rightful conviction is dependent on a crime he didn't commit. Edgeworth decides not to rekindle his relationship with Phoenix, seeing the price for it too high and will lead to inevitable disappointment. But Klavier and Apollo are free of the tormentors and are given a second chance at life. Klavier and Apollo are happily in love with each other and won't be sent to prison. Phoenix gets his reputation back and can start using his connections to start doing major good and Edgeworth gains two apprentices to help him]]
* BlackAndGrayMorality[=/=]GrayAndGreyMorality: Apollo and Klavier are sympathetic but will go through any length [[StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder possible to free each other from their abusers]]. Klavier frames his brother for murder he assisted in committing and would have killed Phoenix Wright if Shadi Enigmar [[spoiler: hadn't tried beating Olga Orly.]] Apollo tries to manipulate [[spoiler: Machi]] into implicating [[spoiler: Daryan]], but manages to cover up [[spoiler: Machi's murder of Romain [=LeTouse=] ]] and pin the blame on Daryan. But Daryan is a DirtyCop who has the police force in his backpocket and Kristoph is an AmoralAttorney and a BadBoss with [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections many connections]] who both threaten them with death and can get away with their murders.
* BodyMotifs: The story has a continuing focus on the throat and neck. The story opens with Apollo trying to find medicine to treat his neck injury, courtesy of Kristoph and it's what attracts Klavier's attention to him in the first place. Klavier is nearly strangled to death with chains wrapped around his throat. When Apollo feels immense guilt he describes it as a pressure on his throat.

* BreatherEpisode: The Obon Festival Arc that's in between the framing and trial of Daryan and the Vera Misham case. Klavier and Apollo hang out at Klavier's new apartment, eating takeout and spend time at the Obon Festival together. Which is lampshaded by Klavier with this line:

* ButNotTooBi: Klavier is mentioned to sleep with groupies often enough that he can use them as a legitimate excuse but seems to be romantically inclined towards men seeing how both his love interests are male and pointed out by Daryan that he hasn't actually slept with a woman within the story.

-->'''Klavier''': So without him(Kristoph) you have no job, no employment history, no home, and no car. This is bad.\\

* CharacterDevelopment: Apollo initially refuses to leave his job and Kristoph despite the danger to his own life because he would lose the one dream he had left and the life he knows and would be forced to start over. This turns Klavier's desire to help Apollo into a StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder. [[spoiler: When the truth is nearly exposed after their success at the Vera Misham trail, Apollo willingly abandons his career and leaves California for good and tries to take the blame for plot in order to protect Klavier.]]

* ChekhovsHobby: Apollo's humming of ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'' early in the story, Phoenix comments on it surprised that the non-musically inclined Apollo would know it. [[spoiler: When Phoenix hears Klavier's cover of the same song, it leads him ask to a question that completely blew everything open.]]
* CoincidentalBroadcast: Trucy is watching the news in the background when the entertainment segment starts ten minutes early with breaking news of Klavier's "stage accident", telling Apollo that Klavier was nearly killed. Justified that a rock star's near-deathly accident would make a headliner.

* CouldntFindAPen: [[spoiler: Whereas in canon it was played straight,]] Apollo writes [=LeTouse's=] Interpol ID number with a glove to fake evidence.

* DestroyTheEvidence: Apollo disposes his gun and the bullets from [=LeTouse's=] murder into the sewer to hide that Machi killed him and to implicate Daryan.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Apollo gets thristy and gets a cup of hot tea to drink at his desk when he was working late. In response, Kristoph dumps the tea on Apollo and smashes the cup on his head.

* DomesticAbuse: Daryan monitors Klavier's cell phone to keep track of who he contacts, casually and constantly threatens Klavier with death and does things like tear out his earrings and cut off his pinky toe.

** Daryan expects Klavier to get him off the murder charges not expecting that Klavier fully intends to throw him under the bus.

* TheDulcineaEffect: Klavier only known Apollo for a couple of hours before he decides will try to save Apollo from his brother for two reasons, one because Klavier feels that he owes Apollo since he would have been in his place if he hadn't left his brother the first chance he got. Second, Klavier is also stuck in a hopeless situation with Daryan and projects his own need to be rescued onto Apollo.

* EurekaMoment: Apollo has one in Klavier's office when Apollo realizes that the bracelet helps him pinpoint [[LivingLieDetector lies]] when he asks Klavier whether he wants to stay with Daryan and if he wants to be with Apollo and then asks him to tell a lie.

* FalseReassurance: Kristoph tells Phoenix at the Borsht Bowl that he feels that Apollo might disappear on him.
* FanDisservice: Normally a shirtless Klavier Gavin would be [[FemaleGaze a treat]], not when his chest is covered with bite marks from sexual abuse.

** After sleeping with Apollo, Klavier notes that he comforted by the smell of Apollo's cheap violet cologne. Before Daryan attempts to have Klavier killed in a stage malfunction, Daryan tells him that the smell of the cologne on Klavier is what tipped Daryan off that Klavier was cheating on him.
* FormerTeenRebel: Apollo was a [[{{Delinquents}} delinquent]] and had committed a car-jacking when he was 14. [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten This haunts Apollo]] because no law firm would hire someone with a criminal record.
* FrameUp: Klavier frames his brother for killing Shadi Enigmar by disguising himself as Kristoph and helping Olga Orly kill Shadi in self-defense, Apollo pressures Olga to say she didn't see anything.
** Which is the tip of the iceberg, [[spoiler: as Apollo successfully pins Machi's murder of Romein [=LeTouse=] on Daryan]]

* FriendlessBackground: When Vera is hospitalized for poisoning Apollo, Klavier and Trucy are the only people that visit her because her only family is dead and she was a {{Hikikomori}}, she doesn't have any friends.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Apollo forces Klavier to calm after the latter starts freaking out in guilt over having to kill a man.

* HarmlessLadyDisguise: After framing Kristoph, Klavier sneaks out of the Borsht Bowl wearing Olga Orly's coat and hat.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Apollo jokes about his clumsiness and his height when confronted with Kristoph
* HiddenInPlainSight: Daryan never figures out that the man Klavier invited to their concert, the ''same'' man who is accusing him of a murder he didn't commit is the one that Klavier is cheating on him for and was the one that framed him.

* HypocriticalHumor: Apollo thinks its funny that Kristoph would insult Klavier when he is mentioned by remarking on his pretty boy nature and probable sexual misconduct given that Kristoph gets [[{{Metrosexual}} manicures]] and his sex life consists him sodomizing his apprentice.

* ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin: Klavier disguises himself as Kristoph at the Borsht Bowl in order to frame him.

* InternalReveal: [[spoiler: Edgeworth makes Apollo and Klavier fuss up what they did so he can decide what to do with them. Hilariously, it's also one to each other because they didn't know what the other did.]]
* {{Irony}}: Lamiroir threatens Apollo for Machi's sake. [[spoiler: Lamiroir, Apollo's biological mother, threatens her biological son she abandoned for the son she emotionally adopted.]]

* IronicEcho: Klavier tries to get Apollo to leave Kristoph through legal means, reminding Apollo that Kristoph is dangerous and that Apollo won't have much time left and Apollo refuses. After Kristoph is sent to jail after Klavier successfully frames him, he says that Apollo deserved a better rescuer and refuses his gratitude . Apollo rebukes him reminding him that Klavier warned him about Kristoph and that he(Apollo) didn't have time left.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Winston Payne was an asshole because he openly admitted he planned to reject Apollo from the start after giving him an interview, he did have a point that Apollo needed an excuse for why he's in the Prosecutor Office when he was looking for Klavier. Which is lampshaded:

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Normally framing someone for a crime that they didn't do would be despicable, but since they were going to murder someone, its their just deserts.

* KinkMeme: The fic's origins
* LaserGuidedKarma: Apollo and Klavier framed others of crimes they didn't commit, manipulated others into committing murder for them and were having an affair while Klavier was (techinically) committed to Daryan. [[spoiler: They are forced to abandon their careers and leave behind everything they know when Phoenix unintentionally exposes their plot.]]

* LivingLieDetector: Apollo, of course although he would let Klavier touch his bracelet to let him know that Apollo is not lying to him.

* MementoMacGuffin: Klavier's ring
* MorningRoutine: The morning of the Vera Misham trial the story details how Klavier and Apollo get ready in the morning as they deliberately dress themselves to look vulnerable to gain the sympathy of the jury.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Daryan threatened to kill Klavier's lover when he finds out that Klavier cheated on him. So when Klavier finds out someone was shot and killed at his Los Angeles concern, he thought that Daryan found out about Apollo and was successful at his threat.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: When Klavier and Apollo introduce themselves to each other, they both tell one of the many jokes they have gotten due to [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude their names]]. Apollo jokes that he should have be better looking in order to have named Apollo. Klavier jokes that he's grateful that his parents named him in their living room and not their kitchen.

* PoliceAreUseless: The police would either makes things worse, are in their abuser's pocket or like Winston Payne, ''don't care''
* PoorCommunicationKills: Machi tries to tell Klavier about the shooting, tells the the person shot is dead and that he shouldn't worry about the guy he barely knew him. Klavier already thought that Apollo was shot by, ends up thinking that Apollo '''is''' dead and that Machi is mocking over the fact he only knew Apollo for a few months.

* PrecisionFStrike: Several

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: Phoenix gets Kristoph imprisoned, finally proven his innocence with the forged evidence and proven the effectiveness of the jury system...but he loses his apprentice and the most honest attorney he knew, finds out that they committed a multitude of crimes, lives with the knowledge that his success was based on a crime Kristoph was innocent of and might have to start his crusade over.]]

* SadisticChoice: If Apollo leaves Kristoph because he would be forced to start over from scratch and doom someone else to his position. If he doesn't leave, he will die. Same with Klavier.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Kristoph warns Apollo that if he's not at work on time, [[TroubleEntendre that if no one knows wheres he's supposed to be no one would notice if he goes missing]]

* StoppedCaring: Winston Payne who has an idea what's going on but doesn't care enough to find out.

* TapOnTheHead: Shadi smacks Olga with a wine bottle which disorients her for a little bit. Then subverted as Shadi dies when Olga returns the favor with the help of Klavier.

* TermsOfEndangerment: When Daryan calls him "sweetheart" or any sort of endearment, it means Klavier has made him angry. Daryan uses it often enough that endearment become Klavier's [[TraumaButton trigger]]

* [[spoiler: TreacheryCoverUp: Why Edgeworth won't extradite Klavier and Apollo back to the U.S. All their cases would be put into question, endangering innocents like Wocky Kitaki and Vera Misham. Their convictions could overturned, which could allow Kristoph his freedom since his initial conviction is dependent on a crime he didn't commit and Phoenix would lose his creditability and the progress he made.]]

** He also has one for having himself whisper as it triggers his memories of Daryan's abuse, refusing to whisper to Apollo when his own throat is hurt.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Cheap cellphones can be used as a surveillance device to track other cellphones. The Seventh Amendment of the Constitution was repealed and replaced with bench trials.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Apollo to Klavier

* UnknownRival: A rather unique variant, Daryan doesn't know that Apollo sees him as his rival for Klavier's affections despite that Klavier hating Daryan and greatly preferring Apollo. He knows that Klavier has a lover but never finds out that it's Apollo.

* XanatosSpeedChess: Apollo's initial plan was to plant a fire bomb in Daryan's bag and set it off when Klavier's guitar goes on fire to implicate him. Then he meets Machi and tries to convince the latter to work with Daryan so he could get Daryan to implicate himself by working with Machi, but then Machi steals Apollo's gun. When Machi shots [=LeTouse=], Apollo covers up that Machi shot him by taking out the bullets and shooting [=LeTouse's=] corpse with [=LeTouse's=] gun so it would look impossible for Machi to have shot him. Then when he catches Lamiroir trying to frame Klavier, he convinces her to work with him so he can get Machi off on lesser charges and to get Daryan sent to jail.

** Being forgotten because you have no family or friends that would miss you

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Phoenix is trying to reassure Apollo that the public wouldn't think badly about Klavier and Apollo's role in the Vera Misham case