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Badge & O'Possum Law Offices
Eric Badge
Co-founder of Badge and O'Possum Law Offices and deuteragonist of the story. A boxer who immigrated from Great Bitein, he's one half Genius Bruiser, one half Nervous Wreck.
Game Mechanic: Badgering the Witness
- Affectionate Nickname: "Rick" from Delilah, "Stuffy" from Millie.
- Genius Bruiser: Being a lawyer should already tell you how smart he is, but he also manages to win a murder case deemed impossible by even extremely reputable lawyers. As for the "bruiser" part of this trope, just ask Kyle VanDal, the prosecutor he knocked out in one punch.
- Iconic Outfit: He sports Phoenix Wright’s signature blue suit, which in this universe becomes associated with him instead.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Badgering the Witness, at its core, is just Eric aggressively pressing the witness while knowing when to back off until they finally crack. It’s portrayed as a full-on boxing match between him and the culprit that seems to leave both of them winded despite no actual punches being thrown.
- Nervous Wreck: He's having a panic attack in the courtroom before his first case and purports that he might stress vomit once he's seen the prosecution's case against him.
- Only Sane Man: He's not without his own eccentricities, but between Millie and Delilah, he most often has to be the voice of reason.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Has a tendency to use elaborate words even when simpler ones would do just fine.Eric: Is there a nearby trash receptacle for me to stress vomit into?Delilah: Hey, you haven't lost your flair for needlessly long words yet, so it's not that bad.
- Stealth Pun: Between his species and choice of outfit, Eric is a literal Blue Badger.
- Stout Strength: He's described as being a bit pudgy by the narration and some extra material portrays the buttons popping off of his suit. He's also a trained boxer, so he's got to have some significant strength behind all that fat. Doesn't stop others from poking fun at him for his weight, though.
Delilah O'Possum
Co-founder of Badge and O'Possum Law Offices and deuteragonist of the story. What she lacks in etiquette, she makes up for in confidence.
Game Mechanic: Playing Possum
- All Gays are Promiscuous: It's not only implied that Delilah's love life consists mostly of other women, but also that she "makes friends" with notable frequency.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She may be unhygienic, unruly, and a little unorthodox in her investigation habits, but as Eric says, underestimate her at your own risk. Bonus points for being an actual lawyer.
- Butch Lesbian: Delilah is far from traditionally feminine, and it's all but stated that she's had her share of female ex-lovers.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Some of her theories aren't exactly on base, to say the least. Even her Revisualization towards the end of Case 2 is a borderline Bat Deduction, to the point that she’s actually surprised when the killer confirms she was right.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Not as you might expect the protagonist of an Ace Attorney parody to be, as she mostly either has permission to take or photographs most of her evidence, but she does steal a bag of chips out of the vending machine in the first chapter. And it's implied she stole a second sometime later.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Playing Possum is just her feigning surrender in the hopes of getting a witness to say too much. It’s portrayed as an overdramatic stage performance with props and set pieces.
- Playing Possum: If you couldn't already tell, it's kind of her thing. Not only is it her damage animation, but she seems to take pride in it, as she apparently has a tendency to do impressions of the dead bodies when she investigates a murder. Her "mechanic" is even dubbed "Playing Possum".
- Prehensile Tail: As an opossum, she naturally sports one of these. She gets a lot of mileage out of it too, using it for everything from hanging upside-down to dramatic pointing to stealing snacks out of a vending machine.
Millie Muskerson
The current intern for Badge and O'Possum Law Offices, as well as an old friend of the main duo.
Game Mechanic: Interrogation Scent-sation
- Abhorrent Admirer: Is this to Eric. She's not ugly nor does Eric dislike her in any way, but he's made it more than clear that her repeated advances are unreciprocated.
- Bag of Holding: Her sweater, capable of holding seemingly any piece of evidence she stuffs into it while not hindering her movement at all.
- The Empath: While she cannot feel what other people are feeling, her nose is so good that she can smell the chemical imbalance of emotions in people.
- Limited Wardrobe: Averted. In a deliberate Shout-Out to Mabel Pines, she wears at least one unique, thematic sweater for each case. The purple one she sports on the cover art can be considered her “default” look.
- Mythology Gag: Her Interrogation Scent-sation mirrors Athena Cykes' Mood Matrix used from Dual Destinies onwards. There are some changes, with surprise being gone completely and sorrow now being separate from fear. This is to make it more similar to the kind of emotions animals can actually pick up on.
- The Nose Knows: Even in a story of animal protagonists, Millie’s nose goes above and beyond, allowing her to smell when someone is lying and detect their specific emotions with enough focus. Her nose is even capable of doing things that shouldn’t be possible, like getting her high off of catnip despite not being a cat.
- Shrinking Violet: While open and extroverted around her friends, she's quite shy around others. She makes a habit of hiding in her sweater when stressed, and her testimony in court consists entirely of ellipses because she was simply too shy to speak.
Other Law Enforcment Professionals
Sigrid MacTalon
Lead detective for a majority of the cases Badge and O'Possum work on. Partnered with Kyle VanDal, much to her own displeasure.
- Busman's Vocabulary: Tends to use words fitting her military theme. She refers to Delilah poking a hole in her testimony as "enemy fire" and calls mammals "maggots" when she's particularly upset with them.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Pretty much her whole gimmick, despite being a police officer.
- Jerkass to One: It's mentioned that they somehow got off on the wrong foot in college and now Mac Talon seemingly makes a hobby of tormenting Delilah while on duty. She's perfectly fine with Eric, though. Delilah says this is because of their days in the boxing club together making them "thick as thieves".
- Running Gag: Her pulling her Drill Sergeant Nasty routine on higher ranking mammals and immediately Verbal Backpedaling.
- The One Who Wears Shoes: Is the only member of the main or supporting cast to wear shoes. In her case, she wears a pair of combat boots, befitting her military theme.
Kyle VanDal
The primary prosecutor and one of the main antagonists of the story. A public prosecutor known for both his immense skill and laziness, netting him the titles The Bullseye Prosecutor and The Apathetic Attorney respectively.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: A Prosecutor carrying a perfect win streak with ease (at least until our protagonists come along, that is). But said ease makes court cases so boring for him that he doesn't even bother with courtroom etiquette anymore. He repeatedly falls asleep during trials and it's noted that he doesn't even bother giving the full opening statements himself anymore.
- Finger Gun: Does this as apart of Giving Someone the Pointer Finger. Somehow, he manages to fire actual bullets with it, and it's capable of backfiring.
- Handicapped Badass: Has a definite limp, but that doesn't stop him from being one of the best prosecutors in Zootopia.
- Motif: Guns. He doesn't carry an actual gun, but his walking cane has a gun for the head, he's nicknamed "The Bullseye Prosecutor", and he's somehow able to fire actual bullets from his Finger Gun.
