John Phoenix
The Adventures of John Phoenix
is an Ace Attorney fanfiction about the adventures of John Phoenix, an OC/self-insert created by dakoolguy. He is the nephew of Phoenix Wright and an ace attorney himself.This Fanfiction provides examples of:
- Adaptational Heroism: Every villain that is not a prosecutor or associated with them is an ally of John Phoenix. This has the result of Kristoph Gavin, Matt Engarde and Shelly de Killer being on John's side.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: Spark Brushel becomes the POV character in chapter 23, after only appearing as a cameo earlier in the story.
- Backup from Otherworld: Mary Wright is able to help John Phoenix despite her soul being trapped in a bullet.
- BFG: Any gun with Angel Bullets. They can trap souls inside.
- The Cameo: As an 'Ace Attorney' fanfiction, many characters from the series appear, including Larry Butz, Spark Brushel, Lotta Hart and many more. Professor Layton, Luke Triton and Emmy Altava from the Professor Layton series, Kyle Hyde, Louis DeNonno and Dylan Fitchar from Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Storm Sente from Acquittal: Induction also make appearances towards the end of the story.
- Courtroom Drama: John Phoenix defends Trucy Wright in court during the early chapters of the story.
- Everybody's Dead, Dave: the ending of the story, after the nuclear apocalypse and subsequent destruction of heaven.
- Fusion Dance: Phoenix Wright and John Phoenix fuse together to form Phoenix Phoenix.
- Homeworld Evacuation: By Storm Sente's suggestion, John Phoenix and his friends avoid an apocalypse by taking shelter in heaven.
- Narrating the Obvious: the story often, well, narrates the obvious, such as features of the setting that are true of real life, or the mechanism by which one goes about punching someone else.
- Narrator: The narration occasionally speaks directly to the reader, stating that specific occurrences or objects represent or are character growth, making it clear that the narrator is more than a simple record. It's not clear whether the Narrator is a specific character, but based on the sequel, where actions occur while the narrator is narrating, they are not fully external.
- Murder by Suicide: John Phoenix forces Wilt Wally, the culprit of his first case, to kill himself in front of the entire court after proving his guilt.
- Pragmatic Villainy:
- John Phoenix stops Shelly de Killer from killing Matt so he can have both of them work for him.
- His archenemy, John Dragon is shown healing someone from deadly injuries and cancer so he can gain popularity.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: The narration is always quick to excuse John Phoenix, but when you think about it, a lot of what he does is questionable, and by the end, he's effectively uncontested by anyone in the world, able to do whatever he so pleases. For instance, at one point, John Phoenix knocks out a teacher, locks the classroom, and sets fire to the building, which the narration assures you is okay because he alerted the proper authorities. Later on in the story, he uses his psychic powers to lob cars and trucks at courthouses in rage because they stopped letting him control the entire legal system, works with some of the worst people of the world and somehow is more cruel than them, not to mention the time when he locks Trucy Wright in what is effectively a prison or blows up a crowd of people, blasting the heads and limbs off of them, though the narration states everyone this happened to was bad.
- Shout-Out: The story occasionally features cameo appearances of known fans of John Phoenix.A man named HoboSeven watched their progress and couldn't help but wonder whether John Phoenix fucked.
- Take a Third Option: During the trial of Woodman, late in the fic, John Phoenix is faced with a choice between maintaining his perfect record- something of great importance to him- with the cost of Woodman being officially considered innocent of his various heinous crimes, or losing the trial so Woodman gets his complete just desserts. John Phoenix takes the third option, immediately telling the judge Woodman is guilty, but then using his psychic powers to manipulate the court record so he technically wins the trial.
- Unreliable Narrator: The narrator often makes statements like "she knew deep down that this wasn't true, and that John Phoenix had bested her honestly and like a gentleman" for cases consisting of blatant cheating which are only legal because the law hasn't caught up yet, and generally makes direct narrative claims which simply aren't true or within the scope of narration to make. For its unreliability in those matters, it can also be inferred that it's less than reliable in other matters.
