Gyakuten Souko is an Ace Attorney roleplay, according to the front page. It takes place in a setting crossed between the Ace Attorney universe and Gaia Online. Other series, ranging from Pokémon to Shin Megami Tensei to Cowboy Bebop, are gratuitously thrown in. However, the thread mainly focuses on a group of OriginalCharacters.
The main setting is a a warehouse owned by Maya Fey on Isle de Gambino. The warehouse is home to a mysterious force known as the warp, which warps characters from other settings to and from Gaia, often without the character's choice. Numerous settings from the Ace Attorney series make appearances as part of Gaia.
The entire thread can be read here
. It is the successor to OBJECTION! and also has a Lighter and Softer sequel following Meowe's journey after Gyakuten Souko called Borealis Hotel.
Also has a Drinking Game readily available on the last page of the thread.
This roleplay provides examples of:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A Team Rocket member named Nigel summoned Giratina in the warehouse. It attacked Lory, Meowe and Mal, nearly killed Lory's Nidorino and unbeknownst to the group caused a glitched 'clone' timeline to appear, starting a subplot which was continued elsewhere and ended badly.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Happens often, sometimes the roleplayers themselves would pop up in the thread.
- Butt-Monkey: Aoi and Creek get a lot of flack from the other characters. "Nobody loves Eggchan" also happened to be a recurring phrase. Daedalus is a target of this, mainly due to all his plans backfiring in his face.
- Chekhov's Gun: An example spanning multiple R Ps. Felix had great difficulty reading Urararaeggchan's missing person notice, which was a little odd since his mistakes suggested he was perfectly capable of reading (such as misreading approx as apples), but some time after the end of the RP, he was found to be visually impaired, causing his reading mistakes to make a lot more sense.
- Church of Happyology: EarthBound's HappyHappyists make an appearance with Meowe substituting Carpainter.
- Little Miss Badass: Lory became the strongest non-Pokeworld native trainer in the RP in less than a year. In later R Ps she went on to win all eight Sinnoh gym badges.
- No Ending: A lot of the plots. The thread in and of itself just kind of drops off. Some characters received endings later on in thread like Borealis Hotel.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted, there are two Irises, two Dahlias, two Lilys, and two Leos. This isn't even counting the sheer number of alternate versions of characters.
- Police Brutality: A rebel police officer used a tazer unnecessarily on Lory.
- Put on a Bus: It's not uncommon for characters to appear for a week and disappear for months. Some of them don't come back.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted, barely. There is one therapist: The watermelon-themed cyborg Meloi.
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Wheelchair Woobie: Lory started out as one but with crutches and leg braces. She then went on to become a Handicapped Badass.
