auste, you haven't even finished the game!!! (a sebastian debeste open post)

[ineptitudes]

[OKAY I HAVEN'T PUT MORE ICONS IN YET but if you want to help me voice test this doofus, go for it! I have prompts but if you have any more ideas, chuck them at me and let's do this thing!

I've been spoiled on a few things about the last case, which is where I am, but nnnno more spoilers for now, please. I've finished up to Beginning, Part 2 of AAI2-5 and I'll be very slow in finishing because ew law school hahaha.

NEVER MIND I'M DONE WITH THE GAME.]

PROMPT A: 

[Sebastian is hanging out near one of the courthouse vending machines, pointing to various items for sale on the display with his baton. He squints...really hard...at the prices.]

Six dollars for two Swiss rolls? Maybe...maybe they're the best Swiss rolls, that's why they're expensive!

[He starts digging in his pockets for cash. Hopefully he didn't forget his wallet at home. Hopefully. But from the way he's frantically rooting around in every pocket he has - those in his pants, even those in his special red jacket - one can tell that there's really no hope. Sebastian has even started to mumble to himself.]

Mmmnnn...

PROMPT B:

[Or you might find him on a crime scene. There has been a break-in at the nearest jewelry store, and Sebastian has been placed in charge of the case. He crouches down to look at the shattered glass on the sidewalk, which has some ripped pieces of cloth with a green swirling cloud pattern on them mixed in. Police are milling about, the media are hungry for a scoop (uh-oh) and the whole place is a bustling hub of activity. Sebastian is animatedly talking about the case (probably with you, or with the officers who have subjected themselves to his conversation) but he may get some of his words wrong, as always.]

This is a case of wrecking and bantering - um, I mean...

[Breaking and entering, Sebastian.]

PROMPT C:

[If you want to be the best, you have to study like the rest. Sebastian is at the law section of the library, piling up book after book in his arms with a strange, dogged determination. Law books, however, happen to be very thick and heavy things, so he is beginning to teeter as he tries to maintain his balance. Nonetheless, he continues walking on, pulling out more volumes with only cursory looks at their spines]

Unnhhh...aaah...

[Sebastian staggers out of the shelves, waddling like a duck until he trips and falls, scattering books everywhere.]

Oh no!

[That "oh no" is loud enough to make the entire library (including you?) shush him soundly. Ohhh, the humiliation. His face is turning red as he scrambles to pick everything up again.]

WILDCARD!

[Throw me a prompt and let's see what we can do! Unfortunately I'm not interested in shipping, and this child is underage.]

Comments

[ineptitudes]

Of course not!

[Whoops. Stupid Ace Attorney clichés.]

I mean...I'll be the first on the scene after the prime suspect, so I can catch him!

[psycholawgy]

But what if you're actually the first guy on the scene?

[ tell me about your logic now, sebastian! ]

[ineptitudes]

[His logic, let him tell you it. Sebastian lifts his books up and deposits them onto a nearby table before drawing his baton and gesturing with it.]

I instigate and figure out who really did it! [...wrong word, Sebastian. Wrong word, wrong word, WRONG WORD.]

[psycholawgy]

[ oh well. not every "defense attorney" can be a genius like athena. ]

Instigate, huh? [ she won't even point out his mistake until he makes another. ]

Oh, by the way, do you know Junie? She's in the judge's course.

[ineptitudes]

[The sad thing is, Sebastian probably didn't have a lot of friends in Themis. He shakes his head.]

Uh...no, I'm in the prosecutor's course. [He holds up the lapel where he has pinned his prosecutor's badge.]

[psycholawgy]

[ huh? that legitimately confuses athena for a bit. ]

Aren't prosecutors supposed to be wearing red?

[ineptitudes]

Huh? [He blinks.] I did get a red jacket for being at the top of my class, but everyone wore this uniform. [Sebastian plucks at his shirt with a free hand.]

[psycholawgy]

That's so weird...

[ she pokes at her earring. ]

You look more like a defense attorney to me. And hey, why's your prosecutor's badge out?

[ineptitudes]

Why shouldn't it be out? [He points to his badge.] Defense attorneys wear theirs, so why can't we?

[psycholawgy]

It's just that the prosecutors I know don't openly wear their badges, that's all!

[ you're such an oddball, sebastian. well, whatever! she's going to start picking up the books on the ground now. it's about time. ]

[ineptitudes]

[Sebastian continues picking up the last of the books as well.]

Now that you mention it...they don't. [Prosecutor Edgeworth certainly didn't! The Debestes are just a couple of oddballs in the Prosecutor's Office.

In other news, YOU ONLY NOTICED THAT NOW, SEBASTIAN?]

[psycholawgy]

They don't wear blue, either.

[ SHE'S STILL NOT CONVINCED. ]

[ineptitudes]

M-Maybe they changed the color after my gradation - I mean, my graduation!

[/TRIES HARDER]

[psycholawgy]

You're awfully defensive.

[ TAKE THAT. ]

[ineptitudes]

[WOW, REALLY, ATHENA? Although it takes a second for the pun to sink in and for Sebastian to give her a Look.]

You can check the records, or our yearbook, if you want evidence! And my badge is real!

[psycholawgy]

Woah, hey! I'm not questioning the badge!

[ ... ]

I still have people even questioning mine!

[ineptitudes]

Really?

[That's a surprise. Sebastian is the only person he himself knows who's had his badge questioned.

For good reason.]

[psycholawgy]

Because I'm still young, that's all.

[ athena beams a grin at sebastian. ]

I'm only eighteen!

[ineptitudes]

Me too! [He pauses, and shakes his head.] I mean, I'm young too...I'm seventeen.

[psycholawgy]

And you got your badge already?! That's awesome!

[ athena, you have GOT to meet franziska, if that's the case. ]

[ineptitudes]

Oh... [NO ONE EVER SAID HE WAS AWESOME. It feels good, so he draws himself up to full height...and he's taller than Athena.] Thanks. [He doesn't know how young Franziska was when she got her badge, either.]

If you wanna be the best, you gotta start early, right?

[psycholawgy]

I guess that's one way of looking at things.

[ she smiles at him. ]

I'm a defense attorney now because I had to save somebody before it was too late.

[ineptitudes]

[People really did that? Be a lawyer for someone else? Wait. Wait, that sounds familiar, put that way.]

Who? Someone accused of a crime?

[psycholawgy]

Got it in one!

[ good job, sebastian! ]

1/2

[ineptitudes]

[It's a new record.]

I'm right? [He can't help but grin at that.] I-I mean -