Dotted-shrimp - Shrimp's Corner

Narumitsu AU I have been thinking about

I talked about this a bit in the Narumitsu server but I'll leave my thoughts here too: I've been thinking about an AU where Edgeworth -- having grown up rich -- does not know his way around any kind of home problem as simple as it may be, and Phoenix is your average service worker.

Both of them are nearing 30 and Miles (still a prosecutor here) finally decides to settle down. So he buys an apartment in a fancy condo and is very unpleasantly surprised at the sheer amount of problems that start to emerge. One day he sees an advertisement that went like this: "From unclogging your sink to painting your house, call the Wright Anything Agency!" and decides to give them a call.

Obviously, they send Phoenix. Annoyed with his snarkiness Miles asks the Agency to send another worker if he ever solicits a service again -- when he does, they send Larry, and Miles deeply, deeply regrets his decision.

Despite everything, Phoenix did a good work the first time so Miles requests him. Again and again, because my man cannot fix a showerhead for his life. With time they start to warm up to each other -- they see one another fairly frequently, after all, which is something Phoenix relentlessly teases him about. At some point Phoenix even sends him a quick text asking if he could take Trucy over since he didn't have anyone to babysit her (she's about 10) and needless to say, Miles immediately loves her -- it is Trucy.

One day though, Miles is ranting about the many, many problems this supposedly fancy apartment he bought has and Phoenix pipes up, offering to teach him how to detect bad indicators in a home that signal internal problems or a problem about to emerge. Miles accepts, and now armed with knowledge he carefully picks another apartment to move to.

He does. And he is very satisfied with his pick! Nothing goes wrong.

For a week. Two weeks. A month. Two months.

Nothing goes wrong. And he doesn't see Phoenix anymore.

So he pulls up his laptop and sits down, looking only at the lowest prices, determined to find the absolute worst apartment in this part of the city.

He feels only joy when he encounters a terrible one and moves there -- the first thing he does after everything is in place is calling the Wright Anything Agency and soliciting a complete overhaul of the place.

From here he not only goes back to seeing Phoenix on a regular basis, but the other people who work there -- Apollo, a law student working there as a side hustle; Athena, a psychology student in the same situation; Maya, who, when on city, flits between pestering her lawyer sister and doing decoration at the Agency; Larry, who I've mentioned earlier, and does interior design plus a few other, smaller things (he is a starving artist, after all); and even Phoenix's own dad, who only needs to take a look at Phoenix and Miles interacting to realize what's going on and start akwardly trying to matchmake them in true supportive dad fashion (with some help from Trucy and Maya).

I haven't thought a lot on where to go after this, but rest assured they will kiss at some point.

Phoenix should get to have a weird pet

Okay so I had this weird dream where Phoenix, Miles and Apollo enter the WAA and there's just an albino burm chilling there. Phoenix goes "Hey little guy :D", picks it up, the snake goes "Ssss :)" and Phoenix turns to Miles to ask "can we keep it?".

I gave basically this exact same summary on the nrmt discord server and a few people agreed with me that Phoenix should get to have a burm. At this point he's already with Miles and managed to convince him to reform a room of their home so the snake has a big enclousure and appropriate care.

Her name's Buttermilk and she's Phoenix's second (official) child :]