History Fanfic / DirtySympathy

* [[spoiler: AndThenWhat: Edgeworth asks Phoenix what he's going to do if he sends Klavier and Apollo to prison. What would Phoenix would do for the people they helped or the people they sent to jail.]]

* [[spoiler: TheApprentice: After Edgeworth decides to let Klavier and Apollo go, he offers them the opportunity to become his apprentices if they want to continue practicing law and to make up for what they have done. ]]

* [[spoiler: AtonementDetective: Klavier and Apollo become this when they take Edgeworth's offer of apprenticeship to atone for their crimes.]]

* [[spoiler: BetterAsFriends: It's implied that Edgeworth and Phoenix did have romantic feelings for each other but never went further than that because they both saw that eventually the price for the other's affections would one day get too high]]

* [[spoiler: BigGood: Edgeworth, who makes sense of the whole plot and decides what to do with Apollo and Klavier]]
* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Klavier and Apollo can never return to U.S. without being sent to jail by Phoenix and both of them lost their careers. Apollo and Trucy never find out they're blood-related and will never see each other again. Phoenix's plans of restoring the Jurist system might be for naught as Kristoph's rightful conviction is dependent on a crime he didn't commit. Edgeworth decides not to rekindle his relationship with Phoenix, seeing the price for it too high and will lead to inevitable disappointment. But Klavier and Apollo are free of the tormentors and are given a second chance at life. Klavier and Apollo are happily in love with each other and won't be sent to prison. Phoenix gets his reputation back and can start using his connections to start doing major good and Edgeworth gains two apprentices to help him]]

* SmellsSexy: Klavier is comforted by the smell of Apollo's cheap violet cologne. Played with when Daryan smells Klavier's hair, he seems like that he's enjoying the smell of Klavier's expensive saffron cologne, but then it [[LipstickMark turns]] [[YourCheatingHeart into]] [[IfICantHaveYou something]] [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident else.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Klavier seemed to have embraced the fact that Daryan will kill him when he no longer amuses him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Klavier enters a romantic relationship with Apollo when he's still with Daryan.

* BadDreams: Klavier has nightmares of Shadi's murder in the Borscht Bowl basement and hears the sound of him dying in his dreams, losing him nights of sleep.

* [[PitySex Pity Kiss]]: Klavier tells Apollo that he rather risk dying at Apollo's hands than Daryan's when Apollo questions why he trusts him despite being total strangers, Apollo feels so sorry for him that he kisses him.

* ButNotTooBi[=/=]BiTheWay: Klavier is mentioned to sleep with groupies often enough that he can use them as a legitimate excuse but seems to be romantically inclined towards men seeing how both his love interests are male and pointed out by Daryan that he hasn't actually slept with a woman within the story.

* FormerTeenRebel: Apollo was a [[{{Delinquents}} delinquent]] and had committed a car-jacking when he was 14. [[NeverLiveItDown This haunts Apollo]] because no law firm would hire someone with a criminal record.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Daryan is a DomesticAbuser along with his canon aspect of being a DirtyCop, Kristoph is an abusive BadBoss [[spoiler: along with being a poisoner]]. Machi is emphasized as an unrepentant smuggler who while loving Lamiroir, takes advantage of her and he gave [=LeTouse=] a fatal shotgun wound. Lamiroir is a cold-blooded MamaBear, who thought nothing of framing someone and threatening someone with death to protect Machi.

* DomesticAbuser: Daryan. He tears Klavier's earring out of his ears, caused him to lose a toe, makes "jokes" about Klavier's probable death and made a set malfunction that would have strangled him to death.

* SympatheticAdulterer: Klavier's affair with Apollo is portrayed sympathetically because Daryan is a DomesticAbuser who has the police on his side and openly threatens (and later tries) to kill Klavier.

'''WARNING: The fic contains spoilers for VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.'''

''[[http://bludhavens.livejournal.com/88397.html?thread=41790541#t41790541 Dirty Sympathy]]'' is a WhatIf alternate retelling of VisualNovel/ApolloJustice fanfic. The premise: VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney is a StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder, Daryan never killed anyone and Kristoph never killed Shadi Enigmar. They were framed by a desperate Klavier and Apollo.

* ExternalRetcon: The plot of ''VisualNovel/ApolloJustice'' is a mess of [[GambitPileup Gambit Pileups]]

* FanDisservice: Normally a shirtless Klavier Gavin would be [[FemaleGaze a treat]], not when his chest is covered with ''bite marks''

-->Trucy: Fine, be serious! You were fighting with Daddy. First off, your timing is terrible, and anyway, what makes you think you can get mad at him for being all secretive?
-->Apollo: Because this is a murder trial, maybe?
-->Trucy: Says the person who was sleeping with a certain someone else '''before''' Daryan Crescend got put away.

--> ''Winston Payne:'' You think I'm asking you to bare your soul? Don't. We both know you had an ulterior motive, but I don't want to hear even the first thing about it.

* TermsOfEndangerment: When Daryan calls him "sweetheart" or any sort of endearment, it means Klavier has made him angry. Daryan uses it often enough that endearment become Klavier's [[{{Trigger}} trigger]]

* {{Trigger}}: Klavier has a major one with people calling him "darling" or "sweetheart" since [[TermsOfEndangerment Daryan would threaten or hurt him calling him]] that, when Apollo calls him that he freaks out and leaves.
** He also has one for having himself whisper as it triggers his memories of Daryan's abuse, refusing to whisper to Apollo when his own throat is hurt.

* AffectionateNickname: Klavier likes calling Apollo "schatzelein" and other [[GratuitousGerman German]] endearments. Although he shoots down the only time Apollo tries to return the favor, see {{Trigger}} example for more details.

--> Winston Payne: You think I'm asking you to bare your soul? Don't. We both know you had an ulterior motive, but I don't want to hear even the first thing about it.

* GenreSavvy: ''Winston Payne'' of all people! First, he immediately knows that Apollo was searching for Klavier when he showed up for an interview. Second, he [[BreakThemByTalking tells Klavier]] that through pattern recognition that Klavier will either [[ButNowIMustGo suddenly leave]] or in the route of most of their prosecutors, go to jail.

* ShoutOut: To WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and AgathaChristie

* ShoutOut: To LooneyTunes and AgathaChristie

* TheInnerReveal: [[spoiler: Edgeworth makes Apollo and Klavier fuss up what they did so he can decide what to do with them. Hilariously, it's also one to each other because they didn't know what the other did.]]

* AgonyOfTheFeet: When Klavier grabs Machi by the [[StandardFemaleGrabArea wrist]], Machi tries to stomp on Klavier's feet [[DefiedTrope but it doesn't work]] because Klavier is wearing motorcycle boots.

* LaserGuidedKarma:

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Daryan threatened to kill Apollo when he finds out who he who he is. So when Klavier finds out someone was shot and killed at his Los Angeles concern, he thought that Daryan was successful.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: They both do this preemptively to themselves to get the jokes over with.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Klavier starts to freak out when Daryan stops being physically abusive to him.

* [[PitySex Pity Kiss]]: Klavier tells Apollo that he rather risk dying at Apollo's hands than Daryan's when Apollo questions why he trusts him despite being total strangers, Apollo feels so sad that he kisses him out of pity and empathy.

* SeenItAll: Winston Payne

* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: After meeting in a Rite-Aid, Apollo and Klavier end up taking down the other man's abuser. To their credit, they brought up the legal options first before going through with it. Although Apollo doesn't agree to it at first because he didn't believe that he could escape Kristoph and ends up filling his end of the deal ''after'' Klavier successfully frames Kristoph and they both get him sent to prison. Instead of killing them, they frame them for murders they enabled and get the actual murderers off.

* ThereIsOnlyOneBed
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Klavier is horrified when he helps Olga Orly kill Shadi Enigmar to the point of having nightmares and [[DeathSeeker starts thinking he deserves to be killed by Daryan.]] Apollo temporarily [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan snaps him out of it when he]] [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre thanks Klavier for saving his life]]

* ButNotTooBi[=/=]BiTheWay: Klavier is mentioned to sleep with groupies often enough that he can use them as a legitimate excuse but seems to be romantically inclined towards men seeing how both his love interest are male and pointed out by Daryan that he hasn't actually slept with a woman within the story.

* CainAndAbel: Kristoph as the Cain and Klavier as the Abel. Noted while Kristoph hasn't done anything to physically harm his younger brother, they both despise each other. Klavier describes his brother as the type who would listen to you talk about your favorite thing so he would know its your favorite when he's angry. Klavier left his brother the first chance he got. More chilling in that Klavier says he would have been in Apollo's place if he hadn't left the first chance he got. More interesting is that the Abel struck at the Cain first.
* CallBack: Klavier learned to despise Kristoph's squeaky shoes when he was a child as it would signal his brother's arrival. He wakes after falling asleep in Vera's hospital room when he hears Apollo's shoes sqeak on the linoleum.
* TheCameo

* CassandraTruth: When Daryan asserts that he's innocent, no one believes him.

* CharacterDevelopment: Apollo initially refuses to leave his job and Kristoph despite the danger to his own life because he would lose the one dream he had left and the life he knows and would be forced to start over. This turns Klavier's desire to help Apollo into a StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder. [[spoiler: Later, Apollo willingly abandons his career and leaves California for good and tries to take the blame for plot in order to protect Klavier.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: Kristoph dumped a cup of boiling tea and broke the cup on Apollo's head for daring to drink at his work desk.

* TheDogBitesBack: The core of the fanfic

* DramaticIrony: Phoenix compliments Apollo that he and Klavier are very good at keeping their feelings out of cases seeing how they sent their bandmate or mentor to prison, regardless of personal feelings.

* DyingAlone: Kristoph implies this will be Apollo's fate as he doesn't have any family nor friends that would miss him.

* FriendlessBackground: When Vera is hospitalized for poisoning Apollo, Klavier and Trucy are the only people that visit her because her only family is dead and she was a Hikikomori, she doesn't have any friends.

* GoodIsNotDumb: It's noted that while Trucy is silly most of the time, she is very perceptive and very good at reading in between the lines. Exemplified when she calls out Apollo for being angry at Phoenix being secretive when she knows that Apollo and Klavier would have to been together much longer than then they told her.

* GreenEyedMonster: The source of Klavier's problems with Daryan. Originally Daryan was the lead singer and Klavier was the guitarist in the band until their label made them switch. Which their label made permanent because Klavier had better vocal range and had better stage presence.

* HiddenInPlainSight: Daryan never figures out that the man Klavier invited to their concert, the ''same'' man who is accusing him of a murder he didn't commit is the one that Klavier is cheating on him for.

* HopeSpot: InUniverse, when Kristoph gave Apollo an apartment and a job after he was kicked out of his college dorm and no one hired him he thought his luck was turning around. [[FromBadToWorse Then Kristoph slammed Apollo's head against a car door after a case doesn't go his way...]]

* IfICantHaveYou: Klavier got this as an answer when he asked Daryan why don't they break up if he hates him so much.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Winston Payne was an asshole because he open admitted he planned to reject Apollo from the start after interviewing him, he did have a point that Apollo needed an excuse for why he's in the Prosecutor Office when he was looking for Klavier. Which is lampshaded:

* LaserGuidedKarma

* ContinuityNod: Phoenix knows about ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'' because he used to have been a theater major.

* AllGaysLoveTheater: Discussed with Phoenix after he finds Apollo humming to ThreepennyOpera

* ChekhovsHobby: Apollo's humming of TheThreepennyOpera early in the story, Phoenix comments on it surprised that the non-musically inclined Apollo would know it. [[spoiler: When Phoenix hears Klavier's cover of the same song, it leads him ask to a question that completely blew everything open.]]

* ContinuityNod: Phoenix knows about TheThreepennyOpera because he used to have been a theater major.

** A lighter variant when Phoenix says after hearing Apollo hum TheThreepennyOpera "I know you don't like pop, given how snippy you get about Trucy's radio, but this really makes me wonder about you." [[spoiler: It is later found out that he used to have a relationship with Edgeworth.]]

* AmoralAttorney: [[VillainProtagonist Klavier and Apollo]] are one, half the time. While they do their part to find the truth and the people actually guilty put away, they [[FrameUp framed]] Daryan and Kristoph for crimes they didn't commit and manipulated the witnesses and defendants.

** Klavier Gavin, the only prosecutor in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' to avert AmoralAttorney plays the trope quite straight here.

* ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim: Apollo tries thinking like Kristoph in order to figure out what the latter wanted from Vera Misham and wwhat he would think of her.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: Variant two, with Kristoph as the Giver and Apollo as the Taker. Kristoph controls every aspect Apollo's life as he provides the latter with employment and transportation, pays his rent and drives the latter around but Apollo is completely dependent on him and has no one else to turn to when Kristoph physically abuses him.

-->Apollo: If I'm not a [[RescueSex one-night]] stand then stop [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] treating me like one!
-->Klavier: For a one-night stand, I would not have gone to the Borscht Bowl Club.

-->Phoenix: The public loves you both already, you know.
-->Apollo: Like they used to feel about you and Miles Edgeworth.

-->Klavier: Boring is so good.

--> Klavier: [[spoiler: There is no making the police officers look ruthless. And no getting away with it and setting a bad example for the impressionable boys and girls.]]

-->Klavier: You're...very romantic. I didn't notice before.

--> Kristoph: Given enough time and drain cleaner, couldn't I just...rinse you away? I'd have to keep paying your rent, but then, that's nothing new.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Winston Payne was an asshole with openly admitting he planned to reject Apollo from the start after interviewing him, he did have a point that Apollo needed an excuse for why he's in the Prosecutor Office when he was looking for Klavier. Which is lampshaded:
--> Apollo: Sir, honestly - fuck you. And thank you.

* [[spoiler: LeaveBehindAGun: Discussed by Klavier and immediately defied by Edgeworth, who is disgusted by the idea that he would make them commit suicide]]
--> [[spoiler: Klavier: What sorts of movies do you watch, Herr Edgeworth? In the movie - we die. Very obligingly. There is no making the police officers look inhumane. And no getting away with it and setting a bad example for the impressionable boys and girls.]]

-->Apollo: You sound all indignant about that. But your boss did the wrong math and got the right answer anyway.

-->Daryan: Your boots aren't tied right. You didn't answer my calls. You actually had me worried about you for a little while there, sweetheart. But you were just fine, weren't you?

-->[[spoiler: Franziska: One hopes they're grateful.]]
-->[[spoiler: Edgeworth: I don't doubt their capacity for gratitude, once I feel better entitled to it. - Don't misunderstand me. Once they've learned anything worth knowing and once they're official human beings again. But at this point all I've provided amounts to...clean sheets and dirty sympathy.]]

--> Apollo: I just...want to see you. In some kind of normal situation.

* WhamLine: Unintentionally, Phoenix destroyed Apollo and Klavier's post Vera Misham trail success and exposed their plot by asking two innocuous questions with the Magatama:
--> [[spoiler: Phoenix (concerned): Is everything okay back there?]]
-->[[spoiler: Phoenix (trying to lighten the suddenly serious mood after the first question): Just how long have you been madly in love with Prosecutor Gavin? ]]

* AllGaysLoveTheater

* BreatherEpisode: The Obon Festival Arc that's in between the framing and trial of Daryan and the Vera Misham case. Which is lampshaded by Klavier with this line: