The main characters of the Badge & O’Possum universe, on all sides of the law. As many of them will be a Walking Spoiler due to the nature of the work, all spoilers are unmarked!
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Badge & O'Possum Law Offices
Eric Badge
Co-founder of Badge and O'Possum Law Offices and deuteragonist of the story. A boxer who immigrated from Great Bitein, he's one half Genius Bruiser, one half Nervous Wreck.
Game Mechanic: Badgering the Witness
- Affectionate Nickname: "Rick" from Delilah, "Stuffy" from Millie.
- Genius Bruiser: Being a lawyer should already tell you how smart he is, but he also manages to win a murder case deemed impossible by even extremely reputable lawyers. As for the "bruiser" part of this trope, just ask Kyle VanDal, the prosecutor he knocked out in one punch.
- Iconic Outfit: He sports Phoenix Wright’s signature blue suit, which in this universe becomes associated with him instead.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Badgering the Witness, at its core, is just Eric aggressively pressing the witness while knowing when to back off until they finally crack. It’s portrayed as a full-on boxing match between him and the culprit that seems to leave both of them winded despite no actual punches being thrown.
- Nervous Wreck: He's having a panic attack in the courtroom before his first case and purports that he might stress vomit once he's seen the prosecution's case against him.
- Only Sane Man: He's not without his own eccentricities, but between Millie and Delilah, he most often has to be the voice of reason.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Has a tendency to use elaborate words even when simpler ones would do just fine.Eric: Is there a nearby trash receptacle for me to stress vomit into?Delilah: Hey, you haven't lost your flair for needlessly long words yet, so it's not that bad.
- Stealth Pun: Between his species and choice of outfit, Eric is a literal Blue Badger.
- Stout Strength: He's described as being a bit pudgy by the narration and some extra material portrays the buttons popping off of his suit. He's also a trained boxer, so he's got to have some significant strength behind all that fat. Doesn't stop others from poking fun at him for his weight, though.
Delilah O'Possum
Co-founder of Badge and O'Possum Law Offices and deuteragonist of the story. What she lacks in etiquette, she makes up for in confidence.
Game Mechanic: Playing Possum
- All Gays are Promiscuous: It's not only implied that Delilah's love life consists mostly of other women, but also that she "makes friends" with notable frequency.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She may be unhygienic, unruly, and a little unorthodox in her investigation habits, but as Eric says, underestimate her at your own risk. Bonus points for being an actual lawyer.
- Butch Lesbian: Delilah is far from traditionally feminine, and it's all but stated that she's had her share of female ex-lovers.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Some of her theories aren't exactly on base, to say the least. Even her Revisualization towards the end of Case 2 is a borderline Bat Deduction, to the point that she’s actually surprised when the killer confirms she was right.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Not as you might expect the protagonist of an Ace Attorney parody to be, as she mostly either has permission to take or photographs most of her evidence, but she does steal a bag of chips out of the vending machine in the first chapter. And it's implied she stole a second sometime later.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Playing Possum is just her feigning surrender in the hopes of getting a witness to say too much. It’s portrayed as an overdramatic stage performance with props and set pieces.
- Playing Possum: If you couldn't already tell, it's kind of her thing. Not only is it her damage animation, but she seems to take pride in it, as she apparently has a tendency to do impressions of the dead bodies when she investigates a murder. Her "mechanic" is even dubbed "Playing Possum".
- Prehensile Tail: As an opossum, she naturally sports one of these. She gets a lot of mileage out of it too, using it for everything from hanging upside-down to dramatic pointing to stealing snacks out of a vending machine.
Millie Muskerson
The current intern for Badge and O'Possum Law Offices, as well as an old friend of the main duo.
Game Mechanic: Interrogation Scent-sation
- Abhorrent Admirer: Is this to Eric. She's not ugly nor does Eric dislike her in any way, but he's made it more than clear that her repeated advances are unreciprocated.
- Bag of Holding: Her sweater, capable of holding seemingly any piece of evidence she stuffs into it while not hindering her movement at all.
- The Empath: While she cannot feel what other people are feeling, her nose is so good that she can smell the chemical imbalance of emotions in people.
- Limited Wardrobe: Averted. In a deliberate Shout-Out to Mabel Pines, she wears at least one unique, thematic sweater for each case. The purple one she sports on the cover art can be considered her “default” look.
- Mythology Gag: Her Interrogation Scent-sation mirrors Athena Cykes' Mood Matrix used from Dual Destinies onwards. There are some changes, with surprise being gone completely and sorrow now being separate from fear. This is to make it more similar to the kind of emotions animals can actually pick up on.
- The Nose Knows: Even in a story of animal protagonists, Millie’s nose goes above and beyond, allowing her to smell when someone is lying and detect their specific emotions with enough focus. Her nose is even capable of doing things that shouldn’t be possible, like getting her high off of catnip despite not being a cat.
- Shrinking Violet: While open and extroverted around her friends, she's quite shy around others. She makes a habit of hiding in her sweater when stressed, and her testimony in court consists entirely of ellipses because she was simply too shy to speak.
Supporting Cast
Sigrid MacTalon
Lead detective for a majority of the cases Badge and O'Possum work on. Partnered with Kyle VanDal, much to her own displeasure.
- Busman's Vocabulary: Tends to use words fitting her military theme. She refers to Delilah poking a hole in her testimony as "enemy fire" and calls mammals "maggots" when she's particularly upset with them.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Pretty much her whole gimmick, despite being a police officer.
- Jerkass to One: It's mentioned that they somehow got off on the wrong foot in college and now Mac Talon seemingly makes a hobby of tormenting Delilah while on duty. She's perfectly fine with Eric, though. Delilah says this is because of their days in the boxing club together making them "thick as thieves".
- Running Gag: Her pulling her Drill Sergeant Nasty routine on higher ranking mammals and immediately Verbal Backpedaling.
- The One Who Wears Shoes: Is the only member of the main or supporting cast to wear shoes. In her case, she wears a pair of combat boots, befitting her military theme.
Kyle VanDal
The primary prosecutor and one of the main antagonists of the story. A public prosecutor known for both his immense skill and laziness, netting him the titles The Bullseye Prosecutor and The Apathetic Attorney respectively.
- Berserk Button: Anything that threatens to make a case "boring" for him, such as Accidental Murder. He hates an anti-climactic resolution.
- Big Word Shout: Unacceptable!, generally reserved for when the defense (or a witness) seriously manages to tick him off.
- Blood Knight: A legal variant. He is so rarely interested in a case that if he does find one interesting, he'll go out of his way to keep it from ending on an anti-climactic note, even if it means robbing himself of an easy win.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He's noted to be one of the most talented prosecutors in the city but also the absolute laziest, finding most cases so boring that he doesn't even bother with courtroom etiquette anymore. He repeatedly falls asleep during trials, doesn't bother to give his own opening statements in full, and is said to have outright walked out on a trial more than once out of sheer boredom. Even after displaying some of this against B&O, MacTalon has to point out that what they saw was actually a significant improvement for him, stating that if he wasn't so good at his job when he actually tries, he would've been fired by now.
- Classy Cane: A gold-studded one fashioned after a revolver. It can make a bang like one too when slammed against the prosecutor's bench.
- Composite Character: He takes cues partially from perennial Ace Attorney rival Miles Edgeworth, but his irreverence for the courtroom, habitual trolling of the defense, and weapon motif makes him most reminiscent of Simon Blackquill. Somewhat ironic, given his father's name.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: Subverted. He's lost plenty of cases before, in part because he didn't care enough to try to win them. But after losing to B&O for the first time, he compliments them specifically for defeating him in a case he "actually sort of cared about" for once, which is basically this trope as far as he's concerned.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the typical Ace Attorney rival prosecutor. Like most of them, he has a scary nickname ("The Bullseye Prosecutor") and a feared reputation in the courtroom. But he's become better known by another nickname ("The Apathetic Attorney") and his reputation is being such a lazy and obnoxious pain in the ass that no one wants to share a trial with him.
- Finger Gun: This is his way of Giving Someone the Pointer Finger. Somehow, he manages to fire actual (albeit non-physical) bullets with it, and it's capable of backfiring.
- The Gadfly: Goes out of his way to make trials needlessly difficult for B&O, from objecting purely to correct them about something trivial to summoning four witnesses at once when they specifically asked for only one.
- Handicapped Badass: Has a definite limp, but that doesn't stop him from being one of the best prosecutors in Zootopia.
- Motif: Guns. He doesn't carry an actual gun, but his walking cane has a gun for the head, he's nicknamed "The Bullseye Prosecutor", and he's somehow able to fire actual bullets from his Finger Gun.
- Running Gag: Losing interest in his own opening statement partway through and passing it off to MacTalon. This happens progressively sooner every time he gives one.
- That Was Objectionable: If he objects, he's just as likely doing it to "Um, actually" the defense or complain about a turn of phrase he doesn't like as he is to raise a legitimate point.
Judge Loggins
The judge presiding over B&O's cases.
- Only Sane Man: She's probably the one of the least quirky mammals in the courtroom at any given time, (wood chewing habits aside) but that comes with the cost of having to suffer through the mania of not only the witnesses, but also the defense and prosecution.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Kind of her whole deal. As judge, it's her duty to ensure that proceedings go smoothly and that each side has a fair chance to prove their points. Noted as tough, but fair.
- Running Gag: Wooden objects don't last long around her. The first day of trial in the second case seems to subvert this, as the courtroom is in perfect condition despite the entire thing being craved out of a tree. But the same could not be said about her bench on the second day. Or Juror No. 5's chair.
Megan Skinner
The resident coroner of Precinct 1. Delilah befriends her and she occasionally assists their investigations with medical expertise.
- Ascended Extra: She was even more of a minor character in Born to Be Wilde than Delilah and Eric, only showing up in a single scene in Drabbles, where she's killed off soon after. To boot, the entire chapter was All Just a Dream. She gets significantly more screen time in this fic, and even has a relationship with Delilah, the deuteragonist.
- Creepy Mortician: Downplayed. Her general personality is upbeat and not too distressing. However, her familiarity with corpses gives her a slight disadvantage when trying to interact with the living, making her a tad awkward.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Downplayed. She's not shown yet to be overtly fascinated with the corpses she autopsies, but being a Workaholic in her field brings up the definite implications of this trope.
- No Social Skills: She clearly has trouble around people, as seen when her jokes fall flat in the courtroom. Eric assumes himself that she "doesn't have much life outside of the lifeless."
- Workaholic: When almost all the officers of Precinct 1 were attending Millie's trial, she was still working in the lab. And right after the trial, as we find out in the next chapter, she immediately went back to work.
Turnabout Da Capo
Bea. F Wellington
The victim of the first case. An officer of the ZPD killed in the parking garage.
- Death by Irony: The nose ring she was so excited to be wearing ends up being the perfect conduit for her High-Voltage Death.
- High-Voltage Death: Slammed into a junction box by a moving car. At least, that's what the original assumption is. Her actual murder weapon was a car battery and jumper cables.
- Perky Goth: From what little we catch of her before her untimely death, she seems fairly upbeat and friendly, celebrating the fact that she successfully managed to wear a nose ring without being reprimanded.
Bailey Oates
Lead detective of the first case. Former racehorse whose speech patterns are harder to decipher than the Voynich Manuscript.
- Animal Occupation Stereotypes: He was a champion racehorse before he became a ZPD officer.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When he tells Oinkenbaum to give up her case against Millie once Eric has definitively proven his guilt. He knows even if he managed a way out, he'd still be villainized in the eyes of his fellow officers.
- Motive Misidentification: Eric assumes that he wanted to steal the ice pick for personal gain. Oates corrects him that he only intended to study it for a while before it had the chance to be tampered with.
- Talks Like a Simile: Peppers so many similes and metaphors throughout his speech, nobody in the courtroom can even comprehend his first witness testimony until Eric decodes it. Lampshaded by an unknown mammal in the gallery."Never trust a mammal who uses that many similes."
A Study in Turnabout
Monty Gosland
The defendant of the second chapter and Lucy Sang's "nephew". The butler of Casa Tigre.
- Ascended Extra: He was merely another one of Lucy Sang's contacts in the Born to be Drabbles. In this story, he's given much more focus, fleshing our his backstory and relationship with Lucy.
- Honorary Aunt: Lucy considers herself this to him, after his mother became her only friend in prison. He seems to return the sentiment.
- Orgy of Evidence: Leaves behind his footprints, his pawprints on the knife used to kill Tigre, and gets spotted by the gardener during his escape, and literally caught red-handed hiding the knife. And this is all before his confession to the murder.
- Sharp-Dressed Mammal: He wears a spiffy black suit to go with his profession as a butler. Even at first glance, Eric notes that he has some competition in this area.
Dominic Tigre
The victim of the second case. A pretentious hunter who planned to fire his staff. His staff responded with various attempts to off him.
- Asshole Victim: So much so that there were only two people who didn't actively want him dead in his own home. The fact that his own daughter wasn't included on this short list should speak volumes for his character.
- Hypocrite: Fires his entire staff because one of them was dating his daughter, and planned to propose. This was mostly to cover up his own affair with the gardener, who he ditched purely because he didn't find her attractive anymore.
- Who Murdered the Asshole?: The list of people who weren't involved in attempts on his life is relatively short. That list being his own wife.
Sunny Urshine
The bodyguard of the Tigre household. The death of Lord Tigre under his watch has left him a sobbing wreck.
- Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: He's introduced looming over all three main characters, clearly intimidating all three with his size and stoic demeanor. Then Delilah starts Playing Possum and he has a total breakdown. From then on he's pretty well described by Delilah's court record as "Teddy Bear".
- Gentle Giant: He's technically a Sun Bear, the smallest species of bear in the world, but still looms over most small mammals. He's also one of the most polite and helpful characters in the whole case, and surprisingly meek as well.
- Hidden Depths: While he may seem no bark, no bite, he was a professional wrestler before becoming a bodyguard. That being said, he was disgraced after he got frightened of a hyena's maniac laughter and fled the ring, which is exactly what you would expect from him.
- Ocular Gushers: His tears warrant a flood hazard to smaller mammals, and quite often at that.
- Token Good Teammate: By the end of the case, he's the only member of the staff who hasn't tried to assassinate Lord Tigre. Though it's downplayed somewhat since he was a massive Asshole Victim and most of them could hardly be called evil for wanting him dead.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Had he not accidentily delivered the poisoned Delishafish, Ria wouldn't have had the thought to use it to kill Lord Tigre. Subverted, as even if he hadn't delivered the fish, and hadn't delivered the cart as per Monty's orders, there's still a very likely chance that Lara Tigre would have killed him instead.
Chef Humphrey
The chef at Casa Tigre. He fell in love with Lara Tigre, and planned to propose to her, which earned the entire staff the ire of Lord Tigre.
- Chubby Chef: His description says that he could probably pass for the less flattering answer to a "three-humped camel" joke.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's not the most patient of individuals, to put it lightly. The reason he was out of a job before coming to Casa Tigre was because he got on the wrong side of a health inspector, and the health inspector saw the wrong side of his frying pan.
- Supreme Chef: He allegedly managed to cook an infamously complex meal om only his second try.
Ria Nepeta
The gardener of Casa Tigre. She was also Lord Tigre's mistress, and when Tigre discarded her, she killed him in a fury.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: She's completely immune to the effects of her own catnip, due to years and years of substance abuse with it.
- Artistic License – Biology: Mention is made of her retracting and unsheathing her claws a couple times over the course of the trial, but cheetahs are the only species of feline that can't retract their claws.
- Busman's Vocabulary: She regularly makes gardening puns and references, calling Delilah an "evergreen" attorney.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Her ditzy demeanor and spaced out nature is all just an act. As noted above, she's totally immune to catnip, and only plays it up to fly under everybody else's radar.
- Super-Speed: Being a cheetah gives her a natural degree of this, but its elevated to ridiculous levels by virtue of Ace Attorney logic. Might also be how she manages to sculpt topiaries quickly and accurately.
- Verbal Tic: Nyah. She's even given a unique Big Word Shout in the form of Nya ah ah, which is probably meant to either be the vocalization of a Finger Wag, or an Evil Laugh.
