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Player Name: Sue
Email Address: vaguelysane at gmail dot com
AIM Screen Name: happy kinda blue
Character Name: Miles Edgeworth (operating under the pseudonym Lawrence Hunter)
Series: Ace Attorney/Gyakuten Saiban
Age: 26



Physical Description: Edgeworth stands at about 5'11" and is of an average build, though broad-shouldered. He is fair-skinned, with brown eyes and prematurely gray hair that he wears close-cut (save for longer bangs in front) and that, in the right light, is visible as having once been mouse-brown. He dresses neatly at all times and carries himself with an air of self-conscious import.

Personality: Edgeworth is an unfailing perfectionist and utter cynic, though sober and contemplative in his actions. Though he possesses an unerring sense of tact and discretion, in his dealings with others (especially those he considers enemies) he will at times appear sarcastic, inconsiderate, and demeaning – he does not suffer fools lightly, and does not care to expend energy on being patient with them. However, he is no easier on himself than he is on the rest of the world, and behind a practiced veneer of smug self-assurance he is deeply self-critical. This leaves him self-possessed but distant from much of the world, a man of many acquaintances but very few friends.


Abilities/Strengths/Weaponry: Having since a young age received the education that befits a young man of noble standing, he is well-read, which only lends weight to his considerable intellect and skill in debate. As a consequence of his education, the is also moderately skilled in swordfighting, which he prefers, on the rare occasions he is forced to resort to violence in close quarters, to gunpowder or otherwise projectile weaponry. He also carries an ornate pistol, as is expected of an officer on the open seas, though only one man, since sworn to secrecy, knows that the weapon is perpetually unloaded and, even if it were not, the trigger is broken. The reason for this can be seen in Edgeworth's history (below) -- as it stands, he likes to have the thing around, as its presence does lend a certain weight to his arguments.


Weaknesses: Edgeworth is not a strong fighter, either by disposition or training. As previously mentioned, he is strongly judgmental and critical, and this leads to difficulties both socially and in dealing with situations where there is not a clear-cut answer. He is also ill-equipped to handle deep interpersonal relationships -- even with those closest to him, interactions always hold a slight character of antagonism or rank-consciousness.

He has a few fears which are at times inconvenient -- explosions and gunpowder weaponry make him deeply uncomfortable, and earthquakes elicit earnestly phobic and incapacitating panic attacks.

History:

Miles Edgeworth was born the only child of a minor, up-and-coming noble family. His mother was the only daughter of a landholder settled at the borders of Epidarus, and caused a minor stir in polite society and inspired several doubts as to the future of her house when she married well below her station. Miles' father was an attorney who had been educated at the University and ran a successful private firm in the city, but was nonetheless of uncertain parentage, the offspring of an unwed cafe-owner and a drifter. Despite this, his father-in-law took to him warmly, and when the old man died he left the estate and all of its holdings to his daughter's family. When Miles' mother passed on a few years after his birth, the boy and his father were all that remained of the house.

Mr. Edgeworth had made his name as a defense attorney, his more famous and controversial work involved his campaigning for matters of social justice -- most notably, his call for legislation regulating the employment and treatment of Hell's Eyes workers and slaves. This work made him few friends among other noble houses, especially those to the south. At the same time, the cause gained him a number of allies and contacts within the working-class populations of Epidarus and beyond -- Miles' best friend growing up was the son of Mr. Wright, a local small business owner and ship-repairman. In that way Miles grew into an idealistic and correspondingly outspoken boy, clever and desirous of little but to follow in his father's footsteps.

Mr. Edgeworth died when Miles was nine, during a trip to Elysium, when a small earthquake knocked out of commission an elevator in a minor government building. An eventual confrontation followed between the trapped men present -- his father and a security guard -- wherein the guard's pistol fell at Miles' feet and he threw it in an attempt to stop the fight. Though the official inquiry that followed named the guard guilty of the murder, for years Miles believed himself to have accidentally shot his father in the commotion. Mr. Edgeworth's death was met in certain circles with sadness, and in others with relief, but even his enemies did not begrudge his name enough to consign his orphaned son to the cold hands of the state. Thus, when the head of the house of von Karma stepped forward and offered to take the boy in, brows may have been raised, but no objections were voiced.

Though the arrangement was classified as an adoption on paper, Miles never thought of himself and von Karma as father and son. The old man was his mentor and legal guardian, nothing more or less, and though his life in the new house passed mostly without incident, he spent the entirety of it in a strange territory somewhere between boarding-school student and apprentice. Despite this, he grew quite close to his mentor's younger daughter Franziska, and by the time he left the house to further his studies they considered one another brother and sister. Their relationship has seldom been idyllic, though -- he suspects that, ambitious girl she is, she has never forgiven him for being seven years older than her.

Naturally, he attended both the Academy and University, at the latter absorbed in every legal course or errand he could immerse himself in. Like his adoptive sister, he spent the remainder of his formative years up though his late adolescence trying to live up to his guardian's expectations. He earned his degree at the age of twenty and intended to take a year after university to travel, but he curtailed that trip when he received notice that the government had accepted his petition to work as regional prosecutor in the Ephesus courts. He returned home quickly, to begin work and learn the family business. Like his sister, he took on two occupations, but while she practiced law while preparing himself to someday reign over the von Karma properties, Edgeworth pursued his career in addition to supervising their maintainance and growth. Under his eye, the machined efficiency of the estate did not falter, and he gained a reputation as a demanding and merciless overseer to compliment the one as a ruthless servant of the state, a prosecutor who would stop at nothing to win. It's uncertain whether the opponents he faced in court or his family's slaves began to call him "demon" first, but the name stuck and spread, and at some point he began to accept it as a perverse badge of pride.

He had been running the grounds flawlessly for four years when he was framed for the murder of one of the men who had been involved in the inquiry into his father's death. The case stood to bring to light the details of the incident that Miles had omitted as a boy. His childhood friend Phoenix Wright, now a practicing defense attorney, took his case without request, and in the process of proving Edgeworth's innocence brought to light the truth of the circumstances surrounding his father's murder. Edgeworth learned that the killer had been neither him nor the security guard, but rather the head of the house of von Karma, who held a deep grudge against Mr. Edgeworth for having tarnished his perfect legal record. He had taken his revenge against the man who had denied him unquestionable perfection, and in orchestrating the staged murder had nearly succeeded in extending that revenge onto the man's son. The head of the house of von Karma was incarcerated for his crimes and, eventually, executed. Three months after that trial, Miles abandoned the von Karma estate and his position as regional prosecutor, leaving little more than a cryptically-worded note that could have been taken as notice of suicide.

In a complete coincidence, a man of approximately his description arrived at the Epidarus docks a day later and enrolled in the royal navy under the name of Lawrence Hunter. Lawrence saw nearly a year of combat at the end of the Revolutionary War, and has since served as a lieutenant aboard the gunship Ixion.

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