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name Mia Fey canon Ace Attorney age 27 (deceased 3 years; 30) height 5'6in / 168cm path Monk start March 2019
Radiant Sun Bolt opening
Observant opening
Mystery of Death opening
Monastic Tradition April 2019
Douse Flames April 2019
Tranquility May 2019
Deflect Missiles May 2019
Shadow Step July 2019
Purity of Body August 2019
Empty Body September 2019
PATH : BARBARIAN start: October 2019
Rage ---
Danger Sense ---
Feral Instinct ---
Indomitable Might ---
Spirit Shield ---
Reckless Protection ---
Aura of the Sea ---
Aspect of the Beast ---
Fast Movement ---
Intimidation---
player lucifine (he/him) ♪ timezone cdt ♪ discord lucifine#8125 ♪ code by transilience
Mia Fey: We never really know if our clients are guilty or innocent. All we can do is believe in them. And in order to believe in them, you have to believe in yourself. | |
APP HMD PATH Lucifine |
"'I have tarnished the Fey name.' Leaving only these words, my mother vanished. I was determined to find the ones who had made my mother blame herself in this way. Using the E.S.P. that runs in my family, I held an audience with the dead. Finally, the names of two men surfaced. One was Marvin Grossberg, a lawyer who sold my mother's information for riches. The other was the man who sold that information to the press."
Mia Fey stands at 5'6 or 168cm, a full five inches taller than her younger sister. With at least one Japanese parent, she has the typical straight-brown hairstyle popular in Japan. Though it was darker in her youth, it is still a considerably lighter brown than Maya Fey's. She wears a yellow scarf and her family magatama, which has a purplish-blue hue. Obviously one of her most recognisable traits (often a visual gag when summoned by her considerably smaller sister and young cousin) is her large chest, which together with the mole on her face and her added height are the combination of features that carry through when she is being channelled by Pearl or Maya Fey. She wears a black, skirted suit and white high-heeled shoes, and generally carries herself with an almost commanding air of grace.
If Beyoncé were somehow rendered into a video-game lawyer, she would be Mia Fey.
Quite possibly the real hero of the original series, Mia serves as a Deus-ex-Machina, a guide, a comforting presence, and a source of incomparable snark. Players just starting the game have assumed that in its beginning, she was fridged.
Mia Fey went Chuck Norris on the fridge.
Really. It's a testament to her incredible stubbornness that even in death, Mia serves an important role throughout all three video games she appears in. She's a force of nature. Though Phoenix is her protégé, it's quite possible that even he cannot compare to how much of a brick wall of faith Mia Fey is. Through every case, she never stopped believing in her clients, and more importantly never stopped believing in Phoenix and Maya. In fact, she taught Phoenix almost everything he knows… including the art of the bluff.
It's easy to see Mia in Phoenix if you've seen them both in court. If Phoenix is the bluffing king, Mia is the goddess from whose hands the technique was forged in the gavel-ridden gates of "it looks like no one's going to find evidence for the defence" hell.
From her own mentor, Diego Armando, Mia learned the one key to surviving in their twisted Turnabout Court; bullshitting it until the evidence aligned in the favour of the truth. In their courts, a quick ruling was preferred even over a truthful one, and fighting for the truth often required the tactics that made Mia the bullshitting queen. This stubborn woman couldn't be stopped in or out of court. During investigations, Defence Attorneys are often limited in what evidence they have access to. However, if Mia truly believed her defendant was innocent, even if every effort seemed futile, she would upturn every investigation until she found justice.
In one of the two cases the player gets to play as Mia, her boss, Marvin Grossberg, acknowledges that Mia had a fire and determination in her green years that veteran lawyers lacked-- and that he proves later on even he lacks. (Grossberg actually even says that Mia is the only one who could match Gregory Edgeworth's abilities in court, which is implied to be a high honour. Though Mia does eventually say Phoenix has become a great lawyer and she has nothing more to teach him, it's likely that Gregory and Mia's cases went much less… tumultuously than Phoenix's tend to.) Intimidating in court, Mia's body language could set her opponents shivering in their boots. With a flip of her hair or a smug smirk, Mia Fey could send a shudder of doubt down the spines of the prosecution. Even in teaching, she was incredibly effective; similar to her younger sister, Mia is an expert at pointing out case flaws and asking the right questions to help Phoenix and others understand just what's wrong with their argument.
Aside from her legal life, however, Mia is also an incredible sister. In Kurain village, female children of the Master must compete with each other for the title of the next master. Mia wasn't having that. She cared for her sister Maya more than anything, and even abandoned Kurain's practices despite being a very proficient channeller. On the outside, it may have seemed that Mia left only to pursue law and to clear the name of her mother, but at the end of game three, Sister Bikini mentions that Mia's true intention may have been to prevent Maya from having to compete with her. Nothing could come in the way of Mia protecting her little sister, either-- not even her own death.
One may think this is only the result of Mia's sister's and Pearl's ability to channel her. They'd be wrong. Mia Fey repeatedly made her presence known to Phoenix without being channelled and proceeded to save his sorry ass from certain doom when she clearly could have gone to rest. It has been joked about that Mia would probably be summoned to open a pickle jar for his hopeless self. It's only sad because it isn't far from the truth, considering her sister once summoned her to flirt for information from an old man with a thing for busty waitresses. In addition, Mia (along with Phoenix) basically performed an exorcism on her sister by literally badmouthing Dahlia Hawthorne until she couldn't handle being in Maya's body anymore. If Death is a stopsign, Mia clearly didn't get the memo.
If that hasn't been enough to sell everyone on the fact that Mia is a Class-S Badass, she's also incredibly physically attractive. Everyone seems to admire her, and though the admiration of a cast of really dumb boys is questionable, the fans admire her quite a bit, too. Even after death she wins the attention of many people via Maya's channelling or through her photo being shown to others-- and during their lives, Mia was the girlfriend of a certain coffee-glutton lawyer.
However, one must also keep in mind that this game is Ace Attorney, and even the baddest of badasses, the bossest of bitches, and the most divine of divas can have some very stupid and hilarious flaws. Among these flaws and quirks is her strange inability to pronounce names correctly, at least on the first few tries. While it's unclear if she's simply bad at remembering them or is just doing it to be a little shit, she does seem to have a real problem with getting names down, and that's not counting the fact that many people in the game pull puns or insults into other people's names. She also seems to have an affinity for plants and despite her apparent dedication to her work, she's also pretty well acquainted with pop culture. This can lead her to having some saucy insults, but just like with the rest of the cast, sometimes her snark can fall just short of the mark. She's also not above white-lying to keep her sister out of trouble, saying things that aren't exactly encouraging to Phoenix, and expressing a sense of humour that is often morbid or even slightly crude. In addition, while it's true that she's quite strong-hearted and can keep on a smile or serious face when it comes to stressful situations, this is only because she's overcome trauma in her past and because of the advising of her mentor Diego. Mia's likely got other flaws (as any human being does), but as they are not mentioned in canon and are only speculation and headcanon, they will be addressed in play or in a separate headcanon post.
Some trivia (mentioned in the wiki) that also provides insight on Mia's personality is the nature of her punny name in the Japanese game:"Her Japanese given name, 'Chihiro' (千尋), can mean 'great depth', or 'a thousand fathoms'. Shu Takumi describes her name as being a pun, with the kanji together meaning 'a thousand questions', as in 'If I have to ask him 1000 times, I will!' The second kanji is also the first in 'cross examination'."
This nature is proven in her lengthy cross examinations during the two cases she acts as Defence attorney for in AA2 and 3.
Also mentioned in the wiki as trivia is the fact that her body language in court as a young defence attorney was designed to show the effect she had on Phoenix; they resemble each other in these motions quite a bit, and their Objection! pose in AA3 is shown to be incredibly similar.
It's implied that Mia has the same channelling abilities as Maya and Pearl and was once a better channeller than Maya. However, because she's a. dead and b. does not use these abilities, it is unclear as to whether her having given up her training meant she also gave up these abilities, as they are passed down by blood. Even if these spiritual abilities were to be returned to her, she likely would not use them.
Mia also has the incredible power of the bluff and the bullshit, if that wasn't mentioned enough already. She's very studious and great at understanding all those legal books Phoenix refuses to read.
If sass and badmouthing those in the wrong are also natural talents, sure, that works too.
OTHER;
Housing Request?: It would make me, Mia, and probably all of the AA cast really happy if Mia was assigned to be Godot's wife. That's about the only preference we've got.
Did you read the rules and FAQ?: absolutely.