CASE 001 ♞ [VIDEO]

[bratworth]

( The feed flickers on to a young man sitting at a table in the apartments in all of his courtroom finery. While he very much looks as though he's done his best to make himself as presentable as possible, there's no disguising the bags under his eyes. This is very much a man who has not had very a good night's sleep in a long time. )

Good morning. For those who I've not met before, my name is Miles Edgeworth. I was a prosecuting attorney from Los Angeles, California, in the United States of America on the planet Earth.

( Truly, what has his life come to that he has to make that clarification! )

I have been reflecting on the events that have occurred since our arrival on this planet, particularly during the festival. ( The plants had been bizarre and all, but he hadn't overly involved himself with them, having found other people more suited to what he has decided to consider extreme weeding. )

While I understand that the natives of this world might be more accustomed to free intimate contact between strangers, I consider it downright criminal that our food and drink at the festival might have been laced with substances that affect our behaviour without our knowledge or consent. If anyone suspects they may have consumed some of the contaminated items, I would be most interested in talking with you further.

Comments

[bratworth]

What does my city of residence have to do with 'sliding' into one's 'DM's?

[oomfies]

Because I'm pretty sure we made that a thing? LA invented that??
Like at least 90 percent of guys in LA slide into dms on the regular

[bratworth]

In that case I must be part of the 10%.

Did you want to do this or not?

→ private

[oomfies]

[ A few moments following that, Lottie will go ahead and Actually DM™ Edgeworth with some step by step screenshots on how to access this coveted feature.

And then, an actual text. ]

Ya I'm still interested mr ten percent!
What do you wanna ask me again?

[bratworth]

( He is most appreciative! )

Thank you for the instructions. It does not look as complicated as I was anticipating.

( Just how hard was he expecting it to be? That's a mystery for another day... )

I wanted to ask you about any experiences you might have had consuming any of the contaminated foodstuffs at the festival. You wished to answer anonymously.

[oomfies]

That's why it's such a big problem! lol

Anyway, yeah! The only one I had was with the makeup booth
Which I'm trying to get a sponsorship w so that's any anon haha!
It's technically foodstuffs because it's made of chocolate?
Basically the way it worked, if you put any of the stuff on like the gloss or foundation
If someone saw it they'd wanna kiss you..

I heard about some fondue fountain from a customer that said the same thing about that, too?

[bratworth]

I don't understand. You know that the lip gloss was tampered in some way (that seems scientifically improbable, if not impossible) and you wish to receive a sponsorship from that company? Do you think that they were unaware of the effects?

Yes, the chocolate fountain was also compromised.

( A true tragedy. )

[oomfies]

Damn.. That must've sucked for everyone who ate it!

It's just business honestly.. They need a moon blessed to sell product, and I need a bigger fanbase
But NO WAY they didn't kno abt it! They marketed it as something you can get kisses with, didn't they?
No sane person takes that shit srsly except these guys I guess!
Besides, when it happened to me while I was working the bar it was all laughs and giggles from staff..

[bratworth]

At least the lipstick came with a warning label of sorts.

What do you mean, you need a larger fanbase? Are you some sort of celebrity? An entertainer, perhaps?

You were working at the bar?

[oomfies]

I mean... ig?!! I just thought it was a cute tagline? Every brand has that kind of stuff
But yeah, I'm a fashion blogger!! Technically WAS but.. I figured that getting a following wouldn't be AS hard here
We're already kind of a big deal, anyway? U kno the whole moonblessed thing

So I volunteered at that makeup bar to get my name out there
since that was the only makeup thing at that entire event
We're kind of working something out as far as like a brand ambassador thing nbd

[bratworth]

I truly don't understand why we 'Moonblessed' are such a big deal.

( Edgeworth still doesn't know how to process the whole 'you touch each other and produce energy' nonsense. )

I suppose so long as you get your contract, that's all that matters.

( He's... being sarcastic, but dang it's hard to determine tone over the Internet. )

[oomfies]

It's kind of weird how we're worshiped but
publicity is publicity! Trying to get a following last time took me
Well, it just took a while

[ 8 years....but he doesn't need to know that ]

so I'm FOR SURE hoping something like that will come up tbh
Bc if nothing does that whole makeup bar was kind of a waste of my time

[bratworth]

They do say that all publicity is good publicity but I don't believe that that's the case.

( Edgeworth knows if he were ever famous, he'd just want to be left alone. But it's probably different for so-called 'fashion bloggers'. He has to ask: )

How long did it take to to build a following back home?

[oomfies]

Yeah.. Bad publicity is bad. I don't believe in that either!!
Getting hate on the internet sucks anyway idk who can deal with that just for clout
The whole moonblessed thing is still kind of good technically so I can deal
But.. Y'know if i had a choice obviously I'd go the other route

[ She did set herself up for that one.. With great pain, Lottie sends the next text - ]

Haha, uhhh like Eight years?? LOL..
I started pretty young tho!

[bratworth]

Is that a long time?

( He has ... no idea... how this whole 'celebrity' thing works. )

Personally, I wish the Prismals would pay less attention to us.

( It's unnerving! )