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The Mechanics of Emotion (9272 words) by VickytheSnake, thesavagesabretooth
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Athena Cykes/Simon Blackquill, Bobby Fulbright/ Simon Blackquill, The Phantom/Simon Blackquill, Athena Cykes/The Phantom, Athena Cykes/Bobby Fulbright, Bobby Fulbright/Original Character(s)
Characters: Kidzuki Kokone | Athena Cykes, Yuugami Jin | Simon Blackquill, Ban Gouzou | Bobby Fulbright, The Phantom (Gyakuten Saiban), Houzuki Akane | Ema Skye, Naruhodou Minuki | Trucy Wright
Additional Tags: Polyamory Negotiations, Developing Relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, Case Fic, Drama & Romance, POV Athena Cykes, POV Bobby Fulbright, POV Simon Blackquill, Angst and Romance, Sharing a Body, Childhood Trauma, Hurt/Comfort, Redemption, Mutual Pining, Therapy, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Romantic Comedy, Dark Romance
Summary: Athena Cykes has a problem. For years, she built her life around rescuing the man who had saved her, Simon Blackquill. She’d been imagining a fairytale ending. A kiss. A ride into the sunset.
But real life isn’t as simple as a dream. Athena got her kiss, but there was no ending– there was a complication. Bobby Fulbright was suddenly back in Simon’s life in an unexpected twist of fate, and it turned out that he and Simon had been together for a whole year. Athena gave them her blessing, she was happy for them. But now she feels like an outsider.
Things aren’t all sunshine and roses for Simon and Bobby either. Simon had spent the past year living like it was going to be his last year on earth– because it was. But now he is still alive, and there are questions unasked that demand answers. Just what is his relationship with the detective going to be going forward? And what complications of his own does Bobby Fulbright have up his sleeve?
Not to mention that there are two more members of the Phantom Organization who’ve been captured that Simon now needs to prosecute, and Athena must defend. Love and chaos in LA. In justice we trust– but who understands the mechanics of emotion?
Important author’s note under the cut:
So. This is the sequel to In Justice We Trust.
I already know that some of you are going to be disappointed, confused, or even potentially angry. To those of you who are, I am genuinely sorry. Please close this fic now, and pretend that it does not exist. You can consider that “In Justice We Trust” is canon, and that this fic is fanfiction of it. It’s not real and it can’t hurt you.
Please let “In Justice We Trust” stand on its own, and forget about this fic.
To those of you who are wondering why– why include Athena in this relationship? Why not just let their relationship stand as friends? All I can tell you is that ‘the heart wants what the heart wants’. If you’re interested in a detailed explanation of my feelings about romantic relationships and found family, you can read about it on my blog.
In Justice We Trust started off as a one-shot. I did not expect it to be popular. I did not expect the wonderful, amazing, overwhelming reaction to it that I got. I didn’t expect to base a whole longfic on a single fragment of a moment. I am polyamorous, and a poly shipper at heart. That’s just who I am. IJWT grew in the telling, and I will admit I pruned it, like a bonsai, as it grew, to keep it in line with the expectations of others. I kept Athena’s romantic feelings out of the story so that more people could enjoy it.
I am not expecting this fic to be popular.
But those of you who have not yet clicked back, or even blocked or muted me on AO3– I am asking you to come on a journey with me. A journey of romance, and twisted feelings. A journey of people who were children no one understood. A journey of people who might grow to understand each other, despite all the things that would keep them apart.
I am asking you to let me tell you The Mechanics of Emotion.
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