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Does Miles Edgeworth know?
Does Miles “manipulated into presenting forged evidence by Damon Gant and endured years of rumors about presenting forged evidence” Edgeworth know?
Does he know that he reinstated his trusted companion Phoenix Wright’s badge based on evidence Phoenix had forged?
Did Phoenix tell him? Is he keeping it a secret?
What would Miles do if he ever found out?
Miles is the chief prosecutor. If he knows, and hasn’t come forward about it, then he’s engaging in the same corruption as other villains of the series.
I know. This literally obsesses me. Are we ever going to address that. It is my headcanon that Miles did know about presenting forged evidence because I like that particular read and that autopsy report was NOT LEGITIMATE HOW COULD YOU BE SO WILFULLY IGNORANT– but that is just my headcanon. In canon, he genuinely finds the mere idea abhorrent, as far as I understand.
So either
a) He doesn’t know about it, and Phoenix has betrayed his trust majorly, which considering how foundational trust is to their relationship, is really fucked up.
b) He does know about it, and is engaging in the same sort of corruption he was trying to erase, which is also really fucked up.
In my personal interpretation (the one in which Edgeworth knowingly submits forged evidence to the court) he knows about it, and he forgives Phoenix in a “we’ve both been assholes but we can be better, let’s keep each other in check and work together to never do that again” way. I like to think that bribing my math teacher that one time to pass a test doesn’t make me irredemably evil, okay? We all mess up. Particularly those of us that grow in environments that encourage and normalize corrupt behaviour.
Regardless, it is not something you can simply gloss over, you know? It’s the kind of thing that has some incredible angst potential that I haven’t seen explored. The kind of worldview-shattering experience akin to the one he had in 1-4, because someone he has learned to admire is perhaps not as good as he thought. I just, look at it! It’s right there!! Why are we not talking about it!?!?
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