I haven’t played the 2nd trilogy yet but with the spoilers I’ve read about aa4 and 5, it kind of solidifies my budding HC that Nick unintentionally has better relationships with women than men and it affects how he treats either. based on how he treats Athena vs Apollo and hell Maya, Trucy, Pearl vs Larry and any other male character. Miles seems to be the only exception here. This isn’t a serious HC but it’s just amusing seeing him be a genuine mentor to Athena while Apolo had to go through Phoenix’s dark era before getting the best mentor treatment and he still likes to tease him here and there based from the spoilers.
lmao honestly i’ve been joking about misandrist Phoenix the whole time too, it’s pretty funny to me. feminist ally only interested in more women in the legal profession. frankly the gender disparity in AA law is huge so he’s right ✊😔
TBH I’m not super keen on the fandom tendency to stuff every possible relationship into the nuclear family and by extension assume every character under the age of 25 is Phoenix’s child – Trucy is his kid, everyone else is something else and most of them are already grown when he meets them anyway. However I’m willing to ignore that for the sake of this joke:
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