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Bio Info:
▸ Reckoned birth year(s): 1992-1993
▸ Documented age range: 21 - 35
▸ Last known status: Alive (Sep. 2028)
▸ Eye Colour: Dark blue/Gray
▸ Hair Colour: Black
▸ Height: 5'9"/176 cm
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B I O G R A P H Y
Phoenix Wright is a veteran defense attorney who heads the Wright Anything Agency. Mostly specializing in criminal trials, Wright is renowned for his ability to turn seemingly hopeless cases around.
Beginning his career under Mia Fey in 2016, he was disbarred in 2019 after unknowingly presenting forged evidence. After spending the following seven years as a pianist who moonlighted as an undefeated poker player at the Borscht Bowl Club, he was instrumental in the organization of a test trial for the Jurist System, resulting in his exoneration and reinstatement into the bar.
Wright has also been a defendant himself at least three times in his life, each time either hiring a different lawyer, or representing himself.
Phoenix Wright grew up as an only child. He once told Apollo Justice that he was raised in a barn, to explain the untidiness of his hospital bed, although he was likely just joking. At one point in his life, Wright broke into a cattle ranch and tipped some cows.
Years later, Luke Atmey stated that Wright probably received the same message on his school report card every year: "Careless, with tendency to jump to conclusions"; judging from the lawyer's reaction, this was not far from the truth. Wright has stated that his teachers always said he was "a good thunker" [sic] and has related that it was pouring with rain on the day of his elementary school graduation.
Perhaps the most transformative incident in Wright's early life was during fourth grade, when his class accused Wright of stealing the lunch money of a classmate, Miles Edgeworth. Since Wright was the only student not in gym class when the theft had occurred, everyone assumed Wright was the culprit, even the teacher, but Edgeworth came to his defense. Edgeworth pointed out that, while everyone kept saying that Wright was guilty, no one had any evidence. Regardless, the class continued to accuse Wright, saying that they did not need proof to know that he was the thief, but Larry Butz, the class troublemaker, also stood up for Wright. He accused the class of ganging up on Wright, and not considering how he felt. Ultimately, the teacher ended the trial, declaring Wright not guilty, and replaced the money herself. Wright, Edgeworth, and Butz became inseparable friends after this incident. Fifteen years later, it was finally revealed that, despite not being in school that day, Butz was the one who had stolen the lunch money, though Edgeworth had known this all along.
At the time, Edgeworth idolized his famous father Gregory Edgeworth, a legendary defense attorney. The class trial would prove to be a powerful inspiration for Wright during his legal career. After the DL-6 Incident, which resulted in Gregory's death, Miles transferred schools and moved out of town.
In his third year at university, Wright met Dahlia Hawthorne in the District Court basement library and was immediately enamored with her. She wrote him a poem and gave him a bottle necklace, telling him that it was a symbol of their love. They subsequently began to date, though in all subsequent meetings, and unbeknown to Wright, "Dahlia" was replaced with Iris, Dahlia's twin sister, who posed as her. For eight months, she tried to convince Wright to give the necklace back, as otherwise her sister planned to kill him, but Wright refused; as he was unaware of her reasoning, he thought that she was only joking and did not mean it. During the course of said eight months, Wright greatly enjoyed spending time with his new girlfriend, who knitted him a pink sweater, made him mini omelets which he loved, and had lunch with him every day. However, things would soon change, as the true Dahlia Hawthorne was getting impatient.
One day, while suffering from a bad cold and losing his medicine, Wright met with Doug Swallow, a former lover of Hawthorne, who told him that she was dangerous; she had stolen poisonous chemicals from his lab before and now some chemicals were missing again. Horrified by Swallow's blasphemous statements about his beloved, Wright pushed him onto the ground, and Swallow fell onto his umbrella, breaking it. Wright then left, but a few minutes later, a crowd began to gather around where Swallow had fallen, and Wright returned to the scene to find Swallow dead, with Wright's previously missing cold medicine in his hand.
Wright was soon accused of the murder and put on trial. Wright's lawyer was Mia Fey, a rookie attorney who had not taken a case since her first a year prior. Wright did not cooperate with Fey at first, lying that he had not known the victim. One of the prosecution's witnesses was Hawthorne herself, which Wright found hard to believe. Fey eventually accused Hawthorne of the murder and claimed that the necklace had actually contained a poison used to incapacitate another individual inside the courthouse on the same day in which Hawthorne and Wright had met. Wright could take no more of this and ran out of the courtroom. By the time he was forced back inside, he had swallowed the necklace.
Fey then told Wright that he would have to believe in her if he wanted to avoid a conviction. Wright finally cooperated and gave his entire account of the day's events. Fey eventually showed that Hawthorne had originally intended to kill Wright by poisoning his cold medicine, but after seeing Wright's encounter with Swallow, she had changed her plan and killed Swallow instead, intending to frame Wright. Wright received a not guilty verdict, but he still could not believe that Hawthorne had betrayed him, and even suggested that the Dahlia Hawthorne he saw in that courtroom had been a fake. Fey replied that he should move on with his life.
Fey's dogged defense of Wright inspired him to pursue law full-time, and he came to receive his attorney's badge with identification number 26381. Meanwhile, Hawthorne was convicted and sentenced to death.
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Occupation:
▸ Art student at Ivy University
▸ Law student at Ivy University
▸ Defense attorney (Disbarred)
▸ Pianist
▸ Professional poker player
▸ Chair of the Jurist System Simulated Court Committee
▸ Defense attorney
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____After receiving his law degree, Wright became a pupil of Mia Fey and a member of Fey & Co. Law Offices. In his first case, he successfully defended his childhood friend, Larry Butz, who was accused of murdering an ex-girlfriend, by revealing the true culprit to be the prosecution's star witness. When Mia was murdered one month later, her younger sister Maya Fey was put on trial. Wright took on her defense and finally met Edgeworth in the ensuing courtroom battle which concluded, with assistance from Maya using her spirit medium abilities to channel Mia, with Edgeworth's first ever loss. Wright then inherited Mia's firm, renaming it Wright & Co. Law Offices and taking on Maya as his assistant.
He became a successful defense attorney, turning countless cases around, defeated Manfred von Karma, saving Edgeworth, saving Maya Fey from her kidnapper, falling off a burning bridge (Edgeworth rented a private jet to visit him), exposing Godot and helping Iris to get rid of Dahlia once and for all.
____In April of 2019, Zak Gramarye, a famous magician at the time, called Wright to his detention cell. The magician challenged him to a game of poker, which Wright won. He then asked Wright to be his lawyer, as he was suspected of having killed his master, Magnifi Gramarye. He had just recently fired his previous lawyer and the trial was scheduled for the next morning, but Wright reluctantly agreed to take the case.
The next day in court, a mysterious girl gave Wright a piece of paper that seemed to have been ripped out of a journal. He took it into court with him, where he faced rookie prosecutor Klavier Gavin. Wright was able to show that Zak's stage partner Valant Gramarye had the opportunity and motive to kill Magnifi. In the end, Gavin presented Magnifi's diary, which had a page ripped out. Wright in turn presented the piece of paper that the girl had given him, as it seemed to be the missing page, but Gavin declared that the evidence was fraudulent, calling a forger called Drew Misham to the stand, who confirmed that he had made the page. The trial abruptly ended soon after, but when Zak took the stand to receive his sentence, he disappeared into thin air, and no verdict was ever given.
Wright was then put before a Bar Association hearing. They determined that he was responsible for the forgery and all of them, except Kristoph Gavin, voted for Wright's disbarment. Even after losing his badge, however, it was apparent that the judge who had presided over the majority of his previous trials and those involved with the law still held him in somewhat high esteem. This event became the foundation of what would become known as the "dark age of the law", with the trial of Simon Blackquill the following year starting this so-called "age" in earnest.
Two weeks after the Gramarye trial, Wright took in Zak's abandoned daughter Trucy, the same girl who had given him the evidence that ended his career, and raised her as his own, after failing to find any close kin. He also became friends with Kristoph Gavin, and the two of them met often over the following seven years. Wright suspected that Kristoph was somehow related to the forged evidence, but as he had no proof, he secretly continued his investigation.
Seven years after his disappearance, Zak Gramarye reappeared to Wright, posing as "Shadi Smith". Wright questioned Zak about his intentions and the Gramarye family, learning that Kristoph's new student Apollo Justice was Magnifi's grandson, Thalassa's son, and Trucy's half-brother. Magnifi and his descendants had the power to read subtle body language, and Justice had a bracelet that allowed him to use this ability much more easily. Wright decided to use Justice to reach the truth about his last case. Zak also wrote a letter confessing to Magnifi's death, despite his innocence, and handed Wright a will passing on the legal rights to Magnifi's magic tricks to Trucy, with a reporter named Spark Brushel present to notarize the will.
Wright surprised Kristoph by hiring the latter's student, Apollo Justice, as his lawyer. The judge recognized Wright, but the former defense attorney insisted that the past not be discussed for the moment. With Justice at the helm of the defense team, Wright was able to convince him that the case was not as clear-cut as Kristoph was trying to make it out to be. Orly, the sole witness, had not killed Shadi Smith; someone else had. Wright had Trucy give Justice the ace of spades that he had picked up, which would turn out to be crucial evidence. Wright and Justice, with the help of Justice's power to "perceive" Orly's nervous twitches, eventually exposed Kristoph as the real killer. In closing, Wright told the court that the legal system was entering dark times and that the law would have to be changed.
Sometime after Vera's trial, Wright went to Europe to look into their legal systems. It was there that he met Athena Cykes, who was studying to become a lawyer. Learning she could sense subtle emotions from the voices of others, he assured her that this ability would be a great help to people. Cykes finished her studies and became a lawyer, and Wright invited her to join the Wright Anything Agency.
Wright later retook the bar exam and prepared to entered the legal world once more.
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____Phoenix Wright is generally quite easy-going in his outlook. His relaxed attitude usually leads to his friends leading him around or taking advantage of his good nature, usually by making him foot the bill of large celebratory meals. Wright also has somewhat of a sarcastic side that he usually keeps to himself. This tends to manifest when dealing with the eccentric characters (including his friends), objects, and situations he comes across. Despite his usually relaxed attitude, he is a rather harsh critic when it comes to art, possibly due to his time as an art student, to the point of openly mocking his friends' art pieces on several occasions.
Wright has repeatedly shown himself to be a loyal friend and lawyer who will refuse to back down once his mind is made up. Known for this trait even in childhood, it has been a valuable asset for him, especially as it has translated into his dedication to defending and believing in the innocence of his clients. Wright's loyalty is such that he has often ended up risking his career, and even his life, for his friends and clients on several occasions. For instance, in the trial that got him disbarred, he showed calm concern for the fate of his client, even in the midst of allegations of fraud. Drew Misham, in particular, was intrigued by this, claiming that despite Wright being the center of the problem, he was the only one who had not made a commotion.
____On the other hand, Wright's loyalty has clouded his better judgment on a few occasions. In university, he went through great lengths to protect his girlfriend, Dahlia Hawthorne, during his own trial, based on their relationship. When his lawyer, Mia Fey, accused Hawthorne of poisoning Diego Armando and giving her bottle of poison to Wright disguised as a necklace, Wright refused to believe her and ate the necklace, though, fortunately for him, it had been emptied. Even after the trial, he would conclude that Hawthorne was "not the woman [he] was dating", which would later turn out to be literally true. Years later, he attempted to cross a burning bridge in an attempt to save Maya, whom he believed to be trapped on the other side with a killer. Despite Larry Butz begging him not to, Wright went as far as to push him out of the way to get to the bridge, which immediately broke, sending him plummeting down into the river below.
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