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Character Name: Franziska von Karma
Character Age: 13
Canon Point: The end of Turnabout Reminiscence, Ace Attorney Investigations case 4. Franziska flew out on summer break from Germany with her father, and came with him to what was meant to be newly em-barred Miles Edgeworth's first case. Instead of a court case what she got was a double homicide. She helped to investigate the crime scene, after challenging Miles Edgeworth to a contest over who could solve the crime first.
Canon Summary: Modern world (ish), where Japan had a MUCH heavier influence on California, the law is All The Rage, and prosecutors are superstars a good portion of the time. Court drama is apparently a much bigger part of daily life, and in order to prove someone as not guilty, not only must the fact that they could not have committed the crime be proven, but also who did.
There's some other oddities about the legal system in particular, like trials only lasting 3 days at most before the defendant is found guilty, if not already proven innocent, and spirit channeling being a definitive thing, but for the most part it's just modern day, with a couple extra countries and technology about 10+ years behind where it should be.
Franziska specifically was born in 1999 in probably Germany, to an unnamed mother (who may have been super young) and a legendary prosecutor father. She has at least one sister, or potentially half sister, but she is never mentioned by anyone other than one line so who knows what's up with that. When she was 2-3ish, her father brought the child of a former rival of his, a defense attorney, back with him to Germany, and the two were raised together and trained to be prosecutors, with only one acceptable goal in that: to be perfect.
Memories:
Regains:
Personality: In the simplest terms, Franziska is a brat. This is not entirely her fault.
She has been trained, almost certainly for longer than she can remember, to think that perfection is the only acceptable outcome for anything she does. She was raised with the idea that she was the daughter of the perfect Manfred von Karma, and that she is to be perfect to. This is less because she as treated as something special and more that it was taken for granted. Of course she is a prodigy, and destined for greatness; she is because she is the daughter of von Karma. Pressure was likely only added when it was discovered she has a head on her shoulders. Because of all this she has also been raised to think meanly of everyone else in the world - they aren't perfect. She is competitive, both naturally and almost certainly by training - prosecution is a competitive profession, and after all she is destined to be the best. All that in mind, there's nothing wrong with a condescending attitude, is there?
Franziska has not yet lost her childishness; it shows partially in always being ready to try and prove herself to be the best. Of course, under that veneer of superiority is uncertainty, buried very far down, and not something she dwells on, but down in there is doubt. Her father is perfect, of course, but is she? If she's not, what is she? Perfection is all she's ever known to seek. All this manifests in competitiveness, because if she's better than everyone then she'd better prove it.
In general she dislikes relying on anyone and dislikes sharing the spotlight; perfect people do not need things from anyone, after all. Similarly her view of perfection is different from her father's - for her father, a win is enough; Franziska seeks to not only win in general but prove that she has won in every way possible. It's a weakness, as it often leads to discoveries that things were not actually perfect. Manfred would have moved on long before allowing things to come to that point.
Franziska is used to getting her own way, one way or another. She carries a riding crop that she is not afraid to use - whenever she is frustrated, or annoyed, or doesn't feel like enough attention is being paid to her, or even when she just doesn't like what's going on, the whip gets used. This does not always mean it is used on the target of her annoyance - frequently she seems to avoid using it on women or children; often in those cases she will whip someone else instead.
She is smart, abuse, determined, stubborn, and bossy - and you'd better treat her as an adult; she considers herself better than most adults anyway. And don't comment on her height; it's a sore subject. Unsurprisingly at 13 she is less mature than at age 18; there is more naivety in her manner at this point, and she has a talent for being ridiculous and totally serious about it. Heaven help you if you point out that she is being ridiculous, though - she clearly is not being, and will drive that home with her whip.
It's clear that Franziska respects her father highly, but we are never given a lot of information about how he regards her. She may have been Daddy's Little Princess, but it seems more likely that he was always cold, and that she was never good enough, especially since she and Miles were raised together, and she always seems to have been half a step behind him. Part of the reason she is so fiercely competitive, so determined to be perfect, is to finally win his approval. Probably because of this, she seems to take her tone from him. Everything must be perfect, and must be perfect right now.
She began studying law at a shockingly young age, and did so in addition to normal schooling. When you consider this, even before adding in Manfred, it is unlikely that she ever really had a childhood.
In short: obnoxious brat, used to getting her own way and loudly stating her superiority over everyone. Underneath all this she's just a little girl who is convinced she will never be good enough, and never really be cared about.
It's hard, sometimes, to be perfect.
Sample: The worst part about studying law, (not that she would ever admit it to anyone), was not that it was confusing, or the books were large and heavy - too heavy for her thin arms - but that it was frequently boring. Franziska itched for action, to prove herself in the world, and when a concept was difficult to grasp she told herself it was because it was so dull, and paced her chambers at night, eyes half closed as she recited Latin to herself - how the law was practiced, how it had been founded. The grim forests outside her window always seemed to swallow the world at such times, and left no room for anything but her thoughts.
That was all right; her thoughts were all that she needed.
She had carefully never told anyone about it all, of the long hours extra she had poured into her work in a ferocious determination not to be left behind, not to be outpaced by Miles Edgeworth, nothing but a disciple of her father, without her bloodline to bolster him. It didn't matter that he was five years her senior; she had been born to this and he had not, her papa had merely taken him out of pity for such a worthless creature, and doubtless desire to keep a child like that from wasting his life as an attorney, when he had been born with so many disadvantages already, and his own father had been torn from him by a worthless criminal who had been allowed to escape. (She didn't understand her papa's reasoning still, not entirely, but naturally could never admit such weakness by asking, and so smoothed out doubts like wrinkles from her thoughts).
Worse still than any of that, for now, until all this was brought to an end and Franziska left free to exact her vengeance, was that it was no longer an option.
Franziska had found the library quickly enough upon waking here, and headed directly past the useless fairy tales and towards nonfiction, only to find the shelves bare, but for a few childish magazines covered in dust in one of the corners.
She had been immediately struck with horror, and shock - it was like finding a statue instead of a friend - and then quickly after that anger.
"Useless!"
Title: Ms. Genius Prosecutor Successor to Manfred von Karma, Franziska von Karma
What are your preferences on your character being in a case? I'll leave it up to RNG!
Would you like your character to have a special plot role? I'd be okay with it if you need someone else, but I don't have my heart set on it.
Anything else? Nothing!
Player Name: Natalie
Player Age: 31
Contact Info:
Reserve Link: as you wish
IC Information
Character Name: Franziska von Karma
Character Age: 13
Canon Point: The end of Turnabout Reminiscence, Ace Attorney Investigations case 4. Franziska flew out on summer break from Germany with her father, and came with him to what was meant to be newly em-barred Miles Edgeworth's first case. Instead of a court case what she got was a double homicide. She helped to investigate the crime scene, after challenging Miles Edgeworth to a contest over who could solve the crime first.
Canon Summary: Modern world (ish), where Japan had a MUCH heavier influence on California, the law is All The Rage, and prosecutors are superstars a good portion of the time. Court drama is apparently a much bigger part of daily life, and in order to prove someone as not guilty, not only must the fact that they could not have committed the crime be proven, but also who did.
There's some other oddities about the legal system in particular, like trials only lasting 3 days at most before the defendant is found guilty, if not already proven innocent, and spirit channeling being a definitive thing, but for the most part it's just modern day, with a couple extra countries and technology about 10+ years behind where it should be.
Franziska specifically was born in 1999 in probably Germany, to an unnamed mother (who may have been super young) and a legendary prosecutor father. She has at least one sister, or potentially half sister, but she is never mentioned by anyone other than one line so who knows what's up with that. When she was 2-3ish, her father brought the child of a former rival of his, a defense attorney, back with him to Germany, and the two were raised together and trained to be prosecutors, with only one acceptable goal in that: to be perfect.
Memories:
- What time of year it is/leaving Germany
- The contents of a legal textbook, The Bluebook (a guide for legal writing)
- The contents of another legal textbook, International Law
- Who Miles Edgeworth is
- Latin. Just how to understand the whole language.
- What a swiss roll is
- How to tie her ascot
Regains:
- Her riding crop
- California Criminal Law Concepts, 2013 Edition
- Criminal Litigation and Legal Issues in Criminal Procedure: Readings and Hypothetical Exercises
- A package of chocolate swiss rolls, identical to those in the courthouse (renewable)
- A handgun with two bullets missing; a piece of evidence in the KG-8 incident and the murder of Byrne Faraday
- A bloody switchblade, with a decorated, golden handle; a piece of evidence in the murder of Mack Rell
Personality: In the simplest terms, Franziska is a brat. This is not entirely her fault.
She has been trained, almost certainly for longer than she can remember, to think that perfection is the only acceptable outcome for anything she does. She was raised with the idea that she was the daughter of the perfect Manfred von Karma, and that she is to be perfect to. This is less because she as treated as something special and more that it was taken for granted. Of course she is a prodigy, and destined for greatness; she is because she is the daughter of von Karma. Pressure was likely only added when it was discovered she has a head on her shoulders. Because of all this she has also been raised to think meanly of everyone else in the world - they aren't perfect. She is competitive, both naturally and almost certainly by training - prosecution is a competitive profession, and after all she is destined to be the best. All that in mind, there's nothing wrong with a condescending attitude, is there?
Franziska has not yet lost her childishness; it shows partially in always being ready to try and prove herself to be the best. Of course, under that veneer of superiority is uncertainty, buried very far down, and not something she dwells on, but down in there is doubt. Her father is perfect, of course, but is she? If she's not, what is she? Perfection is all she's ever known to seek. All this manifests in competitiveness, because if she's better than everyone then she'd better prove it.
In general she dislikes relying on anyone and dislikes sharing the spotlight; perfect people do not need things from anyone, after all. Similarly her view of perfection is different from her father's - for her father, a win is enough; Franziska seeks to not only win in general but prove that she has won in every way possible. It's a weakness, as it often leads to discoveries that things were not actually perfect. Manfred would have moved on long before allowing things to come to that point.
Franziska is used to getting her own way, one way or another. She carries a riding crop that she is not afraid to use - whenever she is frustrated, or annoyed, or doesn't feel like enough attention is being paid to her, or even when she just doesn't like what's going on, the whip gets used. This does not always mean it is used on the target of her annoyance - frequently she seems to avoid using it on women or children; often in those cases she will whip someone else instead.
She is smart, abuse, determined, stubborn, and bossy - and you'd better treat her as an adult; she considers herself better than most adults anyway. And don't comment on her height; it's a sore subject. Unsurprisingly at 13 she is less mature than at age 18; there is more naivety in her manner at this point, and she has a talent for being ridiculous and totally serious about it. Heaven help you if you point out that she is being ridiculous, though - she clearly is not being, and will drive that home with her whip.
It's clear that Franziska respects her father highly, but we are never given a lot of information about how he regards her. She may have been Daddy's Little Princess, but it seems more likely that he was always cold, and that she was never good enough, especially since she and Miles were raised together, and she always seems to have been half a step behind him. Part of the reason she is so fiercely competitive, so determined to be perfect, is to finally win his approval. Probably because of this, she seems to take her tone from him. Everything must be perfect, and must be perfect right now.
She began studying law at a shockingly young age, and did so in addition to normal schooling. When you consider this, even before adding in Manfred, it is unlikely that she ever really had a childhood.
In short: obnoxious brat, used to getting her own way and loudly stating her superiority over everyone. Underneath all this she's just a little girl who is convinced she will never be good enough, and never really be cared about.
It's hard, sometimes, to be perfect.
Sample: The worst part about studying law, (not that she would ever admit it to anyone), was not that it was confusing, or the books were large and heavy - too heavy for her thin arms - but that it was frequently boring. Franziska itched for action, to prove herself in the world, and when a concept was difficult to grasp she told herself it was because it was so dull, and paced her chambers at night, eyes half closed as she recited Latin to herself - how the law was practiced, how it had been founded. The grim forests outside her window always seemed to swallow the world at such times, and left no room for anything but her thoughts.
That was all right; her thoughts were all that she needed.
She had carefully never told anyone about it all, of the long hours extra she had poured into her work in a ferocious determination not to be left behind, not to be outpaced by Miles Edgeworth, nothing but a disciple of her father, without her bloodline to bolster him. It didn't matter that he was five years her senior; she had been born to this and he had not, her papa had merely taken him out of pity for such a worthless creature, and doubtless desire to keep a child like that from wasting his life as an attorney, when he had been born with so many disadvantages already, and his own father had been torn from him by a worthless criminal who had been allowed to escape. (She didn't understand her papa's reasoning still, not entirely, but naturally could never admit such weakness by asking, and so smoothed out doubts like wrinkles from her thoughts).
Worse still than any of that, for now, until all this was brought to an end and Franziska left free to exact her vengeance, was that it was no longer an option.
Franziska had found the library quickly enough upon waking here, and headed directly past the useless fairy tales and towards nonfiction, only to find the shelves bare, but for a few childish magazines covered in dust in one of the corners.
She had been immediately struck with horror, and shock - it was like finding a statue instead of a friend - and then quickly after that anger.
"Useless!"
Title: Ms. Genius Prosecutor Successor to Manfred von Karma, Franziska von Karma
What are your preferences on your character being in a case? I'll leave it up to RNG!
Would you like your character to have a special plot role? I'd be okay with it if you need someone else, but I don't have my heart set on it.
Anything else? Nothing!
