Miles Edgeworth

He loves reading, thinking logically, the steel samurai (a children's TV series that he secretly likes)

Miles has gray hair (brown, sometimes), and combed back, in the front he has his hair parted leaving two bangs that fall to the sides of his face. He dresses elegantly, with a black vest, a red coat, matching pants and a ruffled neckerchief. He is 1'78, and is athletic build. He has a strong character, determined, somewhat cold and very distrustful (according to how he appears in the first game, it is due to the accident that cost his father his life). He hates crime, previously he would do anything to get the accused declared guilty, but since Phoenix defeated him in several trials, he realized what mattered was to discover the truth, making him change his point of view radically and even help Phoenix in the cases that both were in charge of. He is afraid of earthquakes, is a fan of the steel samurai and unlike Phoenix, he has a driver's license.

Cases Miles was involved in: Case 1-5 (Rising from the Ashes): Miles was 22 years old and was the prosecutor of the SL-9 incident, in which rumors of evidence falsification arose. Although in the end it is proven that he had nothing to do with these rumors, he was simply made to present the false evidence without realizing that it was a set-up by the then great detective, Damon Gant. Lana Skye was found guilty of the death of Bruce Goodman and Edgeworth is the prosecutor. Together with Phoenix, he discovers that Gant murdered Goodman to silence him and framed Emma for the SL-9 incident by forcing Lana to create false evidence to get a promotion. Edgeworth leaves the prosecutor's office to discover the true meaning of being a prosecutor. Case 2-4 (Goodbye my case): Edgeworth returns from overseas and succeeds Franziska in prosecuting Matt, due to him being shot. Upon learning that Maya was kidnapped and Phoenix must secure a not guilty verdict for her release, he attempts to rescue her, but is unsuccessful. Franziska eventually helps Phoenix with a video proving that Matt wanted to blackmail Shelly, causing him to release Maya. It is the only case he wins against Phoenix. Case 3-4 (The origin of the case): At the age of 20, he became a prosecutor. He was the first prosecutor Mia Fey faced; with Terry Fawles as the defendant and Dahlia Hawthorne as the witness, the case ended in a no-convict case because the defendant died during the trial. Case 3-5 (Bridge to Case): Edgeworth receives a call from Larry and flies in on a private jet to see Phoenix. He poses as a defense attorney to defend Iris since Phoenix is ​​unable to do so. He faces trial against Franziska von Karma. He gets a continuance and Phoenix returns to lead the defense. Edgeworth notices Iris' resemblance to Dahlia and discovers that she is her twin sister. Phoenix eventually secures a verdict of Iris' innocence.

1992: Miles Edgeworth is born. 2001: Miles is 9 years old. Someone steals his lunch money at school, and the class accuses young Phoenix Wright. Since Phoenix insists he is innocent, and the students have no evidence against him, Miles comes to his defense, along with Larry Butz. The three become inseparable. That same year, the DL-6 incident takes place, in which Miles' father, Gregory Edgeworth, dies before his own son's eyes. Manfred Von Karma takes him under his wing, and he transfers to another school. 2012: Miles begins his career as a prosecutor at the age of 20. He faces off against Mia Fey. Two years later, rumors about Miles begin to spread. 2014: SL-9 incident. A 22-year-old Miles is the prosecutor in the case, and the defendant is convicted by using false evidence. Miles is unaware of the hidden evidence. 2016: Miles is accused of murdering Robert Hammond, but is saved by Phoenix, who also discovers that his father's killer was Manfred von Karma. 2017: In February, a murder closely linked to SL-9 takes place. After Phoenix solves this case, Miles can't stand the pressure he's under and runs away, leaving a note that intrigues everyone. 2018: Miles returns to the prosecution stand as a reborn prosecutor, no longer interested in simply blaming the accused, but in uncovering the truth. 2024: Miles reunites with Wright.

No matter how many tricks a person uses... The truth will always find a way to come out. The only thing we can do is fight with the knowledge we have and with everything we have. Erasing the lies one by one... It's never easy... But we'll always eventually come to one truth. That I promise you. Miles Edgeworth, "Farewell, My Case." This is what Miles believes with all the strength of his heart, in truth and justice above all.

Miles Edgeworth (御剣怜侍, Reiji Mitsurugi?) is the Los Angeles District Attorney and a childhood friend of Phoenix Wright and Larry Butz. During his first four years as a prosecutor, he had a perfect record of winning due to his willingness to do anything to get a guilty verdict for the accused. This all ended when Wright defeated him in court. Later, Edgeworth would later find himself on trial for murder, with his rival defending him. After working on one more case, Edgeworth left the prosecutor's office to seek out what it meant to truly be a prosecutor, coming to the conclusion that prosecutors were seekers of the truth, and that winning a guilty verdict was not all that mattered. He later returned and, by the time Mask☆DeMasque was in the case, had already made himself known as the top prosecutor in the United States. He also traveled abroad to study international law, prosecuting in five other countries. He was also instrumental in tracking down the leader of a notorious international smuggling ring and bringing him to justice.

Edgeworth is typically seen as a "snob" due to his skeptical, ruthless nature, and is generally very distinct between everyday life and the courtroom. However, he has a strong sense of right and wrong, and acts only in ways that he believes are fair and just. He is also shown to care deeply for those he considers his friends, even helping them greatly when he believes they require it. For example, he rented a private jet to come to Wright's aid when the defense attorney urgently needed his help. Generally, Edgeworth is calm and level-headed when talking to people, though he is initially a bit cold and sometimes quite condescending. Edgeworth is also very insecure in general, and abhors showing his weaknesses. He may have a pollen allergy. In court, Edgeworth usually has the trial precisely planned out, usually ensuring his victory. Because of this, he tends to easily accommodate anything that doesn't fit his plan. In particular, he tries to stick to normal court procedures, trying to get witnesses to state their names and professions, though he regularly has great difficulty with this task due to the often rather eccentric characters called as witnesses in his cases. Edgeworth seems to have difficulty with some names; referring to the Global Studios mascot "Mr. Monkey" as "Mrs. Monkey", calling the Psylocks "Locolock", and referring to the robot Ponco by the name "Panko", despite the latter's numerous attempts to correct him.

Before facing Phoenix Wright in court, Edgeworth had amassed a perfect record of victories. He was ruthless in his trial tactics, going to great lengths to maintain his winning record. Through it all, he never intentionally used false evidence. His reasoning was that he could never know for certain whether any defendant was guilty or not. He despised criminals, so declaring every defendant guilty was his way of ensuring that the criminals he encountered would get what they deserved. Ultimately, however, he was driven by his selfish desire to win. Edgeworth's encounters with Phoenix Wright radically changed him. He left America in an attempt to make sense of everything that had happened to him, and to find out what it really meant to be a prosecutor. Miles icon Following his return, Edgeworth became a valuable ally to Wright, challenging him to figure out what it truly meant to be a defense attorney at one of Wright's darkest and most vulnerable times. Once, when Wright was incapacitated, Edgeworth went so far as to charter a private jet from Europe to the States, as well as arrange for an incoming trial to have a substitute judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney (himself) for the first day while Wright recovered. After spending some time reflecting on what it meant to be a prosecutor, Edgeworth decided that his record of victories no longer mattered and that what was important now was the pursuit of the truth. To do so, he developed an extreme determination to find the truth, at one point cruelly revealing a witness's secret. In fact, the pursuit of truth above all else has led Edgeworth to join in interrogations against his own witnesses on more than one occasion, teaming up with the defense attorney.

The attitude he displays towards his investigations is slightly different from Wright's, in that Edgeworth focuses more on the truth and lets the consequences against the suspects be what they should be. However, Wright has inspired him more than once with his audacity in desperate situations. Much of Edgeworth's personality can be traced back to his upbringing. The DL-6 Incident caused him to develop a fear of earthquakes and elevators, as well as suffer recurring nightmares about the incident, and the idea that he might have been his father's killer haunted him for 15 long years. The nightmares stopped occurring after the incident was resolved. Edgeworth's reactions to earthquakes, or similar circumstances such as air turbulence, range from shortness of breath to sobbing and curling up into a ball or even fainting, which are likely involuntary reactions based on what had happened during the DL-6 Incident. Edgeworth has a certain lack of social skills, possibly due to his upbringing by the unsympathetic Manfred von Karma. His gleeful expressions come off rather awkwardly, and he prefers to be alone in general, and resists people's attempts to engage with his problems. His clumsiness goes so far that if the moment is awkward enough, he will flee the scene, as demonstrated by his reaction to Kay and Gumshoe trying to take a picture with him. Still, Edgeworth does care for his friends. When Franziska von Karma was shot, he went to visit her at the Hotti Clinic. When Edgeworth asked Gumshoe to take care of Kay, he said that Edgeworth acted like a father. When someone looks at him, he looks at them from behind, since that intimidates most people;

Edgeworth commands a great deal of respect from his colleagues, but is not always aware that he is being cruel or even that he is being obvious. Furthermore, the revelation that Misty Fey was a fraud caused Edgeworth to become an extreme skeptic of the occult, even after it was revealed that she had not been a fraud after all. Edgeworth has a fair number of female admirers, chief among them Wendy Oldbag, who calls him "Edgey-poo" among other unwanted "sweetheart" names. Bikini also found Edgeworth "handsome" and forgave him easily. Rhoda Teneiro and Lauren Paups also seem to have been attracted to him, feelings of which Edgeworth himself were largely, not entirely, unaware of. Indeed, Detective Gumshoe commented on Edgeworth's apparent ignorance of his own attractiveness to women, leading Edgeworth to remark, "D-Do I really inspire this kind of foaming desire from the female masses?" Shi-Long Lang refers to Edgeworth as a "pretty boy", though this is more likely meant to irritate the prosecutor. Franziska von Karma once called her little subordinate cute, but was probably mocking him. Ema Skye is also suggested to have had a crush on him in her teenage years, which had not completely disappeared even into adulthood.

Edgeworth is fond of drinking tea and playing chess; he frequently has tea delivered to him from the Gatewater Hotel, and has a chessboard in his office. His chessboard is unusual in that, instead of the traditional black and white game pieces, Edgeworth's chess set is red and blue. When examining Edgeworth's office during the investigation into Bruce Goodman's murder, Phoenix Wright noticed that the red knights on the chessboard all carried swords with sharp "edges", while the blue pawns had "spiky hair" (a subtle reference to Wright and his rivalry with Edgeworth, though Wright quickly dismissed the thought). During the trial of Athena Cykes, Edgeworth mentions that Phoenix's adopted daughter Trucy puts herself in a small box during one of her performances, implying that the Chief Prosecutor knows about magic tricks and has at least seen her perform at least once. As a child, Edgeworth was seen to be a very bright student.

He was praised for his various activities at school. However, he would cry when he failed at a task (for example, his origami attempt), and went to great lengths to ensure that his next attempt was successful. However, Edgeworth has generally hated being the center of attention, often trying to credit other people or circumstances for his accomplishments and seeing no value in awards or trophies. Despite being named the "King of Prosecutors" in 2017, he derided the award and merely stated that he viewed the award as a trinket that would fill space on his shelf. Edgeworth has insisted on a few occasions (notably the Will Powers murder trial) that the truth had to come out, and that he was merely a vessel through which the court arrived at the truth. He is a very successful prosecutor who was raised by another very successful prosecutor, which is why Edgeworth is quite well-off. He drives a red sports car to work (an imported Alfa Romeo GTV model) and it is hinted that he lives in a mansion, further showing in his upper-class tendencies. Edgeworth is believed to own a large dog named Pesu, to which Edgeworth has a deep emotional attachment, talking to the dog and sometimes even putting a tie around its neck.

Although he generally dislikes admitting it, Edgeworth is an avid fan of Fullmetal Alchemist, even displaying a full-size figurine of the samurai in his office, and seemed to know quite a bit about the subject. Despite acknowledging that it is a show aimed at children, he enjoys the serial plot and high production values. When Will Powers, the actor who played Fullmetal Alchemist, was acquitted of murder, Edgeworth told Powers that he was a fan of his work, though Wright believed he was lying. During one of his flights home, he was secretly reading a Fullmetal Alchemist manga hidden between the pages of one of his law books.

in love

In love, he is not a very attentive guy, he tends to be quite distracted, shy when he really likes someone. Although he will always appear serious and with clear ethics if it interferes with his work*