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^^ I love it; she looks so cool! Although I still prefer her current look since Franziska is always a really 'sharp' person to me and all of her diamonds and angular poofy sleeves reflect that.

Sometimes I imagine Franziska with a perfectly perfect accentless accent, whereas other times I think of her with a really heavy German accent. I imagine if she did have a German accent they would write it phonetically, though, so I'm guessing it's the first one.

I just noticed a neat little continuity thing between AAI and JFA. In JFA, Franziska embarrasses Phoenix by pointing out a contradiction because of a lack of gunpowder burn. In AAI case 4, Miles embarrasses Franziska by pointing out a flaw in her logic by, you guessed it, a lack of gunpowder burn. Sounds like a lesson she didn't forget.

I think she learned English at a young enough age to not have an accent.

Apparently the character designer has confirmed that the von Karmas are into horseback riding (see the character design note translation thread). I kinda feel bad for their horses.

Her fear of guns might just be the reason though, causing her to blank out many gun-related thoughts.

I'm pretty sure that Edgeworth has hinted at Franziska being traumatised by 2-4. A lot of things happened during 2-4 and getting shot certainly didn't help her cause, specially since she was doing no wrong.

I don't doubt Franziska experienced trauma from 2-4. I'm just surprised it's still that fresh and lingering to that extent, one whole year later.

Also, having bad memories of a time when you were shot seems to me to be a pretty rational reaction. I don't think it necessarily has to mean trauma if she has bad memories of that time.

Also, being shot at a young age.

How would it be if she had a daughter?

Imagine if Franziska and Miles had kids who wanted to play with toy guns...

Franziska would hide in a corner and cry.

However, first you have imagine Miles and Franziska having sex. Or even getting married...

...Nope, nothings appearing in my head. They're too much like siblings.

However, first you have imagine Miles and Franziska having sex.

Fortunately, I devote MASSIVE amounts of mental energy to imagining fictional characters doing it.

how the hell did we arrive at "Fran and Miles having sex" from "Franziska in AAI"?????

Now about her fear of gun, I'm sure she has one, in case 5 of AAI she mentionned it when you present her a piece of evidence. Whoever has been shot is bit traumatized, wouldn't you think?

Now that I look at what I've written, how the hell did we arrive at "Fran and Miles having sex" from "Franziska in AAI"?????

Eh, she also freaks out over the knives, and she doesn't have any specific knife-trauma in her past. Freaking out over dangerous things while turning a blind eye to how she uses her whip just seems to be a humorous character trait of hers.

In any case, it's pretty mild trauma, since she's obviously still able to function while investigating a crime scene and whatnot, nothing crippling.

I blame OniXera for being a filthy deviant.

Plus, they totally wouldn't, Franziska wouldn't do her little brother, she's not a monster.

At least the whip isn't likely to kill anyone...

Actually, the whip is the second deadliest weapon in the world, after the spear.

Funny enough, in trying to find a good whip to purchase for when I finally get around to cosplaying Franziska, I've come to the conclusion that her whip is actually gimped and not nearly as deadly as a whip should be.

From the artwork, near as I can figure she's using some variety of fully-plaited bullwhip, much like this one:
From my (admittedly casual) research, the part of a whip that actually does the most damage, including any cut-like injuries is a piece called the fall, in the above pic, the whitish-bluish thin piece in between the braided leather and the red tassel part (the cracker, the bit that really makes the whip-crack sound.) That's the part that moves the fastest when the whip is cracked, and thus has the most kinetic energy available to transfer into a very small area of target on impact; being hit with the whip itself might bruise or leave a welt, but it's the fall that will break skin and do the most damage.

Now, take another look at the end of Franziska's whip. Her whip has no fall and no cracker, however it looks like the end of the lash has the same sort of wide spot at the end where the fall would be attached. My conclusion: she deliberately removed the part that would make the whip into a properly deadly weapon for some reason.

(The real reason, I'm sure, is more likely that the artists didn't research whips and just drew what they thought looked good! )

... Also, good whips are expensive! Holy crap!

Very interesting! That part does seem to be missing.

Oddly enough, some of her victims have claimed that particular weapon has broken skin. Maybe it's a magical whip with invisible fall and cracker? lol

Or, maybe it's because she has perfect strength, knowing how much she needs to swing to deliver a blow that hurts, but doesn't leave a mark? She is a von Karma after all!

But, anyway, I suspect that part doesn't appear due to the lack of detail on the GBA sprites, then it just was never included in future artwork because it'd be too hard to work into the character...or they just forgot...or didn't care for accuracy. I mean, every gun in AA is an old fashioned revolver.

Which could be the very reason she keeps the fall off the thing; because a von Karma must be perfect and accidentally doing more damage than needed is not perfect!

I have no doubts of her horse-riding crop being real, though. I guess in my own little head-canon I thought that Franziska would've wanted to ditch the riding crop for something new after 1-4 (or maybe it just broke or something)

A thread on the gameFAQs Ace Attorney boards claims that Franziska has been "dumbed down" in AAI