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Series timeline here:
http://www.court-records.net/timeline.htmhttp://www.court-records.net/timeline4.htmhttp://www.court-records.net/timelinegk.htmBased on Phoenix being 21 in T&T case 1 (April 11, 2013) and 25 during JFA case 4 (ends March 23, 2018), Phoenix's birthday was narrowed down to "between March 24th and April 10."
It was determined that no matter what birthday you use for Edgeworth, you arrive at a contradiction. The game-makers list the ages in the Court Record by just adding one to the person's age in the previous game (or keeping it the same from T&T to the GK games and the AJ backstory case, or adding seven from T&T to get to AJ, or subtracting six from the T&T age to get to the Turnabout Beginnings age). The ages in the Court Record are not based on actual birthdates. This leads to the contradiction where Edgeworth is 20 in Turnabout Beginnings and listed in the Court Record as being 25 at the end of JFA, even though JFA ends 6.1 years after Turnabout Beginnings. Maybe Franziska told whoever was in charge of the Court Record for Turnabout Beginnings that Edgworth was 20 when he was really 19, in order to prevent his reputation as a prodigy from interfering with hers. In that case, he was born between March 24 and September 5 of 1992. The alternative is that he was 26 at the end of JFA and 27 during AAI.
The biggest non-birthday-related timeline dispute is whether to base the calendar year on the idea that Apollo Justice took place seven years after the
beginning/middle of Trials and Tribulations, or seven years after the
end of Trials and Tribulations. Capcom, despite policing the timeline and writing for obvious contradictions very carefully, screwed up here. Phoenix in AJ is supposed to be seven years older than in T&T, eight years older than in JFA, and nine years older than in T&T. But in order for AJ to take place seven years after its backstory case that took place 79 days after the end of T&T, it has to take place in 2026. In that case, AJ has to end
more than ten years after PW:AA's first two cases and more than nine years after JFA's first two cases. In order to fix that problem, you can make AJ take place in 2025, thus making Phoenix's age difference between his trilogy and AJ make sense. However, if AJ takes place in 2025, that means that
it begins less than six years after the AJ backstory case. So there's a contradiction no matter what.
All you really need to know is this. JFA takes place the following year after PW:AA. T&T's main timeframe takes place the following year after JFA. AAI's main timeframe spans a few days and takes place about month after the end of T&T. GK2's main timeframe also spans a short period of time starting about two weeks after AAI. AJ's backstory case takes place shortly after that. AJ's main timeframe takes place seven years after the eventful T&T-AAI-GK2-AJBackstory year. Most characters have no official birthdays.
Think of it this way. Every game in the series starts in either spring or summer (though the first case of T&T's main timeframe, the DeMasque case, is in September/October), and every game's main timeframe ends within a year of beginning. The first game takes place within the 12-month period that starts with April 2016, the second game takes place within the 12-month period that starts with April 2017, the third game and both of Edgeworth's games take place within the 12-month period that starts with April 2018 (with the AJ backstory case shortly thereafter), and Apollo Justice takes place within a 12-month period that starts with April 2026.
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