If you play AA6 without playing T&T first, you'll know Iris is not Dahlia when she's revealed in 3-5.

Wait AA6? That hasn't even come out yet though. unless you're from the future!!!!

Technically, he meant that is what would happen, in case AA6 featured Iris.

On the subject of the change of her appearance, something like this comes to mind:



It's still too similar, but it's only because it's a sprite edit - given the fact that differences in facial features between characters in anime style are actually pretty subtle, 3D modeling could allow making her look like herself, while not bearing any resemblance to Dahlia from 3-1.

There are so many things I would do differently in the Ace Attorney's story, really.

I just don't think Iris had enough of a buildup as a character, if you know what I mean. She's Nick's girlfriend who is written into the plot in a little contrived manner. I think that's why I don't find them cute, but boring instead. I wanna forget Iris, I think she's a bad character.

MAYA AND NICK ALL THE WAY, WOOOWOOOO!

I'd say the whole matter was a bit sensitive here - first of all, they weren't sure if they could tell it directly to Pearls, since there was a possibility she knew what she was doing. Second, they couldn't really restrain her or anything (hell, they didn't even have a chance to have her alone at any time).

Iris was merely following what she was told. There wasn't really reason for her to tell Phoenix - there wasn't even reason to tell Phoenix about it, since it was Maya's life on the line - they tried to stop it, of course, but it's not like she could just walk up and say everything (that'd be a horrible mystery, too)

Also, I'm not sure I really appreciate your rant about her lack of personality, after I wrote something about it...

"Listen you can't call upon Dahlia she is a demon from the darkest deeps of hell! I know you promised your mother but Maya could be in danger if you call her." That would have easily stopped Pearl.

Question: How would Godot, Misty or Iris know that it'd stop her? Like I said earlier - how would they know she doesn't know what she she's doing and isn't helping willingly? Or even so, how would they know, she wouldn't trust her own mother rather than them?

They did try to prevent channeling - by occupying Pearl with something else, a meeting with Misty. That was it. They couldn't have known Pearl wouldn't show up, even in case they prepared for that.

Maybe they could've told Phoenix, but it's like JM said - Godot was in charge and he choose not to and Iris couldn't just go and tell everything, you know. However, the very basics of the plan was preventing Pearl from channeling without informing her of her mother's evil plots. What you propose goes directly against it.

Question: How would Godot, Misty or Iris know that it'd stop her? Like I said earlier - how would they know she doesn't know what she she's doing and isn't helping willingly?

Or even so, how would they know, she wouldn't trust her own mother rather than them?

I don't think she had any self respect anymore - she valued Dahlia and Phoenix more than anything else, but when Dahlia was convicted, she lost both of them. As a person dependant on others, she must have felt empty - to suddenly return to the Hazakura Temple, with no one but sister Bikini in her life, again. Let's be honest - she does appreciate her foster mother, but I don't think that this would be anyone's idea to spend whole life.

I actually just noticed that Iris is not only similar to Adrian with her dependency issues - but also to Phoenix as well. The strenght of both of them lies in others - however, unlike Phoenix, Iris actually lost the people she relied on, the people she cared about. Even with Phoenix still alive, he treated her as a stranger - who knows how that could have changed even if he knew the truth? - hell, according to most of the fandom, and even her lack of presence in present-day canon, it didn't. At that point, I'm not even surprised she was fine with taking the blame