The main characters of the Badge & O’Possum universe, on all sides of the law. As many of them will be a Walking Spoiler due to the nature of the work, all spoilers are unmarked!
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Badge & O'Possum Law Offices
Eric Badge
Co-founder of Badge and O'Possum Law Offices and deuteragonist of the story. A boxer who immigrated from Great Bitein, he's one half Genius Bruiser, one half Nervous Wreck.
Game Mechanic: Badgering the Witness
- Affectionate Nickname: "Rick" from Delilah, "Stuffy" from Millie.
- Establishing Character Moment: Eric is introduced having a small panic attack over taking on the case, but doesn’t waver in his resolve to do so to protect Millie, establishing him as a Nervous Wreck who is nonetheless The Determinator. Of course, his British Stuffiness is also showcased by his choice of vocabulary.
- Genius Bruiser: Being a lawyer should already tell you how smart he is, but he also manages to win a murder case deemed impossible by even extremely reputable lawyers. As for the "bruiser" part of this trope, just ask Kyle VanDal, the prosecutor he knocked out in one punch.
- Iconic Outfit: He sports Phoenix Wright’s signature blue suit, which in this universe becomes associated with him instead.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Badgering the Witness, at its core, is just Eric aggressively pressing the witness while knowing when to back off until they finally crack. It’s portrayed as a full-on boxing match between him and the culprit that seems to leave both of them winded despite no actual punches being thrown.
- Nervous Wreck: He's having a panic attack in the courtroom before his first case and purports that he might stress vomit once he's seen the prosecution's case against him.
- Only Sane Man: He's not without his own eccentricities, but between Millie and Delilah, he most often has to be the voice of reason.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Has a tendency to use elaborate words even when simpler ones would do just fine.Eric: Is there a nearby trash receptacle for me to stress vomit into?Delilah: Hey, you haven't lost your flair for needlessly long words yet, so it's not that bad.
- Stealth Pun: Between his species and choice of outfit, Eric is a literal Blue Badger.
- Stout Strength: He's described as being a bit pudgy by the narration and some extra material portrays the buttons popping off of his suit. He's also a trained boxer, so he's got to have some significant strength behind all that fat. Doesn't stop others from poking fun at him for his weight, though.
Delilah O'Possum
Co-founder of Badge and O'Possum Law Offices and deuteragonist of the story. What she lacks in etiquette, she makes up for in confidence.
Game Mechanic: Playing Possum
- All Gays are Promiscuous: It's not only implied that Delilah's love life consists mostly of other women, but also that she "makes friends" with notable frequency.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She may be unhygienic, unruly, and a little unorthodox in her investigation habits, but as Eric says, underestimate her at your own risk. Bonus points for being an actual lawyer.
- Butch Lesbian: Delilah is far from traditionally feminine, and it's all but stated that she's had her share of female ex-lovers.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Some of her theories aren't exactly on base, to say the least. Even her Revisualization towards the end of Case 2 is a borderline Bat Deduction, to the point that she’s actually surprised when the killer confirms she was right.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first thing we see her do is use her Prehensile Tail to rob a vending machine. And then make fun of Eric’s British Stuffiness. Immediately showing her as the more carefree of the two, and the one more willing to bend the rules.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Not as you might expect the protagonist of an Ace Attorney parody to be, as she mostly either has permission to take or photographs most of her evidence, but she does steal a bag of chips out of the vending machine in the first chapter. And it's implied she stole a second sometime later.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Playing Possum is just her feigning surrender in the hopes of getting a witness to say too much. It’s portrayed as an overdramatic stage performance with props and set pieces.
- Playing Possum: If you couldn't already tell, it's kind of her thing. Not only is it her damage animation, but she seems to take pride in it, as she apparently has a tendency to do impressions of the dead bodies when she investigates a murder. Her "mechanic" is even dubbed "Playing Possum".
- Prehensile Tail: As an opossum, she naturally sports one of these. She gets a lot of mileage out of it too, using it for everything from hanging upside-down to dramatic pointing to stealing snacks out of a vending machine.
Millie Muskerson
The current intern for Badge and O'Possum Law Offices, as well as an old friend of the main duo.
Game Mechanic: Interrogation Scent-sation
- Abhorrent Admirer: Is this to Eric. She's not ugly nor does Eric dislike her in any way, but he's made it more than clear that her repeated advances are unreciprocated.
- Bag of Holding: Her sweater, capable of holding seemingly any piece of evidence she stuffs into it while not hindering her movement at all.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: Since being a Living Lie Detector is a bit of a Story-Breaker Power in a series like this, Millie's sensitive nose can be easily shut down by strong or obscuring odors to keep her from giving too much away.
- The Empath: While she cannot feel what other people are feeling, her nose is so good that she can smell the chemical imbalance of emotions in people.
- Establishing Character Moment: Millie is introduced immediately showing her Shrinking Violet tendencies that quickly dissolve whenever Eric is involved.
- Limited Wardrobe: Averted. In a deliberate Shout-Out to Mabel Pines, she wears at least one unique, thematic sweater for each case. The purple one she sports on the cover art can be considered her “default” look.
- Living Lie Detector: Since she can smell fear, among other things, it's easy for her to tell when someone is lying to her.
- Mythology Gag: Her Interrogation Scent-sation mirrors Athena Cykes' Mood Matrix used from Dual Destinies onwards. There are some changes, with surprise being gone completely and sorrow now being separate from fear. This is to make it more similar to the kind of emotions animals can actually pick up on.
- The Nose Knows: Even in a story of animal protagonists, Millie’s nose goes above and beyond, allowing her to smell when someone is lying and detect their specific emotions with enough focus. Her nose is even capable of doing things that shouldn’t be possible, like getting her high off of catnip despite not being feline.
- Shrinking Violet: While open and extroverted around her friends, she's quite shy around others. She makes a habit of hiding in her sweater when stressed, and her testimony in court consists entirely of ellipses because she was simply too shy to speak.
Supporting Cast
Sigrid MacTalon
Lead detective for a majority of the cases Badge and O'Possum work on. Partnered with Kyle VanDal, much to her own displeasure.
- Busman's Vocabulary: Tends to use words fitting her military theme. She refers to Delilah poking a hole in her testimony as "enemy fire" and calls mammals "maggots" when she's particularly upset with them.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Pretty much her whole gimmick, despite being a police officer.
- Jerkass to One: It's mentioned that they somehow got off on the wrong foot in college and now Mac Talon seemingly makes a hobby of tormenting Delilah while on duty. She's perfectly fine with Eric, though. Delilah says this is because of their days in the boxing club together making them "thick as thieves".
- Running Gag: Her pulling her Drill Sergeant Nasty routine on higher ranking mammals and immediately Verbal Backpedaling.
- The One Who Wears Shoes: Is the only member of the main or supporting cast to wear shoes. In her case, she wears a pair of combat boots, befitting her military theme.
Kyle VanDal
The primary prosecutor and one of the main antagonists of the story. A public prosecutor known for both his immense skill and laziness, netting him the titles The Bullseye Prosecutor and The Apathetic Attorney respectively.
- Berserk Button: Anything that threatens to make a case "boring" for him, such as Accidental Murder. He hates an anti-climactic resolution.
- Big Word Shout: Unacceptable!, generally reserved for when the defense (or a witness) seriously manages to tick him off.
- Blood Knight: A legal variant. He is so rarely interested in a case that if he does find one interesting, he'll go out of his way to keep it from ending on an anti-climactic note, even if it means robbing himself of an easy win.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He's noted to be one of the most talented prosecutors in the city but also the absolute laziest, finding most cases so boring that he doesn't even bother with courtroom etiquette anymore. He repeatedly falls asleep during trials, doesn't bother to give his own opening statements in full, and is said to have outright walked out on a trial more than once out of sheer boredom. Even after displaying some of this against B&O, MacTalon has to point out that what they saw was actually a significant improvement for him, stating that if he wasn't so good at his job when he actually tries, he would've been fired by now.
- Classy Cane: A gold-studded one fashioned after a revolver. It can make a bang like one too when slammed against the prosecutor's bench.
- Composite Character: He takes cues partially from perennial Ace Attorney rival Miles Edgeworth, but his irreverence for the courtroom, habitual trolling of the defense, and weapon motif makes him most reminiscent of Simon Blackquill. Somewhat ironic, given his father's name.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: Subverted. He's lost plenty of cases before, in part because he didn't care enough to try to win them. But after losing to B&O for the first time, he compliments them specifically for defeating him in a case he "actually sort of cared about" for once, which is basically this trope as far as he's concerned.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the typical Ace Attorney rival prosecutor, having both a scary nickname ("The Bullseye Prosecutor") and a feared reputation in the courtroom. But he's become better known by another nickname ("The Apathetic Attorney") and his reputation is being such a lazy and obnoxious pain in the ass that no one wants to share a trial with him.
- Finger Gun: This is his way of Giving Someone the Pointer Finger. Somehow, he manages to fire actual (albeit non-physical) bullets with it, and it's capable of backfiring.
- The Gadfly: Goes out of his way to make trials needlessly difficult for B&O, from objecting purely to correct them about something trivial to summoning four witnesses at once when they specifically asked for only one.
- Handicapped Badass: Has a definite limp, but that doesn't stop him from being one of the best prosecutors in Zootopia.
- Motif: Guns. He doesn't carry an actual gun, but his walking cane has a gun for the head, he's nicknamed "The Bullseye Prosecutor", and he's somehow able to fire actual bullets from his Finger Gun.
- Running Gag: Losing interest in his own opening statement partway through and passing it off to MacTalon. This happens progressively sooner every time he gives one.
- That Was Objectionable: If he objects, he's just as likely doing it to "Um, actually" the defense or complain about a turn of phrase he doesn't like as he is to raise a legitimate point.
Judge Loggins
The judge presiding over B&O's cases.
- Only Sane Man: She's probably the one of the least quirky mammals in the courtroom at any given time, (wood chewing habits aside) but that comes with the cost of having to suffer through the mania of not only the witnesses, but also the defense and prosecution.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Kind of her whole deal. As judge, it's her duty to ensure that proceedings go smoothly and that each side has a fair chance to prove their points. Noted as tough, but fair.
- Running Gag: Wooden objects don't last long around her. The first day of trial in the second case seems to subvert this, as the courtroom is in perfect condition despite the entire thing being craved out of a tree. But the same could not be said about her bench on the second day. Or Juror No. 5's chair.
Megan Skinner
The resident coroner of Precinct 1. Delilah befriends her and she occasionally assists their investigations with medical expertise.
- Ascended Extra: She was even more of a minor character in Born to Be Wilde than Delilah and Eric, only showing up in a single scene in Drabbles, (Where she's killed off soon after. To boot, the entire chapter was All Just a Dream.) She gets significantly more screen time in this fic, and even has a relationship with Delilah, the deuteragonist.
- Creepy Mortician: Downplayed. Her general personality is upbeat and not too distressing. However, her familiarity with corpses gives her a slight disadvantage when trying to interact with the living, making her a tad awkward.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Downplayed. She's not shown yet to be overtly fascinated with the corpses she autopsies, but being a Workaholic in her field brings up the definite implications of this trope.
- No Social Skills: She clearly has trouble around people, as seen when her jokes fall flat in the courtroom. Eric assumes himself that she "doesn't have much life outside of the lifeless."
- Workaholic: When almost all the officers of Precinct 1 were attending Millie's trial, she was still working in the lab. And right after the trial, as we find out in the next chapter, she immediately went back to work.
Turnabout Da Capo
Bea. F Wellington
The victim of the first case. An officer of the ZPD killed in the parking garage.
- Death by Irony: The nose ring she was so excited to be wearing ends up being the perfect conduit for her High-Voltage Death.
- High-Voltage Death: Slammed into a junction box by a moving car. At least, that's what the original assumption is. Her actual murder weapon was a car battery and jumper cables.
- Perky Goth: From what little we catch of her before her untimely death, she seems fairly upbeat and friendly, celebrating the fact that she successfully managed to wear a nose ring without being reprimanded.
Bailey Oates
Lead detective of the first case. Former racehorse whose speech patterns are harder to decipher than the Voynich Manuscript.
- Animal Occupation Stereotypes: He was a champion racehorse before he became a ZPD officer.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When he tells Oinkenbaum to give up her case against Millie once Eric has definitively proven his guilt. He knows even if he managed a way out, he'd still be villainized in the eyes of his fellow officers.
- Motive Misidentification: Eric assumes that he wanted to steal the ice pick for personal gain. Oates corrects him that he only intended to study it for a while before it had the chance to be tampered with.
- Talks Like a Simile: Peppers so many similes and metaphors throughout his speech, nobody in the courtroom can even comprehend his first witness testimony until Eric decodes it. Lampshaded by an unknown mammal in the gallery."Never trust a mammal who uses that many similes."
A Study in Turnabout
Monty Gosland
The defendant of the second episode and Lucy Sang's "nephew". The butler of Casa Tigre.
- Ascended Extra: He was merely another one of Lucy Sang's contacts in the Born to be Drabbles. In this story, he's given much more focus, fleshing out his backstory and relationship with Lucy.
- Be as Unhelpful as Possible: He openly lies to his own lawyers multiple times, even when they know he's lying, and spends most of his time on the stand incriminating himself even further before eventually firing B&O for threatening to dig too deep. He has good reason for this of course, since he's outright trying to be the Fall Guy.
- Honorary Aunt: Lucy considers herself this to him, after his mother became her only friend in prison. He seems to return the sentiment.
- Fall Guy: What he actually intended to be from the beginning. Due to his past as a criminal gang member, Monty considers himself inherently the least valuable member of the household and thus the one who deserves to go down for Lord Tigre's murder, regardless of the truth. The efforts of Lucy and B&O to fight for him anyway help him grow out of this attitude.
- Orgy of Evidence: Leaves behind his footprints, his pawprints on the knife used to kill Tigre, and gets spotted by the gardener during his escape, and literally caught red-handed hiding the knife. And this is all before his confession to the murder.
- Sharp-Dressed Mammal: He wears a spiffy black suit to go with his profession as a butler. Even at first glance, Eric notes that he has some competition in this area.
Lord Dominic Tigre
The victim of the second case. A pretentious hunter who planned to fire his staff. His staff responded with various attempts to off him.
- Asshole Victim: So much so that there were only two people who didn't actively want him dead in his own home. The fact that his own daughter wasn't included on this short list should speak volumes for his character.
- Hypocrite: Fires his entire staff because one of them was dating his daughter, and planned to propose. This was mostly to cover up his own affair with the gardener, who he ditched purely because he didn't find her attractive anymore.
- Who Murdered the Asshole?: The list of people who weren't involved in attempts on his life is relatively short. That list being his own wife.
Lady Tigre
The victim's wife. In contrast to her husband, she is both polite and well-liked by the staff.
- Combat Hand Fan: When she’s pushed far enough, she starts using her fan to launch surprisingly strong gusts of wind at the defense.
- Mama Bear: She acts fairly demure normally, but accuse her daughter of murder and she’ll be quick to show you the true meaning of “tiger mom”.
- Red Herring: She and Lara are the only witnesses not to appear during the first day of the trial. Sure enough, they both fall under suspicion on the second day and the evidence starts to lean towards Lara being the killer, causing Lady Tigre to become uncharacteristically aggressive and demand an end to the trial. But she isn’t the killer either, only acting that way to protect her daughter. In fact, Lady Tigre ends up being the only member of the household to have no involvement whatsoever in her husband’s death, not even by accident.
Lara Tigre
The daughter of Lord and Lady Tigre. A typical teenage goth with not-so-typical relationship issues. Is always accompanied by her pet raven, Lenore.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Subverted. She likes to preemptively tell people not to call her “Laura”, which mostly just causes confusion as no one was intending to anyway. Delilah uses it as a strikethrough gag in the Court Record just to poke fun at her about it.
- Perky Goth: Not normally, but she does get this way around Humphrey.
- Running Gag: Belting out a haiku every now and then to make a point.
- Running Gag Stumbles: One of her later haikus comes out a syllable short, so she awkwardly throws in a “bitch” at the end.
Sunny Urshine
The bodyguard of the Tigre household. The death of Lord Tigre under his watch has left him a sobbing wreck.
- Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: He's introduced looming over all three main characters, clearly intimidating all three with his size and stoic demeanor. Then Delilah starts Playing Possum and he has a total breakdown. From then on he's pretty well described by Delilah's court record as "Teddy Bear".
- Gentle Giant: He's technically a Sun Bear, the smallest species of bear in the world, but still looms over most small mammals. He's also one of the most polite and helpful characters in the whole case, and surprisingly meek as well.
- Hidden Depths: While he may seem no bark, no bite, he was a professional wrestler before becoming a bodyguard. That being said, he was disgraced after he got frightened of a hyena's maniac laughter and fled the ring, which is exactly what you would expect from him.
- Ocular Gushers: His tears warrant a flood hazard to smaller mammals, and quite often at that.
- Token Good Teammate: By the end of the case, he's the only member of the staff who hasn't tried to assassinate Lord Tigre. Though it's downplayed somewhat since he was a massive Asshole Victim and most of them could hardly be called evil for wanting him dead.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Had he not accidentily delivered the poisoned Delishafish, Ria wouldn't have had the thought to use it to kill Lord Tigre. Subverted, as even if he hadn't delivered the fish, and hadn't delivered the cart as per Monty's orders, there's still a very likely chance that Lara Tigre would have killed him instead.
Chef Humphrey
The chef at Casa Tigre. He fell in love with Lara Tigre, and planned to propose to her, which earned him and the entire staff the ire of Lord Tigre.
- Busman's Vocabulary: He uses quite a lot of food-themed metaphors in his speech.
- Chubby Chef: His description says that he could probably pass for the less flattering answer to a "three-humped camel" joke.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's not the most patient of individuals, to put it lightly. The reason he was out of a job before coming to Casa Tigre was because he got on the wrong side of a health inspector, and the health inspector saw the wrong side of his frying pan.
- Supreme Chef: He allegedly managed to cook an infamously complex meal om only his second try.
- Villainous Breakdown: His nervous sweating causes all the drawers of his mobile kitchen to come loose, spilling a ridiculously large assortment of kitchenware onto the floor. The sudden shift in weight causes him to lose his balance and fall forward onto the witness stand, spouting a small fountain of water from his mouth.
- Wild Take: He fumbles his hat and accidentally spills salt in his eyes from the built-in compartment. He later does it again, this time accidentally spilling pepper and making himself sneeze.
Ria Nepeta
The gardener of Casa Tigre. She was also Lord Tigre's mistress, and when Tigre discarded her, she killed him in a fury.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: She's completely immune to the effects of her own catnip, due to years and years of substance abuse with it.
- Artistic License – Biology: Mention is made of her retracting and unsheathing her claws a couple times over the course of the trial, but cheetahs are the only species of feline that can't retract their claws.
- Beneath Suspicion: Between her being The Stoner and explicitly outside during the entire time span of the murder, basically no one suspects Ria up until The Reveal. As a bonus, she was already a witness on the first day of the trial, and in Ace Attorney, that would usually mean her role is over.
- Big Word Shout: Nya ah ah!, used exclusively after her transformation. It's essentially the vocalization of a Finger Wag.
- Busman's Vocabulary: She regularly makes gardening puns and references after her transformation, calling Delilah an "evergreen" attorney.
- Clothing-Concealed Injury: After realizing that Ria could’ve come in contact with the sharp figurine in Lord Tigre’s study, Delilah suspects she might be hiding an injury on her. Ria seemingly proves her wrong by taking off her gloves, but Delilah knows that wasn’t the only part she left vulnerable and finds the actual injury under one of her boots.
- Disregard That Statement: A rare case of this being pulled by a witness rather than a lawyer. In order to bring a swift end to the trial, Ria suddenly presents a hidden camera photograph that both heavily incriminates Lara and definitively proves Monty’s innocence in one fell swoop. Kyle is quick to point out that this evidence wasn’t verified by the police and is thus illegal, but Ria counters that the jury has already seen it and they don’t give a damn about the specifics, something she is quickly proven right about.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She gets annoyed at Delilah for not just taking the easy win she hands her towards the end of the case, as the possum refuses to let her get away with murder even if her client goes free.
- Fake Alibi: One that wasn’t even deliberate on her part. Thanks to the machinations of Monty and Humphrey, the entire court is led to believe that Lord Tigre unwittingly ingested the poison that killed him. As Ria was proven to be outside at the time, and thus had no means of feeding it to him, she is implicitly removed from the list of suspects. It’s only when Delilah figures out the true murder method that she realizes this alibi no longer holds.
- Frame-Up: She initially planted Monty’s lapel pin in the study for this purpose, having no idea at the time that Monty would actually show up and proceed to frame himself even more efficiently.
- Innocently Insensitive: While in the midst of a catnip high, she asks Delilah what sort of monster was responsible for breaking up Humphrey and Lara, forgetting that it was her. Of course, the eventual reveal that she had been Obfuscating Stupidity lends some doubt to just how ‘innocent’ it truly was.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Her ditzy demeanor and spaced out nature is all just an act. As noted above, she's become totally immune to catnip, and only plays it up to fly under everybody else's radar.
- The One Who Wears Shoes: As part of her job at least. It ends up being a plot point, as she was forced to remove her gardening boots to avoid tracking mud into the crime scene, but then had to keep them on to hide her resulting injury.
- Playful Cat Smile: Her default expression, mirrored by her hat. After her transformation, it becomes a sinister Cheshire Cat Grin instead.
- Pragmatic Villainy: As she bears no actual grudge against Monty, she is completely okay with letting him get a Not Guilty verdict so long as the trial ends before her own guilt can be proven. She even tries to force the issue with a piece of conclusive evidence in the defense’s favor.
- Scary Scarecrow: What her transformation is meant to invoke. In fact, the bag-like mask and sharp claws give her a resemblance to THE Scarecrow.
- Secretly Selfish: She tries to make the case that she was as much a victim of Lord Tigre as anyone else, but Delilah is quick to shut her down, pointing out that everyone else who tried to kill Lord Tigre was doing it for another’s sake while Ria only did it for her own selfish motives and tried to frame anyone else she could.
- Super-Speed: Being a cheetah gives her a natural degree of this, but its elevated to ridiculous levels by virtue of Ace Attorney logic. Might also be how she manages to sculpt topiaries quickly and accurately.
- Turns Red: When accused of the murder, she nervously pulls her hat over her face, further and further until she accidentally yanks it all the way down, getting her head stuck. After struggling for a moment, she stops, extends her claws through her gloves, and tears the hat’s brim off, what’s left of it becoming a scarecrow-esque mask. She also completely drops the stoner act at this point.
- Verbal Tic: Has a habit of combining ‘nya’ with other words that rhyme to say things like ‘nyahuh’ or ‘nyawha?’. Despite otherwise dropping her sillier traits after her transformation, she not only keeps this tic but turns it into a Big Word Shout and an Evil Laugh.
- Villainous Breakdown: Ria staggers back in shock and bumps into her own topiary statue, which begins to fall apart. She attempts to pull it back together, but ends up creating the visage of Chef Humphrey pointing accusingly instead. Panicking, she tries again and creates Sunny, then Lady Tigre. Ria falls back in surprise and tries in vain to scoot away as Lady Tigre’s topiary falls on top of her. As Lenore and several crows gather around the witness stand, Ria’s paw shoots out of the scattered foliage, then falls limply in defeat.
- Wild Take: Before her transformation, pulling down her hat over her face when she’s nervous. After her transformation, she gets attacked by crows or her button eyes fly off her mask in shock.
