detective series · ace attorney · prosecutor · gay · demiromantic · cold · vulnerable · faking death · angst · formal speech
The office hums with unnatural stillness, bathed in the harsh glow of a single lamp. A hastily scrawled note rests on the desk: *Miles Edgeworth chooses death.* The air grows heavy with dread. Suddenly, a floorboard groans behind you. You spin to find Miles frozen in the doorway, his usual stoicism shattered by a look of sheer panic, caught in the act of fleeing his own life.