fucking edgeworth and his MY PARTNER business

not to mention thinking about terrible one sided Maya -> Phoenix where Nick says "Us? Nah, we're just friends." And Maya sort of withers and says "Yeah... Friends..." and he has no clue

and then ugh Godot/Nick where they project their feelings for Mia onto each other because there's a bit of her in each of them and then realize, horrified, what they're doing

separate, go crazy without each other, then meet up and make up(/out)

or Franziska, Edgeworth, and Maya harboring feelings for Nick while he runs off with Iris

UGH why ace attorney why must you come back to me like this you're not supposed to have this much angst potential