IC INFORMATION Characters Name: Alita Tiala Age: 21 Canon: Ace Attorney (specifically, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney) Canon Point: Post-game Species: Human Gender: Female Orientation: Heterosexual, for all intents and purposes; Alita expresses no interest in women and was canonically engaged to a man -- albeit for the sake of his money rather than his character.
At first blush, Alita is the ideal young woman. She’s demure, polite, soft-spoken and certainly beautiful. Anybody would have envied Wocky Kitaki for having so fantastic a fiancée. Loyal. Trustworthy, if secretive. Sweet. True to her appearance, she’s a little angel.
Alita is the one who first approaches Apollo about defending Wocky against murder charges and is deferential, if timid, while doing so. She submits to Apollo a humble, seemingly earnest plea later in the case, begging him to protect her husband-to-be.
❝I’m sorry, I don’t know much about the case. I...I feel so helpless. You’re my only hope. Please, help my Wocky-Pocky…❞
It is only natural, then, to arrive at the conclusion that Alita is an upstanding, devoted woman, girlfriend, and daughter-in-law.
This is all but a carefully constructed façade that comes crumbling down as the trial reaches its fever pitch.
The true Alita Tiala is a selfish, opportunistic manipulator with little regard for anyone other than herself. As a nurse in the Meraktis Clinic, she quickly saw the opportunity for easy money and a life of comfort and luxury when she treated the nigh fatally injured Wocky. She purposely withheld the information that the bullet near his heart would inevitably kill him in the near future for two reasons, both self-serving in nature: if the Kitaki crime family discovered that Alita and Meraktis were incapable of providing life-saving treatment to their son, they would have been as good as dead. Secondly, as previously mentioned, she intended on worming her way into Wocky’s (figurative) heart and marry him for his wealth and name. Her plan would obviously not go so smoothly if he had been equipped with the knowledge of his forthcoming demise.
❝Oh, I’m a bad girl. Sure. I got close to that brat because I wanted the money.❞
This all illustrates the sheer depth of Alita’s obsession with her own needs; she is willing to indirectly kill someone for the sake of material wealth.
However, Alita is also careless and sloppy in her dirty work and leaves several pieces of evidence behind in her scramble for self-preservation after murdering Meraktis. It seems that she places a greater emphasis on arrogance over logic; indeed, she possesses a sense of assuredness that everything will go as planned and that she is invincible to any kind of downfall -- at least, in the beginning of the trial.
To further corroborate the notion that she is more an emotional opportunist than a calculated killer, Alita cracks very easily under pressure from both Apollo and Klavier. It takes very little pressing for them to wring information and confessions from her compared to other guilty parties in the Ace Attorney series.
In essence, Alita is capable of constructing a charming façade, but at her core, she is a timeserver who is willing to do whatever she must in order to obtain what she wants -- and, in her instance, what she wants is often gratifyingly superficial luxury. She is certainly not an empathetic woman; she harbors little to no respect or concern for those around her unless they are of some use to her. Even then, the respect that she shows is but an act. Although prison may change her, her self-centered ways are so ingrained in her that it’s certainly doubtful.
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Characters Name: Alita Tiala
Age: 21
Canon: Ace Attorney (specifically, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney)
Canon Point: Post-game
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual, for all intents and purposes; Alita expresses no interest in women and was canonically engaged to a man -- albeit for the sake of his money rather than his character.
History:
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Alita’s background + role
Appearance: Here!
Personality:
At first blush, Alita is the ideal young woman. She’s demure, polite, soft-spoken and certainly beautiful. Anybody would have envied Wocky Kitaki for having so fantastic a fiancée. Loyal. Trustworthy, if secretive. Sweet. True to her appearance, she’s a little angel.
Alita is the one who first approaches Apollo about defending Wocky against murder charges and is deferential, if timid, while doing so. She submits to Apollo a humble, seemingly earnest plea later in the case, begging him to protect her husband-to-be.
It is only natural, then, to arrive at the conclusion that Alita is an upstanding, devoted woman, girlfriend, and daughter-in-law.
This is all but a carefully constructed façade that comes crumbling down as the trial reaches its fever pitch.
The true Alita Tiala is a selfish, opportunistic manipulator with little regard for anyone other than herself. As a nurse in the Meraktis Clinic, she quickly saw the opportunity for easy money and a life of comfort and luxury when she treated the nigh fatally injured Wocky. She purposely withheld the information that the bullet near his heart would inevitably kill him in the near future for two reasons, both self-serving in nature: if the Kitaki crime family discovered that Alita and Meraktis were incapable of providing life-saving treatment to their son, they would have been as good as dead. Secondly, as previously mentioned, she intended on worming her way into Wocky’s (figurative) heart and marry him for his wealth and name. Her plan would obviously not go so smoothly if he had been equipped with the knowledge of his forthcoming demise.
This all illustrates the sheer depth of Alita’s obsession with her own needs; she is willing to indirectly kill someone for the sake of material wealth.
However, Alita is also careless and sloppy in her dirty work and leaves several pieces of evidence behind in her scramble for self-preservation after murdering Meraktis. It seems that she places a greater emphasis on arrogance over logic; indeed, she possesses a sense of assuredness that everything will go as planned and that she is invincible to any kind of downfall -- at least, in the beginning of the trial.
To further corroborate the notion that she is more an emotional opportunist than a calculated killer, Alita cracks very easily under pressure from both Apollo and Klavier. It takes very little pressing for them to wring information and confessions from her compared to other guilty parties in the Ace Attorney series.
In essence, Alita is capable of constructing a charming façade, but at her core, she is a timeserver who is willing to do whatever she must in order to obtain what she wants -- and, in her instance, what she wants is often gratifyingly superficial luxury. She is certainly not an empathetic woman; she harbors little to no respect or concern for those around her unless they are of some use to her. Even then, the respect that she shows is but an act. Although prison may change her, her self-centered ways are so ingrained in her that it’s certainly doubtful.
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