Dahlia's storyline, in chronological order: Turnabout Beginnings (http://www.court-records.net/gs3-4.htm#villain) | Turnabout Memories (http://www.court-records.net/gs3-1.htm#villain) | Bridge to the Turnabout (http://www.court-records.net/gs3-5.htm#villain) Personality: On the surface, Dahlia Hawthorne is the sweetest, nicest person one could ever hope to know. She's shy and demure, easily shocked, and cries at the drop of a hat. And yet she's so very kind and caring and she loves everyone and everything. Butterflies have been known to congregate around her pure and gentle demeanor.
Pff, as if. Naturally, all of that is an act meant to keep Dahlia out of trouble. In reality she is a cruel, heartless person with no regard for anyone but herself. She even considers her own twin sister a nuisance who would be better off dead. If somebody crosses her she'll do whatever it takes to make them pay, all the while making it look like an accident or somebody else's fault. And when she does get her revenge she's meticulous. She plans everything out to the last detail, so that nothing will point to her, and plans her cover story and testimony perfectly. However, when she's put on the spot or called on her lies she can get careless; she's a good forward-thinker, but thinking things up at the spur of the moment is more difficult for Dahlia.
When she was a child, Dahlia's mother wanted nothing to do with her when it turned out she didn't have the Fey family's talent for summoning spirits, and her father cared more about his business than his family. Dahlia grew up alone and unloved. Even her twin sister Iris, frequently her co-conspirator, "betrayed" her by falling in love with a man who was nothing more than a pawn in Dahlia's plot to hide evidence of a murder she committed. However, even if at one point in her past Dahlia was merely lonely and in need of love, that is no longer true. Any capability for empathy or caring is gone, replaced by sheer malice and hatred. Abilities and Skills: Though she comes from a family of spirit mediums, Dahlia's spiritual power is very weak. She can't channel a thing; the only thing she's capable of doing is summoning trick locks. Trick locks are particular locks and chains that are used to seal up the Inner Temple of Hazakura when a spirit medium is training, and they can only be unlocked by the person who set them because there are literally hundreds of possible combinations to them.
The case in which they appear doesn't really get into detail about what they're made of, but one thing is clear: They aren't ordinary locks. Iris placed one on the temple door to seal Maya in for training, but when Phoenix came back later to investigate, Dahlia had placed four more. There were no extra locks anywhere near the temple; even if there were, Dahlia wouldn't have known where to find them. So it stands to reason that these locks are summoned by the person who places them. Obviously this takes a bit of spiritual power, but Iris and Dahlia are only said not to be spirit mediums; as members of the Fey family, they have at least a little, even if it's not much.
Aside from being summoned psychically or whatever and being almost impossible to unlock if you aren't the one who set them, the locks are completely ordinary. They look like Psyche Locks, for those who know what those look like, but they're physical locks and chains that lock up doors, windows, and the like, and can be broken with enough physical strength.
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Character's Name: Dahlia Hawthorne
Character's Fandom: Ace Attorney
Character's Home Universe: About Dahlia (http://www.court-records.net/chara3-4.htm#chinami)
Dahlia's storyline, in chronological order: Turnabout Beginnings (http://www.court-records.net/gs3-4.htm#villain) | Turnabout Memories (http://www.court-records.net/gs3-1.htm#villain) | Bridge to the Turnabout (http://www.court-records.net/gs3-5.htm#villain)
Personality: On the surface, Dahlia Hawthorne is the sweetest, nicest person one could ever hope to know. She's shy and demure, easily shocked, and cries at the drop of a hat. And yet she's so very kind and caring and she loves everyone and everything. Butterflies have been known to congregate around her pure and gentle demeanor.
Pff, as if. Naturally, all of that is an act meant to keep Dahlia out of trouble. In reality she is a cruel, heartless person with no regard for anyone but herself. She even considers her own twin sister a nuisance who would be better off dead. If somebody crosses her she'll do whatever it takes to make them pay, all the while making it look like an accident or somebody else's fault. And when she does get her revenge she's meticulous. She plans everything out to the last detail, so that nothing will point to her, and plans her cover story and testimony perfectly. However, when she's put on the spot or called on her lies she can get careless; she's a good forward-thinker, but thinking things up at the spur of the moment is more difficult for Dahlia.
When she was a child, Dahlia's mother wanted nothing to do with her when it turned out she didn't have the Fey family's talent for summoning spirits, and her father cared more about his business than his family. Dahlia grew up alone and unloved. Even her twin sister Iris, frequently her co-conspirator, "betrayed" her by falling in love with a man who was nothing more than a pawn in Dahlia's plot to hide evidence of a murder she committed. However, even if at one point in her past Dahlia was merely lonely and in need of love, that is no longer true. Any capability for empathy or caring is gone, replaced by sheer malice and hatred.
Abilities and Skills: Though she comes from a family of spirit mediums, Dahlia's spiritual power is very weak. She can't channel a thing; the only thing she's capable of doing is summoning trick locks. Trick locks are particular locks and chains that are used to seal up the Inner Temple of Hazakura when a spirit medium is training, and they can only be unlocked by the person who set them because there are literally hundreds of possible combinations to them.
The case in which they appear doesn't really get into detail about what they're made of, but one thing is clear: They aren't ordinary locks. Iris placed one on the temple door to seal Maya in for training, but when Phoenix came back later to investigate, Dahlia had placed four more. There were no extra locks anywhere near the temple; even if there were, Dahlia wouldn't have known where to find them. So it stands to reason that these locks are summoned by the person who places them. Obviously this takes a bit of spiritual power, but Iris and Dahlia are only said not to be spirit mediums; as members of the Fey family, they have at least a little, even if it's not much.
Aside from being summoned psychically or whatever and being almost impossible to unlock if you aren't the one who set them, the locks are completely ordinary. They look like Psyche Locks, for those who know what those look like, but they're physical locks and chains that lock up doors, windows, and the like, and can be broken with enough physical strength.