Dear Wormwood - ACE ATTORNEY ANIMATIC

[@jamespreston4211]

I would pay money to change the plot to Detective FB is in a coma and wakes up with Simon by his bedside instead of being dead, we didn’t even know how he died! (Tho it’s alluded to that it’s the Phantom but still!)

[@riverrlethe2116]

YOU AND ME BOTH! We know its likely the phantom, but it hurts bc no one even noticed! meaning its likely bobby didn't have very many close connections! which hey! really sucks!

[@darkacadpresenceinblood]

that would have been so sweet😭 it isn't fair that the best character in the entirety of dual destinies turns out to be someone we never even meet in the game...

[@RandomAhhChannel]

same that would be such a good plot twist 😭

[@TheAkumuKing]

Me: He’s just sleeping 😊 Capcom: IN PIECES! Me: so sleepy 😊

[@keebo3385]

I really appreciate you taking the time to make this. Fulbright was my favorite character in dual destinies, and there's almost no fanart or animations for him anywhere. I miss him lmao

[@riverrlethe2116]

no i feel u 100% part of me cant even bear playing SOJ bc ik hes not going to be there :( i was like "there is one (1) bobby fulbright animation out there and it isn't even bobby, its phantom! i must rectify this" and here we are. thanks for taking the time to comment :D!

[@sparkyblizz]

there's fanart and stuff for him on Tumblr that I've found! I love him too

[@zvarricopter8994]

Okay but everything about this is fantastically gorgeous holy crap?? The way you draw Bobby is so adorable and just… the music and storytelling hand in hand aughh I’m so glad to hear about other people being heartbroken by Dual Destinies’ twist because it absolutely shattered me (and your headcanon is absolutely beautiful). The idea that the real Fulbright was just as kind and silly was kinda the only thing keeping me going LOL

[@littlestormofmess]

THIS IS SO GOOD OMG !! the real bobby keeping simon company as a kinda-spirit is such an interesting concept and your visuals for it are all so amazing and super well drawn !! i literally finished dd last night and i felt so underwhelmed when they didnt tell us more about the original fulbright and now after watching this, i feel like THIS is the piece i was missing to be completely satisfied with the story SPECIALLY WITH THE LAST SCENES AFTER EMA NOTIFIES THE COURT WHILE THE SONG GETS MORE INTENSE OH GOSH THE ~DRAMA~ OF IT ALL *CHEF KISS* AND AND AND SIMON HUGGING BOBBY AT THE END AWWW ;;; so yeah !! thank u so much for sharing ur work, i loved this !!

[@riverrlethe2116]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! i know exactly how you felt.i was like "yay we won the case!" but at what cost.... we never Truly figured out what happened to the real bobby fulbright, other than the fact that he was dead. ik the effect was to show that not everyone got a happy ending, but i said "no fuck that" and became delusional for 3 months and this is what came of it. im glad you liked it!

[@riverrlethe2116]

i should also mention that i was HEAVILY inspired by a MDZS fanfic called asymtotic, no spoilers but i got alot of help there about the concept of ghosts as a representation of unresolved desires.

[@CatherinesClaws]

literally cannot stop thinking about this animatic what brain worms did you give me

[@riverrlethe2116]

hehehe! Just a silly time to be had by all! Literally spent months working on this and no one around me knew any sort of peace. I'm glad you enjoyed it! (sorry for the worms)

[@riverrlethe2116]

Holy fuck I actually just rewatched it for the first time in months... literally like okay the beginning is Not Great but holy SHIT the fucking build up to the end always GETS me. thank YOU for reminding me that this is the Real Canon Ending to DD.

[@CatherinesClaws]

@@riverrlethe2116 OFC! this is so canon in my brain now

[@p0etism]

AAAAAA MY HEART!!!! 🥺🥺🥺 i love bobby, and i’m so happy to see real bobby fulbright content! this is a beautiful animatic, and i absolutely adore your artstyle, especially how you draw simon. you have officially made my new favorite ace attorney animatic, and you definitely deserve to feel proud of it!!!

[@riverrlethe2116]

omg... thank you!!! im so glad its being well received. i knew i couldn't be the only one Mega Sad about the real bobby fulbright 😭. thank you for the kind words :,))))

[@sparkyblizz]

oh my god I might cry, this was beautiful and I love this and I love Bobby Fulbright (and also blackbright) so this is just EVERYTHING to me!

[@daydream2392]

Wow is so beautiful, yet so sad. Fulbright all the way with Simon when he couldn't be there. Beautiful. I would like to believe that Blackquill went visit him when he knew of his dead. Not implicit in the games, but still posible.

[@CatherinesClaws]

this deserves so much more attention than it got

[@MintySolar]

I am extremely, extremely late- but I just wanted to say thank you so much for this, you deserve so much more recognition, over the months I always find myself coming back to this animatic and every time it make me sob and smile with just the most bittersweet feeling in the world- I just can’t put it into the words and just the music and pacing and the spacing, the transitions and way it’s set out it’s just DD is underrated in my opinion and I truly wish to see more for this series entirely! Qwq Thank you, thank you so much when I say this video holds such a special really special place in my heart- I love Bobby so much and just- I even tried to make a AU aswell where he lived and lived in denial saying that in few of the trials he was the real Bobby such as the one with the orca- and just- I never share my love for AA a lot or talk about it a lot but this makes me so happy to see others in this small fandom, it’s truly incredible and you did just absolutely amazing- with this I bid you a once more thank you for this masterpiece- sorry for the long comment- ^w^ I just thought I’d finally say how much this animatic truly means to me.

[@riverrlethe2116]

Hey ur not late at all! Ur literally talking to the person who got into ace attorney in 2021 lmao! Im so glad you love this animatic. I love coming back to watch it myself, and seeing all the lovely comments makes me want to boohoo cry. I completely understand how u feel. In the beginning i knew i wanted to make an au where bobby was alive ofc, but with the lack of information regarding his fate, i was given both nothing to work with, and yet alot to play around with. i stg the amount if times i went back to his wiki page and that orca case will literally haunt me. i do believe that in the orca case we got to see actual bobby, but we may never know, alas. again, tysm for your comment, im glad that this animatic is special to more ppl than just me haha. i wish you all the best ! :)

[@MintySolar]

@@riverrlethe2116Oh! No problem!! I got into it in the lates of 2021 too! XD You’re so sweet! ^o^ Thank you! You’re very, very talented and I’m so glad that your so proud of this!! You should be, this is incredible beyond words! Yeah I’m really sad he’s never even mentioned about again despite his circumstance and was just brushed under the rug with ease- :c But it gives a lot for people and fans to speculate and theories! I will still hardcore. also the ‘i know who I am now-‘ from him as he smiles finally free and his smile falters when realising his circumstance- and then he disappears- I do not cry easy and yet you got me bawling! That part got me bawling- and where the beat hits each time as they walk with Bobby following behind it just- chefs kiss- Sorry I’m rambling again- xd I hope you luck with the future! And importantly I hope you aswell and everyone else too to have a really nice day/night! :3

[@alarmlessRifleman]

A gorgeous animatic about Dual Destinies in 2022? Heck yes.

[@riverrlethe2116]

my thanks to you! :) and right... like ... talk about late to the party... 🙄 /j

[@disOrganizedGuts]

HOLY SHIT DUDE THIS IS AMAZING, I DON'T CRY OFTEN, MOST OF THE TIME I TEAR UP BUT NEVER ACTUALLY CRY AT THINGS, BUT THIS DID MAKE ME SHED SOME TEARS- LIKE OH MY GOD. I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS AND HOW MUCH RESPECT YOU HAVE JUST EARNED FROM ME, I JUST AGDHUJIBHKAIJWSDUHBAJSDNKASWD Capcom did Bobby (and Clay, but this is about Bobby-) dirty by doing this to him- Like bro he was so goofy and I wasn't instantly captivated by his character cuz tbh I thought he was weird at first but as I progressed the game I started to love him more and more and now he's one of my favorite characters in ace attorney I just want him to be alive and happy- and I want Simon to be happy too :'D cuz I headcanon that Bobby and Simon knew eachother for like half of their lives until Bobby's death and all that jazz Legit going to play this at my wedding 😭😭/j this is literally one of if not my favorite aa animatics out there now, dsbnhjakjhdb sorry for the long comment and all that rambling, I just love this so much I decided to write all of this 💀

[@riverrlethe2116]

THANK YOU SO MUCH :") !!!! Reading this comment got me stoked as hell, I really super appreciate your kind words!! I also have that same "not rlly crying" thing, so we are literally Same Hat rn. OK! Now that I've been polite, it's time for me to be neurodivergent. UR SO RIGHT! Capcom has my deepest love and most vile hatred for what they did to my poor babygirl bobby fulbright. When I first started playing the game, I was like "uh where is Mr man man gumshoe at?? Hello???" but after I heard Bobby's theme again and again I was like "oh so THIS is Mr babygirl. ok. I get it now" He's truly my favorite little meow meow I love him so much. PLUS! His death really was so sad, like, from what we've gathered, he died alone, and no one was close enough to him that anyone really noticed the change. I tell myself it's bc the Phantom is rlly good at what he does, but in reality, its just that no one was Bobby's BFF which makes me go boohoo like a big baby. SECONDLY!! I love bobby and simons dynamic, ur headcanon is actually fully canon bc shu takumi told me so himself. The ONLY reason that I only made it that simon and bobby only knew each other for a year in the animatic is bcuz 1. its sad 2. I was sad and 3. it fit well narratively tbh. it's my world and I get to choose the tragic relationship. Ok done I think. I'm rlly glad u like this frfr, I made this for all the bobby fulbright lovers out there so this truly is for you! I rlly j needed to make this so that I could trick myself into a mental state where bobby did not die actually! But fr, ty for the comment and the love!!!

[@disOrganizedGuts]

@@riverrlethe2116 God, I actually was spoiled about the whole plot twist w/ the phantom and the real Bob actually being dead and I am so mad about it cuz then it all wouldhave been so much more impactful, though I was pretty sad when I actually saw the truth revealed in game tbh- I was in denial the whole time after I saw the spoilers, I was like "no, that can't be true!! Not my scrunkly blorbo man!!! not Bobby!!! He's a great guy, nothing will go wrong, surely!!!" AND YES I LIVE FOR THEIR DYNAMIC at first when I wasn't spoiled/in denial of the truth I confess I sorta shipped Bobby and Simon 😭 (I still do now, but with a whole new level of denial and aus like "wdym Bobby Fulbright is dead!??!???1/1 He and Simon are happily married 🥰🥰 The Phantom?? Who is that? lol!1!!1!") Though I just do love them together in any sense, a romantic pairing or not- The way Simon called him "Foolbright" too was just MMMMMM DELICIOUS I hope i'm not weird for replying again LOL and no problem, the love and appreciation is well deserved!! You're very underrated, and your art style lowkey bangs tbh gonna spam the link to this video in my friend's discord server and force them to watch 🥰🥰/hj

[@riverrlethe2116]

@@disOrganizedGuts no CUZ I WAS SPOILED FOR IT TOO!! GET OUT OF MY HEAD LMAO!! ur so right it would have gutted me fr if I just hadn't known a thing, yet even knowing that he was The Mastermind beforehand, I was STILL devastated. I felt ILL the entire time he was on the stand like, peeking thru my fingers cartoonishly, kind of sick. How many other bobby enjoyers must suffer the curse of spoilers!! Truly the real tragedy here... And yeah same i have an illness where i point at the nearest blorbo and go "you... who is ur love interest.... hm... it shall be... the ONE (1) person you are friends with! Im a genius..." The fanfics for them go kind of crazy, but i mean that like... some of them really be INSANE plots, and I'm j looking for guys being dudes... gays being slay... the whole thing. I have enuff angst in the source material thanx girlies... and RIGHT!! Any nickname in a pairing is delish, but foolbright is so SILLY when it comes from simon. bro is kicking his feet and twirling his hair talking bout some "foolbright!!" I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE. and noo i love the validation of comments lol, but moreso i love replying and tossing around the braincell with ppl, so ur totes good! and ty :) Im still working on my art skills, but i literally hadn't touched art in an entire year, but it's like, as soon as i finished the game i blacked out and three months later this was finished. Next project is an animatic for my dnd campaign which may kill me, but heehee! oh well! EE TYSM! I'm glad you enjoye :)

[@disOrganizedGuts]

@@riverrlethe2116 OH MY GOD, IVE MET ANOTHER OF THE HIVE MIND OF PEOPLE I SHARE A BRAINCELL WITH/j God, it do be like that... The curse of spoilers Anyway, like, dude?? R u sure you havent drawn in a year? Cuz this shit is just like, talent mg- Keep up the good work!! And that sure sounds interesting, i might just check out that video out when youve finished it :] Can I also say youre a very interesting person to talk to, and I could keep going back and forth with this cuz im enjoying this all over the place discussion-- Would it be weird to ask if u have discord or anything other than youtube?? :D

[@riverrlethe2116]

@@disOrganizedGuts oopsie just saw this lol, i do have a discord its [REDACTED] I also enjoy the very serious and academic discussion we have going!

[@hellolithy]

I like the way the walking scene reappears, where Pahntom is first, then Blackquill, then ghost Fulbright. Also when he helps the Phantom get caught, and when he's actually alive all along. Best parts in a good animatic.

[@RandomAhhChannel]

THIS ANIMATION IS CANON, AND NO ONE WILL TELL ME OTHERWISE. (amazing animation btw!!!!)

[@riverrlethe2116]

@@RandomAhhChannel Thank you! :)!

[@Digikingg]

Aaaaa this is wonderful! I love how you showed both Fulbright and the phantom as well as Simon's reaction and processing.

[@riverrlethe2116]

Thank you!! and what can i say, i love bobby to the moon and back.

[@sirirah]

Not me getting emotionally attached to these characters even though i haven't seen ace attorney

[@riverrlethe2116]

literally, as soon as i saw this man on screen I was like "this guy is going straight into my pocket" and then I finished the game and took 3 mental health days off from work

[@blizzycloud]

I audibly YELLED when Ema came in and said that Bobby had been found yes!!!! let him be happy!!!! i love this animatic

[@BaskervilleHound]

ACTUALLY STARTED CRYING WHY DID HE HAVE TO CANONICALLY DIE BREAKSDOWN I LOVE THIS THOUGH, THIS IS CANON NOW, FUCK CAPCOM /LH

[@denydestiny]

i wanted to say thank you for making this. it's a really good animatic and the story you've crafted here is similarly great. it's believable in terms of ace attorney level stuff - like ghosts are real so why shouldn't ppl in comas be them i guess? idk my point is that this is great. years ago i tried to make an au where both bobby and clay lived bc why not but never got anywhere & today randomly saw your animatic and this brought back good memories so thank you for that too. also i can really tell that you took your time on this and it shows and i'll try to mention some parts i really liked because like, the staging of this is fantastic for it being your first animatic. it's really really good. ok actually all of it's great so to start i'll mention that i love how seamless your transistions are? at no point was the change from scene to scene jarring- ok so past that i like the phantom being signified w/ red that's cool, and the way bobby as a ghost is like floating after simon in those scenes and then :-) to go to the end i also really like when ema comes in but before that the way you did the courtroom scenes are also super good. and overall i'd just say i love how thoughtful you were about shading and stuff.

[@riverrlethe2116]

thank you so SO much! i rlly appreciate this lovely comment bc most of the things you mentioned, like the transitions, were things that i thought long and hard about. i thought long about most of the things that i did tbh, even things i maybe should have been like "hm maybe the shading doesnt have to be EXACT on this one half a second frame". and i made this animatic for not j myself, but for ppl who really liked bobby fulbright and were sad about his fate. bc in the end ace attorney is an emotional rollercoaster in general, so even the small details like the lack of clarity of bobby fulbright's fate are heartbreaking. im glad this brought back fond memories for u :))) and again tysm for this comment im literally a little misty eyed abt it lmao

[@denydestiny]

@@riverrlethe2116 you are quite welcome! wanted to hand u another reply to say you've done all the bobby fans (myself included) out there a big service. i can't tell you how sad i was when bobby's death got like a throwaway line at most iirc, so really, thank you. also in general good luck out there and regardless of if you make more animatics or not you've earned a subscriber because i've watched this at least 4 times today. it's just very good, and it's canon to me now. bobby deserved better, and so did most of the cast tbh. and, one last thing- if you have the time to answer a question i have one for you. who's your favorite character from dual destinies? bc mine is athena but bobby and simon are close seconds

[@riverrlethe2116]

@@denydestiny im so glad! like bobby was my little meow meow. while i played the game i was just constantly waiting for him to show up, i genuinely can't understand how some folks hate him, hes so silly. and omg ur so right, the entire cast of this game was so good imo, and they all got major trauma bc shu takumi was being a little silly and funny. i got into ace attorney late in the game, basically last year, so i thought everything that could be made by fans, was already made. but when i got to bobby fanart and such, i found such little content about him as a person, just him, no phantom bs, that it made my heart break just a little more. and this is the exact reason why i made this animatic! bc i was so frustrated and upset w the lack of clarity surrounding his death that i essentially blocked it out and rewrote it so that he actually is alive and well lmao. also ty for subscribing! i hope to make more animatics at some point but who knows lmao. to answer ur question, i love bobby as a person, but also his story is just so good. the possibilities w his character and his backstory are endless. hes a good guy and he is definitely alive and not dead :,)))! so bobby is number one, w athena and simon being close seconds. simon bc i just. he likes birds! funky bird man. and athena bc how can u not like her. she is me. she is my best friend. I also really enjoy the trio of junie, robin, and hugh, they are also pretty silly. i would mention clay on the list, but we didnt really get to know him that well, which is also a heartbreak akin to bobby if that makes sense. like apollo and clay were bffs, and then suddenly, he j gets killed off to further apollo's character development. whew boy that sucks so bad in an emotional way. i could literally talk about this accursed game for ages its a sickness its a disease lmao

[@denydestiny]

@@riverrlethe2116 i've been a fan of ace attorney since about 2009, when i was about 11/12 and i bring that up bc i grew up looking into fancases and fanfic and stuff and have kind of seen the fandom evolve in real time - in 2009 almost everyone hated apollo bc aj:aa was the newest game, but ppl seem to like him now - so i think in a few years more people will come around on bobby. i also think since the main series went from 3 games w/ gumshoe to 1 w/ ema that ppl are more like :/ on bobby bc he's new. i personally like him a lot because he's just a funny guy. he's ace attorney's detective at it's like most base form. he's there to help :-) and he's confused, but he's got the right spirit also yea, i do wanna apologize on behalf of the fandom bc when dual destinies was at it's height it seemed to me like most people either side-lined bobby for the phantom reveal (which is a shame bc the idea of the phantom is neat, but like we didn't get any hints about bobby's fate until last second, which is a shame) or they just kind of moved on from him because he was gone and phoenix and co took the phantom down. i also want to apologize to you because fans (like me, i was one of them) latched onto clay terran - who i like in concept even though i know he was only supposed to be a plot device - over bobby, who we actually got to spend time with,,, it might also be that he's hard to draw. for me it was because bobby's hard for me to draw- you did great on him and everyone else in here, btw, i think it needs to be said also i agree with you, bobby is okay now. he and simon will probably continue to be menaces (simon on purpose and bobby on accident) and they'll go solve lots of cases together. he's out there and your canon is my canon too now. i don't have much else to say but thank you for replying to my comments and i'm mentally shaking your hand because same. dual destinies is a game w/ so much potential, but it falls a little flat and the cast does heavy lifting to support that so in the end it's still pretty good.

[@darkacadpresenceinblood]

this was so good😭 it has been showing up on my recommended as long as i've been into ace attorney but i never watched it bc i hadn't played dd yet, well now it showed up again and i could actually watch it!! holy shit it's awesome, i love that you gave him a happy ending! he deserved one🥺

[@GrilledCheeseLord221]

IM CRYING OMFG I LOVE THIS SM I AM LOSING MY MIND (I'm literally supposed to be in bed rn I am breaking my household rules to watch this. worth it)

[@riverrlethe2116]

@@GrilledCheeseLord221 omg! thank you ever so much, im glad u like it

[@journeythebomb]

What a cool video!! Love Ace Attorney but I love this even more!!

[@mintytae0321]

Beautiful animation, it reminds me of a Korean drama I watched expect the mc could see the spirit that was following him around

[@riverrlethe2116]

@@mintytae0321 omg ! WHICH DRAMA I NEED TO WATCH IT!!

[@mintytae0321]

@ it’s called bring it on, ghost

[@sk8erboy_reki-]

im sorry.. but was Fullbright wearing CROCS???

[@Icheasea_T]

Wait- is he wearing crocs!?

[@riverrlethe2116]

@@Icheasea_T im glad you noticed! hehe just seems like the kinda guy to get off a long days work, pop open a cola, and put on his House shoes LMAO

[@andifishgallery9400]

This is genuinely so detailed and beautiful! I really do wish we got to know more about the real Bobby and his dynamic with other characters like Blackquill 🥲 so much potential!!!!!