ACE ATTORNEY SCUTTLEBUTT TRIAL
When Cykes went to question Woods at the detention center, Woods dropped her strong facade, showing her true, more meek, self to Cykes and Justice.ĭuring the trial the next day, Cykes found herself driven into a corner due to the decisive evidence presented by Prosecutor Simon Blackquill. While Woods was being taken away, Cykes stepped up and said she act as her defense attorney. When the police arrived, Woods was arrested on the grounds that Courte's murder had been enacted in a very similar way to her script, as well as the fact that the awl she still had in her pocket turned out to have Courte's blood on it. While they were waiting for the police to come, Cykes questioned Woods, Newman, and O'Conner about the mock trial, and she sensed some discord in their voices when they talked about their friendship. However, while the mock trial was underway, the dead body of Courte was found on the outdoor stage by Cykes and Wright, and the mock trial was abruptly cut short before a verdict could be given.
Gone was the quiet and shy girl she had known, replaced by a far more confident and outgoing young woman. Adding to this was Cykes' complete change in personality. Woods was shocked to so suddenly meet her childhood friend again, whom she hadn't seen in seven years. Wright had brought along his two employees as well Apollo Justice and Athena Cykes. Just before the trial was due to start, Woods met Phoenix Wright, who had been recently reinstated as an attorney and invited to give a lecture at the academy. The next morning, Woods returned to her dressing room to pick up some props for the mock trial, including an awl which now had what looked like red paint on it. As she was leaving the school around 7 p.m., Woods saw O'Conner in the hallway and noticed his hands were dripping with blood. On the night before the trial, Woods assisted Courte with preparations in the art room until 6 p.m., then returned to her dressing room to apply fluorescent paint to her stage costume. Woods' script was chosen, but its contents were kept privy only to her and Courte in order to keep the trial's "plot" a secret from the participants. She was also chosen to sing " The Guitar's Serenade" alongside Klavier Gavin as part of the festivities. With Professor Courte during the mock trial preparations.įor the school festival in her senior year, Woods was required to write a script that would be used in a mock trial. Murder at the academy Main article: Turnabout Academy O'Conner figured out that Woods had reported him, further straining their friendship. One day, Woods overheard a phone conversation between O'Conner and his parents and found out that they had been bribing the school for his good grades, after which she reported him to Courte. However, said dark age's influence on the school soon began to affect their friendship, with O'Conner adhering to Professor Aristotle Means' ideals of winning trials by any means necessary, while Woods followed Constance Courte's teachings that the truth was more important than results, and Newman respected the ideals of both teachers.Ĭourte eventually asked Woods to report any students to her who had strayed from the path of justice. The three vowed to hold fair trials and put an end to the dark age that had been plaguing the legal system. She befriended the prosecutor course student Robin Newman and the defense attorney course student Hugh O'Conner, with Newman making handmade bands for them to wear as proof of their friendship. There, she became the student council president and put on a stern persona. Woods went on to join the judge course at Themis Legal Academy. Cykes has claimed that boys would often hand her love letters before asking her to give them to Woods, much to the disappointment of Cykes. Woods was apparently very popular with the opposite sex during her time at school, although she was oblivious to their attention.
After a while, the two started exchanging letters, but they wouldn't meet face-to-face again for seven years.
However, after Cykes's mother was murdered, she was sent to live in Europe. Although both girls were quiet, they got along with one another and soon became good friends. Woods, like Cykes, didn't attend school regularly when she was younger due to health issues Woods herself suffered from frequent coughing fits, while Cykes found it hard to be around groups of people due to her ability to pick up subtle emotions from peoples' voices.
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