〚Ace Attorney OC: Cynthia Veil

Instructions

『❝ ᴍᴀʏʙᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠɪᴄᴛɪᴍ…ɴᴏ, ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅɴ’ᴛ ᴡᴏʀᴋ.❞ 』 ꧁⎝ ༺✧༻ ⎠꧂ ↳ 『 ✧ table of contents ✧ 』 『✧ general info ✧』 『✧ gender & orientation ✧』 『✧ history ✧』 『✧ personality ✧』 『✧ friendships ✧』 ꧁⎝ ༺✧༻ ⎠꧂ ↳ 『 ✧ general info ✧ 』 〚Full Name: Cynthia Veil〛 〚Meaning: Cynthia means ‘From Mount Kynthos’ or ‘Moon’, while Veil can mean either a piece of fine material, or something that serves to disguise, conceal or generally hide.〛 〚Aliases/Nicknames: Cyn, ‘Phantomviper’, Boss, ‘Inna Green’ (former)〛 〚Age/Birthday: 24 years old - her birthday is September 8th, making her a Virgo.〛 〚Nationality/Origin: Russian-Japanese descent, but was born and raised in America, and hence much more used to the American culture.〛 〚Languages: She can speak, understand, read and write Russian and English. For Japanese, she can only understand it.〛 ꧁⎝ ༺✧༻ ⎠꧂ ↳ 『 ✧ gender & orientation ✧ 』 〚When Cynthia was young, she identified as a cishet girl. This means she identified as the sex she was born with - female - and she was only attracted to thos who identified as male.〛 〚In middle school, she was more exposed to the idea of lgbtq, and eventually realized she was actually bi/pan, meaning she was attracted to anyone, regardless of gender.〛 〚While her sexuality has not changed in present time, she is questioning if she is fully female. She may be girlflux, but she is not fully sure. Girlflux means to be on the female side of the spectrum, but to have a differing connection to one’s feminity from day to day..〛 ꧁⎝ ༺✧༻ ⎠꧂ ↳ 『✧ history ✧』 〚Cynthia - named Inna in her early years - was born to the illustrious, famed family of Green. For many years, she was pampered by her parents, without a care in the world.〛 〚Sometimes, though, late at night - she would hear…noises from outside of her room. Arguing, by the sounds of it. Most days she would fold her head between two silken pillows, blocking out the yelling.〛 〚Her father was an alcoholic - horribly so - and they got into arguments often. About how to take care of their daughter, and how the other never did a thing right, and how ‘at this rate, we’ll get into a public scandal’, and more.〛 〚Eventually, the mother gave birth to Inna’s younger brother - Jacob - who, upon getting a dna test, had a different father. The mother, broken under all the pressure, found a different love.〛 〚Her parents didn’t divorce, afraid of the public pouncing on it, but at home they treated each other like strangers. Their arguments were harsher and while her mother loved her all the same, her father suddenly resented her. Eventually, in her third year of high school, Inna had enough, and she ran away. She stole some of their fortune in order to live a normal life, and she looked old enough to pass for an adult at that time.〛 〚Growing up in a household where every little thing could turn into a violent argument, she unconsciously learned to notice tiny details: changes in tone, footsteps, missing objects, lies hidden in ordinary conversation. Solving little mysteries became second nature long before she realized it, and she took a fancy to investigation in general.〛 〚To avoid her past and not gain curiousity, Inna changed her name to Cynthia once she was old enough, and changed her last name - Green - to Veil.〛 〚She made up a new past, and entered the police department. She didn’t particularly enjoy the parts where she had to actively threaten criminals - but after one of her best friends in the police department was killed by one, she learned to due her job mercilessly.〛 〚She took on the mysterious, anonymous persona of ‘Phantomviper’ due to a case where the murderer blackmailed the police into not arresting him. Because of this, she ignored orders, infiltrated the hideout alone, gathered the evidence needed to expose him, and held him there until reinforcements arrived.〛 〚Since then, she has only taken on the role of Phantomviper in the most severe of cases.〛 ꧁⎝ ༺✧༻ ⎠꧂ ↳ 『✧ personality ✧』 [+] Patient, determined, compassionate and analytical [=] Secretive, independent, blunt and reserved [-] Controlling, paranoid, self-sacrificing and forgetful 〚On the surface, Cynthia appears to be harmless: Quiet, awkward and scatterbrained. She does her job fairly well, and doesn’t seem to stick out in a crowd.〛 〚Underneath, however, she is extremely observant - noticing everything that seems off in someone’s personality, noticing every quickened speech on a certain topic, even noticing someone’s daily routine, even if she’s never talked to them.〛 〚Ace Attorney often has ‘true forms’ for characters such as these, and for her - her posture will stiffen, and she will put on a coat as seen in the ref, making her seem more professional. She will also not look as airy as usual, her gaze fixed on the speaker, never looking away.〛 [cont. in notes and credits]