Kay Faraday, known as Mikumo Ichijou (一条美雲) in Japan, is a character from the Ace Attorney series of adventure visual novel games. She is the partner of Miles Edgeworth in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and the game's sequel, Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit.

Biography

Appearance

Kay has long black hair tied in twin tails by a pink hair decor and gold hair stick with small chains and green eyes. Her hair was shorter as a child. Her hair was down and wavy while amnesiac. She wears a brown backback with a pink strap.

As a child, she wore a pink sailor school suit with a blue cape and white tie. She wore jean shorts, and magenta shoes.

Kay wears pink shirt with white swirls, magenta sleeves rolled up and white cuffs. She wears a blue scarf with a Yatagarasu pin. She wears a blue skirt, red gloves, gold bracelets, red socks, and black boots.

While amnesiac, she wore a light pink hospital gown, white bandages over her eye, arms, head, left pointer finger and left cheek. She wore a yellow blanket over her shoulders and red slip on shoes.

Personality

Kay Faraday is energetic, curious, and cheeky. While making observations about crime scenes, she often points out how valuable some of the objects are, and jokes about stealing several of them, much to Edgeworth's distress. However, she makes it clear that the only thing she is really looking to "steal" is the truth. She idolizes her father, Byrne Faraday, and seeks to become a "Hero of Justice" like him, which manifests in her sheer determination. She strives for a world in which the court system is sufficient to deal with all criminals, thereby making the Yatagarasu obsolete.

Kay is a great fan of the Jammin' Ninja and thinks his show is far superior to that of the Steel Samurai. Edgeworth feels at times that Kay would prefer to be a ninja rather than a thief. She is apparently somewhat messy, as she admitted to not always keeping her room tidy. The Yatagarasu's Badge that she wears is hand-made.

As an amnesiac, Kay was far more introverted, as well as being constantly wracked with guilt due to her alleged crime and Edgeworth's efforts and sacrifices to save her. She was the only one other than Laguarde to accept Fender's offers for a hug, though Edgeworth would always stop these hugs from happening.

Kay is, of course, a bird person, but also prefers cats over dogs. Her best subject is P.E.

Development

Kay Faraday was the first Investigations-specific character to be revealed and the only one to be revealed as a confirmed character in the initial trailer for the game. Other characters were shown as silhouettes in the same trailer, but were not actually confirmed, and indeed many of these characters didn't make it into the final version of the game.

The spiral, cloud-like pattern on Kay's vest is called the Karakusa pattern. In Japanese fiction, thieves are usually depicted with bags (normally green) that tie over the face with the Karakusa pattern on it. This would be similar to a thief carrying a large burlap bag marked "swag" in British fiction, or a white bag with a dollar sign on it in American fiction. Kay's father, Byrne Faraday, wore a blue scarf with the Karakusa pattern around his neck.

Story

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Other appearances

• Kay Faraday appeared as an "Oni" character in the social game, Onimusha Soul along with Maya Fey and Franziska von Karma.

Trivia

• Kay's hair bangs resemble the folded wings of a crow, with her black hair adding to this appearance.
• The key in her hair may be a reference to a Western trope where characters use a hairpin as a lockpick, with Kay doing the opposite, using a key as a hairpin.
• The literal translation for her Japanese name "Mikumo" is "beautiful cloud", with the cloud patterns on her vest being a reference to this.
• "Kay" is used in a similar way to Phoenix Wright's surname, in that it is used in puns like "You can call me "Kay", 'kay!?" It may also be a reference to the key in her hair, or even possibly the Kay Jewelers jewelery stores (linking to the fact that she is a thief in training, even if it is the truth that she steals, rather than jewels).
• "Faraday" may come from Michael Faraday, a famous chemist and physicist, or the "Faraday cage". Alternatively, Faraday could be a reference to Inspector Farraday, a character from the Boston Blackie franchise. The character of Boston Blackie was a thief turned detective, similar to how Kay aids Edgeworth in his investigations.
  • Her full English name may be a play on "okay for a day".
• Early clips of the second episode Turnabout Airlines were shown in the Tokyo Game Show 2008 trailer for Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, which showed that Kay Faraday was once slated to be introduced earlier in the game.
• In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Phoenix Wright has a number of alternative costumes he can wear, the color schemes of which are all references to other characters. Maya Fey appears as some of Wright's attacks and her costume also changes depending on the one Wright is wearing. One of the choices for Wright is based on the color scheme of Godot's outfit, while Maya's corresponding color scheme is based on Kay's color scheme.

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