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rocksthecourt) wrote2009-01-09 12:00 am
rocksthecourt) wrote2009-01-09 12:00 am
App - Part 2
Canon isn't particularly detailed when it comes to locations and origins, so most information regarding his past are theories based on the little information provided by the game. It's fairly safe to assume Klavier Gavin was born in Germany but was primarily raised in the US, most probably having been transferred while very young.
Despite hints of being family oriented, neither Klavier nor his brother seemed particularly close to their parents, though whether this was due to busy lifestyles or lack of emotional ties is never clear. Regardless, Klavier was more or less raised by his elder brother Kristoph. The boy proved himself to be quite the child prodigy very early in life, getting through school almost effortlessly. It was around middle school age when Klavier began demonstrating a fantastic amount of interest in both music and law, the latter sparking due to Kristoph who was studying to be a defense attorney at the time. Astonishingly, his efforts gained him entrance to a German law school at the age of 13. He would spend the next four years studying in Germany.
His interest in music began only a few years before leaving for Germany. He apparently spent a lot of time listening to classic rock and eventually taught himself how to play the guitar. He probably took a few music classes while in school as well, allowing the hobby to develop into a fun past time for him.
While in law school, he started a band with some other students. The game provides absolutely no details regarding the other band members other than the fact that they are all members of various branches of law enforcement (as seems to be the theme of the band's music). I'm going to assume Klavier's band has had a switch in band members in the past, seeing as he would only have had access to law students while in Germany but has hinted at there being multiple police officers within the group.
Over the next few years, the band known as The Gavinners moved from small time gigs to clubs, eventually becoming popular enough to hit the big time. By the time Klavier graduated law school, the band had managed to produce their first album, which went platinum "almost overnight." The band's popularity had extended beyond Germany, becoming a well-known name in the US by the time Klavier returned home (seeing as Phoenix Wright had not only heard of them but referred to them as a "mega-hit rock band.")
Despite how lucrative the band proved to be, Klavier remained loyal to his true career choice. Fresh from school, he was ready to establish himself as a prosecutor in Los Angeles, the same town his older brother practiced within. Luck seemed to be on his side as his first case involved the murder of yet another household name: Magnifi Gramarye, head of the famous Gramarye Magic Troupe. Participating in the trial of a celebrity was just the boost he needed to establish himself.
Zak Gramarye, one of Magnifi's disciples and the defendant, had hired Kristoph Gavin as his representation. Knowing his brother wouldn't plan to make the trial a cake walk, Klavier spent the next few days preparing for this trial. The evening before the trial, however, Kristoph visited the prosecutor's office to inform Klavier last minute he would not be acting as defense. It seemed the defense had been transferred to the famous Phoenix Wright (though for what reason was anyone's guess). Kristoph warned him that Phoenix was utterly untrustworthy and was evidently planning to use forged evidence to win the trial.
As the case went, an incurable case of liver cancer left Magnifi with a mere three months to live. After sending a letter ordering both disciples to put him out of his misery, Zak Gramarye arrived and allegedly fulfilled his mentor's wish. Amongst the victim's possessions was a diary in which he specified he was waiting for Zak, and should he survive, he would continue writing. However, the record ended there, all but sealing the defendant's guilt. Phoenix Wright was apparently planning to present a forged version of a ripped out diary page to claim Magnifi had indeed continued writing, thus proving his client innocent.
According to Kristoph, the man hired to forge the page for Phoenix, Drew Misham, had no idea the forgery was going to be used as false evidence in court. Upon discovery of this fact, Misham was willing to testify against the evidence as long as a few conditions were adhered to. Everything essentially prepared already, all that was needed was Klavier's cooperation to seal the deal should Phoenix resort to cheating.
It nagged Klavier that his brother knew so much about the forgery, but it wasn't anything so strange as to lose sleep over. After all, Kristoph had been in the US for several years and had probably established enough connections in his own field to discover something suspicious regarding Wright's plan of attack. It would only take a little investigation from there to discover the truth behind the man's tactics. Klavier himself had only just arrived in America after four years overseas, so it wouldn't be strange if Kristoph knew more of what was going on than he. In the end, Klavier followed his brother's instructions regarding the set up of the forger's testimony.
All went as expected the following day. The trial moved steadily along with Phoenix and Klavier picking apart the details of the crime one by one, eventually leading to the mention of the diary and its importance to the case. Knowing full well that Phoenix was planning to use the forged evidence, Klavier offered a single vague warning to his opponent, telling him "It's not too late to rethink this and avoid more... embarrassment.”
The diary page was presented as expected, and Klavier requested the trial be placed on hold temporarily. Following the conditions his brother had stated for Misham, the courtroom was cleared of all spectators, leaving only Phoenix, Klavier, the judge, and the forger in the room. Before the judge, Misham testified that the page the defense had just used was a fake he himself had made. Though the man acted surprised, Phoenix didn’t offer any excuses or explanations, basically sealing his guilt in Klavier's mind. Additionally, since the defense had resorted to the use of forged evidence, it obviously meant his client Zak was guilty of the murder.
The spectators were allowed to return to the courtroom, and the judge prepared to announce his guilty verdict. Before any declarations could be made, however, Zak Gramarye suddenly vanished before the very eyes of the entire court. The room broke into chaos, and security scoured the building for the runaway defendant, but it was no use. Zak was gone and was never seen again. After the trial, Phoenix's case went before a committee, where all but Kristoph Gavin voted against him. Ultimately, Phoenix Wright lost his badge and vanished from the law scene.
Klavier himself earned a great amount of praise for catching the Forgin' Attorney Phoenix Wright red-handed, even though it had really been his brother who had done the work. Based on some of the comments Klavier made near the end of the game, I personally speculate that Kristoph told him to remain quiet regarding the prior tipoff. This was most probably done under the guise of charity, telling him to take full credit for the capture to boost his reputation. Additionally, I would think both Kristoph and Klavier would get in trouble if it was revealed Kristoph, the former defense, had shared his research and the victim's belongings with the prosecution.
As expected, the credit for the capture was exactly what Klavier needed to build a reputation upon. He became a big name in the LA Prosecutor's Office, the publicity helping launch both his prosecuting career and CD sales. Shortly after this case, Klavier met Daryan Crescend, a local officer and the first detective Klavier regularly began working with. Despite the difference in general outlook and attitude, the two became friends, Daryan eventually becoming the Gavinner's second guitarist. All in all, things only seemed to get progressively better for the man after Phoenix's case.
It was seven years later that everything would start falling apart.
Klavier was aware Kristoph and Phoenix had established some sort of friendship after that infamous forging case and tended to spend time together on a consistent basis, though he could only really guess at the why. It was after one of these rendezvous a murder occurred, Phoenix being the prime suspect. Despite the fact that Kristoph had offered to defend his friend, Phoenix specifically requested the new Junior Attorney at the Gavin Law Offices, Apollo Justice, as his representative.
Klavier would only find out about the case after the fact, but as his understanding goes, Phoenix managed to manipulate the new attorney into using Wright's signature bluff moves and subject changing tactics. Somehow or other, both Wright and Justice had turned the case around and accused his brother of committing the crime, despite the fact that not a single shred of evidence pointed to the man.
In the end, however, Kristoph confessed to committing the murder of the victim, Shadi Smith. Confession or no, the fact remained that there was no evidence, and Kristoph chose to remain silent regarding any additional details about the murder, including any hint of a motive. The lack of information gave away that there was far more behind the case than was uncovered in court, which was most probably the reason any persecution was delayed. After all, one couldn’t execute a man without evidence to solidify the claim of his guilt (or even a motive). And absolutely nothing, not even his own brother, could get Kristoph to say anything more than necessary.
Klavier was completely distraught over this sudden turn of events, so much so he took a leave of absence from the prosecutor's office, concentrating only on the band during that time. I'm under the personal assumption that Klavier made a habit of visiting his brother after his incarceration, and possibly may have volunteered to help the office with the investigation of the case (though not as the prosecutor in charge). As noted later in the game, Kristoph was allowed a great deal of luxuries within his solitary cell, which, according to Kristoph, are due to certain 'connections.' I think it's safe to assume Klavier was a big part of that influence.
(Before moving on, I need to point out a canon contradiction. During the case I'm about to describe, Klavier states in court that he made a special trip to participate in these particular proceedings, going so far as to cancel a few concerts, just to face off against Apollo. This, however, is impossible since Apollo himself didn't even start investigating the case until the day before the trial. For the sake of having both the history and this statement make sense, I'm throwing out quite a few assumptions regarding the conditions of Klavier's presence the day before the trial.)
Klavier spent the next two months working with The Gavinners, sometime near the end of which they started a new promotional tour, one that would lead to their bigger "Guilty As Charged" tour later on. While The Gavinners were back in the general area, Klavier decided to stop by LA to visit the prosecutor's office, the precinct, and most probably his brother. It seemed the police were working on what they described as a rather bizarre murder case. According to the report, the victim (a doctor at a local clinic) had been shot while pulling a noodle stand behind him, strangely enough. The suspect arrested was the son the infamous Kitaki family, the biggest organized crime syndicate in town.
Deciding to investigate this odd crime scene himself and possibly tease the detective on duty (Ema Skye, a woman not at all fond of the prosecutor), he headed for the park. When he arrived there, he found two kids snooping around the crime scene and immediately recognized the boy, Apollo, as the junior attorney who convicted his brother. He allowed them to enter the crime scene to investigate, but decided to leave afterward, his prior ideas of looking over the scene himself gone. If Apollo was investigating the crime, that most probably meant he was planning on taking the case. This was perfect.
He immediately returned to the prosecutor's office to assign himself to the Kitaki vs State case, consequently cancelling any Gavinner concerts and practices that were scheduled for the next few days. He never liked cancelling shows, but getting to face off against this attorney was far more important.
Luckily for Klavier, it seemed the defendant, Wocky Kitaki, was hoping to get convicted for the sake of street cred. During the trial the next day, Klavier utilized this fact to make the defendant look bad and to put immediate pressure on the defense. In fact throughout the entirety of the trial, Klavier not only acted flashier than he normally would have but he was sure to take every possible opportunity to put Apollo on the spot (more elaboration within the Personality section).
Six months ago, Wocky had come to Dr. Meraktis needing emergency surgery to remove a bullet which had stopped just short of the boy's heart. Due to its location, there was no way he could conceivably remove it without killing the boy himself, and so he simply sewed Wocky back up and claimed the bullet had been removed. The doctor's lie had been exposed the day of the murder. After Wocky himself had established this motive, Klavier revealed the bullet inside the defendant could kill him at any given moment. Dr. Meraktis was most likely the only person in the area with the necessary information to save him. By stating this, the defendant remained at a complete loss for words, both shutting the boy up and making him appear more guilty; just as planned.
With the eyes of the court looking unfavorably at the defendant's chair, Klavier moved on to present his witness, a college student who had been going through the park that night and had seen the defendant at the very moment of the crime. The defense was extremely quick in their attempts to make the witness seem like the guilty party, a fact Klavier immediately jumped upon by either pressing Apollo to openly accuse the boy or demanding to see evidence of the boy's guilt. It seemed Klavier already suspected the defense would try to accuse the witness of committing the crime and was well prepared to counter this "bluff and baseless accusation" strategy Apollo must have picked up from Wright.
The defense picked apart the witness's testimony and eventually found that he had lied regarding where he had witnessed the crime from and how he'd contacted police. Though this did change several key facts regarding the case and made it impossible to convict Wocky with absolute certainty, the trial was able to establish without a doubt that the defendant had been at the scene of the crime at the moment of the murder and had been armed with the intent of harming the victim. Not only was that all established, but Klavier had managed to use Apollo's own efforts against him to do so.
With the trial delayed another day, both the defense and prosecution were free to investigate further. Klavier had the police continue searching the crime scene for further evidence, but doubted there would be much left to find. While pursuing these follow-up investigations, Klavier came upon Wocky's fiancée, Alita Tiala. After speaking with her for a while, she reluctantly confessed that Wocky had indeed told her about his plans to kill the good doctor the day of the murder. A new witness and a new approach was just what he needed, so he prepared to use her as the key witness for the next day's trial.
He called Alita immediately after the trial began, expecting her testimony to bring the case to a quick enough close on its own. However, once again, Apollo immediately threw accusations onto the witness to make her seem like the guilty party (what a bad habit). However, in a shocking display of preparation, the defense actually had evidence connecting the witness to the victim.
With the presentation of solid evidence, Klavier patiently listened to the defense's argument rather than immediately objecting to every point before it could be elaborated on. When the witness hesitated at the sight of proof, the prosecutor immediately perked up. He tried to control the situation by catching contradictions before the defense and filling in whatever holes he could before Apollo could run off in whatever unpredictable direction he felt like taking it. However, he wasn’t one to let the witness get away with blatant, suspicious lying, something he made clear to both the witness and the court.
The more Alita testified, the more mysteries solved themselves regarding the events leading up to the murder, everything backed up with solid evidence of some sort. It’s when everyone stopped the cross-examination to review the entirety of what was known about the conditions of the murder that Klavier seemed to realize what had actually occurred. Rather than stating it himself (seeing as that isn’t the prosecution’s job), he put Apollo on the spot and tried to subtly push him in the correct direction until he’d figured it out on his own.
Looking over the murder scene it would only have been possible for the doctor to be shot where he had been if the shooter had been somewhere else entirely… in this case, inside the noodle stand the victim had been dragging. Following this line of thinking and looking over the evidence, it was eventually proven that the doctor had assaulted Ms. Tiala, presumably killing her. In an attempt to rid himself of the body, he placed her ‘corpse’ in the stolen stand and planned to throw her into the park's river. As he reached his destination, he encountered Wocky, and Alita woke up, shooting the doctor from inside before anything damaging could be revealed.
Ridiculous, crazy, but all backed up by solid evidence. Apollo had won this trial and Wocky was to go free. Klavier had been right regarding Apollo’s tendency to jump to conclusions, but in the end, he'd backed up every claim with proof, and his gut instincts (as baseless as that was to follow in a court of law) had been correct. To say Klavier respected him would be going a bit too far, but he was a bit more impressed than he assumed he would be.
After this trial, Klavier returned to his concert tour, but his leave of absence from the prosecutor's office was over. As evidenced by the contents of his office, he regularly worked on prosecuting multiple cases at once (to the point where he could handle 3 or 4 cases simultaneously), even amidst playing concerts and showing up to band practice. And so, I'm assuming after his trial with Apollo he continued working on other cases between concert performances.
And certainly Klavier couldn't afford to cancel his next concert. Next marked the first concert of the "Guilty As Charged" tour, a feature tour for their new CD. Most certainly the tour would be a landmark as it would feature the Borginian artist Lamiroir, known for her beautiful voice and the prodigy blind pianist who accompanied her.
A year ago, Klavier had traveled to Borginia to tour their legal system (most probably for research of some kind). It was while over there he stopped by a small jazz club and heard Lamiroir's singing firsthand. "Using his influence" to meet her, he managed to talk to her, her manager, and her pianist, Machi Tobaye, backstage.
It was right then and there they worked on a song together, Lamiroir writing the soft melody and Klavier writing the lyrics. He invited them to come to America so they could perform the song during his next concert tour, which they happily agreed to. As a gift, Lamiroir said Klavier could keep the acoustic guitar she had let him play (seeing as he seemed so fond of it). He swore to play it during their performance, and to ensure the instrument wasn't damaged during travel, he had it vacuum sealed and specially delivered separate from the rest of his belongings.
The Gavinners spent a great deal of time preparing for this upcoming concert, making sure it was thoroughly advertised to include Lamiroir's first performance in the US. For maximum effect, Klavier even hired a magician to set up a gorgeous illusion to compliment Lamiroir's elegant song; the ultimate performance.
The already sold-out concert was to take place two weeks after Wocky's trial. As an expression of courtesy and good will, Klavier had invited Trucy (Apollo's friend and Wright's adoptive daughter) to the concert by sending over two of these hard-to-obtain concert tickets... along with a slightly discounted invoice for Apollo. He was expecting to see the two the day of the concert, which would surely be fun on multiple levels.
On the actual day of the concert, however, things seemed to do nothing but fall apart from the get go. Despite the fact that he always left his keys in his jacket pocket, he found them missing the morning of the concert. This was actually inconceivable since he has always had a set location for absolutely everything and would never just 'misplace' something. After looking everywhere and still not finding them, Klavier started to get a very bad feeling. He immediately called the police, informing them that something of his had been stolen and ordering additional security for the concert. Ema Skye was to be placed in charge of security.
With no other way of getting there, he was reduced to taking a taxi to his own concert, an embarrassing turn of events as far as Klavier was concerned. Despite this unfortunate start, he eventually pushed his worries aside and turned his full focus to the concert at hand. He could worry about his stolen keys later.
Unlike 99.9% of all bands in existence, the Gavinners had no opening band and apparently planned to do the entire concert by themselves, splitting the performance into three sections. The Gavinners would play the energetic first third of the concert to psych the crowd up. Then, Lamiroir would take the stage with the collaboratively made ballad "Guitar Serenade." Finally, the Gavinners would play the remaining concert time and deliver a grand finale. (I'd also like to point out the division of the concert is similar to that of classical music, where a song is split into three movements: energetic flurry, soft undertone, grand reprise.)
The first portion of the concert went perfectly, putting Klavier in an excellent mood compared to earlier that morning. After coming backstage for the band's first break, the crews and band prepared for Lamiroir's section. Again, due to his lack of keys, Klavier was forced to bust the lock on his guitar case if he was to use the guitar Lamiroir had given him. While getting the rest of the preparations ready, Apollo and Trucy visited his dressing room to talk a bit before the next section (though Klavier seemed to speak to Trucy far more than Apollo).
As Lamiroir's performance was underway, all seemed to be going smoothly. However, right in the middle of the song Klavier's guitar suddenly burst into flame, catching the prosecutor by complete surprise. The song itself thankfully continued as though nothing had happened, the majority of the audience assuming the guitar had been set on fire as part of the act.
Backstage, however, it was obvious such a thing was never intentional. Klavier was beside himself with fury, thinking maybe someone on the tech crew was playing a trick on him. Not only was the guitar Lamiroir had given him ruined, but the song... no, the whole concert was ruined now! After a little cheering up from Trucy, he managed to get his act together in time for the final portion of the concert. Continuing the concert with stellar performances would make the whole affair feel less like a complete loss. Being that Apollo didn't care much for Gavin's music, Klavier left him backstage with a parting "old fogie" joke and took to the stage with the rest of his band.
Unfortunately, things were only to get worse from there. The song played after the break was played atrociously. The most important part of the song had been ruined as far as the prosecutor was concerned. After this song, however, Klavier was informed that Lamiroir's manager had been shot backstage, right in Lamiroir's dressing room.
With no other choice, the Gavinners were forced to cancel the remainder of the concert, taking down names and addresses before allowing the audience to leave. For the sake of the investigation, Klavier and the police placed an immediate gag order for all those backstage: no information regarding the death was to be kept quiet, even from Lamiroir herself who was placed in the Gavinner's dressing room and told not to leave since the body's discovery.
Being that Ema Skye was a homicide detective and was in a pretty bad mood, Klavier decided to leave all the investigating to her. It seemed she and Apollo were both right outside the room at the time of the murder; they already had a head start on the investigation. He could read the reports afterward. In the meantime, he needed to get back to the stage and take care of remaining business concerning the band.
What started as a conversation regarding the investigation soon turned into more whining on Klavier's part. As if something had broken, he completely went off on his bandmates regarding how horrible this day had been from start to finish, including that awful performance. Unfortunately, Apollo and Trucy walked in on this, witnessing a side of Klavier the prosecutor would really rather them not have seen. After some discussion and a quick investigation of the performance’s recording, it seemed Daryan had been the one to mess up during the song.
Being the master of bad timing, Apollo chose this moment to bring something else to the prosecutor's attention. Apparently when they found the body, Lamiroir's manager had been holding Klavier's missing keys in his hand, a fact that was as confusing as it was shocking. It's here Trucy noticed everything that had happened to Klavier --the stolen keys, the guitar bursting into flame, and the murder-- had all been predicted by the song "Guitar Serenade." Or rather it seemed someone was committing crimes by following the song. Strange and irrational as it sounded, there were too many coincidences for Klavier to dispel the theory.
After that oh-so-charming discussion, Apollo and Trucy wandered off, leaving Klavier to wrap things up on stage before investigating the murder. Daryan himself headed off to make some calls: being a detective within International Affairs, his help was greatly needed in the murder of a foreigner. By the time Klavier finally managed to go backstage to investigate the crime scene himself, the unforeseeable had happened. The body had disappeared.
Immediately, an order was sent out to watch all exits to prevent anyone from leaving with the body. Klavier and all other available hands were to split up and search the premises for the corpse. Before they ventured off, however, Daryan offhandedly mentioned his guitar had gone missing as well. A stolen body and a stolen guitar... On top of everything else, this couldn't get much worse, now could it?
Apparently it could. Not long after everyone began their search, a discovery was made atop the stage's high-rise platform. There, they found the corpse, Daryan's guitar... and the unconscious body of Machi Tobaye.
The next day, it was announced that despite the unusual circumstances of the body's recovery, Machi was arrested under suspicion of murder. It was a bit difficult for Klavier, seeing as he had been working with the boy only yesterday, but he wasn't in much position to resist. It seemed he was being assigned as the prosecution in this particular case. As for the defense, Machi himself requested that Apollo defend him.
Now that his mind was entirely focused on work (and he'd had a night to sleep it out), Klavier seemed to be in a much better mood, actually making a special trip to the former Wright & Co. Law Offices (now the Wright Anything Agency) to inform Apollo of Machi's request. The following day was the trial, leaving little time for much investigation outside what the prosecution and defense already knew from being on scene at the time. However, as far as cases went, this one seemed pretty cut and dry, hardly anything Klavier would expect a huge battle over.
As both the homicide detective in charge of the case and the first person at the scene, Detective Ema Skye was called as the prosecution's witness. According to her testimony, Machi was initially arrested for being the only person on site who could have committed the crime... or more get away from the crime scene.
Despite the fact that both Ema and Apollo had been right outside the room at the time of the shooting, no one was found in the room upon entering. The only way the killer could have conceivably escaped would have been through the air vent, which was far too small for anyone but a child, like Machi, to get through. Further investigation proved the vent had recently been open and the grate bore Machi's fingerprints, all but sealing the defendant's guilt. Being that there were no witnesses to the crime, this would have to suffice by itself.
Apollo, however, immediately counteracted this claim by proclaiming there was, in fact, a direct witness to the crime. According to the attorney, during the time he was alone with the victim, Lamiroir's manager was alive. Not only did he speak to Apollo, he supposedly informed him that there was a witness to his murder: Lamiroir. Of course, the court only had Apollo's word to take, and honestly, it seemed a tad too convenient, especially coming from the defense.
Klavier was willing to play along and allow Apollo to call his witness. Unbeknownst to the rest of the court, the prosecutor had actually gotten a medical report from the police department regarding Machi. Normally, such a report wouldn't be deemed very important, but in this case it revealed that the famed blind pianist could actually see perfectly fine. As soon as he saw the report, Klavier immediately realized why it was that Machi lied all these years regarding his eyesight: It wasn't so much for himself as it was to hide the fact that Lamiroir herself was blind.
Being the only one in court with this knowledge, he knew full well there was absolutely no way Apollo's dumb claim could be true. Lamiroir couldn't witness anything if she was incapable of seeing. But in a fashion imitating that of seven years ago, he simply stated to the court and to Apollo, "I stand by my claim. There were no witnesses to this crime."
As Lamiroir testified, more and more contradictions showed up in her statements. It was when Lamiroir claimed to hear the voice of an adult male through a closed soundproof window that Klavier had had enough. With the amount of lies she was presenting, it was obvious listening to her testimonies would do nothing but waste more time. Klavier requested the witness be excused so they could return to Detective Skye's testimony.
Upon Ema's return to the stand, the subject of the body's strange discovery upon the platform alongside Machi was raised, bringing about the revelation of the crime being performed according to "The Guitar Serenade" lyrics. More to the point, however, was the circumstantial evidence that despite the fact there couldn't have been more than five feet between the killer and the victim, two gunshots had been fired, the first missing entirely. Due to this, Detective Skye concluded there must have been some kind of unusual circumstance throwing off the killer's aim, like for example blindness.
To Klavier's complete amusement, Apollo all too eagerly jumped on the chance to prove that, judging from the circumstances of the crime, the killer had to have been capable of seeing. The victim had tried to write a message with his blood, but someone had smeared the message away, something only a seeing person would have been able to do. Klavier was thrilled to finally bring to light the report he'd obtained before the trial. Since the killer had to have been able to see, as so neatly proven by the defense, Machi was more than capable of committing the crime. As for the missing gunshot, Klavier again used earlier testimony from the defense to drive home the point, wrapping everything up rather neatly.
Detective Skye, irritated that Klavier had used her and allowed her to testify as she had, was determined to rectify her humiliation by contributing further proof. A luminal test on the victim's smeared blood revealed an Interpol ID number had been written. Luckily, Daryan happened to be watching the proceedings and quickly ran off to look up the agent the number belonged to.
In the meantime, the question of why Machi lied about his eyesight arose, leading the prosecution to claim the reason must be because Lamiroir is the one who is actually blind. Lamiroir was once again brought to the stand where she confirmed this as a fact. As she continued her testimony, she stood by her proclamation that she definitely heard the gunshots and the voice of an adult man. However, no matter how sharp her hearing was, it was impossible for anyone to have heard anything through that window.
Daryan quickly returned to the court with the results of the Interpol ID: the man posing as Lamiroir's manager was in fact the agent operating under that number. Furthermore, the gun he had been shot with was actually his own revolver. How this tied into the case was uncertain, but before any questions could be asked, Lamiroir suddenly cried out, identifying Daryan as the voice she had heard at the time of the murder. The entire courtroom went into a massive uproar at the accusation with both Apollo and Klavier absolutely beside themselves in shock. The reaction was so bad, the trial had to be suspended until the following day.
A detective being fingered in a murder trial was bad enough. This, however, was Klavier's friend and bandmate. It was almost as painful as hearing about his brother's murder (admittedly, not on the same level, but close). Daryan himself was furious by the accusation, rightfully so. Klavier assured him that as the prosecution and as a friend he'd be sure to dispel these accusations in the trial, and the detective wouldn't have to be called to the witness stand.
He knew for a fact that Daryan had a solid alibi for the murder. After all, the man had been on stage with Klavier playing their third set when the murder occurred. It was impossible for it to have been him. Even still, as an accused officer, Klavier had to tell him to stay away from the investigation. Daryan didn't take the news very well, but it was honestly for his own good.
With Daryan out, Klavier would have to follow through on getting the needed Interpol reports on his own. There were still a lot of unanswered questions regarding the victim himself, biggest of which was why an Interpol agent was posing as Lamiroir's manager and what he had been working on. As big a pain as it was, Klavier expected to spend the remainder of his day pursuing these answers and following up on reports.
When he arrived at his office, however, the precinct had left him an object found among the victim's belongings: a replica of what Lamiroir's manager had been investigating. It was a small, white blob of plastic with absolutely no indication of what it was. Klavier called in a request for more information regarding the replica, but there seemed to be a block somewhere in the process. Hoping Lamiroir would know more about it, he requested Ema go find Lamiroir and bring her to the office as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, there were the investigation results of his charred guitar to look over. It seemed a small device had been found inside the guitar, but since the device couldn't be immediately identified. Luckily enough, Apollo and Trucy stopped by the Prosecutor's Office to visit, during which it was revealed that Ema had found the exact same device in Lamiroir's room. Apparently, it was an igniter, but what one was doing at the scene of the crime was a mystery, one that wouldn't come together until the next morning.
Once again, a little before the trial began, Klavier received a police report. Apparently the igniter Ema had found was discovered under the sofa at the crime scene... along with fragments of what were firecrackers. It was then Klavier began to suspect Daryan himself, though he didn't want to believe his old friend could be guilty. Still, the firecrackers raised enough doubt for him to register Daryan as a potential witness. Just in case.
Klavier started the trial off by immediately presenting Daryan's alibi: that he had been on stage during the third set and was thus unable to commit the crime. After amusingly floundering for a new approach to the case, the defense revealed Lamiroir had been sent to the hospital with injuries the previous afternoon. She had been attacked by an unknown assailant, most probably the killer in an attempt to keep her quiet. Following this line of thinking, the defense held that there must have been something vital hidden within her testimony that required further examination. Klavier had little to offer in terms of argument and so simply went along with it.
While examining Lamiroir's testimony, it was discovered that Lamiroir heard not only the voice but the killer ordering someone to press a switch. From here, Apollo revealed a switch had been located on stage, one that triggered a remote igniter... like the one found in Klavier's guitar. Consequently, this would mean the shooting had in fact taken place during the second set rather than the third set, thus making Daryan's alibi null and void. Questioning how she was able to hear this only further solidified the theory, though it seemed impossible to prove seeing as it was based entirely on the word of a person who could have been lying to protect the defendant.
Ultimately, Klavier's doubts had been realized and Daryan would have to take his place on the witness stand to defend himself. As Daryan tried to write off the possibility of the murder taking place at a different time, the firecrackers were brought up by the defense. Examining Daryan's vague reactions seemed to settle it for Klavier: Daryan was lying. It's at this point Klavier began helping the defense in a way (both nudging Apollo in the right direction and being generally less aggressive in his opposition).
The replica in Gavin’s office came into play while searching for Daryan's motive. It seemed the replica was actually that of a Borginian cocoon, the key ingredient to making a potent cure or a deadly poison depending on the buyer's intent. Because of this, it was highly illegal for these cocoons to leave Borginia and incredibly risky to sell on the black market. However, being that the Chief Justice's son was ill with the disease the cocoon cured, the man would make the perfect buyer for such hot merchandise, especially for someone with connections... like say, a detective.
On its own, the theory was plausible, but nothing could truly be proven. However, if one were to consider how the cocoons were smuggled out of the country at all, a significant link could be found. Klavier's specially packaged guitar bypassed the extreme Borginian airline customs, making it perfect as a smuggling mule. This would explain why the guitar had been set up with an incinerator: to destroy the evidence should things go wrong. Of course, such a thing could never be possible without an accomplice, in this particular case, Machi Tobaye.
Though the defense's case sounded good in theory and Apollo managed to present a legitimate counterargument for every point Daryan brought up, there was no actual evidence proving his guilt. It wasn't until Apollo was about to call Machi up to testify against him that Daryan finally broke down and confessed, admitting to everything. Had Machi been unwilling to testify against him, the guitarist would have gotten away with the murder and the smuggling attempt... all due to lack of actual evidence. The case brought up what the judge referred to as a "delicate issue with [their] current legal system." Honestly, to a point, Klavier had to agree.
With Daryan now in jail, the Gavinners had to put a halt to the "Guilty As Charged" tour and put all recordings and practices to a stop. The band had been a part of Klavier's life for over seven years, and now its future was uncertain. He really wasn't sure what to do with the group anymore; it wouldn't be the same without Daryan. His friend's arrest upset him to the point where he didn't want to think about the band much. Until a decision could be made, the Gavinners would have to remain on temporary hiatus.
Point Taken from History
Klavier will be taken a month after the third case. At this point, he will have heard about the plans to test out the new judicial system, but no concrete plans will have been set just yet. The crime of the fourth case will not have occurred by this point either.
Despite hints of being family oriented, neither Klavier nor his brother seemed particularly close to their parents, though whether this was due to busy lifestyles or lack of emotional ties is never clear. Regardless, Klavier was more or less raised by his elder brother Kristoph. The boy proved himself to be quite the child prodigy very early in life, getting through school almost effortlessly. It was around middle school age when Klavier began demonstrating a fantastic amount of interest in both music and law, the latter sparking due to Kristoph who was studying to be a defense attorney at the time. Astonishingly, his efforts gained him entrance to a German law school at the age of 13. He would spend the next four years studying in Germany.
His interest in music began only a few years before leaving for Germany. He apparently spent a lot of time listening to classic rock and eventually taught himself how to play the guitar. He probably took a few music classes while in school as well, allowing the hobby to develop into a fun past time for him.
While in law school, he started a band with some other students. The game provides absolutely no details regarding the other band members other than the fact that they are all members of various branches of law enforcement (as seems to be the theme of the band's music). I'm going to assume Klavier's band has had a switch in band members in the past, seeing as he would only have had access to law students while in Germany but has hinted at there being multiple police officers within the group.
Over the next few years, the band known as The Gavinners moved from small time gigs to clubs, eventually becoming popular enough to hit the big time. By the time Klavier graduated law school, the band had managed to produce their first album, which went platinum "almost overnight." The band's popularity had extended beyond Germany, becoming a well-known name in the US by the time Klavier returned home (seeing as Phoenix Wright had not only heard of them but referred to them as a "mega-hit rock band.")
Despite how lucrative the band proved to be, Klavier remained loyal to his true career choice. Fresh from school, he was ready to establish himself as a prosecutor in Los Angeles, the same town his older brother practiced within. Luck seemed to be on his side as his first case involved the murder of yet another household name: Magnifi Gramarye, head of the famous Gramarye Magic Troupe. Participating in the trial of a celebrity was just the boost he needed to establish himself.
Zak Gramarye, one of Magnifi's disciples and the defendant, had hired Kristoph Gavin as his representation. Knowing his brother wouldn't plan to make the trial a cake walk, Klavier spent the next few days preparing for this trial. The evening before the trial, however, Kristoph visited the prosecutor's office to inform Klavier last minute he would not be acting as defense. It seemed the defense had been transferred to the famous Phoenix Wright (though for what reason was anyone's guess). Kristoph warned him that Phoenix was utterly untrustworthy and was evidently planning to use forged evidence to win the trial.
As the case went, an incurable case of liver cancer left Magnifi with a mere three months to live. After sending a letter ordering both disciples to put him out of his misery, Zak Gramarye arrived and allegedly fulfilled his mentor's wish. Amongst the victim's possessions was a diary in which he specified he was waiting for Zak, and should he survive, he would continue writing. However, the record ended there, all but sealing the defendant's guilt. Phoenix Wright was apparently planning to present a forged version of a ripped out diary page to claim Magnifi had indeed continued writing, thus proving his client innocent.
According to Kristoph, the man hired to forge the page for Phoenix, Drew Misham, had no idea the forgery was going to be used as false evidence in court. Upon discovery of this fact, Misham was willing to testify against the evidence as long as a few conditions were adhered to. Everything essentially prepared already, all that was needed was Klavier's cooperation to seal the deal should Phoenix resort to cheating.
It nagged Klavier that his brother knew so much about the forgery, but it wasn't anything so strange as to lose sleep over. After all, Kristoph had been in the US for several years and had probably established enough connections in his own field to discover something suspicious regarding Wright's plan of attack. It would only take a little investigation from there to discover the truth behind the man's tactics. Klavier himself had only just arrived in America after four years overseas, so it wouldn't be strange if Kristoph knew more of what was going on than he. In the end, Klavier followed his brother's instructions regarding the set up of the forger's testimony.
All went as expected the following day. The trial moved steadily along with Phoenix and Klavier picking apart the details of the crime one by one, eventually leading to the mention of the diary and its importance to the case. Knowing full well that Phoenix was planning to use the forged evidence, Klavier offered a single vague warning to his opponent, telling him "It's not too late to rethink this and avoid more... embarrassment.”
The diary page was presented as expected, and Klavier requested the trial be placed on hold temporarily. Following the conditions his brother had stated for Misham, the courtroom was cleared of all spectators, leaving only Phoenix, Klavier, the judge, and the forger in the room. Before the judge, Misham testified that the page the defense had just used was a fake he himself had made. Though the man acted surprised, Phoenix didn’t offer any excuses or explanations, basically sealing his guilt in Klavier's mind. Additionally, since the defense had resorted to the use of forged evidence, it obviously meant his client Zak was guilty of the murder.
The spectators were allowed to return to the courtroom, and the judge prepared to announce his guilty verdict. Before any declarations could be made, however, Zak Gramarye suddenly vanished before the very eyes of the entire court. The room broke into chaos, and security scoured the building for the runaway defendant, but it was no use. Zak was gone and was never seen again. After the trial, Phoenix's case went before a committee, where all but Kristoph Gavin voted against him. Ultimately, Phoenix Wright lost his badge and vanished from the law scene.
Klavier himself earned a great amount of praise for catching the Forgin' Attorney Phoenix Wright red-handed, even though it had really been his brother who had done the work. Based on some of the comments Klavier made near the end of the game, I personally speculate that Kristoph told him to remain quiet regarding the prior tipoff. This was most probably done under the guise of charity, telling him to take full credit for the capture to boost his reputation. Additionally, I would think both Kristoph and Klavier would get in trouble if it was revealed Kristoph, the former defense, had shared his research and the victim's belongings with the prosecution.
As expected, the credit for the capture was exactly what Klavier needed to build a reputation upon. He became a big name in the LA Prosecutor's Office, the publicity helping launch both his prosecuting career and CD sales. Shortly after this case, Klavier met Daryan Crescend, a local officer and the first detective Klavier regularly began working with. Despite the difference in general outlook and attitude, the two became friends, Daryan eventually becoming the Gavinner's second guitarist. All in all, things only seemed to get progressively better for the man after Phoenix's case.
It was seven years later that everything would start falling apart.
Klavier was aware Kristoph and Phoenix had established some sort of friendship after that infamous forging case and tended to spend time together on a consistent basis, though he could only really guess at the why. It was after one of these rendezvous a murder occurred, Phoenix being the prime suspect. Despite the fact that Kristoph had offered to defend his friend, Phoenix specifically requested the new Junior Attorney at the Gavin Law Offices, Apollo Justice, as his representative.
Klavier would only find out about the case after the fact, but as his understanding goes, Phoenix managed to manipulate the new attorney into using Wright's signature bluff moves and subject changing tactics. Somehow or other, both Wright and Justice had turned the case around and accused his brother of committing the crime, despite the fact that not a single shred of evidence pointed to the man.
In the end, however, Kristoph confessed to committing the murder of the victim, Shadi Smith. Confession or no, the fact remained that there was no evidence, and Kristoph chose to remain silent regarding any additional details about the murder, including any hint of a motive. The lack of information gave away that there was far more behind the case than was uncovered in court, which was most probably the reason any persecution was delayed. After all, one couldn’t execute a man without evidence to solidify the claim of his guilt (or even a motive). And absolutely nothing, not even his own brother, could get Kristoph to say anything more than necessary.
Klavier was completely distraught over this sudden turn of events, so much so he took a leave of absence from the prosecutor's office, concentrating only on the band during that time. I'm under the personal assumption that Klavier made a habit of visiting his brother after his incarceration, and possibly may have volunteered to help the office with the investigation of the case (though not as the prosecutor in charge). As noted later in the game, Kristoph was allowed a great deal of luxuries within his solitary cell, which, according to Kristoph, are due to certain 'connections.' I think it's safe to assume Klavier was a big part of that influence.
(Before moving on, I need to point out a canon contradiction. During the case I'm about to describe, Klavier states in court that he made a special trip to participate in these particular proceedings, going so far as to cancel a few concerts, just to face off against Apollo. This, however, is impossible since Apollo himself didn't even start investigating the case until the day before the trial. For the sake of having both the history and this statement make sense, I'm throwing out quite a few assumptions regarding the conditions of Klavier's presence the day before the trial.)
Klavier spent the next two months working with The Gavinners, sometime near the end of which they started a new promotional tour, one that would lead to their bigger "Guilty As Charged" tour later on. While The Gavinners were back in the general area, Klavier decided to stop by LA to visit the prosecutor's office, the precinct, and most probably his brother. It seemed the police were working on what they described as a rather bizarre murder case. According to the report, the victim (a doctor at a local clinic) had been shot while pulling a noodle stand behind him, strangely enough. The suspect arrested was the son the infamous Kitaki family, the biggest organized crime syndicate in town.
Deciding to investigate this odd crime scene himself and possibly tease the detective on duty (Ema Skye, a woman not at all fond of the prosecutor), he headed for the park. When he arrived there, he found two kids snooping around the crime scene and immediately recognized the boy, Apollo, as the junior attorney who convicted his brother. He allowed them to enter the crime scene to investigate, but decided to leave afterward, his prior ideas of looking over the scene himself gone. If Apollo was investigating the crime, that most probably meant he was planning on taking the case. This was perfect.
He immediately returned to the prosecutor's office to assign himself to the Kitaki vs State case, consequently cancelling any Gavinner concerts and practices that were scheduled for the next few days. He never liked cancelling shows, but getting to face off against this attorney was far more important.
Luckily for Klavier, it seemed the defendant, Wocky Kitaki, was hoping to get convicted for the sake of street cred. During the trial the next day, Klavier utilized this fact to make the defendant look bad and to put immediate pressure on the defense. In fact throughout the entirety of the trial, Klavier not only acted flashier than he normally would have but he was sure to take every possible opportunity to put Apollo on the spot (more elaboration within the Personality section).
Six months ago, Wocky had come to Dr. Meraktis needing emergency surgery to remove a bullet which had stopped just short of the boy's heart. Due to its location, there was no way he could conceivably remove it without killing the boy himself, and so he simply sewed Wocky back up and claimed the bullet had been removed. The doctor's lie had been exposed the day of the murder. After Wocky himself had established this motive, Klavier revealed the bullet inside the defendant could kill him at any given moment. Dr. Meraktis was most likely the only person in the area with the necessary information to save him. By stating this, the defendant remained at a complete loss for words, both shutting the boy up and making him appear more guilty; just as planned.
With the eyes of the court looking unfavorably at the defendant's chair, Klavier moved on to present his witness, a college student who had been going through the park that night and had seen the defendant at the very moment of the crime. The defense was extremely quick in their attempts to make the witness seem like the guilty party, a fact Klavier immediately jumped upon by either pressing Apollo to openly accuse the boy or demanding to see evidence of the boy's guilt. It seemed Klavier already suspected the defense would try to accuse the witness of committing the crime and was well prepared to counter this "bluff and baseless accusation" strategy Apollo must have picked up from Wright.
The defense picked apart the witness's testimony and eventually found that he had lied regarding where he had witnessed the crime from and how he'd contacted police. Though this did change several key facts regarding the case and made it impossible to convict Wocky with absolute certainty, the trial was able to establish without a doubt that the defendant had been at the scene of the crime at the moment of the murder and had been armed with the intent of harming the victim. Not only was that all established, but Klavier had managed to use Apollo's own efforts against him to do so.
With the trial delayed another day, both the defense and prosecution were free to investigate further. Klavier had the police continue searching the crime scene for further evidence, but doubted there would be much left to find. While pursuing these follow-up investigations, Klavier came upon Wocky's fiancée, Alita Tiala. After speaking with her for a while, she reluctantly confessed that Wocky had indeed told her about his plans to kill the good doctor the day of the murder. A new witness and a new approach was just what he needed, so he prepared to use her as the key witness for the next day's trial.
He called Alita immediately after the trial began, expecting her testimony to bring the case to a quick enough close on its own. However, once again, Apollo immediately threw accusations onto the witness to make her seem like the guilty party (what a bad habit). However, in a shocking display of preparation, the defense actually had evidence connecting the witness to the victim.
With the presentation of solid evidence, Klavier patiently listened to the defense's argument rather than immediately objecting to every point before it could be elaborated on. When the witness hesitated at the sight of proof, the prosecutor immediately perked up. He tried to control the situation by catching contradictions before the defense and filling in whatever holes he could before Apollo could run off in whatever unpredictable direction he felt like taking it. However, he wasn’t one to let the witness get away with blatant, suspicious lying, something he made clear to both the witness and the court.
The more Alita testified, the more mysteries solved themselves regarding the events leading up to the murder, everything backed up with solid evidence of some sort. It’s when everyone stopped the cross-examination to review the entirety of what was known about the conditions of the murder that Klavier seemed to realize what had actually occurred. Rather than stating it himself (seeing as that isn’t the prosecution’s job), he put Apollo on the spot and tried to subtly push him in the correct direction until he’d figured it out on his own.
Looking over the murder scene it would only have been possible for the doctor to be shot where he had been if the shooter had been somewhere else entirely… in this case, inside the noodle stand the victim had been dragging. Following this line of thinking and looking over the evidence, it was eventually proven that the doctor had assaulted Ms. Tiala, presumably killing her. In an attempt to rid himself of the body, he placed her ‘corpse’ in the stolen stand and planned to throw her into the park's river. As he reached his destination, he encountered Wocky, and Alita woke up, shooting the doctor from inside before anything damaging could be revealed.
Ridiculous, crazy, but all backed up by solid evidence. Apollo had won this trial and Wocky was to go free. Klavier had been right regarding Apollo’s tendency to jump to conclusions, but in the end, he'd backed up every claim with proof, and his gut instincts (as baseless as that was to follow in a court of law) had been correct. To say Klavier respected him would be going a bit too far, but he was a bit more impressed than he assumed he would be.
After this trial, Klavier returned to his concert tour, but his leave of absence from the prosecutor's office was over. As evidenced by the contents of his office, he regularly worked on prosecuting multiple cases at once (to the point where he could handle 3 or 4 cases simultaneously), even amidst playing concerts and showing up to band practice. And so, I'm assuming after his trial with Apollo he continued working on other cases between concert performances.
And certainly Klavier couldn't afford to cancel his next concert. Next marked the first concert of the "Guilty As Charged" tour, a feature tour for their new CD. Most certainly the tour would be a landmark as it would feature the Borginian artist Lamiroir, known for her beautiful voice and the prodigy blind pianist who accompanied her.
A year ago, Klavier had traveled to Borginia to tour their legal system (most probably for research of some kind). It was while over there he stopped by a small jazz club and heard Lamiroir's singing firsthand. "Using his influence" to meet her, he managed to talk to her, her manager, and her pianist, Machi Tobaye, backstage.
It was right then and there they worked on a song together, Lamiroir writing the soft melody and Klavier writing the lyrics. He invited them to come to America so they could perform the song during his next concert tour, which they happily agreed to. As a gift, Lamiroir said Klavier could keep the acoustic guitar she had let him play (seeing as he seemed so fond of it). He swore to play it during their performance, and to ensure the instrument wasn't damaged during travel, he had it vacuum sealed and specially delivered separate from the rest of his belongings.
The Gavinners spent a great deal of time preparing for this upcoming concert, making sure it was thoroughly advertised to include Lamiroir's first performance in the US. For maximum effect, Klavier even hired a magician to set up a gorgeous illusion to compliment Lamiroir's elegant song; the ultimate performance.
The already sold-out concert was to take place two weeks after Wocky's trial. As an expression of courtesy and good will, Klavier had invited Trucy (Apollo's friend and Wright's adoptive daughter) to the concert by sending over two of these hard-to-obtain concert tickets... along with a slightly discounted invoice for Apollo. He was expecting to see the two the day of the concert, which would surely be fun on multiple levels.
On the actual day of the concert, however, things seemed to do nothing but fall apart from the get go. Despite the fact that he always left his keys in his jacket pocket, he found them missing the morning of the concert. This was actually inconceivable since he has always had a set location for absolutely everything and would never just 'misplace' something. After looking everywhere and still not finding them, Klavier started to get a very bad feeling. He immediately called the police, informing them that something of his had been stolen and ordering additional security for the concert. Ema Skye was to be placed in charge of security.
With no other way of getting there, he was reduced to taking a taxi to his own concert, an embarrassing turn of events as far as Klavier was concerned. Despite this unfortunate start, he eventually pushed his worries aside and turned his full focus to the concert at hand. He could worry about his stolen keys later.
Unlike 99.9% of all bands in existence, the Gavinners had no opening band and apparently planned to do the entire concert by themselves, splitting the performance into three sections. The Gavinners would play the energetic first third of the concert to psych the crowd up. Then, Lamiroir would take the stage with the collaboratively made ballad "Guitar Serenade." Finally, the Gavinners would play the remaining concert time and deliver a grand finale. (I'd also like to point out the division of the concert is similar to that of classical music, where a song is split into three movements: energetic flurry, soft undertone, grand reprise.)
The first portion of the concert went perfectly, putting Klavier in an excellent mood compared to earlier that morning. After coming backstage for the band's first break, the crews and band prepared for Lamiroir's section. Again, due to his lack of keys, Klavier was forced to bust the lock on his guitar case if he was to use the guitar Lamiroir had given him. While getting the rest of the preparations ready, Apollo and Trucy visited his dressing room to talk a bit before the next section (though Klavier seemed to speak to Trucy far more than Apollo).
As Lamiroir's performance was underway, all seemed to be going smoothly. However, right in the middle of the song Klavier's guitar suddenly burst into flame, catching the prosecutor by complete surprise. The song itself thankfully continued as though nothing had happened, the majority of the audience assuming the guitar had been set on fire as part of the act.
Backstage, however, it was obvious such a thing was never intentional. Klavier was beside himself with fury, thinking maybe someone on the tech crew was playing a trick on him. Not only was the guitar Lamiroir had given him ruined, but the song... no, the whole concert was ruined now! After a little cheering up from Trucy, he managed to get his act together in time for the final portion of the concert. Continuing the concert with stellar performances would make the whole affair feel less like a complete loss. Being that Apollo didn't care much for Gavin's music, Klavier left him backstage with a parting "old fogie" joke and took to the stage with the rest of his band.
Unfortunately, things were only to get worse from there. The song played after the break was played atrociously. The most important part of the song had been ruined as far as the prosecutor was concerned. After this song, however, Klavier was informed that Lamiroir's manager had been shot backstage, right in Lamiroir's dressing room.
With no other choice, the Gavinners were forced to cancel the remainder of the concert, taking down names and addresses before allowing the audience to leave. For the sake of the investigation, Klavier and the police placed an immediate gag order for all those backstage: no information regarding the death was to be kept quiet, even from Lamiroir herself who was placed in the Gavinner's dressing room and told not to leave since the body's discovery.
Being that Ema Skye was a homicide detective and was in a pretty bad mood, Klavier decided to leave all the investigating to her. It seemed she and Apollo were both right outside the room at the time of the murder; they already had a head start on the investigation. He could read the reports afterward. In the meantime, he needed to get back to the stage and take care of remaining business concerning the band.
What started as a conversation regarding the investigation soon turned into more whining on Klavier's part. As if something had broken, he completely went off on his bandmates regarding how horrible this day had been from start to finish, including that awful performance. Unfortunately, Apollo and Trucy walked in on this, witnessing a side of Klavier the prosecutor would really rather them not have seen. After some discussion and a quick investigation of the performance’s recording, it seemed Daryan had been the one to mess up during the song.
Being the master of bad timing, Apollo chose this moment to bring something else to the prosecutor's attention. Apparently when they found the body, Lamiroir's manager had been holding Klavier's missing keys in his hand, a fact that was as confusing as it was shocking. It's here Trucy noticed everything that had happened to Klavier --the stolen keys, the guitar bursting into flame, and the murder-- had all been predicted by the song "Guitar Serenade." Or rather it seemed someone was committing crimes by following the song. Strange and irrational as it sounded, there were too many coincidences for Klavier to dispel the theory.
After that oh-so-charming discussion, Apollo and Trucy wandered off, leaving Klavier to wrap things up on stage before investigating the murder. Daryan himself headed off to make some calls: being a detective within International Affairs, his help was greatly needed in the murder of a foreigner. By the time Klavier finally managed to go backstage to investigate the crime scene himself, the unforeseeable had happened. The body had disappeared.
Immediately, an order was sent out to watch all exits to prevent anyone from leaving with the body. Klavier and all other available hands were to split up and search the premises for the corpse. Before they ventured off, however, Daryan offhandedly mentioned his guitar had gone missing as well. A stolen body and a stolen guitar... On top of everything else, this couldn't get much worse, now could it?
Apparently it could. Not long after everyone began their search, a discovery was made atop the stage's high-rise platform. There, they found the corpse, Daryan's guitar... and the unconscious body of Machi Tobaye.
The next day, it was announced that despite the unusual circumstances of the body's recovery, Machi was arrested under suspicion of murder. It was a bit difficult for Klavier, seeing as he had been working with the boy only yesterday, but he wasn't in much position to resist. It seemed he was being assigned as the prosecution in this particular case. As for the defense, Machi himself requested that Apollo defend him.
Now that his mind was entirely focused on work (and he'd had a night to sleep it out), Klavier seemed to be in a much better mood, actually making a special trip to the former Wright & Co. Law Offices (now the Wright Anything Agency) to inform Apollo of Machi's request. The following day was the trial, leaving little time for much investigation outside what the prosecution and defense already knew from being on scene at the time. However, as far as cases went, this one seemed pretty cut and dry, hardly anything Klavier would expect a huge battle over.
As both the homicide detective in charge of the case and the first person at the scene, Detective Ema Skye was called as the prosecution's witness. According to her testimony, Machi was initially arrested for being the only person on site who could have committed the crime... or more get away from the crime scene.
Despite the fact that both Ema and Apollo had been right outside the room at the time of the shooting, no one was found in the room upon entering. The only way the killer could have conceivably escaped would have been through the air vent, which was far too small for anyone but a child, like Machi, to get through. Further investigation proved the vent had recently been open and the grate bore Machi's fingerprints, all but sealing the defendant's guilt. Being that there were no witnesses to the crime, this would have to suffice by itself.
Apollo, however, immediately counteracted this claim by proclaiming there was, in fact, a direct witness to the crime. According to the attorney, during the time he was alone with the victim, Lamiroir's manager was alive. Not only did he speak to Apollo, he supposedly informed him that there was a witness to his murder: Lamiroir. Of course, the court only had Apollo's word to take, and honestly, it seemed a tad too convenient, especially coming from the defense.
Klavier was willing to play along and allow Apollo to call his witness. Unbeknownst to the rest of the court, the prosecutor had actually gotten a medical report from the police department regarding Machi. Normally, such a report wouldn't be deemed very important, but in this case it revealed that the famed blind pianist could actually see perfectly fine. As soon as he saw the report, Klavier immediately realized why it was that Machi lied all these years regarding his eyesight: It wasn't so much for himself as it was to hide the fact that Lamiroir herself was blind.
Being the only one in court with this knowledge, he knew full well there was absolutely no way Apollo's dumb claim could be true. Lamiroir couldn't witness anything if she was incapable of seeing. But in a fashion imitating that of seven years ago, he simply stated to the court and to Apollo, "I stand by my claim. There were no witnesses to this crime."
As Lamiroir testified, more and more contradictions showed up in her statements. It was when Lamiroir claimed to hear the voice of an adult male through a closed soundproof window that Klavier had had enough. With the amount of lies she was presenting, it was obvious listening to her testimonies would do nothing but waste more time. Klavier requested the witness be excused so they could return to Detective Skye's testimony.
Upon Ema's return to the stand, the subject of the body's strange discovery upon the platform alongside Machi was raised, bringing about the revelation of the crime being performed according to "The Guitar Serenade" lyrics. More to the point, however, was the circumstantial evidence that despite the fact there couldn't have been more than five feet between the killer and the victim, two gunshots had been fired, the first missing entirely. Due to this, Detective Skye concluded there must have been some kind of unusual circumstance throwing off the killer's aim, like for example blindness.
To Klavier's complete amusement, Apollo all too eagerly jumped on the chance to prove that, judging from the circumstances of the crime, the killer had to have been capable of seeing. The victim had tried to write a message with his blood, but someone had smeared the message away, something only a seeing person would have been able to do. Klavier was thrilled to finally bring to light the report he'd obtained before the trial. Since the killer had to have been able to see, as so neatly proven by the defense, Machi was more than capable of committing the crime. As for the missing gunshot, Klavier again used earlier testimony from the defense to drive home the point, wrapping everything up rather neatly.
Detective Skye, irritated that Klavier had used her and allowed her to testify as she had, was determined to rectify her humiliation by contributing further proof. A luminal test on the victim's smeared blood revealed an Interpol ID number had been written. Luckily, Daryan happened to be watching the proceedings and quickly ran off to look up the agent the number belonged to.
In the meantime, the question of why Machi lied about his eyesight arose, leading the prosecution to claim the reason must be because Lamiroir is the one who is actually blind. Lamiroir was once again brought to the stand where she confirmed this as a fact. As she continued her testimony, she stood by her proclamation that she definitely heard the gunshots and the voice of an adult man. However, no matter how sharp her hearing was, it was impossible for anyone to have heard anything through that window.
Daryan quickly returned to the court with the results of the Interpol ID: the man posing as Lamiroir's manager was in fact the agent operating under that number. Furthermore, the gun he had been shot with was actually his own revolver. How this tied into the case was uncertain, but before any questions could be asked, Lamiroir suddenly cried out, identifying Daryan as the voice she had heard at the time of the murder. The entire courtroom went into a massive uproar at the accusation with both Apollo and Klavier absolutely beside themselves in shock. The reaction was so bad, the trial had to be suspended until the following day.
A detective being fingered in a murder trial was bad enough. This, however, was Klavier's friend and bandmate. It was almost as painful as hearing about his brother's murder (admittedly, not on the same level, but close). Daryan himself was furious by the accusation, rightfully so. Klavier assured him that as the prosecution and as a friend he'd be sure to dispel these accusations in the trial, and the detective wouldn't have to be called to the witness stand.
He knew for a fact that Daryan had a solid alibi for the murder. After all, the man had been on stage with Klavier playing their third set when the murder occurred. It was impossible for it to have been him. Even still, as an accused officer, Klavier had to tell him to stay away from the investigation. Daryan didn't take the news very well, but it was honestly for his own good.
With Daryan out, Klavier would have to follow through on getting the needed Interpol reports on his own. There were still a lot of unanswered questions regarding the victim himself, biggest of which was why an Interpol agent was posing as Lamiroir's manager and what he had been working on. As big a pain as it was, Klavier expected to spend the remainder of his day pursuing these answers and following up on reports.
When he arrived at his office, however, the precinct had left him an object found among the victim's belongings: a replica of what Lamiroir's manager had been investigating. It was a small, white blob of plastic with absolutely no indication of what it was. Klavier called in a request for more information regarding the replica, but there seemed to be a block somewhere in the process. Hoping Lamiroir would know more about it, he requested Ema go find Lamiroir and bring her to the office as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, there were the investigation results of his charred guitar to look over. It seemed a small device had been found inside the guitar, but since the device couldn't be immediately identified. Luckily enough, Apollo and Trucy stopped by the Prosecutor's Office to visit, during which it was revealed that Ema had found the exact same device in Lamiroir's room. Apparently, it was an igniter, but what one was doing at the scene of the crime was a mystery, one that wouldn't come together until the next morning.
Once again, a little before the trial began, Klavier received a police report. Apparently the igniter Ema had found was discovered under the sofa at the crime scene... along with fragments of what were firecrackers. It was then Klavier began to suspect Daryan himself, though he didn't want to believe his old friend could be guilty. Still, the firecrackers raised enough doubt for him to register Daryan as a potential witness. Just in case.
Klavier started the trial off by immediately presenting Daryan's alibi: that he had been on stage during the third set and was thus unable to commit the crime. After amusingly floundering for a new approach to the case, the defense revealed Lamiroir had been sent to the hospital with injuries the previous afternoon. She had been attacked by an unknown assailant, most probably the killer in an attempt to keep her quiet. Following this line of thinking, the defense held that there must have been something vital hidden within her testimony that required further examination. Klavier had little to offer in terms of argument and so simply went along with it.
While examining Lamiroir's testimony, it was discovered that Lamiroir heard not only the voice but the killer ordering someone to press a switch. From here, Apollo revealed a switch had been located on stage, one that triggered a remote igniter... like the one found in Klavier's guitar. Consequently, this would mean the shooting had in fact taken place during the second set rather than the third set, thus making Daryan's alibi null and void. Questioning how she was able to hear this only further solidified the theory, though it seemed impossible to prove seeing as it was based entirely on the word of a person who could have been lying to protect the defendant.
Ultimately, Klavier's doubts had been realized and Daryan would have to take his place on the witness stand to defend himself. As Daryan tried to write off the possibility of the murder taking place at a different time, the firecrackers were brought up by the defense. Examining Daryan's vague reactions seemed to settle it for Klavier: Daryan was lying. It's at this point Klavier began helping the defense in a way (both nudging Apollo in the right direction and being generally less aggressive in his opposition).
The replica in Gavin’s office came into play while searching for Daryan's motive. It seemed the replica was actually that of a Borginian cocoon, the key ingredient to making a potent cure or a deadly poison depending on the buyer's intent. Because of this, it was highly illegal for these cocoons to leave Borginia and incredibly risky to sell on the black market. However, being that the Chief Justice's son was ill with the disease the cocoon cured, the man would make the perfect buyer for such hot merchandise, especially for someone with connections... like say, a detective.
On its own, the theory was plausible, but nothing could truly be proven. However, if one were to consider how the cocoons were smuggled out of the country at all, a significant link could be found. Klavier's specially packaged guitar bypassed the extreme Borginian airline customs, making it perfect as a smuggling mule. This would explain why the guitar had been set up with an incinerator: to destroy the evidence should things go wrong. Of course, such a thing could never be possible without an accomplice, in this particular case, Machi Tobaye.
Though the defense's case sounded good in theory and Apollo managed to present a legitimate counterargument for every point Daryan brought up, there was no actual evidence proving his guilt. It wasn't until Apollo was about to call Machi up to testify against him that Daryan finally broke down and confessed, admitting to everything. Had Machi been unwilling to testify against him, the guitarist would have gotten away with the murder and the smuggling attempt... all due to lack of actual evidence. The case brought up what the judge referred to as a "delicate issue with [their] current legal system." Honestly, to a point, Klavier had to agree.
With Daryan now in jail, the Gavinners had to put a halt to the "Guilty As Charged" tour and put all recordings and practices to a stop. The band had been a part of Klavier's life for over seven years, and now its future was uncertain. He really wasn't sure what to do with the group anymore; it wouldn't be the same without Daryan. His friend's arrest upset him to the point where he didn't want to think about the band much. Until a decision could be made, the Gavinners would have to remain on temporary hiatus.
Point Taken from History
Klavier will be taken a month after the third case. At this point, he will have heard about the plans to test out the new judicial system, but no concrete plans will have been set just yet. The crime of the fourth case will not have occurred by this point either.