Redd White

"Redd White"

- You wish to know the title of my personage?

Redd White was the chief executive officer of Bluecorp. He used the company to gather scandalous information of various big-name individuals including celebrities, people in finance, and even high-ranking officials in the prosecutor's office. He then blackmailed the individuals into doing his bidding. Many of the blackmailed committed suicide.

Involvement in the DL-6 Incident

 * Main article: DL-6 Incident

In 2001, Redd White learned about a spirit medium being used by the police for investigating the Gregory Edgeworth murder case, otherwise known as the DL-6 Incident. He learned this from Marvin Grossberg and leaked the information to the press, prompting the medium to leave Kurain Village and the police. White came back to Grossberg and began to blackmail him.

Murder

 * Main article: Turnabout Sisters

Fifteen years later, White and his secretary April May began to keep tabs on Mia Fey, Misty's older daughter and a talented defense attorney. She had spent most of her life gathering evidence to take him down, and she had just had a phone conversation with her younger sister Maya Fey, telling her to hold on to evidence that was stored in a clock shaped like The Thinker. A little before 9:00 on the night of September 5th, White came into Mia's office to take the evidence and destroy it. To make sure Mia stayed quiet about his business practices, he grabbed the clock from Mia's desk and smashed it into her skull, killing her almost immediately. He wrote the name "Maya" with Mia's blood to pin the blame on Maya, who arrived shortly after White escaped. To guarantee the success of his plan further, he had May call the police and testify that she saw Maya kill Mia.

The defense attorney of the subsequent trial was Mia's protege, Phoenix Wright. During his investigation, Wright found that White had checked into Gatewater Hotel with May. Wright confronted White in his office. Through some investigation of the room and his conversation with White, Wright realized that White was blackmailing Grossberg and that he was the killer. White called the public prosecutor's office and told them to send the police to arrest Wright. White would testify not against Maya but against Wright.

However, neither White nor prosecutor Miles Edgeworth could overcome the persistence of Wright, who demonstrated that White was the killer. Edgeworth requested one more day to investigate, but Mia, who Maya was channeling, gave Wright a list of the people White had blackmailed, which forced White to admit his crime.

Personality
White had an arrogant, flamboyant, self-centered and abrasive personality. He tended to view others as beneath him and was quite egocentric, naming his company after his favorite color and modeling various statues in his office in his own image. White's suit was studded with diamonds and he wore a ring on each finger in order to show off the wealth he had "earned". He also seems to have thought himself above the law, as his blackmailing allowed control over the police, lawyers and judges. White appeared a quite violent man (even if his murder of Mia is not taken into account), as he punched Wright at one point to prove a point about his control over the law.

White seemed to think himself highly educated with a wide vocabulary, but in fact he made up a great deal of the words he used (such as "splendiferous"), though whether he knew they are fabricated or not is unknown. His speech also contained a scattering of misused Spanish phrases.

Name

 * White's name, combined with the name of his company, reference the colors of the U.S. flag. Though technically other flags employ red, white and blue as its colors, the probable intent of the American localized name is to reference the American flag.


 * The three kanjis of his Japanese name mean "small" (小), "medium" (中) and "large" (大).


 * He states at one point that he is known as "Blanco Nino" to his friends. "Blanco" means white or blank while "Nino" means 'child' in Spanish, although the correct way to say it in Spanish would be "Niño Blanco" due to the Spanish grammar structure. This may be seen as a deliberate mistake, when White's mistreatment of his own language is taken into account.


 * He wears a pink suit, pink being a mixture of red and white.

In the Japanese version
In the Japanese version of Turnabout Sisters, Redd White peppers his speech with misused English phrases instead of Spanish ones.

Development

 * Originally, Turnabout Sisters was going to be the first case in the game. Shu Takumi wanted the first villain in Gyakuten Saiban to be tough, so the character designers gave White broad, intimidating shoulders and a position of power in the law world.