Mia Fey

Mia Fey was a defense attorney in Grossberg Law Offices who eventually created her own criminal defense law firm, Fey &amp; Co. Law Offices. She was Phoenix Wright's boss and mentor; she left her firm to him after her death at the hands of Redd White.

Mia Fey has a younger sister, Maya, who served as Wright's assistant during his law career.

Early life
Mia was born into a prominent family of spiritualists and was destined to become the next Master of Kurain Village. She was once caught trying to piece together the Sacred Urn of Ami Fey with her sister Maya, though it is unclear how it was broken. A picture was taken of the event and placed in the Kurain Talisman, which their mother Misty Fey held at the time.

However, after Mia's mother disappeared during the DL-6 Incident, Mia left the village to become a lawyer and find out what had happened during that incident. She also did not want to fight her sister Maya for the position of Master of Kurain.

In law school, Mia befriended Lana Skye, who would become a detective and then a prosecutor.

Law career
Mia Fey became a defense attorney working under Marvin Grossberg. She eventually learned about Redd White and his leakage of the information of her mother's involvement in the DL-6 Incident to the press.

First case

 * Main article: Turnabout Beginnings

For her first case, Fey took a case in which the suspect was an escaped convict by the name of Terry Fawles, who was charged with the murder of Police Sergeant Valerie Hawthorne. Fey's co-council for the trial was Grossberg's best lawyer at the time, Diego Armando. The prosecutor for the trial, Miles Edgeworth, happened to be new to the court system as well. During the course of the trial, Fey managed to prove that the "eyewitness" Melissa Foster was actually Dahlia Hawthorne and tried to prove that she was the real killer, but Fawles took the stand and committed suicide by drinking a vial of poison. The case left serious scars within Fey's heart, and she did not take another case for one year.

Meanwhile, she and Armando became a couple, and Armando began investigating Dahlia Hawthorne, which would lead to his poisoning at her hands.

Second case

 * Main article: Turnabout Memories

Fey eventually returned to the courtroom, taking the case of a university student named Phoenix Wright, who was charged with the murder of another student, Doug Swallow. She had taken the case because she had suspected the existence of a connection between this case and Armando's poisoning. During the trial, Fey was able to get Wright an acquittal by proving that Dahlia Hawthorne had killed Swallow to cover up the fact that she had poisoned Armando. Her defense also traumatized the prosecutor, Winston Payne, and he has never been the same since that case.

Later years
Over the next three years, Fey established her own law firm and hired her former client Phoenix Wright. She also gathered information on Redd White and the DL-6 Incident, uncovering an entire career of blackmail and names of people White had blackmailed over the years.

Fey was Phoenix Wright's co-council in his first case, in which he represented Larry Butz in the murder of Cindy Stone.

Death

 * Main article: Turnabout Sisters

One month after Wright's first trial, Redd White had learned that Mia was keeping close tabs on him and was afraid that she would get him in deep legal trouble. Thus, to prevent her from investigating any further, he visited the Fey & Co. Law Offices and smashed Mia's skull in with a miniature statue of "The Thinker", in which Mia had been hiding legal documentation against White. As Mia lay dying, White took some of her blood and wrote "Maya" on a receipt for a lamp, which Mia had bought the day before. April May, an accomplice to White, "witnessed" the crime from her room at the Gatewater Hotel and called the police.

Maya discovered Mia's body first, followed by Wright. Detective Dick Gumshoe discovered them both at the scene and arrested Maya for the murder. Wright took Maya's case and took on April May and prosecutor Miles Edgeworth in court, exposing May as an accomplice. Wright investigated further and eventually confronted White, accusing him of the crime as well as a long history of blackmail. In response, using his connections gained through his blackmailing, White called on the police to arrest Wright as Mia's killer.

White stood in court as a witness to the murder, and he and Edgeworth backed Wright into a corner. Wright eventually lost all hope, but then he suddenly saw Mia next to him, telling him not to give up. Believing he was hallucinating, he immediately fainted, calling for a recess. In the defendant's lobby, Wright saw Mia and panicked, still thinking he was hallucinating. On closer inspection, however, it was Maya channeling her sister's spirit to help Wright expose White as the killer. Mia instructed Wright to look at the other side of the lamp receipt, which White had claimed to have seen before Mia's murder. In doing so, Wright revealed that White could only have seen it during the time of Mia's murder. At this time, he admitted that April May had been his accomplice, tapping Mia's phone.

Edgeworth persisted, however, asking the judge to postpone the trial for further investigation. At this, Mia handed to Wright a list of names to be read to White: the list of people White had blackmailed. Mia threatened to release this list to the press, and White confessed to the crime.

Posthumous mentor

 * Main articles: Turnabout Samurai, Turnabout Goodbyes, Reunion, and Turnabout, Farewell, My Turnabout, The Stolen Turnabout, Recipe for Turnabout and Bridge to the Turnabout

Despite being deceased, Mia Fey was able to act as Wright's mentor and co-council in his later cases thanks to the channeling abilities of her sister Maya and, later, her cousin Pearl.



Personality
Mia Fey bears many similarities to her fellow law school alumnus Lana Skye. Both have younger sisters who have helped Phoenix Wright in his cases. Both also wear scarfs tied round the neck in a similar fashion.

Mia Fey had a problem with names, calling Wright "Wry" ("Naruhodo" becomes "Naruhodou" in the Japanese game) and Larry "Harry" (in the Japanese, Yahari becomes Yappari). She also kept an office plant named Charley, which Wright is still taking care of. According to Dick Gumshoe, it is a Cordyline stricta.

Name

 * Her Japanese name, Chihiro, can mean "great depth", or "a thousand fathoms". In her surname, "Sato" may come from the word "village" or "home country", whilst the "Aya" part has no meaning.


 * The name Mia is a pet form of Maria, which is itself the Latin equivalent of Mary. Mary is from Hebrew, meaning 'the wished-for child'.


 * Fey can mean magical, fairy-like, strange, otherworldly or spellbound. An archaic meaning is doomed to die.