Adrian Andrews

Adrian Andrews is a woman who generally obtains jobs related to business management. She was the manager of actor Matt Engarde until she testified against him in his trial for the murder of Engarde's rival Juan Corrida. Later, she became the director in charge of the Kurain Village exhibit at Lordly Tailor.

Celeste, Matt, Juan and Suicide
Prior to and during Juan Corrida's murder case, Andrews was calm and collected, but she was also emotionally unstable and had a tendency to be strongly attached to people emotionally.

Andrews entered the entertainment business and met Celeste Inpax, with whom she shared a strong mentor-protegé bond. Due to her codependency problems, Andrews became emotionally dependent on Inpax. One day, Inpax was to get married, but her fiancé, Juan Corrida, called it off after his rival Matt Engarde told him about his own relationship with Inpax. Inpax subsequently committed suicide; Andrews was grief-stricken and attempted to kill herself as well. Failing to do so, she attended counseling sessions for some time.

Andrews later became Engarde's manager to await her opportunity for revenge. She developed a cold, strong-willed demeanor, trying to imitate Inpax to cope with her death. One day, Corrida approached her with plans to ruin Engarde, and she agreed to help him. The plan involved showing a forged suicide note to the press, exposing Engarde as a manipulative person who drove Inpax to suicide. However, Andrews secretly planned to burn the note to preserve Inpax's dignity.

Farewell, My Turnabout
The plan failed; Engarde hired an assassin to kill Corrida. Andrews discovered the body and tampered with the crime scene to implicate Engarde as the killer. She then met with the prosecution, intending to testify against Engarde in court. The intended prosecutor for the case, Franziska von Karma, instructed her not to admit to what she had done. However, Engarde's defense attorney, Phoenix Wright, found all of the holes in her testimony and moved to implicate her as the killer. The acting prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth, then told Andrews that she would have to admit to falsifying evidence; due to the emotional dependence she had developed with von Karma, Edgeworth had to torture her by revealing her emotional problems to the courtroom to get her to talk. Wright would later interrogate her and find out about her past with Inpax.

The next day, Wright and Edgeworth worked together to take Engarde down with a guilty verdict. These efforts inspired Andrews to leave her dependent nature behind and become her own person.

The Stolen Turnabout - A new life
Seven months later, Adrian had finally put all of the previous seven months behind her and decided to make a fresh start by quitting being a manager. Adrian became the director in charge of the Kurain Village exhibition at Lordly Tailor and as a thank you for their help she invited Phoenix Wright and Pearl Fey along to the grand opening of the Kurain Village exhibit, this is where she and Maya Fey first met as Maya had previously been kidnapped dring the trial of Matt Engarde. She befriended Franziska von Karma, who taught her to use a whip.

After effectively letting go of her past with Celeste Inpax and her co-depency, Juan Corrida and Matt Engarde rivalry and her attempted suicide Adrian became a lot more cheerful, albeit somewhat self-conscious, and aims to please. She is a lot more relaxed than her previous encounter

Witness reaction
When Andrews's testimony is shown to have a flaw, her glasses break and she puts on a new pair. She does this seven times over the course of her time in court testifying against Engarde.

On "co-dependency"
The use of "co-dependency" to describe Andrews' emotional issues is a misinterpretation of the word. To be "co-dependent" is to be an "enabler" or one who relies on being "needed" and loses sense of oneself should the "dependent" start to become self-reliant. Andrews is simply dependent on other people emotionally and is not an enabler.

Relationship with Celeste Inpax
While similar student/teacher relationships have been explored in the Phoenix Wright games, this one is notable for the student attempting suicide after the suicide of her mentor. This emphasizes Andrews' tendency to be emotionally attached to other people, even to the point of trying to mimic them.

Name

 * The name "Adrian" is usually a male given name. "Adrienne" is the typical female variation.


 * "Andrews" is derived from the male given name "Andrew". The name "Andrew" itself comes from a Greek word meaning "manly" or "courageous".