Damon Gant

The eccentric District Chief of Police in Rise from the Ashes, the final Case in the DS version of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Damon Gant first appears in the first day of the trial for Chief Prosecutor Lana Skye to hand the court Lana's muffler which holds Joe Darke's switchblade knife from the SL-9 Incident, the case that had Gant become chief of police and Lana Chief Prosecutor.

Background
Two years prior to Case 5, Damon Gant was Chief Detective working with Lana Skye, who was also a detective. He and Lana had investigated serial killer Joe Darke and under them were Bruce Goodman, Jake Marshall, and Angel Starr. They didn't find a single piece of evidence that incriminated Darke.

On the day of the final SL-9 murder, Gant, along with Neil Marshall who was named "King of Prosecutors," had questioned Darke about his crimes. During questioning, Darke fled the room and into Gant and Skye's office where he found Ema Skye. Detective Gant arrived after all three occupants were unconscious. Believing he could use the situation to his advantage, he cut a piece of cloth from Marshall's vest with Ema's handprint on it, picked up the unconscious prosecutor, and impaled him on the sword of a suit of armor by Gant's own desk. He proceeding to write the name "Ema" with the victim's blood on a nearby jar and broke it on purpose to leave behind a clue. Lana arrived and found Ema and Darke unconscious, and she also saw Neil Marshall stabbed by the suit of armor. Gant told Lana to arrange all the evidence to make it look like Joe Darke was responsible for the prosecutor's death and kept two items in his KB Security safe: a piece of the jar with part of Ema's name on it and the piece of cloth with Ema's fingerprints. Then they presented the phony evidence to Miles Edgeworth, who became the prosecutor for the SL-9 case after Prosecutor Marshall was killed. Darke was sentenced to death for his crimes, and Gant became Chief of Police and arranged for Lana to be Chief Prosecutor so that he can control her and the DA's Office.

To make sure that the investigation team stayed quiet about the evidence, Chief Gant had fired Angel Starr, demoted Neil's brother Jake to patrolman level, and let Bruce Goodman keep his position because it would be too suspicious for all three of them to be relieved from detective.

For the next two years, Damon Gant had been blackmailing Lana Skye to keep control of the city's law enforcement.

Trivia

 * Damon comes from "Daemon" which associates with evil and "Demon", Gant comes from gloves, like the black ones that he wears throughout the case. His japanese name may come from an old Chinese (In terms of kanji) saying along the lines of: "You can pick on the mountains, but don't pick on the sea [because the sea is merciless]". His french name is the equivalent of Damon.


 * He likes swimming and suggest it often.


 * He has a big organ in his office, according to Gumshoe, when he plays the organ the sound is very loud.


 * Gant is character designer Kazuya Nuri's favorite character. He was modeled after Zeus.

Takumi said that when the script was first written they modeled Gant's character after their image of a television producer.