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Delicia Scone is a pharmacist who was one of the competitors in the confectionery contest hosted by famous television chef Samson Tangaroa in 2000. Although Scone claimed to be a chef from England, she was actually an employee of the Tangaroa Group sent to retrieve the "Ultimate Cookbook," a book of experimental pharmaceutical drug recipes in Tangaroa's possession. Her exact age is unknown, but she is apparently far older than she appears, even treating Tyrell Badd as younger in comparison.
Undercover "chef"
When Tangaroa inherited the Ultimate Cookbook from his father, he decided to host a confectionery contest with the book as the prize. The Tangaroa Group disapproved of this and sent Scone as an entrant in the contest. With the help of Judy Bound, she managed to make it to the finals, albeit by cheating; her elaborate sweets were only cream decorations on top of models. Because she was not actually a dessert chef, Scone left the room containing her finals entry, a cream castle, at room temperature, causing the cream to begin to melt. Tangaroa discovered that Scone was using inedible props against the rules, and confiscated two rock salt lamps and put them in his room.
Later, Scone went outside with Tangaroa and Bound for tea, while the other contestants, Carmelo Gusto and Artie Frost, stayed to finish their entries. At some point before the judging, however, Scone sneaked into each contestant's room and, seeing that no one was in any of them, her sweet tooth caused her to steal a few bites from each of them. Frost's entry was a collection of frozen sherbet sculptures modeled after the signs of the zodiac. Scone tried the strings from the lyre on the Gemini sculpture, only to find that they tasted salty, so she settled for a star-shaped dessert in the room. She also discovered the letters "PH" engraved in the sculptures. At some point upon returning to her own room, Scone also discovered that one of the five fluorescent cloths that she had used as props had disappeared.
Bound later heard a crash in Tangaroa's room, and found Frost dead inside a chocolate treasure chest, which was part of the chocolate sailing ship display that was Tangaroa's entry. The rock salt lamps were found inside Scone's cream castle, and one of them was stained with the victim's blood. Tangaroa was arrested for murder, and Gregory Edgeworth took on his defense. Edgeworth was able to investigate both Tangaroa's and Scone's respective rooms, and was able to figure out that the body had been covered with the missing cloth. It also turned out that Scone's snacking had weakened a support on the ship, causing it to crash onto the treasure chest, exposing the body.
Prosecutor Manfred von Karma claimed that the body had been taken into police custody, but Edgeworth discovered that it had in reality gone missing. However, he could not prove this in court, and so lost the trial, which lasted a year. Tangaroa was convicted of being an accomplice to the crime, with the case being designated as the IS-7 Incident by the police.
Gallery pharmacist
Eighteen years later, Bound bought Tangaroa's mansion and planned to reform it into an art gallery. Scone visited her a week before the grand opening, and gave her four new salt lamps, as well as the luminous cloths that she had used 18 years ago. Bound hired Scone to operate an infirmary in the mansion. Scone later found that a bottle of Infesticide Ultra that she had on her was gone, and submitted a theft report to the police.
The grand opening attracted all those still alive who had been involved in the IS-7 Incident, as well as Gregory's son, Miles Edgeworth. Gusto ended up triggering a poison gas trap and was sent to the infirmary, where he was expected to make a full recovery. During the ensuing investigation, Scone was at the fountain when the missing luminous cloth from 18 years prior surfaced. She was briefly accused of setting up the trap because the stolen bottle of Infesticide Ultra had been planted in Gusto's pocket, but she showed her theft report in order to prove that someone else had taken it. The body of Artie Frost later surfaced in the fountain, confirming what Gregory had deduced 18 years ago.
It turned out that Frost's body had been frozen inside the Gemini sculpture and disguised using the missing luminous cloth. Bound had stolen the sculptures and taken them to the mansion's freezer, not knowing until checking up on them 18 years later that the body was there. Bound had dumped the Gemini sculpture into the fountain, and the body had sunk to the bottom until it thawed. Moreover, the poison gas had been set up by Bound in order to get revenge on the real culprit behind the IS-7 Incident. Since Gusto had tried to check on a body that only the killer would have known about, this proved his guilt.
Frost had attacked Gusto first, causing his head to hit one of the rock salt lamps, which in turn had led to Gusto killing Frost with the other lamp. Gusto had rubbed the lamp with his blood on the lyre strings of the Gemini sculpture, explaining its saltiness. Gusto had originally intended to frame Scone because she had cheated, but the body had been discovered in Tangaroa's room before Gusto could move it elsewhere, eventually causing Tangaroa to be blamed. Despite the apparent expiry of the statute of limitations on the IS-7 Incident, extensions due to Tangaroa's conviction as an accomplice and Gusto's three-year stay in Zheng Fa after the murder allowed Gusto to be finally arrested for Frost's murder.
Personality
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Scone has something of a child-like demeanor to match her youthful appearance; she is normally cheerful and outgoing, but can get huffy if things aren't going her way. Her actual age is something of a running joke, as she often drops hints that she is far older than she appears, but then refuses to reveal exactly what that age is. Even the date of birth on her Restricted Toxin Handler's License is illegible in the sprite. Scone is also overly familiar with other people, even those she's only just met. She likes to give nicknames to everyone she meets, normally to the other person's chagrin.
Name
- Japanese - Derishī Sukōn (デリシー・スコーン):
- Her full Japanese name, "Derishī Sukōn", is a play on "delicious scone"; scones are a small British quick bread of Scottish origin.
- English - Delicia Scone:
- Scone's name is nearly unchanged from her Japanese name, with her first name being altered only slightly to "Delicia."
- French - Adelle Lissious:
- Her French name is a play on the English word "delicious".
- Chinese - Měiwēi Shǐkāng (美威．史康):
- Her Chinese name is a play on "美味" (Měiwèi) meaning "delicious".
Unofficial
- English - Delicia Scones:
- Scone's name in the unofficial English fan translation of Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit is changed only slightly to "Delicia Scones."
Development
- The animal design on Delicia Scone's apron, "Bow Wow Thylacinus", is the same as that on Frank Sahwit's own apron, which he wears over his inmate uniform in The Captive Turnabout.
- Her appearance is exactly the same between the two cases of Turnabout Legacy, with no visible changes between the 18 years of difference.