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{{Character
 
|name = ([[File:JudgeBadge.png|70px]]) <br> Juniper Woods
 
|name = ([[File:JudgeBadge.png|70px]]) <br> Juniper Woods
 
|image = Juniper Woods Portrait.png
 
|image = Juniper Woods Portrait.png
 
|occupation = [[Themis Legal Academy]] judge course student <br> Themis Legal Academy student council president
|size = 250px
 
|alias = Junie{{tt|*|by Athena Cykes}} <br> She-Devil{{tt|*|by Myriam Scuttlebutt}}
 
|occupation = [[Themis Legal Academy]] judge student and student council president
 
|japanese = 森澄 しのぶ (''Shinobu Morizumi'') <br> 森澄さん (''Morizumi-san''){{tt|*|by Housuke Odoroki (Apollo Justice)}} <br> しのぶ (''Shinobu''){{tt|*|by Kokone Kizuki (Athena Cykes)}}
 
|aai = y
 
 
|birthday = 2009
 
|birthday = 2009
 
|age = 18
 
|age = 18
 
|ageref = Turnabout Academy
 
|ageref = Turnabout Academy
|status = Alive
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|status = Alive ([[Turnabout for Tomorrow|Dec. 20, 2027]])
 
|eyes = Brown
 
|eyes = Brown
 
|hair = Brown
 
|hair = Brown
 
|height = 5'1"; 155
 
|height = 5'1"; 155
 
|family = '''An unnamed grandmother'''
 
|family = '''An unnamed grandmother'''
|friends = '''[[Athena Cykes]]''' (childhood friend and defense attorney) <br> '''[[Robin Newman]]''' (school friend) <br> '''[[Hugh O’Conner]]''' (school friend) <br> '''[[Apollo Justice]]''' (crush)
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|friends = '''[[Athena Cykes]]''' (childhood friend & defense attorney) <br> '''[[Robin Newman]]''' (school friend) <br> '''[[Hugh O’Conner]]''' (school friend) <br> '''[[Apollo Justice]]''' (defense attorney & crush)
|affiliates = '''[[Themis Legal Academy]]''' (school) <br> '''[[Constance Courte]]''' (teacher and mentor; deceased) <br> '''[[Aristotle Means]]''' (former academy teacher; arrested) <br> '''[[Myriam Scuttlebutt]]''' (fellow student) <br> '''[[Phoenix Wright]]''' (defense attorney)
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|affiliates = '''[[Themis Legal Academy]]''' (school) <br> '''[[Constance Courte]]''' (teacher & mentor; deceased) <br> '''[[Aristotle Means]]''' (former teacher; arrested) <br> '''[[Myriam Scuttlebutt]]''' (fellow student) <br> '''[[Phoenix Wright]]''' (defense attorney)
 
|alias = Junie{{tt|*|by Athena Cykes}} <br> She-Devil{{tt|*|by Myriam Scuttlebutt}}
 
|japanese = 森澄 しのぶ (''Shinobu Morizumi'') <br> 森澄さん (''Morizumi-san''){{tt|*|by Housuke Odoroki (Apollo Justice)}} <br> しのぶ (''Shinobu''){{tt|*|by Kokone Kizuki (Athena Cykes)}}
 
|vajapanese = [[Eri Ōzeki]]
 
|vajapanese = [[Eri Ōzeki]]
 
|debut = ''[[Turnabout Countdown]]''
 
|debut = ''[[Turnabout Countdown]]''
 
}}
 
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{{Quote|Juniper Woods|[[Apollo Justice|Apollo]] is... just like the sun -- strong and bright and warm. Just talking about him makes me feel like a leaf undergoing photosynthesis.|''[[Turnabout Countdown]]''}}
'''Juniper Woods''' is a childhood friend of [[Athena Cykes]]. She is also a third-year student and the student council president at the [[Themis Legal Academy]], where she is studying to be a judge. A somewhat meek and quiet girl, Woods has a habit of going into coughing fits when stressed.
 
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'''Juniper Woods''' is a childhood friend of [[Athena Cykes]]. A third-year student and the student council president at the [[Themis Legal Academy]], she is studying to be a judge. A somewhat meek and quiet girl, Woods has a habit of going into coughing fits when stressed.
   
 
==Early life==
 
==Early life==
Woods, like Cykes, didn't attend school regularly due to health issues; Woods herself suffered from frequent coughing fits, while Cykes found it hard to be around groups of people due to her ability to pick up subtle emotions from peoples' voices. Although both girls were quiet, they got along with one another and soon became good friends. However, after Cykes' [[Metis Cykes|mother]] was [[UR-1 Incident|murdered]], she was sent to live in Europe, and so Woods lost touch with her friend.
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Woods, like Cykes, didn't attend school regularly when she was younger due to health issues; Woods herself suffered from frequent coughing fits, while Cykes found it hard to be around groups of people due to her ability to pick up subtle emotions from peoples' voices. Although both girls were quiet, they got along with one another and soon became good friends. However, after Cykes's [[Metis Cykes|mother]] was [[UR-1 Incident|murdered]], she was sent to live in Europe. After a while, the two started exchanging letters, but they wouldn't meet face-to-face again for seven years.
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Woods was apparently very popular with the opposite sex during her time at school, although she was oblivious to their attention. Cykes has claimed that boys would often hand her love letters before asking her to give them to Woods, much to the disappointment of Cykes.<ref name=":0">'''Athena:''' Heh heh. Sorry, but I couldn’t help reading it. You always were popular with the guys. <br> '''Juniper:''' Th-that's not true! I... I was never...! <br> '''Athena:''' You just didn't realize it, but it made you even more irresistible. It's been seven years, but I still remember how all the boys wanted to be near you. <br> '''Apollo:''' I bet you used to get all excited when a guy handed you a love letter... and then get really bummed out when he'd say, “Could you give this to Juniper for me?” <br> '''Athena:''' Agh! (How'd he know?) <br> ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies]]''. [[Capcom]]. Episode: ''[[Turnabout Academy]]'' (in English). 2013.</ref>
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==Proof of friendship==
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[[File:Themis Trio.png|thumb|left|With Newman and O’Conner.]]
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Woods went on to join the judge course at Themis Legal Academy. There, she befriended the prosecutor course student [[Robin Newman]] and the defense attorney course student [[Hugh O’Conner]], with Newman making handmade bands for them to wear as proof of their friendship. The three vowed to hold fair trials and put an end to the [[Dark age of the law|dark age]] that had been plaguing the legal system. However, said dark age's influence on the school soon began to affect their friendship, with O’Conner adhering to Professor [[Aristotle Means]]' ideals of winning trials by any means necessary, while Woods followed [[Constance Courte]]'s teachings that the truth was more important than results, and Newman respected the ideals of both teachers.
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Courte eventually asked Woods to report any students to her who had strayed from the path of justice. One day, Woods overheard a phone conversation between O’Conner and his parents and found out that they had been bribing the school for his good grades, after which she reported him to Courte. O’Conner figured out that Woods had reported him, further straining their friendship.
   
 
==Murder at the academy==
 
==Murder at the academy==
 
:''Main article: [[Turnabout Academy]]''
 
:''Main article: [[Turnabout Academy]]''
[[File:Juniper.PNG|thumb|left|Introducing herself.]]
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[[File:TurnaboutAcademyPicture1.png|thumb|left|With Professor Courte during the mock trial preparations.]]
Woods went on to join the judge course at Themis Legal Academy. As a senior in the course, she was required to write a script that would be used in a mock trial. Her script was chosen, but its contents were kept privy only to her and [[Constance Courte]], her professor, in order to keep the trial's "plot" a secret from the participants. Just before the mock trial was due to start, Woods met [[Phoenix Wright]], who had been recently reinstated as an attorney and had been invited to give a talk. Wright had brought along his two employees as well; [[Apollo Justice]] and Athena Cykes. Woods was shocked to so suddenly meet her childhood friend again, whom she hadn't seen in seven years. Adding to this was Cykes' complete change in personality. Gone was the quiet and shy girl she had known, replaced by a far more confident and outgoing young woman.
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For the school festival in her senior year, Woods was required to write a script that would be used in a mock trial. She was also chosen to sing "[[The Guitar's Serenade]]" alongside [[Klavier Gavin]] as part of the festivities. Woods' script was chosen, but its contents were kept privy only to her and Courte in order to keep the trial's "plot" a secret from the participants. On the night before the trial, Woods assisted Courte with preparations in the [[art room]] until 6 p.m., then returned to her dressing room to apply fluorescent paint to her stage costume. As she was leaving the school around 7 p.m., Woods saw O’Conner in the hallway and noticed his hands were dripping with blood.
   
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The next morning, Woods returned to her dressing room to pick up some props for the mock trial, including an awl which now had what looked like red paint on it. Just before the trial was due to start, Woods met [[Phoenix Wright]], who had been recently reinstated as an attorney and invited to give a lecture at the academy. Wright had brought along his two employees as well; [[Apollo Justice]] and Athena Cykes. Woods was shocked to so suddenly meet her childhood friend again, whom she hadn't seen in seven years. Adding to this was Cykes' complete change in personality. Gone was the quiet and shy girl she had known, replaced by a far more confident and outgoing young woman.
However, while the mock trial was going on, Professor Courte's body was found by a visiting Athena Cykes and [[Phoenix Wright]], and the mock trial was abruptly cut short. While they were waiting for the police to come, Cykes questioned Woods about the mock trial and about her friends, [[Robin Newman]] and [[Hugh O’Conner]], and she sensed some discord in their voices about their friendship. When the police arrived, Woods was then arrested on the grounds that the mock trial and Courte's murder were very similar, and she was the only person to have any details about the case.
 
   
While she was in the process of being taken away, Cykes stepped up and said she'd take Woods' case. When Cykes came to question Woods at the [[detention center]], Woods dropped her strong façade, showing her true, more meek, self to Cykes and Justice.
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However, while the mock trial was underway, the dead body of Courte was found on the [[outdoor stage]] by Cykes and Wright, and the mock trial was abruptly cut short before a verdict could be given. While they were waiting for the police to come, Cykes questioned Woods, Newman, and O’Conner about the mock trial, and she sensed some discord in their voices when they talked about their friendship. When the police arrived, Woods was arrested on the grounds that Courte's murder had been enacted in a very similar way to her script, as well as the fact that the awl she still had in her pocket turned out to have Courte's blood on it. While Woods was being taken away, Cykes stepped up and said she act as her defense attorney. When Cykes went to question Woods at the [[detention center]], Woods dropped her strong facade, showing her true, more meek, self to Cykes and Justice.
   
During the trial the next day, Woods confessed to Professor Courte's murder in an attempt to protect her friends from accusation. However, both Newman and O'Conner then confessed as well, leaving the [[judge]] with no choice but to end the trial for the day so that the prosecution and defense could sort out the mess.
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During the trial the next day, Cykes found herself driven into a corner due to the decisive evidence presented by Prosecutor [[Simon Blackquill]]. Newman then confessed to the murder in an attempt to protect Woods, after which Woods herself confessed to prevent Newman from taking the fall, followed by O’Conner doing the same. This left the [[judge]] with no choice but to end the trial for the day so that the prosecution and defense could investigate further.
   
When Cykes and Justice went back to the detention center after the trial, Justice [[Bracelet|sensed]] that Woods was lying to them about something. After [[Perceive|finding her tell]], she told them that she saw O'Conner walking out of the art room with bloodstained hands, and thought he was the murderer, as well as telling them that she was Professor Courte's snitch, and that she figured out that O'Conner was bribing the school. She refused to talk about it for fear that O’Conner would be incriminated, and believed herself to be a horrible friend for suspecting him. However, the next day, Cykes proved that it had been Professor [[Aristotle Means]] who had been taking bribes from O'Conner's parents, and that Means had killed Courte when she found out.
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When Cykes and Justice went back to the detention center after the trial, Justice [[Bracelet|sensed]] that Woods was lying to them about something. After finding her tell, Woods told them that she had seen O’Conner walking out of the art room with bloodstained hands, which had led her to think he was the murderer, as well as the fact that she was Professor Courte's snitch and that she had figured out that O’Conner was bribing the school. She had refused to talk about it for fear that O’Conner would be incriminated, and believed herself to be a horrible friend for suspecting him. However, the following day in court, Cykes proved that Means was the one who had been taking bribes from O’Conner's parents, and that he had killed Courte when she found out.
   
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[[File:Juniper on Stage.png|thumb|right|On stage for her performance of "The Guitar's Serenade".]]
After the trial Woods thanked Cykes and Justice, but also blushed and started knitting a heart-covered scarf when talking to the latter. Later, Woods was able to perform "[[The Guitar's Serenade]]" at the school festival with [[Klavier Gavin]], as was originally intended. Before she began singing, however, she caught sight of Justice watching in the audience and began blushing again. Her performance went perfectly, with Newman in particular praising her singing voice.
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After the trial, Woods thanked Cykes and Justice, but also blushed and started knitting a heart-patterned scarf when talking to the latter. Although the school festival had been initially canceled, it was extended for one more day in Courte's memory, and Woods went on to sing "The Guitar's Serenade" while Cykes, Justice, Newman, and O’Conner watched from the audience. Before she began singing, she caught sight of Justice and began blushing again. Her performance went perfectly, with Newman in particular praising her singing voice.
   
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==The courtroom bombing==
==A murderer and a bomber?==
 
:''Main articles: [[Turnabout Countdown]]''
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:''Main article: [[Turnabout Countdown]]''
[[File:Juniper Woods mugshot.PNG|thumb|left|Woods' mugshot in casual clothes.]]
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[[File:Looking for Polly.png|thumb|left|Looking for Justice in the courtroom ruins with Cykes and Wright.]]
Less than two months after the murder at Themis Legal Academy, she visited Justice during his [[The Cosmic Turnabout|next case]], and was in the gallery when [[Ted Tonate]] announced that there was a live bomb in the courtroom. She fell trying to escape, but Justice shielded her from falling rubble, albeit being injured himself in the process.
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Less than two months after the murder at Themis Legal Academy, Justice [[The Cosmic Turnabout|took on the defense]] of the astronaut [[Solomon Starbuck]], and Woods went to the courthouse to watch the trial and lend her support. During the trial, [[Ted Tonate]] from [[Police department|police]] bomb disposal suddenly announced that there was [[HH-3000|a live bomb]] in [[Courtroom No. 4|the courtroom]]. Woods tripped and fell trying to escape, but Justice shielded her from falling rubble, albeit being injured himself in the process. In the confusion, Woods lost the [[Bum Rap Rhiny]] doll she had brought with her.
   
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Woods ended up being accused of both the bombing and the murder of Detective [[Candice Arme]], who it was thought had died in the explosion. Justice was initially her defense attorney, but passed the case to Wright and Cykes due to his injuries. While Woods was resting in the [[Defendant lobby|defendant lobby]] during the trial, Justice offered to help her look for her doll in the ruins of [[Courtroom No. 4]], but Woods was soon called to the stand to testify. Although she was barely able to get her words out due to the badgering of Prosecutor [[Gaspen Payne]], Cykes managed to use her [[Mood Matrix]] to calm her down and help her testify. Wright then showed that the stuffed animal tail found in the destroyed courtroom with Woods' fingerprints on it belonged to Bum Rap Rhiny, rather than the [[Phony Phanty]] doll which had contained the bomb.
Woods was then accused of planting the bomb that had destroyed the [[Courtroom No. 4|courtroom]], as well as killing a detective found dead at the scene called [[Candice Arme]]. Cykes was initially her defense attorney yet again, but soon began to stumble on her own, then began to have a [[UR-1 Incident|mental breakdown]]. Luckily for Cykes and Woods, [[Phoenix Wright]] soon arrived to take over, and soon started turning the case around.
 
   
However, during a recess, Woods, Cykes, and Wright found Justice lying unconscious in the ruins of courtroom 4 after being assaulted, which Woods was subsequently accused of. However, Wright was able to prove that Detective Arme's killer and the person who assaulted Justice was bomb specialist Ted Tonate, thus proving Woods' innocence.
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However, after court was adjourned for the day, Woods, Cykes, and Wright found Justice lying unconscious in the courtroom ruins from a blow to the head. Payne tried to accuse Woods of the assault the following day, as she had been alone with Justice shortly before the attack, but Wright was able to prove that Detective Arme's killer and the person who had assaulted Justice was Ted Tonate, thus proving Woods' innocence.
   
 
==Visiting the Cosmos Space Center==
 
==Visiting the Cosmos Space Center==
:''Main articles: [[Turnabout For Tomorrow]]''
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:''Main articles: [[Turnabout for Tomorrow]]''
Upon hearing that Cykes had been arrested for [[Clay Terran]]'s murder, Woods visited the [[Cosmos Space Center]], where the crime had occurred. While in the building's [[Space Museum]], she met Wright, who proceeded to ask her about Cykes' past. Woods told Wright that Cykes had grown up at the space center with her mother, and that the [[Ponco|center]]'s [[Clonco|robots]] were Cykes' only real company while she was there. This lead helped Wright to eventually figure out not only the truth behind the current case, but another [[UR-1 Incident|seven years previously]], thus clearing Cykes of all charges. Woods then joined the defense attorneys and their friends at a [[Guy Eldoon|local noodle stand]] for a celebratory meal.
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Two days after her acquittal, Woods heard that Cykes had been arrested, suspected of [[Clay Terran|the same murder]] as Starbuck. Woods visited the [[Cosmos Space Center]], where the crime had occurred, to look for Wright. She met him in the building's [[Space Museum]] and proceeded to tell him about Cykes' childhood. Woods told Wright that Cykes had grown up at the space center with her mother, and that the [[Ponco|center]]'s [[Clonco|robots]] were her only real company while she was there. This lead helped Wright to eventually figure out not only the truth behind the current case, but also [[UR-1 Incident|the murder of Cykes's mother]], thus clearing Cykes of all charges. Woods then joined the defense attorneys and their friends at a [[Guy Eldoon|local noodle stand]] for a celebratory meal.
   
 
==Personality==
 
==Personality==
[[File:JuniperSchoolMugshot.png|thumb|right|Woods' mugshot in her school uniform.]]
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[[File:Juniper Woods mugshot.PNG|thumb|right|In casual clothes.]]
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[[File:JuniperSchoolMugshot.png|thumb|right|In her school uniform.]]
 
Although a shy and meek girl, Woods puts on a stern and confident persona in her role as the student council president. Her health has always been poor, which manifests itself as coughing fits when she is stressed or upset; she controls these by breathing from the sunflowers she wears on her head, similar to how an asthmatic uses an inhaler. When she drops her persona, she also has the habit of pausing and stuttering during everyday conversation.
 
Although a shy and meek girl, Woods puts on a stern and confident persona in her role as the student council president. Her health has always been poor, which manifests itself as coughing fits when she is stressed or upset; she controls these by breathing from the sunflowers she wears on her head, similar to how an asthmatic uses an inhaler. When she drops her persona, she also has the habit of pausing and stuttering during everyday conversation.
   
Woods has something of a crush on Apollo Justice; when thinking about him she wears a dreamy facial expression and knits a very long, scarf-like object with an abundance of hearts on it. According to her (while talking with Cykes), just thinking about him gives her strength, especially when he smiled at her when there seemed to be no hope. Woods enjoys gardening, knitting, and sewing; she claimed to have made her casual clothes herself.
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Woods has something of a crush on Apollo Justice; when thinking about him she wears a dreamy facial expression and knits a very long scarf with an abundance of hearts on it. According to her (while talking with Cykes), just thinking about him gives her strength, especially when he smiled at her when there seemed to be no hope. Woods enjoys gardening, knitting, and sewing; she claimed to have made her casual clothes herself.
   
Like her friends Newman and O’Conner, Woods took the friendship between them very seriously, to the point where she was greatly distressed at the possibility of O’Conner being the murderer. She wears one of three bands made by Newman as their "proof of friendship" on her right wrist, and clings to it habitually as a reminder of their friendship when worried.
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Like her friends Newman and O’Conner, Woods took the friendship between them very seriously, to the point that she was greatly distressed at the possibility of O’Conner being a murderer. She wears one of three bands made by Newman as their "proof of friendship" on her right wrist, and clings to it habitually as a reminder of their friendship when worried.
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According to Cykes, Woods has always been popular with the opposite sex. Boys would always want to be around her, and she would regularly receive love letters during her childhood. Woods herself didn't realize however, but this aspect of her personality allegedly made her more "irresistible".<ref name=":0" />
   
 
==Name==
 
==Name==
 
* The "''mori''" (森) in her [[Japan]]ese surname means "forest".
 
* The "''mori''" (森) in her [[Japan]]ese surname means "forest".
 
 
* Depending on the kanji used, her Japanese given name "''Shinobu''" can mean "endure", "purify", "belief", "intention", "recall", or "remember".
 
* Depending on the kanji used, her Japanese given name "''Shinobu''" can mean "endure", "purify", "belief", "intention", "recall", or "remember".
 
* Both her given and family names in the English version are botanically-themed; [[Wikipedia:Juniper|juniper]] being a type of coniferous plant. This is in keeping with her casual clothing having plant motifs.
 
* Both her given and family names in the English version are botanically-themed; [[wikipedia:Juniper|juniper]] being a type of coniferous plant. This is in keeping with her casual clothing having plant motifs.
 
   
 
==Development==
 
==Development==
 
 
* Juniper Woods' costume design for the school festival is almost identical to that worn by [[Lamiroir]] when she sung "[[The Guitar's Serenade]]" in ''[[Turnabout Serenade]]'' (even her friendship bracelet is almost exactly where Lamiroir's [[bracelet]] is). Oddly, neither Apollo Justice, [[Trucy Wright]], nor Klavier Gavin make any comment on this, despite all three having met Lamiroir in said costume.
 
* Juniper Woods' costume design for the school festival is almost identical to that worn by [[Lamiroir]] when she sung "[[The Guitar's Serenade]]" in ''[[Turnabout Serenade]]'' (even her friendship bracelet is almost exactly where Lamiroir's [[bracelet]] is). Oddly, neither Apollo Justice, [[Trucy Wright]], nor Klavier Gavin make any comment on this, despite all three having met Lamiroir in said costume.
 
* Woods' casual clothes bear a striking resemblance to one of [[Dahlia Hawthorne]]'s [[Media:Fanbook Dahlia 2.jpg|early character designs]], where she is depicted in a similar hat and dress, as well as knitting a scarf.
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* Woods is the first character in the history of the series to have been the defendant [[Turnabout Countdown|two]] [[Turnabout Academy|times]] within the [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies|same game]].
 
* Her last name was misspelled as "Wood" in a "fact sheet" for ''Dual Destinies'' ahead of E3 2013.<ref>Jay Mysterio. [http://forums.court-records.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27282 "PW:AA-DD at E3 - more English names confirmed"] [[Court Records]]. Retrieved on 2013-06-06.</ref>
   
 
==References==
* Juniper's casual clothes bear a striking resemblance to one of [[Dahlia Hawthorne]]'s [[Media:Fanbook Dahlia 2.jpg|early character designs]], where she is depicted in a similar hat and dress, as well as knitting a scarf.
 
 
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* Her last name was misspelled as "Wood" in a "fact sheet" for ''Dual Destinies'' ahead of E3 2013.<ref>Jay Mysterio. [http://forums.court-records.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27282 "PW:AA-DD at E3 - more English names confirmed"] Court Records. Retrieved on 2013-06-06.</ref>
 
 
==References==
 
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Apollo is... just like the sun -- strong and bright and warm. Just talking about him makes me feel like a leaf undergoing photosynthesis.

Juniper Woods is a childhood friend of Athena Cykes. A third-year student and the student council president at the Themis Legal Academy, she is studying to be a judge. A somewhat meek and quiet girl, Woods has a habit of going into coughing fits when stressed.

Early life

Woods, like Cykes, didn't attend school regularly when she was younger due to health issues; Woods herself suffered from frequent coughing fits, while Cykes found it hard to be around groups of people due to her ability to pick up subtle emotions from peoples' voices. Although both girls were quiet, they got along with one another and soon became good friends. However, after Cykes's mother was murdered, she was sent to live in Europe. After a while, the two started exchanging letters, but they wouldn't meet face-to-face again for seven years.

Woods was apparently very popular with the opposite sex during her time at school, although she was oblivious to their attention. Cykes has claimed that boys would often hand her love letters before asking her to give them to Woods, much to the disappointment of Cykes.[1]

Proof of friendship

Themis Trio

With Newman and O’Conner.

Woods went on to join the judge course at Themis Legal Academy. There, she befriended the prosecutor course student Robin Newman and the defense attorney course student Hugh O’Conner, with Newman making handmade bands for them to wear as proof of their friendship. The three vowed to hold fair trials and put an end to the dark age that had been plaguing the legal system. However, said dark age's influence on the school soon began to affect their friendship, with O’Conner adhering to Professor Aristotle Means' ideals of winning trials by any means necessary, while Woods followed Constance Courte's teachings that the truth was more important than results, and Newman respected the ideals of both teachers.

Courte eventually asked Woods to report any students to her who had strayed from the path of justice. One day, Woods overheard a phone conversation between O’Conner and his parents and found out that they had been bribing the school for his good grades, after which she reported him to Courte. O’Conner figured out that Woods had reported him, further straining their friendship.

Murder at the academy

Main article: Turnabout Academy
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With Professor Courte during the mock trial preparations.

For the school festival in her senior year, Woods was required to write a script that would be used in a mock trial. She was also chosen to sing "The Guitar's Serenade" alongside Klavier Gavin as part of the festivities. Woods' script was chosen, but its contents were kept privy only to her and Courte in order to keep the trial's "plot" a secret from the participants. On the night before the trial, Woods assisted Courte with preparations in the art room until 6 p.m., then returned to her dressing room to apply fluorescent paint to her stage costume. As she was leaving the school around 7 p.m., Woods saw O’Conner in the hallway and noticed his hands were dripping with blood.

The next morning, Woods returned to her dressing room to pick up some props for the mock trial, including an awl which now had what looked like red paint on it. Just before the trial was due to start, Woods met Phoenix Wright, who had been recently reinstated as an attorney and invited to give a lecture at the academy. Wright had brought along his two employees as well; Apollo Justice and Athena Cykes. Woods was shocked to so suddenly meet her childhood friend again, whom she hadn't seen in seven years. Adding to this was Cykes' complete change in personality. Gone was the quiet and shy girl she had known, replaced by a far more confident and outgoing young woman.

However, while the mock trial was underway, the dead body of Courte was found on the outdoor stage by Cykes and Wright, and the mock trial was abruptly cut short before a verdict could be given. While they were waiting for the police to come, Cykes questioned Woods, Newman, and O’Conner about the mock trial, and she sensed some discord in their voices when they talked about their friendship. When the police arrived, Woods was arrested on the grounds that Courte's murder had been enacted in a very similar way to her script, as well as the fact that the awl she still had in her pocket turned out to have Courte's blood on it. While Woods was being taken away, Cykes stepped up and said she act as her defense attorney. When Cykes went to question Woods at the detention center, Woods dropped her strong facade, showing her true, more meek, self to Cykes and Justice.

During the trial the next day, Cykes found herself driven into a corner due to the decisive evidence presented by Prosecutor Simon Blackquill. Newman then confessed to the murder in an attempt to protect Woods, after which Woods herself confessed to prevent Newman from taking the fall, followed by O’Conner doing the same. This left the judge with no choice but to end the trial for the day so that the prosecution and defense could investigate further.

When Cykes and Justice went back to the detention center after the trial, Justice sensed that Woods was lying to them about something. After finding her tell, Woods told them that she had seen O’Conner walking out of the art room with bloodstained hands, which had led her to think he was the murderer, as well as the fact that she was Professor Courte's snitch and that she had figured out that O’Conner was bribing the school. She had refused to talk about it for fear that O’Conner would be incriminated, and believed herself to be a horrible friend for suspecting him. However, the following day in court, Cykes proved that Means was the one who had been taking bribes from O’Conner's parents, and that he had killed Courte when she found out.

Juniper on Stage

On stage for her performance of "The Guitar's Serenade".

After the trial, Woods thanked Cykes and Justice, but also blushed and started knitting a heart-patterned scarf when talking to the latter. Although the school festival had been initially canceled, it was extended for one more day in Courte's memory, and Woods went on to sing "The Guitar's Serenade" while Cykes, Justice, Newman, and O’Conner watched from the audience. Before she began singing, she caught sight of Justice and began blushing again. Her performance went perfectly, with Newman in particular praising her singing voice.

The courtroom bombing

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Looking for Polly

Looking for Justice in the courtroom ruins with Cykes and Wright.

Less than two months after the murder at Themis Legal Academy, Justice took on the defense of the astronaut Solomon Starbuck, and Woods went to the courthouse to watch the trial and lend her support. During the trial, Ted Tonate from police bomb disposal suddenly announced that there was a live bomb in the courtroom. Woods tripped and fell trying to escape, but Justice shielded her from falling rubble, albeit being injured himself in the process. In the confusion, Woods lost the Bum Rap Rhiny doll she had brought with her.

Woods ended up being accused of both the bombing and the murder of Detective Candice Arme, who it was thought had died in the explosion. Justice was initially her defense attorney, but passed the case to Wright and Cykes due to his injuries. While Woods was resting in the defendant lobby during the trial, Justice offered to help her look for her doll in the ruins of Courtroom No. 4, but Woods was soon called to the stand to testify. Although she was barely able to get her words out due to the badgering of Prosecutor Gaspen Payne, Cykes managed to use her Mood Matrix to calm her down and help her testify. Wright then showed that the stuffed animal tail found in the destroyed courtroom with Woods' fingerprints on it belonged to Bum Rap Rhiny, rather than the Phony Phanty doll which had contained the bomb.

However, after court was adjourned for the day, Woods, Cykes, and Wright found Justice lying unconscious in the courtroom ruins from a blow to the head. Payne tried to accuse Woods of the assault the following day, as she had been alone with Justice shortly before the attack, but Wright was able to prove that Detective Arme's killer and the person who had assaulted Justice was Ted Tonate, thus proving Woods' innocence.

Visiting the Cosmos Space Center

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Two days after her acquittal, Woods heard that Cykes had been arrested, suspected of the same murder as Starbuck. Woods visited the Cosmos Space Center, where the crime had occurred, to look for Wright. She met him in the building's Space Museum and proceeded to tell him about Cykes' childhood. Woods told Wright that Cykes had grown up at the space center with her mother, and that the center's robots were her only real company while she was there. This lead helped Wright to eventually figure out not only the truth behind the current case, but also the murder of Cykes's mother, thus clearing Cykes of all charges. Woods then joined the defense attorneys and their friends at a local noodle stand for a celebratory meal.

Personality

Juniper Woods mugshot

In casual clothes.

JuniperSchoolMugshot

In her school uniform.

Although a shy and meek girl, Woods puts on a stern and confident persona in her role as the student council president. Her health has always been poor, which manifests itself as coughing fits when she is stressed or upset; she controls these by breathing from the sunflowers she wears on her head, similar to how an asthmatic uses an inhaler. When she drops her persona, she also has the habit of pausing and stuttering during everyday conversation.

Woods has something of a crush on Apollo Justice; when thinking about him she wears a dreamy facial expression and knits a very long scarf with an abundance of hearts on it. According to her (while talking with Cykes), just thinking about him gives her strength, especially when he smiled at her when there seemed to be no hope. Woods enjoys gardening, knitting, and sewing; she claimed to have made her casual clothes herself.

Like her friends Newman and O’Conner, Woods took the friendship between them very seriously, to the point that she was greatly distressed at the possibility of O’Conner being a murderer. She wears one of three bands made by Newman as their "proof of friendship" on her right wrist, and clings to it habitually as a reminder of their friendship when worried.

According to Cykes, Woods has always been popular with the opposite sex. Boys would always want to be around her, and she would regularly receive love letters during her childhood. Woods herself didn't realize however, but this aspect of her personality allegedly made her more "irresistible".[1]

Name

  • The "mori" (森) in her Japanese surname means "forest".
  • Depending on the kanji used, her Japanese given name "Shinobu" can mean "endure", "purify", "belief", "intention", "recall", or "remember".
  • Both her given and family names in the English version are botanically-themed; juniper being a type of coniferous plant. This is in keeping with her casual clothing having plant motifs.

Development

  • Juniper Woods' costume design for the school festival is almost identical to that worn by Lamiroir when she sung "The Guitar's Serenade" in Turnabout Serenade (even her friendship bracelet is almost exactly where Lamiroir's bracelet is). Oddly, neither Apollo Justice, Trucy Wright, nor Klavier Gavin make any comment on this, despite all three having met Lamiroir in said costume.
  • Woods' casual clothes bear a striking resemblance to one of Dahlia Hawthorne's early character designs, where she is depicted in a similar hat and dress, as well as knitting a scarf.
  • Woods is the first character in the history of the series to have been the defendant two times within the same game.
  • Her last name was misspelled as "Wood" in a "fact sheet" for Dual Destinies ahead of E3 2013.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Athena: Heh heh. Sorry, but I couldn’t help reading it. You always were popular with the guys.
    Juniper: Th-that's not true! I... I was never...!
    Athena: You just didn't realize it, but it made you even more irresistible. It's been seven years, but I still remember how all the boys wanted to be near you.
    Apollo: I bet you used to get all excited when a guy handed you a love letter... and then get really bummed out when he'd say, “Could you give this to Juniper for me?”
    Athena: Agh! (How'd he know?)
    Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. Capcom. Episode: Turnabout Academy (in English). 2013.
  2. Jay Mysterio. "PW:AA-DD at E3 - more English names confirmed" Court Records. Retrieved on 2013-06-06.