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Kogyoin Don was the intimidating and powerful celebrity who was purported as the "ruler of the entertainment world". The only entertainment facility left that he wanted to have control over was the indoor amusement park, Joypolis.
Martial artist career[]
Kogyoin Don was a successful martial artist, with a towering stature of 195cm (6'4 ft) and weighing in at 150kg (331lb). His strength was also incredible, being able to crush a whole watermelon or a durian in one hand. At some point he decided to retire and become a celebrity on TV instead.
Ruler of the entertainment world[]
Kogyoin Don began making appearances on TV and quickly started to build a business empire. He accumulated wealth and took over many entertainment facilities, with the only facility evading his rule being the indoor amusement park, Joypolis. At every attempt he made, the actor and high-ranking member of Joypolis, Yumi Temgashiwa, would somehow foil his plan.
During the production of a new martial arts movie, Don would scout out a rookie actress, Desirée DeLite, who was looking to earn more money to keep up with her spending habits. He would develop some affectionate feelings for her, though whether it was romantic is not clear.
The two actresses preparing to fight each other on set.
The production of the movie took place at the Joypolis Coliseum, and went relatively smoothly up until a particular fight scene. Temgashiwa and DeLite were both locked in a barbed wire fence cage, and DeLite broke a prop pot over Temgashiwa's arm. Although the prop pot shattered into harmless pieces as expected, red paint also exploded from the pot, splattering over Temgashiwa's costume. At the sight of the color red, Temgashiwa immediately fainted, causing DeLite to panic and think she had actually hurt her. DeLite exited the cage using the belt and wire system, and left the premises to go call the ambulance.
Don arrived at the cage a while later, with Temagashiwa having regained consciousness. This was when he saw an opportunity to murder the veteran actress, thereby eliminating his biggest obstacle to accquiring Joypolis. First, he got a clean costume for Temgashiwa, and used his intense glare to pressure her into changing costumes while still in the cage. Then, due to him exceeding the belt and wire system's 140kg (309lb) weight limit, he used the wire to pull up the cage instead, allowing him to enter the cage and attack Temgashiwa using a real glass pot.
Temgashiwa dying from a blow to the head.
Don held the glass pot by its mouth and smashed it against the back of Temgashiwa's head with great force, not only dealing a fatal blow to his victim, but also breaking the glass pot. He then moved the shards of the prop pot to outside of the barbed wire fence cage, while leaving his real pot's shards next to the victim. Don then called the police and pretended to be the one who discovered the dead body.
When the police arrived and investigated the scene, they concluded DeLite had used a real pot instead of a prop one to intentionally murder Temgashiwa, and thus they arrested her.
Although Don did not want DeLite to be accused of the murder, he decided he would let her stand trial briefly as punishment for driving recklessly on his motorcycle. Before the trial began, he threatened the director of the movie, Sal Manella, and instructed him to admit to being present at the scene of the crime. Manella had actually talked to Temgashiwa after her incident and prior to her death, but had neglected to testify out of fear of landing in trouble, though now he was forced into it.
Later during the day, DeLite's defense attorney, Phoenix Wright, would come to investigate the crime scene. Wright would meet Don and interrogate him, learning of the fact that two of Temgashiwa's costumes were used from the rack that carried five. Some time later, Wright would be discussing about the prop pot shards with Dick Gumshoe, the lead detective on the case. When Gumshoe relayed a rumor he heard about how Don's glare was intense enough to make any actor and actress change into swimsuits for the celebrity's pleasure, Don suddenly appeared behind Gumshoe, and scared him using the very same glare.
During the trial the next day, Don decided to appear in court as a witness, and claimed he was there when DeLite attacked Temgashiwa. He stated that the pot the defendant used was real because it didn't shatter into as many pieces as a prop pot should have, and the sound produced from the hit matched that of a real pot. DeLite was confused and distressed as she wondered why her employer would lie like this.
Once Wright disproved his claims, Don changed his story, now saying that he had come to give false testimony both as a way to punish DeLite for an incident where she rode his motorcycle without his permission, as well as to see how the view was like from the witness stand. When threatened with the charge of perjury by the Judge, Don boasted that with his amount of money, he could hire the best lawyers to get him an immediate acquittal, effectively making the law useless against him.
Manella was then called to the witness stand, who claimed that he was the one who had gotten Temgashiwa to change costumes. Wright objected to this, noting that Temgashiwa hated Manella and would never be willing to change clothes in front of him. Recalling his conversation with Gumshoe the previous day, Wright realized the only person capable of getting the actress to change clothes in front of them was Don.
With some help from Miles Edgeworth, the prosecutor of the trial, Wright was able to prove Don's guilt. Don was enraged at his loss, and stated he would hire even better lawyers than Wright to get himself an accquital. Together, Edgeworth and Wright countered this notion, with the former stating Don would never win because the court always pursuits the truth, while the latter stated that Don lost because of a defense attorney's unfaltering trust in their clients.
Personality[]
Don was a powerful individual who made most people terrified to be in his presence. Whenever someone would annoy him, he would lower his glasses a little and shoot a glare at them, with his eyes seeming to glow yellow. During trial, he would get a playboy bunny girl to pass him a watermelon for him to crush in one hand as an intimidation act, trying to break his opponent's nerve.
Despite having retired from martial arts, Don still possessed incredible strength. In addition to the numerous watermelons he crushed, he also broke the mouth of the real glass pot purely from grip strength, he ripped his shirt by angrily flexing his muscles, and during his breakdown, he destroyed the witness stand and created a large crater in the middle of the courtroom with only one downward punch.
Appearance[]
Don wears gold-rimmed glasses with a bright sheen that obscure his seemingly glowing yellow eyes. He has black hair in the style of a mullet and a black beard with white streaks in it, along with a white moustache that merges with his beard. He has three scars across the top of his head in the shape of a claw, with the two outermost scars reaching past his eyes.
He wears a purple blazer with a pair of matching purple pants and a black belt. He does not wear a shirt underneath his blazer, showing off his bulky muscles which are still well-defined even through fabric. He also wraps a chain as an accessory around his neck, and allows a small length of it to hang straight down before hiding it with his blazer. In this way, he wears his chain in a similar manner to a necktie.