Orla Shipley

Ora Shipley V · T · F
Occupation	Pet orca
Biological information
Eye color	Black
Hair color	Black and white * (blubber or "skin")
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	9'10"; 300 cm
Associates
Family	Ora Shipley (Older sister)
Friends	None mentioned
Affiliates	Sasha Buckler (Trainer) Phoenix Wright (Defense attorney)
Aliases/nicknames
"Orla" The killer whale* (by Norma DePlume)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	エール (Ale) 荒船 エル (Elle Arafune)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	Turnabout Reclaimed
Musical theme	"Cap'n Orla's Swashbucklers ~ Adventures Across the Seven Seas"

"Ora Shipley" redirects here. For the orca that resided at Shipshape Aquarium one year before the events of Turnabout Reclaimed, see Ora Shipley the First.

Ora "Orla" Shipley is a pet orca living in Shipshape Aquarium. After the aquarium's owner, Jack Shipley, was found dead by Orla's pool, Orla came under suspicion in Shipley's death. Her trainer Sasha Buckler requested that Phoenix Wright defend Orla in court.

Despite her name being "Ora", she responds to "Orla". It is later revealed that the original Ora Shipley is Orla's older sister.

Early Life

Orla and Ora were both found beached on a shore when they were young orca calves by Jack Shipley. They (mostly Orla as she was in a worse condition than her older sister) were cared for by him and Dr. Crab until they were well enough to return to the wild, however neither of them refused to leave as they loved Shipley, and so Shipley brought them back to the aquarium as pets.

Name

Orla's mugshot.

• "Ale" comes from "hoeeru" (ホエール), a word for "whale".
• "Orla" and "Ora" are both derived from "orca" while "Shipley" is a play on the word "ship."

Development

• Orla is the second animal to be cross-examined in court in the series, as well as the second to be called the stand by Wright as a witness. She is, however, the first witness to not speak any English at all during a testimony (not counting Machi Tobaye's testimonies, which are in Borginian and translated to English by Lamiroir).

References

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