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{{CharacterTab|Paul Atishon}}
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:''"Paul" redirects here. For other characters referred to as "Paul", please see [[Paul (disambiguation)]]. "Atishon" also redirects here; for the family itself, see [[Atishon (family)]].''
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:''"Paul" redirects here. For additional meanings of "Paul", please see [[Paul (disambiguation)]].''
 
 
{{Character
 
{{Character
 
|name = Paul Atishon-Wimperson
 
|name = Paul Atishon-Wimperson
 
|image = Kiyokipor.png
 
|image = Kiyokipor.png
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|occupation = Politician ( - [[Turnabout Revolution|May 17, 2028]])
|aliastemp = Lord of Plebs{{tt|*|by Apollo Justice}} <br> Little snot{{tt|*|by Dhurke Sahdmadhi}}
 
|size = 250px
 
|occupation = Politician
 
|japanese = 清木 まさはる (''Masaharu Kiyoki'')
 
 
|birthday = 2002-2003
 
|birthday = 2002-2003
 
|birthday2 = July 11, 2002
 
|birthday2 = July 11, 2002
|aai = AA6
 
 
|age = 25
 
|age = 25
|status = Alive (arrested)
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|ageref = Turnabout Revolution
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|status = Arrested ([[Turnabout Revolution|May 17, 2028]])
|eyes = Black
 
 
|eyes = Gray
 
|hair = Black
 
|hair = Black
 
|height = 5'4"; 165
 
|height = 5'4"; 165
|family = '''Abraham "Abe" Atishon''' (grandfather) <br> '''An unnamed father'''
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|family = '''[[Abraham Atishon]]''' (grandfather) <br> '''An unnamed father'''
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|friends = '''An unnamed dog'''
|affiliates = '''[[Inga Karkhuul Khura'in]]''' (benefactor; deceased) <br> '''[[Archie Buff]]''' ([[Kurain]] Village archaeologist and victim; deceased) <br> '''[[Phoenix Wright]]''' (blackmail victim and attorney) <br> '''Ives Shineto''' (neighbor) <br> '''[[Maya Fey]]''' (kidnapped victim)
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|affiliates = '''[[Inga Karkhuul Khura'in]]''' (benefactor; deceased) <br> '''[[Archie Buff]]''' ([[Kurain Village]] archaeologist & murder victim; deceased) <br> '''[[Phoenix Wright]]''' (blackmail victim & former plaintiff attorney) <br> '''[[Ives Shineto]]''' (neighbor)
 
|aliastemp = Lord of Plebs{{tt|*|by Apollo Justice}} <br> Little snot{{tt|*|by Dhurke Sahdmadhi}}
 
|japanese = 清木 まさはる (''Masaharu Kiyoki'')
 
|debut = ''[[Turnabout Revolution]]''
 
|debut = ''[[Turnabout Revolution]]''
|theme = "Paul Atishon ~ A Vote for Atishon!"
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|theme = "[[Paul Atishon ~ A Vote for Atishon!]]"
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{Quote|Paul Atishon|In short, I'm the chosen one, the golden boy, the powerhouse of politics!}}
 
{{Quote|Paul Atishon|In short, I'm the chosen one, the golden boy, the powerhouse of politics!}}
 
{{Quote|Trucy Wright|...And rider-of-his-grandfather's-coattails.|''[[Turnabout Revolution]]''}}
 
{{Quote|Trucy Wright|...And rider-of-his-grandfather's-coattails.|''[[Turnabout Revolution]]''}}
'''Paul Atishon-Wimperson''', or simply '''Paul Atishon''', was a politician running for the position of local assemblyman of [[Kurain Village]]. He was the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit against [[Dhurke Sahdmadhi]], in which he was represented by the attorney [[Phoenix Wright]].
 
   
 
'''Paul Atishon-Wimperson''' (typically referred to simply as '''Paul Atishon''') was a politician running for the position of local assemblyman of [[Kurain Village]]. He was the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit against [[Dhurke Sahdmadhi]], in which he was represented by the attorney [[Phoenix Wright]].
==A treasure, a suitcase, and a murder==
 
[[File:Yashichi.png|thumb|left|An e-mail sent by Archie Buff to Atishon regarding the Founder's Orb.]]
 
While running for a seat on the local council of [[Kurain Village]], Atishon was tasked by a benefactor of his – the [[Khura'in]]ese Minister of Justice, [[Inga Karkhuul Khura'in]] – with retrieving a Khura'inese relic called the Founder's Orb from Dr. [[Archie Buff]], an archaeologist living in the village, to whom the orb had been sent to be studied. At some point, Archie realized that the orb had been stolen from its rightful place in [[Tehm'pul Temple]], after which he refused to hand it over to Atishon.
 
   
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==A politician's ambition==
Intending to give the orb to his benefactor at all costs, Atishon went into Archie's study at night, planning to kill him by using a heavy suitcase that [[Datz Are'bal]] had left at the house; as the suitcase was too heavy for Atishon to lift, his plan was to push it from the second floor landing so it would land onto the doctor's head while he was sitting at the coffee bar below. However, Archie's daughter [[Armie Buff|Armie]] had fallen asleep in her wheelchair in the spot from which Atishon intended to push the suitcase. He moved her wheelchair out of the way, but doing so woke Armie, who, frightened by the presence of a stranger in her home, wheeled herself to her room and shut herself in.
 
 
:''Main article: [[Turnabout Revolution]]''
 
===The treasure, the suitcase, and the murder===
 
[[File:Yashichi.png|thumb|left|E-mail sent by Dr. Buff to Atishon regarding the Founder's Orb.]]
 
While running for a seat on the local council of [[Kurain Village]], Atishon was tasked by a benefactor of his – the [[Khura'in]]ese Minister of Justice, [[Inga Karkhuul Khura'in]] – with retrieving a Khura'inese relic called the [[Founder's Orb]] from Dr. [[Archie Buff]], an archaeologist living in the village to whom the orb had been sent to be studied. At some point, Buff realized that the orb had been stolen from its rightful place in Khura'in's [[Tehm'pul Temple]], after which he refused to hand it over to Atishon.
   
 
Intending to give the orb to his benefactor at all costs, Atishon went into [[Doctor's study|Buff's study]] at night with the aim of killing the archaeologist with a heavy suitcase that [[Datz Are'bal]] had left at the house; as the suitcase was too heavy for Atishon to lift, his plan was to push it from the second floor landing so it would land onto the doctor's head while he was sitting at his coffee bar below. However, Archie Buff's daughter [[Armie Buff|Armie]] had fallen asleep in her wheelchair in the spot from which Atishon intended to push the suitcase. Although he was able to move her wheelchair out of the way, in doing so woke the girl, who quickly wheeled herself to her room and shut herself in after being frightened by the presence of a stranger in her home.
Atishon proceeded to drop the suitcase onto Archie's head, killing him. He then wiped his fingerprints and the doctor's blood off the suitcase, moved the body to the foot of a bookshelf across the room, and covered it in a large amount of books, making it appear as if Archie had been knocked off of the bookcase ladder by an avalanche of books. Although Atishon's plan to make the death look accidental initially succeeded, the Founder's Orb was no longer in the doctor's home and he found himself unable to retrieve it.
 
   
 
Atishon proceeded to drop the suitcase onto Archie's head, killing him. He then wiped his fingerprints and the doctor's blood off the suitcase, moved the body to the foot of a bookshelf across the room, and covered it in a large amount of books, making it appear as if Archie had been knocked off of the bookcase ladder by an avalanche of books. Although Atishon's plan to make the death look accidental initially succeeded, the Founder's Orb was no longer in the doctor's home and thus he was unable to retrieve it.
==The civil trial==
 
:''Main article: [[Turnabout Revolution]]''
 
The following day, Atishon confronted the leader of the [[Defiant Dragons]], [[Dhurke Sahdmadhi]], and the defense attorney [[Apollo Justice]]. Upon learning that they were after the orb as well, Atishon arranged for [[Phoenix Wright]] to represent him in a civil lawsuit against Sahdmadhi. As Wright's friend [[Maya Fey]] was being held hostage by Inga, he had no choice but to follow through with the lawsuit.
 
   
 
===The civil trial===
During the trial to determine the orb's rightful owner, Atishon claimed that the object in question was actually the "Crystal of [[Ami Fey]]", which had been stolen from his family's residence a year before. Justice, who was representing Sahdmadhi, maintained that the relic was the Founder's Orb and thus the rightful property of the Defiant Dragons, as Archie Buff had signed an agreement stating that he would hand the orb over to them. Atishon's claims about the Crystal of Ami Fey proved not to be enough to convince the [[judge]], so he instead testified that Are'bal had been the who killed Archie, which would void the transfer agreement, as the former was a member of the Defiant Dragons. Despite Atishon's attempts to pin the murder on Are'bal, Justice deduced that Atishon was the real killer and that he had left conclusive evidence behind his fingerprints on Armie Buff's wheelchair, which, unlike the ones on the suitcase, he had been unable to wipe off. Screaming for his grandfather, Atishon collapsed on the witness stand before being placed under arrest for his crime.
 
 
[[File:Palanquin Atishon.png|thumb|right|In his palanquin.]]
 
The following day, Atishon confronted the leader of the [[Defiant Dragons]], [[Dhurke Sahdmadhi]], who was visiting Kurain Village with the defense attorney [[Apollo Justice]]. Upon learning that they were after the orb as well, Atishon arranged for [[Phoenix Wright]] to represent him in a civil lawsuit against Sahdmadhi. As Wright's friend [[Maya Fey]] was being held hostage by Inga, he had no choice but to follow through with the lawsuit.
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During the subsequent trial to determine the orb's rightful owner, Atishon claimed that the object in question was actually the "Crystal of [[Ami Fey]]", which had been stolen from his family's residence a year before. Justice, who was representing Sahdmadhi, maintained that the relic was the Founder's Orb, and thus the rightful property of the Defiant Dragons, as Archie had signed an agreement stating that he would hand the orb over to them. Atishon's claims about the Crystal of Ami Fey proved not to be enough to convince the [[Judge|presiding judge]], so he instead testified that Are'bal had killed Archie, thereby rendering the transfer agreement void, as Are'bal was a member of the Defiant Dragons. Despite Atishon's attempts to pin the murder on Are'bal, Justice was able to deduce that Atishon was the real killer. However, despite the overwhelming evidence, Wright refused to accept the evidence due to Atishon and Inga's seizure of Fey. However, after Justice deduced that Fey needed to be kept alive in order to use the Founder's Orb, Wright immediately resigned his position as Atishon's attorney. and
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[[File:Wait what.png|thumb|left|Losing his imagined "election".]]
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Atishon wouldn't give up thought until Justice proved that he had left conclusive evidence behind. His fingerprints were on Armie's wheelchair and unlike the ones on the suitcase, he had been unable to wipe them off. [[Breakdown|After indulging in an imagined electoral win, which he then lost, Paul Atishon screamed for his grandfather before collapsing on the witness stand]]. He was subsequently placed under arrest for his crimes.
   
 
==Personality==
 
==Personality==
{{Quote|Paul Atishon|I believe the youth of this country are our very future. Too long have they been looked down on and given the cold shoulder! So, to them I say! Ask not what you can do for your country! Ask what you can do for me!|''[[Turnabout Revolution]]''}}
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{{Quote|Paul Atishon|I believe the youth of this country are our very future. Too long have they been looked down on and given the cold shoulder! So, to them I say! Ask not what you can do for your country! Ask what you can do for me!|''[[Turnabout Revolution]]''}}[[File:Kiyokimug.png|thumb|right|Mugshot.]]
 
Atishon was the embodiment of the archetypal "sleazy politician", in that he was very evasive when questioned (instead preferring to promote his political campaign or simply walking away). His ego was inflated to the point that he would refer to others as "peasants", preferred to have others carry him around in his personal palanquin, and was oblivious to the fact that the locals of Kurain Village wished that he would stop canvassing via megaphone and were tearing his political posters down in disgust, instead believing that they were crying tears of joy when they saw him and that "fangirls" were taking the posters for themselves. Atishon was not afraid to flaunt his political power, knowing that a normal person would be unable to fight back against his family's influence. Atishon claimed that he finds "discrimination against minorities" to be despicable, and that one of his political goals was to root out all forms of discrimination, although the sincerity of such remarks is dubious.
[[File:Kiyokimug.png|thumb|right|Mugshot.]]
 
Atishon was the embodiment of the archetypal "sleazy politician." He was very evasive when questioned, preferring to promote his political campaign or straight up walking away from the witness stand. He had an inflated ego and huge sense of self, calling others peasants, preferring to have others carry him around in his palanquin, and not realizing when locals of Kurain Village wanted him to be quiet or why they were taking his posters down, instead believing that the residents cried tears of joy when they saw him, or that his fangirls were taking the posters. Atishon was not afraid to flaunt his political power, knowing that a normal person would be unable to fight back against his family's influence.
 
   
Underneath it all, Atishon was a very pitiful person. He was not above blackmailing people to work for him, and murdering people because they did not give him something he wanted. He panicked easily when things started not to go his way, whimpering and begging for things to go back in his favor.
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In actuality, Atishon was a very pitiful person; he was willing to blackmail Wright to work for him and had seemingly no qualms with murdering Archie Buff simply because he would not give him the Founder's Orb. When backed into a corner on the witness stand, he would whine and beg for things to go back in his favor.
   
 
==Name==
 
==Name==
* "''Kiyoki''" (清き) means "proper" or "clean", which is an ironical reference of his personality. The name "''Masaharu''" can also be read as "''seiji''" (政治), meaning "politics," referring to his profession.
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* His [[Japan]]ese family name "''Kiyoki''" (清き) means "proper" or "clean", which is an ironic reference to his personality.
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* His Japanese given name "''Masaharu''" (まさはる) can also be read as "''seiji''" (政治), which means "politics", referring to his profession.
* His English name is a play on the word "politician", while his surname ''Wimperson'' is a play of both "wimp" and "whimper", in respective reference of his personality and his breakdown.
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* "Paul Atishon-Wimperson", his full English name, is a play on the word "politician" (referencing his profession) and both "wimp", "whimper" or "whimpers on" (in reference to his personality).
* His grandfather's name is an homage to [[wikipedia:Abraham Lincoln|Abraham Lincoln]], the sixteenth President of the [[United States]], or [[wikipedia:Shinzō Abe|Shinzō Abe]], the prime minister of Japan as of 2016.
 
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==Notes==
 
* To date, Atishon is one of only six characters in the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' games to have a known birth date, with the others being [[Dustin Prince]], an unseen and unnamed relative of one of [[Shi-Long Lang]]'s subordinates (mentioned in ''[[The Kidnapped Turnabout]]''), [[Rayfa Padma Khura'in]], and real life individuals [[Sōseki Natsume]] and [[Queen Victoria]].
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* Atishon is Wright's second known client to be guilty of murder, with the first being [[Matt Engarde]] in ''[[Farewell, My Turnabout]]''. Incidentally, Wright was blackmailed into defending the guilty party in both instances when they held Maya Fey hostage.
   
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==Note==
 
* Atishon is one of only four characters in the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' games to have a known birth date. The only other characters to have a known birth date are [[Dustin Prince]], an unseen and unnamed relative of one of [[Shi-Long Lang]]'s subordinates, and [[Rayfa Padma Khura'in]].
 
 
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Paul Atishon
In short, I'm the chosen one, the golden boy, the powerhouse of politics!
Trucy Wright
...And rider-of-his-grandfather's-coattails.

Paul Atishon-Wimperson (typically referred to simply as Paul Atishon) was a politician running for the position of local assemblyman of Kurain Village. He was the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit against Dhurke Sahdmadhi, in which he was represented by the attorney Phoenix Wright.

A politician's ambition

Main article: Turnabout Revolution

The treasure, the suitcase, and the murder

Yashichi

E-mail sent by Dr. Buff to Atishon regarding the Founder's Orb.

While running for a seat on the local council of Kurain Village, Atishon was tasked by a benefactor of his – the Khura'inese Minister of Justice, Inga Karkhuul Khura'in – with retrieving a Khura'inese relic called the Founder's Orb from Dr. Archie Buff, an archaeologist living in the village to whom the orb had been sent to be studied. At some point, Buff realized that the orb had been stolen from its rightful place in Khura'in's Tehm'pul Temple, after which he refused to hand it over to Atishon.

Intending to give the orb to his benefactor at all costs, Atishon went into Buff's study at night with the aim of killing the archaeologist with a heavy suitcase that Datz Are'bal had left at the house; as the suitcase was too heavy for Atishon to lift, his plan was to push it from the second floor landing so it would land onto the doctor's head while he was sitting at his coffee bar below. However, Archie Buff's daughter Armie had fallen asleep in her wheelchair in the spot from which Atishon intended to push the suitcase. Although he was able to move her wheelchair out of the way, in doing so woke the girl, who quickly wheeled herself to her room and shut herself in after being frightened by the presence of a stranger in her home.

Atishon proceeded to drop the suitcase onto Archie's head, killing him. He then wiped his fingerprints and the doctor's blood off the suitcase, moved the body to the foot of a bookshelf across the room, and covered it in a large amount of books, making it appear as if Archie had been knocked off of the bookcase ladder by an avalanche of books. Although Atishon's plan to make the death look accidental initially succeeded, the Founder's Orb was no longer in the doctor's home and thus he was unable to retrieve it.

The civil trial

Palanquin Atishon

In his palanquin.

The following day, Atishon confronted the leader of the Defiant Dragons, Dhurke Sahdmadhi, who was visiting Kurain Village with the defense attorney Apollo Justice. Upon learning that they were after the orb as well, Atishon arranged for Phoenix Wright to represent him in a civil lawsuit against Sahdmadhi. As Wright's friend Maya Fey was being held hostage by Inga, he had no choice but to follow through with the lawsuit.

During the subsequent trial to determine the orb's rightful owner, Atishon claimed that the object in question was actually the "Crystal of Ami Fey", which had been stolen from his family's residence a year before. Justice, who was representing Sahdmadhi, maintained that the relic was the Founder's Orb, and thus the rightful property of the Defiant Dragons, as Archie had signed an agreement stating that he would hand the orb over to them. Atishon's claims about the Crystal of Ami Fey proved not to be enough to convince the presiding judge, so he instead testified that Are'bal had killed Archie, thereby rendering the transfer agreement void, as Are'bal was a member of the Defiant Dragons. Despite Atishon's attempts to pin the murder on Are'bal, Justice was able to deduce that Atishon was the real killer. However, despite the overwhelming evidence, Wright refused to accept the evidence due to Atishon and Inga's seizure of Fey. However, after Justice deduced that Fey needed to be kept alive in order to use the Founder's Orb, Wright immediately resigned his position as Atishon's attorney. and

Wait what

Losing his imagined "election".

Atishon wouldn't give up thought until Justice proved that he had left conclusive evidence behind. His fingerprints were on Armie's wheelchair and unlike the ones on the suitcase, he had been unable to wipe them off. After indulging in an imagined electoral win, which he then lost, Paul Atishon screamed for his grandfather before collapsing on the witness stand. He was subsequently placed under arrest for his crimes.

Personality

Paul Atishon
I believe the youth of this country are our very future. Too long have they been looked down on and given the cold shoulder! So, to them I say! Ask not what you can do for your country! Ask what you can do for me!
Kiyokimug

Mugshot.

Atishon was the embodiment of the archetypal "sleazy politician", in that he was very evasive when questioned (instead preferring to promote his political campaign or simply walking away). His ego was inflated to the point that he would refer to others as "peasants", preferred to have others carry him around in his personal palanquin, and was oblivious to the fact that the locals of Kurain Village wished that he would stop canvassing via megaphone and were tearing his political posters down in disgust, instead believing that they were crying tears of joy when they saw him and that "fangirls" were taking the posters for themselves. Atishon was not afraid to flaunt his political power, knowing that a normal person would be unable to fight back against his family's influence. Atishon claimed that he finds "discrimination against minorities" to be despicable, and that one of his political goals was to root out all forms of discrimination, although the sincerity of such remarks is dubious.

In actuality, Atishon was a very pitiful person; he was willing to blackmail Wright to work for him and had seemingly no qualms with murdering Archie Buff simply because he would not give him the Founder's Orb. When backed into a corner on the witness stand, he would whine and beg for things to go back in his favor.

Name

  • His Japanese family name "Kiyoki" (清き) means "proper" or "clean", which is an ironic reference to his personality.
  • His Japanese given name "Masaharu" (まさはる) can also be read as "seiji" (政治), which means "politics", referring to his profession.
  • "Paul Atishon-Wimperson", his full English name, is a play on the word "politician" (referencing his profession) and both "wimp", "whimper" or "whimpers on" (in reference to his personality).

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