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Widget V · T · F
Occupation	AI assistant to Athena Cykes
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	Sometime before 2020
Last known status	Active
Eye color	White
Hair color	N/A
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)	Unknown
Associates
Family	None mentioned
Friends	None mentioned
Affiliates	Metis Cykes (creator; deceased) Athena Cykes (owner)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	モニ太 (Monita)
French	Piplet
Actors
English	Wendee Lee
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	Megumi Han
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	Turnabout Countdown

Widget

She was about to bolt!

Athena Cykes

Hey! Put a sock in it, Widget!

— Turnabout Countdown

Widget is the personal AI companion and portable computer worn around the neck of Athena Cykes that allows her to use the Mood Matrix to analyze the emotions of others detected by her special hearing. He was created by Athena's mother Metis Cykes, and thus its "face" closely resembles that of her other robot creations, Ponco and Clonco. Athena originally wore a moon-rock crescent pendant necklace but switched to Widget after Metis's death and turned the pendant into an earring. Widget was one of many objects that Phineas Filch stole during the course of the investigation into the murder of Rex Kyubi, although it was soon returned to its rightful owner.

Function

Closely tied to Cykes's own emotional state, Widget changes colors and appearance to match Athena's mood in accordance to the expressions represented in the Mood Matrix. He turns completely black when Cykes is experiencing an emotional breakdown. Widget's different mood markers all make different sounds when lit up; "anger" makes an ugly low G ping, "joy" utters an open high E, "shock" yells a sharp high G, and "fear" creates a mixture of a regular C and a doubly-high E, both of them soft in volume. Another by-product of this close relationship is Widget's occasional habit of saying Cykes's feelings aloud and often reflecting her thoughts (e.g. insulting people she doesn't like), usually to her dismay.

Widget's screen display.

When acting as a computer, Widget projects large holographic displays from its "face" that can be touched and manipulated as long as the user is wearing a special three-fingered glove with pads on the tips that can interface with the holograms. Beyond the Mood Matrix, Cykes also uses these displays for notes on evidence in the court record, researching information, and other day-to-day computing tasks.

Name

• Japanese - Monita (モニ太):
  • "Monita", its Japanese name, is a play on the English word "monitor", except the ta uses the kanji 太, similarly to the name 太郎 Tarō, often used to create generic-sounding boy's names. This led to Widget being regarded as male in the English version.
• English - Widget:
  • The name was chosen to sound small and cute, mirroring the use of the ta kanji.
• French - Piplet:
  • Its French name "Piplet" is similar to "pipelette", a word used to designate someone who talks a lot.

Development

• When Widget's screen is activated, the words "Hello, Kokone" are displayed in the bottom-left corner of the screen, referring to Athena's Japanese name. In a localization oversight, this remains unchanged in the English version. This is corrected to display "Hello, Athena" in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy.