LogFAQs > #943147527

Not being able to present profiles (which you can do in JFA and T&T, but not in the original game) at first made me think that 1-5 and AJ were originally thought of as an "alternate future" for Phoenix after 1-4.

Maya and Edgeworth leave and since JFA never happens, Phoenix gets depressed and becomes jaded with law, which causes him to [REDACTED UNTIL TC FINISHES AJ] and becoming a hobo piano player addicted to grape juice.

Of course this isn't at all the case, but it almost made head canon sense until DD came around.