Larry Butz

Larry Butz (sometimes going by "Laurice Deauxnim") is overemotional and unmotivated, he has been involved in Wright's and Edgeworth's investigations from time to time, nearly always appearing with a different occupation and clothing. Butz also changes girlfriends frequently, with each relationship ending with him dumped. He had at least five jobs and nine girlfriends in the space of three years before seemingly settling on becoming an artist and picture book author

One day, during the fourth grade, he was absent from school. However, he was bored, so he went to school anyway and stole $38 of Edgeworth's lunch money. The next day, Wright was accused and put on a classroom trial for the theft, but Edgeworth and Butz defended Wright from the accusations

Butz first known girlfriend was Cindy Stone, a model, whom he dated during 2016. She soon dumped him, however, refusing to take his phone calls or see him ever again. Despite this, Butz went to her apartment. Stone was later found dead and Butz was arrested

Wright, in his first trial as a defense attorney, proved that a man called Frank Sahwit, was the real murderer, and thus, Butz was declared not guilty. However, Butz opinion of Stone was shattered when it was revealed she had quite a few "sugar daddies" to fund her lifestyle. Although he thanked Wright for helping him, he neglected to actually pay him for his defense

In December Butz took a job selling hot dogs by Gourd Lake to pay for another model girlfriend, Kiyance. However, she soon vanished to Hawaii for a photo shoot It was not until Wright, met up with him and told that Edgeworth had been arrested, that Butz realize that he had witnessed the crime at Christmas Eve. Upon understanding this he made it to trial. Butz testimony proved to be vital to Wright in eventually proving Edgeworth innocent of the crime. After the trial, Butz gave $38 to Edgeworth and confessed that he was the one who had stolen the money in the fourth grade. Edgeworth had already figured this out, but Wright was annoyed for being the only one who had remained oblivious to the truth

Butz relation with Kiyance did not last long. Later on, history repeated itself with another girlfriend, Bennifer, who dumped him after he followed her. Although he met yet another woman named Katty Tom while there, she soon dumped him as well to go to Hollywood

Butz eventually found a job as a part-time security guard at the security company KB Security under supervision of Wendy Oldbag. However, as soon as Oldbag had gone on vacation, Butz slacked off even more than usual. At 1:00 a.m. on the night that the company's CEO, Kane Bullard, was murdered, he left his guard duties after a confrontation with the boyfriend of Donna, another ex-girlfriend of his. Butz also found Ron DeLite's wallet and snuck out of work the next day to visit the DeLite household and return the wallet to Ron's wife Desirée, on whom he had a crush. When he arrived, he found Wright already there in the process of asking her questions about her husband, whom he was defending on larceny charges

Four months later, Butz appeared before Wright and Maya in front of Dusky Bridge, introducing himself as "Laurice Deauxnim". He claimed that he was the apprentice of the famous children's author and illustrator Elise Deauxnim, and had become a new person after reading her picture book The Magic Bottle. He also said that he didn't like the person he was before, being unhelpful and unreliable, always causing everyone trouble, and living as a failure. As usual, he claimed that he didn't trust women anymore and immediately contradicted himself by falling for a nun at the nearby Hazakura Temple named Iris, whom he again insisted was "different". Later that night, Butz dined at the temple with Wright, Maya, Deauxnim, and the temple nuns. Butz later wrote Iris an anonymous "blackmail" letter telling Iris to meet him at Heavenly Hall or risk having the "secret" about their "love" revealed. This scared Iris (for she really did have a secret, albeit completely unrelated), causing her to stay at the main temple that night

After Iris was acquitted, Butz said that even when he changed his name and his job, he was still useless after all. Wright, Edgeworth, and even von Karma tried to cheer him up by saying that, without the evidence he had brought to the trial, Wright would have lost. They praised his drawings and told him he was improving a lot, which made Butz regain his self confidence.

Butz is very naive and loud-mouthed, much to the chagrin of those around him. He talks and acts without thinking, even in trying circumstances that demand the utmost seriousness, such as during his own murder trial, or when confronting a suspected killer. The wide variety of trouble this has gotten him into led to the saying at his school, "When something smells, it's usually the Butz." Such is the frequency of these incidents that Butz habitually lies to and otherwise hides information from even his closest friends out of embarrassment, forcing them to coax the truth out of him, as his information is often critical to a case. He also has a tendency to switch between jobs and "girlfriends" rather frequently, despite the occasional claims of wanting this to change, he really likes to compliment women and try to have a relation with them

Despite typically being seen, by others as well as himself, as a very useless young man, he does have talent for art, at least when he puts time and effort into it. His stint as an artist produced surprisingly impressive drawings, and he was able to craft two automated clocks in the shape of "The Thinker". His quick sketches are considerably worse in quality, his performance as Steel Samurai described by Edgeworth (a great fan of the franchise) as quite moving, which would imply that he's quite the talented stage actor as well

Larry is an adult man of light brown hair with spikes pointing up, having also a goatee. He enjoys to wear open orange clothing on his top, such as orange suits or jackets. As an artist he wears a beret