Maggey Byrde

Maggey Byrde was one of Phoenix Wright's clients, who is especially notable for her very bad luck. She was the defendant in two of Wright's cases and was a suspect in a third case that took place in the office of Miles Edgeworth

When Byrde was very young, she fell off the ninth floor of an apartment building. Since then, she has experienced a myriad of disasters such as getting hit by various vehicles, getting sick from all sorts of foods, failing almost every test she has ever taken, and even losing every game of tic-tac-toe. She became known as the "Goddess of Misfortune" as she grew up, and at college, people called her "Lady Luckless". She feels that this misfortune always latches on to the people around her

During Byrde's employment in the local police force, she met Dustin Prince, a fellow officer. The two became well-known in the police force as a couple, and there were even claims of marriage talks, though according to Byrde, they "weren't 'lovers' like that." About three months later, Prince was killed during an outing at Exposé Park, and she was accused and brought to court for the crime. At first she was laughed off by the lawyers she tried to hire to help her. Luckily for her, Phoenix Wright agreed to represent her

Unfortunately for her, Richard Wellington rendered Wright unconscious and Wright lost memory. Nonetheless, she acted as Wright's co-counsel, guiding him through the trial process, until Wright exposed Wellington as the true culprit, leading to Byrde's acquittal

Byrde was grateful for Wright's help. She hoped to meet him again, and she vowed that she would merely be an "unlucky person" rather than a "goddess of misfortune"

Soon after her trial, Jean Armstrong employed Byrde as a waitress at his restaurant, Trés Bien.

On 2018, during her shift, Byrde served coffee to Furio Tigre and Glen Elg. She saw Tigre slip potassium cyanide into Elg's cup; when Elg drank his coffee, he collapsed and died, causing Byrde to faint. When Byrde woke up, she found that she had been accused of the crime; Tigre had Armstrong hide Byrde and Elg in the kitchen and reenact the crime to fool a witness into thinking Byrde had killed the victim. Byrde again hired Phoenix Wright to defend her, but Tigre appeared instead, disguised as Wright, and Tigre intentionally put up a poor defense against the case of prosecutor Winston Payne.

A month after her conviction, he visited the real Phoenix Wright and angrily demanded that he rectify the situation. The case was retried, but Gumshoe was compelled by his position to testify against Byrde, which upset her. Gumshoe tried to deliver a box of sausage weenies to her via Wright, but she said that she did not like them. Eventually, Wright exposed Tigre as the killer, clearing Byrde's name. At the end of the trial, Byrde forgave Gumshoe, admitting that she loved weenies. She later bought a new trench coat for him.

After her stint as a waitress, Byrde was hired as a security guard in the Prosecutor's Building. One night, High Prosecutor Jacques Portsman asked her to open his door for him; she did so, but later on, when she was asked to lock the door again, Byrde discovered that, in the meantime, she had lost her master key, which in truth had been stolen by a third party, so she merely pretended to lock the door.

She later found the key again, as it had been discreetly returned to its place by the thief. She was suspected by Portsman for the murder of detective Buddy Faith in Edgeworth's office. Portsman initially deduced that Byrde had tried to rob the office herself, but Edgeworth refuted Portsman's claims, by pointing out Maggey's ignorance of the existence of the Secret Safe. Potsman, using his authority as lead investigator forced Byrde, Gumshoe, and Edgeworth to leave the room as potential suspects

They soon got the knowledge which led to the real murderer being convicted, Portsman himself. Byrde was soon fired after her employers found out that she lost her key

Byrde's bad luck has caused her to lead a peculiar and inconsistent life. Despite her misfortunes, Byrde is usually quite cheerful and excitable. Byrde is prone to exaggerated salutes and referring to people (even Wright) as "sir". She has a hard time trying not to meddle with other people's problems. This often causes new problems, such as helping an old lady across the road leading to them both having dinner at Byrde's house

Byrde's enthusiasm carries over to her various jobs. As a police officer, she often watched court proceedings and, upon watching Phoenix Wright's trials, would always root for him to win. Notably, she only confided in Wright that she did not consider her and Prince "lovers," despite multiple colleagues publicly claiming otherwise in court several times. She is used to changing jobs frequently and almost finds the pursuit of a new job exciting. Byrde is very polite, taking poses of respect and honor to superiors, such as doing salutes, keeping that behavior even after quitting the force and doing it while working as a waiter or in casual scenarios. At times she is clumsy or afraid of things, due to her unluck.

Out of uniform, Byrde often wears Blue Badger-themed shirts. She wore a Blue Badger hoodie during her fated outing with Prince at Exposé Park, and she wore a Blue Badger T-shirt after her security shift around the time of Buddy Faith's murder. She also wears glasses with near-sighted lenses Bryde has a short black hair, having her bangs held on sides by clips like sidelocks, making her forehead fully exposed, her eyes are also black, Bryde has a slim figure and medium breasts. She is on her early 20s.