Ooh, goodie! Let me just... settle in here... many responses time!
I'm just wondering related to the 616 universe in this fanfic in particular your self insert's reaction/actions, like how would noa deal with a case with an overt mystical "fingerprints" like a victim of a bloodfeast from vampires and familiars and your defendant is a legit vampire hunter Eric brooks aka blade who is more or less waging a genocidal war against all of vampirekind or even she has to defend Dracula herself in court just as the way she defended that mutant kid early in the fanfic and magneto, I'm just wondering if she (and by lesser extent you since it's says on your TV tropes page of this fanfic that your a real life lawyer) ever had to defend a client with less scrupulous character and in some cases "guilty"?
Well, Noa would probably not be able to do anything – the requirements for forensic evidence is generally that it has to be "accepted practice" in the scientific community; that is to say, peer review has vindicated whatever method is being used, and it's accurate enough to be used in science, not just in law. There isn't a chance in hell that the mystic community is large enough to have a set of accepted practices.
As for your second question... I've mostly done plaintiff-side work myself, actually. But one of those was a client suing for damages from a federal program in the Court of Federal Claims. The client didn't actually NEED the money he was suing for, not in the least – he was a multi-millionaire with two vacation homes and had just sold his company for millions more.
But he was also willing to throw the entire monetary reward he was slated to receive should we win his case, which was
substantial, directly at lobbying efforts meant to expand the program and make it easier for other plaintiffs to get their due.
As for a second example... I was doing contract work for a tiny firm, writing briefs and motions for their litigation backlog. One of them, their client was being sued for attempting to bully a tenant into moving out so they could tear down rent controlled apartments and replace them with new, market-rate apartments.
Holy hell. She had 2,000+ pages of evidence. Photographs, videos, letters and emails from the property managers... holy hell. It was open and shut in her favor...
... and my job was to essentially just. Throw enough interrogatives at her in discovery that she was guaranteed to fuck up, since she was doing it pro se, couldn't afford an attorney, and had failed to retain counsel from any of the various firms and organizations that would do pro bono or on-commission work.
Yeah. I didn't sleep that night.
The other related tangent question would be if Noa would be willing to defend the likes of frank castle, johnny blaze and marc spector in court, especially if the likes of johnny blaze with the spirit of vengeance and marc spector with khonshu at play here, with both of them having made deals with powerful interdimensional beings with ulterior motives and agendas that are "evil" and "bad" in both the traditional sense and "extraordinary" sense?
Nope. She would look at them, tell them 'thank you for your consideration', and show them the door.
Except in Marc Spector's case. She would yell at him and curse him out until she was blue in the face, then slam the door and poor herself a tall glass of chardonnay to help unwind.
If not and she's only focusing on particularly mutant cases then, what if she has to represent jean grey, particularly in her dark phoenix mode during her genocide "cleansing" phase, illyana rasputin and her "custody" in the limbo dimension, weapon X continued quest for controllable super soldiers/assassins by the way of x-23 (wolverine's clone kid), namor and his diplomatic immunity for his arrogance to try to sink the surface world (and of course cuckold reed richards by fucking/force married his wife/maybe then girlfriend susan storm in this timeline?), the inhumans if they decided to bring the terrigen mist plot earlier here and the likes of cable, en sabba nur/apocalypse's resurgence in this modern era in his attempt, the multiverse hopping exiles and their attempts to save mutantkind, moira mactaggert's "looper" powers shenanigans, (unless you don't plan to include that from the recent x men comics plot points and storylines) Deadpool and his potential breaking point of his 4th ability/curse and his mental state deciding to go "kill the marvel universe" nihilism and of course who can we forget legion (professor x' son), his psychic thought form with magneto named onslaught and finally charles xavier's psychic "sister" cassandra nova.
The overwhelming majority of these will, thankfully, not come up. By the time Dark Phoenix happens, Noa will be 'on the outs' with most of the Xavier crew, for example.
Namor, Noa dislikes because she made things a bit of a
hell for every New Yorker back in the mid-80's by flooding the entire city for about a week and a half. This week and a half is why Noa keeps a home office setup in her condo.
But yeah. Most of these... either aren't going to happen here, or will happen so far in the background that Noa won't have the slightest fucking clue it even occurred.
Also the question is in this universe is Betsy possessing/body snatching the asian ninja kwannon or in this 616 she's a British Japanese mixed race descent?
Personally I prefer the latter, it's less complicated and problematic and it's much easier... (I guess olivia munn played the part gracefully and it's a damn shame the movies didn't utilize the character more to begin with).
Betsy got Grand Theft Body'd by
Kwannon Kanon. God, it's amazing how little you have to do to make the name actually viable!
But yeah. Betsy will have some issues to resolve as a result of getting grand theft body'd – dysmorphia and dysphoria are NOT FUN IN THE LEAST – but she'll have her adorable lizzer girlfriend to help her!~
