Yeah, them being apart for so long must have made it a little easier, at least. If it was just Phoenix and Edgeworth in the PW cast it would be a lot easier to work with any new Phoenix on how to account for it, but our cast is a pretty good size and several of them are characters that would be seeing Phoenix on an almost daily or weekly basis, so having THEIR Phoenix just randomly forget everything about the comm would be difficult at best. Plus I'm just selfish and want Edgeworth to have his Phoenix. XD

Considering the number of people his reappearance would affect and the fact we've already got another PW dimension due to Apollo Justice (the sequel from seven years later) canon, I guess another dimension wouldn't be too hard to account for, but the new Phoenix-mun would need to agree to it. Personally I don't think I'd be able to take a mind-wipe virus though, because their Phoenix wouldn't be Idgie's Phoenix. Even though that would probably be the easiest way to handle it (aside from the possibility of them not wanting to keep things like the Phoenix and Edgeworth relationship, which is happening largely off-comm).

Fuck, I'm sorry, I'm rambling and probably sound like a selfish bitch about this whole thing. ^_^;;;