broken beaten damned has officially kicked itself up to an M rating, and I'm only 1600 words in! I was anticipating a possible higher rating than Sonata just because of the setting (and the narrator - Daryan's inner monologue does not usually stay PG-13 for very long), but I wasn't expecting it to happen quite this early.
I think this one's going to need a lot of editing - I'm already seeing some potential tone issues in comparison to Sonata. It's going to be a little darker, but I don't want to tip it too far over the edge to where it stops being Ace Attorney (or, less likely, in the other direction, where it's too light-hearted for the premise). But that's a problem for Future Riella, after I've actually written enough of a draft to edit.