ninthfeather | Magic in DCMK'verse

Anonymous said: Personally I find it annoying that Gosho insists Magic Kaito and Detective Conan are separate because at this point how is that possible when KID has been directly involved in a Black Org arc?? Like...his involvement was pretty key to how it all unfolded in the end. And the connection between HIS family and the Kudos and Vermouth too...Also imo Akako having magic actually explains some things (Hattori's dream for example) so it's not like the connection doesn't make sense.

Yeah. Honestly, for me, it’s Vermouth that I can’t get past. Like, as much as I hate it, the single BO arc he got involved in was set up so it could have just been because of Shinichi. But the whole implication that Toichi taught both Yukiko and Vermouth is plot-important in DC, at least insofar as Yukiko and Vermouth’s relationship. And given that this is Vermouth, who is probably the most competent of the BO members (Gin is close but he’s not so great at successfully murdering people). Like, is Gosho really trying to sell to us that Vermouth let a random criminal organization to which she had no connection kill her teacher, and then let them live afterward? Because that seems odd to me.

I think at some point DC and MK were supposed to be happening in different universes, and then Gosho said something else, and honestly I have regretted every time I tried to pay attention to one of those interviews he does because half of what he says is confusing and sometimes he says things that are deliberately misleading. As a fanwriter, at least, I’m going with the written canon, not with anything Gosho says outside of it. And the written canon is unclear but implies the two organizations at least could be related, and definitely sets both series in the same world.

Besides, as far as magic is concerned, DC isn’t quite as logic-driven as we tend to think of it if you look close. You pointed out Kazuha’s dreams; Heiji also has one that he at least thinks is supernatural during the Naniwa Serial Murders. Also, that omamori works, and on a pretty different level from what people expect from them in the real world, from what I know. Conan seems to be able to sense murderers and also has a KID-radar. Likewise, Ai can sense members of the BO. And like, maybe with those last two Gosho is trying to imply that it’s reading body language, but it’s drawn like lowkey psychic powers. There’s magic, or at least a lot of supernatural crap, in DCMK’verse, there always has been.

Originally posted 5/25/2017 with 69 notes