ninthfeather | Headcanon Meme: Hakuba Saguru

Anonymous said: ooh, Hakuba Saguru for the meme?

(Guess who has to remind herself to do the canon version and not my ridiculous AU version, XD)

Headcanon A: realistic

Hakuba specializes in theft and fraud; he never specifies what kind of cases he previously solved during the Detective’s Koshien and I firmly believe that a lot of what he did overseas involved remote detective work and recovery of stolen objects and money. He has solved murders before, but he isn’t a murder detective in the way that Kudou and Hattori are. If he joins the police, he’ll actually be joining Nakamori’s division.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Hakuba is functionally bilingual in Japanese and English, but his Japanese slang has a fair amount of gaps when he first comes to the country, since he mostly practiced Japanese with adult relatives and through television. What I’m saying is that there are certain unpleasant slang terms that he’s sure, based on tone of voice, must mean something terrible, but he’s never learned the meaning of from any source of tutoring he’s ever had. Anyone who’s ever been to public high school will realize that this becomes a problem rather quickly. (Fortunately, the internet is useful in this regard)

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

He’s never been precisely good with people, particularly those his own age, so Kaito and the group of classmates that gather around him are his first real experience with friendships not born of constantly attending the same high-society functions or being in the same study groups. He’s quite sure that Kaito’s just attempting to get inside his guard. The problem is that it’s working, and he genuinely likes the thief he came to Japan to arrest.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

Hakuba is, at this point, not so much trying to arrest KID as he is to keep the heists from spiraling out of control. He’s conflicted about arresting KID but he cares too much about everyone involved in heists to stop attending completely.