30 Days of DCMK: Day 2

[ninthfeather]

 

Favorite Male Character: Hakuba Saguru

 

I know it’s ridiculous. I know he’s almost never in canon. But I came here through fanfic and this guy is such an interesting puzzle that the best of us have been throwing our best explanations at his contradictory behavior and incomplete backstory for literal decades.  He’s half-British and by the book, overly formal at some times and almost unbelievably rude at others.  Exactly how he goes from completely intolerant of all criminals to willing to help KID with Chat Noir is never really explained.  The time obsession is never given any context either.  He’s fascinating because, unlike a lot of other characters in the series, Gosho never really built all of his oddities into any sort of coherent backstory—he just sort of left them all there.  The result is a character who never really got tied up in a neat bow of “and this results from this” and who might not ever be—and that’s something that’s interesting to me as a reader, and downright irresistible as a fan creator.