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@tomanynames said: Can we hear about the Blush Mermaid Heist please!!

I’m tagging @mirrorfalls because they asked about this too! I have…feelings about this heist, which is to say I disliked it. Detailed spoilers for the trick follow, so I’m putting this under a cut.

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Look, I’m not a real hardcore animal rights type most of the time, but honestly? The real victim of the Blush Mermaid Heist was the turtle.

It’s not safe to glue something to a turtle’s shell, especially for an extended period of time. If the glue is something toxic and goes through the cracks, it can make the turtle sick. If the turtle is still growing, you run the risk of stunting its growth.

Then KID put iron dust in the poor little guy’s food and stuck him to a magnetic plate. Again, we are not seeing a lot of concern for the turtle here. On a meta level, I think Gosho researched synthetic diamonds more than he did aquatic turtles, which are fussy, easy-to-injure animals when kept in captivity. I don’t know if giving a turtle enough iron fillings to supplement the magnetic properties of the fake diamond on its back and make it stick to a metal plate is safe. This isn’t something you can easily research on the internet, and I’m sorry, but I don’t have enough invested in this to ask someone outright. But Gosho did, and he could have easily called a pet store about the matter. The way the scenario is written suggests he did not bother doing this, especially as there is no effort to reassure the audience that KID’s trick didn’t hurt the turtle.

Gosho is usually nicer to animals than this–puppies and kitties get to be cute and remain unhurt, and the doves get looked after too. But apparently turtles aren’t special?

Also, okay, everything about the Masumi disguise situation was stupid. KID crossdresses almost constantly. Assuming gender based on clothing is a complete rookie mistake that Gosho had him make because it was funny. Except the gag regarding Masumi’s chest was off-color when he introduced it and it’s only gotten worse. Masumi kicking KID was funny, but it would have been just as funny if she’d gotten to do it for him trying to steal her clothes. Also, it felt like a cheap way of making sure that Conan, not Masumi, took the lead in the heist investigation. I’d like to see a proper face-off between Masumi and KID.

(Frankly, speaking as a woman, you can tell that a man is writing something when a teenage girl is restrained and unconscious in a men’s bathroom for an extended period of time and this is basically handwaved as “no big deal.”)

Basically, this was the kind of heist I’d expect to see in MK, where Kaito doing poor heist prep and making mistakes has a payoff–it increases suspense and makes the readers worry about the protagonist. For all that I personally am a big KID fan, when I read DC, I generally try to read the chapter from the perspective of the narration, so I was trying to read from Conan’s point of view. From Conan’s point of view, this was just a particularly ill-thought-out scenario and the humor/Kaito’s mistakes felt distracting, rather than like something that added to the tension.

In short, I’m not a big fan of the Blush Mermaid heist, and I hope to goodness the upcoming heist is a bit better.

Current Mood: annoyed

Headcanon A: realistic

Masumi doesn’t like being mistaken for a guy, but if she has to choose between that and being in clothes not suited for running or fighting in, she’ll risk the former. She may not know everything about what her family’s mixed up in but she knows enough to value freedom of movement, and the safety it gives her, over aesthetics.

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

While she likes living in a hotel (or, at least, living someplace with maid service), there are certain…downsides to her current living situation. For one, Sera is pretty sure she is the only high school student at Teitan who has ever had to tell her mother that she can’t have alcohol because she’s too young and it could affect her brain development. The entire parent/child dynamic is occasionally a little messy for both of them, since Mary has to stand on furninture to look her daughter in the eye and Masumi is capable of physically picking her mother up and carrying her with one arm.

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

Seeing Scar Akai on the Mystery Train made her worried about her sanity, because she couldn’t stop wondering if it really was him, even though she knew it couldn’t be. That incident touched off a good two weeks of seeing echoes of her brother in every tired-looking twentysomething with prominent cheekbones on the train, and of having to remind herself that not every flutter of dark fabric she saw from the corner of her eye was him walking by in a dark coat. She also lost about an hour of sleep one night just picturing his face, tracing the outline of the scar and thinking about how he would have gotten it and how much it must have hurt.

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

The thing about her chest size started as a joke. She was used to her old friends’ sense of humor, which involved telling her off in humorous ways when she deliberately broke social norms. But she came to realize that in Japan, most people fell into one of two categories: either they were too polite to point out her mistake and would just act slightly uncomfortable until she stopped acting outside of what she considered acceptable behavior, or they would say nothing because it was funny to watch the foreign girl screw up. Now, talking about her chest size has become a way of gauging exactly how casually racist and/or generally unpleasant the people around her are.

(Look, I know it’s happening in canon because Gosho honestly thinks it’s funny and cute, but I find it disgusting to the point where I was avoiding her episodes for a while so this is the kinda headcanon gymnastics I gotta do)

Originally posted 7/30/2018

Anonymous said: Akai Shuichi for the headcanon meme please? =]

Headcanon A: realistic

Akai was that one really intense kid at the back of the FBI training course classroom who had no goshdarn social life to speak of and basically just dedicated his entire being to becoming the absolute best FBI agent he could be, to the detriment of his own physical, social and emotional health.

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

Akai started making all that curry because he just…didn’t know what to do with free time? And now it’s kind of gotten out of control. His perfectionism’s taking over. He’s gotta make good curry.

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

Shinichi’s probably the closest thing he has to a real friend. Camel is important to him, but the man’s affection is born from a mix of guilt and admiration, and sometimes his regard feels…heavy, in ways Akai can’t bear to examine closely. James Black is his boss, and sometimes he tries to be a father figure, which Akai does not appreciate, and that undercurrent of tension is probably why Akai keeps bucking orders. Jodie loves him, but she wants him to be someone he isn’t sometimes and he’s not sure how to explain to her that he can’t live up to her expectations. Shinichi isn’t his boss and doesn’t take orders from him, he just likes his intellect and occasionally takes advantage of his skills, but with the full expectation that Akai will respond in kind. That’s as close to uncomplicated friendship as he’s gotten.

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

Shukichi knitted the black beanie.

Originally posted 3/25/2018

Current Music: Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru by B'z

In a previous ask, an anon asked for several DC characters, including Hondou Hidemi/Kir.

Headcanon A: realistic

While Hidemi never became a nurse, she did get first aid and CPR certifications while training with the CIA. It’s a way of holding on to the dream she gave up in order to follow her father’s path. She is not, on the other hand, a fully trained meteorologist, but she was rushed through a few community college courses and she filled the rest in with independent research during the first few months of her assignment.

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

Hidemi’s method of checking whether people are lying–cupping their cheek to feel their pulse via their carotid artery–is fine for small children, but it sends some mixed messages with people her own age. Especially since she’s a nice-looking single woman whose job involves looking photogenic. She’s accidentally led on two different men while trying to conduct investigations for the Black Org. She caught on to what was happening around the third.

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

Related to the first item, Hidemi knew enough about medicine and emergency response in particular to analyze the wound that killed Hondou Ethan. Somehow, she managed to bring the part of her mind that was performing triage and determining if the patient was still showing signs of life forward, and to push the part that was screaming about her father’s death in order to protect her to the back. That was the only reason she stayed calm long enough for her actual CIA training to kick in and keep her from breaking down and making her father’s sacrifice pointless.

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

More exaggerated than unrealistic, but: the only reason she hasn’t absolutely bitten Akai Shuichi’s head off for not forcing her brother into witness protection is the fact that it’s still risky for her to get into contact with him. Otherwise, it would be 5 pages of pure angry venom.

Current Music: Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru by B'z

Anonymous said: If you still doing the headcanon thing: Eisuke, his sister Hidemi (kir), and Sera Masumi. Thank You!

Sorry these took so long! I’m gonna be playing catch-up, but also, I don’t want to answer these all in a single post, so I’ll be making separate posts for each one.

So, this post will be about Hondou Eisuke.

Headcanon A: realistic

Parts of this have come up in my fic, but Eisuke doesn’t have extended family that he’s in contact with. His father wasn’t in contact with his extended family during his work in Japan. Eisuke and Hidemi will later realize that all of their father’s stories were stripped bare of any details that could be used to find his relatives or hometown. His mother, meanwhile, fought with her family over her choice to marry a foreign-born man with a disinclination toward answering questions plainly. While a few of them attended the funeral, it was made clear to Eisuke that while his mother was missed, his father was still a disreputable sort in their eyes, moreso since he wasn’t at said funeral. He’s thus not in contact with them, either.

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

Eisuke’s clumsiness isn’t so much an obfuscating stupidity trait as a natural flaw he’s managed to twist into a method of deflecting suspicion from himself when necessary. When he finally attempts to enter the CIA training program, this works both for and against him. For, because he’s gotten really good at working around his flaws. Against, because his clumsiness is real and is an actual problem during the Clandestine Service Trainee program.

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

Eisuke absolutely has a few nightmares in which he follows through and stabs Hidemi while she’s lying in that hospital bed. He knows it’s her as he’s doing it, but his hand moves anyway, and her hand doesn’t. Nothing gets him back to bed after those dreams.

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

All of my non-canon things for DC are probably going to be more realistic because canon is the unrealistic one.

Ran, Sonoko, and Eisuke keep in touch via phone and internet after he goes to the US. Eisuke considers going around Shinichi and asking Ran what she wants, but once he realizes that maintaining any kind of reasonable standard of living in the US will require him to get at least one part time job and also study English a lot in his spare time, he puts aside the idea of a long-distance relationship for his own reasons.

Anonymous said: Kogoro Mouri for the ask meme please? 😉

Headcanon A: realistic

I’ve been pretty well influenced by Ellen Brand’s Unprofessional Opinion, but I am pretty convinced that Mouri has issues with depression. I’d differ from her story in that I think he always had some problems with it, but that it only got to the point where it interfered with his job after his wife left. Japan’s bad with mental health, and Mouri’s not only terrible at asking for help but also a master of socially unacceptable coping mechanisms (smoking, drinking to excess, inappropriate flirting, taking his anger out on random bystanders) so he’s not exactly in a good position to get any sympathy or help.

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

Back when he was a cop, Megure used to take advantage of Kogoro’s utter obnoxiousness. He just set the guy on a suspect, apologized continually for his rude colleague, and had said suspect thoroughly off-balance by the time he actually wanted to ask questions that were relevant to the case rather than uncomfortably personal. After a while, he got Kogoro in on it. They had a system, and it worked pretty well until Kogoro left the force.

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

Kogoro doesn’t understand what Sleeping Kogoro is or how it’s happening, and the blackouts are more than a little scary, but it’s the best thing that’s happened to him in years and he’s more terrified that it’ll stop.

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

More not canon than not realistic, but here’s my version of “Eri left Mouri because he complained about her cooking.”

It was the last straw. You can take the movie events of the Thirteenth Target as canon or not, but either way, something had happened at work and he was on a downswing. He wasn’t doing his part around the house, and instead was sitting around, drinking beer and watching TV, and it finally sank in for Eri that neither nagging him nor manipulating him was going to effectively stop this behavior. (Of course, talking with him might have actually worked, but neither of them were ever very good at things like communicating their feelings directly) He complained about her cooking, she realized that she couldn’t make Kogoro into the man she wanted him to be by force, and she left.

ranichi17 also asked for Miyano Shiho!

Headcanon A: realistic

Shiho had the intelligence to go to Tokyo University or another top-ranked school, but not the background. In Japan, a fair amount of weight is placed on how good the high school you attended was when entering college, and Shiho was likely homeschooled while working on projects for the Org, since the way she acts as Ai indicates that normal socialization isn’t exactly a familiar experience for her. So her degree is through a second-rate institution with some slightly shady faculty members, but their library is adequate and that’s good enough for her.

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

The Black Organization didn’t exactly provide babysitting, so Shiho spent a lot of her early childhood hanging around her parent’s lab. it wasn’t unusual to come into the lab and see her and Akemi on the floor with a set of blocks or a set of toy test tubes. Safely away from the hazardous substances, of course. The two of them ended up with a lower-level member of the organization assigned to them as a de-facto babysitter. It was essentially punishment duty. Obviously the organization had worst punishments than having to look after two genius preschoolers, but not a lot of worse punishments.

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

When Shiho was younger, she wanted to work at a big pharmaceutical company and do work like her parents’, except she wanted to be able to decide what projects she would work on for herself. Akemi held off on explaining the facts of the situation for a while, but she did eventually get to that point.

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

Ai’s neck-deep in the supernatural shenanigans and fully aware of it. She went to the mermaid island for research. She likes hard science better, sure, but that doesn’t mean she’s in denial (unlike certain Holmes nerds). She knows that being able to sense members of a certain organization isn’t normal, and neither is however Kudou scents murderers and attracts murders. And then there’s Toyama-san, who’s on a whole different plane of weird. Bottom line: she knows.

@mirrorfalls said: Oh, you're still doing these? Then I submit... the Black Organization. As a body or as individuals.

I find this kinda hard to do for a whole group, but I’m not doing the whole Org, individual by individual.

Headcanon A: realistic

It’s not something that canon gets into, but realistically, a criminal organization that big has to be into good, old-fashioned illegal drug trafficking and smuggling as well as the murder, extortion, and theft we see onscreen. Probably they deal in knock-off goods too.

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

You can get in trouble for letting your black clothing get too faded. Grey isn’t black, okay! There’s a dress code.

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

Ai and her sister were not the only kids born into positions with the Black Org, not by a long shot. Akemi isn’t unique in her fate, either.

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

Look, you can pry the “APTX and Pandora are related in some way” headcanon from my cold dead hands.

Anonymous said: Shinichi?

Headcanon A: realistic

Shinichi doesn’t have a lot of regrets about deciding to pursue detective work over soccer, but there are a few times, just after becoming Conan, when he has a bad day and he wonders.

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

He lowkey enjoyed riding around on that giant dog and kind of wishes the Mouris would let him get a pet. It would be softer than the skateboard, and the kids would probably like it too.

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

The stupid, stupid recklessness on cases started out as him forgetting he was tiny, but evolved into him disregarding it instead. It’s a control thing, a way of fighting against the limitations of his own body–if he can still manage the things he used to be able to do, then he wins. Admitting that he’s endangering himself would be a concession, one that he’s less willing to make the longer he remains stuck as Conan.

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

If Shinichi and Kaito aren’t actually related, Toichi was at least a close enough family friend to babysit him as a kid. This is not a novel headcanon, but I don’t care, it’s dearly held regardless.

@mirrorfalls said: Ran Mouri.

Headcanon A: realistic

After the second or third time she had to actively use karate on a case, Ran started shifting her training focus to incorporate not only things that would be effective and legal in regulation matches but also things that would work on a real assailant.

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

Especially if you take the movies as canon, Ran is probably an Internet Cryptid™ in the sense that there’s stories about a brown-haired teenage girl doing impossible things that show up on various message boards once in a while. Maybe someone even got a really blurry photo of her kicking out that car window. Ran’s definitely the type who doesn’t spend a lot of time on the internet, so she has no idea. Sonoko knows and thinks it’s the best thing ever.

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

Ran puts up with Shinichi’s increasingly unacceptable behavior as a romantic interest/boyfriend in part because of her own family situation. She knows she doesn’t want to end up like her own parents, who refuse to tolerate one another’s bad points whatsoever, so she’s swung too far the other direction and started putting up with things from Shinichi that she knows aren’t fair to her.

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

At this point, it’s not that Ran doesn’t suspect, or for that matter, that she isn’t pretty darn sure. She’s just tired of Conan diverting her.

(She’s not an idiot)

Anonymous said: In the new kingsman movie the American agency uses alcoholic codenames and honestly I can't stop thinking about the black org

Same.

I was having these thoughts when the promotional trailers came out. I loved Kingsman–like, it was a bit gory for me, but the spy tropes and stylized fighting and completely extra gadgets are all very up my alley–so I am looking forward to it, but also, I’m sorry, when I watch the movie a crossover is happening in my head. I don’t know that it’s even a choice anymore.

It would work, though, right? I mean, DC is just as bad about the gadgets, and given that Akai is apparently the best sniper alive in DC-verse, there is no chance that Kingsman doesn’t at least know about him. Since I’ve not seen the movie itself yet and only know what the promos tell us about the US agency, I’m hesitant to actually start sketching out a crossover, but I can think of several ways it could be workable, and someone should write it.

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(comment on a reblog of Kingsman: The Golden Circle promotional posters, linked in the above post)

On one hand, I love Kingsman with all of my spy-obsessed heart.

On the other, why’d it have to be alcohol-based codenames? There’s no use for it. The Detective Conan part of my brain’s turned on now. I’m going to have to spend half the movie reminding myself they’re not Black Org.

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

@mirrorfalls said: Bruh, talk to us about all the ways Gosho - as a writer - frustrates you.

…How long do you have?

No, really, disclaimer because I’m not a fan of the Discourse, I do like some things Gosho does, or I wouldn’t be here. But I do fandom by analyzing the heck out of things, and there are so many things that Gosho could do better. Just…keep in mind that if I didn’t like this series I wouldn’t care enough to complain so much. We are all in the same fandom.

I will probably forget some things, but here we go!

Gosho doesn’t write women well. He has the kind of ideas about women secretly needing rescuing by the men in their lives you’d expect from a guy his age. He also tends to hijack their arcs for romance. Like, god forbid Jodie or Sato get to be awesome on their own, Akai has to upstage Jodie and Takagi has to at least help!

He shuffles emotional arcs offscreen, ignores them completely, or if they have to happen onscreen, he rushes through them. There are so many cases and heists that should have had a coda involving the characters reacting with some sort of emotion, maybe even talking about feelings (oh horror), and it never happens. Like, KID just flies off after the Nightmare Heist. Or Heiji gets hurt badly onscreen and it immediately turns into a joke about how everyone was overreacting (Naniwa Serial Murders).

Related to that, he’s fantastic at setting up those emotional arcs and then he doesn’t follow through. Like, why did a person who barely likes to admit his main characters have emotions besides “justice” and “mischief” get the ability to set up something as brutal as Nightmare. That frustrates me on a visceral level.

He’s also really good at writing cases at least sometimes, but other times, heavens, they’re terrible. DC has ridiculously inconsistent quality and it makes me sad. I know some of that is his schedule being brutal and the sheer output expected of him, but at the same time…he’s got assistants, too, and enough money to hire a lot of them.

He underuses the side characters. He’s got a lot of really cool ones, and a lot of the best cases IMO have Heiji or the Nagano trio in them, but most of the cases still end up with the main cast only. Hakuba rarely shows up, Eisuke got put on a bus. It’s been almost 1000 chapters and some characters still haven’t met–take advantage of untapped wells of character interaction!

Gosho’s handling of romance also tends not to be terrible deft. Like, we can agree to disagree, definitely, but he’s been drawing out Heiji and Kazuha’s romantic out to an awkward degree, if nothing else.

Related to that, Gosho’s awkward incorporation of his probable teenagerhood desire to see girl’s underthings into his children’s manga is unprofessional. No, really, the perverted jokes stopped being funny a long time ago, especially as a girl, honestly.

He’s so inconsistent with how reality works in his universe. People might be able to sense murderers and also rocket skateboards work but you can tell who was the murderer by whether they’ve got the muscle mass to lift the murder weapon. Everyone fudges physics a little once in a while but he really could do better.

One of my biggest complaints is that he really doesn’t seem to realize that he wrote a bunch of dysfunctional families. Like, Shinichi grew up going to crime scenes and started living alone before high school, Ran’s half responsible for her alcoholic dad, Kaito and his mom vary by canon but there’s always the phantom thief secret looming between…and Gosho never seems to think this might be a formative thing for any of the characters. Ever.

On that note, Gosho almost never writes anyone having lasting trauma unless they’ve killed someone over it. No one’s upset by seeing the dead bodies unless the plot requires it. Shinichi is very rarely upset by his near death and when he is it’s because we need to lead into a flashback; while it’s implied that Kaito must be messed up over his dad’s death, this is something we only learn through his decision to become KID, since we don’t really see him mourn at any point. Ai is the one exception I can think of to this, but I have to go back to the above thing–most of her emotional arc gets shoved offscreen, though I’ll admit what is on screen is actually pretty great.

That’s the thing. When Gosho does bring himself to write feelings, and people having trauma, and relationships that aren’t built on stacks of lies, it’s often amazing. (Okay I’m thinking about Fuurinkazan here.) But he never does it.

The timeline. IT HASN’T BEEN HALF A YEAR GOSHO FIGHT ME.

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru by B'z

Anonymous said: Honestly with how often Kaito disguises as Shinichi in the movies i wouldn't be surprised if the theory that 'Kudou Shinichi is actually KID' started becoming increasingly more popular among people. KID fans in movie-verse or something having these huge conspiracy theories about it.

This almost certainly happens. I imagine there are boards on the same KID forums that Sonoko frequent dedicated to it. You can divide the posters up into a few groups:

1) Proponents of the theory, who a) think it Just Makes Sense, b) think both KID and Kudou are hot and thus feel this simplifies things immensely, or c) are fascinated by the inherent moral quandary presented by a prominent murder detective moonlighting as a nonviolent thief (these people make subforums and debate whether Kudou-as-KID still qualifies as a morally good human and cite philosophers and moral theorists as evidence)

2) Kudou stans, who are offended that anyone thinks that the Great Detective of the East would stOOP TO THEFT

3) KID stans, who are offended that anyone thinks that the Magician Under the Moonlight is secretly a murder detective how boring

4) Trolls (KID himself is included in this category; while he posts reasonable things in other parts of the forum, everything he posts in this area is either nonsense or agitation)

5) Members of the KID Task Force, who sweep the forum for clues and aren’t supposed to post but occasionally argue with the trolls if they insult KID too much (even when people are theorizing that KID is Kudou, which they don’t believe for a second)

6) People with reasonable arguments against the theory, who rarely last more than two weeks (Kudou himself, who posts occasionally under a pseudonym, is an exception to this rule)

(Yes, KID and Kudou have in fact gotten into an internet post war without fully knowing, though both of them had an odd feeling the whole way through. Kudou just figured there was a draft in Agasa’s lab and Kaito figured it was test anxiety over an upcoming exam he was avoiding preparation for.)

I want to actually fic this but I’m pretty sure I don’t have the time, so I’m releasing it into the wild for now. Maybe I’ll come back to it, maybe not, but if anyone else wants to take a crack in the meantime, feel free!

Originally posted on 4/26/2017, with 248 notes

Detective Conan and Magic Kaito are two old, interconnected fandoms that are somehow still active, and that fact never ceases to give me joy. That said, a lot of the authors that got me into this fandom are no longer writing. So, this list of recs is limited to people who have written or updated their fics relatively recently.

Ichthyophobia is incredibly prolific and everything they write is beautiful. They come up with really, really neat ideas for fics and then execute them better than you would’ve hoped for. Their grasp of the characters and their voices is particularly strong. Given the wave of Scarlet Arc hype that just swept through Tumblr, I eventually settled on recommending Two-Faced, Half-Faced , a fic with Scarlet Arc spoilers. It’s got a rare combination of characters—I don’t think I’ve ever seen KID and Akai in the same fic, with or without Conan and Sera—and is a little bit closer to the current manga timeline than the other DC fics on this list.

brawltogethernow is really good at writing humor—but also using it to create drama. Most of their fics are short but incredibly punchy, and simultaneously feel complete and make you wish that they weren’t, regardless. Their grasp of the characters, both their voices and their thought processes, is flawless. Makes Me Feel Alive is a MK fic about Inspector Nakamori and is one of the best analyses of the relationship between him and KID that exists. Go read it, you will not regret it.

miladyRanger is a friend, and I beta-read for her; that said, she’s also just an excellent writer and if you haven’t found her MK fic yet you’re missing out. You can see the thought she’s put into her portrayal of the character dynamics in every interaction, and the writing itself flows really well. Her descriptions are excellent, and she’s got a gift for surprising the reader. Front Row Seat is an MK fic from Aoko’s perspective that’s part character study and part narrative, and definitely worth checking out.

darkcyan is particularly skilled at using imagery. They’ve also got a firm grasp of Shinichi’s often disorderly thought process. Their writing is generally top-notch, particularly the descriptions of the character’s tones and expressions, and the dialogue feels entirely natural. Late-Night Conversations, a Heiji and Conan friendship fic series, is particularly worth checking out.

joishbishmyoga has been writing in this fandom for years, but they’re still quite active. They know how to construct a story; more than that, they know how to balance everything they need in order for that story to work—not only the genres, but also the characters, the subplots and the often shaky balance between science, pseudoscience and straight-out magic that canon leaves authors with. They’re incredibly flexible in terms of genre, as well—equally adept at humor and angst. They write a variety of genres, ratings and pairings, so give their archive a look! Inconceivable is a particularly skilled execution of one of the more common DCMK crossover tropes that distinguishes itself by edging into detective noir territory in places–I particularly recommend it.

Ocianne is another one of the older DCMK writers who is still active at the moment. They specialize in creative AUs and filling in gaps in canon with creative headcanons that make as much or more sense than what Aoyama originally wrote. They also have a special gift for using their understanding of the characters to tear both the characters and the readers apart emotionally. The way she writes Kaito is basically my headcanon for his thought process, now—her fics were that formative. I know that not everyone loves crossovers, but if you want to read Ocianne’s work, I can’t in good conscience recommend anything other than the Promenade & The Way Home series. I can’t do it justice other than to say that it is probably the best multi-crossover in existence, and also a good tour of the headcanons and shared OCs floating around the MK fandom at various points in time.

MeridianGrimm writes a lot of KaiHaku which isn’t my cup of tea, but even when they’re writing gen they’ve clearly got the character dynamics between nearly everyone down. The dialogue in their fic is snapy, and often quite hilarious. I particularly like the way she writes Hakuba. As for a recommendation, The Confidant is a nice little gen fic with three of four Gosho Boys and all the deducing you could want.

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