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Thank you, I love him too! Please note that this post is full of Riddle in Reverse and Steeplechase spoilers! (I will get back to work on those when my health gets back in gear)

 

 

Hakuba is basically the mom friend who doesn’t know how to take care of himself. He’ll tell you to remember to eat your vegetables and get a good night’s sleep, but then he’ll spend all night working on a case and do all sorts of other reckless things that he would yell at you for.

 

 

When he first starts working with the police department, he has a hard time remembering that he is supposed to be following the law. He’s so used to being able to do things with that are completely illegal that he just completely forgets that there are rules you have to follow when you’re part of the police department, especially when your adult colleagues are watching. He keeps thinking things like “ this would be so much simpler if we could just hack their computers,”  and then remembering that he can’t do that now.

 

 

He’s never going to make friends with Mouri. Mouri smokes too much,  and cigarette smoke, really any kind of smoke, will always be a trigger for his PTSD,  at least to some extent. To be honest, it will be easier for him to spend time around Shinichi once he is able to move out of the Mouris’ house. On bad days, he probably has to ask Conan to either avoid meeting with him physically, or take a shower at the professor’s and change into clothes from there before he does.

 

 

Realistically he’s a little bit too mature to actually get petty revenge on Kaito’s mom for the whole Black Crow incident. In my heart, though, he makes her life as difficult as he possibly can.  He also does this for certain other people he does not like, some of whom have not yet appeared in the fic.

 

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.