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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

Shukichi knitted the black beanie.

Originally posted 3/25/2018

 

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. 

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

Although his muscle tone returns to normal with time and physical therapy, one more permanent souvenir of Al’s time in the Gate is his somewhat lacking immune system. It’s able to fight off infection, but it takes longer about it than a normal person in his state of health, for the simple reason that it spent years without being exposed to a single virus or bacteria. So Al catches every single cold that passes through whatever location he’s in, and makes Ed panic repeatedly.

 

 

Al really enjoys having physical sensation back–perhaps sometimes to excess. Specifically, he really likes the feeling of rain on his skin and so he will deliberately “forget” his umbrella and raincoat, even when it’s seriously pouring.  Of course, his traveling companions worry, so it’s just two hulking men with somewhat animalistic features chasing after a laughing, fresh-faced young man with umbrellas. It’s even worse if he’s with Ed, since Ed’s old injuries mean he hates rain and gets progressively grumpier as the weather gets worse, so Al’s antics just end in him screaming at his brother to “Put a f***ing raincoat on, idiot!”

 

Sometimes Al wonders if Ed resents him. He knows how much his brother loved alchemy.  And yes, he always says that Al is more important to him, but how can Al know for sure that’s true? Ed’s a master of self-deception, he has been all his life. He might not even be lying to Al on purpose. These moments of doubt don’t last long, but they always cut deep.

 

 

Al gets a cat.  Also, at some point in his travels with the ex-military chimera, he also meets a lovely old lady with roughly 26 cats and takes a picture with them in order to convince Ed that he’s adopted all of them.  He keeps up the charade for months.

Originally posted 3/8/2018 with 285 notes

 

She is the type who plays a single song on loop for days. Kano knows and thinks it’s hilarious.

 

She is pretty uncomfortable with her powers for the most part, but she’s not above using them to sneak up on people as a prank…or at least trying.  Kano always hears her coming.  Seto is startled every time, to the point where it’s not even funny anymore.

 

 

She is trying her best to be the big sister, now, in Ayano’s absence, but she’s not really good at expressing her feelings verbally, and her history with her family and at the orphanage has made physical affection difficult for her as well. She’s best at showing love through her actions–cooking, doing chores, listening to her siblings rant when they need to–but it never feels like enough to her. 

 

She keeps her powers post-canon. Momo drags her on tour so that she can get time off from constant public scrutiny, and also because Kido deserves a few months of someone else catering all her food.

This post is gonna be Kisaragi Shintarou since there’s not a lot of people who are in both the Kagepro and DCMK fandoms. I’ll do Shiho in a seperate post.

 

 

In terms of real-life instruments, Shintarou can play the piano/keyboard and the guitar, as well as the drums. He had piano lessons in middle school, probably, and he learned guitar in the high school music room without permission before Ayano decided to befriend him.  He’s never tried, but his crap endurance means that he’d be terrible at all woodwind and brass instruments and in general would be laughed out of marching band.

 

Yes Shintarou made an Utauloid once, with his own voice. Specifically, back in middle school when his voice was in the middle of changing.  No, no one can ever know about it. Not even Ene will find those files.  He’s deleted all the copies.

 

 

Good endings in which Shintarou uses his powers in the process of ending the time loop come at a cost. He spends the next few months (and the rest of his life, but the next few months are the worst of it) waking up from screaming nightmares of deaths and betrayals and other horrors that both did and didn’t happen as his brain tries to process the massive amount of information he’s suddenly remembered. Everyone is helping each other through these sorts of issues, of course, since the entire Dan is varying degrees of traumatized, but everyone ends up avoiding Shintarou a little at first because it is unnerving as heck to hear a detailed second-person account of your violent murder from your babbling, half-asleep friend.

 

I’m very attached to the idea of Shintarou’s condition as a hikkomori being actually treated seriously. A lot of Japanese media don’t take it that seriously, probably because they understand that some people who watch the shows are hikkikomori themselves and don’t necessarily want to confront that kind of thing in their entertainment, but once someone becomes hikkikomori, it generally takes a lot of effort for them to start engaging with the outside world again. It’s classified as a culture-specific mental illness, and it’s not something that will just go away after two days, not even two days on infinite repeat. Especially when those two days on infinite repeat are traumatizing in and of themselves.

 

I’ve alluded to this before, but Allelujah does not know a bunch of really basic things because he’s never lived in a normal environment.  He went from the SSI to probably living on the streets to being part of CB. When he and Marie start travelling around, it’s the first time he has to maintain a budget, pick out his own wardrobe with varying weather conditions in mind, or make his own long-term plans. It’s exciting, but also a bit overwhelming at times.

 

 

I’ll make this as ship-neutral as possible even though you all know my bias, but Allelujah is absolutely the kind of boyfriend who buys things like oversized teddy bears or those weird fruit-bouquets for his significant other if he thinks it will make them happy. He does not take into consideration, necessarily, the fact that there’s no room in the fridge for the fruit bouquet or in the apartment for the bear.

 

 

His name is one of the most precious things he has, but the fact is that, even years and years post-canon, he will absolutely look up if someone says something that sounds close enough to “E-57.”

 

 

Similar to Marie and Soma, I like to think that he and Halle eventually get to the point where they basically have a timeshare on the physical body.

 

Even once he’s an adult, Seto’s fondness for eye-searing green never quite abates. A lot of the other Dan members move away from their signature colors over time, or only hold on to them for sentimental reasons, but Seto just loves green a lot.

 

 

Whichever of his siblings starts dating first gets spied on via Seto’s animal friends.

 

 

After Ayano died, he spent a week straight avoiding his siblings, because he couldn’t shut out their thoughts, he didn’t think it was right for him to hear any of this, and honestly, he couldn’t handle what he was hearing.

 

 

Seto’s employers around town are looking out for him a bit–they know he and his siblings are on their own and that he’s acting as the breadwinner. He gets leftovers pushed at him on occasion, and no one says anything too harsh when he runs late.

 

 

Axel gives the impression that he does the most collateral damage of the Organization.  He gives this impression very carefully, and with admirable control.  He’s in fact very aware that his powers are very good for collateral damage, and if he leaves a bunch of half-burned out buildings behind him, those are deliberate. He fights people inside the Castle, after all. He knows how to control his fire when he has to.

 

 

During KH2 Axel, in the pursuit of trying to sound friendly enough to interact with Kairi, actually attempts to practice a friendly voice in front of a mirror.  

 

 

Related to the previous headcanon, part of the reason his friendly voice still sounds vaguely menacing is that he doesn’t have a lot of actual experience with friendly voices.  (Roxas sounded friendly sometimes, but it just sounds weird when Axel tries to impersonate him.  Who else is he going to impersonate? Larxene?)

 

 

All of my hopes edge too close to spoiler territory.  Maybe someday he learns how to be slightly less of a trash fave and a bit of a better person?  

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.