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Headcanon Meme: Mouri Kogoro
Mar. 10th, 2018 09:56 pmAnonymous 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.
