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Basically, a grand master list of where you can find all the extra stuff related to my fics, as well as various other stuff I want to link. I used to keep this on FFN but then the site broke all the links, so…

When I could, I tried to link archive sites like DeviantArt and Pixiv, which are good sites for posting art but occasionally have NSFW ads, so be warned.

All art that isn’t otherwise attributed is by me.

Detective Conan/Magic Kaito

Riddle in Reverse Series: (tumblr tag)

(art) fic-specific art tag on tumblr
(art) Riddle in Reverse Tumblr Log
(art) Fanart of RiR chapter 7 by @falseneun
(art) Steeplechase cover art
(art) Steeplechase Tumblr Log #1
(art) Steeplechase Tumblr Log #2
(art) Art of KID and Heiji in Chapter 9
(art) Art of Kaito in Chapter 10
(art) Art of Chikage and Ginzou in Chapter 10
(art) Art of Conan in Chapter 13
(art) Sketch of the Deptford Police
(art) Kaito sketches feat. Poker Face
(meta) Meta about Akako as she is in this ‘verse
(meta) Meta about the Gosho boys’ skills circa Chapter 13
(meta/art) Kiyoshi Rogers meta which spoils Chapter 16 and earlier
(art) Sketches of Kaito’s Pokerface (canon spoilers for Ch. 34)
(art) Sketches from around Ch. 30
(playlist) Fic playlist
(reference image) Peach ring-necked dove photo
(fic) on balance by @presumenothing

Gundam 00

The Island of Misfit Toys: (art) Cover Image

Interim: (art) Cover Image

I love it when a plan comes together

(art) Ugly 80’s sweaters group photo
(art) Neil and Allelujah

The Man with the Shield: (fic tag)

(art) Winter Soldier!Soma by @jealizing
(art) Captain America!Allelujah by @jealizing
(fanedit) The screencap edit that started this

What became of his ancestry: (fic tag)

(art) Allellujah in his scarf (commissioned from @gundamc00medy)
(meta) Meta on Allelujah and Hallejah’s relationship in this ‘verse
(meta) Name meanings list
(reference video) Kazakh embroidery

Kagerou Project

Reset The World:

(fanfic) SNAKE Eyes by Reveries in Red

FMA

A Recurring Nightmare with Popcorn: (fic tag)

(art) Sketches of various characters
(art) Ed and Mustang in Chapter 4
(art) Ed and Radar’s Rabbit in Chapter 4
(art) Sketches of Ed in Chapter 7
(art) Envy disguised as Ed in Chapter 9
(art) Envy disguised as Ed, fighting Ed, in Chapter 10
(art) A manga page for Chapter 10
(art) Ed, Margaret and Pierce in Chapter 20
(art) Realistic-style sketch of Ed and Pierce
(art) Redraw of the above sketch, five years later

Unexpected: (art) Ed in his red sweatshirt

Discontinued Fics

Sealed Wings (TRC):

(art) Sakura’s traveling outfit
(art) Sketches of various characters

Shards of Sky (Scrapped Princess): (art) Bicycle Crashes

Past & Future (Code Geass): (art) Euphine/Disguised!Euphemia

Blind Justice (Code Geass): *please do not read this, I only leave it up because people still have it favorited*

(art) Lelouch
(art) Nunnally

Anonymous said: Omg, please do the ridiculous AU version of Hakuba Saguru also for the headcanon meme? I love your ridiculous Hakuba.

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)

Headcanon A: realistic

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Originally posted 2/28/2018

Current Music: Seeasons Die One After Another (Acoustic Arrange) by Jayn

Some Akako headcanon-discussion/meta because it occurred to me that the part she plays in Riddle in Reverse involves a fair amount of my thoughts about her.

In canon, Akako’s powers are explained a little bit, but her society and what exactly happened to her parents is never made clear. I’ve seen cool headcanons around but none really match mine, so here we go.

First, I take Akako’s age as read—she’s 17. I think her parents probably died doing something related to magic—maybe there was infighting with other magicians, maybe they tried summoning something big, I don’t know and it’s not too relevant, because, given the fact that Akako can’t let herself cry without losing her magic, she literally wasn’t allowed to be upset about it. By the time canon rolls around, she’s buried any trauma pretty deep, and we never get any glimpses.

Whatever happened, though, happened when she was in middle school or so. She learned social skills and basic human interaction from them, but most of her magic is self-taught. This means two things—1) she has no measure for comparison and 2) nobody really taught her to be responsible with her powers. These factors combined explain the attraction spell she apparently puts out 24/7. Something like that, which manipulates multiple people’s mental states has to be high energy—but I bet Akako’s never thought about the fact that spells the books say are “difficult” don’t seem to be for her. And as for ethics and responsibility, I can’t honestly believe that an entire society of magic-users are chaotically evil enough to have constant competing attraction spells “on” all the time—so Akako’s probably disregarding either a social or actual taboo because no one taught her not to.

Akako is lonely, and she throws her power around because she has so much of it but nothing especially interesting or productive to do with it (Drawing in all those boys is neither–she doesn’t even seem to enjoy the attention, much less reciprocate, and it’s clearly not a challenge). Aiding KID at least gives her something to do with the near reality-warping levels of magic we see her throw around. And, you know, his second-hand advice from his late father and/or his own advice occasionally nudges her toward better choices.

As a final note, and for my own sanity, I don’t headcanon the thing she summons as actually being Lucifer. It’s a spirit, maybe even an imp, that has an affinity for fortunetelling and is weak enough to not set off the truly impressive wards Akako’s parents left behind on her house. It just responds to Lucifer because it gets yelled at less that way.

Originally posted 2/2/2016

Okay, so I specifically wrote this up for @hawk-in-a-tree, who is in the process of watching DC and MK because we’ve been pulling each other into fandoms as a pastime for a while now, but I figured I’d post it publically in case it was of interest to anyone else. I’m also gonna incorporate some edited version of this into updated Ch. 1 A/Ns of Steeplechase, in particular, since what canon you need to know has changed slightly since the first chapter (oops characters from later in the series showed up). The timeline of the fic is slightly sketchy because I’m bad at continuity sometimes, but I’ve been trying to be good at spoilers at least.

So, without further ado, the absolute minimum amount of DCMK canon you need to read my Riddle in Reverse fic series:

Riddle in Reverse:

The fic is primarily based on the Magic Kaito 1412 anime, and there are really very few episodes of it you can skip—pretty much every episode is referenced in either this fic or the sequel, either directly or in terms of characterization. In addition, however, please watch:

Akako’s Delivery Service (MK ch. 17/MK special 9)
Dark Night (MK ch. 27-28/MK special 12)
Sunset Mansion/The Gathering of the Detectives (DC ch. 299-302/DC ep. 219)
Detectives Koushien/Three Days with Hattori Heiji (DC ch. 562-566/DC ep 479)

Steeplechase:

This fic pulls on the same sources as the previous fic, so I’m assuming you’ve already watched them. In addition, I’m using @silverbulletsama’s Detective Conan Watch Guide, which is a good way to speed-watch the series. You can use that method to more quickly get to episode 561, which is the most recent episode you absolutely need to read the fic. (Please note that you actually could watch the series, or at least the best bits of it, more quickly than that watchlist if you don’t care about things like spoilers and linear timelines, but this list is for hawk-in-a-tree, who is being sensible and trying to do this in order and with details)

In addition, please watch and/or read:

Clockwork Heart (MK ch. 3) [optional, but several jokes will make more sense]
Moonlight Sonata Murder Case (Manga 18, Anime 11)
¥1,000,000,000 Robbery Case (Manga: 013-016) [in place of or after episode 13]
Bond of Fire Case (Manga: 150-153, Anime: 77-78)
Stabbed Wallet Case/Naniwa Serial Murder Case (Manga: 185-188, Anime: 118)
Detective Conan Movie 3: The Last Wizard of the Century
Detective Conan Movie 13: The Raven Chaser

Finally, there will be some minor spoilers in the fic for places slightly past Ep. 561:

While the fic is set at a point in canon at which most readers had guessed the mystery regarding Okiya Subaru, if you have not, please keep reading canon until that mystery is revealed or you figure it out, unless you are prepared to be spoiled.
There are some minor spoilers regarding who is involved in the Mystery Train Arc (DC ch. 818-824/DC eps 701-704), though they are fairly nonspecific.
There may be discussion of later developments in the Black Org plotline, in terms of clues they find out about the organization and its members. I’m not good at keeping track of what comes up when. No Black Org members that aren’t introduced by 561 will appear, but that’s as much as I can promise.
Finally, when the London Arc (DC ch. 818-824/DC eps 701-704) is discussed, I spoil a few things regarding how the major case concludes, because I’m salty forever about that arc. Skip the conversation in Chapter 21 regarding what resources they have in England and you should be fine.

Originally posted 12/31/2017

Anonymous said: Is steeplechase getting near its end? If yes, do you plan to write more for this series or...? Just curious.

Steeplechase is in its final arc. This story is about Kaito bringing Hakuba home. Granted, it’s also about a lot of other things, and I do plan to resolve as many of the emotional arcs, side plots, etc. as I can, but that was always the main point of this story. Granted, getting Hakuba home means more than getting him there physically; it involves convincing him that this is home. The story has quite a few chapters left in it still–there’s a lot of conversations left to be had in the wake of Hakuba’s return, and I’m not planning to rush through them. Also I made promises to miladyRanger about the epilogue, and those date back to 2014 or possibly early 2015. So, given my current posting speed, making firm predictions on whether the story will end this year might be pushing it. But it won’t still be going this time next year.

I’m not going to write another chaptered fic for this verse, or at least, I don’t have plans to do so at the moment. When I finish Steeplechase, I’d like to take a bit of a break and catch up on ficcing for some of the other fandoms I’ve been neglecting in favor of this fic, and possibly even poke at some original projects again. But when I come back, I have pretty fleshed-out plans for oneshots set in this ‘verse, and I’d very much like to write them. While putting together background for this fic, miladyRanger and I wrote some backstory that didn’t really have a place in the fic–adding it would’ve been intrusive and unnecessary, so I left it out. Also, it would just be fun to write some lower-pressure scenarios with these versions of the characters, as opposed to what I’ve been doing with Steeplechase. There’s a lot I like about the character relationships I’ve set up in this verse and a lot I’d like to be able to explore with them. So yeah, I’ll probably write in this verse after this, but it might not be on this scale.

…Frankly, if I write on this scale again, next time I might want it to be original fiction. I really enjoyed this, and I’m so glad everyone else has too, but I can’t emphasize how much the length was not planned.

Originally posted 9/18/2017

A slightly pared-down version of my writing playlist for Riddle in Reverse and Steeplechase, for your listening enjoyment. It’s on Stayed Up All Night, which is a newer site, but one I really like.

The first eight songs are for Riddle in Reverse; the rest of the playlist is for Steeplechase. There are also some vague spoilers in the song choices if you look for them (particularly for RiR; seriously, just don’t look at this if you don’t want to be spoiled for RiR).

More notes (and links to translations of some songs) under the cut if you want them!

…I was nervous about posting this because I have a very odd and not necessarily good taste in music, and it has a lot of anime OST stuff in it, but here you go, internet. Hope it’s not too embarrassing.

I would have preferred to add this version of Ai no Scenario, but there was a copyright issue so I went for the cover that I could actually add to the playlist.

I also think I need to credit Raifuujin13, whose excellent (and unfortunately currently copyright-blocked) AMV of Centuries is why a version of that song exists on this playlist.

Lyric Translations: Hello World | Crying Prologue | Mirai | Eine Kleine

Bonus: Ai no Scenario | Seasons Die One After Another | Sekai wa Anata no Iro Ni Naru

Originally posted 12/14/2016

I am spoiler-cutting how I came up with the fic because, well, how I came up with it basically spoils the ending of RiR; I came up with that before anything else in the fic.

As for how I came up with the idea, I’d been wanting to write a timetravel fic for a while before I wrote Riddle in Reverse. I also really liked Hakuba and I wanted to write a fic centered on him.

But the catalyst for it was really the MK 1412 anime. First off, the OP was done by a group I like and was immediately my favorite thing, and also, the lyrics sound kinda time-travel-ish. A favorite Youtube singer of mine did translyrics, and the time-travel feeling got even more blatant (this is a song I can’t add to the eventual playlist because copyright but you should listen to it).

Second, it really brought home how…weird Hakuba’s place in the narrative is. Like, it makes sense for Gosho to have him help Kaito during the Chat Noir heist, in terms of what Gosho wants to achieve, but we’re never given an in-universe reason for why Saguru would want to engage in this frankly odd behavior. He’s just really contradictory…dramatic at some times and cold to the point of being withdrawn at others; I know at least some of the reasons for his inconsistencies are that his appearances are years apart, but still…it made me want to try to write a fic where he had a backstory that made it all make sense.

Finally, there was the Kaitou Corbeau arc, and I frankly just needed fixit for that on a number of levels. Both because Chikage had potential to be interesting, and it was wasted, and because a terrible thing was done in those chapters but it had no emotional or actual consequences in the narrative. I was not okay.

Anyhow, at some point, I think after watching an episode of the show together, I told miladyRanger, (my friend and beta reader for the fic) “I should write a fic where the explanation for Hakuba’s weird is that he’s timetraveling Kaito.” And like the amazing person she is, she immediately started suggesting ways in which this could work and before you know it, we had a pretty sprawling AU.

It starting with Corbeau, and being narrated by Chikage, came from my desire for Corbeau fixit as well as my love of complex female characters and spy shenanigans. Everything else built from that point. Structuring it as a mystery just seemed natural, given the fandom, and I thought it would make things fun.

While I didn’t have it written first, Saguru quick-changing into KID was one of the clearest mental images I had from the fic, and it was present almost from the beginning. I knew it had to happen.

Originally posted 12/6/2016

Current Music: Ai no Scenario by CHiCO feat. HoneyWorks

OK, seriously, full spoiler warnings in effect here!

So, first of all, you all should be aware that I left a lot of clues to the fact that Kiyoshi was Hakuba in her first scene. A lot of Kiyoshi’s dialogue is very clearly being answered as Kaito, once you read it knowing that a version of Kaito is behind Kiyoshi’s existence.

Second, a note about ‘her’ name. I can speak and write a little Japanese and I like playing with name meanings when I can; I also note that fanon!Kaito is very fond of wordplay (even if people have of late been arguing that canon!Kaito is less into heist notes than the fans think of him being). While it’s never given in the text of the story, Kiyoshi’s given name is written in kanji as 白. KID’s used an anagram of his title as an alias before; in this case, Hakuba just borrows a kanji from a previous alias–the “ 白” (haku) from 白馬 (Hakuba).

Finally, for anyone curious, here’s what the Kiyoshi disguise looked like, along with one of the doves:

A while back I took a screencap during the Gathering of the Detectives episode and it’s technically a summary of the whole of the Riddle in Reverse series (under a cut because spoilers):

A picture of the character Hakuba Saguru from Magic Kaito, a teenage boy with tea-blond hair and brown eyes. The image is a subtitled screenshot, and the subtitles include three variations of "KID the Phantom Thief"--twice in English, and once in Japanese katakana.

A picture of the character Hakuba Saguru from Magic Kaito, a teenage boy with tea-blond hair and brown eyes. The image is a subtitled screenshot, and the subtitles include three variations of "KID the Phantom Thief"--twice in English, and once in Japanese katakana.

Originally posted 10/11/2016

Current Mood: amused

I literally can’t put an excerpt on Tumblr without spoiling the whole chapter, because it kind of goes from 0-100 in the first 5 paragraphs. So, have some RIR-specific Gosho Boy analysis instead. Some will be relevant to the next chapter, some won’t be.

Kudou Shinichi: Of the five of them, he’s the most used to working in a group, but he’s not necessarily the best of them at it (that’s probably Eisuke). When he’s not actively trying to keep it in check, his paranoia does interfere with his investigative skills. While shrinking has taught him to rely on people, he’s still very…intellectually arrogant is probably a good way to put it. To paraphrase a recent Tony-winning musical, he will always assume he is the smartest in the room–and that his theory is therefore correct. His tendency to verbally entrap people during deduction shows, both as Mouri and himself, is a little unique–others do it, but he’s more consistent in using that method than other detectives.

Hattori Heiji: An unconventional thinker for a detective–he tends to use logic in ways others wouldn’t think to. The most knowledgeable in formal police procedure, due to the inside view growing up in a police household has granted him. His tendency to act quickly can be positive or negative depending on the situation. He’s definitely easy to provoke, but he also forgives quickly.

Hondou Eisuke: His background is a mix of investigation and intelligence, which gives him a unique perspective. He will look for indirect or sneaky methods, both because of this background, and because he’s never had a chance to solve a case with any sort of large organizational support, so he’s not used to being able to apply force.

Kuroba Kaito: More of a detective than he thinks he is, or he’d never be able to select heist targets likely to be Pandora. He’s always been good at thinking on his feet, and magicians need to be nearly as good at reading people as detectives do. But he’s still not used to a lot of aspects of detective work, especially the messy and unpleasant bits–Nakamori hid a lot of that from him when he was a kid. The sheer amount of information he’s trying to hide from the detectives is getting distracting for him at this point.

Hakuba Saguru: Take Kuroba Kaito’s skill set, and add to it a sliver of Hattori’s police knowledge, deductive skills on par with any of the detectives I’ve been hinting at his weaknesses…but I’m not sure how obvious I’ve been.

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Some Stuff About Kiyoshi Rogers (Steeplechase Spoilers for Ch. 16 and earlier)

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