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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.

 

(Vague Clash of Red and Black arc spoilers follow)

 

So, have I mentioned my unholy love of spies? Because that is a thing, it’s part of why I’m in this fandom in the first place, and it’s part of why I love this lady best.  Another big part is that she is one of the few female characters I can think of who Gosho doesn’t manage to throw under the bus characterization-wise for the sake of comedy/proving a male colleague’s competence. She’s incredibly good at what she does, she has a heck of a backstory and yet has remained completely effective despite all of that trauma, and when it comes down to it, she has her priorities in order.  I’ll admit I didn’t get to properly watch her arc until recently but I actually kinda adore her and I realized that when I had to pick a favorite it was between her and Vermouth.