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1 month ago

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE KAISHIN NORTEÑOS COUSINS! 💎💜💙👓

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE KAISHIN NORTEÑOS COUSINS! 💎💜💙👓

"La vida (Aoyama) nos hizo primos, pero el Norte (Fandom) nos hizo esposos"

"Life (Aoyama) made us cousins, but the North (Fandom) made us husbands"

The fact that they're cousins ​​isn't going to stop me. It's too late for that. You're 30 years late, Aoyama. And I've NEVER taken the movies as canon (⁠。⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

So… IN YOUR FACE! HA-HA! (⁠☞⁠^⁠o⁠^⁠)⁠ ⁠☞


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1 year ago

Que hay de Jii-chan?!

Ahora me dirijo al canon de MK.

Estaba pensando, que pasa con Jii? Acaso él sabía también que Toichi está vivo o es otra víctima de la traición por quien fuera su maestro y de quien fue asistente tanto en su carrera de mago como en sus noches de atracos como KID, recordemos que Kaito se preocupa por el anciano y de alguna manera creo que lo ve como una especie de abuelo o tío además de su asistente.

Recuerdo que en el anime Jii dijo que Toichi le había hecho prometer que nunca le diría a Kaito sobre su trabajo como KID. Pero entonces por qué razón Toichi pondría la entrada a su "Cueva KID" dónde no solo guardaba su disfraz sino que también le dejó grabaciones con consejos tanto personales como de trucos de magia en la habitación de Kaito programada para que esta se abriera al llegar Kaito a cierta edad? Y por qué Jii esperó tanto tiempo para hacerse pasar por Kaitou KID si no fuera para llamar la atención de Kaito sobre él, ¿Acaso fue porque Toichi se lo pidió? Hasta donde llega la crueldad de Toichi Kuroba y de Gosho Aoyama para quitarle todo a Kaito, para arrebatarle a su familia a las únicas personas en las que se supone que puede y debe confiar?! Es que hay muchas cosas que me hacen creer que Konosuke Jii sabía también sobre la falsa muerte de su maestro, pero a la vez quiero creer que no, tengo esa duda por que si Jii lo sabe entonces que le queda a Kaito? 🥺

Que mierda tienes en la cabeza Gosho Aoyama? dices que Kaito es tu creación favorita y le diste tu fecha de nacimiento por cumpleaños y aún así lo haces sufrir!!!!


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1 year ago

Gosho diciendo: son primos 🤪... Shunsuke Kazama (voz original de Kaito y Shinichi) diciendo: ajá sí 😉 mientras hacía esto...

Gracias a qué esto existe nosotros seguiremos también con el Kaishin 🥰


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1 year ago

Primera publicación.

En mi humilde opinión Gosho está dando patadas de ahogado, seamos honestos el Shinran es un barco que se hundió hace años y es que en realidad ha pasado mucho tiempo desde fue una pareja viable, esos dos no se conocen realmente a pesar de ser amigos de infancia, Shinichi cree todavía que ella lo necesita para protegerla, Ran es una chica muy fuerte y valiente que sabe kárate, ella es muy capaz de protegerse a sí misma y a sus seres queridos pero en el momento en que piensa en Shinichi se vuele sumisa y llorona; por otro lado está Shinichi que ni siquiera confía en ella lo suficiente como para decirle quien es realmente, si verdaderamente confiara en ella le dejaría saber la verdad pero no lo hace, una llamada de atención de Haibara es suficiente para deshacerse de su razonamiento y volver a caer en su conducta de autosacrificio engañandose él mismo sobre que Ran lo necesita y que no puede valerse por si misma, el Shinran es una pareja toxica que debió haber desaparecido hace años y el Shinshi o Coai es mucho peor, Haibara siempre logra manipularlo y aunque también es una chica con carácter y personalidad fuerte y luchadora al encontrarse con la Organización Negra se vuelve completamente una chica miedosa e incapaz de pensar o siquiera moverse que necesita ser salvada literalmente y aunque Gosho deje pistas sobre si a ella le él gusta o solo le agrada sabemos que esos dos juntos nunca pasará.

Lo que Shinichi necesita es a alguien que sepa su secreto y que sienta como un igual no alguien que necesite proteger sino alguien capaz de ayudarlo en su lucha, alguien en quien confíe no solo su secreto si no su vida, alguien que sepa por lo que está pasando y que lo comprenda, sabemos que Shinichi está atrapado como Conan y que siendo un niño no puede ser el mismo, el no puede ser Shinichi frente a Ran y su padre, y no puede ser él mismo tampoco con el tantei-dan en la escuela, está atrapado siendo alguien que no es y eso debe ser agotador, y es ahí donde entra Kaito sea Kid o no, el sabe lo que es ser una persona que no eres, tener que fingir para que nadie más salga herido, y aunque Kaito puede dejar de ser Kid cuando quiera y ser solo Kaito aún sabe lo duro que es tener que fingir y lo comprende.

Entonces sí, es todo, Gosho solo está siendo terco al aferrarse a su pareja principal durante años cegandose a sí mismo ante el hecho de que prácticamente hizo Almas Gemelas a los dos protagonistas masculinos de sus dos creaciones Magic Kaito y Detective Conan desde hace decadas!


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3 years ago

No one asked and because I have no love of my own DETECTIVE CONAN ICONS

No One Asked And Because I Have No Love Of My Own DETECTIVE CONAN ICONS

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3 years ago
Drawtober Day 5 - Kaito Sleeping And His Ladies Decided To Snuggle Up And Join In.

Drawtober day 5 - Kaito sleeping and his ladies decided to snuggle up and join in.


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2 years ago
@whalehouse1

@whalehouse1

YOU BET THEY HAVE A POOL ON WHEN BRUCE CAVES IN AND ADOPTS ANOTHER

The real question is who the all time winner of the game, the one who is always close by one day and the one that always fails?

Okay but Bruce Wayne would totally adopt Kaito if given the opportunity.


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8 months ago

Ya know I would be more ok with people shipping amuro x kaito if they didn't have a twelve year age gap, like come on. I know this fandom is ok with incest but pedophilia?? Really?


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2 weeks ago

WAKE UP NEW KAITO FIT JUST DROPPED

WAKE UP NEW KAITO FIT JUST DROPPED

and here's a pretty shinichi cos that's my boy

WAKE UP NEW KAITO FIT JUST DROPPED

ANYWAY THEY BOTH LOOK SO GOOD AND SHINICHI'S BLUE SUIT MATCHES KID'S SHIRT AAAAAAA


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3 weeks ago
Nobody:
Nobody:
Nobody:

nobody:

me: omg kaito is curiously pointing his finger to his lips making reference to that time his lips chastity was in dange

Nobody:
Nobody:

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3 weeks ago
My Condolences Go Out To The Kaishin Shippers But Also May I Interest You In Heikai In These Trying Times

my condolences go out to the kaishin shippers but also may I interest you in heikai in these trying times


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3 weeks ago
Heiji Referencing His Pick Up Line From Fairy Lips But I Took Too Much Liberty In Translating That Line
Heiji Referencing His Pick Up Line From Fairy Lips But I Took Too Much Liberty In Translating That Line
Heiji Referencing His Pick Up Line From Fairy Lips But I Took Too Much Liberty In Translating That Line

heiji referencing his pick up line from fairy lips but i took too much liberty in translating that line


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3 weeks ago
Im Putting Them In A Box Until They Stop Fighting

im putting them in a box until they stop fighting


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3 weeks ago
A Story Where Kid And Heiji Gets Along (and Conan Gets Jealous)
A Story Where Kid And Heiji Gets Along (and Conan Gets Jealous)
A Story Where Kid And Heiji Gets Along (and Conan Gets Jealous)
A Story Where Kid And Heiji Gets Along (and Conan Gets Jealous)
A Story Where Kid And Heiji Gets Along (and Conan Gets Jealous)
A Story Where Kid And Heiji Gets Along (and Conan Gets Jealous)
A Story Where Kid And Heiji Gets Along (and Conan Gets Jealous)
A Story Where Kid And Heiji Gets Along (and Conan Gets Jealous)

a story where kid and heiji gets along (and conan gets jealous)


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3 weeks ago

hakukai yuri! (more under cut)

Hakukai Yuri! (more Under Cut)
Hakukai Yuri! (more Under Cut)
Hakukai Yuri! (more Under Cut)

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3 weeks ago

Excuse me while I basically make Azure Throne into a hakukai fanfic.

This got... really long, and veered off from what I intended for it several times, but is basically at heart as I said, a look at Azure Throne through the lens of "what if we work on the assumption that Hakuba knew it was Kaito from the start, and/or they're actually outright flirting."

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Hakuba: Kuroba what are you doing here. Why aren't you even in a disguise- oh, I see. This is interesting.

Kaito: Oh god it's Hakuba he's going to see through me like I'm made of cellophane or something. Please don't call me out here. I am pretending not to know you. Shush. PLAY ALONG.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.
Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Kaito: Come on please let one of my detectives have SOME faith in me. Restore my faith in humanity. Take the fucking bait, Hakuba.

Hakuba: Oh, that's. That's... I see what's going on here. That does complicate matters. All right, fine. I'll play along. Because I want to find the truth more than I want you arrested.

Hakuba: [Merely pays more attention to the actual suspects]

Kaito: [internally shouting "THANK YOU."]

Hakuba: We need to know exactly where everyone is, what they were doing, and if you'll excuse me I am going to geek out over science now-

Kaito: Okay well watch me explain in detail how Kaitou Kid (who is Not Me, by the way, in case you needed to be reminded) got in here. And let's conveniently not bring up how no one knows how Shinichi got here and Kid left.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Hakuba: Oh, and I anticipated your entire trick.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Hakuba: Because I know exactly how you work and I also know exactly what your clothes are made of.

Kaito: Wow... you're creepy, you know that? This is why I try and send you off on a wild dove chase each time you're heading to one of my heists.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.
Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Hakuba: Isn't it funny how I planned to catch Kaitou Kid that way, and instead I caught you two. I'm sure there's absolutely no connection between either of you and Kid... is there? Kaito?

Kaito: Oh but you know you can't say anything until this case is closed. I know you can't.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Hakuba: This means you too, Kaito. I'll be needing your firsthand knowledge of the way things went, of course.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Hakuba: It'll be good to have another actual detective on board for this!

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Honestly I can just leave this one be. Kaito is enough of a tsundere that "But, to think Hakuba came back... he should have just stayed and studied in London forever!" is accurate to what I think he'd be thinking right there.

It also matches with the several times (Dark Knight and Green Dragon especially) when he's personally redirected Hakuba away from the heist.

Plus, with his attachment issues (one parent he idolised is dead, the other is barely home), I think Kaito would have a very hard time dealing with Hakuba, who (like his mother) travels a lot, and is... barely there, really. :(

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Hakuba: Now, I wonder if you can keep up as a detective when playing one?

Kaito: Oh yeah? Watch me! Uh... I just need a pointer. That's all.

The interesting thing here is that Kaito has played at being a detective in the past. He's even played at being Mouri Kogoro right next to Hakuba here, in the Twilight Mansion case. However... in that case he wasn't needing to play a smart detective, and in any other instance he wasn't technically a "detective" (Magic Lovers Murder Case, where Katsuki Doito is a medical student) or he knows that Conan is capable of solving the mystery if he gives the right hints (Four Masterpieces, when he's being Takagi).

There's also the time when he played Hakuba himself in the movie Private Eye's Requiem, and we don't know how many times he'd have done that, that we haven't seen.

Point is, though, Hakuba doesn't know how good Kaito's observational skills are as a detective and it feels kind of like... if he knows (and I'm sure he has a gut feeling from the start even if he doesn't have evidence) he wants to know- "I can keep up with you, on your territory, but can you keep up with me, on mine?"

With that in mind, the fact that Kaito's only relaying what Shinichi's telling him must be... frustrating, for someone who'd actually be curious what Kaito can do, and I'm sure Hakuba would want to push Kaito to be able to figure things out for himself as well.

But I digress. Moving on.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Hakuba: [Has just seen "Kudo" flirting and being sentimental with Ran, "his" girlfriend, in a way that Shinichi himself says is so spot-on its kinda pissing him off] Oi. Kaito. I thought you were interested in Aoko. Watch it. [Also kinda jealous himself.]

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

I freakin' LOVE these two panels. This entire sense of "Yeah Hakuba's got Kaito sussed and he's already got half of what's going on with Conan, and yeah the next thing he does is question "Are you really Kudo Shinichi?" it's because of a potential flawed deduction when Shinichi's supposed to be this perfect saviour of the Japanese Police Force.

And in posing the question in such a way, he's allowing Kaito - master of disguise! - to come up with a cover story. Which, of course, he does.

But overall? It's the sense of... actually, just as I said. Hakuba's going "Shh. I'm talking to [him]! Don't interrupt us, okay?" - He's going "I know you're helping him, but I want to know his capabilities. Not yours."

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Kaito just calling his ass out like "Hakuba I know you're obsessed with me- I mean Kid- c'mon I know you better than that~"

Also the phrase "Rumoured to have his eyes light up at the mere mention of Kid" more like. Kaito you have seen that in person.

More like I look at it and I'm like, is this Kaito saying "I Know What You Are"?

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

I know that it's not just them, but it's this nice little touch of the two of them standing next to each other, while Conan is on the other side of the group, and they're both mirroring the other's posture.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Kaito's already thought to himself how he barely needs to change his voice, and it's easy to imagine him barely changing his behaviours but adjusting so that he's more serious and less playing the clown or showman.

In this case, he's fully paying attention to the case (just as he has in previous ones as a witness) and...

He and Hakuba are on the exact same wavelength, with Hakuba finishing Kaito's sentence here.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.
Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Again with the twinning. Kaito has a slightly more clueless look about him, I'd say, but that's because he is out of his depth. Other than that? He's just as much taking Hakuba's lead on the case as he is Shinichi's!

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

The sheer amount of "Kuroba, your alibi is slipping!"

Hakuba's not going to outright cover for something that might be noticed as a flaw later on, nor is he outright going to call Kaito's disguise out immediately when other things are going on. He is, however, going to tease him to hell and back, push buttons, you name it.

And, of course, Hakuba in hearing Kaito's alibi and seeing Conan back it up, will also know that Conan is on Kid's side here even more than before.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Small and simple observation: Kaito is behind Hakuba.

At this point Hakuba in canon and the Hakuba who knew from the moment he laid eyes on him both know that this is Kaito. It's Kaitou Kid.

The start of the case had the crime get pinned on Kid.

Yet - Hakuba's just fine with Kaito watching his back and/or fully capable of doing whatever he likes behind him, knowing full well that Kaito's a skilled magician who'd be able to hide his actions. The obvious point is that he trusts Kaito.

And then - we get to the Flirtening.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

I call it that because in canon it's bad enough, with Hakuba clearly only started making moves on Ran to make Kid slip up.

But in a world where he knows it's Kaito from the start? In Hakukai Fanfic Land?

First off- I'd say that this is actually payback.

Earlier on in the case, Hakuba saw Kaito (as Shinichi) flirting with Ran. Thinking back to the very first set of cases Hakuba ever appeared in, and... he'd walked into class for the first time and seen Kaito being mean to a girl, to Aoko, who was clearly hurting, and then tried to be nice to her by saying, basically, "If he won't take you to the concert you wanted to go to, I'll go with you."

Going on him knowing that this here is Kaito? He'd be seeing Kaito flirting with someone who isn't Aoko, and getting very in character, and... basically going "watch it."

So Saguru is a) defensive for Aoko, b) jealous because oi, why are you flirting with her, when he is right here, and c) using this as a means of poking a hole in Kaito's disguise, because sure he's more interested in the truth than he is in arresting Kaito, but that doesn't mean he's above making life hard for him.

In which case...

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Kaito going "What did you say, jerk!!" is just as much "oh shit yeah I'm supposed to be being Shinichi right now" as it is "Hakuba why are you flirting with someone else?"

The reaction would be delayed because a) Kaito knows Hakuba's not interested in Ran, or not interested in girls in general, and b) the sheer amount of "what the fuck is happening. what is going on in front of me here" he'd be feeling.

Because for one thing, Conan's down there making attack dog noises, and for another- d'you think Kaito would just reflexively fall back into poker face if he saw the guy he likes/who he knows is interested in him just easily flirting around? I think that ordinarily Kaito would just be like "eh, that's just Hakuba being Hakuba" but I'm also aware of how fragile Kaito's social connections and relationships often are, as well as the rift between logic and emotion.

After this we have a few different things happening at once.

We have Kaito not having asked which cheek Ran had kissed Shinichi on and gesturing to the wrong one, which Ran instantly notices:

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Note that the flashback isn't just for our benefit; we see later on that Ran realises probably in this moment that there's something Wrong with "Shinichi" because how could he forget which cheek she kissed him on?

This being relevant because right before that...

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

He'd told Ran to not "space out" - but with the weirdness going on between him, Hakuba, and Conan, I wonder if it was actually Kaito who knew he was kind of spacing out here! Like, sure, Shinichi's sending Kaito lines, but in terms of narrative and themes...

And in canon, this is where Hakuba first notices the mike and earpiece that Kaito and Conan are using to communicate. Even in a version where he knew it was Kaito from the start, this would still be where Hakuba realises "Hey, what's UP with that kid?"

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Hakuba, in canon: Could it be... that those two...

My headcanon for that is that he was meaning to say "are working together," which is the easiest and most obvious/simple conclusion of his sentence.

Hakuba, in fanfic hc land: Hey, why are they working together? I know I didn't warn him I'd be here, but he could have been working with me. That kid already stole some of my reputation regarding going against you, and now this too?!

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Honestly, sometimes I remember the times when Kaito has shown himself able to figure out a trick or even a murder trick more or less on his own or at the same pace as Shinichi, and I see times like this when he's shown as needing a lot more help, and I feel frustrated that Kaito's seeming to be dumbed down a little to make Shinichi look better.

But then, I think about how there's multiple times over the course of not just Detective Conan but also Magic Kaito itself, where Kaito is uncomfortable around murders and dead bodies.

Which then starts to make sense of the times when he relies more on his detectives' wits for things like this; if it's a logic puzzle trick that he can treat as one, then he can keep up. If there's blood and bodies and Someone Died Here, which they did - someone died before his heist could even begin! - then his mind has a hard time, skittering around the unnerving parts and not being able to give the trick the attention it needs.

I'd imagine his thought process goes kind of like "Okay okay so if I could think of anything that'd be really useful (but a guy died a minute ago I was out there and doing normal things and a guy died) yeah but if you don't think smart now it's going to happen again or they won't get caught (oh god what if I can't do it) I have to but-" and... so on.

And back to point, but - Hakuba hasn't really seen Kaito in the direct aftermath of him having seen someone die, when Kaito isn't pretending to be someone else.

Technically, he still hasn't here, because Kaito is Being Shinichi.

Dark Knight had Hakuba arrive on scene late, as Kid was already leaving the scene, and in Twilight Mansion Kid was Mouri Kogoro, so even if his reactions were touched with reality, no one could tell what was Kid and what was Kogoro. Here, Hakuba wasn't the first on scene, and he only sees Kaito once Kaito's had a chance to put his poker face (and a Mask of Shinichi) on.

I'd even say that... this being Detective Conan, we've had a chance to see an entire character development arc between Shinichi and Kaito, even if it is still one-sided and not the healthiest of dynamics. We know that Shinichi's not really going to hand Kaito to the police on a silver platter.

But Hakuba? The irony is that in MK canon Hakuba is KNOWN for calling Kaito with helpful knowledge about his opponent (Golden Eye, infamously) and withholding information that would put suspicion onto Kaito's civilian identity (Midnight Crow, at least). And yet in this heist, because we're a) seeing things from Conan and Kaito's perspective here, and b) we haven't seen what Hakuba would do in this sort of situation before, he seems... more of a threat if he outright found them out than if it were just the police (who they can trick) or Hattori (who Shinichi would be able to shush).

Personally, I believe that Hakuba WOULD have worked with Kaito to come to all of the same conclusions that they came to in canon with Shinichi as the POV. Hakuba's a good enough detective, after all, as we even see him doing this in canon, drawing the same conclusions without Shinichi having to whisper in his ear once.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Is Kaito side-eyeing Hakuba because he knows Hakuba's being a little shit over this but he can't say anything because he can't admit that he knows the guy personally as well as he does? Is Conan flailing because he feels like they've been sussed out?

Or is it more along the lines of "Oh, you think you're so smart, don't you? Soooo clever. Yeah sure, after you've been hounding me all case- but don't think I'll let you have the last laugh"?

And now, I'm thinking of Shinichi hearing some of the familiarity come out in their voices around now, if not before, and he's finally realising "Oh- okay so Kid knows this guy. Not just aware of him, he knows him. Oh. Oh shit."

Fun fact: we do not see Conan again alll the way through the explanation of the fireman's carry that Hakuba is doing with Kaito as his partner. The next time we see Conan, it's after they've pinned the criminal in place.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

I find this interesting because... in spite of this being a case that Hakuba is starring in - the guy who is well known for asking "Why did you do it?" - it's the victim's wife who asks that, by way of her "But why did you kill my husband!?" and it's Conan who suggests a potential reason.

In a sense, they've both stolen Hakuba's thunder here, the wife by taking his catchphrase and Conan for taking the words out of the criminals mouth before the guy can admit it himself, in his own words.

(Ironically, Kaito would agree with Conan on this, probably, what with him having said "isn't it your job to figure [motive] out?" but as I've said before, I see worth in Hakuba asking for it in the criminals' own words.)

I feel like both I and other people have probably made all the jokes about the "I've got the stamina to keep carrying you for ages" part that I don't need to rehash it that much, haha.

But I DO have other observations.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

Kaito: So, you figured it out, huh... Hakuba: Of course!

Like... even way aside from the fact that Hakuba's probably just internally going "you're SO lucky I like you, otherwise I'd have just pointed out that you just flattened your hair the moment I walked in" there's something this reminded me of.

In the translation here, Kaito trails off on an ellipsis, but... in a way, that's a question. It's literally "So, you figured me out?" except Kaito may well have been expecting it even in canon, so it's no longer a question.

What's the significance of this?

Well.

Excuse Me While I Basically Make Azure Throne Into A Hakukai Fanfic.

It brings to mind how Toichi asked "Will you be able to stop me?" and Yusaku said "[Yeah...] of course!"

And of course we know that whatever Yusaku was able to do, it was never enough to stop the legend of Kaitou Kid from growing - and we also now know that he almost certainly knew that it was his brother Toichi right from the start.

In many ways it's meant to show how Kaito and Shinichi have taken up their fathers' mantles and become each other's rival... but this moment of "You found me out?" "Yeah, of course!" shows that Hakuba is just as much Kaitou Kid's worthy rival. He is thematically and narratively Kid's rival.

(And this is where I get my post limit for images, whoops!)

So, yeah. Kaito then has a space of about three [3] panels between Hakuba saying "I know you're Kid" and then Hakuba trying to walk and finding his legs are cuffed together.

I'd also say that in terms of pranks that Kaito (as Kid) has played in order to get out of a Situation, that was... a lot more on the immature roughhousing side than a lot of what he does. So much of his DC appearances relies on... action movie stunts? Stuff that's actually really risky? Because he needs to rely on that. But with Hakuba he doesn't have to. It reads more like play fighting.

(Because Hakuba, he knows, isn't going to attack him with a deadly soccer ball or knock him out midair.)

A thought on why he cuffed Hakuba's legs together like he did even if they're on better terms would also be the easy "Kaito knows that Nakamori is there, knows that Hakuba wouldn't be allowed to carry him all the way to the station, knows that something would go wrong, and almost certainly by this point knows that he shouldn't go out in public as Shinichi. So he's just as much going "yeah nope, not doing that, bad idea on SO many levels" as he is "I don't fancy going to jail today."

And, for an ending note: Hakuba at no point seems frustrated or upset that Kaito got away. Not for one single moment.

If anything, I'd say he's just going "Ah, there he goes again. Look at him go." with a fond look in his eye.


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3 weeks ago

The contrast between Kaito's dynamics with Shinichi and Hakuba respectively is so important to me you don't understand

Shinichi/Conan doesn't know who KID is under the mask. I doubt he even knows who Kaito Kuroba is outside of him being Toichi Kuroba's son and maybe some childhood interactions. To him, KID is just a criminal, more honor-bound and considerably less deadly compared to the ones he usually catches, but still a criminal at the end of the day. But maybe the thought that Shinichi doesn't know Kaito Kuroba (that even if he drops the KID act, if he starts to act more like his civilian persona around him, he wouldn't know any better), gives him a false sense of security. Maybe it makes him feel more free to be careless around him.

(Deep down, however, he knows he's given out enough that if Shinichi ever does meet Kaito Kuroba, his secret identity would disintegrate almost immediately.

Sometimes he thinks that might not be so bad.)

Hakuba, meanwhile, does know who KID is under the mask. He sees his civilian self almost everyday in class. He's seen him as the prankster magician who annoys the rest of the class with his antics. He knows he's childhood friends with the daughter of the inspector in charge of putting him behind bars. Hakuba knows him as Kaito Kuroba. But he also knows him as KID. Hakuba, while he doesn't have evidence, already knows his secret identity. And that is exactly what makes him a threat. Which is why he can't let his guard down around him. The least he can give himself is plausible deniability and if he slips up in his act, either as KID or as Kaito, that plausible deniability would be gone.

(Deep down, though, he recognizes how Hakuba is still so civil with him despite it all, that, even with his determination to capture him, Hakuba still cares about him as a fellow classmate (as a friend).

And if that makes him slip up sometimes, well, who could say?)


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The contrast between Kaito's dynamics with Shinichi and Hakuba respectively is so important to me you don't understand

Shinichi/Conan doesn't know who KID is under the mask. I doubt he even knows who Kaito Kuroba is outside of him being Toichi Kuroba's son and maybe some childhood interactions. To him, KID is just a criminal, more honor-bound and considerably less deadly compared to the ones he usually catches, but still a criminal at the end of the day. But maybe the thought that Shinichi doesn't know Kaito Kuroba (that even if he drops the KID act, if he starts to act more like his civilian persona around him, he wouldn't know any better), gives him a false sense of security. Maybe it makes him feel more free to be careless around him.

(Deep down, however, he knows he's given out enough that if Shinichi ever does meet Kaito Kuroba, his secret identity would disintegrate almost immediately.

Sometimes he thinks that might not be so bad.)

Hakuba, meanwhile, does know who KID is under the mask. He sees his civilian self almost everyday in class. He's seen him as the prankster magician who annoys the rest of the class with his antics. He knows he's childhood friends with the daughter of the inspector in charge of putting him behind bars. Hakuba knows him as Kaito Kuroba. But he also knows him as KID. Hakuba, while he doesn't have evidence, already knows his secret identity. And that is exactly what makes him a threat. Which is why he can't let his guard down around him. The least he can give himself is plausible deniability and if he slips up in his act, either as KID or as Kaito, that plausible deniability would be gone.

(Deep down, though, he recognizes how Hakuba is still so civil with him despite it all, that, even with his determination to capture him, Hakuba still cares about him as a fellow classmate (as a friend).

And if that makes him slip up sometimes, well, who could say?)


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