broken-nosed gods

Things I want out of Detective Conan/Magic Kaito fandom:

Aoko being awesome
Ran being awesome
Aoko and Ran teaming up and doing fabulous things together
Aoko and/or Ran teaming up with Kaitou Kid and kicking ass
Honest-to-goodness genderqueer Kaitou Kid
Heiji being a dork
Sonoko and Ran hanging out & having fun
The Adventures Of Tiny Genius Scientist Haibara Ai
LADIES.


Things I am getting out of Detective Conan/Magic Kaito fandom:

Kaito and Hakuba teaming up
Shinichi and Kaito teaming up
Heiji and Shinichi being bffs
All The Dudes Team Up & Take Down Black Organization
The occasional fairly good Aoko-or-Ran-finds-out fic
By and large, DUDES.

. . . GDI, FANDOM.


Item one: I sometimes feel like I should form an elite society dedicated to writing about female and gender-boundary-crossing characters. Canon is about Boys Doing Things? Let's write about the girls! . . . And then I realize that everyone who would join are people I already know.

Item two: I just realized that I only ship people with Kid, not Kaito. (Kaito/Aoko, for example, is really uninteresting to me! Childhood friends, whatevs. But give me Aoko/mysterious phantom thief and I am ALL OVER THAT.)

So there is this new live-action drama, Detective Conan ~Kudou Shinichi e no Chousenjou~! Which translates to something like Detective Conan: Written Challenge to Kudou Shinichi but should really be more on the lines of Detective Conan ~Twenty-Minute Group Flashbacks Induced By Dates On Touchscreens In Empty White Rooms~ because there is a time and a place for literal advertising and this is exactly it.

The flashbacks-to-crimes so far are going about how you'd expect—there's a murder, Shinichi solves it, The End—but the framing device is pretty fun. The characters (Shinichi, Ran, Kogoro) hang around in locked white-and-metal rooms trying to figure out what four-character word related to the crime on the date shown on the current room's touchscreen is the password that will get them into the next one. For some reason Shinichi and Ran are handcuffed together; I have no idea why, and I'll bet they don't either.

The note left by their kidnapper in the first episode has little hearts on it. I laughed so hard. But what amuses me the most about this show is that it probably takes them about three to five minutes per room outside of flashback-time. :D

I really like this version of Kimi ga Ireba. And it looks like next episode's flashback is going to have Ran's mom in it. Yay!

I am kind of sad that I'm missing about half of Shinichi's deduction-monologues, though. I just don't know enough jukugo to get all those words.

On the one hand, I would quite like to write Magic Kaito/My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic crossover fic ("Hey, finally a safe place to hide Pandora!" "My, I do like that suit of yours,"). On the other hand, my reasons for not writing DC/MK fic stand: I refuse to perpetuate its status quo, wherein young men are detectives and phantom thieves and young women are love interests, and until I come up with some good fix-it fic for that I'm not going to touch a single plotbunny.

¤ Give me a pairing (threesome/moresome) and I'll tell you my favorite get-together plot. (crack and crossover pairings encouraged. XD)

Although apparently I don't even need suggestions to start thinking about this. :D

Mai/Kuei
Knife and Ink is my favourite get-together plot, haha. It goes something like this: After Mai becomes Fire Lord, there are peace talks! Peace talks which Kuei happens to be at. And somehow, while the real politicians are talking, he comes up with the brilliant idea of a contractual union between the two countries' rulers. His advisors are all absolutely HORRIFIED, as are the Fire Lord's. Mai suggests the two of them retire to a quieter location to discuss it privately. (And then they talk a lot and Mai is like "you really don't understand politics at all, do you" and Kuei is all "Nope! :D" and when they go back out they're both smiling a lot because this is going to work out *perfectly*, and all the advisors are D: )

Ran/Kid
threethieves Mmm, let's see. Ran catches him dead to rights somehow -- say, he's quick-disguising himself as Shinichi but missing a scar and she notices -- and helps him anyway. And he comes over afterward to say thank you like a gentleman, of course. And then he finds himself coming over again for whatever reason, and again and again until one day he realises he's helping her cook dinner and they've been chatting about her college plans for the past twenty minutes.

Or, alternatively, he and Ran and Aoko all get kidnapped/otherwise stuck in a small area together for a lengthy amount of time that somehow forces him to reveal his Sekrit Identity or lets them guess at it. And yeah, Ran has kind of noticed that Conan has nightmares about sinister people with alchoholic names who wear black (when he has nightmares about, oh nothing otherwise), and Aoko can hardly have missed all those snipers hanging around Kid heists, and oh, you're a karate champion/you have an in at the police station? And you know a famous teenage detective or two? What a co-incidence. I wonder if we could do something with that?

And this is sort of turning out to be totally a Ran/Aoko story, but I AM TOTALLY OKAY WITH THAT. Though I guess they want Kaito in on their schemes for his mad disguise skills and such, so they make him go out and do a bunch of the footwork, and it eventually turns into a threesome thing. and poor Shinichi is left at home solving murders for a while (eventually he follows Ran and runs into Kid) because Ran refuses to involve him in such dangerous things. Murder is one thing, but evil shadow syndicates are different! She's not going to drag a seven-year-old into that any more than she has to, even if she has suspicions about his family life possibly involving people in black trenchcoats.


wow that was long. (And, er, maybe a bit revealing of my ulterior motive of Give The DC/MK Ladies Plot Relevance.) Give me more ships to ramble about?