Parodismal

I think Conan needs better disguise since i want everyone to be smarter in this au. So i try to make Conan and Child!Shinichi looks different enough, but still similar enough to be related to Kudo fam.

APTX actually reverts him to a 4 year old (that's why he's so smol), but Shinichi just claims he's 6.

Early conan has some baby fat (and also excess body mass from Teenager Shinichi). Also this is heavily inspired by old style conan and his chubby cheeks!

I guess this will help with Yukiko's disguise, Edogawa's family genetics are chubbier and shorter than Kudo's.

Conan looks sliiiightly paler than shinichi cuz he's sick

Black hair dye and dark brown contacts to hide his identity better. (Shinichi is not 100% japanese cuz Yukiko and i think that will attracts attention)

Glasses because he kinda has blurry eyes now thanks to the concussion. (and it makes your nose looks smaller, your eyes bigger.)

like far in the future some nosy reporter ask Robert about the ring(s) in his finger(s) and he be 'oh yeah, got some polycule going on (context: he said that on April 1st) so the fandom will never get their answer lol.

Also, Important: if asked, NOBODY on Z-team wants to date Mecha Man (they want their scrawny ass dispatcher with a funny name not the suit.) Some of them are apalled at the allegation that MM Blue is dating any of them (*cough* flambae *cough*)

More lore

Based on my short research on athletes and k-pop idols.

Average hero careers are surprisingly short, lasting just around 3-5 years, with 7 years being a rarity, reserved only for those on the top of their game. Most hero newbies are naturally selected during their first and second year. While average professional heroes shifted their career after their fourth year into entertainment, acting, athletic, or managerial career.

Exceptions to this rule are generational icons or legacy heroes like Mecha Men, which each lasted more than a decade, it’s an amazing feat, especially knowing that all Mecha Man is a non-superpowered legacy.

Mecha Men are like Tom Hanks and Beyoncé but for heroes.

Imagine Robert easily included in three generations of normal heroes (There's always a top hero every five years, Blue is never number one, but he lasted for 15 YEARS BEFORE HIS EXPLOSION.)

Also, I want Robert to outlive his predecessors, so he'll be mecha man for another decade lol (until he's 40 at least). He's no longer patrolling 24/7, Mecha Man only goes on patrol once a week now, but he has eyes and ears in the city via SDN (+ his own tech +his shitty luck.)

His career does shift more towards coaching and dispatching, with Phoenix Initiative, (a separate organization from SDN, so you could focus on rehabilitation without pesky leaderboards and shit), and other programs and donations now that he has the money (Victor + Grandpa Willy won the lawsuit for Robert's loyalties).

Another head canon of mine:

Z-team clocked in on Robert's habit sniffing his food/drink. So they just take a taste before giving it to him to say it's safe, and becomes a habit. From netizen's pov: It's a 'tax', them always stealing a bite his food, or Blue always offering them his cuz he's nice or gross there's no in-between. It's a weird thing, someone put a compilation of it somewhere in the internet.

(I read a fic where Robert got poisoned as a kid and it lived inside my head as canon now. He couldn't handle any smell of almond ever since.)

Some got super annoyed when they gift Mecha Man snacks/food/drinks and a phoenix swoop in a take a 'tax' before he could do anything. Some follow them said 'tax!' opening the box of nuggets and take one before giving Mecha Man the rest. The hero just laugh and let it happen.

Maybe later someone ask and Blue easily say.

"Yeah, my coma shot my appetite down, i have an eating portion of a child now. I'm slowly building it back, so i don't my team helping me out with it."

(He's not lying, He's hungry all the time but easily full with snacks and small portions. Chase is worried about it cuz he remembered that Robert was a big eater.)

the entire thing with Invisigal going rouge could be good writing, with her letting go of the entire heteronormavity and stop forcing herself to change for robert (or maybe it develop into another bout of obsession, just like how shroud is obsessed with the robertson) plus +blazer tragic yuri..

but i also want poly...so i guess robert got them all but the main girls?

but rob and mandy actually has lots of parallels

if robert change his mind (at the beginning he seems to be more like chase actually, i think it would be nice that fuck the stars talk also affected robert, and change his pov towards z-team + him living in poverty makes him understand more about limited choices....

Maybe visi will go on a more anti-hero route? destroying red ring from the inside? since robert is too good to kill anyone? it's more of her own revenge at this point since that organization did use her. would blazer turn a blind eye on this? maybe visi will get caught and rejoin phoenix program? (since earlier she turn herself in?)

that means a rewrite on courtney (that entire assault thing is weird...why? her dream too. it's completely has no use to anything!)

at this rate this will a complete rewrite

Victor learned that his skill could be used as a hero after his talk with grandpa William, maybe someone who focused more on financial support? or targeting scammers and corruption and the like?

[Grandpa William -> Bobby's ol' lover and now a very-very rich man. He knows Z-team doesn't just simply 'care' on Bobby's grandson.]