Tira One

i know some people like to come up w reasons why shinichi might need glasses after his little jaunt into childhood 2.0, but what if he just needs them after he gets older ykwim. coming full circle? glasses in 'youth' and glasses in middle age... bad eyes are genetic and his dad wears em, soooo.

speaking of his pops i didn't have to make shinichi this old tbh bad eyes can get u at any age but i really just like painting wrinkles LOL but they all got hidden by his hair and glasses and this stupid ass pose i picked 💔 he is not presentable without his hair but the glasses are optional, so enjoy a 100% shot of the crows feet i guess.

dw abt the mess.

i also think that him not wanting to wear glasses bc it reminds him of being conan even thirty, forty years down the line could be fun. smile.

...normally im not that interested in long term post-canon musings, but i think there's something about this guy being stuck in time (ic conanification, ooc his series will not see a speedy conclusion) that is strangely appealing to me. maybe why i also like timeskip kaishin so much--it feels especially luxurious to explore future possibilities for protags who feel unlikely to get their own ending ? something like that

chomping on uuuu i was thinking about the contacts thing too LOL like. it really does seem like such a huge pain in the ass to keep up with compared to glasses u just shove onto ur face every morning... at least thats my rationale tbh

hard agree on the muddying of waters between shinichi & conan--i think that in some ways all those years could make it worse, tbh. like 10 years difference between 6 and 16 is a lot when you're 16. that's more than half your life, and life is a lot different when you're one age vs the other. distinct divide.

but once he's like, 50, the 10 years difference between 50 and 40 is less distinct--he's a different person at 50 than he was at 40 for sure, but probably not by all that much. it's probably easier to forget he did get back to his original age, and maybe when he has his nightmares it's harder to remember that he did make it back.

then again, maybe it does help? because again, 40 vs 50 is less distinct than 6 and 16. maybe he did make it back, maybe he didn't, but he's still gotten a large chunk of his adult years between him and conan, so does it matter so much now...?

interesting to think about, and as always with the more hypothetical aspects of this series, i think it could work both ways and depends on what kind of story you want to tell...?

anyways ^__^ i do like this aspect of detco a lot.