#dcmk stuff

But no I will also not forget damn near 20 years of feeling like the fandom was making me feel like I was half delusional and grasping at straws for something that wound up being canon, and then the way people reacted and treated people who didn't ship it, let alone people who tried to point out how it hadn't just come out of nowhere.

But somehow, Kaito - as Kid, of course - ends up stuck in what for all intents and purposes outside of this context would be Hakuba hugging him, and he keeps having to fight the very physical (or so he tells himself) desire to just... relax and melt into the warmth and contact of it. He's on a job, for goodness' sake!

It certainly doesn't (or does, depending on which side of his sanity you're on) help that Hakuba's not trying to actively arrest him right now, for reasons outside of Kaito's understanding.

First off, he's yet again mistaken for a criminal, and yet if you look at it from the perspective of "it's a foreigner who's just being kind of uncultured and ignorant" it makes sense! Yeesh.

And next? He's supposed to be hiding himself from a VERY suspicious person, who he has met in the past, and he FAILS.

Like... he's one of the main/only FBI agents in the series who consistently flunks the assignment, and I can't even hold it against him because it's just the way he's written as a foreigner in Japan.

Unlike Akai and his family, he's not part Japanese. Jodie is barely here, but half of her story revolves around Akai (a Japanese man) anyway. He's part of the FBI which has been told to "get out of [Furuya's] Japan."

In so many ways, he's set up for failure purely because he isn't Japanese, in a series that favours Japanese people, and... this hits so much harder when he basically fumbles on keeping his identity a secret from the bad guy and possibly makes everything harder for EVERYONE, yet again.

Like, this could have massive impact. And instead of Gosho choosing to have the bad guy find out any other way, they find out through Andre's incompetence. Which isn't even his incompetence so much as him being a caring person who isn't quite on Shinichi, Akai, or Rei's level.

I know that Conan knows that "Andou-san" is "And[ou]re Camel" and he can't admit that or a suspicious (and rightfully so) person will learn his identity.

But according to police procedure, surely everyone should be taken note of, no matter who they are, so that they can be contacted for questioning on details later on?

File 1144 started by having him trying to figure out what he was triggered by.

First thought: Knowing it's fake or not, that's still an unnerving sight.