Human âGlitchâ / Failed Cloning AU Prompt
Fandoms: Detective Conan | Case Closed, Magic Kaito
Pairings: KudĆ Shinichi | Edogawa Conan x Kuroba Kaito | KaitĆ Kid (kind of... keep reading. Youâll see what I mean.) // could be Gen with no pairings tho
Warnings: Major Character Death. Angst. Abuse of pseudo-science.
This is going to be a doozy.
So... I apparently came up with this idea July 26, 2017 at 6:40 pm according to my Notes app. I have a vivid memory of this. Lol. Not that any of that is important, but I just wanted you all to know how long this idea has been taunting me. I just wanna delete it.
Anywho, I was going to write a little preview of this au for my story dump on ao3, but alas!! Iâm too lazy and uncreative to do that. Okay. I digress. Youâre probably only here for the prompt thing so letâs go!!!
This story starts out normally. KudĆ Shinichi is a famous high school detective and the arrogant mother fluffer we know and love. Ran is his beloved childhood sweetheart and all that shebang.
The change is that the B.O. is working on a method to clone people in addition to the APTX 4869. Why? I have no idea. But... basically, when the cloning process is complete, the B.O. can ârewireâ the brain and by doing so, they can essentially turn the clone into a different person.
(Itâs how they get some of their best agents. They kill and clone some of the most brilliant minds in certain fields and ârewireâ their brains to make them loyal to the B.O.)
So. Youâre probably wondering: wtf. Lemme continue...
The Tropical Land date happens. The poisoning happens. The difference? Gin and Vodka stay around long enough and Shinichi dies. Like, actually dies. No shrink. Heâs not that lucky.
And because of his reputation, Gin decides that it would be a waste to let such a brilliant mind go to waste. They take the body along with them with the intent of cloning Shinichi so that they may turn his clone into an agent.
So, like, the whole cloning thing? The clone grows in stagesâbasically like 1 week or 1 month = 1 year. Does that make sense? I hope.
But, so, Sherry stumbles upon Shinichiâs body and the clone some time after Shinichi had been fed the APTX. Right now, the clone is at the physical age of 6âso people think that Shinichi has been missing for 6 weeks/6 months.
Do you see where this is going?
Realizing whatâs going on, she somehow (donât ask) speeds up the cloning process. In doing so, she is able to give the clone all of Shinichiâs memories and knowledge and stuff. Sherry does this in some twisted attempt to âright a wrongâ because she doesnât believe he deserved to die for one reason or another.
The cloneâs physical body... itâs unstable. She realizes this, but she doesnât know to what extent. Sherry dumps the clone somewhere and buries Shinichiâs body to keep another clone from being made.
What she doesnât know is, shortly after she dumped the clone, the clone reverts back to the physical age of six as that had been the last stage it had been stable in.
And when the clone awakens... it (Iâll start saying he now) thinks heâs the real KudĆ Shinichi.
The B.O. finds out about Sherryâs betrayal. She lies and says that she buried/burned/whatever the clone and the body. With that, sheâs locked up and she takes the APTX.
And she shrinks. Sherry gets lucky. And she hates it.
Now shrunken, she goes to the KudĆ residence to see if the clone made it. When Agasa finds her, she asks about the clone without mention of how heâs a clone and reveals that she had been part of the organization that had âtakenâ him.
When Agasa tells her that âShinichiâ had shrunk, she realizes that the clone had been too unstable with her interferenceâwhether she tells Agasa the truth... I have no idea.
But the clone... as Conan, he is unaware of his status as a clone, but he is aware that there is something not quite right with him. I imagine heâs more paranoid and cautious. After all, thereâs a huge blank between Shinichiâs last memories and his own memories of waking up. For all he knows, he was captured by the B.O. or something.
And even tho he is a clone of Shinichi, he doesnât have the same exact feelings as himâheâs kind of his own person because of Sherryâs interference.
And thatâs it!! That was a whole doozy, wasnât it?
I remember planning for Conan to find out. And itâs just an angsty mess because he has all of Shinichiâs memories and knowledgeâhas his face and all that, tooâbut he knows he isnât Shinichi. Like, itâs a whole different type of... dysphoria?? Like, his body was that of a teenager. And now itâs a child. Except... that body wasnât his body. Except it is. But it isnât.
Do you see his struggle here???
But after learning that heâs a clone, he asks Haibara to find a way to stabilize his body so that he can properly avenge Shinichi.
(Itâs the least he can do.)
The APTX antidotes... well, I imagine that itâs different for him and Haibara? Like, he shrank because of his instability, which Haibara is looking to fix somehow. Tho... I imagine there is some APTX copied into his system or something? So APTX antidotes have some effect on himâlike a trigger or something. Idk. I think this is, like, the sole reason why I havenât written anything for this.
And, Ran??? Conan knows that Shinichi loved Ran, but heâs only known her as a sister. The feelings he has for her are Shinichiâs feelings and he refuses to act on those because it doesnât feel right. Like, he may have Shinichiâs memories and all that, but Conan isnât her Shinichi.
The KaiShin thing? Itâs... more so self-indulgence on my part. Lol. You could basically just disregard that and have no romantic pairings at all. Shrugs. But!!!
Conan just... he likes how he feels more carefree at heists? He enjoys the banter and the thrill and the feeling. He doesnât have to pretend as much and Kid makes him feel like heâs his own person?? And he loves it?? Like Kid doesnât expect him to be anything but Tantei-kun. Like, Conan is a clone. Shinichi is the one he was cloned from. But Tantei-kun? Heâs just a critic who keeps Kid on his toes. Like, Kid doesnât expect him to be an ordinary child but he also doesnât expect him to live up to a now-dead brilliant detective.
Does that even make sense? I have no idea. Itâs late and Iâm running on five hours of sleep.
But like... hoo boy. Just thinking about all this... Shinichiâs parents learning that Conan is a clone of their dead son. Ran possibly never knowing that her Shinichi is dead. Conan dealing with the fact that every part of him is Shinichi and hating it because he doesnât feel like Shinichi and he feels that itâs wrong to even pretend. Maybe even Hattori learning that his true rival died.
Anyway. Thatâs all. Thanks. Iâve been wanting to post this somewhere but it didnât feel right putting this in my story dump on ao3. Letâs not discuss any weird plot holes or anything because I donât think I was completely sane when I wrote this two years ago.
