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Tim is prowling the streets looking for crime- sure Batman said no to him becoming Robin but the streets are a mess! Batman needs Robin! Gotham needs Robin! And if no one else is gonna step up then he is! He doesn't have a suit or training so it... has not been going the best so far! But he's going to get better! What Batman gonna do? Tell him to stop? Already didn't work the first time! Besides he strategically picked Crime Alley because Batman avoids this place!
It's not like he can just bump into Robin in the streets anymore!
Sounds of fighting! Just the thing Tim was looking for! He has his handy dandy camera to make evidence of crimes!
Tim edged closer to the fighting from the shadows- some poor guys about to get mugged! Then a fist went flying. But it wasn't his...
It was one of those guys off to the side who clearly had some tragedy lead them here who stare far off into the distance and don't seem all there... Fighting the clearly mentally ill guy- wait that's every Gotham rogue and vigilante- but you know what he means!
Tim was about to move when the guy took down the muggers with trained ease. Robin trained ease. Robin trained ease. He could recognize that fighting style anywhere!
Tim, out of habit, took a picture.
Robin finished up and started walking away.
"H-hey wait!" Tim followed him
Why was he pretending to be dead!?
Robin's head didn't even move towards him when he yelled.
"What-"
Robin stared at him blanky, not blinking, not responding.
"Wait are you okay?" Tim asked to no response.
Does Batman even know he's here?! He knows Batman doesn't know! Batman isn't anywhere near here!
Robin continued walking, almost walking into traffic. Tim shrieked and grabbed Robin's hand before he could walk off.
Oh my god!!! Is he a Zombie!?!? THERE'S A ZOMBIE ROBIN!!!!
They (Tim) waited for the road to be clear before walking.
Robin was going somewhere, what is he doing?
Robin went through the streets before going to what seemed like a condemned building.
Was this Robin activities?!
"For the last time get out of here you damn kids!"
It was not Robin activites
"You his keeper, kid?"
Tim wasn't but he nodded anyway, hoping to fish for information.
"Listen- I don't know or care what's wrong with that kid but keep him out of my house! I don't care if he used to live here."
-
Tim showed Robin his murder board photograph collection in an attempt to get any kind of reaction.
“They’re great photos right? You and Batman! Or Bruce I guess-“
Well. Robin did not like the photos it turns out! Because he froze for a second letting Tim yap before it processed and-
But it’s a win for Tim because he knows he’s right about Robin! Batman can just fix the rest and then he’ll be back to being Robin! Any reaction is better than the far off look right?
(Privately, Tim cried over his prized possessions)
(Jason felt something hearing that he can’t grasp enough thought to know what but his chest felt pain)
-
Honestly Robin being alive made Tim sigh in relief- he didn't want to take the burden of Robin but he couldn't see any other choice!
Now how to return to Batman...
If only there was a return to sender button
I know what you're thinking 'Tim you know Batman's identity! Just tell Bruce Wayne!' if only it was that easy... If only...
"Sorry Mr Wayne isn’t available for an appointment right now! He's currently-" off-world with the justice league "-In Paris!"
Tim sighed. Then double sighed when he saw Robin still sitting in the weirdest most uncomfortable looking position after 3 hours of calls.
"Why is it so hard to return you to Bruce!"
"Bruce"
"Yeah, yeah I know"
-
Tim casually leaned against the door to his room- why of all days was today cleaning day! He bartered off having a nanny when his photography (of Batman and Robin) took off but apparently he still ‘needed supervision to make sure he doesn’t kill himself’ from time to time! Disgusting…
His exnanny gave him a scathing look.
“Please I am only a teenage boy, I am just starting my teenagery as I am 13 I need my space you don’t want to go into my room right now!”
She sighed and Tim counted this as a win.
That’ll only work for one day though he’ll have to figure out something else tomorrow! Hopefully he won’t still be here by then so it’ll be moot point.
Thankfully Robin was malnourished and half dead so he wasn’t so big -hell he was just an inch and a half taller than Tim! though that makes sense since theyre only a year and half or two years apart! should he count the dead bit???- so he wasn’t hard to hide! The hard part was that he kept having panic attacks in small spaces… and then running off… and then Tim would have to find him again.
-
Tim wanted to go to bed. He wasn’t sure where to put Robin before that. He didn’t want him to be too far in case Robin runs off again! He can’t keep going back to Crime Alley! Or random park benches!
His bed is too small for the two of them though, as his parents were going to upgrade his bed to a teenager size one later this year…
“Hahhh, let’s just take my parents room it’s big enough.”
Wait oh god does Robin have enough mental capacity to change? Or take a bath?
-
Robin screamed and it jolted Tim out of his slumber.
“Bruce- Bruce-“ Robin was crying.
‘Nice to know he does remember’ a morbid part of Tim’s brain thought
“Hey- hey- it’s just a-“ this isn’t helping
“I’ll get you to Batman, okay? Soon- Just hang tight okay we’ll-“
Wait maybe that’s why he kept trying to escape at night! He’s following his old routine!
“Want to go find crime- Batman?”
Unfortunately Robin didn’t respond as he was still crying but Tim helped him up anyways.
Tim loves crime. Not doing crime- well doing a little crime- but mostly fixing it!
-
No luck finding Batman but Tim got to copy Robin’s moves live!
He also woke up as a undignified teddy bear the next morning which was not fun.
-
After the 15th call to Bruce Wayne’s personal number Tim was starting to get disappointed. Maybe a different route then…
Tim poked Robin's cheek repeatedly, in an annoying little brother fashion despite being an only child- spiritually he was an annoying younger sibling, "Hey do you know where Richard Grayson went underground to? Any place you two used to hang out?"
Robin grabbed his hand.
"Robin!!! I need that hand!!! How am I supposed to return you without it!!!"
Tim shrieked when Robin almost bit him
-
They were out and about in daylight this time so he couldn’t go calling Robin, Robin. Why on earth his brain defaulted to Brother instead of Jason is beyond him.
Probably that old lady on the bus who called him “such a sweet child for taking care of his brother.”
Thankfully (or not thankfully?) everyone would only stare for a minute before they saw Robin proper and realized and looked away. Which is probably how he wen’t unfound this entire time. No enemies but also still no allies…
Maybe he could try the police station! He’d try Batgirl but no one has seen anything of her in a long time… is she dead like Robin now?
Tim didnt realize his body clenched up at the thought until he felt Robin grip his hand back.
“Thanks Rob- brother of mine”
So they can’t just waltz in there and just ask to use the bat signal right? Besides the commissioner is there right now! If anyone were to catch him before Batman it’s that guy!
They did almost get caught by this red-haired wheelchaired civilian though- that was a close one! But thankfully they made it to the top…
“Whose there?!”
“Oh goddamn it-!”
Tim led Robin to the Bat signal, “Come on Robin! I have a great idea!”
-
“A rogue stole the bat signal?”
Gordon nodded, still feeling numb from the wrench to the back of his head…
Bruce felt a heavy wave of nostalgia and grief, “Jason used to steal from me and hit me with blunt metal objects…” Bruce sighed again. He misses his son. He wants Jason here. Jason would be laughing his ass off right now.
Gordon gave him a sad stare, “Hey if you need to take a step back I can handle this okay…”
Bruce can’t lose another son.
-
“WHY DID A POLICE SHOW UP INSTEAD OF BATMAN?!?”
Thankfully, he didn’t expect a child so Tim kicked him in the balls and ran.
-
“Okay so. It’s been a week. at this point I’m thinking we should break into Wayne Manor!”
Robin didn’t say anything but Tim felt Robin lean into him and that’s as good as he’s gonna get!
“If anyone has any objections to this raise your hand!”
Since Tim was presenting his solutions to his hoard of stuffed animals and a dead Robin no one raised their hand. Tim was satisfied with this!
“I rest my case!”
-
They only got halfway through the plan when they hit a stall.
Assassins!
Who even needs to send assassins against a half dead guy! He’ll die on his own without help!
Robin took one of them down but-
Tim shrieked as some tall lady grabbed him by the back of his shirt.
“This is interesting.”
Enemies found them first! Yayyy fun. Can you hear the sarcasm? because Tim is NOT HAVING FUN!!!
“My tails were following the little dead Robin when they found something of note,” she was looking down directly at him, “A child who out detectived the bat”
The other assassin successfully restrained Robin.
This would be a great time for Batman to appear out of thin air!
Unfortunately, Batman did have a track record for being too late to save his kids.
-
Tim tries memorizing every route they take at first, but as it becomes apparent he’s being taken outside of the country he isn’t sure what to do. Ro- Jason (Talia insisted) stopped being hostile as soon as the assassins stopped being hostile. Does he remember that they were hostile a few hours ago? Does he care?
Jason reached out and grabbed Tim’s hand like Tim did whenever they wen’t out in public, except there were no streets for him to walk into here.
-
Ra who did not want Tim at first but Talia persuaded
"Just the dead Robin would have been sufficient
"He will prove himself useful, father."
"He should hope"
Ra Al Ghul stared down at Tim. For some reason, Tim's spleen hurt. He isn't sure why exactly his spleen, but it hurts.
-
Tim is trained by the LOA, but his main role is gathering intelligence, and other detective-like things. His smarts is the reason he got noticed after all! Talia has a weird (proud) glint in her eyes.
-
Jason has been training as a bodyguard… nanny.
Jason has no clue but it’s really clear to Tim from the way Jason has been taught to swaddle this water balloon and hold it without popping.
There’s one thing Tim has found about Talia and it’s that she would go to great lengths to keep her loved ones safe. Like a baby.
Jason must’ve felt the eyes because he just said “Ball”
Another change with his training- Talia has been having him go through physical and mental therapy. He can say words now! But he has to be retaught them.
So far he has, “Ball” “Mine” and “Milkshake”
Tim’s tried explaining that all foods aren’t called milkshake but that just makes Jason stubborner. Thankfully Tim is even stubborner. Both of them will die on their hills.
-
“For being so smart you haven’t commented on that,” Talia said with amusement.
“Momma didn’t raise no bitch” well Momma didn’t raise nobody Tim’s mom was absent but still! He’s not gonna say that
“Ah, so you have true smarts, unlike my beloved- who can be so adorably dumb when it comes to women.”
Bruce Wayne worlds no 1 fumbler
-
Tim was on his first mission when Damian was born.
“Did Lady Shiva say yes?”
Tim nodded, “She also said congratulations.”
“And you, Tim?”
“…you look really good for having just had a baby?”
Talia huffed, “good, I would be disappointed if you couldn’t even find something like that out.”
She had not informed Tim, naturally. But he’s just a sneaky little guy.
“Come now, let’s go see Damian.”
Damian was swaddled and being held tenderly by Jason, “Mine.”
“Family, Jason we’ve been over this, Family. Remember this word, fam-ily”
“Mine. Family”
“Good enough.”
“He’s so tiny!” exclaimed Tim- he’d never actually seen a baby before. Only things like Richard Graysons baby photos!! This is so different from baby photos!
“Want to hold him?” Talia smiled at Tim
“Mine!”
Talia bonked him on the head, “Share!”
Jason, having long been program to listen to Talia and her progeny did not smack back like he would with anyone else.
Tim felt so nervous holding Damian but Talia and Jason were there so it’d be fine… or he’d get double murdered.
Damian spit up on Tim.
-
“What of the classics have you read?”
Tim shrugged, he kinda just skips school…
Talia looked pained.
“Jason Todd, allegedly, loved reading classical literature back in the day,” when in doubt, just drop a fact Tim shouldn’t be able to know.
Talia was too appeased to remember to force him to read any of them for a month.
-
Tim is starting to think Damian hates him.
He vomits on every one of his good shirts and he’s entirely certain it’s on purpose!
Jason doesn’t care about his poor shirts and keeps attending to Damian.
Tim continuously tries to teach Damian to throw up on Jason too to get back at him!
-
A shadow attacked Damian one night.
Jason tore the heart out of the shadow out, the movements were swift and graceful from training.
"Mine!"
Damian cried.
Tim didn't do anything, the shadows bore the signifiers of Talia's men after all.
Later he did raise an eyebrow when Talia asked them if they had a good sleep.
Seriously, she doesn't need to test them! Sometimes a guy wants a good sleep.
Talia's eyes held a hint of amusement at Tim's disgruntleness.
-
“Tim, if you see Jason letting Damian bite his fingers get Damian one of his teethers. I have no idea where Jason’s hands hand been.”
“Inside a guy’s chest as he ripped out his heart probably.”
“And where have those hearts been!”
-
“Come on Damian! It’ll be super funny! Mur-der”
“ummummummm”
“Mur-der”
“muragh!”
“That’s the spirit!”
Jason was sitting behind Damian, helping him sit up (even though Damian cat sit Jason is just a preprogrammed mother hen) while Tim desperately tried to steal first word from Damian before it could be “ball” or “mine” from mimicking Jason or “Mama” from Talia’s training. That’s why he needs this counter measure!
“Mur-der!”
“murrrr!”
A bird chirped and Damian was instantly distracted, crawling towards it.
Tim turned to Jason, scandalized, “Why’d you let him crawl away!”
Instead of Damian’s first word being the focus Jason went off to catch the bird for Damian leaving Tim with the Baby!
In the end Damian’s first word was “Robin” and none of them taught him this he heard it in passing when he. was chasing the bird as apparently it was a Robin bird?!?. It was the league of assassins version of a babys first word being “fuck”
-
Tim and Talia are on a mission. Tim informs Talia that his sources say that Damian has taken his first steps (towards Jason)
Talia is suddenly in a better mood for the rest of the day and the rest of Tim’s squad are very happy and keep thanking Tim for saving them.
Tim is climbing up this ladder fast, even without being a heavy hitter (he can still fight ofc he loves his Saintie, great for parrying)
-
Damian, Jason and Tim never really got out of the habit of sharing a cot, as Jason and Tim would have to protect more often then not at night- what between Ra’s and Talia’s own men. Tim still doesn’t trust that guy to sleep on his own.
Naturally, Tim and Damian have both gotten used to falling asleep to humming classic Crime Alley tunes.
Not for the first time Tim wonders what kind of things are going on in that brain. If he knows what hes humming.
He’s been here a while, he’s seen the lazarus pits. He wonders what would happen if Jason went in one. Would he be healed?
Damian has never known anything different.
-
Tim, chatterbox, Drake realized pretty quickly that Damian loved hearing stories. It was also helpful to trying to restore Jason's mind to say stories about the past- but the biggest thing was just that Tim's a massive Batman and Robin fan. Being in the LOA has not stopped him.
It's not like Talia minds- she just sighs dreamily at specific points.
Which is how Tim finds himself in the weird position of being inbetween multiple Al Ghuls and a dead Robin telling his stalker stories pretty often.
Talia keeps lecturing him on his format- as it's not good enough for her! Classic lovers...
-
Damian has started training, it's kind of funny to watch someone with such small limbs try to move
Wait is this how Batman felt watching his poor attempt to vigilante!?
Discreetly, Tim pictures for future making fun of purposes when Damian is 20.
Ra didn't even notice!
Tim adds this to his secret photos folder, still full of current Batman photos- oh and the new blonde Robin. He really want's to dig into it but Bruce didn't adopt this one.
-
Jason lost a lot of his ability to understand spoken word. But he can still understand emotions and body language. He's been thrown back to simpler mode of understanding, based mostly on instinct.
It's every human's first language before spoken language. Most forget but for some like David Cain's shadow, it is their first language.
They don't interact much but the few times they do is nice. Everyone else just sees two people sitting in silence and slowly leave.
Sadly, the shadow leaves soon. From the room and the league.
-
Tim really needs to do this.
He really needs do this work.
Why is Damian crying while he's trying to do work!?
Jason is holding him, which usually stops the crying.
"Bad training session?"
Damian sniffled, "I am the grandson of the Demon I never have bad training sessions!"
Tim nodded, "mmm really?"
"Maybe, you wouldn't know!"
Tim just stared at Damian until he caved. Tim's Very Done Look tm has gotten better these past few years.
"I couldn't kill MR- Mr.fluffy"
"Your favorite pet??"
Damian nodded.
"Well shit, I bet me and Jason couldn't do that either!"
Damian immediately scoffed "No need to coddle me Drake!"
"I'm serious"
"Really?"
"Dead serious."
Tim grabbed his hidden pile of photos and took out some Batman ones, "You know Batman thinks killing is shameful?"
Damian blinked, "Father?"
"Bruce," was Jason's helpful addon, which clearly means Tim's right.
"Yeah he has a no killing rule."
"So it's okay if I..."
"It's okay"
Damian didn't want to kill so he wouldn't.
No one else in the League of Assassins is okay with this but they don't matter. Besides, Talia and Jason would die before anything could harm Damian.
-
Tim's been on all kinds of international missions, so it's a bit of a surprise when Talia decides to switch it up a bit.
Jason's been sent to train internationally and Tim's stuck on babysitter duty for the foreseeable future.
Talia barely looked in his eyes. Something serious is going to happen and he's going to need to gather his forces. Thankfully, he's made many connections during his time here. Tim's just cool like that.
(League version of the Teen Titans consider guys guys-)
-
Damian’s aging in this is gonna be a little weird and I’m going to blame it on the lazarus water forcing him to physically grow quicker (because it speeds up healing and he's a kid, has the reverse affect on adults) while he’s being healed so my timeline makes sense. Oh maybe Jason too but he's only been like a few times so he just looks his chronological age. He’s just been in it oh so many times and its so sad and angsty and not all for the timeline! So it’s like 13-15-0 at the start and 16-18-6 physically for the sake of my sanity we dont need to think about things like “barely remembering anything after 15” or “being born 4 years ago” its not important
-
Jason wakes up in the lazarus pit very confused. He doesn't remember the last few years.
Tim and Damian try very hard to hide their dissapointment. They're very happy Jason is healthier-
"Do you really not remember?" the little kid stared up at Jason and Jason felt his heart pierce. Why does he feel so bad???
Why does he trust these people? It's hard to control his instincts with them- his instincts just turning into either putty.
-
A shadow comes near them and Jason instinctively growls and rips the shadow into pieces.
Okay so. His instincts is so different now?
"...are you okay?" Jason asked the two
Neither looked surprised or at all scared.
-
Something about his and Tim's height difference keeps making his thoughts fall into 'I remember when me and Tim were around the same height' before he goes 'WHAT???'
Damian walking and his stupid brain goes 'Damian's first steps'
What is this??? It's so weird!!
-
"So Jason clearly has some kind of memory of us it's just kinda buried," Tim informed Damian, thankfully they're two shadows Jason never notices.
-
Damian steals Tim's photo folder and shows Jason
It takes a while but Jason just gives up and accepts this is his life now
-
Jason stared at Talia with wide eyes, "Oh my god"
Talia tilted her head.
Jason gasped as clarity finally hit him, "You have an adoption problem like Bruce!"
"What?"
"He's right though," agreed Tim, who was conscious through the entire process. He's never actually known Bruce but that matches with his data that he'd be like Talia. They had to have somethings in common to have dated!
Maybe they broke up because Talia didn't know she was an adoptmaniac like Bruce. Tim looked over and made eye contact with Damian and they shared a little nod in understanding.
They could totally get Talia back together with Bruce and then he could be step son! It's one spot removed from his old wattpad fanfics but it's close enough!
Though he really wishes people would stop leaving hate comments about Batman's secret identity being Wruce Bayne...
-
Tim was telling another story to pretending not to be starry-eyed Damian and pretending not to be listening Jason.
Jason kept giving him the funniest look when Tim detective Drake knew things he shouldn't. Tim would just smile and Jason would grumble under his breathe.
It's going great even with Jason being such a drama queen after being bathed in Lazarus water.
Tim opened his mouth to continue when Jason stomped over in dramatic outrage, "Your format sucks! Have you ever even analysed books???"
Classic lovers.
-
Tim decided to force the classic lovers to talk to eachother instead of bothering him! At least Damian doesn't interrupt him!
-
Things are going on in the background that neither Tim nor Talia appreciate.
Talia doesn't need to tell him, Tim starts finding discreet ways to change locations.
-
"Come on guys! We need to go!" said Tim as soon as Jason snuck back into their room after a mission
"Uh-"
"Tim is right- it's no longer safe for you here," said Talia who was also here- shit it must be important then... Not just Tim being crazy...
Jason nodded and went to grab Damian when he noticed something off and paused, slowly turning back around, "Tim... where's your spleen?"
"Ra has it"
"...I have several follow up questions"
"No time- we need to hustle!"
And like that they're on the run from everyone, making their way to Gotham again. It's been years since Tim has been home.
-
"YOU TRIED TO BECOME ROBIN????" Jason turned to face the back of Tim's head, whisper yelling (he can't yell properly because Damian is asleep with them)
"You were dead!" Tim whisper-shouted in defence, "Batman needed a Robin! Everyone was too devastated after your death to Vigilante properly!"
"What do you even know about Robin?"
"So much-"
"You're a trust fund baby! You've never even slept on the streets!"
Tim turned to give Jason a scathing glare, "Were sleeping on the streets right now!"
"My point still stands!"
Damian rolled over in his sleep and hit them both in the face.
-
“Robin me could beat Robin you up,” declared Jason, the next morning.
Tim gasped in offence, “Robin me would beat Robin you up!”
“With what? your face being so ugly I die instantly”
“…I was gonna say crowbar-“
“WHAT”
“But I’m gonna go with doxxing”
“Too soon Tim!”
“It’s been 4 years!”
“It’s been like 4 months for me!”
Damian, who was casually eating his breakfast, looked up at Tim, “Wouldn’t doing that make you a villain not a Robin?”
Jason grinned, all teeth, “He’s right! It’s Robin vs Villain Tim!”
“It’s not villainous-“ “Villain Drake would win” “what?” “what?”
Jason made a wounded noise.
They went back to eating their breakfast.
Chomp chomp chomp
nom nom nom
chomp nom nom
nom…
Jason suddenly stood up, “WE NEED TO MAKE VILLAIN COSTUMES!”
Tim stared up with judgemental eyes.
“What??”
“For when we return to Gotham!”
“Why would we need Villain Costume’s-“
“I call the coolest costume!” Damian demanded immediately
Jason nodded placatingly, “We’re gonna be the coolest! I’m gonna call mine Red Hood!”
“Because your League outfit has a red hood?” asked Damian with innocence
“Wait why should we be villains?!”
Jason stared at Tim like he was dumb, “So we can make villain monologues- duh”
“Nerd.”
-
Staring at Gotham, as they got closer and closer. Tim wonders why he ever agreed to this.
Eight years ago, Kuroba Chikage showed up with a sickly child no one had heard of before.
Soon after, Kuroba Toichi was legally declared dead.
Snake was right about Kaito being the original Kaito Kid, in a certain way.
-
Shinichi is a believer of logic. Naturally, immortality sounded insane to him. Time was just one of those constants, like a river running to the ocean. It’s flow doesn’t stop and it definitely reverse.
And then he encountered a poison capable of such things.
So it wasn’t Shinichi who ever paid to the certain smaller details that didn’t add up about Kaito Kid, it was Conan.
Kid always knew more than his experience implied.
Kid was undeniably an amateur, but somehow had the skills of a master (even if used childishly)
Kid has some odd, old habits
Kid was the son of Kuroba Toichi but he could never remember meeting him in his childhood (and Shinichi has a good memory)
Conan didn’t dig into those details as he usually would, as he deemed the thief a public nuisance but not harmful. It was a nice change of pace, dealing with a relatively harmless criminal, compared to his usual murders.
He was really annoying, dressing up as him constantly. But when it came down to it his motto of ‘no one gets hurt’ at a heist has saved Conan a few times. So maybe that’s why he let’s him go so often.
And he saved Haibara, on that train. So maybe that’s why he went out of his way to save him in turn.
Seriously- what kind of criminal would jump in front of a bullet for a detective?!?
It’s not looking good he’s losing a lot of blood-!
“No hos-hospital-“
“I know!” At least that got the thief to stop struggling.
Conan took him back to Professor Agasa’s house, and the fact that the thief made no quip about it was concerning.
Kid was in no position to even say his blood type let alone protest when Haibara took some to test.
In the end Kid got out of the danger zone. His face was pale and sick with sweat and he had at least 5 stitches in his body but his condition stabilized.
Conan let himself breathe a sigh of relief but he noticed Haibara biting her nails, signs of anxiety still present as she wen’t over the blood results for the thousandth time.
Kid wouldn’t have to worry about them using his blood against him- the same thing could easily be done to them- what, with the APTX in their systems. He knows Haibara agrees with this so why is she so…
“What’s wrong?”
Haibara pursed her lips, eyes darting back to the blood work quickly.
“Is there something wrong with Kid?”
“There is APTX in his system.”
Conan felt his blood freeze. “What? How does he have traces?”
“No that’s the thing- not traces”
“How is he still big?” Does he have an antidote? Is there a cure-
“It’s not the APTX I made.”
Conan tensed, not liking where this was going.
“It’s a complete version.” Haibara bit her lip in thought, a storm brewing behind her eyes.
“Your parents…”
“We need to find out what Kid knows.”
Conan nodded, thought there was one thing tugging at his mind, “Can… can you make an antidote with it?”
Haibara didn’t answer, but he could see the tenseness holding her in place. Grim thoughts crept their way into his head. If it’s been this long after Kid consumed the APTX… is it even possible to make an antidote?
-
Kaito is in for a world of surprise when he finally becomes coherent! He has no idea what to make of the weird interrogation.
“Wh, huh? HUUUUUUH???” was Kaito’s elegant response.
He has no idea why they think he got shrunk! He’s still perfectly 16, thanks!
He has no idea how to answer the starting to get weirdly pointed questions about his childhood.
Kaito doesn’t actually remember anything from his childhood- back when he was sick. His first real memory is waking up in his ‘Mom’s’ arms, in a small, chubby, child’s body, in his bedroom. When he tries to think of before that all he can remember is blurry feelings of intense pain which he chalks up to his childhood sickness
Huh. Conan and Haibara are making the funniest face right now. They should invest in a poker face, like him.
Wait is he like diseased in a HouseMD way? Is a random tidbit of information going to reveal it wasn’t lupus all along?!?
Unbeknownst to him, the pain he described was of APTX activating. Something both Conan and Haibara know intimately.
Kaito is, naturally, the last person to learn of this entire thing
Besides, who would he even be? The only people he knew from Before were his Mom and Dad. Not even Jii-chan had met him!
…not that he’s actually remembers his Dad…
He knows he’s a Daddy’s boy! Mom would tell anyone who listened that he learned all the magic from his Dad. And got his demeanour from his Dad. And got his Dad’s face. Because he’s just that much of a Daddy’s boy from birth!
But the tapes of Dad he found in the Kid Room weren’t exactly aimed at him, or even acknowledged his existence. No, “Kaito would love this” or anything. They were just regular magician tricks, almost like a journal. It felt oddly nostalgic to listen to them. Mom played a few for him when he was a kid and then start crying from grief…
Besides, Mom would tell him something that important, wouldn’t she?
…
She absolutely wouldn’t who is he kidding.
The “hehe i forgot (^-^’)\” won’t work this time!!!
Part of him wishes Mom (should he call her that?) would deny it- or even just respond with undeterred cheer but she just looked solemn when he confronted her.
Basically through scientific investigations, deductions, and connections they figure out this:
The Miyano’s wanted to create a miracle drug that could restore tissue to its younger form. A potential cure to Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Age-related Heart failure. The possibilities were endless! Maybe not a cure- not yet, at least- but it would buy the patients time. Time they desperately needed. Not many were willing to fund such a hail mary, and even fewer had good intentions.
But, in classic APTX fashion, it didn’t work as intended. It didn’t listen to any commands- it didn’t attack the faulty tissue they in small doses as they intended. It was a full, factory reset.
They knew what havoc this would cause the world if it got out- even just to their employers and destroyed their research, claiming it was a dead-end. They couldn’t find the cure no matter what.
At least Haibara can finally rest knowing what happened to her parents, even if she regrets her hand in creating APTX more than ever now.
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Chikage comes to Japan to explain, not something she can do on call like before, no matter the encryption.
Kid fought a world class assassin group. The three headed hydra… each one of the brothers was another head of this monster. They worked in tandem- the greatest threat he had faced. Phantom Lady had to join to take them down. He managed to take them down but he got hit as well…
Toichi was poisoned and he was going to die. Toichi found it hysterical, he was poisoned and snake was going to get his wish but it wasn’t going to be Snake who did it. A snake without poison a poison without Snake.
Chikage wasn’t just going to let him die- he had so many connections and the poison was slow acting there had to be something.
Their friends had a experimental drug that if used correctly should heal the tissue. They still hadn’t refined it to only attack certain area but in this case, with the poison going through his entire bloodstream, that was better.
It worked at first, draining the poison and healing the damage it caused with a low dosage of APTX. It was slow but steady and Toichi was looking better by each passing hour. She isn’t sure what happened- it might have been the poison or maybe it was the medicine- but he had a seizure and his vitals were going down again.
They frantically tried everything to save him.
Have you ever heard the age old saying? “All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.”
She didn’t know how old the body was so she decided he was 8. She really has no idea how children work she can’t be held liable for this if its wrong. No one has anyway of confirming so they all go with it. But the important part is that Chikage really doesn’t know shit ab kids lol. Only Kids.
Chikage made a new identity for him. It was a temporary cover to buy time while the Miyano’s fixed this. It was supposed to be temporary.
Chikage told everyone including Kaito that Kaito was just a sickly child who had spent so long sequestered away due to his health scares. Kaito was an odd enough child for everyone to believe this.
Soon enough, it became obvious the true danger lurking underneath the surface of APTX. The Miyano’s destroyed the ending to their life’s work to keep it out of the wrong hands.
Chikage arranged an ‘accident’ to misdirect everyone from the fact that Toichi had dissapeared.
No one could know he was still alive, for his own safety. (Though she’s positive some of their old friends, like the Kudo’s, realized- there’s no way Yukiko didn’t realize the instant she saw little Kaito)
Chikage has spent the years since looking for a cure.
Chikage looked at Kaito sadly and apologized. She never had any idea how to act with him. At first she thought it’d be over quickly if she spent enough time at it.
Chikage hoped that with him retaining his skills and base self he’d be able to regain other things as well. Despite this, To- Kaito would never react to anything she’d try.
Then the years grew and so did ‘Kaito’. A kid who genuinely believed she was his mother. A kid whose eyes she couldn’t look at without feeling an intense loss for someone whose technically still alive.
If she just found the cure, then everything could just go back to the way they were and none of this would even matter.
By the time Kaito had found out about Kaito Kid…
He didn’t have an ounce of recognition, even as he donned the costume. Chikage didn’t have much hope as she regaled all the tales she had been holding back. It felt like half assed attempts by then.
Kaito had nothing but adorable childish annoyance when she said her tale of meeting Toichi. And despite herself, she felt like a mother teasing her child
She wasn’t surprised when the apparent recreation of the night, and her giving him her stash did nothing but have Kaito whine about having to do chores and dealing with her problems.
That’s when it really started hitting her that he’s truly gone and this is practically a separate person now.
And then, it was so awkward. She had no idea what to do with this. She can’t suddenly change her tune can she?
She used her own Phantom Thief persona, she had been using for finding a cure, to instead test Kaito. To see if he could truly handle it. He isn’t Toichi so she needs to stop expecting things to work out like they did with Toichi, who had so much more experience.
“MOM THAT WAS YOU??? DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH STRESS I WAS UNDER THOSE DAYS?!? MOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!! YOU’RE SO ANNOYING!”
Chikage laughed.
Kaito gave her the stink eye.
“So, I’m Mom?”
“What else would you be? That’s a dumb question. I mean apparently I’m also my dad but I already had an identity crisis. Or 3. It’s been an eventful year.”
“Maybe, it’s like reincarnation.”
“Mom, please, I don’t want to increase the number to 4- clearly I’m an asexual reproduction.”
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And so, it became clear for the Kurobas. Chikage learned to let go of the past and Kaito finally got to have a parent who was around. Chikage and Kaito proceeded to have a weirdly normal mother-son relationship. Well, normal for Phantom thieves anyways. (what better bonding activity after having a strained relationship than working to take down evil orgs together!)
Conan and Haibara realized that alcohal has no effect on Kaito aka on the complete APTX, his version destroyed everything before saving it. Theirs is incomplete, thus retaining their memories and the temporary cures. They still had a chance.
Kaito couldn’t be cured and he’s happy with that. Haibara chose not to, preferring her new life. Conan went back to his life as Shinichi in the end.
MAGIC KAITO/DCMK - swap au - crack treated seriously
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Toichi's final performance takes place when Kaito is 15
Snake is part of an international criminal organization obsessed with Immortality, He is basically in the stealing/pandora branch of it and this organization doesn't get caught because it simply cuts off any bleeding arm. Constantly moving never still enough to be caught
Snake and his gang weren't doing enough to mitigate the Kaito Kid problem and thats how Gin and the APTX ended up with them.
Gin had to use the experimental poison and take out some nosy brats anyways so it worked out for him
Kaito was unfortunately, there.
Kuroba Kaito disappears the night his father dies in a horrible "accident"
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"AHOKO?"
Aoko turns around in a flash at the familiar nickname. The only one who used that name is... Wait why is that voice so high pitched-
She turns around to face a mini Kaito!? Oh and Chikage-obasan - oh poor Chikage-obasan
"Chikage-obasan... who is that?" Aoko is grateful for a safer topic than Toichi-ojisan
She must've came to Japan for... the funeral planning
"Oh, Aoko this is just my nephew! Isn't he just the cutest? Thought I might as will bring him here!"
Chikage-obsan has a sibling!? Or a nephew?!?
"You never mentioned a nephew!!!"
"I forgot"
Classic Chikage-obasan
The kid elbowed her in the knees but Chikage-obasan valiantly ignored it.
"What's his name?"
Kaito didn't think this far ahead... he really didn't expect to see Aoko during the middle of a school day! Why is she even home!? He just wants to pick up some of his stuffffff and clear out some Kid stuff he and dad had lying around before anyone finds it! Name- he can't just say Kaito right!?
"ARSÈNE!" "Faust" Both of them responded quickly.
"Dearie, remember that in Japan you use last names first? Sorry we've been in France for the last while!"
"O-ouias! Je suis Aresene Faust! Qui etait dans France. Avec... ma famille"
Kaito glared at his Mom. That's such a dumb name. Oh, it's just hitting him that he's going to go by that name for the foreseeable future. The glare didn't have the desired effect as his body was currently 5 but A+ for effort.
Sure, maybe his first thought was a Phantom Thief but he's excused. Besides a French name is good for his cover story! And that's why it was the first thing that came to mind, no other reason!
What the hell kind of name is Faust?! The twinkle in his Mom's eye gives him the thought that it's a joke he's only going to understand years later, like when Mom and Dad named him Kuroba Kaito and didn't even tell him why it was funny until he was 12.
Aoko didn't need much extrapolation on why Faust was in Japan, "Nice to meet you, Faust! Aoko is Aoko! Um... Aoko is sorry she doesn't know much about speaking French though Aoko has heard enough of it spoken to understand from Kaito-" Aoko paused "Have you seen Kaito-"
Mom shook her head- which makes sense because the Organization needs to think he's dead. Right.
Well, Kaito is sick of this conversation. Kaito, suddenly seeing an opportunity from being 5 physically, internally grinned- magicians are masters of misdirection!
"Mama- Ma Tante." Good thing he caught that slip up otherwise Maman (Faust is French, so Maman it is, better to have distinctions, right?) would never let him live it down
"Yes, Sen-chan?"
"Ma tante bien aimèe..."
"Ta très beau tante bien aimèe..."
"...qui promis une choco glacee pour moi"
"...Je suis en retard..."
"Tatei!" Kaito is in character as Faust, who would throw a tantrum.
'He must be very overwhelmed from all of this...' Aoko thought sadly.
"It's okay, we can go for ice cream together!"
"Your school?"
"Don't worry about that! I have off anyway! Let's get ice cream!" It was implied that it is sadness ice cream. Kaito at least thinks Aoko needs sadness ice cream, so that's his grand plan!
Chikage seeing an opportunity, dumped her child on Aoko and left.
No one was suprised by this outcome
Wait "WHY DID YOU CALL AOKO AN AHOKO!?"
Kaito plastered on his poker face while mentally sweating.
Aoko would absolutely punch a kid if it came down to it.
"Kaito-niichan told me about you!"
Thankfully, that made Aoko calm down, but it also made her face so horribly sad that Kaito had to fight the urge to do a magic trick to make her smile again. With a rose, preferably.
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(Excusez mon francais- c'est ma quatrieme langue. actually english is my second so actually no one should make fun of any of my speaking words actually) (i don't have a french keyboard so i gave up accents halfway through, pardonnez moi)
Arsene - a french name deriving from the latin word stronghold and from the story (specifically not the dcmk verse version) of Aresene Lupin- a story of a Gentleman Thief yk how it is
Faust - a latin name meaning lucky, accompanied by a story that gets increasingly more plot relevant
Basically I wanted a name as dumb as Conan Edogawa except for Kaito lmao
Chikage: it's better to be seen with Aoko anyways so it'll cause less suspision
Yes, Kaito knows ab Kaito Kid since he was 12 in this. This is because Toichi told him since he was alive.
Also Aoko thinks Faust is Chikage's secret child that must have been visiting Kaito she doesn't know why she would hide a child tho... (a weird conspiracy part of her brain wonders if she had to hide the child because he's Kaito Kid's but thats insane! Just because Kaito Kid flirted with Chikage-obasan a million times at heists and they had some weird thing going on doesn't mean it's his!)
Chikage sends over a bunch of paperwork for 'Arsene Faust' the next day.
Private investigator Nakamouri does not want to take in a smaller magician brat! He, however, has no choice.
Kaito finally reunited with his beautiful card gun after leaving it at home for one day and then instantly getting poisoned.
Kaito knows about the guys in black who were doing all this. He needs to draw them out! Problem: he's 5.
Chikage goes to America after making sure Sen-chan (sen is a nickname for arsene) is set. (to do revenge. The Kuroba's all want revenge.)
Dr Agasa is thankfully still normal throughout all this so he can call him for things! He used to supply some of the tech for Dad's tricks...
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Faust has to go to kindergarten. Because he's a child again. Right. Kaito is just glad he got a few weeks to adjust to being Faust- not that Faust isn't a magician as well so he mostly just pranked the police and make things it was a productive time.
Anyways, Aoko tells him to be normal at school with a glare- he has no idea why she thinks so lowly of him that he'd immediately do pranks (he will)
Faust mostly just wants to be left alone when he isn't actively entertaining them because talking to 5-year-olds like they're peers is weird...
Well except Hakuba, who is apparently 6 as it's his second time in kindergarten. And also in full Sherlock Holmes cosplay. And is constantly reading Sherlock Holmes picture books.
Hakuba is the son of some big Police guy in Britian and is here in Japan now. First Aoko now Hakuba, he's surrounded by too many children of police.
Keiko is determined to make friends with the silly transfer student who exploded the school on his first day. She tries to get her friends, class favorite Akako and Hakuba to go follow him so they can all become friends but Akako thinks thats lame and continues playing Witch in the sand pit.
Keiko used devious tactics to make Faust her friend- befriended Aoko (yes this is Aoko's bestie character in the show) and now Aoko thinks theyre adorable and Kaito can't let her down!
Wait, Hakuba has a bird????? WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL GUY WITH 12 PET DOVES BEFORE!? HE LOVES BIRD ALL BIRD PEOPLE ARE CRAZY!!!!
Instead, they stumble upon a murder.
Just watched his Dad die like a month ago, Kaito, is very concerned.
It shouldn't be possible, right? A locked box murder? Everyone is a suspect...
Hakuba helps by pointing out clues- the detectives ignore him but Kaito doesn't- which makes Faust have some realizations. Kaito is not a detective, he doesn't know how to investigate. But he is a Magician and was trained by thieves.
Kaito knows how to break in, he knows how to act like a performance and he knows how to play with the seen and the unseen.
Kaito doesn't knock anyone out and explain the deductions but he does points out the clues for Nakamouri-oji and Aoko He makes the culprits fall and make themselves obvious.
Kaito must have bad luck tho, because he keeps on finding bodies! These are not the criminals he was trying to find!!
(Around a month later)
Hakuba eventually notices what Kaito is doing after a few solved investigations and calls him out- and declares their group (Keiko, Hakuba, Faust, Aoko, Akako) the Detective boys!
(Aoko: I'm included in this???
keiko, genuinely: you're my best friend Aoko-neechan!
kaito: we need someone bigger with police contact!
hakuba: my dads a-
kaito: and older people authority!
akako: why am i included? Can I leave?)
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(A few more months later)
Despite their classmates believing she is playing Witch she is not! She's the last true Red Magic Witch!
Her coven is mostly gone so it's just her and her servants and Lucifer. But she's not lonely because she made everyone in her class love her! With her magic!
Except that damn Faust!
Lucifer apparently found the name funny when she asked which is really meanie of him!
But she uncovered something crazy with her scrying- Faust is a weirdo because he's a magician! Whose also 15! She understands it now! Magicians are Witches mortal enemies!
(If her mother was still around she'd tell Akako that enemies is a bit of a strong word- thankfully she's not around so Akako will continue her path of murder)
Kaito cannot believe that after everything, the internationally wanted parents, international criminal organizations, surviving a poisoning attempt - it's a five year old witch thats going to take him out! Oh, this is so embarrassing for him!
Faust survives the attempted Hex because it started to snow over the circle (which was done in the school playground during recess in this)
Akako is so upset. Kaito defuses the situation like he always does: pretty words and even prettier flowers given in tricks.
Weirdly, the next day, Akako sits with the detective boys during lunch.
They all start hanging out together and Akako even uses her magic to help solve out murders.
Kaito is the only one who knows about her magic though. Like how Akako is now the only one in the detective boys who knows he's actually much taller usually and looks suaver...
Akako still tries a few ganders at Kaitos life but shes 5 he'll survive.
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Kaito doesn't know he's infamous in the police station as a luck charm, no one weither good or bad, because whenever he appears there's a murder, but also whenever he appears it's solved.
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It has been a year since Kaito Kid disappeared and now a new calling card got sent out.
There's been plenty of imposters over the course of the year, the more it became obvious the real one wasn't coming back. Usually, Shinichi doesn't care but the last imposter involved murder and that's a crime Shinichi can never ignore, so he listened to the annoying Kogoro-keibu and went.
He waited on the roof through the heist and as he predicted the 'Kaito Kid' showed up. After all it's the only exit available for him, everything else would be a diversion.
The 'Kaito Kid''s tricks weren't even that good, he was able to deduce through them all easily- it's clearly mirrors by the way. Magic is just fancy tricks and fancy gadgets...
The old man seemed shaken seeing his face and cried, "Bocchama!" And before Shinichi could get out a quip the old man barreled on a tale of how he thought "Bocchama" was murdered like his father the original Kaito Kid, how he thought the Black Organization got the both of them. How, apparently, the murder and disappearance were covered up.
He cried his heart out... to 16-year-old Shinichi Kudo. He may not be his Bocchama but he's a detective. And he needs to see for himself, he needs to solve the mystery of this organization.
"If Kaito-bocchama was alive he'd be the same age as you..." Jii-chan mourned.
6-year-old Faust suddenly sneezed. Maybe someone was talking about him...
Kaito was alive, but he wasn't the same age as Shinichi
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Shinichi isn't a thief nor a magician, he doesn't know how to do that kind of stuff. But he is a detective and he knows how to deduce what one would do. He is the son of an actor and a detective and he gets something from both of them! He can act. He investigates the places as much as he investigates this increasingly obvious Organization.
He will bring them to justice. This is the oddest Murder Case he's solved- he knows what happened but he has no applicable evidence. This might be a tougher operation than he thought... For the meanwhile the best way to gather evidence seems to be pretending to be Kaito Kid with Jii-chan.
Besides! What's magic besides tricks and gadgets? He can totally fake it!
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The papers think Dad's back. The papers think some random hack whose terrible at magic and instead using gadgets is Dad.
Some random guy with a tranquillizer gun and not even homemade flash bombs! The suit looks oddly authentic but that's about it!
This- this- THIS IS AN AFFRONT TO MAGIC!
Akako stop giggling this is serious! No, it's nothing like how magic is an affront to sorcery! This is just some random hack with chicken tricks! AKAKO STOP LAUGHING!
Anyways, Aoko-neechan. We. We need to go to the next Kid Heist! Am I fan (like Kaito was)? HELL NO!!! Aoko-neechan why are you cheering? What I don't hate him because he's a criminal I hate him because he's a HORRIBLE MAGICIAN!
Faust is going to prove this guy's a hack!
He tracks down the guy at his own heist and calls out all his poor attempts at magic. The guy manages to get away on his appropriated hanglider but he's going to get him next time!
Eh? Why is the newspapers talking about a KID Killer?
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More exerpts:
Ekoda squad minus Aoko are all kids.
Aoko is now alone in hs sadly
the grade school teachers hate to see detective boys pulling up
kaito learns about alcohol temporarily acting as an antidote when his mom was in japan once 8 months after the poisoning and it made him big again
most people know ab the absurdly good disguise users in the family and no one is quite sure if it truly was kaito but most think not esp when chikage is in the country
the detective boys look so ominous to everyone else
kaito being kid killer is funny thats the end of my point
Aoko sees Shinichi walking with Ran in public during a Kid heist and for a second confuses him for Kaito before she chalks it up to grief
Shinichi sees an opportunity for someone who is bad at disguises and Kaito is wondering the rammifications of hitting someone in the head with a metal card sleeve through the hanglider while theyre flying (ITS SUCH A BAD DISGUISE TOO HE JUST DOES HIS HAIR. KAITO. IS OFFENDED. HED NEVER BE THAT LAZY NOT EVEN CONTACTS!?)
Some while after Kaito Kids 'return' Faust bumps into Jody and he finally has an ally who is also against the Org after the Red Tear heist (kaito was there not shinichi)
Beika squad are all teens.
Sonoko still is a Kid fangirl. Shinichi is taking psychic damage every 10 minutes
When Sonoko gets her boyfriend Makoto, after THAT heist Shinichi is more than a little scared of him
Ran wants Kid in Jail and Shinichi has to go 'haha yeah! Criminals are bad! but what if its technically vigilantism?'
18-year-old not shrunken Shiho is on the run after from the Org creating APTX is found collapsed by Dr Agasa
She goes by 16-year-old Haibara Ai at Beika High to hopefully throw off the org by lying about her age
somehow gets dragged into Beika squad, Shinichi is suspicious of her
After meeting Kaito she helps him out and is trying to find an antidote- the APTX isn't supposed to be a poison!
Kaito is recruiting Haibara against the Org. Shinichi is too busy being paranoid. He thinks Haibara is org and also Knows. He's looking for evidence as they speak. Haibara finds fucking with people funny
Not Teen genius detectives
the osakans. are 12 years old
i did this because shinichi has too many teens in his life he needs a dose of insanity
12 year old detective of the west
makes the heiji and kazuha shenanigans so much more funny. they are both violently 12 years old with crushes and both think its one sided
Shinichi is stuck babysitting a 12 year old who can see the future
Hakuba is also still considered part of the genuis detective squad and hes 7 years old in first grade reading a whole sherlock holmes book
Come to Japan with our genius detectives! We have an 7 year old, a 12 year old and their 16 year old vigilante detective babysitter
Shinichi goes to a sherlock holmes fan meetup and Heiji disses him for liking Sherlock Holmes saying its super overrated and also calls him out for being Kaito Kid
The Magic Lovers Murder still happens.
Kaito was Red herring before getting shrunk, and since no one knows his identity just continued using it.
He begs Aoko to go and also pretend shes Red Herring instead of him he says its because he doesn't want his cool online friends to find out hes 6. Aoko wants to make sure theyre not murderers or something. Kaito wanted to go to lift everyones spirits with magic, and unfortunately while peoples spirits were defenitely lifted by magic, it wasn't Kaito's magic tricks that did it.
Shinichi goes to warn Ran after the dead guy thing but is about to pass out from cold, thankfully Kaito as a MAGICIAN is always overprepared.
Kaito, whose been solving murders via magic for over a year now and Shinichi detective at heart both realize about the murders around the same time.
Kaito does realize Shinichi at the end when he's leaving quietly Shinichi is Kid but he thinks its a disguise anyways he hits the guy with a metal card sleeve.
Instead of a soccer ball he has his cardgun equipped with metal cards instead of regular ones.
everyone has a soul animal that represents them and get a part of their animal
they can summon that part at will or hide it away, but while hiding it away its still part of you and on your body as a mark/tattoo
for clarity purposes if your animal is so ambiguous you don’t know what it is or what you gain from it it’s also very hard to turn it off or see the mark/tattoo at all which makes it even harder to find out what it is
those with very obvious animal ties (eg. gain a whole new outward limb) have the reverse where they are basically forced to be very attuned
parts can range from yes soul wings, to catboys having cat ears, to magic soul exoskeleton, to see in the dark eyes
start out as a normal human but in childhood the signs come in slowly and then BAM (usually around 6 years old bc of lack of control)
people learn skills to control their soul animal ties young- the better control the faster you can switch and not accidentally bump into someone
some are super inconvenient for daily life eg: ACCURATE FOR HUMAN FLYING WING SPAN! so yeah some people by necessity tend to hide theirs so its not an uncommon sight to see people with and without visible soul animal ties
but if you go for long periods of time forcefully shoving your soul animal ties away it is bad for you
the less obvious part of the ties is that peoples personalities/instincts also gain animalistic qualities of their soul animal
the instincts are strong as children before the ties become obvious and they can be reigned in
sometimes people get TOO into their animal instincts. this is for comedy purposes. mostly.
soul animal ties also require upkeep like every other part of your body
Kaito - Dove soul wings. obviously
doves bc magician. i cannot tell you how basic this au is lmaooo
he tends to hide them in daily life because his wing span is gigantic because he can actually fly
when out his wings are additional 40% of his body weight (he needs to stretch as soon as he gets back from school before letting his wings free to make sure he doesn’t tear anything) (tore his back muscles a couple times as a kid) (first time he got his wings were so painful and his parents had him learn control really quickly and do a lot of physical therapy to adjust to his new limbs) (turns out doing a hand stand without wings and with wings is so different!! balance is all changed!)(at first just kept
his wings length are double his height
his bones are also lighter because of the flying bird thing but he doesnt notice
still uses glider as Kid because he doesn’t want it to be connected to his irl! besides no visible qualities help sell the illusion! annoying to hide his giant wing tattoos on his back in disguises tho (its annoying to fly over forests and shrubbery anyways open fields and large bodies of water for flying is optimal anyways)
his dad used to call him his little assistant and kaito would be his little dove in his performances it was ADORABLE
his birb instincts came in fast and hard
iff too in instincts he struggles to see glass? this is purely bc mk is a comedy and we need more comedy
imagine KID having to reveal his wings in a tense situation to not die
his KID coat is altered- actually all of his clothes are altered with slits so he can easily slip his wings through them if needed
kaitos instincts always liked his fellow doves as part of the flock but got so absurd levels after his dad died and mom left for america
he is very intune with his animal instincts due to his social network being 15 doves and also the nakamoris
sometimes his instincts surrounded by flock for long periods of time make him think of himself as a big bird and then he walks directly into a glass plane
this is a rare phenomenon because their soul tie needs to be 1)social 2)no humans around (which by that point already would be setting off instincts itself) (esp if child like imagine distressed baby animal sounds instinctively happening) and 3)around their soul animal’s animal enough to completely become entrenched
kaitos mental health is Not Good and he is the only one unaware of this even his doves worried about their big legged dove
gets depressed when fully alone
house was built to accommodate for his wings (along with Kid room) and roof has a landing area for him as a result (yes hakuba tries so hard to find evidence there lmao)
squawks when offended
his wings also need pokerface lmao
Shinichi/Conan - hawk - got the eyes!
He’s a detective gotta be keen at observing
this guy sees a dead body and his soul tie is going wildddd (he gets more into his insticts as well as a result)
Shinichi likes his soul animal tie for its usefulness lmao - also why he cant leave anything alone every- he can see all the things going on
everyone is so concerned seeing a six year old so controlled over their soul tie and just insant activation around crimes lmao
sonoko chalks the fact that both kudo and conan have these eyes as their soul tie is that theyre both detectives. classic detectives thing really
conan has such a high pitched squeal bc of this its hysterical
his eyes being super observant makes his conan glasses super funny actually
bro can see UV light
baby shinichi, in school, nitpicking colours because he got more cones cells: no i want light brown for my sherlock holmes diagram! thats dark purple!
his conan glasses gonna be like reverse sunglasses or smthing- its not uncommon for those with sense changing soul ties to have medical stuff (hawks cant see well in the dark lmaoooo)
kept climbing trees obsessively for a better view as a kid before his trait became obvious and then started doing it again as conan bc he got tired of being short and would just climb high up on anything Ran is very done
doesnt tend to get too into his own instincts because hes too logical for that (or at least he thinks that ran objects and says theres so many times he gets into his head just doesnt notice bc he only thinks of logic)
dives upon prey metaphorically
fun fact! hawks eat doves
(kaito breaks into a cold sweat and feels prey instincts activate when conan ‘Kid Killer’ is staring at him with mischievous detective intent lmao)(of course this does nothing to deter the annoying theif)(for the record most people don’t feel such things otherwise thered be like zootopia racism kaito is just more bird than person)
also fun fact! hawks only have one mate their entire life
Haibara - snake - poison gland :3
her soul animal tie is the reason she survived the apoxtitocyn idk how to spell
its so invisible she did not know what her soul tie was for a long time
she thought maybe she just didnt get one it would fit someone without a nest
turns out she did! only finds out after shes haibara with the prof
her pysche is in shambles
she gets cold easily it startled ayumi and ayumi forces her to wear gloves and hold her hand in winter
if she only survived because of her soul tie then… what the fuck is up with kudo?
Rest of the detective boys
young enough where its not obvious yet and not knowing isnt weird but conan and haibara knowing theirs isn’t weird either
random assortment of uncontrolled instincts
conan and haibara balance them out
ayumi has clear pack bonding instincts. shes also insane.
genta clearly has an animal tie that requires more sustenance - hes a hungry growing boy! that much is clear so his teachers let him eat in class as an exception lmao- maybe it’s fish related!
mitsuhikos is not very obvious and he does not care he doesnt need one hes got science!! and studying!! hes a smart boy
out of all the detective boys genta is probably the closest to realizing/getting his soul tie soon
Ran - bear - she got bear hands get it? she fights with her bear hands (claws)
she scares me
strong
protective
fucking loves jam
gets so sleepy in the winter
she is medically excused from certain school activities in the winter due to her nature
ambush attacks people shinichi is no 1 victim for being annoying
she chuffs this isnt important but i need this to be known
never fuck with her - DONT POKE THE SLEEPING BEAR!!!! she is TERRIFYING when on her protective instincts she can rip a lamppost out of the ground to cave your head in if she wishes
the only one whose able to get away (alive) with poking the sleeping bear is shinichi
in tune with her instincts - not overly so where shes more animal than human sometimes like kaito - but she knows how she feels! better than everyone else at being balanced lmao
you ever seen those videos of people getting adrenaline rush and picking up a car to save a baby? shes like that on will basically because shes in tune
Sonoko - butterfly next question - fuzzy
cocoons at night also cacoons whenever she feels bad
does not come out of her cacoon when her period is bad fr (i do too sonoko </3)
she doesnt usually supress her trait bc it just like a natural jacket (butterfly fuzziness)
needs to spend time in the sun (some ppl think its vain its not its medical necessity)
cloudy winter day? so so cold
Shinichi will third wheel his girlfriend and Sonoko who are sharing a jacket and are super close whole walking bc sonoko is so cold and has fur so ran is there for the fur and sonoko is there for the warmth
Hakuba - White Horse - speedy boy? centaur? centaur hakuba? i dont fucking know centaur hakuba
he gives me horse girl vibes
he has to use horse shampoo and it makes his hair so soft and shiny and luscious that thats the whole reason hes popular
“have you seen his hair?!?”
something something white knight something something
keeps fuckig eating flowers someone stop him
Kaito, trying to distract him, saying something charming: *makes a rose appear* pour toi- EHHH??? QUOI???? ARRÊTE!!!! hakuba: *waiting the roses as they appear*
was obessed with mlp as a kid this isnt an au thing this is canon btw trust me
“its like finding a needle in a haystack- and i love haystacks!”
Heiji - ? - future sight
heiji has no idea what soul animal his tie is
but its really obvious his divination/future sight is from it
his specific soul tie is mentioned in mythos by dif names but the plot important one is cursed by apollo
Conan until meeting Heiji thought it was baloney lmao hes super invested into finding out heijis soul animal
ambiguous soul ties arent common but theyre not exactly uncommon either- a lot of places simply dont know what animal it could be
theres signs (from instincts) and in common era theres tests too but theyre not always conclusive
heiji doesnt care much what his soul tie is LMAO
Kazuha also has an ambiguous/invisible soul tie and they bonded over it as kids
Kazuha and Heiji are unaware that their instincts are both crazed and so match eachothers freak
they packbonded
Aoko - honey bager
i wont expand
Akako - crow - witches don’t get any limbs with that only instincts
she likes shiny things
she IS a bad omen
has an entire flock
witches gave up their soul tie to do sorcery with the great spirits many many moons ago
the tattoo/mark is there tho
akako thinks its dumb
Kaitos bad guys are a given
Snake - has snake scales as armour
Spider - has a exoskeleton
kaito thinks both are unfair and evil
Conans are less so
ima finish this later its 1 am this is my archive i can do what i want
Shinichi always felt a certain resonance with his soul tie. Heightened observation always suited him, always lead him to mysteries. Some people say he’s cursed, always finding bodies but he knows better. They were always there, but he’s the one who’d notice and chase. If he believed in fate he’d say that it was fate he became a detective.
But sometimes, when he was a child, he’d wish for a more obvious soul tie. Something as dramatic as the rest of his family. Something he could notice, something everyone else could notice- ironic, he knows.
“What point is it, having such a cool hawk soul animal without wings!?” “Bird that can’t fly…”
It’s not unheard of, for a bird soul tie to get other ties than wings- pigeon homing sense for example. Not that really affected children’s babbling.
He doesn’t regret his observation skills.
Not when he got poisoned and not now.
But for the first time in his second childhood he finds himself wishing for a moment he had wings- well, at least while he’s being flung out of a blimp and hurling towards water at insane speeds.
With how far and high he is, hitting the waters surface tension is enough to turn him into a Conan pancake instantly. Or maybe Conan shark bait.
It’s only thanks to his observational skills he notices another person following him. He can see the disguise well even from the quickly closing distance and wind resistance.
If Conan was on the blimp he’d be able to notice that the white blob gliding away wasn’t a previously concealed hanglider but a pair of white wings.
Over open water is a doves favorite area to fly.
-
Are they going to fly back then?
“Are you crazy? That’s the opposite direction as the wind! I won’t make it…”
everyone has a soul animal that represents them and get a part of their animal
they can summon that part at will or hide it away, but while hiding it away its still part of you and on your body as a mark/tattoo
for clarity purposes if your animal is so ambiguous you don’t know what it is or what you gain from it it’s also very hard to turn it off or see the mark/tattoo at all which makes it even harder to find out what it is
those with very obvious animal ties (eg. gain a whole new outward limb) have the reverse where they are basically forced to be very attuned
parts can range from yes soul wings, to catboys having cat ears, to magic soul exoskeleton, to see in the dark eyes
start out as a normal human but in childhood the signs come in slowly and then BAM (usually around 6 years old bc of lack of control)
people learn skills to control their soul animal ties young- the better control the faster you can switch and not accidentally bump into someone
some are super inconvenient for daily life eg: ACCURATE FOR HUMAN FLYING WING SPAN! so yeah some people by necessity tend to hide theirs so its not an uncommon sight to see people with and without visible soul animal ties
but if you go for long periods of time forcefully shoving your soul animal ties away it is bad for you
the less obvious part of the ties is that peoples personalities/instincts also gain animalistic qualities of their soul animal
the instincts are strong as children before the ties become obvious and they can be reigned in
sometimes people get TOO into their animal instincts. this is for comedy purposes. mostly.
soul animal ties also require upkeep like every other part of your body
Kaito - Dove soul wings. obviously
doves bc magician. i cannot tell you how basic this au is lmaooo
he tends to hide them in daily life because his wing span is gigantic because he can actually fly
when out his wings are additional 40% of his body weight (he needs to stretch as soon as he gets back from school before letting his wings free to make sure he doesn’t tear anything) (tore his back muscles a couple times as a kid) (first time he got his wings were so painful and his parents had him learn control really quickly and do a lot of physical therapy to adjust to his new limbs) (turns out doing a hand stand without wings and with wings is so different!! balance is all changed!)(at first just kept
his wings length are double his height
his bones are also lighter because of the flying bird thing but he doesnt notice
still uses glider as Kid because he doesn’t want it to be connected to his irl! besides no visible qualities help sell the illusion! annoying to hide his giant wing tattoos on his back in disguises tho (its annoying to fly over forests and shrubbery anyways open fields and large bodies of water for flying is optimal anyways)
his dad used to call him his little assistant and kaito would be his little dove in his performances it was ADORABLE
his birb instincts came in fast and hard
iff too in instincts he struggles to see glass? this is purely bc mk is a comedy and we need more comedy
imagine KID having to reveal his wings in a tense situation to not die
his KID coat is altered- actually all of his clothes are altered with slits so he can easily slip his wings through them if needed
kaitos instincts always liked his fellow doves as part of the flock but got so absurd levels after his dad died and mom left for america
he is very intune with his animal instincts due to his social network being 15 doves and also the nakamoris
sometimes his instincts surrounded by flock for long periods of time make him think of himself as a big bird and then he walks directly into a glass plane
this is a rare phenomenon because their soul tie needs to be 1)social 2)no humans around (which by that point already would be setting off instincts itself) (esp if child like imagine distressed baby animal sounds instinctively happening) and 3)around their soul animal’s animal enough to completely become entrenched
kaitos mental health is Not Good and he is the only one unaware of this even his doves worried about their big legged dove
gets depressed when fully alone
house was built to accommodate for his wings (along with Kid room) and roof has a landing area for him as a result (yes hakuba tries so hard to find evidence there lmao)
squawks when offended
his wings also need pokerface lmao
Shinichi/Conan - hawk - got the eyes!
He’s a detective gotta be keen at observing
this guy sees a dead body and his soul tie is going wildddd (he gets more into his insticts as well as a result)
Shinichi likes his soul animal tie for its usefulness lmao - also why he cant leave anything alone every- he can see all the things going on
everyone is so concerned seeing a six year old so controlled over their soul tie and just insant activation around crimes lmao
sonoko chalks the fact that both kudo and conan have these eyes as their soul tie is that theyre both detectives. classic detectives thing really
conan has such a high pitched squeal bc of this its hysterical
his eyes being super observant makes his conan glasses super funny actually
bro can see UV light
baby shinichi, in school, nitpicking colours because he got more cones cells: no i want light brown for my sherlock holmes diagram! thats dark purple!
his conan glasses gonna be like reverse sunglasses or smthing- its not uncommon for those with sense changing soul ties to have medical stuff (hawks cant see well in the dark lmaoooo)
kept climbing trees obsessively for a better view as a kid before his trait became obvious and then started doing it again as conan bc he got tired of being short and would just climb high up on anything Ran is very done
doesnt tend to get too into his own instincts because hes too logical for that (or at least he thinks that ran objects and says theres so many times he gets into his head just doesnt notice bc he only thinks of logic)
dives upon prey metaphorically
fun fact! hawks eat doves
(kaito breaks into a cold sweat and feels prey instincts activate when conan ‘Kid Killer’ is staring at him with mischievous detective intent lmao)(of course this does nothing to deter the annoying theif)(for the record most people don’t feel such things otherwise thered be like zootopia racism kaito is just more bird than person)
also fun fact! hawks only have one mate their entire life
Haibara - snake - poison gland :3
her soul animal tie is the reason she survived the apoxtitocyn idk how to spell
its so invisible she did not know what her soul tie was for a long time
she thought maybe she just didnt get one it would fit someone without a nest
turns out she did! only finds out after shes haibara with the prof
her pysche is in shambles
she gets cold easily it startled ayumi and ayumi forces her to wear gloves and hold her hand in winter
if she only survived because of her soul tie then… what the fuck is up with kudo?
Rest of the detective boys
young enough where its not obvious yet and not knowing isnt weird but conan and haibara knowing theirs isn’t weird either
random assortment of uncontrolled instincts
conan and haibara balance them out
ayumi has clear pack bonding instincts. shes also insane.
genta clearly has an animal tie that requires more sustenance - hes a hungry growing boy! that much is clear so his teachers let him eat in class as an exception lmao- maybe it’s fish related!
mitsuhikos is not very obvious and he does not care he doesnt need one hes got science!! and studying!! hes a smart boy
out of all the detective boys genta is probably the closest to realizing/getting his soul tie soon
Ran - bear - she got bear hands get it? she fights with her bear hands (claws)
she scares me
strong
protective
fucking loves jam
gets so sleepy in the winter
she is medically excused from certain school activities in the winter due to her nature
ambush attacks people shinichi is no 1 victim for being annoying
she chuffs this isnt important but i need this to be known
never fuck with her - DONT POKE THE SLEEPING BEAR!!!! she is TERRIFYING when on her protective instincts she can rip a lamppost out of the ground to cave your head in if she wishes
the only one whose able to get away (alive) with poking the sleeping bear is shinichi
in tune with her instincts - not overly so where shes more animal than human sometimes like kaito - but she knows how she feels! better than everyone else at being balanced lmao
you ever seen those videos of people getting adrenaline rush and picking up a car to save a baby? shes like that on will basically because shes in tune
Sonoko - butterfly next question - fuzzy
cocoons at night also cacoons whenever she feels bad
does not come out of her cacoon when her period is bad fr (i do too sonoko </3)
she doesnt usually supress her trait bc it just like a natural jacket (butterfly fuzziness)
needs to spend time in the sun (some ppl think its vain its not its medical necessity)
cloudy winter day? so so cold
Shinichi will third wheel his girlfriend and Sonoko who are sharing a jacket and are super close whole walking bc sonoko is so cold and has fur so ran is there for the fur and sonoko is there for the warmth
Hakuba - White Horse - speedy boy? centaur? centaur hakuba? i dont fucking know centaur hakuba
he gives me horse girl vibes
he has to use horse shampoo and it makes his hair so soft and shiny and luscious that thats the whole reason hes popular
“have you seen his hair?!?”
something something white knight something something
keeps fuckig eating flowers someone stop him
Kaito, trying to distract him, saying something charming: *makes a rose appear* pour toi- EHHH??? QUOI???? ARRÊTE!!!! hakuba: *waiting the roses as they appear*
was obessed with mlp as a kid this isnt an au thing this is canon btw trust me
“its like finding a needle in a haystack- and i love haystacks!”
Heiji - ? - future sight
heiji has no idea what soul animal his tie is
but its really obvious his divination/future sight is from it
his specific soul tie is mentioned in mythos by dif names but the plot important one is cursed by apollo
Conan until meeting Heiji thought it was baloney lmao hes super invested into finding out heijis soul animal
ambiguous soul ties arent common but theyre not exactly uncommon either- a lot of places simply dont know what animal it could be
theres signs (from instincts) and in common era theres tests too but theyre not always conclusive
heiji doesnt care much what his soul tie is LMAO
Kazuha also has an ambiguous/invisible soul tie and they bonded over it as kids
Kazuha and Heiji are unaware that their instincts are both crazed and so match eachothers freak
they packbonded
Aoko - honey bager
i wont expand
Akako - crow - witches don’t get any limbs with that only instincts
she likes shiny things
she IS a bad omen
has an entire flock
witches gave up their soul tie to do sorcery with the great spirits many many moons ago
the tattoo/mark is there tho
akako thinks its dumb
Kaitos bad guys are a given
Snake - has snake scales as armour
Spider - has a exoskeleton
kaito thinks both are unfair and evil
Conans are less so
ima finish this later its 1 am this is my archive i can do what i want