Is Lupin Still Burning fic ideas
I haven't actually watched this episode but that won't stop me from digging my fingers into every single angsty implication I can think of and dragging multiple fics out of it
*mutters* now if only I could get around to actually writing some of these
Holding on by the Fingertips 14.1.22
Mamo underestimated Zenigata's obsession with Lupin. He can break up the rest of the gang but he can’t pry the Inspector off of Lupin with a crowbar, a sledgehammer, or a healthy dose of literaly-never-met.
Zenigata has never heard of or met this man but by the gods he will keep chasing him no matter what. It's weird to chase a thief you can't even prove exists, predict his movements like they're second nature even if you've nothing to go on, but if anyone can do it it's Zenigata.
They get stuck 14.1.22
Mamo is defeated but they're still stuck in this new timeline and only Lupin has his memories. Platonic OT5.
Jigen is homeless, reduced to begging on the streets to survive. Goemon is silently suffering as he is exploited for his skills as an assassin, wondering if he has lost his grip on honor completely. Fujiko is guarded and tense, trusting no-one and watching to make sure her allies don't stab her in the back in the dog-eat-dog world of criminals. Undistracted by Lupin's insane nonsense, Zenigata has become incresingly mired in the ICPO's corruption, unable to fight it or remain free from its taint himself, leaving him feeling like his soul is being slowly crushed.
Lupin is determined to pull the gang back together regardless, even if the end result is a bit of a different shape then before. (In other words they all have additional trauma and Zeni becomes a theif.)
Coin Flip 14.1.22
Mamo’s messing around with the timeline to break up the Lupin gang up ends up somehow causing Zenigata and Lupin to switch places. Zenigata waking up as the world famous theif Moneta, and Lupin as ICPO Inspectod Lenormand. Reversing things back to normal is a bit of a trick, and the Moneta gang would like an explanation as to why these two are suddenly getting along so well.
Eldritch Lupin 14.1.22
Lupin spends a lot of time undoing Mamo's work to get his gang back together. A lot of time.
It works in the end and he gets everyone back where they're supposed to be, but he's not complely human anymore. Spending that much time with your head in the time-stream has consequences.
Jigen keeps his memories 14.1.22
When Mamo messes with the time-stream, for some reason Jigen is the only one to keep his memories in the new timeline, and he's stuck working with one heck of a handy-cap to try to fix things.
Lupin comes easiest, the maniac more willing than most to trust a random homeless person off the street who swears up and down he's from another timeline where they're partners. The rest are harder to convince, but Jigen is freaking stubborn and more than a little nuts, he'd have never survived adventuring with Lupin if he wasn't.
Day (228/100) in my #∞daysofwriting
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I decided to just go ahead and post everything I had for today instead of reserving some of it to be updated once I caught up to my backlog, because I honestly can’t remember why I was doing that at all.