#I think times I've written Shinichi were decent

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I agree with you on Shinichi's and Kaito's characterizations being usually ooc in the fandom perspective (not saying it's wrong either, everyone has the right to have their own understanding and see a character however they want to) But Shinichi as an introvert who is always oblivious and doesn't like attention / Kaito as this extroverted pervy and somehow seemingly sexually experienced guy (even tho he has no experience at all) feels off. How do you usually characterize Shinichi and Kaito?

Well, I don’t really write Shinichi too often. I’ve written him as Conan a couple of times, and while one of those times he was off on his own, that was purely for the narrative because everyone else had made excuses to go off on their own to plan a surprise for him. By default, I wrote him expecting to play soccer with the DB, and he was more surprised when they all just left him alone. He’s okay on his own, but he does enjoy being with others. Usually. He might complain sometimes if he’s really just not interested in what they have planned. ( Like ghost hunts. He’ll go along with it, but he won’t be into it at all. )

Kaito I’ve written for a lot more, and I know that I play him off as largely on his own and not planning for a whole lot. I do refer to him as ‘my Kaito’ because I know I’m not really writing canon. He can show interest in people, but doesn’t actually plan on asking anyone out. And while I maintain that he’s not extroverted, he’s perfectly fine going up and chatting with strangers, though if he starts an interaction, there’s usually a reason behind it. Even if the reason is simply ‘they look down, maybe I should cheer them up’. He can be callous, but usually due to some amount of obliviousness, and tends to regret when he upsets someone. ( And only really cool with people he doesn’t like much, though he usually still tries to play a fool for a while. ) He might not apologize right away, but he does try and diffuse the situation by some means, even if it’s through self depreciating humour (usually around Aoko). Overall remains nice and friendly, but don’t upset him because he wouldn’t hesitate to get revenge or, for more dangerous situations, get violent. And as I have had ship threads in rp, I can say my Kaito has only been overly friendly/flirty with... himself, usually. With a mindset of knowing the things another version of himself would probably have gone through, and more than half of it is all teasing. When someone does ask him out, he gets pretty hesitant and has to consider for a while. ( Though in rp, there are experiences outside of canon to justify whichever decisions he makes. )

#Anon #Basically I try to do a hybrid #Usually whatever canon would do #And then situations that you'd have no idea would go in canon would be based on what you know of the character #I think times I've written Shinichi were decent #My Kaito that I rp I know is nicer than canon #Because I latch on to the times he's gone out of his way to help people that he's met #Which are usually people he identifies with on some level; while I just do a nice Kai in general #Specials episode 1; kid trips in front of him and starts crying #He immediately goes to reassure him and does a little magic and gives the kid a toy #I like that Kaito so that tends to be what I do #As opposed to older manga; skirt flipping; locker peeping; /bath/ peeping Kaito #Who antagonizes Aoko about her dad not having the skill to catch anyone #Mine has a lot of empathy and some knowledge of how he acts and what he does #So some guilt hitting him about being Kid at times as well #Good luck getting him to admit that he's kinda blindly following his father's footsteps though #Anonymous