#and so cocky i need people to rmb he calls himself an intellectual giant

[ultradeducing]

on the note of characters that get done horribly by the fandom: edgar "gave ranpo edogawa the chills the first and only time he's ever gotten them from another detective" allan poe. guy who giggles and teehees gleefully at the idea of killing w his ability. also poe is like just as cocky as ranpo is which is at least half the reason why he entered six years of evil and depression over losing a crime solving contest (besides the implied social isolation from him being like "ranpo we live in a society" half of which the anime omitted /j). he just literally had never met anyone who could beat him before. and then even the person who beat him was like "yeah you were so smart i was kind of getting chills about it" which implies there was a second where ranpo was like "damn i might actually lose" or at the very least "this is the closest i've ever felt to feeling like i might lose". poe also tends to keep up pretty well with ranpo at crime scenes which the only time we ever really see that besides him is when dazai tells atsushi in ranpo's intro that he might have figured out half of the case but admits ranpo probably notices way more than him so poe and dazai at the very least must be on par with each other if we're talking deductive intelligence. but half the time fanon poe is just Some Anxious Guy and the even worse cases where for some reason he's made out to be gullible as hell and leagues below ranpo when he's like the only person who's ever challenged ranpo on a detective skill level. poe is a 28 year old disturbed (said affectionately) person who kills people with fucked up and evil books and laughs about it. while introducing himself in the haughtiest way imaginable every time he gets the chance and using one of the most pretentious outdated personal pronouns ever in japanese. and it's very implied the guild had to learn japanese bc fitzgerald can't even say anyone's name right so poe almost certainly Purposefully uses such an archaic and self-esteemed personal pronoun where the only other character i can remember who uses it is Fucking Natsume. and he's hilarious for it and i love him. this just turned into me autismposting about poe but yeah

#bsd #poe bsd #ranpo edogawa #by mention #anyway poe is dear to my heart #he is crazy and free #and so cocky i need people to rmb he calls himself an intellectual giant #the perfect crime trio is just three guys who have decided they are the best ever