What I really want to know is what happened in the twenty four hours after this scene.
Because I went through this frame by frame and the glider was nearly completely torn off his body. He was spinning, tumbling and free-falling. This was not a safe landing.
“Aha..ha… That was not fun… But if you don’t mind a theory, I can try to give an explanation that makes sense.”
First off, there are inconsistencies in the scene anyway. I’m nowhere near the water at that point, and yet dropped the box with the egg in it. Soo…”
“How could it end up here closer to the water for tantei-kun to see? With only the lid smashed and the egg perfectly fine laying up nice and pretty? You’re right, the frame of my glider was broken from the force of the bullet throwing the balance off, so I couldn’t have made it that far. Also”
“You see here that my monocle completely breaks in two. The frame and glass.”
“But just the glass is broken here. Hmm…”
“And this is what tantei-kun saw after the shot had been fired and my glider destroyed. And the figure moves perfectly steady here.”
“To actually try and explain all of this, I’m just going to use one picture.”
“This. That building there that I’m heading towards is right across from where Scorpion was aiming. You can see the bridge in this shot as well. …Can’t actually see the shooter, but I did later. It’s fairly obvious when there’s a lone figure standing in a completely empty area with no cars or people.
Anyway, that’s what I was gliding over when I was shot. And that’s where I landed. Not nearly as high of a fall, and very easy to survive with minimal damage. Luck? Perhaps, though getting shot at in the first place is never lucky… But from there, everything would have landed fairly close together. The dummy was sent off without anything, to make people think I had fallen somewhere else, and I had my dove take the egg and monocle down. I wish I’d had another method, since she had gotten injured slightly in the fall, but she could glide down safely enough.
So, not nearly as bad as you may think. Basically just got a sprained wrist, which wasn’t the most fun. Better than what could have happened. Most of the time was spent looking into how to get close to the egg again and make sure everyone else could be kept safe. Which led to research into Shiratori-keiji as well. Basically, everything was set up to make Scorpion believe I was dead/missing/injured and not be suspicious.”
Oh, he was definitely glad that Kaito was willing to listen. That was something that already meant a lot to him. Taking a deep breath, the adult began to explain.
“… I bet you found that room, right? You said that KID made international news which causes me to guess that you decided to take it over– am I guessing it right? That’s actually something I hoped that wouldn’t happen. I wanted you to be able to live a normal life. But I also wanted you to know the truth about who I was. Back then, I ended up getting in trouble with an organization. Apparently I was in their way. Such organizations can do dangerous things and sometimes– sometimes they can even get people’s family involved by hurting their family members. I couldn’t let that happen. I didn’t want them to go that far. I didn’t want them to find out about you. I wanted you to be safe. Back then the only plan I could come up with was faking my death and let nobody know about it.”
A sigh escaped from his lips. “I had to dissapear for a long time, until I was certain of it that they truly believed I was dead. I didn’t want them to start searching for those close to me and I most certainly didn’t want them to search for you.”
Kaito crossed his arms as he listened, not interrupting as his father spoke. The only change in expression came at the mention of the organisation, with a slight narrowing of the teen’s eyes. And when the man seemed to have stopped speaking, those eyes closed in thought.
…He did know those people were dangerous. And even the feeling of wanting to protect those around him himself. …And honestly, if his own identity wasn’t still unknown to people like Snake, faking a death to help didn’t seem like too bad of an idea…
…But understanding why his father pretended to die didn’t help. It didn’t answer everything. All the decisions… just… where to even begin?
A few moments of silence later, and the magician spoke, not yet looking back at Toichi.
“…I did decide to be Kid. But that was after the supposedly dead thief had already come back. Jii-chan took it over first, and I showed up to one of his heists after finding the room to see who Kid was.”
I thought he might be…
…
“He mistook me for you and mentioned what happened eight years ago wasn’t an accident. He thought you’d been killed because of being Kid.” Now the teen turned his head back up to meet Toichi’s eyes.
“Oyaji… I didn’t take over your job. I had no intention to just from finding the room. I wanted to be Kid because I wanted to find out what happened to you.” A pause, and Kaito lowered his head, falling silent.
…Should he even mention that he’s caught up with that organisation now? After just being told that his father had gone so far to keep them away from him? …Or even that his original goal had been revenge… And his current one directly involved getting in those people’s way.
So I guess I’m not doing a giveaway anymore. I apologize to the people who were looking forward to it. Someone reported my post. I do hope it makes whoever reported it feels warm and fuzzy that you ‘got your vengeance.’ But, in truth, you’re not punishing me, you’re punishing the 422 people who choose to follow me for my art. It wasn’t something I was doing to ‘get more followers’ or ‘get a bunch of notes’. It was a thank you to the people who support my art. I have never been one of the artists in this community that gets a lot of notes on my art or had fanboys. I have slowly but surely gained followers. And because of that, I appreciate all of you.
As I am now aware that giveaways are against the ToS, (I’m pretty sure it wasn’t when I signed up for tumblr however many years ago, but I digress) I won’t be doing another one. I will however continue to post my art and do commissions. I apologize again to all of my followers, but this is out of my hands. I’m so sorry guys.
Guess I won’t be planning on doing anymore of these, myself. Unfortunate, considering a vast number of artists on this site actually do use things like giveaways to increase their follower base, which in turn helps promote their work and potential commissions.
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Formally release Tumblr of any association/accountability/liability when it comes to your event,
Entrants must be 18+,
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MOST IMPORTANT since most tumblr art giveaways tend operate this way, and are most likely what gets Tumblr officials’ attention:
Entries cannot be made or considered via follows, likes, and/or reblogs.
A possible method around this is to create and link to something like a GoogleDocs form. There, people can formally enter their information, and have those entries collate into a private spreadsheet of yours. From there, you can carry out your selection process for winners.
Important information!
Attention tumblr artists!
I’ll be thinking of ways to abide by tumblr’s ToS for future giveaways.
The DC stuff I actually managed to find at A-Kon this year~ Granted, my first experience at A-Kon two years ago was probably the worser one I could have in finding everything, since it was fairly poorly organised from being at a new location and I was lost and confused half the time and other things, but this one was much better. Had a group to go with who cosplayed various other anime characters that I hung around most of the time, instead of wandering by myself, and actually managed to find some things like the above in the dealer’s room, knew the place a lot better than the first time, and had a great time~
(Welp, I’m back from the con. Gotta say, there were some amazing cosplays there, though I’m not the best at pulling my camera out and asking for pictures. More just the silent admirer or will say they look great. Got quite a few people asking for my picture, which is awesome~ One even said they knew Kaito from his manga~ And I saw about three other Kids and a Shinichi (who’d been one of those Kids the first day). Very nice to see any of them at all~
…Much better than being mistaken for Mephisto, some random character I didn’t know, Moriarty from Sherlock Hound, and… *sighs and shakes head* ……Excalibur… (x11)
Found some DC stuff too, which I’ll post a picture or two separately in a bit. But first…. might want to try catching up on dashes. Mostly the personal, since I was looking in from Spider’s account every so often, but nothing from that one.)
(Kaito, this outfit is freakin’ hot. How the heck do you survive?)
“…One, you’re wearing cheap, thick costume material intead of an actual suit. Two, I don’t live in Texas. Three, night, air conditioning, and not walking around constantly.”
(…You defend it, but I know that thing must be burning either way. Especially in summer.)
(Actually, as I’m doing these screenshots…. yes we want the robot for reasons, but we need the underwater pirate one. Why? Because it kills so many things people assume about Kaito. And gives an idea to how he views enemies in general.)
((Just gon’ keep the images big this time, btw.))
(Yes)
(Kaito is still afraid of fish.)
(But he doesn’t want any danger to happen around him just to get rid of them.)
(And not afraid to go interact with them if they can’t bother him.)
(He’s not helpless in the slightest. Sure, a ton of guys with guns is hard to deal with, or a ton of people in general that he might not want to hurt. But even without his card gun, he can defend himself. Look at him, his hands are in his freakin’ pockets here. And note he didn’t kick Silver in the face. He has the skill to, if he can aim so well as to just disarm him, so he probably could be a bit more violent if he wanted. Not saying he’d be excellent at hand to hand, but he should know enough to be able to fight people off.)
(He doesn’t have a problem aiming a real gun at people to use as a threat. Would he kill? No, most likely not. But his finger is on the trigger, so he’s prepared to shoot. If he had to.)
(I’ll admit, I just love this line, or any translation of. True, he has no option but to trust Silver right now, but that he’s confident enough to say it to the person who just tried to kill him and threaten Aoko says a lot. And means he’s capable of trusting even enemies.)
(And he really does need the help. He could do literally nothing due to not having enough air here. He didn’t save them. Or, you could argue he did, for encouraging Silver and saying he trusted him to begin with. But he himself was actually helpless to save them and needed to rely on the other here. How often do we actually get to see Kid not be able to do something on his own. Not to anything at all?)
(But people still wont always go along with him, even after helping. He doesn’t win everyone he meets over completely.)
(And)
(Similar to Conan)
(He can’t always save everyone. He can’t always help. Granted, Conan’s Moonlight Sonata case hit him harder than Silver sending Kid to safety and going down, but it’s still here. Also not as traumatising to Kid as Nightmare is later, but it’s still a good example that he’s not perfect and he doesn’t always win at everything. He tried to get through to Silver and save him, but failed. That it happened later with Nightmare, with the added hit of knowing Kenta, it was probably bigger because something like this would have happened already. They were similar, and Nightmare was far worse.
And I just really have feelings for the older chapters that the animations seem to try and avoid, really…)
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