(Freakin’…. I would have been fine not realising we didn’t get this in either version of the Teleportation heist. Because Now I want to see Kid grinning like that while falling backwards off a building in the anime too… And no, that one scene from Movie 8 when he gets out of the plane doesn’t count.)
(This was the closest his face got to the manga scene from the DC anime. The want is strong…)
(I know Kid’s technically an antagonist in DC, but really…)
(By the second time we see him, I’m pretty sure most people know he’s not evil. I know he has his times in the anime as well, but jeez. That last one there was just a generic shadow man in that case. …Actually *goes back at this point to add the anime equivalents* Though substituting for that last one with an equivalent, even if the manga part for the mansion didn’t show his outfit. …And yes, yes I am actually doing manga icons. And will probably put them up for others since I won’t actually use them.)
(Bonus)
(Hmm… Spider’s not in the mood to do anything right now, and Kai’s more interested in random than in drafts right now… Also having a DragonHeart marathon right now…)
(………..And here I am randomly making manga Kaito icons I know I’ll never use because I lean towards anime. …*sigh*
……………No. No. Lupin Kaito stay in that corner, I’m not doing ones for you. No.)
(…Most of the checking in and posting from work isn’t supposed to be allowed, since we’re not supposed to be on or phones at all. They’re incredibly relaxed about it for us overnight workers, though, because they… somewhat… understand how hard being nocturnal is.
…’Somewhat’ in that they probably don’t know how much it affects people who’s main connection to people is through the internet.
I know I chose to be overnight, but there were reasons for that. Biggest being that there would be less customers and people to have to interact with. I’m not the best at social communication, and while a casual conversation is fine (if they don’t mind me not being the best at it, since I just really don’t talk much), but random people constantly coming up or expecting me to know things I might not isn’t something I can handle much of. I’ve also just always been more active at night in general.
…So, yes, I have a social anxiety. I’m an introvert. I didn’t need something that throws me with a ton of people to talk to.
What happens when I get my first job? They put me in the largest section that no one cares about, that requires quite a bit of maintenance, and also put me in charge of answering the f-ing phone and making announcements over the intercom. I don’t even answer my own phone, unless I know who’s calling/am expecting it. Thanks a lot. If I don’t have something to distract me, I frequently started getting stressed and frustrated, unable to calm down until four hours in, at lunch break when I can go home and spend a lot of time somewhere more comfortable and quiet.
The biggest problem to my phone use, however is because, I don’t have a ‘normal’ life. I’ve moved twice, and I’m not the best at connecting with people, so I have very, very few friends in RL. Currently one that I might could call up to ask to hang out with, maybe. If I didn’t need sleep and she didn’t have her own job to do during the day.
So everything I have is online. But even then, time interferes with when I can actually do anything with people. No matter how hard I might try and schedule, most activity takes place well within my sleep time. So I try and hold on to as much time as I can, which is why I end up on my phone at work.
…But how the hell can I try explaining any of that to the managers? Should I even try? Because I don’t even know if they’d care about that, or just see it as me making excuses.
…I kinda just wish they’d fire me, instead of making me scared to even speak up about anything. My apathy is one thing I half-shared with Spider. I care more about staying connected and emotionally stable than a retail job that I only applied for because my parents said I’d have to get one if I chose to stop what I had been going to college for. Which had taken a lot of thought already, and was a big decision, but the career I’d gone in for required a lot of dedication and interest, which I’d lost after two years of studying it. And I even broke down crying when I said needed to drop out. I’ve already been through enough emotional stress regarding decisions, and my current job wasn’t one of them. It’s a necessity, given the terms my parents gave, but everything’s just gotten worse and worse the longer I’ve been working, and my phone helps with it. …Until I get caught and then stressed because they talk with me about it, usually in groups of two.
…Sorry, I’m just really more freaking out right now because every time they catch me on it, I get terrified they’ll actually take it away the rest of the night. And it’s not like I’ve ever been diagnosed for anything or have enough behind me other than too much thinking to explain why I have obsessive behaviour regarding why I’m on the phone. I wan to say something, but it really will probably sound like an excuse. …Though I will say, they know I’m (mostly) honest. When they asked if they’d see me on it again, I didn’t say no. It’d be a straight up lie, and I knew it. So I said ‘I don’t know’. Because it’s true, I don’t. People are asleep by now, so I’m not on it as often, if at all.
…But I just really don’t know what to do…)
(Hmm… something that I think might get confusing after a while, especially with the Magic Kaito 1412 anime, is what ‘version’ Kaitos will be from. Because even if the manga, the specials, and the anime all follow the same general story, certain key elements still change between them.
The manga is the technical end all be all for the series, technically. The overall canon. However… people might not have read it. I’d hope Kaito rpers have, considering they never did animate all of the chapters, and there are areas that bring development in the few that haven’t been touched. That, and lets face it, the manga better showed Kaito’s jerky side to begin with. Both of the animated ones can be asses, but overall are painted to be much more likeable sooner. The manga was originally a gag manga who’s plot didn’t pick up until the third volume, so of course the whole tone was different to begin with. And Pandora and Snake weren’t the biggest of issues until after Hakuba showed up, even. Hence why the Adam’s Smile originally didn’t have the BS reason of containing a hidden gem for Kid to steal. Kid wasn’t stealing gems at that time. And Kaito’s revenge motive was better sent across in the manga.
The specials gave Kaito the most likeable feel, and focused more on Kid than Kaito, overall. Not in terms of story so much, more in terms of appearances. Was something I noticed taking screenshots, and the fact they wanted to focus on the bigger and important heists Kid had done. Shouldn’t be surprising, since the specials are called ‘Kid the Phantom Thief‘. And then there were the slight changes made there… and larger one. Slight being merging chapters for Akako together, and also doing that to Hakuba as well, taking out certain scenes, modifying others. This was the one that started the whole ‘Chikage wasn’t there when Kaito became Kid’ aspect. She was home in the manga. And then, of course, Spider being wedged into the plot. I’m incredibly biased when it comes to him, but he does add an interesting pivot point on anything regarding Toichi, Snake, Kaito, and Hakuba. Since he’s involved with Toichi’s death in some way, and Hakuba’s target isn’t Kid because of the assassin, and the thief is instead thought of as ‘bait’. Huge change in character dynamics with this guy…
And then, Magic Kaito 1412. It does follow the manga more closely, as it had set out to do, so mostly just off on smaller details. One: The single cassette tape where Toichi tried giving the message of being Kaitou Kid (and mostly wasn’t working after eight years) was replaced with the jukebox (where he never mentioned Kid at all in the first one that I recall…). Biggest change for that, to a Kaito, would be… the cassette couldn’t be listened to again. The jukebox could. And it seemed that Toichi was pushing Kaito more and advising to be a magician, though at the same time, the way everything was getting revealed almost made it look like he did want Kaito to take up the mantle. Hmm… Other changes include foreshadowing of Corbeau, some extra explanations about magic that may or may not come back into play, the Nakamori’s being neighbors, Kaito more consistently relying on Jii for help, the decision between continuing as things are or whether he should consider his future and actually go into the practice of being a magician… and finally the Kaito Kid squad. *snrk* Just because of that, the interactions between the teens should be quite different. And the use of the bar.
I’m looking at this more as a Kaito RPer myself, since the devil’s in the details, but it’s something to keep in mind. Not everyone will have the same idea of Magic Kaito in their heads that might have existed five years ago anymore. And it might get confusing at times.
…And let’s not bring the whole ‘does he know about Conan or not’ from Detective Conan. That’s another aspect people will have to define themselves.)
((Hearing about all that is only going to give him more reasons to never forgive himself. He might act calm but on the inside he’s very angry at himself. If he finds out about all of that he would basically hate himself and everything he did.))
(Yeah, kinda figured. My Kaito might be mad, but he’ll eventually forgive him when it’s obvious Toichi never meant for that to happen. The ironic thing is, it’s true what Toichi’s said in other threads before. Showing the room, he did, but he never told Kaito to do his job. Thereby meaning that Jii and Chikage did more of the encouraging to bringing Kid back. Jii might not have been happy, but he started it and supports Kaito. Chikage should have known better, though, even if they all might have wanted to know the exact reason behind Toichi’s ‘accident’.
Basically, a lot of assumptions the characters make, even if Toichi actually being alive weren’t a possible thing. Everyone involved has made mistakes in this.)
“But really oyaji? A cassette tape? CDs were around when you were active, you could have put so much more on them instead of a relic that doesn’t do as good a job withstanding the test of time… The anime did one thing better, with the jukebox, but still. Really?”
(Oi, Kid, get out of here. This is mun talk, not for the muse to jump into…)
(Well, if Toichi’s worried about possible nightmares from a few pictures… I’m sure he would love to know about all of this happening to his son in the time he’s been gone… And that’s just Kid damage, let’s not think of possible emotional blows the years following the death of his father had on him.)
(Sorry for the small bit of spamming on Kaito. Well, ‘small’ in comparison to the number of drafts. Still not as many as I’d like to have done, but technically, if I take out people to appear to be on hiatus, memes, just hoarded responses that may never be answered… It might actually be half as much as it looks. Maybe. …In the 60s. So if I have multiple threads, I’m only gonna focus 1-3 per person for now, unless Kai’s showing favouritism and more active for me for certain people…
Feel free to send stuff and make more, just very likely they’ll fall to drafts after a while. And Spider’s been more active, so some time is being taken from Kai, but he’s being pretty nice about it.)
(And for a random information time, one of the reasons I picked Kyoko for my FC, aside from loving Skip Beat to death and collecting volumes for it just as much as DC, is because…
(Nice, helpful, usually friendly, doesn’t mind cuddles in the slightest)
(Can get annoyed easily, prefers having something to focus on, not the most social of people (doesn’t apply to Kyoko, this one, just how she can look sometimes and my connection to Spider). Even my manager said I should be a spy for how quiet and unnoticeable I am usually. And a few do still call be a ninja assassin because I can walk right behind people while they’re distracted and they won’t notice.)
(Just wanted to compare, but then it made me rant-y, so feel free to ignore the rest.)
(And not gonna put up with people who don’t hold any regard for me in the slightest. I’m nice enough to not bother most people, But that doesn’t mean I won’t start being rude if you start getting on my nerves and stepping on my toes. Customers in retail is one things, I expect many of them to not give a damn about the workers fixing whatever mess is left behind everywhere, but I loathe the person I frequently have to work with. She’s constantly complaining, always, about work, about when I work the area she’s normally in when she’s moved elsewhere for the night, about not having the same days off as me because that means she won’t get help in her area… And she’s constantly saying I’m weird and not normal because of how I think and what I like. Yes. Okay. I get it. I wouldn’t mind being called weird, if she didn’t say something about it pretty much every time I see her. I don’t like purely romantic movies, so what? No, I haven’t seen Titanic, and you saying I should see all these sorts of things I’m clearly not interested in, and then talking down about what I do like isn’t making want to see them anymore than I already did. She also kept complaining about her boyfriend(?) and drama to the point where I actually said ‘that’s interesting and all, but I really don’t care’. And to clarify, she did also keep asking me for my opinion, which is why I said that. I don’t mind listening to personal issues once in a while, but, again. Every. Single. Day. And then she mentioned that I should know at least what some of her trouble was like and it came to me mentioning I was asexual and no, I really didn’t. I don’t get caught up in drama.
And more getting called weird, the ‘you just haven’t found the right person’ BS, and when I got fed up one day and said I was no longer going to discuss it with her, she said, after I’d turned my back, ‘you’ll see one day’. By that point, I seriously wanted to slap her in the face. And she didn’t drop it, and said I should date another co-worker that I got along with. And I plainly said no, I already said I’m not interested, and she completely ignored me. Yet somehow, she thinks we’re friends. No. No we’re not. You do your work, I’ll do mine, if I have to help you, fine, but no talking about anything with me. I really think she’s just dense, but I’m very clear with what I say, and I have thrown logic at her that even she understands, so I don’t even know.
Sorry for that sudden explosion, but that’s been building up a while, and apparently the comparing between my muses and making this post set it off for some reason. Everyone else I’ve known is pretty open and accepting, and wouldn’t care, so I really had forgotten that close-minded idiots do still exist until I spent too much time with one…)
(For any wondering why Kai is largely inactive in terms of actually rping right now… Well, partially because Spider is the account I have up on my phone at work so I can keep up better with what might be happening with the DCMK rpers. (A lot of good that’s doing now…) Buut… We may have also started work on the draft hoard again. Working backwards, from older to newer. But not posting anything yet, since we only got through about six replies on one of the days off, and I’d like to not have to worry about it for a while when I manage to get some out, so…)
(Hmm… I think I’ll go to bed early. Last time I let a small headache stay until the time I normally sleep (because I wanted to watch Into the Woods with my parents), it had gotten a lot worse to the point they stopped the movie and sent me to bed because I looked so bad. I hope this doesn’t get to be a normal thing… though I suppose it’d fix my sleep schedule it it makes me go to bed and then get up earlier.)
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