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shadowchildkaito replied to your post:(Umm… so I downloaded Pokemon Rumble World and…

((I had one of the Mystery Dungeon games and loved it. Loving the first Ranger game but am stuck at this one point. And am semi-addicted to Shuffle because I’m a sucker for those kinds of games.))

(Of the spin-offs, the Mystery Dungeon games have been my favourite, though the newest one wasn’t quite as good as it’s predecessors… Still good on it’s own, but I have some issues against it because I played the first two generations of the series. All the Ranger games are great, if a bit challenging to actually get every Pokemon available. (But then, what Pokemon game makes that easy?) Pokepark isn’t as accessible, since it’s a Wii thing, but they were nice, especially the second where you could switch between Pikachu and the Unova starters. My brother got the first Rumble game downloaded, but I was the one who played it more, and then got the others aside from Rumble U. I think my reason for enjoying them is pure collection purposes, because it really is my favourite part of Pokemon as a whole. Getting all the Pokemon. The puzzle games are good ways of wasting away time, and I don’t hate them, but I don’t get addicted to them either.

I think I like most of the spin-off because they don’t focus as much on battle. The main games are still fun, but a lot more pressure has been put on people to really train their Pokemon in specific ways if they hope to have any fun outside of the story. Not completely, it’s easy to ignore, but I remember when it really was just ‘train your Pokemon to a high level, teach them good attacks, make a balanced team’. It was simpler, and I could actually fight decently then. I don’t really want to do all the things people tend to to battle each other now, so focus goes to getting the Pokemon, and the more adventure and  collection focused spin-offs catch my interest so much.

…Also not having to worry too much about levels and grinding to continue, that helped too. With the spin-offs, if you have good enough skill, even if you were weaker than you should be, you can still win. Mystery Dungeon might be the only exception, but even then, they have all sort of items to help with a huge level difference. Know how to use them, and you can win anything… Especially in the second gen of them.)

(Umm… so I downloaded Pokemon Rumble World and Pokemon Shuffle from the e-shop… I might be gone for the day. Because I seriously love the Rumble games especially and they tend to hold me for a while…

Though that does make me wonder how many people like the spin-off Pokemon games… I’m not the biggest fan of the ones like Shuffle and Trozei and Pinball, even if I’ll play them. I don’t hate them, they just wear out the enjoyment faster than others. They’re time-killers. But things like Rumble, Mystery Dungeon, Pokepark, and the Ranger games I’ve loved to death…)

Any advice for someone who wants to create a Kaito Kid RP blog?

(Not sure I’m the best for advice, and I think kuroba-k gave a good answer to your question, but I guess I don’t mind offering my own input.~ Not as nice and neat and to the point, though…)

(First thing for any RP blog would be know the rules and basic manners of rp, such as no godmodding, coming into something like a relationship is already in place, etc. Might not be relevant to you specifically, but have to get that out of the way to start just in case.

Second: Know your character. Those might just be my thoughts on him, and you don’t have to go into near as much detail, but at least have read the manga. You don’t have to know every single little detail, but knowing how he’d react to most situations, even ones he might not be used to, help. Every interpretation of him is slightly different as well, depending on how you view why he does certain things, so to get the best idea for your Kaito… well, just ask questions, really. And answer them. Make headcanons. What do you consider the title of Kid to be to him? He was clearly attached to his father, but how much did Toichi being gone really affect him? Do you think his normal personality as Kaito is real, or another act? Is what you want him to do more along the lines of the somewhat more believable recent MK, or back to the slightly more insane comedy manga chapters, where anything can happen and magic might run rampant? Is he lonely, how much attention does he need? Has he matured at all, or is he still the jerk who peeks in the girls locker rooms? Does he really follow guides to make sure no one gets hurt, or does he just not get violent in general? There are numerous possibilities that could change from Kaito to Kaito, which is why there are so many. He’s a complex character, not difficult to play, but has so many different ways of looking at him that there isn’t actually any set way.

I do think kuroba-k made good points on him as a character and how to treat him in general, so I’ll leave theirs for that, but I do want to say one thing. Kaito is fairly social, but can also retreat, fall back and be quiet when he needs to. He’s a character that’s fairly open to interaction in comparison to others, so really, things like knowing where he’d be, what he might be doing, is he shopping or staking out for a heist or coming home from school really go far in rping him.

Of course, I just knew the manga and had the character in my head when I made this blog, without much else going for me, so I can also say that, even if you don’t have the clearest idea, if you know the character, they’ll grow. You get the most solid grasp when they start interacting with others, so just… I lost the point I was trying to make there, but really, don’t feel like it’s hard, I guess. ^^; )

About that okay fluffy head ruffling aside post. Who does like Corbeau? Like yeah he is cool but like him? nah no no one does

(For readers… yeah, I got nothing. Haven’t heard a think about people explicitly saying they liked him. Though not many pointing out how much of a jerk he was outright either. Then again… it’s not like I’ve spoken to too many about that chapter, just what people were saying from a discussion on a forum.

But to people in canon, he’s as big as Kid is in terms of popularity, just in LA instead of Japan.

So to the question in rl… yeah, no one that I can think of. At all. But in canon: Chikage and those people seem to like him pretty well. :V  (Though I do think that most people who would like him aren’t the biggest fans of Kaito. Or at least, don’t care that the guy managed to do something that actually pissed Kid off. If he has any fans, I’d be giving the same look as the Kid fans in that third picture. Because bias.))

(Okay… fluffy head ruffling aside… I wanted to get another post off of the ‘want to say about canon MK Kaito’ list. And it’s gonna be about how sucky his career has been. V: )

(Going in chapter order…

Ch 1: Stumbles into his dad’s secret room that’s been locked for eight years and finds the Kaitou Kid stuff. This wouldn’t seem bad, because hey, it’s his start to being Kid, but then you have to remember how high of regard he holds his father. Finding out the man may have been an international thief, a criminal, and never said anything to him would feel as awesome for him as it does us people watching this. And then when he goes to see who this Kid who recently started appearing is, a part of him is wondering if it might be his father… Which is quickly dashed when it turns out to be Jii, so there goes that hope. On top of that, he learns that his dad’s death from eight years ago wasn’t because of an accident, it was because he was murdered, and suddenly, he actually didn’t know his father as well as he thought he had. He does still decide to trust what his father was doing and follow in his footsteps, taking on the title of a well known criminal while he’s still in high school to bring out the same people who killed his father… Yep. Great start… Oh, and Aoko learning his fish weakness and messing with him with it, to add insult to injury.

Ch 2: One the one hand, easy heist to kick off his personal career (or at the very least, it’s one of his first one) with a fangirl who will just hand it over. One the other hand: First experience with getting shot at. By someone who’s supposed to be a cop, no less. And more clarification, the guy actually says: “I want to see you suffer” in the manga translation… And this chapter likely gives him that habit of keeping the jewels over the place people tend to shoot at most. Also has to start dealing with the fact that ‘Kid’ is the person who Aoko’s dad’s focused on the most and how much the man actually needs to be the one to catch the thief after so many years of failing. He clearly can’t actually let himself be caught, but Kaito is at least aware of how Kid is an integral part of Nakamori’s career, for better or worse. Go best friend’s dad needing to keep being the one to chase after and try to arrest you for him to keep his job?

Ch 3: *will have to refer you to here for full story, because dear lord* But for short: Robo Kaito. ‘Nuff said. And plus one gunshot to the shoulder.

Ch 4: Now he’s slipped up and Nakamori suspects him. One hit for being a supposed ‘master thief’. And then Aoko tries to defend him and prove his innocence… when he’s really not innocent. And then he has to lie and deceive both of these people, and while Kaito’s relation to Nakamori specifically isn’t really seen in the manga outside of ‘Aoko’s dad’, Aoko is the person we see who’s closest to Kaito. Add: Trouble and ton of guilt. And a dash of failing to do too well as a thief, since he messed up like that and put his identity in danger. Also, he should have definitely died when he bumped his head while being pulled by a rolled coaster. And then falling from who knows how high into the tent where Aoko was watching the movie. Dear lord, Kaito, comic or no, that looked like it hurt…

Ch 5: One: FIIIIIIIIIIISH. Everywhere. How the heck did Aoko talk you into scuba diving, Kaito? Fear aside, there’s also the fact they happen to get stuck with a pirate who tries to kill Kaito thrice. And Aoko once, because she found the underwater ship. It doesn’t even have to do with Kid, and yet his life still gets put in danger. They go underwater, he has to go in too because not wanting to get blown up by the bomb on the boat, finny things everywhere, gets threatened by Silver when he gets to the ship, Aoko gets threatened by Silver to keep Kaito from doing anything (And she’s unconscious, which is good, since he’s in the Kid outfit now so he can get down to business), trapped in the ship with the guy trying to kill them by a shark, decides to trust the guy and they get out only to have Silver actually try throwing the knife at him when his back was turned, and then he still tries to save Silver and instead is forced to leave when he boat starts going down, and having to watch Silver go down with it because he wouldn’t come with them. Conan has Moonlight Sonata, which is more psychologically hitting, but Kaito’s had someone he tried to save go and basically commit suicide by drowning themselves. And he was sent off too, to be saved, just to say. Only small glimmer of hope would be that the ship was a submarine, there’s a tiny chance- …Yeah, still probably not.

Ch 6: Witch classmate uses voodoo on him and tries to trap him into becoming her love slave via chocolate. And it all looked quite painful, I have to say. Blood coming from his mouth after being voodoo hit in the stomach and then from his head didn’t help much to make it look any better… Basically: Magic troubles and pain. And crazy witch, but that goes under magic troubles. And messing up and actually getting caught by police, but they were kinda freaked out by the sudden blood running down his face…

Ch 7: Crazy witch is now trying to get him using magic in a nicer way, at least… but is still creepy about it. Not actually too bad an experience for Kaito as a whole, just Akako trying to keep him and Aoko separate and failing, so just very fluffy. Nothing bad. Only pertinent thing would be Kaito learning about Aoko actually caring about him via hot spring eavesdropping.

Ch 8: First time his name is used for a crime he didn’t commit. In this case, kidnapping the Prime Minister of Japan. Perfect crime to be falsely accused of …Yeah, he not be happy with that sort of crime going on in his/his father’s name in the slightest, but everything gets resolved fairly easily. Hopefully. …Did the guy ever actually clarify to everyone that Kid never did anything? Also, that faith Nakamori has in Kid in DC doesn’t exist here, where he seems perfectly willing to accept, if not all that happily, that the thief has stolen a person. Jeeze…

Ch 9: Aside from almost falling straight down thirty or so floors up because the police cutting off his escape routes for random… Annoying robots chasing him and bringing the police to him without giving him any rest. Up all night and into the next day after holding a heist, having to stay in his Kid uniform because the cameras on the things would give away his identity if he took it off, he can’t go home, and he’s exhausted. Extended chase through a while night without sleep or even time to stop moving for more than a few minutes… Also: Never got to eat throughout this while chase. Filler chapter though it may be, and apparently not good enough to be animated, it sucks to be Kaito so, so bad in this one. And he had to resort to slightly more violent means through threatening, even if it was just small robots and he never actually went through with it. “Tremble in fear as your mind is mercilessly broken to bits” indeed… Damn you insane robot makers. This was basically torture.

Ch 10: Another Akako one, and this time, if he’s not going to be a slave, just try and kill him. Yeah. That’ll work… She sets Nakamori into trigger happy mode and she herself was almost prepared to cut Kid down herself. And even after she realised she did have a conscience, they both almost fell and he had to think quickly to save her. And he got a little scrapped up because of it, trying to fly through a metal tower, but eh. Not the worst that could have happened that heist.

Ch 11: All the fluff, minor hit to his name, but it disappears in all the fluff and good feelings. Nothing bad.

Ch 12: …Having rats swarming him because of some creepy guy? Yeah, not a really bad one here either. I mean, can’t have been fun, but it was far from actually affecting him much.

Ch 13: Fish underwear. But really. Again, being threatened with guns because he stumbled upon shady guys while trying to get Jii’s pool cue back and they didn’t actually want to hand it over. Really guys? Don’t want to give it to the teenager, so we’ll threaten to shoot everyone in the room. Great logic. And before that, he was about to lose the Blue Parrot for Jii, if he hadn’t already been set to cheat. But mostly the whole getting smacked in the back of the head with a pool cue and then having a gun aimed at him and being told he’d have to die because he found the secret weapons. Selfish people being idiots and pulling the guns out in the first place because some kid beat them, I mean really Kai, do you have good luck or bad luck, I don’t even know…

Ch 14: He has a cold, finals, and his name is being used to cover for a crime he wasn’t doing yet again. On Christmas. Oh well, he got his revenge for that… More was sucking for Nakamori overall, but it’s all good in the end.

Ch 15: Hakuba~ Seriously though: Ice skating fails, and as the title goes ‘Enter the Great Detective’. Hakuba is the first major threat at catching him at a heist that’s happened in a while, because he’s actually been doing better dodging cops. And then the Brit comes in, sees through his tricks, cuts off all escape routes thus making him barely get away, and joy, the guy’s in his class… An actual enemy of Kid very close at hand that he does not want.

Ch 16: …Thus leading to ‘Nearby Enemy’. :V Hakuba seems interested in Aoko, Kaito doesn’t like it, they have a bet for the outcome of the heist, and he beats Hakuba one way, Hakuba one ups him in another, and end result is he does not get Aoko, end up being sent careening via balloon into a building, and ends up with at least a broken leg that can be seen in the manga. And a bandage around the head. Ow.

Ch 17: And for the last of the Hakuba intro triad of chapters, the detective… finds out he’s Kid. Has no completely definitive proof, but very much finds him out and cannot be dissuaded like Nakamori had been. Causes trouble, big threat to his career, almost going to be arrested… Thankfully Akako helped out, but still. For all intents and purposes, Hakuba’s fully convinced he’s Kid, and that alone isn’t good. It makes the first time (aside from Akako and witchcraft) that someone who has stuck around knows his identity. Added: Keep in mind he’s sleep deprived during this from doing consecutive heists. Reckless thief…. no wonder you did get caught like that…

Ch 18: Eh. Knocked out of the sky and scraped up and sore without actually getting his target. Not really bad, just not fun.

Ch 19: Oh, hey. Up close meeting with the guys who killed his dad finally. …And their guns… So there’s that mess, being shot at, knocked from the building only to survive, making them his enemy and vowing his more specific revenge personally now. He gains a more directed goal, but in the process, hurts Aoko because his job got in the way of being able to be there for her birthday party that he promised he’d be at. Kaito makes a recovery with quick thinking, but still. And plus more guilt from Aoko because this is when she said she outright cannot forgive Kid for what he does, especially making a fool of her father.

Ch 20: Nothing bad to see here, carry on. Just Kaito being a sweetie. Another person fairly sure of who he is, though doesn’t know his name and wouldn’t tell on him if she did, so… again, carry on.

Ch 21: Hmm… Snake. Really, nothing too bad happens directly to Kaito here, though someone does get dragged into his Pandora mess briefly with Phillip being used as a hostage. Card gun destroyed and he’s lucky there was a tunnel to help him out, though. And another person knowing his identity, though won’t tell people.

Ch 22: Eh, I count this as not too bad. More being threatened by Snake, a glancing gunshot wound to the arm, but overall, the guy was more easily dealt with this time, since Kaito had prepared for him. Maybe more hits to his name from the fake Kid, though.

Ch 23 & 24: Shinichi giving him trouble, but really, is all good in this one. Fun and fluff. Yesh.

Ch 25 & 26: Again, all good. Small reminder that Hakuba knows who he is, first challenge from another thief. By now, he’s doing a lot better than he was early in his career anyway, police are easier to deal with, most of his trouble is relatively minor and more worries about getting caught or losing than being injured or killed…

Ch 27 & 28: …Until Nightmare. Enter someone who comes in and traps Kid by threatening Jii right off the bat, making him do a crime he otherwise might not have attempted. Then he’s threatened at gunpoint later when he figures out who Nightmare is. But of course, the biggest hit is when he confronts Nightmare about the planner’s own career, because he’s seeing connections between himself and his father and the man and his son. …And when Nightmare slips, Kid tried to save him, only to have the guy quite literally slip through his fingers and fall to his death, and his son coming in soon after. Father child relationship broken, a death, because of him, and enter what should be huge guilt and psychological mess of having caused that. Might not have been by choice, but still.

Ch 29 & 30: He gets dragged into his mother’s mess this time. And he gets Aoko pulled into it too, because he disguised as her so much that the people being threatening this time think Nakamori is Kid because of how shamelessly often Kaito actually uses her as a disguise. More threatening at gunpoint, Aoko in danger, quick thinking to escape, mild panic when he’s falling from 250 M up and he’s got no lockpicks for the handcuffs… 

Ch 31-33: Another challenge from a thief, one who seems to be heavily based on Kid, though they claim to be superior, and that they knew Toichi was killed. Most of this is… decently light. Some… minor things? Maybe… Hakuba still actually being trouble when he does show up, cold and ice still suck, Corbeau being a jerk overall, this, Kaito’s mom possibly having a boyfriend… Mostly that one thing and possible implications of Corbeau’s appearance in general. …Oh yeah, more being threatened by Snake as well. Almost wrote him off there. …Still pissed off with Corbeau, by the way…

Mostly: Sucks to be a newbie thief, he got better later, but then he got more challenging people to deal with as well. Mostly, it suprises me how much he actually does manage to keep under the mask of Kid and not let show. At least, for canon Kaito. Of course the rp Kaito’s are more aware of how much their lives have sucked in general.

Also, the timeframe pulls a lot into how bad it is for him as well. Conan has I-won’t-even-guess-how-many cases in between all his big danger and trauma. Conan’s biggest problem is keeping his secret from Ran and everyone, really. Kaito also has to try (and fail many times) to keep his identity hidden, lest he and everyone he knows gets put in danger, but he has to walk into that danger directly every time he does a heist. And deal with a ton of extra problems on top of that. And he’s still able to be kind and cheerful and help people when he can and I love this very likely broken child too much. *hugs the thief*)

(While I’m working on these though… some thoughts. And many Kai shouldn’t be given the time to muse on…

One: The people Snake’s with clearly knew the first Kid was Toichi. We may not know how, but they did. Now, Kai wouldn’t want them figuring out his identity to protect the people around him and such, but what if that happened to Toichi? I do still stand by the fact they used knowing his identity to get rid of him from fairly early on, simply because they didn’t seem to think it’d be necessary to outright kill Kaito immediately and just gave a warning. That most likely means Toichi didn’t actually get a chance to cause them too much trouble. Enough that he didn’t listen to the first time they warned him, and they got rid of him, but not so much that they found him the same threat Kai is now. But either way, them knowing does make me wonder if people Toichi knew were threatened. Regardless of how involved he’d become, he didn’t seem the type to fall so easily into a trap. Sure, could’ve faked his death or something (and then he’d be an ass for not coming out and telling Kaito when it’s clear he’s the current Kid), but maybe he really couldn’t escape. Basically… what if they did threaten his family? Would explain why he’d get caught in something like that… But if things did happen like that, my Kaito at least would blame himself to a degree, even if he obviously didn’t know about Kid at all then. It’d mean he was at least partially responsible for why his dad is gone now. To protect him…
PS: The reason my personal headcanon is that Kai was present at the last show Toichi had, aside from the shock it would have been to him, is because he did seem the type to attend all of his shows. Not sure about ones in other countries after, say, Kaito started going to school, but if we go by the specials banner and such, it happened in Japan… Something I think about a lot, really…

Two: Kaito’s phobia is weird. And not just because it’s fish. Pretty sure he gets some adrenaline rush and a fight or flight (usually flight) response when he sees them, but it’s not all that crippling. Pretty sure his biggest problem is touching them, more than anything. At least, that’s when he’d probably freak out the most. He may get uncomfortable, but he can get up close to them without immediately backing away and running/shooting at it, unless he’s taken by surprise. May turn him into a nervous wreck to be with them too long, but he’s swum in the ocean on multiple occasions. And in the manga, he was perfectly fine with kicking a shark a little, even (with flippers on), because it was asleep. Which is why I think he’s more afraid when they can move, because they’re more unpredictable and he doesn’t want to come into contact with them, more than anything. Though I also do think eating them freaks him out to. Honestly, it’s more as though he thinks all contact with fish is like poison more than outright fear of the creatures themselves. Still no explanation as to why this would be, but just interesting to think about.)

littledetective replied to your post:(Thinking of icons… I’ve done another count of the…

please tell me you giggled or something when you got to 1412 icons

(The way I do things, I don’t know when I got to that in actuality. And adding up these was done via how many pictures in a folder. But I do usually grin whenever I see the number… I even got it on a statistics test once, for the first question on the test, and I literally had to do the work over again just to make sure I was correct. And then I was smiling the rest of the test.~)

(Thinking of icons… I’ve done another count of the ones I have for Kai…

1535 for Kid

2119 for Kaito

So 3654 total for Kai alone, not going to look back at everyone else (mostly because the numbers are largely the same barring Hakuba). And that’s just from the anime-based appearances. (DC+specials+1412+DC Movies/OVAs+other)

And I actually haven’t combed though the specials with a fine comb like I have been doing 1412. And I eventually want to get ones from the manga. And there’s still movie 19 in the future…

…I may have a problem…)