“Thank you for the lovely rain of flowers~ I’ll be sure it falls on others as well~”
Tag: shadowchildkaito
((The fear of getting something wrong that Kaito wouldn’t is the entire reason I’m refusing to reblog anything about puzzles or riddles.))
(I do worry a bit when I have to try and completely guess. Which is why I go into overthinking and rambling. Both he and I like puzzles too much to resist, but even if I get it wrong (and by extension, him), he doesn’t perfectly know everything. And he’s the type to just shrug it off normally and want to know the actual answer, because curiosity trumps pride if he’s already lost. He doesn’t worry much about it. Kai’ll still try, regardless. (And if he gets a command he doesn’t like, even moreso) But overall, he just has fun whether he gets it right or not.
…Though if he thinks it makes sense, he will argue his reasons forever until he makes sure everyone knows he’s still right, even if it wasn’t the answer they wanted.
And my reasoning if he gets something wrong at some point is that, like most, he’s not perfect. He’s good at puzzles and critical thinking, but it doesn’t mean he aces everything. Like Conan, to an extent, it’s oftentimes that something has to coincidentally trigger a connection for him to figure tricks out himself. He be luck based and think-on-his-feet based, so even if he likes puzzles, if he’s not always right, it’s still fine.)
((… I just read that chapter like, a /week/ ago and I already forgot about it again. Wow. How is that so forgettable?))
(Right? I mean, the fandom does give Kaito a lot of leniency and many may have blinders on if they strictly stick to DC Kid, and take the no one gets hurt policy and other general collective fandom knowledge as fact, but I think Kid does too good of a job at being popular anyway. Makes it easy to not completely pay attention to what he does. I mean, using a wrench is noticeable, but a whole department store crushed is apparently never discussed? …I should do a full tally on everything he does in MK my next read through. :V )
Kaito grabbed the other’s face and gave a sharp tug. Then he did the same to his own face, to show that he wasn’t wearing a disguise either.
This was bizarre, to say the least, but when wasn’t his life, these days?
He finally took a bite of the cookie. “This is really good!” It didn’t take long for him to eat the whole thing and grab another.
“What should I call you?”
“Thanks~”
Nice to know his cookies were appreciated, as long as it had taken the other to actually get past the paranoia and try them. He rubbed his face some where the other pulled at it and tilted his head at the question, considering. Then Kaito shrugged and took one of the peanut butter cookies.
“Could just call each other Kaito and confuse the heck out of everyone~”
Kaito duplicated the action with ease. He may have been the one to start the singing, but he wouldn’t mind being the shadow. Just for this.
The shadow got to make fun of the other behind their back.
So he let his foot touch the other’s, just for a second, before he backed off.
“I’ve gotta crooow!”
The magician grinned and fell back into a somersault before hopping back up to his feet.
“I’ve gotta brag!~” He turned back to the other and crowed again.
“I know, but I still had to ask.” If only to judge the other’s (it really did seem to be another him) reaction.
Kaito looked from the cookie in his hand to the cookies on the plate. He was tempted to steal them all, deadly or not, but he didn’t.
He reached out with the hand that wasn’t holding the cookie for his doppelganger’s face. It would just be a quick tug, and then he would trust the cookie enough to eat it. "Sorry, have to check first.“
He hummed at the response, not paying too much mind to his counterpart until he started reaching over. At that, he blinked and pulled back slightly. Not much, since he at least was relaxed at the situation, but as cautious as his other self was being, never knew what might happen. However, it didn’t take long to see what his counterpart wanted to do, and he just raised an eyebrow and shrugged. Honestly, he got enough face-pinching during heists, whether he had masks or not, but fine, if it made the other stop staring at the treats like they were trying to eat him.
"Yeah, yeah… but pull too hard and I might be the one having to check to see if you’re not wearing a mask yourself.”
“Exactly!” He then did so. He was having far too much fun to bother worrying about anything unless it was a gun pointed at him. Which there was not. So he was free to sing as loud as he wanted.
“I’m just the cleverest fellow
‘Twas ever my fortune to know.”
Can’t say the fun wasn’t contagious. And singing. And it was Peter Pan, so why the heck not?~ Kaito laughed and gave a crow himself before jumping into the next line, a bit literally.
"♪ I taught a trick to my shadow, to stick to the tip of my toe~♪”
“When I look at myself
And I see in myself
All the wonderful things that I see
If I’m pleased with myself
I have ev’ry good reason to be.”
Hmm… to join in or not to join in… Could do it at a different pitch for a duet…
Or, you know, think about how singing a song about oneself when there’s more than one of you is more than a little ironic.
Hmm…
"You gotta crow?~”
He gave the cookie a sniff. It seemed safe enough, but he was still wary. “You’re not a killer robot? Or someone in disguise who happens to be immune to something in the cookies?” He had seen The Princess Bride; he knew that trick.
The cookie was getting hard to resist.
“If I were trying to kill you with cookies, wouldn’t really matter what I said would it? Even if I said no to both, doesn’t exactly give you any more or less of a reason to trust me, now does it?”
Kaito twirled the treat he had and watched the other, still amused at all the caution over a cookie. Not that he could blame his counterpart entirely, but really now…
“It’s Cookie day, I made cookies, and if you want to be paranoid, that leaves more for me.” And with that, he finished the one in his hand and licked a few crumbs off his finger before contemplating which one to get next.
Now this was something he wasn’t expecting to see. He just hoped it wasn’t another robot out to kill him or something. It didn’t seem like it, and those cookies looked so good.
In the blink of an eye, Kaito had a chocolate chip cookie in his hand. “These aren’t poisonous, are they?” He held the treat up to his face to inspect it better.
The magician grinned at his doppelganger’s caution, not even surprised by seeing another one of him.
“I should hope not, or I’ll want to know who messed with my cookies,” He commented, taking one of the white chocolate chip cookies and turning it over some before shrugging and taking a bite. He trusted his own food, after all.
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