Ship Manifesto : Black or White

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Conversation on the bus while talking to a guy about hippies.

Icka!: I don't watch television.
Guy: Ah. You one of those 'back to nature' types?
Icka!: Nah. Our tv reception sucks.
Guy: Oh.

Anyway, jheen and clover_magic have done a Kaito/Shin'ichi ship_manifesto *squeee*
Which inspired me to sign up and have been accepted to do the Hakuba/Kaito pairing. #^^#

So... obvious question. Why does everyone like the Hakuba/Kaito pairing? Or not like the pairing as the case may be. ^^;

[Edit] Okay, new question.
Hands up, people who like the pairing besides the fact that I write it ._.

Comments

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I have to agree to kaitou 1412 on everything she/he wrote. I can´t really think of anything else to say... oh, except for that I like also the pairing because one of them is an English gentleman...^^"

That´s something else that got me into the pairing. Kaitou Kid is some sort of "Gentleman Thief", while Hakuba (for all his little quirks) pretty much seems to be a gentleman as well.
For some reason I really can imagine them, sitting in some Gentlemen´s club in fifty years time, having witty dialogues over port and sherry... Two people who - although they might not be on the same side - have some respect for each other (OK, the respect part doesn´t really show in the series, but then they are only seventeen and still pretty hormonal) and just enjoy talking to someone on their level of intelligence.

I also think a relationship between them could work, because they have some rules they stick to. Kid announces his heists, Hakuba does his best to figure out what the thief is going to do. Kid shows up, Hakuba tries to get him. Kid escapes and Hakuba - after some grumbling - decides to try again next time. At the end of the day there are not really a lot of hard feelings between those two. And most importantly: Nobody gets hurt badly.

Shinichi is Kid´s equal, but unlike Hakuba, death really does seem to follow him (as you have pointed out so well). That means that the usual "Kid-rules" don´t apply to Shinichi.
Heists that Hakuba attends are mostly a contest of wits between an intelligent thief and an equally intelligent detective. Heists that Shinichi attends mostly get bloody and violent very quickly.

I think a KidxShinichi pairing wouldn´t work out, because this kind of experience works in both directions.
I don´t believe that Kid could be happy with someone who attracts violence like other people attract mosquitoes and I also don´t believe that Shinichi could really trust the thief completely. Because Shinichi gets to see the worst of people, the worst they can do to each other, I believe that in his heart he will always see any criminal as "bad".

Hakuba doesn´t have those problems: He seldomly seems to be involved in murder and he grew up (or at least lived) in a country that has had some "nice", heroic thieves in it´s time (for example Robin Hood and Sir Francis Drake, who was considered a thief by the Spanish after all).

I can see him having a relationship with a thief without too many twinges of concience, because - unlike Shinichi who tends to put everything into black and white, right and wrong - Hakuba knows that there are different graduations of "being bad" and "being good".