I think it's someone, most likely Kudo Yuusaku, dressed up as the Night Baron.
My reasoning: -The Night Baron is the character most likely to be Shinichi's younger brother. I don't recall ever seeing concrete information on whether his series predates Shinichi's birth or not, but it's the character most likely to be considered another "son" of Kudo Yuusaku.
-We know that the Night Baron is a murderous thief and, if I recall correctly, a master of disguise.
-It's likely that Maurice Leblanc's (sp?) mysteries are better than Sir. Arther Conan Doyle's as tools for actually learning to solve mysteries.
Example: Sherlock Holmes: The culprit is _______ because I went and looked up the shipping information.
Arsene Lupin: Actually, I don't remember a thing about the one Lupin book I read, except that it involved Arsene running around swashbuckling and stuff. Quite exciting.
-Kudo Yuusaku is known to like dreaming up little cases for Shinichi to solve.
-We know that Yuusaku is capable of throwing his voice well enough to fool his son. (In the "Conan's Mother" case, I don't recall seeing him wearing a voice changing unit, but I don't have my copy on hand and therefore cannot check.)
-I'm fairly sure Shinichi doesn't meet Sharon Vinyard until the Golden apple case- otherwise, I think Yukiko wouldn't make the "we studied under the same teacher" explaination (which I'm fairly sure was made to explain why they knew each other, but then again, I can't check.)
Argh, my arguments are all based on stuff I haven't read in quite some time. >_____<
My wager: A drabble, PG-13 or lower. Any character is fine, but please none of 1-case guest cast type. Unless it was that one ex-teacher of Ran's who got poisoned at her own wedding.
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Date: 2006-06-29 02:52 pm (UTC)My reasoning:
-The Night Baron is the character most likely to be Shinichi's younger brother. I don't recall ever seeing concrete information on whether his series predates Shinichi's birth or not, but it's the character most likely to be considered another "son" of Kudo Yuusaku.
-We know that the Night Baron is a murderous thief and, if I recall correctly, a master of disguise.
-It's likely that Maurice Leblanc's (sp?) mysteries are better than Sir. Arther Conan Doyle's as tools for actually learning to solve mysteries.
Example:
Sherlock Holmes: The culprit is _______ because I went and looked up the shipping information.
Arsene Lupin: Actually, I don't remember a thing about the one Lupin book I read, except that it involved Arsene running around swashbuckling and stuff. Quite exciting.
-Kudo Yuusaku is known to like dreaming up little cases for Shinichi to solve.
-We know that Yuusaku is capable of throwing his voice well enough to fool his son. (In the "Conan's Mother" case, I don't recall seeing him wearing a voice changing unit, but I don't have my copy on hand and therefore cannot check.)
-I'm fairly sure Shinichi doesn't meet Sharon Vinyard until the Golden apple case- otherwise, I think Yukiko wouldn't make the "we studied under the same teacher" explaination (which I'm fairly sure was made to explain why they knew each other, but then again, I can't check.)
Argh, my arguments are all based on stuff I haven't read in quite some time. >_____<
My wager: A drabble, PG-13 or lower. Any character is fine, but please none of 1-case guest cast type. Unless it was that one ex-teacher of Ran's who got poisoned at her own wedding.