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i used to want to kill you

do you ever think about the fact that lupin’s entire crew once viciously wanted him dead. i do a lot. but i don’t think lupin does lol 

tw for death talk (as would make sense) and mentions of hanging and stabbing

jigen:

it doesn’t naturally come up in his thought process a lot, but when it does, it’s very strange. it almost feels like a weird dream more than a series of events that tangibly happened in the past

i think the reason it doesn’t bother him TOO too much is just the fact that he didn’t come close to succeeding. not in any way that really mattered. he knew deep down even when lupin was unarmed, facing the barrel of his gun, jigen didn’t really have it in him to kill him, even if he still doesn’t totally understand why after all this time

plus, he’s so far removed from who he was as a person when it happened that he subconsciously sees the version of himself who tried to kill lupin as a removed third party, like any other random assassin sent to kill his partner nowadays

fujiko:

doesn’t think much of it. lol

not even in a callous way! fujiko just very much lives in the moment, and she knows that as they stand, as SHE stands right now, they’ll both be ok. and that’s really all that matters. obviously she does care about his mortality to an extent if her breaking down and sobbing upon seeing his hanged body in p3 meant anything! 

in modern lupin she outright believes he’s unkillable (and she’s right) so she knows even setting the most dangerous target on his back won’t do much damage to him. and you’ll notice if she’s there WHEN the danger itself is happening, she changes her tune pretty quickly 

goemon:

it bothers him in a completely different way from jigen because sometimes he thinks he’s still not over it

he threatens lupin with death pretty frequently, but no matter how dire he acts about it, lupin, to some extent, always seems to see it as a joke, even if it’s a joke he runs across the room to escape from before giggling his head off

as we see in part 5, it… kind of really bothers goemon that he is all too capable of killing lupin, and yet he listens to him, he follows him, even though he’s technically the strongest, right? even though HE should be the leader, or at least be acknowledged more as someone lupin relies on, have his threats be taken SERIOUSLY? but i mean all that got solved when goemon actually did slice him up and freak the fuck out so i guess we’re good lol

(i didnt go into zeni formerly trying to kill him because weee have that one ep of p1 that gets into how he feels about it waaay better than i could)

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ok i made a lupin discord server

i've wanted a slightly teenier sized one for a while anyways so why not

currently in its very early infancy here, so if something is busted/wrong/you notice something's missing um. i'll get to it. please guys i gotta talk about zenigata you don't understand,

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pleasedon'tbitemebeastie--

FIGHTING STYLES!! capability, training, how they compare to one another, any 1v1's that might be interesting?

this is the kinda shit i KNOW someone somewhere has done an intricate, lovingly crafted, knowledgeable breakdown on with personal experience in combat. but i knew people had made better perfume breakdowns for the cast too and that never stopped me SO

FIGHT!!!

lupin:

lupin’s fighting style is very evasive, as you’d expect from a thief, really. he doesn’t often bite off more than he can chew, and he’ll spend the first good bit of a fight saving his energy and gauging where his opponents weak spots are

he has a quick reaction time but it’s not perfect. compared to goemon or fujiko it’s not impossible to catch him off guard and topple him for a minute but he ALSO recovers super quick!

he was absofuckinlutely trained to fight dirty and inelegantly if it means getting what he wants. that said he doesn’t usually resort to that unless the “thing he wants” is. you know. living for the next hour

really all things considered he’s not a bad sport about fighting, even if he really does think the other person intends to kill him (and he’s not too worried about them besting him) but when he’s fighting the OTHERS in the group he pulls out the nasty tricks immediately. poking people’s eyes, kicking the back of shins, pinching with the nails of his fingers IT’S DIRTY WORK!!

jigen:

OKAY HE’S NOT A BAD FIGHTER. DON’T TAKE THIS TO MEAN HE’S A FUCKING WIMP OR ANYTHING but you can very much tell that hand-to-hand combat is really low on his priorities for “shit i need to keep up with”

if lupin is “evasive” jigen is “ducking like he’s losing at punch out”

he tends to use his legs more than his hands, probably because he’s kiiiind of hoping by some miracle he’ll gain access to a firearm before the fight is over and he doesn’t want to risk his hand getting broken/cramped/anything that would make it difficult for him to use. so he tends to kinda stay low throughout, not necessarily like sweeping kicks but… moves that make it easy to maintain his center of gravity

the funny thing is that the others probably think more highly of his combat skills than he does, but… yeaha you guys if a man has been watching how you fight people for years he’s. probably going to pick up on how to beat you very easily by the time you go “cmon fight me fight me i wanna see how it goes”

fujiko:

it’s very… sharp. does that make any fucking sense. fujiko’s fighting is sharp and quick and intense and god help you if you’re even a bit slower than she is

because of her size she tends to default to (and i imagine was taught about) using the bulk of her leg for attacks since it can carry more weight behind it, but that doesn’t mean she’s a slouch with her arms either. OR HER HEAD you ever see that part in fuma when she jerks her neck back and smashes the vase on the guy’s head and the beam. that was sick. 

like jigen she’s very conscious of where to get hurt, if she has to. but where he’s like “wugh my Gun hand” she would really just rather not get severely injured ANYWHERE where she knows she won’t heal within a week. it’s very rare she comes out of a fight busted up to hell and back because god knows she’s actually smart enough to fucking leave if things aren’t looking up for her, but she’s definitely broken ribs before

her big thing is sneak attacks. yes even in the middle of a fight. she’ll look around the immediate surroundings, find a way to retreat out of sight, and then run up behind them and BAM fujiko wins

goemon:

well. it’s strange because you’d think he’d have a significant leg up on the others but really that’s not the case. it’s more like… goemon has a specific type of efficiency the others don’t quite have, but he’s not like, WAY WAY WAY better than them

he does tend to treat fighting different as a whole though, probably because he’s the only one who fixates on it to this degree. even when goemon’s not fighting he’s THINKING “ok, if some crazy shit happens here, i grab the bouncer, fling him toward the stage, and then jump for the rafters.” you gotta read that sentence in lex lang’s voice btw

point being he’s definitely the most practical. there’s never wasted time, wasted energy, but because of this it might take him just a bit longer to fully down someone. of course if he doesn’t have to spend any time recouping before moving to the next, bigger problem, then really what time was wasted anyways!!

YKNOW SOMETHING FUNNY GOEMON’S ALSO THE ONLY ONE WHO (initially) TAKES THE AFTERMATH OF A FIGHT PERSONALLY. anybody else would go “thank fuck i got out of there with only a black eye lmao” but early-stage goemon’s like “no… impossible… how could she give me a black eye… i gotta Train this out”

zenigata:

have you ever walked into a wall before. have you ever had that same wall try to punch you. now that i think about it zenigata might be the only one out of them that doesn’t default to defense he’ll just fuckign SWING

i vaguely remember one of the og manga mentioning that he’s “as skilled as goemon at martial arts” which. like. maybe he WAS i’m not seeing that right NOW but like maybe super early on into the bullshit he wasLIKE THE THROWING PEOPLE OVER HIS SHOULDER THING ASIDE,

he loves throwing shit. that’s just his default move. guy too close? throw him. like. large chair? throw it. i watched him throw a motorcycle one time. 

honestly i think it’s important for everyone (esp AT tms) to understand that yeah ok it’s funny if he’s bad at shit. but it’s even funnier if he’s freakishly good at some shit. you ever see that bit in dead or alive where he throws those guys over the table without ever getting up from his seat at the restaurant. classic

this is the only real matchup i can think of because i don’t know why it would happen, and i doubt it ever would, but it would be so funny to watch fujiko and zenigata get into a fight fight. closest i can think of is when he lunged at her in hemingway papers and that was funny enough in and of itself but really seeing the exact opposite ends of the spectrum fighting each other would be golden

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brother. sister. sibling. random thought for your hyper specific headcanon deprived brain. does the gang do those lowkey boring newspapers games like crosswords, sudoku, spot the difference and the like?

you don’t know how delighted i was about this because Yeah. They do :)

but let’s get into hyper specific headcanon details here

YAAAY BORING NEWSPAPER GAMES

lupin:

i think i’ve talked about how lupin loves little puzzles and stuff and i think he honestly can get into all of the above

HE JUST REALLY LIKES LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT IN ALL KINDS numbers words shapes he’s FINE he’ll mess with ‘em ALL to his heart’s content!!

that said he’ll start them and never finish them and the others hate it. what’s the fun of a half-done game dude

jigen:

AS WE SAW ABOVE jigen actually really likes this kinda shit. it’s peaceful without being understimulated and outright boring, and he can somewhat tune out distracting noise while he’s doing them

he is all about crosswords in particular dude he loves that shit

probably does them in the car during long boring rides and every time lupin’s like “doesn’t reading in the car make you sick” he's like “oh 14 across. nauseous. thanks man”

fujiko:

it's not that she thinks she's ABOVE it but she’s not suuuper into it. usually she just checks to see if there’s anything interesting in the BULK of the paper. she checks garfield first, goes “oh good it’s still unfunny” and then go “OH DAMN MAJOR FIRE OUTBREAK YESTERDAY MORNI

that said if she’s bored on a flight or something and it's the only thing to do she’ll cave easy peasy

she’s probably the best at sudoku out of the bulk of them just because she can kinda turn off her inner monologue for a minute and just. close her eyes and surprise it’s done! 

goemon:

initially didn’t care and now only cares in very specific bursts. like he’ll go a year without touching one and then pick one up by accident and lock in

he doesn’t budge the entire duration it takes for him to finish the puzzle

like they if they catch even a whiff of “damn he’s really feelin that newspaper today” they just throw it away and say oh nothing important! nothing important was there. we have to leave in 15 minutes goemon

zenigata:

WORDSEARCHES. I DON’T KNOW WHY BUT I’M FEELIN WORDSEARCHES

he probably had one of those little road trip books they made. yknow like at gas stations and stuff I DUNNO IF THEY STILL MAKE THEM BUT Y’KNOW but then he was like this is all fucking lame and easy. who cares that much about autumn items

so he doesn’t INDULGE a lot but sometimes he’ll have a lil fun with it. usually when it’s boring and slow on the office side of things. i keep forgetting that’s like. actually part of his job and not just the screaming out the side of a cop car portion

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What are your thoughts on the rest of the gang’s knowledge/experience with Jigen’s fear of ghosts, and likewise for Lupin’s fear of octopi?

I. GOT MORE INTO THIS THAN I EXPECTED i also looked around a bit to see if i could find fujiko, goemon and zeni’s little… unserious fears, but i couldn’t remember anything/my gigantic lupin screenshots and note-taking docs were no help in finding stuff those three were creeped out by. if anybody has any info on how to ruin these three’s days, please share

SO!

IRRATIONAL /NOT THAT BIG A DEAL FEARS

lupin: not fucking big on octopi

probably got it from some absolute nothingburger childhood event where he went to the beach and one got a bit too close to him and he internalized that rather than all of the other fucking insane shit that was going around him throughout that time

jigen is probably the one who fixates on it the most because it’s. really not that serious. it’s not like this is some kind of trauma trigger, he’s just icked out by the suction cup thingies. ergo jigen is always the first to shove an octopus at lupin just to laugh at him when he makes a face and goes “CUT THAT SHIT OUT”

fujiko doesn’t really think about it much, and honestly didn’t realize it was a thing since it never came up in day to day life until they went to scope out an aquarium for some jewels in the mosaic mural or whatever and he just grimaced like a cat about to throw up when he saw the giant 10 foot tall red octopus on the wall hovering over him. and she’s just seeing him wince at the wall and all she can think is “oh my god does he think the rubies are fake. is he about to tell me this is all for nothing” while lupin is thinking “jesus christ. i love her i love my fujicakes i have to do this i love her i lo

goemon is the least affected by it, since he’s usually busy doing his own thing in instances where it would come up. he’s off doing whatever the hell he wants on the beach, he’s waiting outside on the roof at the aquarium, he’s letting jigen handle the main dish while he prepares the sides. even if he did witness firsthand lupin going “EW EW EW GET IT AWAY” like a child seeing a centipede for the first time he’d probably dismiss it as “oh, he really hates that watery, slimy texture on his skin. i wouldn’t want that either, really.” and then just. gently bats it away. doesn’t think anything of it in the slightest

did zenigata INITIALLY know he was afraid of them. no. he didn’t mean to actually freak him out while he was throwing an actual fucking octopus on him to catch him that one time, it just made sense to get a grabby animal to help him. well. grab. however when he DID FIND OUT, he spent a whole week setting up petty and random ways to throw octopi into his thwarting plans. it’d be a lot easier to catch someone if they were so caught off guard by something they hate they totally forgot to check around their surroundings. unfortunately for pops this is probably the reason why lupin’s not AS creeped out by them as he used to be. son of a bitch accidentally used exposure therapy on him like fear factor or something. oopsie!

side note this is making me realize i wrote that entire splatoon post without once considering the fact that lupin fucking hates like half the environment there. double oopsie

jigen: not fucking big on ghosts. or nuclear radiation but that’s not the point

i can understand why a guy emotionally haunted by all of the people he’s needlessly killed in his life would also be afraid of those same people like. ACTUALLY haunting him. plus it’d be funny if he went his entire childhood not that bothered by the idea of ghosts only to get steadily more freaked out by the idea as he got older

in a more nonspecific sense he just does not like having shit jumping out at him and ghosts seem to be the most common proponent of that so by association FUCK GHOSTS

lupin, to balance the scale here, is the worst. accidentally forgetting to mention a movie has to do with ghosts, bringing him into an old warehouse to steal something and certainly not because it has old creepy halloween props in it, hell, he even keeps extra white sheets on hand juuust in case. more than anything this just annoys the shit out of jigen and makes him reconsider his entire life that led up to the point of his lifetime partner in more ways than one actually resorting to going “ooOOoOOOOoo” at 3 a.m. to push his buttons.

fujiko is delighted by the fact, but restrains herself here. unlike the above example, she knows the most effective scare is one that comes out of the blue, after spending so long feeling calm. she’ll be sitting at the table in the morning reading an article on her phone, gasping really loudly and going “‘mansion at (address just up the street from their hideout) declared officially haunted 45 years after human remains were found in the basement’?! how creepy! i don’t know how you guys can stand sleeping a few houses away from that” and yes, this tactic ALSO annoys him, but is still effective, because they keep staying in these crumbling, old buildings in old towns and if he tries to look it up later there’s a 50/50 chance that article or a similar one is actually real

goemon… has a bit more fun with this than you’d expect. primarily because jigen doesn’t think he’s very aware of the fact, and… goemon’s default halloween outfit is always a pale, sunken-eyed, donned in white ghost. it doesn’t SCARE jigen so much as unsettle him in a childish way that he can suppress a bit, but the real gag here is that jigen honest to god doesn’t think goemon’s doing this on purpose. oh, jigen.

zenigata probably only found out because someone just outright told him, he thought about it for a minute and went, “i guess that makes sense,” and nothing ever came out of the fact. if the two were in a situation where they could just josh around and everything i could see him ribbing at him for it just because. well when you think about it on a surface level it is kind of funny for a man as scary as jigen to be spooked out by a widdle ghost. but outside of that, it’s not really something he could use to his advantage or for his own personal amusement, so he doesn’t make a real big deal out of it usually

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(gif of guy pointing at himself and mouthing "me?" here)

WELL! WE ALREADY DID HOW OFTEN *THEY* SAY I LOVE YOU AND NOW VICE VERSA! how do they REACT when someone says i love you and do they even fucking believe it? more at 10

lupin:

yeah he loves you too! conversation continues like nothing changed

he believes them. like he does think they mean it. he just can’t imagine it bearing a lot of weight since, as discussed, he doesn’t usually say it with a lot of weight

if it were truly a serious circumstance and the person reiterated, no, this means something, i love you, then he might react a bit more genuinely

by. not saying it back

lupin says “i love you” when he wants and when he feels it’s right. not out of obligation. if anything it feels lame saying it back because you’re just copying the first person. so he just smiles a bit more sincerely. 

he enjoys it. it’s nice.

jigen:

uh huh. sure. HE’S NOT BELIEVING AAANYBODY ABOUT THIS MAN HE’S NOT BELIEVING ANYBODY

he’s not believing HIMSELF. even coming from people he knows he just takes it as a lighthearted statement every single time. living with lupin for decades probably doesn’t help his case

at best he’d take it to mean “you mean a lot to me” which is… technically true, i guess, but there’s something missing there. and even then, he still doesn’t totally believe even THAT coming from most people

if somebody really did get the closest they could to convincing him, he’d be less prickly for a while, maybe a bit more quiet. but for the most part he’s reacting internally, and once he gets past the confusion and mistrust, it… does give him a small warm feeling in his chest. a small one

fujiko:

it’s funny, because she simultaneously believes them and also doesn’t

taking it in good faith here, does so-and-so THINK they love her? yes. do they think they’re being honest? yes! she knows this. but do they really love her? no!

usually when she hears it it’s almost completely a hollow statement, so she does know through context and actions when someone really is being genuine. it’s just a matter of how much actual fujiko-ing they’ve witnessed that proves whether or not they really mean it

it’s really easy to love the IDEA of fujiko, but as a personnnn?? hmmmmmm

the only time it’s truly easy to make her believe the statement is when it comes from a kid. they’ve got no reason to lie, nothing to gain, and they’re usually pretty good judges of character. 

don’t get it twisted she’s not “maternal” by any means lmao it just feels… the most believable, coming from people who exclusively see it as a big announcement of admiration and friendship and everything. very cute!

goemon:

can i throw out something maybe disagreeable. goemon is the easiest to convince. yes more than zenigata i know you were thinking “hmhmhm obviously zenigata being the sensitive motherfucker he is is going to rank most trusting” nope! it’s this fucking wall of emotion

you can point to at least one ep from each series, like every third tv special, at least once per manga run no MATTER the author, and goemon will truly, honest to god believe he has met his match. he hears the words “i love you” and just… subconsciously projects his own usage of the term onto the other person

and if he’s this much of a sucker for the romantic i love you than you know he’s even more accepting of a platonic one! because WHY EVEN LIE ABOUT THAT

it’s not a matter of him being stupid or naive, of course he knows there are bad people trying to manipulate others, including him, and he KNOWS he has a sign on his back that says “I GET SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED WHEN SOMEBODY OPENS THE DOOR FOR ME AND SMILES -- EASY TARGET” but. he’s just… very willing to believe that people don’t immediately use love as a stepping stone in a scheme

zenigata:

he wants to believe it the most. he kind of flounders with it for a minute. is it.. a joke? is it a bit? no… okay, is it to catch him off guard and knock him down? not that either. hm. is it some kind of secret coded message he was supposed to know and missed or wh

someone would have to say it at least three times over the span of multiple days for him to even entertain the idea that they could be sincere. AND HE REALLY, REALLY WANTS IT TO BE SINCERE

because if he KNOWS its genuine he can smile really big with a goofy giggle and say the same. it’s just hard working up to that point, is all

deep down he does believe it initially every time, so it stings twice as much if it’s a ruse of some kind even though he DID suspect that. rough

but people don’t usually pull that kind of “build a very solid close friendship/convince this man i’ve fallen in love with him” tactic on zenigata the way they do with the others? so he’s a lot safer from this than he realizes! just. comparatively!

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how do they handle spontaneity? who would physically and/or mentally keel over without SOME kind of structure? yes I know they have to be highly adaptable in this line of work but even outside of being gay and doing crimes. for example can the gang just Get Food Together™️ or do they have to spend 2 hours making a whole ass itinerary because someone NEEDS to know what, if anything, we're getting up to after dinner - 🛸

ooh ok yeah yeah, i can form an opinion on this, sure! let's get spontaneous with it

lupin:

SPONTANEOUS IS HIS MIDDLE NAME BABY lupin HATES structure! NO plans! ride with the WIND!! except maybe when making the initial step-by-step process for a heist BUT REALLY WHO’S FAVORITE PART IS THAT

really the only time he feels a plan is necessary is in job situations and all that anyhow. otherwise it feels oddly limiting even though he knows it’s. not a set guideline so much as a suggestion

like he might make a guide for a vacation or something, and it’ll be detailed! but will he really be following it? unless someone is dying if he doesn’t, um. no.

jigen:

i think he’s more adaptable than people really give him credit for. he’s always going to bitch and moan but my god is he going to get with the program

that said, he’s not… really a structure guy? he (very visibly) does take comfort in same ol’ same ol’ reliable shit but he’s just generally not bothered enough to fuck with stuff like that. but again he WILL be complaining,

he does tend to work better without a plan than with one, though. he’s not sure why either the science of this one isn’t clear

fujiko:

prefers a plan not because she wants to be boring here but because it’s nice to know what’s coming next and what you can fall back on

going back to the vacation example with lupin, if it’s some place with a lot to see and do, fujiko’s scheduling reservations and shit weeks in advance because why WASTE time during the day of when she KNOWS she’s gonna wanna do these things??

she’s still not super rigorous about these things though, and she can work fine with casual spontaneity too, but if she’s got the time and it’s REALLY up to her, then, y’know

goemon:

he’s kind of gotten used to it just from being in lupin’s company for long enough but if it was up to him, specifically, can you guys please just make a plan and stick with it. for two hours. please.

it’s just a basic courtesy past a point. people should know if they’re going to be on an island inside of a major lake at least 20 minutes before it happens right? that’s just manners right??

goemon operates on spontaneity the way a wild horse reacts to you standing behind it and shouting really loud. like. he’ll be fine. will you?

zenigata:

ok he’s weird. if he’s the one being spontaneous and having to make last second plans and decisions he’s fine. he’s cool with it. but if someone ELSE is springing it on him. oh he’ll hate them for a month at least.

“you have to live in greece for the next three months” he’s never reacted less in his life. that’s really impressive considering who we’re talking about here

“ahh jeez we’re out of gouda today. what’s your second choice for your sandwich” do you want him to throw the next guy who almost hits him with their car into the haliacmon

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FIGHT FLIGHT FREEZE!!

i don’t think any of them are fawning if we’re honest

lupin:  90% flight, 10% fight in specific circumstances. he’s got pretty quick reflexes, so sometimes it just comes down to whichever is least likely to  get him killed! yay!

jigen: FIGHT. DOWN TO LUPIN JUST JUMPED AROUND THE CORNER TO SCARE HIM AND HE ACTED ON INSTINCT AND NOW THERE’S A BLACK EYE INVOLVED. at least it’s funny to him and the others 

fujiko: fight but DOES try to think before throwing that punch. try. it’s almost a defensive offense situation if that. makes literally any sense. and if she’s outgunned, then she isn’t too proud to get the fuck outta there!! 

goemon: freeze and he hates it. but thinking logically here, it IS the best option of the three for him-- fight could end bad really fast, and he’d hate to run away in the event someone needed him/he could easily take on this greater evil or whatever. him being stuck in shock for the .5 seconds it takes to get over it is probably for the best in the end

zenigata: has a mental two-step process! 1. is it lupin related? 2. is it worth it anyway if not? if the answer is no to both, he dips, but otherwise he’s kiiiinda leaning on the fight side more often than not. there’s a LOT that’s “worth it” to him

yata: as has been demonstrated like. a lot. my guy stops dead in his tracks when anything catches him off guard. he’s only slightly gotten better about this in regards to stuff like “oh my god if i don’t tackle Him he’s actually going to jump out of this moving bus” but in terms of SELF-preservation. tends to freeze up

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okay. we know how jigen is afraid of going to the dentist, right? so I had a brain blast and I think it's more of a fear of sharp things (most of all, needles) near his face because that's kinda freaky!! a lot of very important things are on your face!! and sharp shit hurts a lot!! also not a very fun place to have to bandage up/slap some gauze on. zantetsuken gets a very hesitant pass on the "no sharp shit within a foot of my face" rule but only because jigen trusts goemon with his life - 🛸

OH THIS IS GOOD and highly understandable who wouldn't want that shit as far away from their face as humanly possible.

you know that could add a layer to the hat/bangs thing too! can't get your face all scratched up if half of it is covered. he might even have some scar on his forehead from when he was a kid just because he refused to let them stitch it up honestly

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May I ask what would it be like to cuddle with members of the gang and overall just sleep with them? I like getting other people's opinions on this, do they like when their partner sleeps on them or do they prefer to sleep on top of their partner? I can picture lupin still sleeping spread out like a starfish even with someone lol

hell yes you can. i’ll even give you supplemental material that isn’t directly involved but i still think you might enjoy

i can't think of what else to put here. let's go team snugglebugs

lupin:

varies GREATLY

some days he’s practically on top of them, other times he’s sleeping on the couch 10 feet from the bed

it partially comes from (if you can believe it, coming from him) consideration. he knows he doesn’t usually line up with any normal person’s sleep schedule, mostly because he DOESN’T have a consistent schedule, so he doesn’t want to be waking them up getting into bed super late or waking up randomly early

that said, he’s never OPPOSED to it. if it was specifically requested you couldn’t pull the bitch off with a crowbar for the next 10 hours

and yes, he does tend to let go as he tosses and turns over the course of the night, so by morning he’s just taking up the entire bed with one leg on their chest and an arm over their ankle somehow

jigen:

hah. hahha. right

the most they’d be getting is, after a VERY distressing day, him sitting against the headboard with his hand on their hair watching tv or reading or something until they fall asleep

even as he gets more comfortable with them, he still never really gets… cuddly. he just doesn’t object to them holding onto him. it’s not a personal thing! he just never really grabs onto someone throughout the night

y’know what he does do though. when they’re completely asleep, to the point he knows they won’t wake up and make fun of him for it, he just kind of watches them fondly, noticing how their shoulders move up and down as they breathe, the way that they shift, little things like that

fujiko:

no. no thank you, if she likes them well enough

buuuuuuuuut

once fujiko’s asleep, or at least, mostly asleep, if they (consciously or not) got closer, and if it wasn’t too hot in the room, she might pull them in

it’s a completely subconscious thing. something’s in her reach, so why not grab it anyway, right? when has fujiko ever missed a chance to swipe something for herself?

since it’s not really something she thinks about much, she doesn’t have much preference for like, big spoon little spoon, snuggler vs snugglee kind of stuff. she just likes being comfortable and warm, and however she gets there is fine with her

goemon:

um. well. if it’s necessary to help them sleep (he’s already getting settled in bed the minute this is mentioned. he’s adjusting pillows. he’s changed the thermostat so it’s like the himalayas in here and there’s no choice but to get close)

it’s nothing he’d ever bring up himself, but once he gets past the initial goemon-standard bluster of it all, he’d be fine with it

he’s kind of torn on how to properly go about holding someone though. he wants to make sure they’re protected, but he also likes sleeping on his back. the sacrifices we make for loved ones

ultimately he just lets them decide how they’re settled, and they fall asleep from there

zenigata:

you think you have a CHOICE in this? guy’s like a fucking neo magnet

if they ASK, he’s very stiff and unnatural about it. if they don’t even bring it up, his arms just naturally veer out in their direction and don’t let go until he’s awake enough to be apologetic over it

the others will all slip back to a degree if it’s just too hot to cozy up but not THIS GUYYY not our 50-year-running champ of the Most Starved for Physical Attention award!

i brought it up in the general sleeping hc post but for real he just grips those pillows and will not let go. he’s done this like. three times off the top of my head. if he’s that bad with an inanimate object i can’t imagine the grip he’d have on a human being. maybe they should be a bit afraid

[catchyhuh]

Building off of camping… if they were to holiday/vacation, yknow, outside of their usual “work” trips (which tend to be basically vacations anyway) how do they go about it? *Will* they holiday? Or are they dragging the others around on a madcap mission? …Where do they visit? How do they pack? What are they like at the airport?

…That’s a lot of questions. Please please feel free to pick and choose, or ignore this entirely if it doesn’t tickle your fancy, or if you’ve answered something similar already that— for some reason— I cannot remember right now!

you’re right that IS a lot!! but as you’ve noticed by now i fucking LOVE talking so i’m absolutely DELIGHTED that it’s a lot!!!

i briefly hit vacation spots they’d like a while back, but in terms of vacation PREPPING and the flights…

lupin:

lupin will call a weekend trip to some dead old thief buddy’s place he was asked to clean out a “vacation.” he loves this stuff.

packing though? eeehhh

it’s rough, because he despises packing (ironically, since he loves planning out significantly more complex things like heisting and physics for ziplines and shit) because there’s always one freakish scenario he forgot to account for JUST BECAUSE he’s traveling. he got pollen up his nose once and didn’t have any antihistamines anywhere in his luggage. anywhere. he brought stuff for nausea (which none of them even get on a BOAT, much less a plane!) he brought stuff for muscle cramps, for excessive bleeding, for swimmer’s ear, fucking everything but stuff to kill that runny nose. hell on earth

waaay too lax at the airport. way too lax. terrifyingly so. they’ll be calling out his gate, his ROW, and he’ll just casually stroll along. he always just barely manages to make it. but if the others are even one step behind him… eeeehhh…

usually whoever he’s traveling with decides to just wait by the gate like normal people do. if the plane leaves without him then thank god, right

however, traveling with lupin has one major advantage, the advantage that’s really the main reason the others will bother standing him falling asleep on them barely an hour into the flight-- sneaking stuff past tsa. don’t ask him how. he’ll get even sneakier about it if you ask how

jigen:

half-asleep the entire duration of waiting for the flight, wide awake during the seven hour process. nothing cures him of this problem, nothing. he’s doomed to live it forever

doesn’t mean he can’t pretend to be asleep so the others don’t bother him though!

window seat guy, not because he needs to see the view that bad or anything, but because he knows when he’s planting his ass down he’s not moving unless some higher power wills it. and he doesn’t want people pushing past HIS legs all day

packing for jigen is just. so simple. he only ever has like 5 suits at a time, total, his hat, shoes, all that’s ON his person as they’re leaving, really all he has to do is grab a hairbrush, cologne, and a toothbrush. he just uses goemon’s toothpaste for convenience’s sake anyway

however, he actively enjoys packing for the show it gives him. he’ll sit on the couch and watch lupin and fujiko move from room to room mumbling to themselves so they don’t forget whatever item is currently on their mind. it’s like that scene in clue where they’re all running through the rooms

none of this is just THAT serious to him! it’s just not! calm down you guys! actually, no, don’t. it’s kind of funny. look, he’s gonna forget his razor again, watch

fujiko:

fujiko packs like she intends to live on the plane. she packs like she’s anticipating crashing in the middle of the pacific on some uncharted island and having to live there for the next 15 years

and she’s a fucking tetris master with the way she packs her bags. however, this also means the cute hot pink cheetah print suitcase that she’s had since 2002 roughly weighs as much as a small palette of cinder blocks. but nobody tries to swipe her luggage because of it!

she’s never late for a flight! never ever! why try to cram in shit before the actual exciting part of getting to the destination, right? why stress over the mediocre coffee she can get on the other side of the globe, cheaper for that matter, when she can just sit and fucking relax. because for her, the vacation begins the minute she’s on the plane and secure she’s heading to her destination

which means nothing but first class. all the time. undebatable. she’s just straight up not going otherwise. you’re going to make fujiko mine sit squished between two random strangers? who don't have the decency to use earbuds?? C’MON NOW

she tends to rack up quite a bill every time the flight attendants come by with the little snack and drink carts and stuff. it would be a real problem if the name on her ticket wasn’t fake

goemon:

airport dad shit going on here to a degree no sane person would ever conceive

his line of thinking is “what if the plane is early” and despite the numerous explanations of “then they just wait” he seems CONVINCED they’ll be ready to leave without him

he also seems to be the only one with full awareness that they are. internationally wanted criminals. hacking the no-fly list to get through is one thing, but are the others not concerned about being recognized as, again, internationally wanted criminals??

packing for goemon is even SIMPLER than jigen. but there’s a certain stressor that comes with it. that’s a lot of metal to deal with at security. why am i even typing all this they already animated it

so, physically, the easiest packing job! emotionally, pretty damn taxing. he thinks lupin’s just lying when he says he just “can’t find a good way to hide it.” he knows the fucker is giggling watching him stand there silently sweating waiting for his ONE OF A KIND, HIGHLY VALUABLE, BORDERLINE MAGIC SWORD

but yeah otherwise he’s chill with vacations :) he doesn’t exactly go out of his way to plan them but yeah he’ll follow along :)

zenigata:

you already know he’s fighting the idea of a vacation, i already know he’s fighting the idea of a vacation, but we’re forcing him to go on one so we can study the scientific results

if we’re making him vacation with like. yata. or by some miracle the gang he is unfortunately the one who ends up carrying half the shit. not a big deal with yata! not a big deal with “sorry sir, my arm’s just asleep from the plane ride, could you hold my bag for a minute?” vs “well since you’re already standing by the little suitcase conveyor belt it wouldn’t KILL you to grab my little suitcase, right, pops? and maybe fujiko’s. you know how she gets. and maybe jigen’s. not goemon’s though he gets picky about that,”

cannot sit through a flight without passing the hell out. yet another point backed up in canon. somebody has to wake him up or he just won’t even get off the plane

he gets progressively more and more peeved with each minor instance with tsa and when the others give him a wary look he’s standing there, arms crossed like no no. they’re doing their job. and then the agent finds yet another pair of handcuffs and just throws them out and zenigata clenches his hands a bit tighter

[catchyhuh]

While we're on the topic of candles, what do you think the gang plus yata smell like? in terms of like their cologne and perfume preferences? you can include their natural scent if you want but i know a specific gunman who would smell of mostly smoke(affectionate). But yeah! im just curious!

WAIT!! IIIII LIED i went back and checked and yata isn't featured in the normal smell OR the cologne one! and even though YOU said “NEVERMIND I SEE NOW YOU ANSWERED IT” it turns out i DIDNT!! not fully anyway. so. let’s open up perfumania one more time and figure out what yata smells like.

so for a general, non-perfumed up kind of deal, yata just… generally seems the type to smell like freshly washed laundry. he’s very meticulous about it considering how nasty and dirty stuff gets over the course of an insane bullshit day (which he’s steadily having more of) so there’s almost an excess of like. fabric softener and scent beads and extra strength stuff. sorry, should’ve specified. when he smells like fresh laundry i mean he smells like fresh laundry like you just picked up a tuxedo from the dry cleaners fresh. so fresh it’s almost nauseating. but lucky for everyone around him the scent usually fades into something more subtle and unnoticeable around 1 or 2 p.m. or so

in terms of cologne, he’s… nnnot that consistent with it. like he HAS a bottle and he does like it, he bought it for a fucking reason he doesn’t want to just let it sit on his shelf but because he has SO many things he does getting ready for the day already on his mind, the teeny spritz on the back of the neck tends to rank low on the priority list. 

in THIS batch of unnecessary scent research i found that a shit ton of people consider quite a few ysl colognes as “inoffensive, nice, just some guy office work” type deals, but they all sounded just sliiiightly off in some indescribable way. only thing i could find that kinda sorta gave me yata vibes was burberry touch but it’s. a bit pricey! and that’s not very yata! so pretend there’s some identical clone of that here, and yes, THAT is his go to tiny spray cologne. it takes him 5 years to go through one bottle

this didn’t really need to be so complex but i felt you deserved it for being very polite and invested in my bizarre specific ass opinions. thanks boss

[catchyhuh]

NEVERMIND ABOUT THE SMELL REQUEST AS I JUST SAW ITS ALREADY BEEN DONE! SO SORRY!

YOU'RE FINE YOU'RE FINE!! THE MASTERLIST IS HARD TO ORGANIZE CONCISELY AND IT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION someone else just happened to be on the same track as you lmao.

[catchyhuh]

candles. just. candles

don’t you love the unimportant questions i ask myself at 2 am about jigen daisuke. how DOES he feel about wax melts vs traditional wick candles. how DOES he feel. i will be getting more indepth about this than anyone has a right to

lupin:

oh baby

the only guy who unironically would love a candle as a present. you picked out a smell?? you picked out a smell you thought he would like and slash or made you think of him? a scent? something so difficult to pinpoint and describe? wait you paid how much for this? i don’t. well. i dunno if it’s… thirty dollars touching but it IS TOUCHING!

candles in ALL shapes and sizes. who give a shit. he’s half french and frenchies love that faux romantic shit like nobody else. fujiko enters the building, smells Wild Rose & Suede and just walks right back outside with no change in facial expression

when he was a kid he really really liked wax melts because it was fun to watch them slowly . melt. as wax melts do BUT he saw the candle wax stamp shit and suddenly he’s all about calling cards. suddenly grandpa doesn’t need to teach him shit about the importance and fun of calling cards he’s just ALL about calling cards and still is to THIS DAY

jigen:

well. this may shock you. but jigen is picky.

really his preference would be no candles i imagine but his sense of smell is already kinda busted anyhow so if you lit one two rooms over. he probably wouldnt notice! but if he IS noticing it’s best to go with some basic, almost unnoticeable thing. like. linen. or whatever (although being fair i do love a good linen)

the only candles he really has an opinion on are birthday candles. gotta have birthday candles. just for the comedy of sticking a candle in someone’s egg and ham biscuit at 6:14 in the morning 

but i have an answer for that initial question: wick truther. no matter how many times he hasn’t been paying full attention and has accidentally singed himself with the lighter. can’t spell wick without w

fujiko:

iiiii take it back fujiko could also be charmed by a candle gift. provided the gift giver a. also included a tiffany hairband or something or b. was somebody actually sincere that she really does like to some extent. who wasn’t rich. and couldn’t afford the tiffany hairband to go with the candle

like i said with perfumes and even her hair in canon and a million other things she doesn’t let herself get locked on the same thing for very long, but i can see her having one specific scent she really enjoys and maybe getting two or three. i almost typed buying. can you imagine. i almost typed fucking “fujiko mine might BUY some candles.” i really am tired

don’t underestimate the power of a good candle that shit can help you sleep for a week, calm you down from the worst day of your life, just make you appreciate the world for 5 minutes or even keep you uncomfortably awake for as long as you need. scent psychology. she looked into it when making those sleeping gas perfume bottles

probably saving one really nice candle for some event on the horizon like “we got the thing!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳” or “we didn’t die!!! ���🥳🥳🥳” 

goemon:

okay goemon is like. whatever about candles themselves. they smell nice. that’s kind of the opinion most people have because who… has an opinion on candles? but you know what he REALLY has an opinion on. candle HOLDERS.

he sees those little silhouettes carved out of the world’s cheapest nonflammable materials with the big dish at the bottom to catch excess wax and he’s like what an ART FORM. what an underappreciated necessity and ART FORM

so he gets a bit internally disappointed when lupin brings home some shit in glass. which is 70% of the market as of 1995. sorry goemon

also really enjoys those candles with the hollowed out center so they light up the non-melting wax on the outside. if anybody knows what those are. i saw them at a craft fair once! they had a zelda one.

just generally assume any novelty candle is his shit. i mean it’s… carving. you know he loves that stuff. and destroying the work by letting it melt is probably some metaphor he’d love and brood over for like an hour too it’s GREAT for him!

zenigata:

… candles? like. vague gesture here. candles? who has an opinion on candles? why would anybody care that much about… candles?? (quote from a grown man who gets giggly when he sees a teeny tiny bland vanilla scented candle in a hotel room)

zenigata has strong opinions on fucking cherry tomatoes vs sliced tomatoes in his salad with a trillion other ingredients in it. of COURSE he has some indecipherable passion about some nothing shit like candles

very much a candle warmer dude. sometimes the wick burns out before the candle is finished and now you’ve got a busted candle! for that matter the flame could be a FIRE HAZARD, if you aren’t paying attention. plus it keeps all the heat condensed into one spot (philosophy of a grown man who certainly didn’t get burnt six times trying to light the same candle one time)

unfortunately the longer i think about it the more everything about a candle seems like a bad idea for him. wax gets everywhere, the fire, the glass, smells really good but he immediately gets used to the smell and forgets to turn it off later, REALLY, THIS ISN’T A GOOD THING FOR HIM!

[catchyhuh]

pretend that picture of patrick star saying i love you is here

people in general are so specific with when they think it's “okay” to say i love you. i mean i’ll tell a nice leaf on the ground i love it if i’m in a good enough mood but you’re not here for ME so let’s DISCUSS

lupin:

demonstrably loose with it. and it’s anybody’s guess if he’s being an asshole or he really means it!

lupin should have trust issues, by all accounts, but i guess considering the person he loves the most is. almost damn near guaranteed to betray that trust, he doesn’t worry too much about wearing his heart on his sleeve. nobody can really hurt him, at least nobody that would intend to

it’s not so much that lupin is actually full of love so much as it’s the fact that he’s just so full with EVERYTHING. he’s dramatic like that

he does mean it when he says it sometimes, and if you use context clues you can probably pick up on his sincerity for the person he’s speaking to, but when he really, REALLY means it is when he’s not talking at all

he talks so much without really saying anything, but when he stays quiet he says a whole lot.  sometimes he thinks it so loudly he almost feels like the other person can hear it even if they have no idea at all

jigen:

not to be overdramatic but since the age of 12, every time jigen has said i love you he’s been crying. and he doesn’t cry a whole lot nowadays!

we KNOW this bitch has trust issues out the wazoo but more than that it’s that he doesn’t trust the intensity of his feelings. he feels like he can only say it if he’s referring to some huge, overpowering love that just kind of bursts out of him into a declaration that leaves even him surprised after the fact

he’s never said it to lupin. not when lupin could hear him, and even then, it was only twice in the whole time they’ve known each other. he’s not even purposefully being cagey, he just… doesn’t feel like it’s right

if you asked him “do you love lupin and goemon?” he’d make a bit of a face and shrug and say “well, i care if that’s what you mean.” which… is kind of the same thing when you think about it

fujiko:

fujiko is not particularly guarded about saying i love you, since it’s… just words, you know? but she’s never said it to somebody she straight up doesn’t like. she won’t even go along for the bit of trying to fool some rich boyfriend of the week, she just pretends to giggle and dodges it

fujiko does have love to give within her, but she seems to think it’s a finite amount

so, again, context clues play into it-- is she getting something she wants when she says it to someone, or is she hugging them in delight at the fact that they’re just alive and in front of her? 

unknowingly shows love in actions more than anything else. beyond instances of her physically attempting to protect others, it shows when she thinks of others' comfort in advance, or when she faintly touches someone’s back to signify that she’s in the room. even just a smile at some inanimate object associated with someone just feels full of love that she refuses to fully acknowledge but there’s A LOT… you just have to EARN it! and you can! 

just! not by doing anything a lot of people have tried so far! 

goemon:

being as strictly traditional as he is, he’s not… guarded about it, really, but he doesn’t “believe” in saying it excessively, if that makes sense. 

like fujiko, he seems to have this subconscious thing where he’s full of love, SO much love for so many things, really, but he can only give it out selectively. not for his sake, though, but because he feels like if too many people have his love then it must make them feel lesser, sharing it with so many others

yes they’re all very strange about this no none of them will ever address it within their lifetimes if they can help it

whenever it does come out, it almost seems involuntary, like a hiccup or something. like it wasn’t a conscious choice to do so, EVEN THOUGH HE DOES MEAN IT

you could not force goemon to say it without meaning it. you couldn’t torture it out of him. he’s not gonna lie about something like LOVE, because despite how often he seems to fall into it, he still never seems to say it

one time he got sick, VERY sick, and uncharacteristically emotional as a result of the constant fever and aching and nausea and everything else, and it came out while the other three were in the living room, jigen standing by his couch putting a washcloth on his head. jigen just nodded and gave him a sympathetic smile, and they all continued on like nothing had happened afterwards. not because they didn’t believe him, they all did-- but because they knew he’d be ashamed for years in his normal state if he knew he’d done that

zenigata:

the thing is. see the thing is. well. there’s just so much of it and he doesn’t really do good with getting it out

in his head he’ll say i love you over something as simple as him being obviously exhausted and a stranger offering him a bottle of water. if he’s delirious enough he might even mumble it but it's so hard to decipher that they’re like it’s ok bud. it’s ok.

it’s partially the small part of him that somehow remembers after all this time how to generally interact with other people, and partially maybe embarrassment. not really a trust issue thing, just. it feels embarrassing to say it no matter the context, no matter how much he means it, no matter HOW he means it

the funny thing though is that he used to NEVER say it. like ever. but he’s. a lot more sensitive than he was then. it’s like the opposite of being hardened with time how’d that even happen?? point being he’s got more love in him now despite everything

maybe the only one out of them that could say it completely sober, completely sane, to the other person’s face and really fully mean it. to him, that’s the best way to get that across easily anyway. sometimes you don’t have time to show things through elaborate rescues and meticulously made meals, so the quickest way to show love is to just be honest and say it

sure says it a lot if he’s drunk though! almost like he was thinking it before anyways and now he’s just lost his filter!! wild!

[catchyhuh]

What do you think they get insecure about (if anything)?

WELL! AT LEAST THE UNLEASHING OF ALL THIS IS TECHNICALLY YOUR FAULT AND NOT MINE 

lupin:

this is a point of contention among lupin fans. i haven’t even said what it is just the idea that lupin would have insecurities could be contentious BUT PERSONALLY, PERSONALLY, TO ME, he’s insecure about his… job. of sorts

not that he thinks he’s doing a bad job at it. oh no of course not that he KNOWS he’s the best in the business. and he doesn’t really mind all that stealing shit either that’s genuinely fun. enriches him. but sometimes, he sees people, good people, going about their lives, and he has this split second, barely cognizant thought of-- am i stuck here?

lupin can be whoever he wants to be and yet is stuck being lupin the third at all times. he COULD just change his name, his face, his documents, live life the way any person does, and really, who’d truly stop him? but, in his eyes, that’s just not feasible. 

the thought hits him one second and hes over it the next, but the small window of time where he does linger on it is… weird, for him. so he doesn’t let it linger. he shudders, dismisses the thought as the random impulse it is, and continues on contentedly. MORE than contentedly!

jigen:

this is really weird but… seemingly nothing. jigen is so apathetic, so set on being unbothered by the negative after seeing so much of it, that there’s really nothing he sees within himself that makes him feel… bad. and empty and miserable.

if there’s anything that could be comparable, it would be that “i should have done x” feeling. even if, when he’s in a better mood, he recognizes that a lot of times in those situations there really wasn’t anything he COULD do. there was nothing he could do to save that person, either from death or from themselves, there was nothing he could do to stop a bomb or a fire or any other unexpected destruction, but if he allows himself the briefest vulnerability over it for a moment, if he puts himself back in his shoes the day it happened, 10 minutes after it happened, he thinks, was it me? should i have done more? should i have done less?

like lupin, it usually doesn’t take long to dismiss. the two of them had a rough, late night conversation about it once, when it was just the two of them on the job, alone in the motel room. it eats away at both of them, in the tiniest of spurts, thinking about whether or not they were responsible for these horrible things regardless of intent. they went to bed, woke up, got back in the car and never discussed it again

fujiko:

i know we talk a lot about fujiko’s manufactured perceived coldness but IT AFFECTS A LOT OF THINGS! fujiko doesn’t doubt herself. her abilities, her priorities-- but sometimes she wonders what she’d be like if she hadn’t made the choices that led her to this point. not necessarily stresses over it, mind you, just. wonders.

i’m a firm believer (as is canon to my understanding) that there’s no one “reason” fujiko is the way she is. she just… is! fujiko is fujiko by her own doing. it’s an interesting parallel to put against lupin and goemon, who were quite literally molded into this life from birth, vs someone who actively chose it. and she doesn’t make bad decisions. she knows she doesn’t! but as a meticulous planner, it’s hard to ignore the infinite ‘what ifs’ rattling around in her head like they’re trying to win a cage match. 

make no mistake, fujiko is never SERIOUSLY entertaining the possibility of a world where she isn’t taking what she pleases and doing as she likes! carpe diem baby! you go for it fujiko. but she does wonder sometimes if she’s TOO good at this. is she letting herself have fun with this beyond just getting the object of her attention? is she going to be content with said item next month, or even next week? is she satisfied? the answer is a pretty solid no, and nobody knows that better than her. but… it spirals, on brief occasion. is she going to be content with where she is? who she’s around? will she EVER be satisfied? and… is it a bad thing if she won’t be? but, as you may have noticed there’s a pattern here, as she forces the thought back down into her heart as soon as it pops up

goemon:

i know everything with goemon seems to circle back around to his skills or his legacy and he’s MORE than that, of course he’s more than that but. he’s not insecure about much else. if you can even call it insecurity, it might be more like… a lack of confidence? there’s a subtle difference there to ME OKAY

he shares the same irrational responsibility fear that, when you think about it, likely all of them have (including fujiko, make no mistake) but he does take it to a specific personal degree. it’s harder for him to push that thought away, because… if it’s really something that’s concerning him, he COULD HAVE prevented it. he knows he can’t stop natural disasters and freak accidents, but he could stand in front of the gun, he could deflect faster, he could stop that person he’s currently fighting for god’s sake from slipping off the edge of that rainy rooftop. maybe they could have been better, if their life hadn’t ended so quickly. he doesn’t really delight in killing, just viewing it as a necessity and an important one at that. but he hates unnecessary spilled blood, and he’s said so many times

and unlike the others, he blames this solely on his physical ability more than his mental one. he’s not fast enough, not strong enough, not delicate enough, and he owes it to others to… BE all these things to the nth degree. he owes it to the gang as much as he owes it to the strangers that get trapped in the crossfire of their business

zenigata:

what ISNT he insecure about amirite!!1!!!!

this one will get very sad, very overanalytical, very long, and again very sad very fast. if you thought i slipped into misery with the others a little too much you have no idea what you’re in for with THIS motherfucker so let’s just say he can tell his huge large baby cow eyes are damaging his street cred and it’s embarrassing and leave it at that 

we good with that? we good (translator’s note: this means the author cannot think about this for more than 2 minutes without feeling an empty, horrible pit in their gut. unless you want to feel bad for the rest of the day consider yourself lucky you’ve been spared of this)

[catchyhuh]

CAMPINGG YAAAY

everyone look at this image and imagine a beautiful world with me

lupin:

the first to suggest it and the worst at it. there’s a difference between “we HAVE to camp for a few nights” and “we should TOTALLY camp out you guys!!” so sure, he can survive it easily… if it’s framed as a necessity. but when its supposed to be a fun thing, ehhhh

getting all the shit together, finding a safe enough spot to set up, struggling through dinner and how to get rid of the trash right AND how to pitch the tent…

it’s the little things that keep drawing him back to it though. he hates working with the tent, but after the initial wave of irritation, he thinks back on the others laughing before asking if he needs some backup there and he’s like. yeah that was probably funny. he loves the sound of a forest at night too-- usually he can’t sleep when it’s too quiet, but with the trees rustling and bugs chirping and all that, it’s a nice, consistent sound machine. so he tends to forget how grouchy he got last time they went all because he starts thinking about when they all laid down and just stared up at the sky for nearly an hour

jigen:

bitch is like a cockroach he can easily survive any conditions at all. but that doesn’t mean he isn’t complaining

despite his. jigenness, he’s probably the one that gets the most actual enjoyment out of it. every other vacation they could take kind of still feels like a job, in his head. he can’t fully, totally relax in some luxury hotel, even if he enjoys it, because subconsciously, his brain is figuring out where the cameras are, the quickest route back to the car from their room, etc etc. camping is different just because it's SO isolated, it's SO different from anything else. so when he pulls his hat over his face and leans back in a beach chair they took from some resort in miami, he actually does feel totally at peace

unfortunately though as the guy who specializes in taking apart and putting back together doohickeys (read: giant real life fucking guns) he always ends up being the guy to read the manual and go “guys its a solar powered lantern. there is no switch. you just let it sit in the-- you keep it in the box this WHOLE TIME?”

fujiko:

also has a bit of that jigen thing where she feels like she can actually, completely and totally relax like this. you’d expect her to be the fussy type with camping but-- no. she’s not sleeping in the damn tent if she can help it, but getting a camper and just enjoying their little opening in the forest is pretty sweet. fujiko (and this is the case for a lot of things) is really the main one who truly understands her own limits and just Doesn’t Care beyond that. who gives a shit if its “real camping.” she’s having a good time

secretly kinda loves packing for these things and imagining all kinds of one off freak scenarios that would happen to justify needing some of this shit. “be sure to bring the flashlight in case somebody has to piss in the middle of the night” bullshit. “be sure to bring the flashlight in case we find a cave with a huge mouth that somehow leads to a long forgotten crypt” NOOOW you’re talkin!! it’s all about the essentials-- sunscreen, long socks, backup snacks, and, of course, the cursed amulet that’s SO cursed it’ll just ward off anything else that tries to fuck with them. nobody handles it like fujicakes

despite all this she’s not often one to suggest camping because she, uh. kinda forgets how much she enjoys it until it’s like, actively happening. she’s like you guys WANNA camp….?? really? and then the minute they arrive she gets all smiley and happy about being so close to a lake and seeing all the frogs and stuff like she’s a little kid in science class

goemon:

goemon uh. kinda does this all the time. just for himself. they’ll be in a nice hideout and if its isolated enough to the point passerby won’t look up and go “is that fucking goemon ishikawa the thirteenth chilling on the roof” well. yeah he chills on the roof. you know he loves that

but when they actually go CAMPING camping, he tends to go in a bit too much. like, he won’t use the little portable stove, gets downright offended if he’s offered bug spray, sometimes he gets so stubborn he’ll insist he doesn’t even need a tent! 

when it’s all said and done he almost subtly picks fun at the others for so obviously not being the type of people to enjoy camping like normal humans do. he’s seen 7yos with more survival instincts. uh ignore the fact that he stayed outside of the tent on a cold night because he was “strengthening” himself and he got like suuuper sick ignore that f

zenigata:

ALL IN OR NOT AT ALL PUSSY!! if you want neat, easy camping GO GET A CABIN! this is all about the CHALLENGE baby this is all about ROUGHIN IT!! no hate if you arent cut out for it but… heh… maybe consider a cozier vacation next time. we’re cooking shit over a campfire here we’re preparing to fight entire goddamn bears if necessary THIS IS THE BEAUTY OF NATURE! THIS IS TOUGH GUY TIME!!!!

he didn’t sleep at all last night because he set up his sleeping bag wrong and the tent collapsed on him at 4 am. don’t worry though the others only laughed at him for twenty minutes before helping him out of his nylon prison

so yeah, if its a necessity, he doesn’t have a problem with it at all. but if you frame it as a special trip, good fucking god help you. he says he loves it! and maybe he does a little bit, buuut he. tends to get a bit overzealous. like immediately. like as soon as they arrive he gets all serious about trees n shit, and then just 8 hours in he’s bundled up in one of fujiko’s gigantic velvety blankets by the fire like “snnf… pass me the trail mix.” he eats all the reese’s pieces out of it. they hate him so much