Postby Citan » February 17th, 2012, 12:11 am
Well, I used to want Shinichi to confess to Ran, but after reading a certain fanfic I now believe Ran should figure it out and expose Shinichi herself.
The fanfic in question is called "The Mystery of Conan Edogawa". Basically it chronocles the story of Ran, and how after having her suspicions sparked yet again decided to put an end to the uncertainty and heartache once and for all. However after thinking over her approach she realizes that her standard tactic of "Corner Conan and yell at him like a crazy woman to confess" is never going to work. Instead she opts to become "Mouri Ran - Tantei-san" and try and defeat Shinichi at his own game, basically treating the Shinichi/Conan mystery like a case to solve.
During the story she interviews "Witnesses" (Aka Agasa, Heiji, and anyone else close to "Conan") searches for evidence that Conan isn't who he claims to be, and spends alot of time wondering why he'd put on such an elaborate lie, and whether she should really be meddling in his affairs when she doesn't know what's going on. Also, Shinichi isn't standing idly by during Ran's investigation. He does his best to derail her, and he almost wins.
In the end there is no final confrontation where Ran pulls Shinichi's "The Criminal is YOU!" and throws around deductions. Instead she simply gathers up her evidence, throws it at him, and says "I know. So what do we do about it?" Though she doesn't find out absolutely everything. Only that Conan is Shinichi and that he's hiding from some organization that made an attempt on his life. ( She doesn't know who the organization is, how he became small, or who Haibara is. She only finds out what she felt is relevant to her. "Is Conan Shinichi?" (There's also a running theme of Ran comparing Shinichi hiding from her as Conan to Holmes faking his death and hiding from Watson after Reichenbach which I really thought was appropriate.)
The story really made me appricate Ran's character much more, and realize how badly she gets shafted in the show and manga. She's not stupid. She's more than capable of finding Conan out, but she has to keep getting handed the idiot ball until Gosho decides it's "time" for her to know. I believe now that she can and should find out on her own. She's more than capable of it, and she deserves that satisfaction. However I'm sure that won't happen. She'll probably either find out in the final confrontation with the BO or Shinichi will tell her, and I don't particularly like either option. Ran deserves better than that.
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Citan on February 17th, 2012, 12:29 am, edited 1 time in total.
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