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DCMK x KHR Crossover
Recently I had the idea for this crossover and had sadly discovered that there are practically no works for it. Which, I get it. The two universes are very dissimilar at first glance. DetCon is just so... lawful. But then I started thinking how this might work anyway and found that the two universes could work together. With DetCon as a sort of flip side or the POV Outsider for the KHR mafia shenanigans.
Point 1. Magic! Koizumi is a witch, and Kaito's looking for Pandora. The supernatural obviously exists in the DCMK world even if we never see it from Conan's POV. All we do get is a magic drug with an effect similar to the Cursed Pacifiers. But it is still something.
Point 2. The way most murderers in Conan frame their crimes as a suicide or accident. Also, how all of them make sure to leave pretty much no evidence behind. All of this is to make Shinichi-Conan look smarter, being able to figure out the murder from so few clues, but! The murderers still decided to go about it in that way and no other. They all seem to follow a certain template. One or two people being elaborate I could buy, but not all of them! This too has a simple explanation in the form of Gosho writing it like that, but in-universe, if we look at the characters as actual people it makes no sense.
Here's what I propose for this crossover. The world of organized crime is built on secrets. Unlike in our world, it is not just about not being caught by the authorities, they hide their Flames. Revealing which will break the Omerta, and no one sane wants Bermuda's attention. The Flames allow for more untraceable crimes, Storm Flames to Disintegrate all the evidence left behind, Sun Flames to make the target suddenly contract cancer, and Mist Flames to make them walk off a cliff or take a knife to their wrists by themselves. No authorities the wiser and no evidence to speak of.
Many criminal organizations to the outside observer are upstanding corporations, with their leaders in high places in society. And when you watch the TV talking about how this upstanding person died in a car crash or how that upstanding person committed suicide so often. Practically every other month. And you see completely random people reported dead by the news in a similar fashion even more often, every other day or so, you come to the conclusion that that's a common and even 'normal' or 'expected' way to die. "I just need to make it look like an accident. No other evidence and no one will question it," they think. After all, accidents are so common.
Point 3. The way police handle the crime scene. Why do they not move the dead body? Why are teenagers, little kids, and weird scientist grandpas allowed to stand over a corpse and theorize about their killer? Again could be lazy writing on Gosho's part or just a way to showcase Shinichi-Conan's genius. But what if it isn't? No one is capable of solving a murder case in a couple hours! And the people in the police are not stupid. They're actually very intelligent from what we see in the anime. Give these people a reasonable time frame and they will have the correct guy in handcuffs with bulletproof evidence of guilt.
But now consider the above. What if when they get involved in such a crime often when they are halfway through, they get /incentives/ to stop the investigation? Or suddenly, the person in charge loses interest in the case on their own or just forgets about it completely, seemingly out of the blue? And when you try to bring it to their attention, there's no record of the crime. It is not superstition if it happens as often as it does, is it? Pre-Conan Shinichi may have thought himself an unremovable deeply needed person for the First Division but it's not like that. They could very well manage without him and most of them would want him nowhere near a crime scene. Not out of jealousy, but because teenagers shouldn't see dead bodies. The world at large has no knowledge of Flames as per KHR canon, but that doesn't mean people don't witness their effects.
Imagine living in this world and working for the police. You go to work with this sense of foreboding every single day, that this might be the time one of your coworkers will come in a bit weird with a vacant look in their eyes whenever you breach certain topics, like where they'd been this weekend (they witnessed a Cloud and a Mist get into a fight in a bar, but they are convinced they spent the whole day home. The Mist user made sure of that) or forget an entire case with 10 people dead (the culprit was a Storm user and when they found the police getting closer to the truth than they liked the Storm DISINTEGRATED those memories for the officer) and when you will try to remind them no evidence of it exists.
And you just know there had to be outside influence for this to happen. This doesn't happen naturally. So, you keep your head down because you are well aware, that if you go looking or start following up on this case you will be the next one with the vacant look in your eyes or undetectable amnesia about a gruesome massacre. You learn to look the other way in self-preservation even if your morals are screaming at you that you let a murderer walk free tonight and maybe there will be more dead by his hand come morning.
And then there's this high schooler. He wants to be a detective and he's bulldozing right into this world you work in and you'd much rather he stay home or go play football. You don't want to see him like the way many of your coworkers are after a run-in with organized crime. And you know that is what it must have been to be so systematic. And then it turns out he is a genius. He can solve the crime in a couple hours instead of the weeks it would take you.
So you skirt protocol. It's better to do that than allow another murderer to walk free, you reason to yourself. Besides you are not actually doing anything serious, just a couple of allowances here or there. And it pays off. Your job is getting done and criminals get the consequences they deserve. All is good. But every night you pray and hope, that this bright teenager wouldn't feel like he could do anything and then turn up with that so many times cursed vacant look when you ask him about his weekend. (And then he disappears....)
Like, imagine that. And it is not only a Japan issue, no. The US allowed Sera to crime scenes too and so did Britain for Saguru, so it is obviously an international issue. I could bet some of the Flame-induced amnesia or subtle personality changes are the reason that no one reacts all that much to the various sleeping deduction kings and queens. I bet they find it eerie not because of the tranquilizer, or the lips not moving, or for the many other reasons it is deeply unsettling, but because they saw all of it on various colleagues just in a more subtle manner. I bet they are grateful for once to be on the benevolent side of that particular phenomenon. It might also be why no one would be surprised if suddenly, one day, Mouri lost his edge. They see everything, they acknowledge it, and they're waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Point 4. The Black Organization in canon is made out to operate in a similar fashion to how the mafia is portrayed in KHR. You can expect anyone to be from there, from a famous actress to the barista down the road. But, from the vibe I'm getting from the Black Org, they seem a rather new group in comparison to the Vongola or the Cavalone or the other 'old blood'. A newer organization would be easier to infiltrate and just look at how many spies are among the Men in Black? I'd bet most of the old mafia families' members are generational by now with rare new members. And that is not how the Black Org are portrayed.
Shinichi may think there's only one worldwide criminal Organization after becoming Conan, but the fact that he caught onto them in the first place makes them seem like new upstarts who want the power that the 'old blood' has. Even if Shinichi dismantles them and sleeps peacefully after their takedown, the mafia will still exist and continue on like always. Families like that die off often enough, the mafia at large will not be worried. And this is something Shinichi will not see. After all, he grew up with people being reported dead on the news with regularity and he uncovered enough murder cases with no ties to the underworld to believe most of them to be caused by the hands of a person who snapped.
TL;DR In a crossover setting between KHR and DCMK, I see the latter as a POV Outsider to the mafia as we are introduced to it in KHR, and the exploration of all the implications thereof on the civilian population.
What do you think?
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