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OOC Information:
Name/Alias: Birdy
Age: 28
E-Mail//MSN//AIM: kyanve@gmail.com, shirhanblade (AIM)
Personal LJ: shirhan_blade
IC Information:
Character Name: Hakuba Saguru
Character Journal: stalker_horse, switched to im_in_ur_exit
Canon: Detective Conan/Magic Kaito
Point in Canon: Current. Or at least, both of his DC canon appearances and Movie 10 have happened, and events in canon that may've been news-visible he might have vague knowledge of. (Maybe not a lot of the random cases, but you know, things like an unknown Blackhawk shooting at Tokyo Tower tend to make the news.)
Age: 17
Birthday: August 29
Appearance: At about 5'10”, he's tall enough to be noticeable, and fairly solidly built; he's in vaguely athletic shape, and apparently hit his growth spurt early. He has loose, short honey-blonde hair on the slightly dark side, and amber-brown eyes. He's half Japanese, half British, but mostly favors the British side of his heritage, with relatively little in his appearance to tip someone off. He certainly has the usual Virgo OCD, and keeps himself up well, although he tends to stick out slightly; outside of a school uniform, he dresses at least semiformally most of the time...
And when he's not dressing semiformally, he's dressing for the wrong century - down to pulling things like showing up at heists, joining the police, in a deerstalker hat and inverness coat, decked out like he belonged in turn of the century Europe.
Worth noting - he speaks English, Japanese, and French, and ALWAYS has some kind of an odd accent; his English is London-area with a barely noticeable Japanese accent, his Japanese has a British accent, and his French is Parisian with bits of British and Japanese accents.
Abilities: Saguru is very intelligent, very observant, has an excellent memory, and has been training himself to notice the most obscenely random inoccuous details since childhood. Beyond the raw skills and the fact that he's been training them on crime scenes and some very convoluted and messed up cases since childhood, he's also gone out of his way to do things like memorize swathes of literature (including some things that AREN'T Holmes!), and turn himself into a walking encyclopedia of criminology. He's picked up a scary amount of forensics science on self-study (no he hasn't ever really had a life why do you ask), and knows his way around a science lab quite well, enough to do DNA matching and the like on his own. (Kaito you are so lucky that him testing that hair at his home lab rendered it inadmissable as evidence in court.) In the even more random vein, he's actually fairly knowledgeable about birds, and not only practices falconry, but has shown ability at training his hawk a few more unusual tricks, like carrying messages to marked vehicles.
(There's a few things that're normal headcanon of mine around him, with reasons behind them, below.)
He has some random scattered ability with hand to hand combat and fencing; he's competent enough to hold his own against some very violent people and to take care of himself chasing criminals, but he's not exactly up to dealing with anyone who's focused on it seriously. ( ← this mostly basing on his Holmes obsession, and that he's not only probably had a checkered childhood, but plenty of reason to acknowledge self-defense to be a valuable lesson.) He's also a confident shot with handguns,and does carry a revolver. (← The revolver being canon makes that self-explanatory.) He can pick/crack locks, although he's basically mediocre at it - a complicated enough lock will still stop him. ( ← Grew up around law enforcement + occasionally sketchy ethics + odds of him learning that sort of thing high.)
Personality: At heart, Hakuba is relatively good-natured, very protective of others, and driven by a strong sense of justice. While he can be slightly cynical, as would be expected of someone who's grown up exposed to the worst of human nature, he doesn't hold grudges very well, and his temper is of the long fuse, slow burn, quiet variety - he doesn't blow up very easily at all, and while he can be downright venomous when he's irked, it usually doesn't really last that long. He has a tendency to keep a strong hold of rationality on his emotions, and is prone to hiding what he's actually thinking and feeling, which can make him seem almost unsettlingly detached in some respects.
He does, however, have a great deal of intensity and drive behind it, and even while he might be covering what he's thinking, that bleeds through more visibly. It's to a less obnoxiously creepy extent than it used to, but it's less that he's LOST the laser focus and obsessive tendencies, and more that he's learned to play it off so that it's less... well, creepy. Give him a case, and he'll devote every bit of his energy to unravelling it while still keeping some space left over for his obsessive attention to detail; give him a target or a long-term cause, and while his approach might evolve, you have a die-hard who has all the vocabulary for “give up” and “leave it be” of a Terminator until it's solved and he feels it's resolved. His definition of resolution can vary, and may mean he'll pursue something after legal authorities have deemed it over just to get that one last question answered, or that he might wander off before they're done with it because he feels his work is done.
This leads to the funny quality that personal attacks on him, verbal or otherwise, are a craps shoot. Unless you hit a nerve, if you're not actually interfering with his work or something he's doing, he's liable to smarm back or defend himself for the sake of doing so - and then cease to care.
If you interfere with his work, even if there's nothing aimed at him, he will take it personally, and will get irritated or vaguely angry with you, and you will be dealing with a snippy, politely poisonous Brit until his temper simmers down and the situation is over.
He has a very definite ego - and it's one that tends to thrive in spite of shots taken at it. He's incredibly intelligent and knows it, has been at the top of his class, has been assisting in police investigations since he was old enough to try to get involved, and has solved some things others have deemed impossible; nothing's going to deflate that anytime soon. More over, this ego has developed in a vacuum of parental attention, and with every implication that his social life has been nonexistent to lousy; this is a genius bookworm kid who bounced around different schools a lot growing up who not only hasn't taken conflict with peers as a blow to self-esteem, but has seemingly developed the mechanism of being more determined to prove it wrong and make something of himself in spite of it. He doesn't brag really, but he's capable of exuding enough smug that many people feel compelled to choke him, and particularly if someone's struck him as irritating, annoying, or slightly slow on the uptake, he can be annoyingly backhanded-condescending.
Oh, that note about his social skills? He's very polite and can even be somewhat charming in surface interaction, but his collected meaningful human contact has been with his grandmother/housekeeper depending on the translation. Put him around someone else longer than introductions and small talk, and casework-related conversation, and he will eventually flounder.
Said old lady is PROBABLY responsible for a lot of his behavior seeming a little lifted from the wrong part of history. Not only is he polite even when he's being obnoxious, but he's given to some old-fashioned social standards, and is chivalrous to a near fault. If someone is female or massively younger, they will get various protective gestures, doors opened for them, and him being horribly helpful, fussing over them, and being a Perfect Gentleman; in fact, it's worth noting that his grating smug competitive streak tends to vanish if he's talking to a girl. This will continue even if the girl is, say, a primary suspect in an investigation, although he does keep to some reason - he won't stop investigating a girl just because he was raised to be chivalrous, and he does recognize that “don't hit girls” and the like are a little irrelevant when the girl is, say, trying to kill you. He'll still be polite as all hell about it, though.
Oh, one of his few nerves? Seems to be jabbing at the idea that he doesn't belong somewhere, is some kind of alien intrusion, or generally playing “you are alien and do not belong”. (In the Koushien? He doesn't start hissing at Heiji until after Heiji has his twitch about Saguru “Not being the Detective of the East” etc., and it only goes downhill when Heiji strikes him as reckless and careless with crime scenes.)
Also to whit - said chivalry streak, in modern times, tends to come across as him being a horrible flirt. It's possible that there are times where he IS not-entirely-consciously flirting … but given the one canon example of him seriously flirting, if he's actually interested and consciously trying, for all the chivarly and politesse he may have about it, he's about as subtle as a jackhammer.
Oh, the OCD? Not only is he insanely detail-prone as befits someone who's learned part of his methodology from Sherlock Holmes, but he's very neat, and will do things like track time down to the second.
Also, much like many of the other detectives in his canon:
There is this funny word that isn't really in his vocabulary. He hears people talk about this weird "fe-ah-er" thing, but he doesn't really comprehend it, and a dangerous situation or sirens or an Obvious Trap is really just begging to be investigated, isn't it?
History: What is canonically known of Saguru's background!
He's half-British, apparently on his mother's side. His father is the Chief Inspector of the Tokyo Police, and doesn't really seem to know what to make of him or what to do with him. He spent a decent chunk of his childhood studying abroad, mostly living in London but with some time spent in Paris and presumably other parts of Europe; he's been doing “detective work” and hanging around crime scenes helping with cases since he was apparently pretty young, since his figure for how many cases he's solved is way too many for him to've started at a reasonable and sane age. He managed to become internationally known for this, enough that even before he got involved in the Kaitou Kid case, he had media attention, and could make international news enough to have recognition and fans back in Japan while he was working in Europe.
At some point, he took an interest in the Kaitou Kid case, the famous unsolvable case of the uncatchable thief - a case with a history going back older than he was. He flew back to Japan and transferred high schools to get involved; his father introduced him to Inspector Nakamori, who was in charge of the special task force for pursuing Kid, with the distinct implication that he kind-of wanted Nakamori, or the case, or both to knock Saguru down a few pegs. He managed to be entirely too hot on Kid's heels for Kid's tastes from the first heist he appeared at, and showed up having transferred into Kaito's class the next day. (The timing between when he would've had to've started the paperwork to transfer schools, him showing up in class, and how quickly he latched onto Kaito as a suspect makes me think he vaguely suspected “Toichi = original Kid - current Kid = his son” possibly before he'd even shown up at a heist, even if it probably was on purely circumstantial evidence and research.) During an early heist, he managed to score one of Kid's hairs, which he took back to a private lab and tested, thereby gaining DNA evidence that was inadmissable in any court or serious investigation. He doesn't SUSPECT that Kaito is Kid, he KNOWS, he just can't legally prove it, and admitting that he has DNA evidence would also mean admitting that he basically tampered with/unlawfully removed evidence.
He grew attached to their classmate and Kaito's childhood friend, Aoko, quickly, and the crush seems decently genuine even if part of it is probably being a competitive irritation to Kaito. (It's complicated.) This went as far as, when Aoko'd scored two tickets to a concert and was getting disinterested reactions from Kaito, Saguru stepping in, blatantly flirting, and proposing to solve the confusion with a bet - if he caught Kid, he'd go with Aoko, and if Kid escaped him, Kaito would go.
The bet failed soundly, since Kaito landed in traction, while Saguru ended up shaking off the aftereffects of one of Kid's sleep grenades and being just slightly miserable the next day.
One of his more … interesting gambits to prove that Kaito was Kid involved handcuffing Kaito to himself during a heist on the simple proof that if Kaito were Kid, and Kaito stayed handcuffed to him and visible the whole time, Kid would not show up. This ended up being the one major incident of Akako, their witchy classmate, interfering, as she showed up mimicking Kid to complete the heist; while there was a large amount of debate afterwards as to what exactly had happened, Saguru maintains his belief that Kaito IS Kid and that was some kind of accomplice. It is worth noting that his entire reaction to Akako, who has an obsession with Kaito for being the only man not to fall for her charms, was.... “Oh. She's in our class?” and … going right back to what he was doing as if she didn't exist.
His relationship with the heists clearly shifted gradually, and he does seem somewhat protective of Kid later on - he actually calls to give information to Kid under the justification that “nobody but him is allowed to catch Kid”.
After Magic Kaito, he disappears from canon entirely, not reappearing until the Sunset Manor arc, wherein someone with no ability to pay attention to Kid's normal methods sent out notes that were somehow meant to be misinterpreted as invitations from Kid to challenge a bunch of well-known detectives to a treasure hunt at an abandoned mansion with a bloody history in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. Not suspicious at all! Saguru was dropped off early and was one of the first to arrive, having brought with him his hawk, Watson - partly because Watson had been trained to carry messages back and forth between himself, and his Baaya in her car down the hill, which he'd marked to be visible from the air. The person posing as Kid challenged the detectives to solve the mystery of the manor and find the treasure for them, with the warning that only one of them would be allowed to deliver the answer and leave alive - all of the others would be killed, or would be manipulated into killing each other. At this point, Saguru is doing a damn good job of pretending that he'd have to know it wasn't Kid. You know. Perfectly plausible for a competitive pacifist adrenaline junkie who fusses about making sure nobody dies or is seriously hurt to decide to get others to do all the fun part for him and kill them all. PERFECTLY. Needless to say, when Conan proposes they trick the puppetmaster into revealing themselves and what they know, he agrees, and the group of them staged a bloody mess of all killing each other, to the revelation that the person responsible didn't have an exit plan either, and had planned for them all to die there. Fortunately he'd already sent for the police via hawk, and they were lifted out via helicopter, with Kid, who had NATURALLY come to investigate the person using his name for something like that, bailing on the copter to leave via hang glider.
He drops out of sight again until the Koushien - an event where someone posing as a representative for one of the TV stations contacted some of the “famous High School detectives” to invite them to a deserted island out of cellphone reception for a contest, to see who could solve a “fake” case the fastest and test their detective skills against each other. He had apparently been on a trip back to London when the invitation arrived, and the person responsible had managed to push all the right buttons to lure him back; he flew back, went out to the docks by himself, and bribed the boat to take him out a couple days early. Naturally it turned out completely foul, and simply to be one of the other detectives looking to find out who the teenage detective was that'd given an erroneous solution to a case a few years previous was - an erroneous solution that'd resulted in a friend of hers committing suicide. He met Heiji, one of the other major characters, on this case, and promptly proceeded to get along like cats and dogs in a room full of firecrackers, giving wonderful examples of what he's like when he's frustrated, irked, and mildly angry. By the end of this, the girl responsible for calling them all there had killed the one responsible for the false deduction in the past, and they found themselves stranded on a deserted island with a smashed emergency radio, only a few days of supplies, and no way off - or at least, until certain other detectives' faithful girlfriends showed up, following clues left by Heiji when he'd first left for the island. Heiji being responsible for getting them off alive probably counteracted all of his irritation with Heiji, seeing as how he'd had such wonderful foresight as to not have any plan for how to get off the island if things went wrong.
His one other canon appearance isn't; in Movie 10, the Private Eye's Requiem, he shows up as one of the detectives invited and subsequently hostage-threatened into solving a case for a mysterious party …. except he's dressed in street clothes, is acting somewhat flaming and amazingly derpish, and turns out to be Kaitou Kid posing as Saguru to investigate people that're trying to kill him for seeing something he wasn't supposed to, and taking advantage of mimicking Saguru around people who don't know him very well to mock him to Hell and back.
As you might notice by the fact that half of this is very detailed commentary on specific incidents, particularly for a canon as old as the MUN, he doesn't show up much.
First Person Sample: [Oh look. A strange bed. Isn't this fascinating.]
[No restraints, no signs of threats, weapons, or anyone watching -> Well, whoever just kidnapped me isn't apparently out to overtly threaten me.]
[Joy. Mysterious kidnapping of mysterious motives with no sign of what they want or why they've taken me.]
[And they were BRILLIANT enough to have also taken my revolver, and placed it under my pillow here.]
[...Loaded, with the safety on.]
[If they want to threaten or intimidate me, they are not doing a very good job of it.]
[Kid? ---> No, I'm dressed perfectly normally for sleeping, my clothes have not been tampered with, and there's no sign of me being pranked yet. If it's him, he's got to have some kind of spectacular other shoe, and he has no reason to kidnap me when there isn't a heist going on unless he wants me involved in something. Occam's razor, until there's evidence there'd be a reason, it's not Kid.]
[And they even courteously left the door unlocked - whoever this is, is either very confident they can keep me in this space or convince me that whatever they kidnapped me for outweighs my irritation at being kidnapped, or they're ... well, they can't be stupid to've gotten me here. I'd hope.]
[How did they do that, anyway? I don't sleep that heavily, don't feel anything that'd be an aftereffect of drugging or tampering...]
Third Person Sample: Whatever he'd been hit with, hadn't lasted as long as most of Kid's sedatives - he was up after only twenty minutes, twelve seconds lost. Oh sure, the brat had handcuffed him to the railing on one side of the hotel's emergency-exit stairs with his own handcuffs, but his other hand was free, and he was getting depressingly good at getting loose from setups like that. With his own handcuffs.
As soon as those were off, he was right back on the chase, running up the stairs, black evening dress and the high heels be damned. (Well, okay, the hells slowed him down for a minute, but he managed to figure out something fairly fast.) He got two and a half flights up, saw the exit for the hallway with roof access, and managed to jimmy the bolt on the security door fast enough to be through it with only a thirty-nine second delay.
And then he abruptly found himself careening into a group of very bewildered and gawking task force members.
"Was I just here?!"
They all nodded, in unison.
He sighed, resisting the urge to bury his face in his hands. "That was Kid! Which way did he go?"
Two of them pointed. Another few looked between each other suspiciously, and he soon found himself jumped.
At least getting grabbed, manhandled, and having his face pulled on to make sure he wasn't Kid in disguise was a familiar ritual - he did have to admit, it'd be just like Kid to set up something to sic the Task Force on him while slinking out the back pretending to be a post-prank Hakuba.
Links: One fandom wiki! And uh. .....wow there's not a lot out there for him.
Notes: He is discreet and polite enough to downplay the fourth wall issue, nevermind that it might take a little bit for him to conclude that yes, Sherlock Holmes = Sherlock Holmes.
It might not stop him grinning and fluffing like a fanboy in private until he gets used to it, however.
Name/Alias: Birdy
Age: 28
E-Mail//MSN//AIM: kyanve@gmail.com, shirhanblade (AIM)
Personal LJ: shirhan_blade
IC Information:
Character Name: Hakuba Saguru
Character Journal: stalker_horse, switched to im_in_ur_exit
Canon: Detective Conan/Magic Kaito
Point in Canon: Current. Or at least, both of his DC canon appearances and Movie 10 have happened, and events in canon that may've been news-visible he might have vague knowledge of. (Maybe not a lot of the random cases, but you know, things like an unknown Blackhawk shooting at Tokyo Tower tend to make the news.)
Age: 17
Birthday: August 29
Appearance: At about 5'10”, he's tall enough to be noticeable, and fairly solidly built; he's in vaguely athletic shape, and apparently hit his growth spurt early. He has loose, short honey-blonde hair on the slightly dark side, and amber-brown eyes. He's half Japanese, half British, but mostly favors the British side of his heritage, with relatively little in his appearance to tip someone off. He certainly has the usual Virgo OCD, and keeps himself up well, although he tends to stick out slightly; outside of a school uniform, he dresses at least semiformally most of the time...
And when he's not dressing semiformally, he's dressing for the wrong century - down to pulling things like showing up at heists, joining the police, in a deerstalker hat and inverness coat, decked out like he belonged in turn of the century Europe.
Worth noting - he speaks English, Japanese, and French, and ALWAYS has some kind of an odd accent; his English is London-area with a barely noticeable Japanese accent, his Japanese has a British accent, and his French is Parisian with bits of British and Japanese accents.
Abilities: Saguru is very intelligent, very observant, has an excellent memory, and has been training himself to notice the most obscenely random inoccuous details since childhood. Beyond the raw skills and the fact that he's been training them on crime scenes and some very convoluted and messed up cases since childhood, he's also gone out of his way to do things like memorize swathes of literature (including some things that AREN'T Holmes!), and turn himself into a walking encyclopedia of criminology. He's picked up a scary amount of forensics science on self-study (no he hasn't ever really had a life why do you ask), and knows his way around a science lab quite well, enough to do DNA matching and the like on his own. (Kaito you are so lucky that him testing that hair at his home lab rendered it inadmissable as evidence in court.) In the even more random vein, he's actually fairly knowledgeable about birds, and not only practices falconry, but has shown ability at training his hawk a few more unusual tricks, like carrying messages to marked vehicles.
(There's a few things that're normal headcanon of mine around him, with reasons behind them, below.)
He has some random scattered ability with hand to hand combat and fencing; he's competent enough to hold his own against some very violent people and to take care of himself chasing criminals, but he's not exactly up to dealing with anyone who's focused on it seriously. ( ← this mostly basing on his Holmes obsession, and that he's not only probably had a checkered childhood, but plenty of reason to acknowledge self-defense to be a valuable lesson.) He's also a confident shot with handguns,and does carry a revolver. (← The revolver being canon makes that self-explanatory.) He can pick/crack locks, although he's basically mediocre at it - a complicated enough lock will still stop him. ( ← Grew up around law enforcement + occasionally sketchy ethics + odds of him learning that sort of thing high.)
Personality: At heart, Hakuba is relatively good-natured, very protective of others, and driven by a strong sense of justice. While he can be slightly cynical, as would be expected of someone who's grown up exposed to the worst of human nature, he doesn't hold grudges very well, and his temper is of the long fuse, slow burn, quiet variety - he doesn't blow up very easily at all, and while he can be downright venomous when he's irked, it usually doesn't really last that long. He has a tendency to keep a strong hold of rationality on his emotions, and is prone to hiding what he's actually thinking and feeling, which can make him seem almost unsettlingly detached in some respects.
He does, however, have a great deal of intensity and drive behind it, and even while he might be covering what he's thinking, that bleeds through more visibly. It's to a less obnoxiously creepy extent than it used to, but it's less that he's LOST the laser focus and obsessive tendencies, and more that he's learned to play it off so that it's less... well, creepy. Give him a case, and he'll devote every bit of his energy to unravelling it while still keeping some space left over for his obsessive attention to detail; give him a target or a long-term cause, and while his approach might evolve, you have a die-hard who has all the vocabulary for “give up” and “leave it be” of a Terminator until it's solved and he feels it's resolved. His definition of resolution can vary, and may mean he'll pursue something after legal authorities have deemed it over just to get that one last question answered, or that he might wander off before they're done with it because he feels his work is done.
This leads to the funny quality that personal attacks on him, verbal or otherwise, are a craps shoot. Unless you hit a nerve, if you're not actually interfering with his work or something he's doing, he's liable to smarm back or defend himself for the sake of doing so - and then cease to care.
If you interfere with his work, even if there's nothing aimed at him, he will take it personally, and will get irritated or vaguely angry with you, and you will be dealing with a snippy, politely poisonous Brit until his temper simmers down and the situation is over.
He has a very definite ego - and it's one that tends to thrive in spite of shots taken at it. He's incredibly intelligent and knows it, has been at the top of his class, has been assisting in police investigations since he was old enough to try to get involved, and has solved some things others have deemed impossible; nothing's going to deflate that anytime soon. More over, this ego has developed in a vacuum of parental attention, and with every implication that his social life has been nonexistent to lousy; this is a genius bookworm kid who bounced around different schools a lot growing up who not only hasn't taken conflict with peers as a blow to self-esteem, but has seemingly developed the mechanism of being more determined to prove it wrong and make something of himself in spite of it. He doesn't brag really, but he's capable of exuding enough smug that many people feel compelled to choke him, and particularly if someone's struck him as irritating, annoying, or slightly slow on the uptake, he can be annoyingly backhanded-condescending.
Oh, that note about his social skills? He's very polite and can even be somewhat charming in surface interaction, but his collected meaningful human contact has been with his grandmother/housekeeper depending on the translation. Put him around someone else longer than introductions and small talk, and casework-related conversation, and he will eventually flounder.
Said old lady is PROBABLY responsible for a lot of his behavior seeming a little lifted from the wrong part of history. Not only is he polite even when he's being obnoxious, but he's given to some old-fashioned social standards, and is chivalrous to a near fault. If someone is female or massively younger, they will get various protective gestures, doors opened for them, and him being horribly helpful, fussing over them, and being a Perfect Gentleman; in fact, it's worth noting that his grating smug competitive streak tends to vanish if he's talking to a girl. This will continue even if the girl is, say, a primary suspect in an investigation, although he does keep to some reason - he won't stop investigating a girl just because he was raised to be chivalrous, and he does recognize that “don't hit girls” and the like are a little irrelevant when the girl is, say, trying to kill you. He'll still be polite as all hell about it, though.
Oh, one of his few nerves? Seems to be jabbing at the idea that he doesn't belong somewhere, is some kind of alien intrusion, or generally playing “you are alien and do not belong”. (In the Koushien? He doesn't start hissing at Heiji until after Heiji has his twitch about Saguru “Not being the Detective of the East” etc., and it only goes downhill when Heiji strikes him as reckless and careless with crime scenes.)
Also to whit - said chivalry streak, in modern times, tends to come across as him being a horrible flirt. It's possible that there are times where he IS not-entirely-consciously flirting … but given the one canon example of him seriously flirting, if he's actually interested and consciously trying, for all the chivarly and politesse he may have about it, he's about as subtle as a jackhammer.
Oh, the OCD? Not only is he insanely detail-prone as befits someone who's learned part of his methodology from Sherlock Holmes, but he's very neat, and will do things like track time down to the second.
Also, much like many of the other detectives in his canon:
There is this funny word that isn't really in his vocabulary. He hears people talk about this weird "fe-ah-er" thing, but he doesn't really comprehend it, and a dangerous situation or sirens or an Obvious Trap is really just begging to be investigated, isn't it?
History: What is canonically known of Saguru's background!
He's half-British, apparently on his mother's side. His father is the Chief Inspector of the Tokyo Police, and doesn't really seem to know what to make of him or what to do with him. He spent a decent chunk of his childhood studying abroad, mostly living in London but with some time spent in Paris and presumably other parts of Europe; he's been doing “detective work” and hanging around crime scenes helping with cases since he was apparently pretty young, since his figure for how many cases he's solved is way too many for him to've started at a reasonable and sane age. He managed to become internationally known for this, enough that even before he got involved in the Kaitou Kid case, he had media attention, and could make international news enough to have recognition and fans back in Japan while he was working in Europe.
At some point, he took an interest in the Kaitou Kid case, the famous unsolvable case of the uncatchable thief - a case with a history going back older than he was. He flew back to Japan and transferred high schools to get involved; his father introduced him to Inspector Nakamori, who was in charge of the special task force for pursuing Kid, with the distinct implication that he kind-of wanted Nakamori, or the case, or both to knock Saguru down a few pegs. He managed to be entirely too hot on Kid's heels for Kid's tastes from the first heist he appeared at, and showed up having transferred into Kaito's class the next day. (The timing between when he would've had to've started the paperwork to transfer schools, him showing up in class, and how quickly he latched onto Kaito as a suspect makes me think he vaguely suspected “Toichi = original Kid - current Kid = his son” possibly before he'd even shown up at a heist, even if it probably was on purely circumstantial evidence and research.) During an early heist, he managed to score one of Kid's hairs, which he took back to a private lab and tested, thereby gaining DNA evidence that was inadmissable in any court or serious investigation. He doesn't SUSPECT that Kaito is Kid, he KNOWS, he just can't legally prove it, and admitting that he has DNA evidence would also mean admitting that he basically tampered with/unlawfully removed evidence.
He grew attached to their classmate and Kaito's childhood friend, Aoko, quickly, and the crush seems decently genuine even if part of it is probably being a competitive irritation to Kaito. (It's complicated.) This went as far as, when Aoko'd scored two tickets to a concert and was getting disinterested reactions from Kaito, Saguru stepping in, blatantly flirting, and proposing to solve the confusion with a bet - if he caught Kid, he'd go with Aoko, and if Kid escaped him, Kaito would go.
The bet failed soundly, since Kaito landed in traction, while Saguru ended up shaking off the aftereffects of one of Kid's sleep grenades and being just slightly miserable the next day.
One of his more … interesting gambits to prove that Kaito was Kid involved handcuffing Kaito to himself during a heist on the simple proof that if Kaito were Kid, and Kaito stayed handcuffed to him and visible the whole time, Kid would not show up. This ended up being the one major incident of Akako, their witchy classmate, interfering, as she showed up mimicking Kid to complete the heist; while there was a large amount of debate afterwards as to what exactly had happened, Saguru maintains his belief that Kaito IS Kid and that was some kind of accomplice. It is worth noting that his entire reaction to Akako, who has an obsession with Kaito for being the only man not to fall for her charms, was.... “Oh. She's in our class?” and … going right back to what he was doing as if she didn't exist.
His relationship with the heists clearly shifted gradually, and he does seem somewhat protective of Kid later on - he actually calls to give information to Kid under the justification that “nobody but him is allowed to catch Kid”.
After Magic Kaito, he disappears from canon entirely, not reappearing until the Sunset Manor arc, wherein someone with no ability to pay attention to Kid's normal methods sent out notes that were somehow meant to be misinterpreted as invitations from Kid to challenge a bunch of well-known detectives to a treasure hunt at an abandoned mansion with a bloody history in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. Not suspicious at all! Saguru was dropped off early and was one of the first to arrive, having brought with him his hawk, Watson - partly because Watson had been trained to carry messages back and forth between himself, and his Baaya in her car down the hill, which he'd marked to be visible from the air. The person posing as Kid challenged the detectives to solve the mystery of the manor and find the treasure for them, with the warning that only one of them would be allowed to deliver the answer and leave alive - all of the others would be killed, or would be manipulated into killing each other. At this point, Saguru is doing a damn good job of pretending that he'd have to know it wasn't Kid. You know. Perfectly plausible for a competitive pacifist adrenaline junkie who fusses about making sure nobody dies or is seriously hurt to decide to get others to do all the fun part for him and kill them all. PERFECTLY. Needless to say, when Conan proposes they trick the puppetmaster into revealing themselves and what they know, he agrees, and the group of them staged a bloody mess of all killing each other, to the revelation that the person responsible didn't have an exit plan either, and had planned for them all to die there. Fortunately he'd already sent for the police via hawk, and they were lifted out via helicopter, with Kid, who had NATURALLY come to investigate the person using his name for something like that, bailing on the copter to leave via hang glider.
He drops out of sight again until the Koushien - an event where someone posing as a representative for one of the TV stations contacted some of the “famous High School detectives” to invite them to a deserted island out of cellphone reception for a contest, to see who could solve a “fake” case the fastest and test their detective skills against each other. He had apparently been on a trip back to London when the invitation arrived, and the person responsible had managed to push all the right buttons to lure him back; he flew back, went out to the docks by himself, and bribed the boat to take him out a couple days early. Naturally it turned out completely foul, and simply to be one of the other detectives looking to find out who the teenage detective was that'd given an erroneous solution to a case a few years previous was - an erroneous solution that'd resulted in a friend of hers committing suicide. He met Heiji, one of the other major characters, on this case, and promptly proceeded to get along like cats and dogs in a room full of firecrackers, giving wonderful examples of what he's like when he's frustrated, irked, and mildly angry. By the end of this, the girl responsible for calling them all there had killed the one responsible for the false deduction in the past, and they found themselves stranded on a deserted island with a smashed emergency radio, only a few days of supplies, and no way off - or at least, until certain other detectives' faithful girlfriends showed up, following clues left by Heiji when he'd first left for the island. Heiji being responsible for getting them off alive probably counteracted all of his irritation with Heiji, seeing as how he'd had such wonderful foresight as to not have any plan for how to get off the island if things went wrong.
His one other canon appearance isn't; in Movie 10, the Private Eye's Requiem, he shows up as one of the detectives invited and subsequently hostage-threatened into solving a case for a mysterious party …. except he's dressed in street clothes, is acting somewhat flaming and amazingly derpish, and turns out to be Kaitou Kid posing as Saguru to investigate people that're trying to kill him for seeing something he wasn't supposed to, and taking advantage of mimicking Saguru around people who don't know him very well to mock him to Hell and back.
As you might notice by the fact that half of this is very detailed commentary on specific incidents, particularly for a canon as old as the MUN, he doesn't show up much.
First Person Sample: [Oh look. A strange bed. Isn't this fascinating.]
[No restraints, no signs of threats, weapons, or anyone watching -> Well, whoever just kidnapped me isn't apparently out to overtly threaten me.]
[Joy. Mysterious kidnapping of mysterious motives with no sign of what they want or why they've taken me.]
[And they were BRILLIANT enough to have also taken my revolver, and placed it under my pillow here.]
[...Loaded, with the safety on.]
[If they want to threaten or intimidate me, they are not doing a very good job of it.]
[Kid? ---> No, I'm dressed perfectly normally for sleeping, my clothes have not been tampered with, and there's no sign of me being pranked yet. If it's him, he's got to have some kind of spectacular other shoe, and he has no reason to kidnap me when there isn't a heist going on unless he wants me involved in something. Occam's razor, until there's evidence there'd be a reason, it's not Kid.]
[And they even courteously left the door unlocked - whoever this is, is either very confident they can keep me in this space or convince me that whatever they kidnapped me for outweighs my irritation at being kidnapped, or they're ... well, they can't be stupid to've gotten me here. I'd hope.]
[How did they do that, anyway? I don't sleep that heavily, don't feel anything that'd be an aftereffect of drugging or tampering...]
Third Person Sample: Whatever he'd been hit with, hadn't lasted as long as most of Kid's sedatives - he was up after only twenty minutes, twelve seconds lost. Oh sure, the brat had handcuffed him to the railing on one side of the hotel's emergency-exit stairs with his own handcuffs, but his other hand was free, and he was getting depressingly good at getting loose from setups like that. With his own handcuffs.
As soon as those were off, he was right back on the chase, running up the stairs, black evening dress and the high heels be damned. (Well, okay, the hells slowed him down for a minute, but he managed to figure out something fairly fast.) He got two and a half flights up, saw the exit for the hallway with roof access, and managed to jimmy the bolt on the security door fast enough to be through it with only a thirty-nine second delay.
And then he abruptly found himself careening into a group of very bewildered and gawking task force members.
"Was I just here?!"
They all nodded, in unison.
He sighed, resisting the urge to bury his face in his hands. "That was Kid! Which way did he go?"
Two of them pointed. Another few looked between each other suspiciously, and he soon found himself jumped.
At least getting grabbed, manhandled, and having his face pulled on to make sure he wasn't Kid in disguise was a familiar ritual - he did have to admit, it'd be just like Kid to set up something to sic the Task Force on him while slinking out the back pretending to be a post-prank Hakuba.
Links: One fandom wiki! And uh. .....wow there's not a lot out there for him.
Notes: He is discreet and polite enough to downplay the fourth wall issue, nevermind that it might take a little bit for him to conclude that yes, Sherlock Holmes = Sherlock Holmes.
It might not stop him grinning and fluffing like a fanboy in private until he gets used to it, however.