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rhodochrositethe relationship between akam is so complex that throwing a third person into the mix has really fun results 🙂 this post will go through my favourite triangulation options, roughly a sequel to my <1140shipping post>
i'm obsessed with darkbatchshipping just for the name like how perfect is it that there is literally an alcohol comprised of rye sherry and bourbon that exists... i couldn't NOT open it plus they are narratively entangled For Free!!! akai is hardcarrying so much guilt and atonement here because it IS his fault that akemi died and he's shouldering the blame for scotch's death. and he's making absolutely zero attempt to seek forgiveness, not even for scotch, because he has virgo venus acts of service disease and thinks it's best for him to bear the burden rather than anyone else. he's self-appointed guard dog for my bitchy cat 2pick who both (think they) don't want him there but he is always always looking out for them anyway.
i also realised the other day that darkbatchshipping is literally just conan compromiseshipping which was whole new levels of everything i like is the same embarrassingness ~__~ it's like this:
AND i endgame isolated prodigy girl with unkillable guy's sister(/aspect thereof)... but also the vibe is different from compromiseshipping because i completely believe in akam endgame but i can only see hostageshipping endgame is very specific circumstances... and i genuinely do romantically ship all three components of compromise (and prefer peregrine and prodigy to hostage) but dark batch is just narrativeshipping to me (and obviously i like akam the most). but narrativeshipping also is not a "just" so basically You have to have a very high iq in order t
most darkbatchshipping art landmines me because i can tell op mains the het parts... literally only akam shippers understand amuro hets. you have to be a 腐女子 to comprehend amuro's relationships with women it's true. my heart was soooo touched by amuro and haibara's dynamic in <this akam dj>, the standoffish not-quite-friendliness but the unexpected emotional honesty and vulnerability from two people who extremely distance themselves from emotional honesty and vulnerability in their d&m about causing other people unhappiness / that happiness is not something that can be decided by anyone other than yourself... haibara is only peripherally in <this comic> but it's perfect to me i love the idea of haibara and akai discussing work at cafe poirot. i also thought <this art> was cute and haibara's expressions were in-character enough that i didn't mind the girl matchmaker trope the way i usually do... <this> is also very cute. if they aren't working (which is my favourite context for darkbatch) they kind of need to not be doing anything in order to not landmine me so i can just look at them and be like wow i love to see my beautiful picks looking beautiful together eg 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
scarletshipping is like... canon. shinichi is kind of so textually in akam's business it's unreal... partly because he's the protag but also he is literally the triangulation point in amuro's investigation into akai's death since he's the one who orchestrated the plan and it takes amuro realising this to unravel the truth. the whole scarlet arc is just akai shinichi amuro engaged in super sexy 5d grandmaster chess battles and the fact that many of the most intensely charged akam scenes happen in shinichi's house is really Much To Consider IT'S IN THE TEXT!!
it's incredibly interesting to me that shinichi was actually able to predict amuro's actions more accurately than akai, who has known him for years and years, because akai underestimated how much amuro hated him and therefore how far he was willing to go to capture him. i haven't decided if i think this is because akai doesn't view amuro as a real threat or if it's because akai thinks highly of amuro's logical reasoning skills and didn't think he would pull something as crazy as jeopardising his cover and taking out akai's colleagues just to get to akai... probably it's both. but shinichi sees amuro more clearly because he doesn't have the sentiment and history that akai carries about amuro. it's fine for akai to be this way because amuro literally cannot beat him no matter how hard he tries according to aoyama himself, but the same cannot be said for the rest of the fbi, so it's good that shinichi doesn't trust amuro lmao.
i definitely see the shinichi being akam's co-mentee scarletshipping vision i think their skillsets work really well together!! the darkest nightmare was already basically shinichi being akam's get-along shirt and breaking up their fight and instigating their epic teamwork since the only time they're able to put aside their differences and work together is when the the situation is dire enough to weight The Greater Good more heavily than Trying To Kill Akai in amuro's mental scales... the metaphorical resonance of amuro tossing conan across a deadly gap and akai on the other side catching him <3 the inverted 2 people who know mutual 3rd person better trope is really funny because akam are the ones with the history together but they both get along better with shinichi than each other.
also this is kind of the only triangulation where i would like to see the 3p for real but i have not had much luck trying to termsearch but i DO think they should all fuck... amuro can have 2 tops as a treat. like literally if it's not a long-term arrangement and just a casual once or twice thing i think akai's generosity can outweigh his possessiveness. i will add the link once i get my twt archive and can find it again but i saw this akam + shinichi comic where akam were secretly dating and shinichi dropped by amuro's house one morning and akai answered the door shirtless (forgetting that amuro wanted to keep their relationship secret for the moment) and shinichi got super embarrassed, and i'm sure it was not op's intention but it did come off literally like a threesome porno intro. the first comic in <this pixiv log> where akai is dubconly fucking amuro and shinichi comes back into the room like "sorry, i'm curious about what amuro-san looks like when he's being fucked... dw i have a girlfriend so i will only be watching tho" REALLY created an image that made me think, i loveeeee voyeurism/exhibitionism/humiliation triple combo. i can also envision a scenario where akai is directing shinichi on how to fuck amuro🤔 scarletshipping 3some/s will have to happen in a splinter timeline tho because shinran are so married in my main canon vision...
some further scarletshipping visuals: 1 / 2 / 3
MY FAVOURITE BLACK ORG POWER DYNAMIX i'm so obsessed with the pretty popular rye/bourbon trope that vermouth leverages bourbon against rye just for fun and antagonistic powerplay reasons by implying sexual and/or romantic intimacy between her and bourbon that doesn't actually exist... eg 1 / 2 / 3 / 4. i don't think vermouth and bourbon are fucking but i think they have a complicated slightly antagonistic but also close relationship that's like... they are classmate-esque coworker joint venture business partners except there's tense power dynamics where vermouth is bourbon's superior and won't hesitate to pull rank authority over him but still expresses displeasure when gin decides he wants to execute bourbon BUT also bourbon has leverage on vermouth because he knows one of her secrets. so their cooperation is a mix of real platonically flirtatious chemistry/getting along/liking each other + mutually aligned goals where vermouth helps bourbon investigate akai's "death" with her boss's favourite Does Whatever She Wants privileges and bourbon helps vermouth hunt down haibara and they will even go undercover as married together + manipulation and duress under the guise of <high society courtesy> from both sides.
a lot of vermouth/bourbon skews too simplistically friendly for my personal tastes but <this sacred text comic> is spot on to me, the outwards lightness and the concealed threats underneath the smiles <33 the vibes of these are also perfect to me: 1 (p3 says bourbon is sticking his tongue out at rye kkk) / 2 / 3 (also features haibara and kir!!!!! op is god so much). <this comic> which is also sacred text to me is about as light as i think their relationship gets. i also hc that vermouth taught bourbon how to honeypot and assigns him honeypotting missions for the black org because i love mildly dubcon mentorships since bourbon literally is not in a position where he can refuse... visually i love to see bourbon being vermouth's luxury handbag and they are so expensive beautiful killeristic blondes together esp when co-infiltrating some rich person event (eg 1 / 2 / 3).
i imagine vermouth and akai don't get along well because vermouth actively enjoys antagonising and fucking with anyone for free, but also i love that vermouth literally doesn't actually care about akai. he might be the destined downfall of the black organisation but he's not HER silver bullet, it was so funny when she found out about his death and she was just like well w/e, i already got my own silver bullet (shinichi) at home. it's just fun and free 1.0 vs 1.0 haterism without any particular personal investment. eg 1 / 2.
the most textual triangulation point because i mean... scotch IS inextricable from akam as they are now. whiskey trio as a grouping is sort of made up but just because it's made up doesn't mean it's not REAL... they canonically did at least one mission as a trio and i really enjoy the fandom wide hc that they regularly worked together. when he was still alive i think scotch was kind of like rye and bourbon's get along shirt because he seemed to be a nice and easygoing guy. and not to rehash everything i just said in my 1140 post but obviously the circumstances surrounding his death are fundamental to akam's relationship because amuro's mistaken belief that akai killed scotch is driving his bitter hatred for akai + akai willingly taking the blame to shield amuro from the painful truth. amuro who will never forgive akai, akai who doesn't want to be forgiven... i love grief and tragedy.
scotch was amuro's childhood best friend classmate co-infiltrator but i think that you can read more into their relationship from how deeply scotch's death affected amuro and how viciously he hates akai for it... i still haven't decided if it's part of my official personal canon or if i'll stick with really close best friends, but i like to rotate unrequited amuro->scotch since it does maximise the angst. these images do be convincing me: 1 (i already linked this but it's sacred text so true) / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 (LITERALLY MY FAVOURITE EVER... the canon ver of this scene is already so good and anguish inducing but the way kou-nim drew amuro's expression fucks me up even more. amuro pressing his ear to scotch's chest trying to listen for a heartbeat even tho scotch is clearly dead gets me soooo bad T__T smth about the clumsy physicality + the desperation).
regardless, i like the tragic irony that scotch tried so hard to bring akam together when he was alive but his death is what drove the irreparable (for now) rift between them. ofc scotch's death weighs most obviously and heavily on amuro, but scotch was also one of akai's colleagues and friends and it was akai's gun that killed scotch, akai just seems to deal with grief more healthily than amuro, i really liked the rye/scotch dynamic in <this comic> and i loveeeeee the emotion in <this comic> where amuro is the one who dies. i've seen a common theme in a few akam comics that scotch at one point privately asked rye to look out for bourbon (in a lighter context) because bourbon is kind of hasty/impulsive/more prone to danger due to working in recon and that's one of the reasons akai continues to watch over amuro... which would also create a parallel to the reason he watches over haibara being a request from akemi. It's All Connected, TO ME.
does this have any basis in canon? no. do i want to see it anyway? YES. i loveeeeeee coworkers who distrust each other, i love that they are all double agents from different organisations who puppet three identities (akai/rye/okiya + furuya/bourbon/amuro + hidemi/kir/rena), i love that amuro has spent like years trying to hunt akai down to kill him but kir got in there first (as part of previously arranged scheme to fake akai's death so she could regain the black org's trust + so akai could operate more freely under a fake identity). also the fact that amuro's delusional belief that he's the only one who can kill akai means that he's inadvertently insulting kir's professionalism and capabilities as well as putting her cover at risk by insisting akai isn't actually dead is kind of really funny.
i've really liked the idea of ryekir american undercover operative colleagues ever since i saw <this comic> so i look forward to the fbi/cia joint investigations in their postcanon future, plus it's very personal that kir was the one who killed akai even though it was faked. and they look very nice together, dark hair curly bangs serious energy. and <this comic> opened my eyes to kirbourbon paired recon mission fancy dress infiltration colleagues... the darkest nightmare had kir and amuro chained together while gin was interrogating them on suspicion of being traitors and they looked very beautiful and pickful together even though they did not speak to each other or even look at each other BUT THAT HAS NEVER STOPPED ME BEFORE🙂
some epic visuals: 1 / 2
definitely not in a love triangle sense or anything!! i'm actually so relieved aoyama specifically clarified that amuro's hatred of akai has absolutely nothing to do with akemi, but i think it's really so special that they both loved her deeply albeit in different ways and how she had such a deep impact on both of them... akemi's boyfriend and akemi's childhood friend even though she forgot him... <this tweet> is exactly how i feel about the situation, akai who has moved on and accepted her death as in the past but will carry the beautiful memory of akemi and his love for her in his heart forever, and amuro who wouldn't love akai if he wasn't the type of person to do that. and of course amuro wants akemi's memory to be kept alive too...
HAIBARA
i'm obsessed with darkbatchshipping just for the name like how perfect is it that there is literally an alcohol comprised of rye sherry and bourbon that exists... i couldn't NOT open it plus they are narratively entangled For Free!!! akai is hardcarrying so much guilt and atonement here because it IS his fault that akemi died and he's shouldering the blame for scotch's death. and he's making absolutely zero attempt to seek forgiveness, not even for scotch, because he has virgo venus acts of service disease and thinks it's best for him to bear the burden rather than anyone else. he's self-appointed guard dog for my bitchy cat 2pick who both (think they) don't want him there but he is always always looking out for them anyway.
i also realised the other day that darkbatchshipping is literally just conan compromiseshipping which was whole new levels of everything i like is the same embarrassingness ~__~ it's like this:
AND i endgame isolated prodigy girl with unkillable guy's sister(/aspect thereof)... but also the vibe is different from compromiseshipping because i completely believe in akam endgame but i can only see hostageshipping endgame is very specific circumstances... and i genuinely do romantically ship all three components of compromise (and prefer peregrine and prodigy to hostage) but dark batch is just narrativeshipping to me (and obviously i like akam the most). but narrativeshipping also is not a "just" so basically You have to have a very high iq in order t
most darkbatchshipping art landmines me because i can tell op mains the het parts... literally only akam shippers understand amuro hets. you have to be a 腐女子 to comprehend amuro's relationships with women it's true. my heart was soooo touched by amuro and haibara's dynamic in <this akam dj>, the standoffish not-quite-friendliness but the unexpected emotional honesty and vulnerability from two people who extremely distance themselves from emotional honesty and vulnerability in their d&m about causing other people unhappiness / that happiness is not something that can be decided by anyone other than yourself... haibara is only peripherally in <this comic> but it's perfect to me i love the idea of haibara and akai discussing work at cafe poirot. i also thought <this art> was cute and haibara's expressions were in-character enough that i didn't mind the girl matchmaker trope the way i usually do... <this> is also very cute. if they aren't working (which is my favourite context for darkbatch) they kind of need to not be doing anything in order to not landmine me so i can just look at them and be like wow i love to see my beautiful picks looking beautiful together eg 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
SHINICHI
scarletshipping is like... canon. shinichi is kind of so textually in akam's business it's unreal... partly because he's the protag but also he is literally the triangulation point in amuro's investigation into akai's death since he's the one who orchestrated the plan and it takes amuro realising this to unravel the truth. the whole scarlet arc is just akai shinichi amuro engaged in super sexy 5d grandmaster chess battles and the fact that many of the most intensely charged akam scenes happen in shinichi's house is really Much To Consider IT'S IN THE TEXT!!
it's incredibly interesting to me that shinichi was actually able to predict amuro's actions more accurately than akai, who has known him for years and years, because akai underestimated how much amuro hated him and therefore how far he was willing to go to capture him. i haven't decided if i think this is because akai doesn't view amuro as a real threat or if it's because akai thinks highly of amuro's logical reasoning skills and didn't think he would pull something as crazy as jeopardising his cover and taking out akai's colleagues just to get to akai... probably it's both. but shinichi sees amuro more clearly because he doesn't have the sentiment and history that akai carries about amuro. it's fine for akai to be this way because amuro literally cannot beat him no matter how hard he tries according to aoyama himself, but the same cannot be said for the rest of the fbi, so it's good that shinichi doesn't trust amuro lmao.
i definitely see the shinichi being akam's co-mentee scarletshipping vision i think their skillsets work really well together!! the darkest nightmare was already basically shinichi being akam's get-along shirt and breaking up their fight and instigating their epic teamwork since the only time they're able to put aside their differences and work together is when the the situation is dire enough to weight The Greater Good more heavily than Trying To Kill Akai in amuro's mental scales... the metaphorical resonance of amuro tossing conan across a deadly gap and akai on the other side catching him <3 the inverted 2 people who know mutual 3rd person better trope is really funny because akam are the ones with the history together but they both get along better with shinichi than each other.
also this is kind of the only triangulation where i would like to see the 3p for real but i have not had much luck trying to termsearch but i DO think they should all fuck... amuro can have 2 tops as a treat. like literally if it's not a long-term arrangement and just a casual once or twice thing i think akai's generosity can outweigh his possessiveness. i will add the link once i get my twt archive and can find it again but i saw this akam + shinichi comic where akam were secretly dating and shinichi dropped by amuro's house one morning and akai answered the door shirtless (forgetting that amuro wanted to keep their relationship secret for the moment) and shinichi got super embarrassed, and i'm sure it was not op's intention but it did come off literally like a threesome porno intro. the first comic in <this pixiv log> where akai is dubconly fucking amuro and shinichi comes back into the room like "sorry, i'm curious about what amuro-san looks like when he's being fucked... dw i have a girlfriend so i will only be watching tho" REALLY created an image that made me think, i loveeeee voyeurism/exhibitionism/humiliation triple combo. i can also envision a scenario where akai is directing shinichi on how to fuck amuro🤔 scarletshipping 3some/s will have to happen in a splinter timeline tho because shinran are so married in my main canon vision...
some further scarletshipping visuals: 1 / 2 / 3
VERMOUTH
MY FAVOURITE BLACK ORG POWER DYNAMIX i'm so obsessed with the pretty popular rye/bourbon trope that vermouth leverages bourbon against rye just for fun and antagonistic powerplay reasons by implying sexual and/or romantic intimacy between her and bourbon that doesn't actually exist... eg 1 / 2 / 3 / 4. i don't think vermouth and bourbon are fucking but i think they have a complicated slightly antagonistic but also close relationship that's like... they are classmate-esque coworker joint venture business partners except there's tense power dynamics where vermouth is bourbon's superior and won't hesitate to pull rank authority over him but still expresses displeasure when gin decides he wants to execute bourbon BUT also bourbon has leverage on vermouth because he knows one of her secrets. so their cooperation is a mix of real platonically flirtatious chemistry/getting along/liking each other + mutually aligned goals where vermouth helps bourbon investigate akai's "death" with her boss's favourite Does Whatever She Wants privileges and bourbon helps vermouth hunt down haibara and they will even go undercover as married together + manipulation and duress under the guise of <high society courtesy> from both sides.
a lot of vermouth/bourbon skews too simplistically friendly for my personal tastes but <this sacred text comic> is spot on to me, the outwards lightness and the concealed threats underneath the smiles <33 the vibes of these are also perfect to me: 1 (p3 says bourbon is sticking his tongue out at rye kkk) / 2 / 3 (also features haibara and kir!!!!! op is god so much). <this comic> which is also sacred text to me is about as light as i think their relationship gets. i also hc that vermouth taught bourbon how to honeypot and assigns him honeypotting missions for the black org because i love mildly dubcon mentorships since bourbon literally is not in a position where he can refuse... visually i love to see bourbon being vermouth's luxury handbag and they are so expensive beautiful killeristic blondes together esp when co-infiltrating some rich person event (eg 1 / 2 / 3).
i imagine vermouth and akai don't get along well because vermouth actively enjoys antagonising and fucking with anyone for free, but also i love that vermouth literally doesn't actually care about akai. he might be the destined downfall of the black organisation but he's not HER silver bullet, it was so funny when she found out about his death and she was just like well w/e, i already got my own silver bullet (shinichi) at home. it's just fun and free 1.0 vs 1.0 haterism without any particular personal investment. eg 1 / 2.
SCOTCH
the most textual triangulation point because i mean... scotch IS inextricable from akam as they are now. whiskey trio as a grouping is sort of made up but just because it's made up doesn't mean it's not REAL... they canonically did at least one mission as a trio and i really enjoy the fandom wide hc that they regularly worked together. when he was still alive i think scotch was kind of like rye and bourbon's get along shirt because he seemed to be a nice and easygoing guy. and not to rehash everything i just said in my 1140 post but obviously the circumstances surrounding his death are fundamental to akam's relationship because amuro's mistaken belief that akai killed scotch is driving his bitter hatred for akai + akai willingly taking the blame to shield amuro from the painful truth. amuro who will never forgive akai, akai who doesn't want to be forgiven... i love grief and tragedy.
scotch was amuro's childhood best friend classmate co-infiltrator but i think that you can read more into their relationship from how deeply scotch's death affected amuro and how viciously he hates akai for it... i still haven't decided if it's part of my official personal canon or if i'll stick with really close best friends, but i like to rotate unrequited amuro->scotch since it does maximise the angst. these images do be convincing me: 1 (i already linked this but it's sacred text so true) / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 (LITERALLY MY FAVOURITE EVER... the canon ver of this scene is already so good and anguish inducing but the way kou-nim drew amuro's expression fucks me up even more. amuro pressing his ear to scotch's chest trying to listen for a heartbeat even tho scotch is clearly dead gets me soooo bad T__T smth about the clumsy physicality + the desperation).
regardless, i like the tragic irony that scotch tried so hard to bring akam together when he was alive but his death is what drove the irreparable (for now) rift between them. ofc scotch's death weighs most obviously and heavily on amuro, but scotch was also one of akai's colleagues and friends and it was akai's gun that killed scotch, akai just seems to deal with grief more healthily than amuro, i really liked the rye/scotch dynamic in <this comic> and i loveeeeee the emotion in <this comic> where amuro is the one who dies. i've seen a common theme in a few akam comics that scotch at one point privately asked rye to look out for bourbon (in a lighter context) because bourbon is kind of hasty/impulsive/more prone to danger due to working in recon and that's one of the reasons akai continues to watch over amuro... which would also create a parallel to the reason he watches over haibara being a request from akemi. It's All Connected, TO ME.
KIR
does this have any basis in canon? no. do i want to see it anyway? YES. i loveeeeeee coworkers who distrust each other, i love that they are all double agents from different organisations who puppet three identities (akai/rye/okiya + furuya/bourbon/amuro + hidemi/kir/rena), i love that amuro has spent like years trying to hunt akai down to kill him but kir got in there first (as part of previously arranged scheme to fake akai's death so she could regain the black org's trust + so akai could operate more freely under a fake identity). also the fact that amuro's delusional belief that he's the only one who can kill akai means that he's inadvertently insulting kir's professionalism and capabilities as well as putting her cover at risk by insisting akai isn't actually dead is kind of really funny.
i've really liked the idea of ryekir american undercover operative colleagues ever since i saw <this comic> so i look forward to the fbi/cia joint investigations in their postcanon future, plus it's very personal that kir was the one who killed akai even though it was faked. and they look very nice together, dark hair curly bangs serious energy. and <this comic> opened my eyes to kirbourbon paired recon mission fancy dress infiltration colleagues... the darkest nightmare had kir and amuro chained together while gin was interrogating them on suspicion of being traitors and they looked very beautiful and pickful together even though they did not speak to each other or even look at each other BUT THAT HAS NEVER STOPPED ME BEFORE🙂
some epic visuals: 1 / 2
AKEMI
definitely not in a love triangle sense or anything!! i'm actually so relieved aoyama specifically clarified that amuro's hatred of akai has absolutely nothing to do with akemi, but i think it's really so special that they both loved her deeply albeit in different ways and how she had such a deep impact on both of them... akemi's boyfriend and akemi's childhood friend even though she forgot him... <this tweet> is exactly how i feel about the situation, akai who has moved on and accepted her death as in the past but will carry the beautiful memory of akemi and his love for her in his heart forever, and amuro who wouldn't love akai if he wasn't the type of person to do that. and of course amuro wants akemi's memory to be kept alive too...
