#You can see Fujiko's I already settled on from her first concept lol

[pixelateddork]

Realized I hadn't shares this sheet here! Made a silly lil crossover AU with Slime Rancher a bit ago, here are all the gangs designs for it in the Slime Rancher style! Plus, their favorite slimes!

[the-golden-ghost]

Jigen for send me a character!

I was going to answer this earlier but then I forgot to check my inbox! Alas

First impression: Something to the effect of "this guy looks like he'll be a fun time" before I watched anything. I was seeing stuff on my dash due to @dying-suffering-french-stalkers. My thoughts on him after I watched Cagliostro were kinda wrong cause I thought he was a lot colder and more callous than he ended up actually being, but he's not in Cagliostro a whole lot anyway. Basically I fell for his "tough stoic gunslinger guy" persona lol

Impression now: DAMN this guy slaps. Iconic character A+. I actually think that if it hadn't been for him and Goemon I probably would not have stuck around and watched the show? Like I might have still watched it but I would have likely gotten through only a few episodes. I've already listed the reasons why I like him in a separate ask but yeah he's delightful and I hope that never changes

Favorite moment: Okay so the first moment where I went from "I'm reserving judgement" to "this guy has rights" was in one of the early Part 2 episodes (like 8!?) where he was charged with caring for a dying old man and he inadvertently gave the guy a full bottle of scotch and then killed him. I know this sounds bad (and it was even though the old guy in question was faking his death) but just the whole dynamic of the scene made me cackle

My other favorite moment was probably in That One Episode where he's traveling with a Russian dancer, right at the very end she's like "sike lol" and pulls a gun on him cause it turns out she was using him to smuggle a jewel across the border. Why she couldn't just smuggle jewels on her OWN person remains to be seen but this isn't a show known for its plot anyway he gets the jewel back because it turns out he double-double crossed her and had Lupin & Squad waiting in case of this. And I was like okay cool so it's just gonna end like that. And then he gave her the jewel anyway.

I think it's the only time to date that I've been surprised by something regarding Jigen? He's usually very predictable (in a good way) but there's not much to him really, he's just like *shoots stuff* *complains* *goofs around with Lupin* *sleeps* *complains some more* *whines about Fujiko* *looks cool in a battle* and then this happens, and I'm like... hell, the man's got depths!?

Idea for a story: He and Goemon should be allowed to do a counterheist against Lupin (and Fujiko?) like. "Hey we could TOTALLY pull off our own heist if we wanted to we just don't want to" and then Lupin calls them on their BS and they have to actually do one. Probably they will fail miserably but it'll be funny

Unpopular opinion: His relationship with Fujiko is actually entertaining and I wish it would get explored because it's fun. I mean it's a trainwreck but they're Friends and I'll die on this hill. Jigen will gripe and grouch and say to the ends of the earth that he's not her friend but he is

Favorite relationship: I know I'm Basic and Predictable but I still love his relationship with Lupin. I love the thought of a master thief finding this extremely dangerous and violent hired gunman and being like "I can fix him :) " and then actually succeeding.

I do kinda love the concept of Lupin slowly going from "I need NO ONE I work ALONE I'm LUPIN III I am MAGICAL and INVINCIBLE" but also realizing that he's lonely as all fuck but that when you're an international criminal jumping from country to country you can't really settle down and start a family and also that your choices of people are going to be limited. And maybe the two people in your life are your girlfriend who is wonderful and amazing and perfect in every way but who betrays you on the regular, and the man trying to hunt you down and arrest you. And maybe you want someone more stable than that. Maybe you want someone to come home to at the end of the day. Maybe you start shopping the criminal underground looking for a person who's insane enough to join you and skilled enough to keep up with you and who has enough of a heart left in them that you're not likely to end up sharing a home with a monster.

Anyway that was more about Lupin than Jigen and this was supposed to be short. Jigen. I like the concept of a guy who's just going through the motions of life cause it's not like he kills for the thrill but he kills cause he can and cause he can't do anything else. It's just what it is. And then he runs into a guy who wants him to be a protector rather than a killer. And then he falls so deep into that role that he never gets out of it, and in the process he heals and starts to live again.

Favorite headcanon: I'll be honest I still think the "Jigen reflexively shoots his gun at the TV while playing video games" headcanon is hilarious