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Aug. 9th, 2012 04:10 pmNakayama Tadashi is as different from Gin - the man he would one day become - as chalk is to cheese.
The main difference, of course, is that at this age, he is just as much the high school detective that Kudo Shinichi is seen to be. He is just as intelligent, just as arrogant and carefree, and also, perhaps strangely enough, almost as idealistic as the later detective.
There are, in fact, a great many similarities, perhaps more than there are differences. His ability to sing gives him a one-up on Shinichi, yet while he is somewhat interested in kendo, his ventures into the sports have never gone quite so far as either Heiji or Shinichi, far more inclined to find ways to keep his skill with a gun up to par. He is more sure of himself in a way that can lead to or be confused with arrogance than any of the others - but at the same time, he is perhaps the most alone of them all.
He has few friends, despite his popularity and notoriety as a detective. One of these is a girl his age, Yoshida Chiyo, who can be compared to Ran, or any of the other childhood friends, except for how her personality is more 'deredere' - sweet, kind and more or less your average girly-girl. However, she is more likely to look up to him than attempt to bring him down a peg or two - which does not help to reign in that arrogance, or assuage the loneliness, since she is effectively putting him up on a pillar, and forcing him to work hard all of the time to keep this ideal image of him in his friend's eyes.
There are also two boys he tends to see at times, but while they seem to worry about him, they are not, and do not see themselves to be, close enough to bring up anything that they see as being wrong, believing that it is not their place and that he would simply ignore them - a not untrue supposition.
All of this makes for a highly volatile and unstable personality in the bigger scheme of things. On the surface, things may seem to be running smoothly, and life may be ticking by satisfactorily; but under the surface there is a stressed, uncertain and attention-seeking individual who desperately wants to be recognised for more than what he can do.
Which, in the end, means that it isn't just 'one big event' that causes him to change so drastically - it's a long series of small, simple steps, all taken in the wrong direction. That last 'one big event' was merely the last straw on the camel's back. It wouldn't have broken him if the cracks weren't already there.
In the DR, this is made at the same time easier and worse - easier, as he is surrounded by like-minded people, detectives who are all interested in the same kinds of things that he is interested in, and they are all too willing to give him that metaphorical (or not) whack to the back of the head if he's gone too far with something. On the other hand, he will also be discovering who he grows up to be, and as a detective dedicated to catching criminals and serving the law, the very idea that he would become an assassin, let alone one for a criminal syndicate such as the Black Organisation, is abhorrent. More than that, it shakes him to the very core of his being, not least because he can actually see himself in this person who he is, somehow, one day going to be.
The main difference, of course, is that at this age, he is just as much the high school detective that Kudo Shinichi is seen to be. He is just as intelligent, just as arrogant and carefree, and also, perhaps strangely enough, almost as idealistic as the later detective.
There are, in fact, a great many similarities, perhaps more than there are differences. His ability to sing gives him a one-up on Shinichi, yet while he is somewhat interested in kendo, his ventures into the sports have never gone quite so far as either Heiji or Shinichi, far more inclined to find ways to keep his skill with a gun up to par. He is more sure of himself in a way that can lead to or be confused with arrogance than any of the others - but at the same time, he is perhaps the most alone of them all.
He has few friends, despite his popularity and notoriety as a detective. One of these is a girl his age, Yoshida Chiyo, who can be compared to Ran, or any of the other childhood friends, except for how her personality is more 'deredere' - sweet, kind and more or less your average girly-girl. However, she is more likely to look up to him than attempt to bring him down a peg or two - which does not help to reign in that arrogance, or assuage the loneliness, since she is effectively putting him up on a pillar, and forcing him to work hard all of the time to keep this ideal image of him in his friend's eyes.
There are also two boys he tends to see at times, but while they seem to worry about him, they are not, and do not see themselves to be, close enough to bring up anything that they see as being wrong, believing that it is not their place and that he would simply ignore them - a not untrue supposition.
All of this makes for a highly volatile and unstable personality in the bigger scheme of things. On the surface, things may seem to be running smoothly, and life may be ticking by satisfactorily; but under the surface there is a stressed, uncertain and attention-seeking individual who desperately wants to be recognised for more than what he can do.
Which, in the end, means that it isn't just 'one big event' that causes him to change so drastically - it's a long series of small, simple steps, all taken in the wrong direction. That last 'one big event' was merely the last straw on the camel's back. It wouldn't have broken him if the cracks weren't already there.
In the DR, this is made at the same time easier and worse - easier, as he is surrounded by like-minded people, detectives who are all interested in the same kinds of things that he is interested in, and they are all too willing to give him that metaphorical (or not) whack to the back of the head if he's gone too far with something. On the other hand, he will also be discovering who he grows up to be, and as a detective dedicated to catching criminals and serving the law, the very idea that he would become an assassin, let alone one for a criminal syndicate such as the Black Organisation, is abhorrent. More than that, it shakes him to the very core of his being, not least because he can actually see himself in this person who he is, somehow, one day going to be.
