Snowflake Challenge 2025 - Day 6

[gothikmaus]

Challenge #6

Share your favourite piece of original canon.

One of my favourite pieces of canon has to be the scene from Lupin Zero in which young Lupin does his first official heist as "Lupin the Third":

https://thecartoongirl.tumblr.com/post/738609681346543616/theevilemster-i-am-going-mental-i-cant-believe

When I watched the scene for the first time, I thought I was reading too much into it, because, come on, it's just a fun, carefree miniseries about 13-year-old Lupin, surely it's just my inner slasher seeing things. But no, they really did it: they made Lupin steal Jigen's heart! I was shocked.

I love that scene because it works from a non-slashy point of view as well. Lupin and Jigen come from very different backgrounds: Lupin is a rich, spoilt kid who lives in a huge mansion with a nanny/bodyguard, has excellent school grades and wants to rebel against his family legacy; we don't know much about Jigen's family, but he doesn't seem to be too well off, his father raised him to be an impressive marksman and often drags him away from school to make him work on various sketchy jobs. But they have one thing in common: they're both extremely lonely and don't have any real friends. That changes in the course of the series, and by the last episode they've built a friendship so strong it's going to last for the rest of their life.

So, no matter how people decide to interpret that scene, it's a pivotal moment for both characters and I don't think I'll ever recover from the fact that it is indeed a piece of canon and I wasn't just hallucinating.

Comments

[tjs_whatnot]

I love scenes that can be devoured and interpreted many different ways satisfactorily. ❤️❤️

[gothikmaus]

And that is definitely one of those scene. :)

[flo_nelja]

Yessss this scene is incredible <3

[gothikmaus]

I still can't believe that scene is real. ❤️