Ugh… let’s see. But beware those answeres are heavily biased and opinionated. Not everyone will see it the same as me. Though I feel honoured that you asked me. It makes me think that my muse has left a good imprssion. *chuckles*
Some things I would put thoughts in are:
- Be original.
Thurston’s three principles include: Never pull the same trick twice. (Conan and him discuss those during the teleportation heist.) Take that advice. It may be a little scary and it may even happen that people tell you that is not KID, because he’s never done that before. But doing the same thing over is boring and gets annoying at some point. You don’t need to be a KID copycat if you want to be an original KID, right?
- Don’t go all ‘because magic’
Kaito does some tricks that are nearly inhuman and it is a bit unrealistic how real his guises are and so on. Don’t overdo it on that though, try sticking to reality at least a little. Think about the tricks you let him to. Think it through before you post and give it some logic, drop a few hints along the line as well. It is much, much more fun if your post partner or detective or audience goes “oh… OH!” in the end, when they realise the clues have all been there right from the start. And it’s not just “He can do whatever anyway and get away with it…”. Make them realise they’ve tripped over their own mind. Trust me, that is also way more fun for you.
- He’s not all cool, the guy has a background story!
Don’t forget his past and don’t forget what drives the guy to do what he does. Sure he can have fun on heists and he likes pleasing a crowd as an entertainer. But Kaito has never had much criminal tendencies before. So don’t forget he has a motive and isn’t just some sick overly intelligent psycho.
- So he is intelligent… make use of that!
It’s not an excuse to get him to do what he likes without explanation. Make a show of the fact that he has a brain and knows how to use it. Me personally, I have figured he is a very analytical guy, not so unlike the detectives, but his strength also lies in what is called intuitive or folk psychology. He is not a psychologist in any scientific form, but he heavily analyses behaviour and motive in others. It helps him to anticipate their reactions and/or copy them if necessary. He goes digging for what makes a person tick and works with that. Going big on mind games. It’s a part of magic really, because you don’t alter the physical reality, you alter your audience’s perception and just make their brain perceive the wonders they want to see. It’s a badass skill, work with it!
- Be kind.
Neither Kaito nor KID are jerks. They can behave like jerks sure enough, but their base personality is that of a very kind and caring young man. He wouldn’t do any of the things he does if he weren’t just that. He likes hiding his kindness behind fake haughtyness. I’m even going to the point of saying the guy has low self-esteem and almost non-existing self-worth. He plays over it, loud and boisterous, but no one goes dressed as white target on the night sky if he has enough self-worth, don’t deliberately forget about that because it would taint the coolness. It makes him so outrageous, even if the reason is less than pretty. Make sure you think about how he can prevent people from getting hurt or let him change course to help someone every now and then. He does that in canon as well.
- Get him into tight spots and make him sweat!
Nothing’s more disliked than what once was called a Mary Sue. Don’t make him win all out all the time. It’s just annoying and tiring. He’s annoying people enough with getting away in the end every single time. But let the detectives or others get him into a tight spot. Describe how he inwardly sweats and is stressed, maybe a little hyped up by adrenaline from the vulnerability. Make sure people can read they’ve almost got him, and their muses are just looking at his smug pokerface. You’ll immediately lose that hated godmod status, even if you’re still KID.
Once in a while even let them have their win! KID has been shown to give up bait without much fuss. Resigning to the detective’s victory. And actually through that he took some of the victorious feeling right away again. Simply because he gave up on his own and wasn’t forced into that spot. It’s a good strategic if you see yourself loosing. You take the cance of your victor to throne over you and it always leaves open one little loophole: Could you perhaps have escaped with it none the less? Are you just messing with me on purpose? Though that brings us back to the point of mind games.
And as the circle closes, I think this is enough blubber from me.
I hope you’ll have a good time playing KID! Don’t hesitate and make him yours with loads of headcanons and personality. Give him some integrity and I bet people will love him!
Cheers!
P.S. Think outside the box! ~