Short answer: Yes, but I’m flexible. This means that it can go “the usual way” where Hakuba and whoever his current partner is get to deal with a sudden, illegitimate child OR he can be Hakuba & partner’s actual kid. Obviously, the latter isn’t always an option, so…
Long answer: Introducing Akira into a timeline is sort of a drama bomb plot device for RP. The ‘official’ story is that he’s the product of a one-night stand between our dear detective and OC Oshiro Miyu, a lawyer (Kisaki Eri’s junior associate, at that) and valedictorian graduate from Keio University. It’s at a fancy social event, they both get very drunk, instantly get along (mostly because Hakuba realizes normal flirting tactics don’t work on her, so they talk about interesting murder cases instead), and end up in bed together.
What Hakuba doesn’t know is that Miyu is currently engaged (she’s having second thoughts about her fiance— he’s not exactly the nicest guy). What Miyu doesn’t know is that Hakuba’s only 17, which makes her five years older than he is. Oops. They don’t find out until later, either. Miyu does her research when she realizes that she’s pregnant, and decides to not get Hakuba involved at all because she doesn’t want to ruin his life. Besides, the baby could very well be her fiance’s. So she convinces her fiance to elope and things look sunny for all. Until the baby’s born, that is, and, er… is very clearly not full-blooded Japanese.
Excuses abound while Hakuba remains blissfully unaware. In some timelines, he stays in Japan and attends Keio, himself. In others, he returns to England and goes to Oxford. Either way, the husband eventually turns abusive when he does a DNA test and finds out that, nope, that kid is not his, and he divorces Miyu and leaves her with nothing. Ashamed, her family (all except for one sister) disowns her, too. Single mom Miyu moves in with her sister and braves the world with fierce determination and the grit that she’s known for, and continues to be a badass lawyer.
Usually, though, things start to catch up about when Akira turns four and she finally can’t take it anymore. She’s been keeping up on Hakuba’s career, and has wanted to contact him many times. Finding that he’s doing well for himself, she decides to show up and slap him with a lawsuit, suing him for child support and hush money to keep the scandal out of the papers (and her child in clothing + get him a college education some day).
Needless to say, it’s a shocking revelation, and even before getting his own lawyers involved and DNA test confirmations, he wants to help this woman that he more or less remembers. If Hakuba’s dating someone at the time, it’s a great opportunity for “omfg I’m so sorry that I was such an idiot” drama. If not, (like in the Catching Up With Fate thread), it’s single father Hakuba, where he moves back to Japan (or closer to Tokyo), and manages to get involved in his son’s life, trying to be a good, sudden father, while trying to manage everything else.
He and Miyu become good friends, usually, regardless of all else.
She also tends to get murdered later on by her jealous ex-husband, who figures out pretty quick who the real father of the child is. Hakuba manages to save Akira, but is often too late to save her. He takes full custody of Akira, since there’s paperwork and proof and lawyers, though they settled out of court in the end, and he takes on full responsibility.
Poor Miyu. I really like her. In my head, she looks like this:
(I can’t actually remember what manga this is from, but I recall it being NSFW, so beware if you go looking.)
But again, I’m flexible in terms of timeline/universe-specific origin. If Akira were to be introduced into the “official/canon” story for Hakuba, though (ie, in the fanfic/RP between Clover and I, ‘The Call of the Raven’), Miyu would be it. And, she’d be saying “Hakuba-kun, I didn’t realize that you were that way…” as she looks at Kaito.
Incidentally, tumblr-wise, there’s only one thread that Akira is even in as far as this Hakuba blog goes, which is the aforementioned Catching up with Fate story. If anyone else is interested, just let me know. I feel really weird for having invented a kid for Hakuba, but then again, I’ve taken this RP thing way too far already, I guess it was sort of inevitable.
Here, have some Akira icons:
(From Inuyasha)
(From Sword Art Online)
(From My Little Monster)
There also a couple of drawings in my Akira tag… And I keep editing screencaps to give FCs brown eyes. There’ll be more info about Akira himself coming soon, once I have the blog going. Gosh I adore him. OCs forever, amirite?
