...Um, alrighty. Just gonna say here loud and clear: there may be parts in this post that would have a "mad" tone to them, but I'm not. I'm just really baffled by something that you said and it's twisting my mind in all sorts of angles. You can feel free to ignore it, but I would appreciate one read ;) As usual, no ill will meant
IHKF wrote:
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If you'll remember the way he acts when ANYBODY is in danger then you will get proof that worrying about her safety is not special to her. XD He doesn't act any differently when she's in danger than he does with Heiji or the DB or a random stranger involved in a case- a lot of the time the CULPRIT.
Um, actually, no. When Heiji or the DB are in danger, he calms down a bit quicker and thinks things through logically. When Ran's in danger, he'll yell at the rescue team because he needs them to hurry, even though he's been in many scenarios before and he knows a calm mind is best.
Also...this is kind of a weak point. Just because Shinichi is the type that likes people to be safe, that means he can't love someone? Sorry, but that's kind of hard to believe :-\
IHKF wrote:
He has shown that he cares about her feelings and LIKES her, not love. There isn't one thing he has done that tells me he's in love. I'll say it again. In order to convince me he has to use the proper term, not daisuke (sp?), aishiteru (sp?). He would have to give his life to save her and not come back, he would take somebody's life to save her, or he kills himself to die with her like in Romeo and Juliet.
That's...pretty disproportionate. So, Ran loves Shinichi and cares for him. She gets to live and be labelled that way. But for Shinichi to love Ran, he has to
die in some fashion?
...And I think the last part is where the problem lies. ...Did you really use
Romeo and Juliet as an example? Have you heard how many times that that's been chewed out on? :-\ I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but Romeo and Juliet is a satire/parody meant specifically to mock
how teenagers who are "in love" makes stupid decisions that can hurt not only them but their families and friends. I guess Gosho could be some secret genius who's parodying the parody that is R & J, but I'd like to think he's trying to go for a healthy relationship here. It's one thing for Shinichi to sacrifice himself to save Ran, it's another to kill someone else or to commit suicide. I'm sorry but...have you missed all those speeches where Shinichi has said "Suicide is wrong", "There's no reason to take a life", "I can't understand why anyone would take a life" etc etc? Because...this baffles me. It truly does.
You can love someone but let them go. There's even a trope for that: I Want My Beloved to be Happy. When you love someone...you love them. That's just the gist of it. You don't need them, you don't want them, you just care for their well-being and almost always enjoy their company. You can love friends. You can love family. Does that mean you don't move out of the house when you come of age? Does that mean when your grandma dies you need to go jump off a cliff?
No.
I'd say reread Romeo and Juliet and pay really close attention. How long was their romance anyway?
...A week. ...One solitary week and they decided that, even against the weeks upon weeks they'd been living fine up until then, that suddenly they couldn't live with the other. Romeo was even fawning over another girl earlier in the day he met Juliet! He was talking about Rosalie (I believe, can't quite remember) in the same fashion he speaks of Juliet. The only difference is that with Juliet he dies before he can realize that maybe he would've found another girl just like he did with Rosalie. An idiotic teenage decision "in the name of love"...that somehow became the "Greatest Romance of All Time" OTL