The Witness in the Gilded Cage

Introduction

Kudo Ranran, age 6-7.

"In this world, if I were to do the goody two shoes way, justice will never come. I learn that....too soon...."

Founder and Tactician of tantei association, Shinichi's partner-in-crime.

Beneath her pretty cute looks, lays a exceptionally cunning and calculative little girl.

Dubbed as the 21st century's 'Irene Adler', the 6 year old devious head-leader often goes about using any underhand tactics for the sake of aiding their investigation in Tantei association, or to satisfy her amusement or sake of limited time event that involves her video games.

She is incapable of feeling empathy on occasions throughout her antics, despite others would often try to reasoned to her why she shouldn't do it and challenged her questionable decisions. It also didnt help that she tends to be insensitive towards the victims of the case. This would often put her at odds with everyone at times, even her long suffering partner, Kudo Shinichi.

As the founder of Tantei association, she is often described to be indifferent on what she classifies as 'trivial things'.

She has a tragic secret that not even her own partner-in-crime/co-founder, Kudo Shinichi, is aware about, one that led her to ultimately becoming the tantei she is today. She is also rumored to have 'outside the box' thinking that would often led others to label her a 'psychopath'.

Kudo Shinichi, age 6-7.

"A detective who uses their deductive powers to corner a suspect, and then does nothing to stop them from dying, no matter what the circumstances are, is no better than the murderer."

Co-founder of tantei association, Ranran's tantei apprentice/ partner in crime

Due to his privilege upbringing, his famous mystery writer father have connections on taking him to see crime scenes as a child for story inspiration purposes, inspiring him into becoming a Tantei. But a series of events dampened his pride as he questions his tantei dreams. He made plans on renouncing his Tantei dream, as he was later drawn to the enigmatic yet selfish Kudo Ranran, who care less about the laws and rules of the world while she schemes about, which resulted in Shinichi eagerly to use his tantei talents in guiding her from being led astray.

As co-founder, he runs Tantei association with an Iron fist along side his partner, due to the amount of inconvenience cause by a certain specific member whenever they are solving cases. Though he would often clash with Ranran on her unethical methods in obtaining evidence and stuff, he would often secretly turn a blind eye and let her schemes slide past him, with the exception of obtaining cases that adults wouldn't allow to get them be involve it (or for his convenience).

He is often accused of being a sis-con by the members of the association due to him having the tendency on putting the entire Tantei association under tremendous pressure whenever something bad happens to her, in which he denies.

Mouri Ran (age 6-7):

"Justice doesnt necessarily need to be this cruel."

A childhood friend of Kudo Shinichi who had a crush of him since kindergarten, she has a father who is a private investigator. The kindest and nurturing member, she is also self-sufficient for her age, since her father Kogoro is often drunk, slovenly, and fiscally irresponsible since her mother left him after a feud.

She joins the Tantei Association out of desperation, after her best friend since kindergarten was implicated into one of Ranran's supposed schemes, a rich heiress by the name of Suzuki Sonoko.

Ran was often described to be the 'mother' of the group, having resolve the many ongoing issues that takes place within or beyond Tantei association, such as providing them cold case files without the help of the police and providing them the equipment that didn't require them to stretch their budgets, to resolving internal affairs and conflicting personal issues amongst members.