#captain hijikata
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peternureyevplsdontbetraythecrew:
Wait, I’m listening to season 2 and what happened with Captain Hijikata?
“ KHAN: You got spaghetti in those ears, Loo? Don’t they teach you curiosity in diaper-school anymore? Captain Hijikata! Of the One-Five-One, our goddamn precinct! It was the case of the damn decade and this walking pile of nitroglycerin decided to—
JUNO:
We really don’t need to get into the details, thanks.
KHAN:
We can’t trust him. Especially when it comes to taking down someone really big. Steel’s a glory-pig. Honor-hound. Whatever.”
What more info do we have on this? Is that the case that made Juno leave the HCPD? Glory-pig would imply that he would’ve taken a win that wasn’t his? Or tried to get under the spotlight at the expense of others? But that doesn’t really seem like something Juno would do? (Even though we don’t really know how a younger Juno would’ve acted in the HCPD). So maybe the bad reputation he got is based on a misunderstanding? Or him covering for someone?
An important point of this story is that it’s linked to Diamond is some way.
Because then in The Stolen City we have this :
“And I’ve got a lot of excuses, sure. My mother, my brother, all that junk that happened in the HCPD with Diamond and Captain Hijikata… but if I’m being honest with myself I’ve always been this way. From minute one.”
How is it linked to Diamond? What did Juno do?
I think I saw people talking about how the person Juno goes to see on Io at the end of season 3 could be Hijikata and honestly that would be awesome, I’d kill for some backstory, (but a part of me feels like maybe Hijikata died?? Idk that’s just a feeling I have nothing to back it up)
Actually, there are 3 people I’m very interested in from the HCPD time : Diamond, Captain Hijikata and Puck Falco.
When Juno meets Rita he tells her :
JUNO:
This can’t be happening. Is this a joke? You’re a prank, right? Falco set you up for this. Or Diamond, maybe.
I’m not sure of what we know about Falco but I’m pretty sure they’re important.
We know they were Juno’s colleague, I think they had the same rank since they were both detectives?
JUNO:
Sure, Rita, that sounds great. Hey, you mind bothering Detective Falco for a few hours? Got twenty pounds of paperwork and a serial slasher to deal with, so I’m, uh. Kinda busy.
And idk why I thought Juno had been in the HCPD for a while already but no they met quite early in his career :
RITA:
Okay, “Juno Steel.” I get it! You’ve only been outta the Academy for a few months
So that means multiple things :
1. Juno either knew Puck Falco and Diamond from the academy, or they just met quite recently.
2. Juno was either already in a relationship with Diamond in the Academy or it happened later and both possibilities are very interesting.
ANYWAY
I’m also interested in knowing the amount of time between Juno and Rita meeting in the HCPD until them both leaving and Rita buying the new PI office :
RITA:
It ain’t a gift. This is where I work, too.
JUNO:
What about the HCPD?
RITA:
Not anymore. I like doin’ good things for good people. An’…Detective Falco’s good people, but it just ain’t the same. Not after all that… y'know. I work for you, Boss. That’s just how it is.
Because that gap in the time-line could mean A LOT OF THINGS.
Anyway again,
We know Puck Falco was good since Rita liked them (I’ve also seen people saying THEY’RE the one Juno’s gonna go meet on Io and honestly, I’d love it too, I just wanna know more PLS ESPECIALLY since they’ve transferred to another Planet I think? I’m pretty sure) so Juno and them were probably close, maybe friends?
But once again, the incident is mentioned “not after all that… y'know”, that’s definitely mentioning the Hijikata thing? But WHAT?
We know it was a case, we know Juno got his bad rep from it, we know from Khan it was about “taking down someone big”.
(OK, sidetraking here but I’m thinking, it could’ve something to do with the Kanagawas? That may seem a bit random but I’m sure we’ve not heard the last of them sooo why not?)
But that’s just guessing, we don’t actually have any info on who that “someone big” could’ve been.
Anyway,
Going back to Diamond, we know from Rita that she was apparently gone before Juno left the HCPD so I’d say that case wasn’t what caused the relationship to stop, maybe Juno did what he did during that case after the failed wedding??? But Juno very clearly links whatever happened with Hijikata and what happened with Diamond so who knows? But, that’s all just guesswork and I have no clue if it would even make sense with the timeline
I don’t even know if my rambling makes any semblance of sense but I wanted to spill all of this somewhere, you’re free to correct me if I made any mistake or to add more info or your own hypothesis, I’d be very interested to have more opinions on these topics!
op how does it feel to be able to predict the future
