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Odd request but I might be on a bit of a writing kick, if anyone would like to help me write a long-form fyolai origins fic (help with ideas, story elaboration, beta reading...) please lemme know!!

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so i thought the rest of the BSD fandom needed this

A: From today, you all are my pawns. 

A: Treason to my command is forbidden, understand? 

A: … You have objections?  

credit to suginoki-san on pixiv (they have awesome illustrations!): https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/2721960 

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Quick manga Kolya re-colour because I wanted to see what his outfit would look like with a tad more colour. Ft clown makeup and me testing out the new CSP shade assist (didn't modify it much though bc this is just a very low effort, shits-and-giggles edit). (Left side of the coat makes no sense just don't look too hard-)

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Also I'm glad we're seeing so much of Aya, she was already a fun character and I'm seeing a lot of cool takes (but jesus give this gal a damn break--)

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poor Sigma shouldn’t even be here

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Hey, BSD anime, exactly how fucking old do you think Fyodor is???

This is such a random and entirely pointless observation but as I was settling down to draft something involving Fyodor, it immediately came up and has been buzzing around my brain since. (To preface, despite having been really into BSD for the past 5 years, I only recently caught up to the manga and have yet to read all the light novels so grain of salt and all that, sorry!)

(This is just a really long-winded joke post, BSD S4 and manga spoilers)

So, as we all know, a bunch of Dostoevsky's info is still unknown (like, y'know, what exactly Crime and Punishment does) including his height, weight and age. The first two are pretty unimportant and, frankly, so is the last one for the most part as he looks about the same age as Dazai or any of the other mid-to-late 20s characters (although sometimes it's hard to tell). All in all, safe bet that he's... just that. There's nothing implying anything weird about his age and the common consensus is that he's in his 20s, as expected.

And then the anime just??

So, in the last episode covering the Untold Origins of the Detective Agency there's a scene at the end with Fukuzawa and Ranpo discussing V, which also happens in the light novel. Cool! What distinctly does not happen is Fyodor showing up on a random rooftop, looking EXACTLY as he does in the present and dropping a bomb about V (granted, we don't see his entire face but like,,, c'mon, same outfit and everything).

Disregarding that last part for now,,, WHAT??

Y'all,,,, the arc takes place 12 fucking years ago.

Either he wasn't actually there and it's just for exposition, which doesn't really make sense because Fukuzawa notices him (even if he disappears immediately after).

Or, there are two ways to go about his age which I find equally hilarious.

If we keep with the assumption that Fyodor is in his mid 20s, let's even say late 20s to make this slightly less ridiculous, that'd still make him, what, like 17 if he's currently 29? And I think most of us HC him to be closer to Gogol (26) or even Dazai and Chuuya's (22) age which in the flashback would make him, respectively, 14 or 10. Fucking.

TEN

I,,, don't even think I need to elaborate on that,,

OR, alternatively, if we use a more sensible* estimation for his age in the flashback (*more like if I wanna amuse myself some more because to be fair, 15 year old Dazai doesn't look too different from current Dazai), let's say 20 or 22 like Dazai now, that'd make him 32-34 currently. And in THAT case, it puts this panel:

into perspective a lot more because yeah, if I were a weird super-genius that's presumably been working on a singular goal for over 12 years, I too would be pissed at having to try so hard and fake-drown and all this other shit just to best some rat bastard 10 fucking years younger than me.

Or the BSD anime is implying that Fyodor's immortal.

Anyway, idk why I wrote this lmao but there you go

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What the FUCK is happening in 106,,,,,,,

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Hello I have no idea what I'm doing but here we are