#Stormbringer spoilers

[antikr1sta]

recently read the stormbringer lightnovel and "walking in on chuuya spinning dazai around in a warehouse" was a mental image i just couldn't get out of my head. So i had to draw it :')

(the fit isn't accurate but whatever :)))) )

[theospront]

[originalaccountname]

Dazai who changed his life's path because of a dead friend's last words who encouraged him to make his world more beautiful.

Sasaki who was haunted by her lover's, the Azure King, mission, even after he perished by his own hand, continuing to carry it out despite her being exhausted by this ultimately meaningless mission she gave herself.

Mushitarou, who turned himself into a villain so his friend's last wish could become true, and then sacrificed everything he had left to make sure the secret would be kept.

Fukuzawa, whose friend left him with the weight of the world on his shoulders with his last breath, wishing for Fukuzawa to lead a new world order of peace.

Verlaine, who lives half a life after it was granted to him at all by a friend he didn't really consider to be one until it was already too late to say thank you or sorry.

There's also Aya, haunted by the perfect image her father kept of her departed mother and sister; Chuuya, who so often makes decisions to honour those he lost; Atsushi, who was haunted by the ghost of the Headmaster; Akutagawa, who is haunted by Dazai's lack of recognition and absence; Rimbaud, who was permanently cold from the distance he put between himself and Verlaine without realizing...

Just... bsd and grief and the weight of expectations from someone who's not even there to be proud or proven wrong.

[sixie]

Chuuya's Clone

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[jounosparticles]

asagiri is so good at writing villains that initially seem awful but turn out to be heartbreaking characters

francis was a man so desperate to make his wife happy that he was willing to destroy a city

verlaine just wanted to protect his brother at any cost, even if what he did was awful. now he stays locked away mourning the loss of his friend and has no desire to leave

fukuchi was a man so desperate for world peace that he made himself a villain for the world to unite against

[rimbaudthursday]

we as a society need to stop focusing on verlaine angst. "ohdhhh rimlaine they're so doomed :(( " "ohhh verlaine and chuuya :((("

we as men (gender neutral) need to acknowledge this man, this absolute loser, this girlfail, test tube baby, government spy and assassin is fucking hilarious. the audacity to be making silly little jokes while murdering people and plotting the downfall of society. fuck adam being the comic relief, verlaine was the real hero nobody wanted but we got anyway. this man backhands chuuya while driving THENG HE FUCKIGN "ohdhh chuuya :(( dear little brother of mine you're so light are u you eating enough :(((("

this pathetic pathetic man walks into dazais shipping container with "awwwhh are you scared of property tax :(((" THROWS A COIN THROUGH HIS WALL ANDN LEAVES

ICANT DO THIS

[bungouchronicles]

I wonder how skk (and Sigma) are planning to get home. I mean the helicopter surely doesn't work anymore and Chuuya can't float Dazai using his ability so that won't be much help. I'm guessing they'll have to call for help and you who the only trustworthy person they know who's currently in Europe is!? That's right!! ADAM TIME (please please please please)

[caelanglang]

📸…

Lippmann’s last photo, he really thinks Chuuya’s got potential to join him on his ‘main job’.

Edit: (close up shot bc i just realized tumblr ate the quality)

pov: the undefeated prince is judging ur billiard playing skills hhh

[red-spider-lilies]

Can we talk about the fact that Chuuya visited Rimbaud's grave so many times after his death that both Dazai and the Sheep knew they would find him there?

The Sheep choosing to betray him in that graveyard wasn't a coincidence, they knew he would be there because he had been visiting his tomb enough times to become a routine. They needed a place where they would definitely find Chuuya so their plan could work, after all.

And the thing is it's canon he did the same with the Flags after they died:

"Piano Man, Albatross, Doc, Iceman and Lippmann were buried in a well-kept graveyard near the mountains. Their graves were never without flowers.'' Stormbringer.

"Chuuya, you smell like incense. Did you go visiting those graves again?" Shirase to Chuuya, Stormbringer.

But the difference between Rimbaud and the Flags is that Chuuya almost didn't know Rimbaud, but he did such impact on Chuuya that he kept visiting his tomb. And he was betrayed in that graveyard, just like Rimbaud was, due to it.

I just find it beautiful (and tragic) that the reason the Sheep could betray him was because he visited the tomb a lot of times. Because he chose to do a pretty human thing and visited the tomb of a deceased person often.

[dashie-nightingale]

Castle in the Sky but make it Soukoku

I finally read Storm Bringer and a certain scene reminded me of the Castle in the Sky poster so here it is

[lnkedmyheart]

A reminder to those who haven't read SB or 15, Arahabaki is not a real being/entity seperate from Chuuya. Corruption is the excessive energy that Chuuya releases through Tainted when he opens the gate. Arahabaki was the name of the project that caused Chuuya to be able to use Tainted and by extension Corruption. Arahabaki is not a God or a seperate creature that exists inside or outside Chuuya.

[forthetaintedmemes]

Verlaine: I killed your friends once I can do it again if you decide to keep being into Dazai of all people.

Chuuya: We killed your boyfriend after you couldn't; remember that before you speak on mine.

Kouyou: *spits out her tea*

[bsd-fan]

Do you ever think in the absolutely devastating contrast between dazai’s reaction to odasaku’s death vs chuuya’s to the flag’s? About how Dazai is generally seen as cold and emotionless but odasaku’s death is one of the few moments in which Dazai shows pure, genuine, /unadulterated emotion/. One of the few moments in which he wasn’t the demon prodigy or this omnipotent being and just someone suffering because they just lost their best friend? About how chuuya is his opposite and is this giant ball of strong /loud/ emotions, about how he is by far the most expressive character in the whole story but when he saw his friends die, he had to keep a blank face? About how he consciously fought the urge to scream? About how he was falling apart but he /forced/ himself to keep his emotions at bay because he put albatross needs over his own pain? Detached, apathetic and always in control Dazai Osamu was overwhelmed by emotion and crumbling apart, meanwhile loud, expressive and impulsive Nakahara chuuya was forced into quietness. I just find fascinating that they showed completely different reactions of what they usually show to the world but is precisely that what makes this scenes hurt so fucking much.

Anyway, just a midnight thought

[originalaccountname]

wanna know the most fucked up fact about Corruption?

using it never actually killed the target.

Lovecraft was blasted to pieces but showed up fine a while later.

The Dead Apple dragon was disintegrated but Shibusawa got up a few minutes after to fight Atsushi and the gang.

In the DA prologue, despite using Corruption, Shibusawa was not really killed, since he shows up later, now was he?

Guivre in SB was also vanquished, and Verlaine should have died, but Rimbaud came in last second and saved him anyway.

Even when Rimbaud accidentally released Arahabaki in Fifteen, it wasn't enough to kill him or Verlaine, and it didn't even destroy the lab enough for it to never come up again. And when Verlaine forced its activation in SB, there simply was no enemy to defeat.

Sure it most definitely killed people (grunts, scientists and bystanders for example) and it does get the job done for defeating the enemy, but it never actually kills the threat it was primarily used for. And that's messed up in ways I can't quite put into words.

[shittydazai]

stormbringer posting again

i know verlaine killed a body double and not the actual queen i did it for the meme

[aventuras-de-andre]

Something I choose to believe with 0 evidence is that Chuuya checked in on Adam and Shirase’s situation in England during the whole vampire apocalypse

Chuuya: Yo man are you a vampire yet

Shirase: How did you get this number