#Technically all characters in bsd are disrespectful to the authors they’re based off of

[anti-dazai-blog]

as someone who suffers from suicidal ideation: dazai is terrible representation lmao

we never see him breaking down, or feeling genuine despair, or having people notice his depreciating humour. he seems suicidal just because.

also, sometimes it's borderline disrespectful to irl dazai.

I’m not sure if this is in response to my blog as a whole, or my rant about this topic in this post specifically, but either way. Yeah.

Dazai’s suicidal tendencies come across more as a quirky character gimmick than an actual genuine facet of his character.

Possibly it will be explored more in some form of backstory content, which would make current day Dazai make more sense— as in, he used to be genuinely suicidal, but is no longer looking to end his life, and now acts like this out of habit. His automatic response to people isn’t “hi, how are you”, but “I wanna die”, because that used to truly be the way he would feel.

Either way. You’re 100% right.