#bsd chapter 121.5

[solanumflare]

for some reason these two panels having akutagawa drawn at almost the exact same angle in the same pose but with completely opposite expressions and things he's saying makes me foam at the mouth. harukawa (+ asagiri) you can't do this to me

[mikayuumouse]

Cute couple idea! alternative ways of saying "I love you":

"Consider us even. Away with you, you fool"

"The weretiger is my ordeal"

"Return the weretiger to me"

Also optional: sacrifice and die by being killed by a time and space god of the fourth dimension to save your significant other ❤️

[lost--dimension]

i don't think i can even properly wrap my head around this. akutagawa regained his memories as soon as ATSUSHI SACRIFICED HIMSELF FOR HIM. the way atsushi looked at him in those moments, the soft smile and the half lidded eyes. just like akutagawa did with him back on the ship. the drop of the chapter name: "a mysterious thing called the heart" right afterwards. akutagawa screaming for atsushi. the shift in his eyes as he Realized. atsushi seeing akutagawa in the fourth dimensional space and immediately calling out to him. them calling out for each other in different dimensions-- searching for each other yet unable to reach. you could not have prepared me for this in any way.

[sh1nsoukoku]

realizing that reaffirming each other with words has always been shin soukoku’s thing

but even more than that Akutagawa’s famous repetition of this line is no longer a one off…

but a thing they both do now…

cause what better way to hammer a message into your stubborn idiot partners brain than using his own words against him…. and saying it over and over again???

[meebssketches]

my response to 121.5

[petitesmafia]

can't lie Dazai would've lost me after "you're at the airport" like pause can i get some lined paper so i can take some notes at least. "intersecting orthogonally" "sound attenuates rapidly in proportion to the cube of distance instead of the square" i just witnessed several ppl die and i'm 0.3 seconds from crashing out why are u using big words and throwing equations at me

[nyxi-pixie]

what if you died for me and then returned as a vampire got possessed by another vampire then lost all your memories and then i die for YOU and repeat the dying words that you said to me to you and this causes you to remember who i am. and we are both boys. and have tried to kill each other. hashtag love wins

[dancing-dawn]

away with you...

[the-armed-detective-gaygency]

fake ass idgafer. I saw you scream as your memories returned after seeing your rival/partner/soulmate sacrifice himself for you the same way you did for him while quoting your final words.

[cewwart]

a not-so-silly silly doodle for the latest chapter…

(i’ve wanted to draw this scene since it came out but i forgot and got busy)

☆ vgen

☆ ko-fi

[solanumflare]

most FERAL noises any human being is capable of making

[mikayuumouse]

Akutagawa pinning Atsushi to a wall and kissing him would be less gay than all this shit

[normalest-sskk-fan]

jolts upright I've just had a realization. how much did atsushi think about when akutagawa died? how much did he replay it in his mind, go over every detail again and again? how much did he mourn it, grieve him? how many times did he recall akutagawa's last words? because for atsushi to be able to, in a split second, as he *dies* and everything around him has already gone to shit, recall what akutagawa said to him, and repeat it back? it must have been constantly.

[ettaevie]

Love how this chapter was technically just the main character getting annihilated and yet I'm sitting here like WE'RE SO BACK

[yowanne]

the fact that this chapter came out right after aku's birthday...

... i just had to make this.

[caldera1000-7]

Second time I've ever seen Akutagawa apologise was before he was supposed to "kill" Atsushi here.

I like how out of all the known generations of duos in BSD, SSKK/Shin Soukoku (I still don't like this name for them as a more yin-yang sounding one sounds more suitable.) they harbor the least amount of hatred toward each other at least after some time, or are just more likely to end up being the "successful" duo. Especially considering that one interaction in Beast... They could get along without even fighting.

With Fukuzawa and Mori its like they're on complete opposite ends, they in the past and now do not get along.

With SKK/Soukoku/ Dazai and Chuuya, they haven't gotten along but could work together when they had to. They still have an amount of hatred in their complexity, or just could never work as "friends" after everything that has happened or during all that has, despite the trust that has built upon years of working together.

Then there's Akutagawa and Atsushi... At first it was confusion, then hatred from Akutagawa, then Atsushi firmly not liking him, to Akutagawa understanding, to Atsushi still being confused but not completely firmly disliking/getting along with him through their team-ups and the fight with Ivan despite their verbal clashes during that time. To Akutagawa being there on that battle with Fukuchi when Atsushi was alone, to the trust that built for the battle as comrades for that one time in that second they needed to defeat Fukuchi.

I don't know what they are now, and I await the day they become friends even if it happens when one of them dies. But they definitely had more of a journey of understanding and not liking views, of jealousy, of defeat, of strength of self, of willpower, of survival, of trust, and of life and death.

Asagiri really makes some interesting and well-written character duos.