#bsd kafka asagiri

[artisan-king-morleus]

SIGMA IS KAFKA ASAGIRI

random theory/thought that turned into a rabbit hole, plz read

Not sure if this will get seen and I'm hella sleep deprived rn but a thought occured.

BSD man...

As of rn we don't know who Sigma is or what exactly he is. New official art, as I've seen, has some already guessing his origins and which author he's based off of.

But I have a dumb lil thought/theory.

He's born from "The Book" INSIDE bsd. So what if...

Sigma is Kafka Asagiri?

Why? Where'd this thought come from?

There's a vampire manga series I read in high school that was a journey of the main character (le gasp) but it was "written" by the character himself. As in the "author" of this manga series WAS the main character. (Honestly the author's last name was shortened for his main character but I think it's still relevant) (plus I think it was a novel before manga...? Idk but I've only read the manga)

As I know, it was written as if the another WAS the main character.

My guess is that he wanted his story to feel like it was ACTUALLY written by the MC but still have his story be linked to him when ppl look in libraries and stuff. I've had a similar thought to as my own story does canonically break the 4th wall so to have the MC's name as the AUTHOR adds to the illusion; the immersion. And I remember that THAT was such a cool thing to do when reading this awhile back.

I have no basis for this "Sigma is Kafka Asagiri" but with him kinda being his own character as of rn (not off of an author or even one we know of yet) he severely sticks out compared to EVERYONE.

Author vs Characters

Plus, this just came to me, his ability is basically "I touch you and know what you know" right?

So, as an aspiring author and comicteer and such, I have some words. Over the years id make characters and stories but it quickly became not my own, like it was alive, the things I created. The characters from my pen would move and do things on their own and by watching them, I'd learn of who they are. And as this continued, it really wasn't ME, the author, making these characters do things.

Yes, I do guide the story but I can't tell them to just do things just because; especially if it's not their nature. It's like forcing them to be what they are not. You can make up scenarios to lean them towards a path. I've have to basically "rehire" new characters because the villain I wanted wasn't in front of me like I hoped for. But that not-villian is someone else in the story.

So basically, even tho I'm the creator, I don't know all that happens. I'm even shocked as to what the conclusions are or who someone really is. Sigma being Asagiri's avatar (per say but not like living a fanfic of his own story/not self insert) would open up a hell of a 4th wall discussion. This could elude "The Book" as being BSD itself but I don't think it is.

The book is blank.

The blank pages are a possibility. They could just act as "sticky notes" to insert in a book to make changes later.

We don't know who brought from from that book either. Or if he was in the first place. Possibly just a simple loophole for Sigma=Asagiri.... idk

Ability =Author..?

Possibly BSD story is as we see it now, a trainwreck of bad news and the world ending but he couldn't find a way or change it. As I said, authors vs characters so Sigma was born into that world to change the outcome. Without Sigma, how different would the story be? We don't even know about him until hella later nor what his existence impacted the story before that.

I think he feels a lot like Atsushi because it's that lost MC thing. Cliche as it sounds, it's not a bad start for an MC, to be naive, lost, hopeless, and running until something changes. All they can go is up despite the monsters in their minds trying to drag them down. How different would the story be if Sigma was the MC instead? Would we know too much without actually knowing what it means?

Sigma's ability I think also taps into that "as an author, I only know what my characters tell me" thing. And if Asagiri did create Sigma to change BSD then following the rules of "The Book", he had to have Sigma fit into the world. Thus an ability based off an author (in a 4th wall sense rather then we in that world sense). And Sigma would then be just as clueless and maybe even hopeless as Asagiri would've felt but he's the only hope.

Again Sigma would be an insert just alien enough and blend in enough to maybe make a change. Plus a world of authors and books and abilities, introducing a character without those is like pulling a +4 uno card on us all. (Sneaky lmao)

Random rabbit hole of Σ, ς, σ (Sigma)

Sigma is the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet (Pheonician). Three ways to write it would be uppercase (Σ), lowercase (σ), and final-word position (ς). Sigma origin (šīn) meaning tooth.

I find this funny as Sigma is not of this world and his name basically means "sin". Kinda like he wasn't meant to be here. Or maybe punishing him for "writing/creating" the world of BSD if he's the avatar for Asagiri. Think that's fits with the thought that he made the world but has to suffer the end of that world but his last hope is Sigma.

(I'm bs-ing so hard rn, I'm so sorry 😭)

Plus, I thought this : sigma is used in complicated mathematics and symbols used often in "covariance matrix" which is basically math to map out MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPACES

"Multidimensional matrix". It's how to calculate data across two dimensions.

Using data to go from one place to another much like from inside the story to the auth-

Daemons and Angels

I had watched a Genshin Impact lore/theory video that had talked about some of the cube bosses names came from the Hebrew alphabet. They explained that these cubes correlate to the gods of the land and the elements they represent. These gods also have interesting names too. They have normal names but but the land and history, they go by names of demons from a book called the Ars Goetia.

These cube bosses and gods both have angel and demon names but besides them relating to one other by elements, their angel/demon names match up.

72 Daemons of Ars Goetia and 72 Angels of Shem Hamephorash.

(I sounded smart there for a sec but it's difficult to find the specific letters that correlate to these beings. There's 22 letters and 72 d/A's. ????)

Hebrew and Greek meaning

Σ (Greek sigma) came from שׁ (Hebrew sigma letter).

It's been flipped and changed to the one we know of as Σ. Which is Greek number for 18. In Hebrew 21 and pronounced as Shin, literally meaning tooth. The symbol also representing flames and transformation. Much like a forest fire, the ashes give way for the soul to reabsorb and grow anew thus a transformation. With flame and essential rebirth, the yin and yan, this ultimately represents balance.

It's the processing of destruction without the evil and rebuilding without the sorrow. Much like destruction can be seen as a sort of chaotic creation.

The way Shin is written is with 2-3 Vavs.

Vavs is the Hebrew number 6 and it means "hook". This letter has the power to bring things together when they've become separated in creation.

With this in mind...

His ability literally is to get info outta people like "their" truths

Sigma relation to D.N.A ➡️ specific names

One article talks of them being both letters and numbers, they have a correlation to human DNA. The building blocks. Relation to animo acids and how to tell the body how to process with 22 amino acids.

http://blog.cristianacaria.com/2014/11/26/the-72-angels-and-the-power-of-the-hebrew-letters/

⬆️ this article goes on to talk about how when we are all born, 3 letters are somehow assigned to us at birth and they make up a name of that daemon/angel. This explains the article for Socrates I found before this that talks of how it was believed that he was watched over by a daemon/angel. And had essentially helped him "change the world" and himself thru his philosophy.

This surely explains the 22 to 72 math problem earlier. (Daemons and Angels paragraph)

https://www.idler.co.uk/article/socrates-and-the-angels/#:~:text=Angels%20can%20be%20linked%20to,realms%20of%20mortals%20and%20gods.

Sigma (BSD) age meaning?

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SIGMA BEING BORN 3 YEARS AGO HAS TO DO WITH ANYTHING.

3 years could mean 1,095-1,096 days of living roughly so that really doesn't do me any good.

I'm done now

Purely speculation but this is based of like 3 brain cells, my author nerdy ass and artistic standpoint in crafting worlds and shit plus it's like 3 am rn 😭

Edit: it's 5:42 am now

Simple read rather than read all that :

Other manga gave thought that Sigma is the authors character like another other character in BSD.

Dazai Osamu, no longer human

Kafka Asagiri, bungou stray dogs

Sigma, information exchange

Maybe Sigma made to help world of BSD but not like self insert. And Sigma Greek and Hebrew letters mean to tear down and rebuild. A balance between mercy/kindness and justice/truth.

Letters relation to Daemons/angels and how they can lead one to change.

Thank you for your time 🥲

~King.M.

[xsommeee]

Asagiri you fucking genius

guys I take back every bad thing I've said about him, he's crazy good

[crowscadence]

Next month is pride month meaning that Asagiri has the chance to do the funniest thing

[butterscotchx98]

YOURE JOKING

[skkpaws]

*new bsd chapter drops, sskk fans are suffering once again, fans of everyone else are starving, a new character is introduced??*

meanwhile, asagiri and harukawa having fun in italy:

[kaurwreck]

[princessbutler1316]

[calmlb]

welcome to bsd, ueda akinari

[rosalinesurvived]

INSANE. THEY WERE INSAAAAANE FOR THIS

[cuntnikida]

ASAGIRI PLEASE I'M ON MY HANDS AND KNEES RN ASAGIRI PLEASE IGNORE THE FACT THAT SOKOKU IS MORE PROFITABLE AND IGNORE ANY STAFF AND FANS WHO WANT MORE SOKOKU STUFF SOKOKU ALREADY HAS ENOUGH STUFF DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND GIVE US MORE KUNIKIDA AND DAZAI CONTENT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I NEED MY SILLY DETECTIVE SCENES FROM THE EARLIER CHAPTERS PLEASE ASAGIRI GIVE US LESS HIGH STAKE PLOTS AND MORE THE DETECTIVE AGENCY BEING DETECTIVES AND KUNIKIDA AND DAZAI SOLVING CASES AND ATSUSHI AND KYOUKA LEARNING TO LIVE HAPPY LIVES ASAGIRI PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE ASAGIRI DO WHAT YOU WANT AND GIVE ME KUNIZAI INTERACTIONS IDC IF THEIR ALL PLATONIC JUST GIVE ME MY SILLY DETECTIVE DUO BACKKKK AND GIVE KUNIKIDA THE ATTENTION HE DESERVESSSSSS ASAGIRI PLEASE I BEG OF YOU

[justalemon]

I just need to point out that in Wan! 120 Dazai was supposed to slow down Atsushi so he just made him drag him through half the city.

Also, the agency building is on the top(?) floor, so he also got dragged up the stairs. The 'thud' sounds imply that he probably repeatedly banged his head on said stairs.

(I hope he got some brain damage fr)

Respectfully, I'd throw that dumb fuck in the river

:3

[evermorethecrow]

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[dramamines]

the best sskk fanfiction is the canon manga

[chuuyaxsupremacy9]

Dazai: good morning, chibi! You look beautiful today

Chuuya, blushing: wha—

Dazai: April fools!

Chuuya:...oh...

Dazai, panicking: you look beautiful everyday

Chuuya: ...OH—

[wretchfulreading]

Suffering clung to Atsushi like clothing, shaping him. Pain made Atsushi feel like himself.

- 55 Minutes, Kafka Asagiri

[symphonyofsilence]

We don't know much about Dazai's life before Mori found him (just that the sheep had offered Dazai to join them and he declined)

But in "Dazai, Chuuya, age fifteen" there might be some clues:

He talks as if he previously hasn't been a part of the underground society. Like he's lived in the surface world.

His mannerism in general, even as a 15 years old is so refined. And the manner of his speech is different from the 15 y/o kids who are from the underground society like Chuuya and Shirase.

And the characters are heavily inspired by the real life authors that they're named after. Dazai already has so many things in common with the real Dazai Osamu. And the real Dazai Osamu was from a noble family.

So I think it's likely that Dazai was from an upper class family and ran away.

And... I think it's not completely unlikely that he might have changed his name.

in BSD, when a character is inspired by and named after an author who has a pen name, their real names are addressed. Like Mori Ougai being called Rintarou by Elise, or Fukuchi Ouchi being called Gen'ichiro by Fukuzawa or Dazai calling Oda Sasunosuke Odasaku, or 'Nakahara' being revealed to be the last name of the doctor who worked on the Arahabaki project and thus being Chuuya's "father" and so his last name being Chuuya's last name, while it's revealed that Chuuya might have an actual family out there, we don't know much about them but his father has the same occupation as the real Nakahara Chuuya's father; he's a retired army doctor who has established his own clinic. And the real Nakahara Chuuya was at first 'Kashimura Chuuya' before his father was adopted by his mother's family shortly after Chuuya's birth and his name was changed to Nakahara. Now maybe BSD's Nakahara Chuuya's real father's last name is Kashimura and thus before the age of 7 and merging with Arahabaki, Nakahara Chuuya might have been Kashimura Chuuya.

What I was getting at was that... maybe BSD's Dazai Osamu's real name is Tsushima Shūji (like his namesake, the real author) but he changed it after he ran away from his rich family and joined the underground. (But this theory might not work because Ranpo's namesake, the real author used a pen name too but Ranpo Edogawa seems to be the real name of BSD's Ranpo.)