#bsd thoughts

[soukokuforthesoul]

soukoku who live together, and chuuya who doesn’t dream

dazai says it’s because of the dreamcatcher he hung on their bedroom door, he says it’s stealing chuuya’s dreams because otherwise he’d be dreaming of dazai too much and that’s bad for his slug brain

chuuya thinks that’s stupid (but it makes him feel better, somehow)

[pebblul]

“teenage Dazai this” “teenage Chuuya that”

WHAT ABOUT TEENAGE FUKUZAWA

I know where Ranpo gets it from.

[cryptid-juzou]

I'm a big fan of the skk dynamic of them talking like they hate each other but their actions saying otherwise. And they would definitely never openly acknowledge those actions.

Dazai saying Chuuya’s hats are the tackiest, ugliest things he’s ever seen…but one day Chuuya notices a new hat amongst his collection that he definitely didn't buy himself, but loves the look of. He knows there is only one person with the audacity to break into a pm executive’s apartment.

During a joint ada/pm endeavour Dazai has a cold and is putting on the theatrics and Chuuya calls him a dramatic, whiny baby with the constitution of a wet kitten…but later on he stops by Dazai’s place with cold and flu meds and some soup he made himself. He bangs on the door to get Dazai’s attention and then leaves without saying a word before the door can be opened.

Chuuya intermittently leaving drunken voicemails angrily demanding Dazai stop using his damn card for his ridiculous and pricey purchases. But when Chuuya gets a new card when the old one expires he texts him his new card details with no context or explanation.

[eggsbenedict8]

It breaks my heart that if young Akutagawa met young Atsushi he would've taken him in and cared for him in the way he did the other orphans

[pe4rl-diver]

i don’t think amenogozen is truly killing people

remember how teruko melted and all that was left was her hd uniform?

the hunting dogs took her in, gave her a home, gave her a real purpose. that uniform represents who she is.

but when kunikida melted, his clothes went with him, and what was left behind instead?

his notebook. his ideals. his ideals represent who he is.

the thing that represents who they are is left behind.

i know that doesn’t really explain anything, but it’s at least enough for me to cause some doubt

[ranpos-autism]

My brain every five seconds since I read 114

[i-eat-mold]

Do you ever think about whether Oda ever received a call in the middle of the night from Dazai? How Oda knew dazai was just too stubborn to ask anyone for help. Maybe just once he was worried about the kid, he said ‘to call him if he ever needed him, he didn’t even have to tell him why, if dazai called him he’d go and get him, any time, anywhere’. How Dazai brushed it off with a joke, but one night Oda receives a call in the middle of the night and when he sees the caller ID his heart drops, and as promised, Oda gets in the car and speeds out to get Dazai without a single word needed to be spoken. Do you ever think about how many nights Oda might have lost sleep because he was worried about this kid? and how he’d never forgive himself if he needed him but he wasn’t awake to pick up his call? Do you ever think about how oda might have looked at this boy and thought “how can they not see he’s just a kid? How can they see him as a demon? As a monster? All I see is a scared, alone little kid. How can they not see this? How can they not think it’s inhumane to let him live in a literal metal container?” Ever think how he saw the empty eyes of this kid and wanted to take him in? Give him a warm meal? A hug? A real bed? Ever think how he must’ve felt knowing he was his only real friend, and how he must have felt when he was dying in this kids arms, this lonely, sad, messed up kids arms, leaving him behind? How he cared so deeply about this kid that his final words were to plea him to get out of that darkness, to seek light? Ever think about how proud he must be of this kid, now grown, for staying alive and taking in other lost children the way he wanted to take him in? Ever think of that?

[caldera1000-7]

No words just... looking at these two images...

And thinking about how Akutagawa views himself in both universes...

[loulits]

There’s something so fascinating about the dynamic between Dazai and Ranpo that rarely gets the attention it deserves.

Their relationship isn’t built on the same kind of camaraderie we see with Dazai and Chuuya or Ranpo and Fukuzawa. Instead, it exists in this weird, nebulous space of mutual brilliance, calculated detachment, and an unspoken understanding that neither of them really need to try around the other.

Both of them are geniuses, but in very different ways. Ranpo’s intelligence is so deeply ingrained in his identity that he doesn’t even consider it a “gift”—it’s just who he is. His self-confidence is absolute, bordering on arrogance, because he knows he’s the smartest person in the room. He doesn’t second-guess himself because, in his eyes, there’s simply no reason to.

Dazai, on the other hand, is an entirely different breed of genius. His intelligence is adaptive, shaped by his time in the Mafia, honed for manipulation, survival, and deception. He’s brilliant, yes, but he’s also deeply aware of his own mind—sometimes to the point where he actively tries to outmaneuver himself. Where Ranpo is unwavering in his certainty, Dazai constantly tests and plays with possibilities, viewing life as a game where he’s always five steps ahead.

That’s where their dynamic gets interesting. 🤨 👇🏽

1. They Don’t Need to Prove Themselves to Each Other

Dazai is someone who loves testing people. He provokes them, plays mind games, and watches their reactions for fun. He enjoys unraveling people, poking at their insecurities, seeing what makes them tick. And yet, with Ranpo? There’s none of that. Why? Because Ranpo sees through him. Where most people get caught up in Dazai’s theatrics, Ranpo just doesn’t care. He can see the games Dazai plays, but they don’t interest him because, in his mind, he’s already won before the game even began. This puts them in a strange but mutual space of respect—Dazai doesn’t bother trying to manipulate Ranpo, and Ranpo doesn’t feel the need to prove that he’s smarter. It’s one of the rare relationships where Dazai can just exist without putting on an act.

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2. Dazai as the Observer, Ranpo as the Unshakable Constant

Dazai is constantly watching. It’s in his nature. He studies people, picks them apart, and predicts their next moves before they even think to make them. Ranpo? Ranpo doesn’t need to do any of that. He simply knows. This makes for an interesting contrast because, while Dazai is always looking for the angle, Ranpo just goes about his life, unbothered. He isn’t someone that Dazai needs to figure out, and that in itself is probably a little unsettling for Dazai—Ranpo is just Ranpo. There’s no hidden agenda, no underlying deception, just unshakable confidence in his own abilities. At the same time, I think Ranpo finds Dazai mildly interesting in a way he doesn’t find most people. Not because Dazai is a challenge—Ranpo knows he can see through him—but because Dazai operates so differently from him. He’s amused by Dazai’s schemes, the way he plays with people, but he doesn’t feel the need to engage. It’s almost like watching a child play with a puzzle you solved years ago.

3. A Quiet Understanding

Ranpo and Dazai don’t need to be close. They don’t need dramatic moments of bonding or grand declarations of friendship. Their relationship is more of a quiet, mutual acknowledgment—one genius recognising another, but with no need to test the limits. They don’t challenge each other. They don’t need to. And maybe that’s why their dynamic is so compelling. They just understand.

[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.)

[kellelkallel]

I think people forget that Dazai controlling his heart is not just a one-off thing. Like he totally does it all the time.

The whole of the Prison Arc? That poison would've killed him way slower than Dostoyevsky by virtue of him making his heart incredibly slow, so it spreads slower. That's why he can afford to take his time with shit.

When he gets shot/stabbed multiple times? He can slow that shit down and lose less blood. He's so smart I love my little freak boy

[soukokuforthesoul]

after consulting yosano (she has the entire ada’s medical records and such), atsushi and kyouka make a list of all of the birthdays and together draw cards or make handmade gifts for the ada (due to lack of money to buy things for every birthday) and after a while it became something to look forward to as each year came around

fukuzawa’s office has a special dedicated spot for the cards where he can easily look up and see them whilst working

[pebblul]

Anything even remotely father shaped in this series must die apparently.

[literatureloverx]

Hii! I'm new here, but I'll just get to the point. I want to know your opinion about something

I've heard a lot of people saying that Dazai would cheat on his partner. I know it's not true, but I just wanted to know your opinion about it

Have a nice day!

I do like people who just “get to the point”. ♥️ First of all, welcome to the family! Second, I don’t think so at all.

Dazai is not a bad person. The only scenario where I could see him being unfaithful is if he were afraid of emotional intimacy (which I think he would be) and tried to push his darling away. Though, even then, I am not sure he would actually go through with it.

Given his self-sabotaging and self-destructive tendencies, it is possible, but whether he would genuinely cheat or merely create the illusion of it is open to interpretation. His desire to distance himself from his darling would likely stem from his idealised view of them, believing he doesn’t deserve them because he sees himself as tainted.

However, in my opinion, Dazai genuinely wants to improve because he is exhausted by the constant emptiness he feels. Let’s say he has a darling who fills that void inside him—would he truly want to let them go? I believe he would only push them away under specific conditions, such as self-sacrifice, driven by the need to protect them from the inevitable consequences of being involved with him—both because of his dangerous life and his internal struggles.

That being said, considering how Dazai thrives on manipulation and control as well, even if he were to push someone away, it might not be purely self-sacrificial. It could also be a subtle test, a way to see how much they are willing to fight for him. (I somehow love how hypocritical he can be. The poor man is so stuck—please, someone shake him and tell him, “We can do this together.” 🥺 He is so lonely.)

Though, I think this is an extreme scenario, one where he is 100% invested in someone, particularly romantically.

I hope this answers your question. Have a nice day as well! ♥️

[smellypire]

the reason why i want kenji and chuuya to interact so bad is that they are both so selfless that it hurts them, they both try to understand other people, help them, and think so much about other people in their life rather than themselves.

the way that that chuuya embraces anger as a defense mechanism and how kenji uses optimistic behavior as a defense mechanism so it can it can bottle up his anger is so interesting to me. then they're both so strong at a young age and had to persevere through so much like ugh.. the way that chuuya forgave verlaine after what he did to him and the way kenji chose to help tecchou after what he did to him..

and it's like you see them interact in wan and anthlogy. they get along so well there and i feel like they would in main manga too. they're both so understanding and like the parralels between corruption & kenji's unhinged side of his ability like.

they would be such a power duo.

[cryptid-juzou]

Dazai whines incessantly about how much his broken ribs/cold/sprain/literally anything hurts but still refuses to take his pain/flu/literally any relieving medication. Chuuya forces him to. It is cute but also somber.