touchingthenorthernlights

[disaster-bay-leaf]

our fates will not end here

[little-blurry-stars5]

OKKKK WAIT CHAT I JUST HAD THE CRAZIEST THOUGHT BUT HEAR ME OUTTTTT

OK SO U WAS REWATCHING THE FIFTH SEASON AND REMEMBER THIS SCENE?

BRO

NOW HEAR ME OUT-----

So this was all an act, right? BUT WHAT IF IT WASNT?

WHAT IF- What if the original owner of that body took possession? Just for a moment? Doysotevsky could have let the shift happen, only for a moment to make it genuine. It would also explain "what year is it?"

ANDDDD LISTEN---

Guys. LISTENNNNNN.

I may spouting bullshit here, but thing is: fyodor had no reason to write that note. None at all. So, what does it mean? It wasnt ever explained in the actual story. It's possible that the original owner of the body is still alive even after fyodor takes possession.

This could mean Bram is alive.

Also the fact that Bram could feel fyodor taking possession a bit before it happened? Oughhhh. Ouooooghhhh. Meaning: something tells them it's going to happen. With the guard, we didn't see much other than him tweaking out, but Bram? Bram was aware he was being taken over and had the time to warn aya (probably due to his experience with abilities).

Does this mean that the hosts can detect fyodor, and even still be in there? Is it possible their consciousness- or perhaps even their soul- still remains?

Idk man I haven't been clear headed in days but. It's just something to think abouttttt

[pennylime]

Bsd chap 108 or s5 spoilers 🤭

I TOUCHED UP AND COLORED MY ANIMATION FROM LAST YEAR (finally)!!! sigma getting stabbed, now in ✨️color✨️

[frenchonionsoop]

i was inspired by @seukorei and their gorgeous colouring of one of the panels from chapter 108 (GO CHECK IT OUT ITS AMAZING THEYRE SO TALENTED) and wanted to try it out myself soooo here's this

Thought the greyscale version looked funky so I put that version in here too hehehe

OFC the character art belongs to Harukawa I just did the colours, shading, effects etc. :]

[dazaistabletop]

I wonder if Crime is the evil Fyodor and Punishment is the terrified Fyodor

Crime Punishment

[etrevil]

Featuring,

Asagiri's beef with children.

[the-armed-detective-gaygency]

Love how atsushi's lines to akutagawa are exactly as we predicted. Like Asagiri just decided to go on tumblr and decided 'they're gonna eat this shit up'

[miammey]

BSD Chapter 108 Screaming!!!

Spoilers ahead, of course!!

Starts back off with that paper, anyone know what it says?? Fyodor looks unamused

Then he starts freaking out, like completely breaking down, what the actual hell is happening??

Back with Atsushi vs Akutagawa, Atsushi needs to save Princess Aya and her vampire companion, but he can’t bring himself to hurt Akutagawa, I’m sobbing

We jump around a lot this chapter, and Fyodor makes this face, dude looks scared?? Worried?? It’s not a look I ever expected from him

Wow, Atsushi’s graduated to getting both an arm and a leg ripped off instead of just a leg!!

Fyodor brings out a knife out of somewhere (do prison uniforms have pockets??? Where did he gets this???)

Yep, figured that was gonna happen. You can’t trust this rat Sigma, you should know this by now!!

Sigma, honey, I know you’ve only existed for 3 years but you ran a casino, hasn’t anyone ever told you to never make a deal with the devil??

Fukuzawa better not be dead or I swear to whatever deity is out there I’m gonna riot

And the chapter end with Fukuchi opening one order… oh no…

Final thoughts, that was a WILD ride, holy crap. Everything just seems to be going wrong?? I know some bullshit’s gonna happen to get them out of this, but it feels like the characters are just falling deeper and deeper into a pit. Honestly, I love it

[atrodonna]

what did ya think of the new chapter???

BSD CHAPTER 108 SPOILERS!!!

bro don’t even look my way; I raised my brow up as far as you probably did.

Before anyone asks, “Sword Kladenets” literally means “magic sword” in Russian or something like that, I think. So… nothing much from that.

Fake ass bitch.

Anyway. The whole Dead Apple scene between him and his ability was like a universal click for everybody, I’m sure.

Now, I have absolutely no idea what to even think, because, as always with Asagiri, the possibility that Fyodor is actually a mother of three somehow transported into the body of an old vampire with some killing ability is just as likely as Sigma actually touching Fyodor to try and help Dazai in the next chap.

However, what stands out to me is the fact that in this chapter, it was played out to be that the real Fedya is the ‘good’ Fedya and his ability is ‘the dick.’

But like… in Dead Apple… both him and his ability… were kinda douchebags. Y’know, with the whole malevolent monologue and licking up Shibusawa’s ass- idk what he was doing.

So… for now, I stand by that he is just a bitch. Unless Asagiri wants another little plot hole for decor and aesthetic <3

[infernalmelancholy]

bsd ch. 108 spoilers ahead !!!!

okay, so, i wanna do an actual discussion aside from the incoherent screaming last night so if anyone wants to hear my thoughts, enjoy

the thing i'm most curious about it this:

because it seems so real. his eyes light up and his expression changes so drastically it's actually horrifying.

and yeah, he says he faked it later but how do we know which fyodor to trust? cause he might very well be lying, saying he faked it, to cover up the fact that his "other self" broke through to the surface for a second.

and the way his ability acted in dead apple...

idk but having him actually be crime and punishment, be the evil that's done and then also the suffering and guilt of that evil, both coexisting, a constant fight between the killer and his conscience contained within one conflicted person so divided that those two aspects of him literally split - art. pure art.

or, equally terrifying, he's just that good of an actor and liar. which means nothing he says ever can be taken at face value and he's such a master manipulator that he's not only deceiving characters within the plot but the audience as well and there's no way of telling what's what anymore. help.

either way - i adore him as a character. he's one of the most interesting and compelling antagonists i've ever seen.

(also i need to know where the fuck nikolai is going to fit into all of this because i'm beyond making predictions at this point)

and then, of course, there's this:

i have no coherent thoughts. it's all just sobbing.

god, i love them.

akutagawa is my favorite character too so...yeah, this shit hurt

(just imagine me at 2am yesterday, curled up in bed, sobbing as that bit of 'i bet on losing dogs' that goes "my baby, my baby..." just repeatedly plays in my head)

[shadowmoonarts]

BSD 108 SPOILERS

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FYODOR MENTAL BREAKDOWN???? HELLO????!??

NOOOO SIGMAAAA

SOBBING AT THEIR FIGHT 😭😭

OH NOOOO

THINGS JUST KEEP GETTING CRAZIER AND CRAZIER IN THESE NEW CHAPTERS I SWEAR 😭🤨

[kinojoy]

BSD 108// SPOILER ALERT

I'm sorry but I had too

[brain-in-a-skin-suit]

Okay so disclaimer i haven't seen Dead Apple in a while, and I also didn't go into writing this with a conclusion in mind, so its a bit of a mess.but! i did reach a conclusion! Sorry for any inaccuracies, I was working from memory for a lot of this. please correct me if im wrong about something! Also pretty please add any connected theories if you have any

Warning: long post

I remember watching Dead Apple and being really thrown off by the fact that Fyodor's ability seemed to be chill with him. Every character aside from him who had an ability manifestation was fighting their ability. This makes me think that in his natural state (not affected by Shibusawa's ability), Fyodor is already fighting his own ability, so when Shibusawa was doing his thing, the relationship flipped and they got along.

In chapter 108 of the manga, fyodor suddenly says he's controlled by "a demon" and follows it up with this:

then he says this:

which is really key. It implies everything i suspected from Dead Apple-- Fyodor's ability is his enemy.

Of course, right after this scene, he stabs Sigma and basically says "teehee I was lying the whole time"

But I don't know if I truly believe he was lying (which isn't a hot take, I've seen other people who believe the same thing). What he said earlier really fit with the conclusions that could be drawn from Dead Apple. There is a real possibility that he when his ability regained control it just, ya know, lied.

Okay fine, whatever, what is his ability?? who, or what, is he? to be fully honest, I don't know.

But here's what we do know -- or for many of these, what we suspect (in number list so i can easily refer back to them)

1. Fyodor might be immortal. A very popular theory based mainly around the fact that he is everywhere in the BSD timeline but never seems to age

2. His ability probably works against him in some way, likely taking over his body due to some "weakness" that was brought forth by the ability, and then taken advantage of. I am going to refer to the "good" Fyodor we briefly see in ch 108 as 108!fyodor just to make things easier for myself.

3. He can kill non-gifted with a touch of his hand. I don't think he can kill gifted the same way (he had to shoot the cat-lady, plus every ability-kill we've seen thus far has been of non-gifted victims)

4. Nikolai does not know how to kill him (still unclear on the whole poisoning plotline-- I have seen the theory that Nikolai didn't poison them earlier, but the "antidote" is poison. Still not fully clear on how all of this fits together), and wants Sigma to find out his ability so he can kill him.

5. In Dead Apple, he was split into "Crime" and "Punishment". One person was an ability manifestion just like everyone else had been dealing with, the other was Fyodor himself acting as part of his ability-- which is odd because the ability is supposed to sever the gift from the gifted. and yet fyodor was still part of it, just fragmented. This supports the fyodor is not fully human idea presented by Sigma's question of "what are you?" and the immortaity theory. It also supports an alter-ego, as he had two personalities there.

6. fyodor has some vendetta against the gifted despite being a gifted himself

7. gifts are typically a result of some type of trauma or past experience. we do not really know his backstory.

so point 4. Nikolai doesn't know how to kill him. Assuming everything 108!fyodor said was true, this dagger could kill him:

sword Kladenets is an established sword type, typically belonging to a hero (interesting that fyodor has one...)

"In some heroic poems and ancient Russian legends, a sword Kladenets acts as a self-cutting sword, which, on the orders of its owner, can cut down an entire forest or at least the whole enemy army. Other weapons could heal or make their owners or holders – invulnerable."

interesting stuff. invincibility? Well, fyodor may be immortal (see point #1), so that could go hand in hand with that. It would also explain why a sword Kladenets would be needed to kill him-- any other weapon would fall short.

Also, fyodor's "ability" involves being able to kill other people easy-peasy by tapping them (point #3)-- which is the same thing the sword kladenets does. Remember, every person he's killed with his ability bled out where he touched them-- as if they were cut with a blade!!

But why can't he kill ability users? my theory is that abilities are on the same level as a sword kladenets, and therefore the sword cannot do it on its own. Fyodor can only be killed by the sword kladenets that he wields and not by an ability; he cannot kill an ability user with the sword. makes enough sense to me

okay, what else can we learn from the sword?

Everything I read about the sword describe that the hero has to find the sword; by digging it from the ground or taking it from a dead body, or some other way of earning it. Then the sword will work with the hero. But Fyodor's ability (which I am beginning to believe is simply the sword he wields) works against him (see point #2), which makes me think he obtained the sword without earning it. This could be the "weakness" that was brought forth by his ability and allowed for his ability to overtake him-- which makes sense!! he would not have that weakness had he not obtained the sword!

The sword is also often given a personality-- it is a character in itself (which would explain the alter-ego point #5)

furthermore, how could he have a sword in prison if it wasn't part of his ability??

So! what I am trying to say is that fyodor somehow wrongly obtained a sword kladenets (or perhaps in this universe, the sword kladenets), and is now controlled by it. this led to him form an alter ego (the sword's personality), which overtook him due to the fact that he did not earn the sword, and was not powerful enough to control it. The sword gave him the ability to be unkillable (and therefore immortal/unaging), and the ability to kill non-gifted easily by simple contact.

i would like to emphasize that i am very likely wrong, as this is BSD we're talking about after all. I am working from memory and a very small amount of research, and also using this as an excuse to procrastinate. Take this with a grain of salt. but also, please add onto this if you have thoughts. I have not read Crime and Punishment (I have copy but I've been busy) or any other Dostoevsky book, so if you have and you think this relates to his books in any way (or that it contradicts them) I'd love to hear it!

[this-is-mimosa]

oh i wish there would be a huge middle finger or anything that creates the same effect with a huge middle finger...

i. hate. fukuchi.

[dropswand]

Just got to read the newest BSD chapter and wow... Everythings really crashing down huh?

Sigma bbg whyyy??? Like even tho I was caught off guard by Fyodor's act, I still knew it was a trick dammit!! But like to be fair that shit was disorientating af. COME ON USE THOSE LONG LEGS AND GIVE A KICK! GET THAT GUN BACKK!!!

NOOOOOOOO FUCK YOU FUKUICHI TOO

Fukuichi has no rights only slander on this acc idc

I want Fukuzawa to like get up and and his own "It's Britney bitch" moment, as a lol you thought type of thing. And then kick his ass.

THE APOCALYPSE IS COMING EVERYONEE!! SOMEONE CALL SAM AND DEAN!

Aya and Bram got a moment in this chapter, but it was so brief I need more. Hopefully they come out ontop depending on what happens next chapter...

Maybe shin soukoku can return 👉👈 and save the day?? Atsushi's protag halo is ready to shine atlast your honour! As he should tbh. #Atsushisupremacy

Chuuya wake up dammit you hate Fyodor remember??? Idk man just come back to ye damn senses.

I read a really good fic about how Yosano and Dazai's abilities can be used to reverse and save the day and damage and I kinda hope it comes true.

I will no longer simp for Fyodor, no matter how hot he can be at times. ✊😔 Because istg I shouldn't be stressing this much over a fictional universe. :,)

Also Fyodor looked so weird and off when he was being "innocent", and I'm also wondering if he was actually possessed, became unpossessed from the note abt to end the possession but then the demon came back in and played it off for a act to throw Sigma off of the truth. Probably not but it's a fun thought.

And those are my sleep deprived thoughts that I'll keep here to look back on when the next chapter comes out and either rejoice alittle or lament even more.

[dazaistabletop]

Asagiri I'm begging you what is this