#dazai is also here i think

[actualwwerewolfz]

atsushi is literally plural

i can not STOP thinking about this

atsushi is literally plural because Byakko [the tiger] exists they share a body,, have internal communication from time to time,, and used to have amnesia when they didnt know they were plural before atsushi knew about the tiger he had these blanks [when byakko was fronting / was out] but after he found out [and thanks to fukuzawa's ability] he started being able to co-front with byakko [furry atsushi] and thus reducing the amnesia between them,, they are shown "talking" wiht each other in their innerworld [funky white space] multiple times in the anime and even tho we dont know how the fuck abilities are developed in bsd we've seen theories saying that they develop bc of trauma and it still would make sence bc atsushi and byakko's ability would actually be shapeshifting and byakko is just a tiger guy that formed bc of the abuse,, like,, trauma formed byakko + their ability and bc of that they got even more abused at the orphanage [fucking sad i know,, but if we remember correctly the orphanage was bad with everyone but specifically bad to atsushi bc why the hell would you have fucking forgot the name of these things with metal bars to keep animals or people in (not cages) in a arphanage,, i hope you get what i mean anyways lfmao] but yeah silly atsushi rant also like orphanages in the bsd universe are like bad in general bc why did lucy get the same uhhhhhh things done that atsushi was and like yeah

asagiri when children arent traumatized:

asagiri is the kind of guy to ask "is anyone going to blow up taht child?" and not wait for an answer

[spliqi]

i’m very biased but people acting like atsushi is somehow a bland or unimpressive mc will always be crazy to me because he’s just??? so fucking excellent. i will never get over the way he subverts the classic good guy protagonist trope. his morals being guided not by what society deems right and wrong but by what makes him feel like a good person, and even that can be overridden by his natural inclination to prioritize himself. and we see this from the first chapter. like. hi, my name is atsushi. i love chazuke. i’m going to attack and rob the next person i see, because i’m so hungry. i saved a man from drowning in the river, why isn’t he thanking me? i’ll join his heroic organization even though i don’t want to, because it’s the only way to keep a roof over my head. my two favorite people are ex-mafia members who’ve taken countless lives. my least favorite person is also a mafia member who’s taken countless lives, but it’s different because he’s an asshole to me and my friends. i need kyouka to stay safe, because i care about her, but also because she’s proof that i can help people and that i’m good. today i found out that i killed someone when i was younger, but what did he expect? he hurt me. he deserved it. the man who abused me in childhood died too. he was hit by a truck. it doesn’t matter what his intentions were, because he hurt me. he deserved it. why can’t i stop crying?

[lamentfulwarbler]

“Dazai is the big spoon!” “No, Chuuya is!” NO YOU’RE BOTH WRONG! SKK CUDDLE LIKE THIS:

[originalaccountname]

15-year-old Chuuya who was keeping his hands in his pockets to give himself a disadvantage in hopes of one day being in danger, and having to put his all into fighting to survive, bringing himself closer to his sense of self

VS

15-year-old Dazai who had no interest in his continued existence until he was severely wounded in battle, and decided with his adrenaline-pumped brain life was worth a shot on the condition he joined the mafia to observe death from up close

[maalidoesart]

idk thought of this last night in bed so here is a random af crossover

also boyfriend reactions:

(chuuya is probably standing on a box to match hua chengs height bs damn my guy is small)

[botanautical]

THE DARK ERA - 黒の時代

(textless version below the cut)

[askchuuyanakahara]

aww dazai go on buddy confess ! im sure nothing bad can happen !

Chuuya: "They've been bugging me about this all day. Just ignore it."

Chuuya: "Come on. Let's go."

Chuuya: "I guess you'd rather ask questions than answer questions in this state.."

Chuuya: "I'd rather not have you kidnapped while you're forced to tell the truth."

Dazai: "The idea of you going out with Atsushi-kun irks me."

Chuuya: "Don't be a hypocrite, Dazai."

Dazai: "I still don't particularly like it though.."

[nitpick7]

bsd pronouns headcanons but it's in a tierlist format for some reason. (text-only version under the cut.)

i know some of these takes are insane but i believe that i am correct. i do welcome other takes though i LOVE talking about gender headcanons with people!

text-only tierlist:

she/her: agatha christe, higuchi, elise, teruko, kouyou, haruno, yosano.

she/they: karma, yuan, sigma, lucy, kyouka, tsujimura.

she/it: louisa.

she/neos: naomi.

he/him: andré gide, alexander pushkin, mori, mark twain, rimbaud, adam frankenstein.

old man drag show (he/him): kunikida, francis fitzgerald, herman melville, fukuzawa, fukuchi, hirotsu.

he/they: atsushi, tj eckleburg, katai, fyodor, katsura, shirase, nathaniel hawthorne, minoura.

he/it: kajii, odasaku, verlaine, ivan goncharov.

he/they/it: akutagawa, tanizaki, ango, lovecraft, bram stoker.

he/neos: tachihara, nikolai, natsume.

he/she: kenji, margaret mitchell, jouno.

he/she/they: chuuya, dazai, gin, tetcho, shibusawa, poe, john steinbeck.

they/them: aya, mushitarou.

any pronouns: ranpo.

neopronouns: Q (kyusaku).

[batartshikns]

sigh. redrew thy trans chuuya practcing unsafe binding(which was heavily inspired by @/carrotkicks). reminder kids, NEVER do this. And never wear your binder for more than 8 hours!

(uncensored ver. under cut)

[kaurwreck]

have yall ever noticed in osamu dazai's entrance exam that ranpo cuts to the heart of dazai within moments of meeting him, weighs him against the feather in his gaze, decides it neither too heavy nor light, and then says, simply, unfeignedly, deliberately, "Oh, that's nice. Anyway, welcome to the Agency."

and dazai, despite smoothing himself shapeless under ranpo's scrutiny, is rattled, slipping aside his noh mask to self-soothe by asking kunikida about ranpo's skill. because the radio static crackling along his spine can't be the sensation that he's been caught, or ranpo would have renounced or redressed or recoiled from the snake in his home— so it must be no longer human, buzzing and frustrating such and such skill ranpo set on him, and this placidity is a facade to save face. ranpo couldn't have seen what dazai didn't deign to show him, however much the thought briefly excites dazai.

except then kunikida explains that ranpo's skill is to deduce the truth of a case just by looking at it, and dazai is momentarily stunned, the static roaring in his drums as muscle memory swallows piqued yearning and spits bitter incredulity. even if there were a skill that could crack him apart to out the pluck meat that might reassure him he's made of flesh beneath the chitin, there is no exception to his nullification.

even as the blackened grief encroaches like ennui around dazai's edges, ranpo is calling them, promising them the answer they asked for, and no more than that much. he asks dazai for his glasses (the glasses precious to him, typically on his person, but in that moment, somewhere else), and dazai is coaxed by his curiosity and ranpo's beckon.

and because dazai is still a pitiable creature prone to wanting, he leans towards the taunting lure and takes it between his fingers while holding his breath to brace against the certain-to-be-crushing disappointment.

and instead, substantiation brokering little argument. ranpo can deduce the truth by looking at it. and as dazai's own discernment reverse engineers ranpo's conclusion, he finds no fault in it.

dazai's rhapsody enlivens him in the car with Kunikida, the well of him overflowing with the salvific implications that moments prior he was pinned, writhing in place, by someone sincerely seeing him, who was satiated by enough substance to then look away, who wasn't the least surprised to see wriggling, living flesh in the shape of him.

dazai's so beside himself that when kunikida remarks that he's never seen dazai marvel over someone else's skills like that before, dazai scarcely lies to him when he says lots of things take him by surprise, like when he tried to pick up a clam with his chopsticks, and it was still alive, startling him.

kunikida, who also notices more than he's given any credit for, dismisses dazai's third perspective, depersonalized, dehumanized, and disassociated clam metaphor, and says: "You seemed taken aback that someone had the ability to see and know all."

to which dazai responds with the same seamless and subtly mean spirited deflection he tends towards whenever he's suddenly feeling vulnerable.

but yes, he is taken aback. it's worldview shattering, not unlike when chuuya incited him, or oda shrugged at him, or when kunikida would, later, see a lock without any key (a climax without any hope) and create one himself.

ranpo saw him, saw who he'd been, and said, with prejudice: "Anyway, welcome to the Agency."

because I didn't until a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't stopped thinking about it.

[iwowzumi]

while i do love romantic shin soukoku i’ve become obsessed with the comedic potential of a platonic shin soukoku vs romantic soukoku where sskk are considered the stronger double black because they’re NOT soulmates, in a “dont fuck your coworkers” way. atsushi and akutagawa are just two guys who, once they come to a mutual understanding, make a damn powerful team. in contrast dazai and chuuya are weirdo freaks who are obsessed with each other to the point where yes, they’re a terrifying duo, but they’re also sneaking off to hook up on the sly and having a domestic dispute at all times. sskk “did you guys finish the group project yet” vs skk “no we got in an argument and then made out” fight

[aroacesigma]

Sometimes I feel like we moved on a little too quickly from this

[zukkaoru]

still thinking about aku and gin joining the sheep au. where chuuya and aku both end up in the mafia after the events of fifteen but gin is left behind. aku thinks gin was killed and gin believes aku freely chose to leave them despite promising to come back. gin ends up with the ada. they're offered a position working as a clerk and ranpo is like no.. they should be a detective. even though they don't have an ability. but everyone trusts ranpo's judgment, so gin gets to be a detective. they rarely speak and don't say much about their past beyond the fact that they're an orphan and grew up in the slums but they're a very diligent worker

and then a year or so into their employment, dazai shows up. the same dazai who took gin's brother away from them. his past is a mystery to everyone else and there's seemingly no record of him previously existing but gin knows who he is. how could they ever forget

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I have a question for you guys.

I was rewatching Yosano's backstory episode (and cried again. what of it?) but something this time caught my attention.

In the scene where Fukuzawa and Mori are fighting and Fukuzawa angrily tells him his plans "lack humanity"... is the word they both use... not "kokoro"?

It would appear to be, from this manga translation. If that really is the choice of word, that's really interesting, because one of irl Natsume-sensei's most well-known books is the novel Kokoro.

What does this mean? Is Mori really following the plan Natsume laid out for them? Is he derailing from the initial plan with the exclusion of "heart/humanity"? Did Natsume intend for "heart" to be sacrificed in the name of defense? Or is this conflict, with "heart" at the center, exactly what Natsume needed for this plan to work?

And on Mori's end: this isn't his usual cold, impeccable logic. This is anger that Fukuzawa is getting in the way. More than that, it almost seems to me like Mori has a paranoid streak. Check this out here:

To be quite honest with you, Mori sometimes makes weird calls that imo aren't the best decisions - and they're all out of some fear he has, typically over the protection of the city and the country. Mori's takeover of the Port Mafia is seen as overall a good thing - because the previous boss grew increasingly paranoid and started ordering unnecessary violence, something Mori himself wishes to avoid whenever possible. Yet his projection onto Dazai causes issues during the Mimic incident - sure it was logically sound, but he lost Dazai for it. Was it really then the best solution there was? And what about Yosano - so caught up in what she could prove and what she meant for the war effort that he failed to consider her taking drastic action out of sheer despair? It's interesting that Mori, who advises others on not letting their fears and emotions get in the way of strategy, is prone to the same thing at times. Might he get worse at this kind of miscalculation? It'd be altogether kind of tragic if he messes up later in the story out of paranoia, considering his predecessor's legacy...

Edit: I changed the last bit, as it's left somewhat unclear if part of Mori's reasoning in the whole Mimic incident was to get Dazai away from him - in fact, it's likely that wasn't the case at all and Dazai was just saying this to intentionally get under his skin. Unfortunately I am a bit of dumbass who misinterpreted this line on first read, and now read it differently:

He's sticking with the logicality of it - one person's life for a gifted business permit is a worthwhile sacrifice, even if it drove away his right hand man. Either way, whether it's projection (Dazai is just like me, so he'll understand) or paranoia (he is going to inevitably kill me someday - which is still kinda projection imo) or some combination of the two - I think the original point still stands: maybe focusing all your efforts on ensuring you're always prepared for some eventuality or other means you overlook things you deem less important or irrelevant. Maybe removing heart from your decisions... isn't actually the best call in the end.

[altruistic-meme]

on that note im literally obsessed with the level of trust that Dazai and Chuuya have for each other. like. Chuuya regularly puts his life in danger because he trusts Dazai to stop him before it's too late. Dazai trusts Chuuya to shoot a bullet at his head because he knows that he won't let it hit him. their level of trust goes deeper than anything that Fukuzawa and Mori had or what Atsushi and Akutagawa will ever reach. i literally just can't stop thinking about them.

[benetnvsch]

guy who meows and second guy who has impossibly high standards for meows