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monstersqueen · 1 year

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honestly the beast timeline and canon have pretty much the same misery/happiness ratio, but.

in canon odasaku dies at 22 (i'm guessing the age, it seems like he has the same age as ranpo in untold origins) after some of the worst days of his life, and dazai leaves the mafia and hopefully learns how to live with less despair

in beast dazai dies at 22 after a very bad life and odasaku lives on to write a book someday.

it's pretty much equivalent but no one living in canon and caring about dazai is going to choose the beast timeline. even ango ! it's pretty much a trolley problem for him - do you do nothing and keep things as they are (odasaku dead AND the kids too) or do you change the world and condamns dazai to. *gestures at beast*

#myposts #on every otehr axis beast is pretty much equivalent exchange #akuatgawa finds a way to the light but atsushi is Way More fucked up than canon and kyouka is staying in the mafia #im still not over gin telling akutagawa 'you're evil but even so i want you to live'#BUT it ends in a very hopeful manner for p much eveyrone #except dazai #i'm going to go cry somewhere this is inacceptable #bsd march 2023 not lb #like you can ask yourself 'is odasaku alive and writing worth what dazai puts himself and everyone through in beast?'#and the thing is that every version of dazai is going to say 'yes'#while everyone in canon who cares abut him OR thinks no one should do any of what he does in beast will go 'no???'#and then you can ask the question to ango who will never say yes because. nope. dazai shouldn't put himself through that #but also can't say no because how can he! say ! that a price is too high ! to get odasaku back !#not onyl alive but free of the mafia and writing ?????#:D:D:D #...btw this whole thing was brought by me asking 'ok but WHAT is beast!ango up to?' and in general the answer is #'no idea but somehow canon!ango is going to learn of the beast!timeline and it's going to be ~~fun~~'

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