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Ensemble Stars!! > Bungou Stray Dogs

For clarification: this AU is about Enstars characters as if they were in the BSD universe. it is not the other way around. it is not a crossover.

this au did not start with the Agency. but the very Second thought I had about it was:

wouldn’t Rinne Amagi be a great Dazai?

and I was so, so, right.

[Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5]

here’s part 1 of 5 of my mediocre, slightly inaccurate, horribly blurry diagrams. (in my defense i got the enstars icons from one of the appellations pages)

Madara founded the agency after finding Leo (somehow) and it grew from there. (think origins of the detective agency)

Leo is a prodigy detective but it’s like a hit-or-miss whether he’ll help on regular cases which is why the agency is A Whole Thing

Kanata and Madara were childhood friends like in canon, including the cult thing. Kanata’s ability has the healing element of Thou Shalt Not Die, but instead of the catch being that the victim had to be half-dead, kanata either has to use water to heal them, or consume some of their blood. (slight reference to stuff from meteor impact because i think it fits thematically with the bsd setting)

kanata and madara lost touch with the beginning of the great war (same war as in bsd canon) but eventually reconnected and kanata joined the agency

ok. heres one of the reasons i called this slightly inaccurate. yall need to know that when i make aus its never exactly 1:1 with the characters. example in question: ritsumao. just think... their normal dynamic in enstars canon, but they join the agency instead of becoming idols. ritsu uses light snow to pretend he’s working and mao always slaps him to dispel the illusion

trickstar are just  there. theyre like the background workers of the agency

anzu is haruno because shes  potentially plot relevant (do not ask me who natsume-sensei/mii-chan is i do not fucking know. probably the godfather)

HiMERU honestly fits the Normal Guy (actually has problems). that’s part of why he’s kunikida. the other part of why is rinne.

Rinne is ex-mafia because he’s dazai here and im not making a completely new plot, thats why its a bsd au and not something totally different. He uses mafia money to gamble and everyone is all like Where Does He Get The Money??? he spends half his work hours annoying HiMERU and the other half annoying Niki.

Sora is just some kid. he introduces Leo to video games and everyone watches with trepidation (it actually makes Leo more productive)

Kohaku... is sort of ex-mafia. His family operates a highly successful business in killing people. Kohaku has never killed anyone. In the interests of the mafia, they send him to assassinate Madara. he gets offered a job instead.

Tsukasa goes after Kohaku to get him to return and ends up... also getting a job.

And Cafe Cinnamon:

Niki just works here. He doesn’t get paid to deal with all this shit. (he does get free total access to the kitchen at all times.)

Aira joins later (more on that in part 3). He helps Niki out around the cafe and ends up entangled in the agency’s problems way more often than he would like.

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Ensemble Stars!! > Bungou Stray Dogs, Part 4

This one’s unfortunately also a bit of a doozy to explain, even though it’s smaller. beware of lore.

(A continuation of my Enstars as BSD AU, see other parts below) 

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 5]

once again... so sorry about the formatting. this was going to be very different, as you might guess from the arrangement of character roles. i ended up not having enough characters that fit (and then realized i had extra characters in the agency and guild, but oh well)

look i don’t even want to deal with bram and all that nonsense. with regards to AUs, i usually give up around the current arc. this has to do with how i remake the narrative slightly based on the new characters and dynamics, and i can’t do that if i dont know where the actual canon narrative is going. that being said, the decay of angels are involved in a few arcs that have already wrapped up, so thats all good and fine and workable.

Eichi is an idealist. we all know this from enstars canon. everyone knows this. its the whole reason there’s a plot. it’s just that here he takes the idealism to the level of terrorism. he seeks the book out of a desire for equality, or at least that’s what he tells everyone; in fact it is a desperate and selfish quest to cheat death by rewriting his own fate. he hates his own ability and he hates this cruel world and he hates his illness and this is his way of fixing all of the above.

bonus: he has proper cello posture (i’ve seen some of y’all complain about fyodor)

Wataru is so important too. listen to me. listen closely. this whole au started because i was reading the tempest night story and could not stop making connections between wataei and fyolai. so there you have it. that’s why this AU exists. gay people. Wataru is extremely dedicated to both Eichi and his own constant performance. it is a cage of his own making.

the eccentrics had kind of an informal alliance, about 10 years before canon (to clarify: we’re going with closer to bsd ages ranges here, which means Wataru Shu and Kanata are all around 26 at the time of the main events) but what with the war, they drifted apart. the others view Wataru joining Eichi’s cause as a little bit of a betrayal.

Yuzuru... yeah he’s kind of just there. the decay of angels (a) plays up the angel motif already associated with fine and (b) is generally looking to rearrange the current social structure. Yuzuru is hoping this goal will Fix Everything and get Tori to leave the mafia. (tori is having fun lol)

Tatsumi, as a good Christian boy, is easily radicalized. He spread (admittedly hypocritical) anti-Ability teachings in Europe for a period of time, citing the war as evidence that Abilities cause ruin. He collected a decent following, who mobilized, cultlike, to go after Ability users. they captured Kaname at a certain point in time, and the mafia rescued him, which got him involved and indebted to the mafia. to try and repay this, Kaname went after the cult himself, and was killed. this made Tatsumi reevaluate his goals and join the guild. After his colleagues in the Guild were injured in the conflict, Eichi recruited him for the Decay of Angels with the promise of being rid of all his past crimes and helping

Tsumugi is the one who enables this, as his ability is the Perfect Crime: the one that erases all evidence. goddammit Eichi stop collecting people who are unhealthily devoted to you. eventual redemption arc with the mystery trio but its switch.

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Ensemble Stars!! > Bungou Stray Dogs, Part 2

Friends and foes:

The Port Mafia.

(A continuation of my Enstars as BSD AU, see other parts below)

[Part 1] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5]

This one is a bit of a doozy lore-wise.

I already talked about Rinne in the Agency post, but here goes. The Amagis were victims of the Great War like everyone else, hence the usual oh here’s some orphans that have been abandoned by society. well! guess they have no choice but to join the mafia! oops! and that’s pretty much what happened. except Rinne is a smart guy and good at scheming and planning and Ibara was like oh shit this guy is useful (+ no longer human). so he ended up becoming an executive.

Hiiro just kind of was a package deal with Rinne, but he’s not as good at planning and all that, so they snapped up this kid with an ability (Rashomon) and taught him how to fight, except no one really needed to teach him. since Rinne’s ability is noncombative Hiiro believed it was his duty to protect his older brother and you probably know from bsd how survival behaviors can get unhealthy in the mafia

after Rinne leaves Hiiro is devastated and starts his journey to try to bring him back. once Tsukasa leaves too he kind of gets worse about it. he meets Aira during the Guild conflict and Aira is like. maybe not a good influence all the time but definitely a Normal Influence.

Tsukasa’s family is like. Not exactly in the mafia but they run one of the front corporations for the mafia. Tsukasa is having a rebellious phase/formative experience when he joins the actual mafia. this complicates internal politics, but not nearly as much as it does when he leaves. (his ability is Demon Snow; most of the abilities are pretty much the same unless otherwise noted.)

Jin was one of the underground doctors and then ditched to go to Real Medical School after leaking information to the government and getting a pardon.

ok deserters category (+ Hiiro) aside lets get into the real mafia

Nagisa is the boss because he inherited it from his adoptive father. Ibara is the one who knows practically every detail about how the mafia works and basically runs it. He does carry out Nagisa’s orders when Nagisa feels like making any.

i do what i want with my aus and that includes ELIMINATING ALL THE WEIRD STUFF. i hope youre happy readers. yes Hiyori is Elise in that he’s the manifestation of Nagisa’s ability. hes also a wholeass adult that grew up alongside Nagisa and they are best friends and also in love. Hiyori has agency in this weird ability-typical roundabout where Nagisa wanted him to be his own separate person So He Is. but also he’s badass and occasionally superhuman

Jun is just here. idk. if Karma had more of a backstory i might be able to elaborate more. he works mostly closely with Ibara but also acts as a bodyguard for Hiyori and Nagisa.

listen. i know akatsuki mafia is an interesting choice. but listen. Keito is opportunistic and willing to set aside his morals for greater ends and would fit in well. anyway he’s cool his ability is golden demon but possibly with occasional design choices that reference Vampire Shogun.

Kuro.  yeah.. Kuro. he’s got for the tainted sorrow but without the human experimentation part. (can you tell i havent read stormbringer part 1) his sister has no clue he’s in the mafia and no one in the mafia knows he has a sister. Keito’s right-hand man.

Souma is so loyal to Keito for saving him from the Shinkai cult after the war and there is nothing questionable here at all! the mafia totally isn’t exploiting his intense devotion i don’t know what you’re talking about ^-^

(they definitely are. someone take this boy to therapy)

ryuseitai in the mafia is another interesting choice, I know. i think of them in this au kind of like the Sheep. yes Kanata is technically ex-mafia but it’s okay that was just his emo phase

Chiaki. oh, Chiaki, you poor, sweet, misguided boy with nowhere else to go, so you cling to the only place that gives you a sense of belonging. you had such ideals. (his ability is basically comet punch. idk what to tell you. he punches and its like a comet.) disregard any canon information about verlaine (can you tell i havent read stormbringer part 2)

Midori just wants to sleep but he’s got one of the more powerful abilities in the mafia (falling camellias) and his coworkers are stupid

Tetora doesn’t have an ability but he makes up for it with brute strength and various weaponry. everyone is terrified of him. Kaoru swears he saw Tetora in a dress once and mistook him for a girl and no one will believe him. (this would be easily solved because if anyone would bother to ask Tetora, he’d confirm the rumor and come out as genderfluid in the process, but everyone’s too intimidated to ask Tetora.)

Kaoru is just some guy (this is totally a front, just like being heterosexual is a front. more on that in part 5)

Shinobu has exploding ninja weapons. idk what else to tell you. they’ve got exploding ninja weapons, man.

Tori is cute (it’s a trap) (come on. who else would be Q)

HiMERU was not directly involved in the mafia, but while he was away on a “business trip”, Kaname got mixed up in some shit and ended up in the mafia (briefly) and died (for profit). If you look very, very deep in the records, well... you actually won’t find anything. But if you asked Rinne, he might remember a self-proclaimed “revolutionary” with a righteous complex that tried to single-handedly destroy the Mafia...

{Rinne was friends [as much as one can be friends in the mafia] with Jun (and Shinobu, callback to asobi club) and was kind of friends by proxy with Kaname for the short time that he was there. The seemingly meaningless death and sacrifice caused Rinne to leave the Mafia. And oh, was it interesting to show up at the Agency later on and see a vaguely familiar face...}

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Ensemble Stars!! > Bungou Stray Dogs Part 3

if you’ve been reading between the lines (and/or just reading the lines), you might have guessed what part 3 is, and who’s here.

It’s the Guild, featuring...

*drumroll*

Aira Shiratori! (and others)

(A continuation of my Enstars as BSD AU, see other parts below)

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 4] [Part 5]

with another iteration of our classic mediocre graphic, made by yours truly.

(this is the last looooong post, I promise, the remaining two are shorter. except maybe with more lore?)

let’s check in with Aira first, since I’ve mentioned him in every post so far. Aira doesn’t have an ability, but he takes the role of lucy here plot wise. he’s just some normal guy that works for the Guild (insert rumors about Aira and Shu being related because of the French Thing) but Kohaku saves him during the conflict and he ends up working at Cafe Cinnamon with Niki, and also befriends some guy that has his face on Wanted posters (Hiiro).

Shu is the leader of the Guild. their main Thing is buying illegal art because Shu has a Collection. also he likes anonymously catching art thieves and forgers and turning them it. it’s complicated. he seeks the Book to create the ultimate art form. Shu’s ability is Mademoiselle’s Room (like anne’s room) and Mademoiselle is one of his most trusted advisors...

...along with Mika. Mika isn’t very confident, but he’s good at thinking of everything... like, everything. Shu’s other right-hand person, along with Mado-nee.

Nazuna used to be closer to Shu, but they began to disagree on artistic matters and then on business. nowadays, it’s rare to see them in the same room.

The other members of Ra*bits (in game) usually work as a unit with Nazuna. Hajime works with the Guild to support his family and has the ability Gone With The Wind. Mitsuru... sure. Mitsuru has the ability thats just two little guys. Tomoya’s box says “some guy” because i don’t know who James L is and he’s not important and also dead. Tomoya is important and not dead.

Kunugi-sensei is much less active than he used to be, and is mostly just here for his ability which has been transformed into an airship. yknow. the usual.

Tatsumi is from a religious family and his ability is the Scarlet Letter. He often works as a team with Natsume and Hajime (nice gardenia reference, nerd). Very devoted to his colleagues. more on that next post.

Natsume’s ability sucks people into another world created through witchcraft (yes like poe’s ability. but also like natsume’s canon vr world. for funsies). He took this ability into a DIY escape room contest and was absolutely demolished when Leo entered. he’s kind of bitter about that. would follow Shu-niisan to the ends of the world, or maybe just Yokohama. he occasionally visits the Agency after confronting Leo, and ends up close with Sora.

Mayoi is an eldritch being. rarely seen out of his room. on the occasions he works with Tatsumi he keeps babbling about how horrendous he is and how Tatsumi wants nothing to do with him, and Tatsumi is just like, chill out, you are lovely and one of god’s creations, and Mayoi turns into a creature. they make a good team nonetheless.

Izumi and Arashi were outstanding models and ballet partners, such that they caught Shu’s eye. Izumi has a sharp tongue but a valuable eye for aesthetics, and he’s banned from the Agency premises. Arashi and Aira are good friends that go shopping together and after the whole mess, Arashi becomes a regular customer at Cafe Cinnamon.

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Ensemble Stars!! > Bungou Stray Dogs, Part 5

i can’t believe it took me this long to make part 5, sorry. i have like 4 Lengthy Assignments/papers this weekend and ive only finished one. anyway.

this might be my favorite part actually. if you’ve been wondering where UNDEAD is...

[Bungou Stray Dogs manga spoilers below!!]

(continuation of my enstars as BSD au, previous posts below)

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] and this is the last part!

The Hunting Dogs.

first of all. if you havent heard of Saya-chan, the hunting dog’s mascot:

(the right-side comic) in this house we appreciate saya-chan.

Leon is basically Saya-chan but they’ve just got this dog wandering around a military complex. One time Koga saw a new Leon plushie that got made and he started crying because he thought Leon had been turned into a plushie by an Ability.

Rei is the leader of the Hunting Dogs. (unlike in BSD canon no he is not involved with the Decay. totally separate and they are enemies. we like the hunting dogs in this au) He used to be the informal leader of the ragtag group of the Eccentrics, and was well known and feared on the streets. the government recruited him and started a new elite Ability user unit. (his ability is whatever Fukuchi’s ability is called that increase the effectiveness of a weapon x100. he’s also a vampire)

[enstarrie voice] nice light music club reference nerd

the twins are Rei’s second-in-command. their ability lets them instantaneously swap places at any moment; they’ve developed a strategy where they have totally different combat strengths, so they work together really well: Yuta is better at speed and stealth, where Hinata is strnger and more... distracting. in uniform, no one can tell them apart (except the other hunting dogs).

Koga heard of Rei, because everyone’s heard of Rei, and really looked up to him, and tried to get his attention through various dubiously legal stunts until they let him join the hunting dogs. He’s got Tecchou’s ability because it’s kind of similar to Fukuchi’s (which Rei has) and he’s got the whole thing of wanting to be like Rei. yknow. Leon is his dog first and foremost and the unofficial mascot second.

Adonis therefore gets Jouno’s ability which means I probably should have put them in the opposite places in the graphic but its too late for that. oh well. it still makes sense though and it’s fine because Adonis has a strong moral code like Tecchou and his motivation is protecting other and just. I have so many feelings about how Adonis is such a good and sweet guy and just genuinely A Good Person. ok?

i love plot. Kaoru as Tachihara was the third thing I came up with in this au (after wataei fyolai and rinne dazai). First of all they’re both my favorite characters. second of all they both have family stuff with loss and being compared to their older siblings. and third of all the ocean thing can connect him to Kanata so we sort of have the connection going on there. I’m thinking his ability instead of controlling metal is controlling water, and if he hadn’t joined the mafia as a spy well after Kanata left, they would have been partnered up in an instant.

as a fun little reference to the wan comic above I will throw in the fact that Kaoru adores Leon

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Kanata and Leo in my Bungou Stray Dogs AU! (as Yosano and Ranpo. kind of)

this here is the scene in volume 8 after they go to confront that weirdo from the guild (Natsume) (bonus sketch under the cut)

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bsd!ibara has a private twitter account with no name attached to it where he posts the vaguest possible complaints about his coworkers. one time he says “disagreement in policy with my boss 3 dead 16 injured” and his followers eat this shit up like comedy gold but he was actually 100% serious

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an excerpt from what might be called... Rinne Amagi and the Dark Era, if you will.

alternatively: ibara struggle tweet

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“Your Excellency.” 

Nagisa flips the page of his novel. “This is a fascinating story, Ibara.” He takes a sip of tea. 

“I’m sure it is, Your Excellency.” Ibara sounds caught off guard. “Really, it’s very important that we talk about this, I must insist you put the novel down for a moment.” 

“I suppose you must,” Nagisa says mildly. He continues reading. It was a very compelling novel he had picked up: the story is about an assassin who wants to be a novelist, but feels like he is not qualified. “Ibara, do you think one has to be ‘qualified’ to be a human?” 

Ibara splutters. “I’m sure I wouldn’t—really, shouldn’t—” He nearly crumples the paper in his hands, but sets it down on the table instead, a little harder than necessary. “Why don’t you ask His Highness?”

Nagisa sighs over his cup of tea. “You really must stop being jealous of Hiyori,” he reminds Ibara.

“I am not—” 

“What’s the news you wanted to talk about?” Nagisa interrupts. 

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ok. pinned post time

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hi! i’m puddle or if you know me you can call me by names that i have. like in general. i write a lot and i draw... less a lot but i do that.

current main interest: bungou stray dogs (it's back)

i have a lot of ideas for stuff and AUs that i talk about sometimes, all my original posts are tagged as #puddle talks

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Longest Tag: 139 characters

#but currently? the contender for making the next sweater vest is this neon orange yarn i have three skeins of. and i think that would be :)

My Top Posts in 2022:

(this is a long section so i cut it off but its: 5. enstars bsd au part 1, 4. kuroshu from the valkatsuki mv, 3. dramatica autism post, 2. incomprehensible screaming about favorite characters, and 1. the ryuseitai post)

#5

Ensemble Stars!! > Bungou Stray Dogs

For clarification: this AU is about Enstars characters as if they were in the BSD universe. it is not the other way around. it is not a crossover.

this au did not start with the Agency. but the very Second thought I had about it was:

wouldn’t Rinne Amagi be a great Dazai?

and I was so, so, right.

[Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5]

here’s part 1 of 5 of my mediocre, slightly inaccurate, horribly blurry diagrams. (in my defense i got the enstars icons from one of the appellations pages)

Madara founded the agency after finding Leo (somehow) and it grew from there. (think origins of the detective agency)

Leo is a prodigy detective but it’s like a hit-or-miss whether he’ll help on regular cases which is why the agency is A Whole Thing

Kanata and Madara were childhood friends like in canon, including the cult thing. Kanata’s ability has the healing element of Thou Shalt Not Die, but instead of the catch being that the victim had to be half-dead, kanata either has to use water to heal them, or consume some of their blood. (slight reference to stuff from meteor impact because i think it fits thematically with the bsd setting)

kanata and madara lost touch with the beginning of the great war (same war as in bsd canon) but eventually reconnected and kanata joined the agency

ok. heres one of the reasons i called this slightly inaccurate. yall need to know that when i make aus its never exactly 1:1 with the characters. example in question: ritsumao. just think... their normal dynamic in enstars canon, but they join the agency instead of becoming idols. ritsu uses light snow to pretend he’s working and mao always slaps him to dispel the illusion

trickstar are just  there. theyre like the background workers of the agency

anzu is haruno because shes  potentially plot relevant (do not ask me who natsume-sensei/mii-chan is i do not fucking know. probably the godfather)

HiMERU honestly fits the Normal Guy (actually has problems). that’s part of why he’s kunikida. the other part of why is rinne.

Rinne is ex-mafia because he’s dazai here and im not making a completely new plot, thats why its a bsd au and not something totally different. He uses mafia money to gamble and everyone is all like Where Does He Get The Money??? he spends half his work hours annoying HiMERU and the other half annoying Niki.

Sora is just some kid. he introduces Leo to video games and everyone watches with trepidation (it actually makes Leo more productive)

Kohaku... is sort of ex-mafia. His family operates a highly successful business in killing people. Kohaku has never killed anyone. In the interests of the mafia, they send him to assassinate Madara. he gets offered a job instead.

Tsukasa goes after Kohaku to get him to return and ends up... also getting a job.

And Cafe Cinnamon:

Niki just works here. He doesn’t get paid to deal with all this shit. (he does get free total access to the kitchen at all times.)

Aira joins later (more on that in part 3). He helps Niki out around the cafe and ends up entangled in the agency’s problems way more often than he would like.

29 notes - Posted November 15, 2022

#4

See the full post

30 notes - Posted October 23, 2022

#3

wow guys i cant believe approximately 2/3 of DRAMATICA is autistic... really says something about theatre people

31 notes - Posted September 18, 2022

#2

me talking about my favorite characters to the average person: oh i really like their design. and they’re funny. i like the narrative themes.

my actual thoughts about them:   auayuyarytardtagdhurifhigjrkslgjdlkjhdfjkjhasdGATUIYURFHUHURHUDDFGKLSHGJDFHJGCKEMDEKOEKDOEKDOA;DKKSLMKJDSPOAOIOAOAAOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) hahahahahaha their interactions (sobbing) (hwkjgrwdwrgffgwrfwg)

34 notes - Posted December 4, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

RYUSEITAI! RYUSEITAI M AND MORE IMPORTANTLY RYUSEITAI N!!! RYUSEITAI!!! RYUSEITAI RYUSEITAI

RYUSEITAI N ARE GOOD AND ALL HUG EACH OTHER

SHINOBU IS SO IMPORTANT AND LIKES FROGS

MIDORI IS SO IMPORTANT AND DESERVES THE WORLD

TETORA IS WINNING AT GENDER

THEY HAVE CUDDLE PILES SOMETIMES

RYUSEITAI M IS JUST CHIAKANA BUT THATS OKAY!!! CHIAKI IS THE SUN AND HE CARES ABOUT KANATA AND KANATA IS  THE OCEAN AND CHIAKI IS HIS CONNECTION TO HUMANITY AND I THINK THAT IS BEAUTIFUL

I LOVE RYUSEITAI!!!!!!!

39 notes - Posted October 29, 2022

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