#so either chuuya just generally rambles about dazai

[tittysuckersworld]

why are you, as a man, bringing up a man thats not related to the conversation that youve only seen twice since he dissappeared for 4 years. why are you bringing him up? to angrily ramble about him? when hes not even in the conversation? when hes barely related to the topic? is it cause hes on your mind? huh?

[evermorethecrow]

Any thoughts u want to share on the omegaverse au?

YES ACTUALLY QUITE A FEW

-Dazai isnt a omega or alpha but in fact a beta (it fits him so much trust)

-i have alpha and omega as the majority beta being far and few between + generally not looked into that much too?? some people dont really even think about them ( you go to your sex ed class its like 3 slides on omegas, 3 slides on alphas and then like 1 slide on betas thats like 'yeah they just have nothing happen to them' a lotta betas think they just havent presented yet)

-NO SEX!!!!!!!!!!! like for realzies ive been calling it the sexless abo au for a reason theres like none of the usual typical abo heat cycle shit , im Far from a prude but i wanted to do something non traditional and abo is traditonally a sex trope so yknow

-chuuya isnt a alpha omega or beta but a weird sorta combination??? a variety of factors (Lab, suribachi) fucked his biology over quite a bit, he presented real late (typical age in this one to present is like 13 he showed nothing till 16) and hes basically like all three of them depending on the day ??? his scent fluctuates and changes a ton ,entirely inconsistant, it'll full on like disapear entirely sometimes for like a week and then come back. as for the actual heat n rut thing (the thing people are here for </3 /j) he kinda like. has both. let me explain, he might go into heat or whatever and then midway through it changes OR he could have them back to back or like nothing for months its like again NOt at all liner.

-Back to the no sex thing, its not like a pg rated au its more i wanted to use omegaverse as an excuse to do a whole fic on various charecters relationships with sex, in usual evermore fashion. the omegaverse is a very gendered trope i feel a lot or at least its become that??? became that at some point?? its also a more sex focused version of our society you can really do a LOT with the omegaverse i find it real fun to play around with especially when it comes to charecters who dont fit into the ideas general society has (read: chuuya).

-asexual chuuya

-im also not doing any of that 'inner alpha' 'inner omega' stuff sorry to any fans of that </3 when it comes to compulsions like nesting or whatever i say its something either can have (either being alpha or omega) i think its just pushed more onto omegas and sterotypically an omegan thing

-oh also im giving them the fangs and claws because i physically cant NOt have some kind of monsterish parts on bsd guys everytime i have to design a bsd charecter with no supernatural elements a fairy dies

-AND this is set in the bsd canon world so abilities and such a still around, theres a high concentration of betas among ability users and abilities can effect the abo parts, maybe chuuyas so messed up because hes a singularity who knows??

I'll stop my rambling now but you get the gist of it

[dazaiosamusbandages]

I think Dazai had a fall out with Chuuya before he left the Port Mafia, like, they were just acquaintances to each other at that point. Chuuya was fed up with Dazai's BS and Dazai got bored of Chuuya :0

tbh this makes sense—especially taking into consideration the events with oda right before he left. to my knowledge we don’t know exactly how long after oda’s death that dazai decided to seek out somewhere outside the mafia, but it was long enough to plan and get everything he needed to blow up chuuya’s car

but during the period after oda’s death, he would be more emotionally closed off before and probably wouldn’t have spoken to really anyone in general while he internally processed his emotions (or, you know, forced himself to shut them off)

also because bpd dazai lives in my brain it would make sense that after a few years, chuuya (a potential fp) became not as interesting, and as it happens with bpd people sometimes they lose fps and later pick up new ones (in the ada possibly atsushi or kunikida, depending on your interpretation. could even still be chuuya if he split and made an impulsive decision to completely cut him off, then later came to the realization that he might have regretted that decision)

^i find that kind of thought process is common with people who suffer from bpd, usually blocking an fp then a few months later unblocking because they HAVE to see what their fp was doing, then going back to blocking when it hurts, and just keep on doing that until they either reach out again or find a new fp (also for those who don’t know, fp is “favorite person”)

idk what else to ramble about but yeah i’d also think that part of dazai chose to cling to chuuya because from my own perception chuuya could be bipolar, and not just anger issues like people tend to treat him. and chuuya does care about dazai, except his mood swings would lead to increased hostility in certain situations, because we also see that chuuya has a soft side (particularly around kouyou) and i kind of want to see dazai back in the pm because of mori’s deal if we ever escape the current arc and fyodor’s evilness, even though pm dazai would make him suffer so much but we’d have double black again

[creatorbiaze]

BSD thoughts; Nikolai Gogol's sanity

So, honestly, I think Nikolai IS sane.

take what i say w/ a grain of salt tho; my own views / thoughts are pretty skewed + i have legitimately no understanding of emotional responses/impacts tbh.

ramble below but. spoilers & stuff for the manga

So nikolai tells Atsushi that he is actually sane & understands what he does is wrong.

he's probably not lying actually.

My thoughts are, what if he's USED to his way of acting? sees it as a role he has to fill in order to achieve freedom. Or, sees it as the REASON he needs freedom.

he does the opposite of what everything tells him to do.

It's possible he had previous environments where either a) he grew accustomed to being heartless or b) was completely under someone's control/command.

He shows genuine regret & sadness for Fyodor's death. A normal, completely HUMAN response to losing someone important to him.

someone that's "free" from attachment & feelings wouldn't do that. hell, i doubt I would react that much to a person's death. He realized, in that moment, he WONT be free.

I don't know what would CAUSE him to do all this for freedom, but something definitely caused it. His "insanity" is a mask he puts on to either comfort his victims, or drive people away so he DOESN'T get attached. Fyodor saw through that mask.

He's definitely naturally hyperactive , but the full extents he has + his behavior's a mask.

Nikolai may be mimicking someone, or he may be doing the exact opposite, like his general actions. He may be purposfully making himself Too Different so people won't show sympathy or want to get close.

what better way to keep people from getting attached, than being near-completely unlikable? a complete and udder monster?

back to the start of the ramble; he explains his longing for freedom + how he's actually a completely normal person. He finally let down his mask. But why? if he doesn't want sympathy or anything?

Doubt it'd be manipulation. Honestly, he probably was just bored or wanted to talk about how he really is.

Im bad at keeping secrets about myself, so I'd probably do the same actually.

He probably hoped Atsushi being his enemy would mean he wouldn't feel sympathy for nikolai.

similarly, he lets down his mask to grieve Fyodor IN FRONT of Dazai & Chuuya. Because they're Dazai and Chuuya. they shouldn't give a shit.

considering the way nikolai's murdered people before + how he was w/ atsushi, he's definitely able to keep his mask on while he's internally hating himself.

Wonder if him taking off the eye covering thing is a parallel to that. he takes it off when his mask drops for a bit.

ironically, considering his bond with Fyodor, that lack of sympathy is probably what makes Nikolai get attached to people.

His longing for absolute freedom clashes with his human need for closeness, so he follows people that wont care about him. he'll have someone to be close to, but theoretically no actual attachments.

They won't treat him like a traumatized person (which he probably is) or someone that has to be saved. they wont get attached to HIM. he knows this. which means it SHOULD lessen the blow when either he or they die. theoretically. obviously that didn't work.

anyways if i keep talking it'll just get repetitive so. ye

[anti-dazai-blog]

I like Dazai but tbh I don’t like seeing people portray him and Chuuya as like uwu fun older brother figures for Yumeno. Like Dazai was really contemplating on killing them and Chuuya wasn’t stopping him either. And Yumeno clearly resents Dazai for how he treated them.

Everyone talks about the abuse cycle with Dazai and Aktugawa but I don’t see enough people acknowledge that with Dazai and Yumeno, especially considering that they’re only 13 y/o in the present series. They’re still a child who’s a product of Dazai’s cruelty.

Here’s a long stream of consciousness rant where I ramble about nothing for ten minutes

don’t wanna delete this, don’t wanna post this, but a secret third thing (ie posting it under a cut)

Anon I have THOUGHTS.

about the inherent hierarchy of ability users and how it’s so prevalent throughout BSD yet never addressed directly.

(I do get around to commenting on your ask specifically, but it’s a few paragraphs down)

And the reason your ask made me think of this is because Q was actually the first character who made me begin thinking about this.

See, when Q’s introduced, Dazai says something like “and they have the most vile gift of all; mind control”. The way he says it makes it sound like it’s less his own opinion and more so the common view of things; that any variation of mind control is the most horrendous ability.

Which makes sense, to enter someone’s mind and force them to act against their will is invasive to an extreme. It definitely crosses all the lines, and in a world where mind control exists, it would probably be judged to be equivalent to rape, as both involve forcing someone to physically do what you force them to, without their consent, invading their mind or body in the process.

So we know there’s a stigma against mind control ability users. The moment someone develops an ability like that, they’re bound to become a social outcast. Even their close family and friends may lose trust in them.

We also know that abilities can be grouped as “combative” “general” and “non-combative”. Although it’s not stated outright if this is a common grouping system or rather just one the ADA uses, it would make enough sense for such a set of groupings to be used elsewhere. “Can your ability cause harm? Can it do anything other than cause harm?”

As far as I can recall, this is the only grouping system for abilities that was mentioned so far. And I think it says a lot that the one thing that it’s based on is how much harm an ability can cause.

There also seems to be some stigma against powerful (combative) ability users, claiming that either they’re too overpowered to ever have to work hard or learn skills, or that everything in life must have been easy for them, and they were set for life the moment they discovered their ability.

We see this stigma multiple times, mainly directed towards Atsushi and Chuuya. They both contradict and prove these claims wrong repeatedly, yet there will always be opponents they face who firmly believe these stereotypes.

So we see that stereotyping people based off their abilities is prevalent in the Bungo Stray Dogs world. And then you have characters like Mushitaro, whose ability’s only purpose is to cover up crimes. And character like Kyoka and Fyodor(?), whose abilities can’t do much more than kill. And you’re left wondering where that leaves them, and what chance did they have to not get involved in crime in the first place, with how we could infer this world treats people with abilities like theirs.

And then we have Dazai. The one person who has a fighting chance to see beyond the stereotypes and “ability racism”(?? not really sure what to call prejudice based around superpowers in the Bungo Stray Dogs universe), yet he happens to be the person introducing many of the stereotypes. Of course, you could argue that he has the most experience with ability users and therefore has seen firsthand that these stereotypes are often correct. But that’s besides the point. Back to my first statement about hierarchy.

Dazai exists above the ability hierarchy, because he can shut off any ability at will. The more a person relies on their ability, the more Dazai is a threat to them, putting him far above them on a hierarchal scale. And who tends to rely the most on their abilities? Powerful ability users. The ones who have the most stereotypes against them.

Naturally those are the ones Dazai would end up interacting with most, and given how, in most cases, we can assume they didn’t expect to be dealing with an ability nullifier, they hadn’t planned for this possibility and lost by default. So you can’t really blame Dazia for thinking so low of them, but you also can’t blame them for losing against a variable they had no way of knowing existed in the first place. The stereotypes are incorrect because Nullifier Georg, with negative a million abilities, is an outlier adn should not be counted. [as you can tell I have a favorite Tumblr meme]

BACK TO Q!! BACK TO YOUR ORIGINAL ASK!!

That whole entire scene of retrieving Q makes me think of the inherent heirarchy of ability users, but mainly how Dazai stands above them.

Alone in a room with Q and Chuuya, two of the most powerful ability users who can each single-handedly wipe out a city, Dazai is still able to display his dominance. His point is correct, he can kill Q— and Chuuya’s observation that he (Chuuya) wouldn’t be able to do anything about it is correct as well.

I don’t believe that Dazai had any intention of actually killing Q, nor do I believe that Chuuya didn’t realize that Dazai had no intention of doing so. It came across as a power move. “You’re the most powerful ability user in the city, and they’re the most dangerous, yet neither of you could do anything to stop me at this very moment”.

I’m working on my analysis for chapter 31 at the moment (the chapter where this whole scene happens), and of course I point out how wrong and messed up it is to put a knife to an unconscious child’s throat, regardless of if you intend any harm. But another point I bring up repeatedly in the Anti-Dazai Series is how Dazai has this recurring habit of subtly reminding the characters who aren’t fully in control of their abilities (mainly Atsushi and Chuuya) that he’s their only hope. That he’s the only safety net they have. That he’s the only thing standing between them and losing control and killing all their loved ones. So to follow this pattern, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that he has Chuuya acknowledge outright that there’s nothing he could do, and then a few panels later reminds Chuuya that he’s the only off switch in the world.

so yeah, Dazai’s not “big brother material” for Q.

and neither is Chuuya, at least not in the scenes we saw them together in— he outright admits he despises Q for killing his own people.

Of course everyone can headcanon whatever they want— have fun and enjoy the fandom experience!! But I personally think Q’s just a kid and they deserve better.

[asachuu]

It’s that time of the month, folks, you know what that means…naturally, my thoughts on Fifteen’s phases 16-17, as well as just some more stuff I simply want to add, because this manga keeps on giving me things to talk about, for better or for worse.

Please note that there will be image spoilers for phases 16-17 below, proceed with caution.

This will be more of a freehand ramble about whatever comes to mind while I’m typing, I’m admittedly somewhat tired today and there’s not much new I could really add as a whole atop the persisting flaws in it, but what I will say is that I’m now starting to think even Chuuya fans are slightly losing here as well, looking at some of these panels. That is not to say they’re badly drawn, once more, I must give all credit to the artwork as I have to admit I very much like it and appreciate the effort that goes into it, but the focus of many of these pages seems to be purely to shock, intimidate or disturb the viewer in a certain way by highlighting the exaggerated abilities of the characters, rather than having the visuals balanced with the actual point of the story itself, which is not— and never has been— about the amounts of power Arthur and Chuuya hold, respectively. Perhaps I will be repeating myself here, but if anyone is to read the novel, they’ll come to find out that there is no more focus on abilities than there is on expanding Dazai, Chuuya and Arthur as characters and human beings within the story of BSD.

Nevertheless, it just so happens that Chuuya thankfully has a certain fanbase, of which the majority of people seem to understand he isn’t meant to be a cold-hearted maniac despite harboring the power of Corruption and being depicted/interpreted in various ways showcasing the extent of his abilities, but speaking from personal experience, the same can’t be said about anyone who comes to know of Arthur, which I don’t mean inherently negatively— I was also once such a person, for which I must sarcastically thank the anime adaptation that initially introduced me to him. At least, on Chuuya’s end, there are always attempts to show his humanity, his actual personality, and I’d have two guesses as to why— first, he’s one of the two most popular BSD characters who has the spotlight on him either by the creators or the fandom almost everywhere he goes; second, his story directly revolves around whether he is or isn’t human anyway, so it’s entirely understandable that a contrast between himself and his abilities would make sense to show, even sometimes exaggerate, just like in Hoshikawa’s adaptation.

Unfortunately, this contrast is just lost on Arthur’s end, because there is no other side of him being anyhow shown to the readers. Personally, I wouldn’t come out thinking Chuuya is some kind of heartless monster, given that he’s shown to interact with other characters normally, he’s seen coming back to his senses after a few panels, and generally, no matter what has been cut out and what has been left in, it just so happens that there is simply enough content of him to be able to merely afford to do any of this— all of which can’t be said about Arthur, who has all the necessary content to understand his character better specifically in the Fifteen light novel (and Stormbringer), not scattered all around several other books and mangas to be able to sacrifice one adaptation of the source material and still carry on. Albeit we still haven’t seen the end of the fight, in which I’m dearly hoping his dialogue is going to be portrayed properly with the same emotion it was presented to us with in the light novel as the absolute last chance for this to turn around in the slightest, I can safely say that there were opportunities to create this same effect with Arthur as with Chuuya, yet these opportunities were all passed up.

From the start, we’re introduced to this strange, yet harmless-looking sub-executive of the Port Mafia, that of which is revealed to be a ruse set up by him, and from that point onwards, throughout the fight, there is no further indication of anything beyond Arthur supposedly being nothing other than a simple cartoon supervillain who doesn’t really care about his actions, even though the novel has enough evidence scattered around that he does— he doesn’t want to be in that situation, he doesn’t actually want to kill anyone, and what he’s after is a memory of someone most dear to him which he’s desperate to get back, and believe it or not, all of this dialogue is, in fact, not supposed to be said coldly and flatly before having his ability centered to no end once more, shining the light on that aspect instead of a character who was originally someone most unfortunate and hopeless, someone who was in an inescapable situation that would have never ended well for him no matter what he’d done, and someone who was far from the person being portrayed in the manga currently.

With all that being said, one more thing I’d like to point out, which is a bit more specific to phases 16/17 at the current moment, is the way the interactions between Chuuya and Arthur are being portrayed as of right now. In the novel, it is made quite clear the two are, indeed, opponents in their fight, but Arthur has no actual desire to kill Chuuya, and Chuuya himself doesn’t actually hold anything against Arthur— in fact, it’s quite explicit in showcasing the fact that Chuuya has respect for him, understanding his motive of wanting to save a dear friend, even cursing out Dazai for not believing it or taking it seriously, and never showing any kind of outward excitement for this fight, which…will be relevant in just a second. If that’s not enough to convince a person, there’s also Chuuya visiting Arthur’s grave further in the novel and quite literally stating he will return to it again, and before that, I believe that Arthur telling Chuuya to live in his last moments also speaks volumes about the fact that there was no resentment or genuine conflict between the two, rather an unfortunate fate they were met with. In the manga, however, I don’t think it’s a reach to say that I’m not quite getting the same feeling. I’ll go ahead and admit that I’m focusing on this because of personal bias, but even despite that, I feel as though having Arthur written off as merely Chuuya’s opponent and nothing more is still not the right way to go about it, considering what I said before— there wasn’t an actual hostility between the two, and not only did Arthur tell Chuuya to live, he also was the one to call Chuuya a human being and see him as such, that of which I’d expect far more attention to just due to the mere nature of Chuuya’s character.

Now, for the first time ever, I will go into some very specific details, because I need them to show what I’m talking about. All further translation credits go to DarkestJay868 on Twitter.

This page from phase 16 was the one right after what was originally Arthur’s monologue about wanting to save his partner, and I believe it’s quite clear how I feel about that part, but I haven’t redrawn this page in particular despite it being in my original plans, so it’s only fair I give my thoughts on it while it’s relevant.

I would normally only nitpick these aspects privately instead of posting them online, but since this manga makes even such small things important for all the wrong reasons, I have to point them out. I initially didn’t think so much of this page, though I did find it a peculiar choice to make him look almost excited for the fight, atop the final line which never appeared in the novel itself— something that may seem insignificant, but ultimately, it does create the effect that Chuuya is somewhat eager to engage in this conflict for whatever reason, which is simply not the case. I could go on about some smaller dialogue changes, even his lack of harshness towards Dazai’s comments that makes his original reaction quite downplayed, but I’m leaving those in a quick mention of acknowledgment, as they’re only secondary to what I’m aiming at here.

I would have ignored this, given there’s a much bigger issue for me to focus on, had Chuuya and Arthur’s skewed interactions not continued onwards to phase 17 as well— more specifically, after Chuuya’s attacks, by the end of the chapter.

If someone were to tell me these two didn’t actually have any kind of internal conflict going on between them beforehand, I wouldn’t have believed it for a second, but here we are. From the first page, in which the original Chuuya of the novel was hurt and tired instead of almost feeling as though he isn’t taking anything too seriously, all while Arthur never said a word that nearly implies him looking down on the latter (his direct quote is “Nothing I say will help…this is my space”, you simply cannot tell me that isn’t far more neutral than what the manga turned it into), to the second page, where not only is Chuuya’s first line much more accusatory and directed at Arthur himself, rather than the original (“…everyone’s an ant to a European ability user…”), but also, might I add that Arthur wasn’t the one to hold Chuuya in place? It’s explicitly stated that Chuuya could no longer avoid the attacks by fault of using too much of his power, and even though this may sound like an insignificant detail when one is to consider the following scene of the novel— that is, almost being the one to end Chuuya’s life, which is absolutely no less cruel than a mere action like that— it still gives off the impression as though there’s some kind of hostility between them when there really wasn’t, not even during a fight to the death, and that, in the context of this manga and its very likely fandom reception…well, I’d much rather just cover even the smallest of details than watch as it ultimately gets misconstrued, as so much media surrounding this novel often does.

Anyway, that’s my take on these chapters for now. I’m aware it’s messy, I’ve only seen phase 17 a couple of hours ago and haven’t exactly prepared some kind of proper dissection. Naturally, feel free to take all this with a grain of salt, or even a whole bucket of it, because yes, I am very salty about the way this manga is going, but I’m hoping to ultimately compare it to the novel and give my own opinion on the development here.

[esmiara]

HIII YOUR ART IS SO COOL I HAVE A LITTLE QUESTION FOR A COOLER PERSON!!! How do you come up with the scenarios for your drawings?? Im in a bit of an artblock *sobs*

Thank youu!! 🤲❤️

I'm used to brainstorm a lot so it's usually very easy for me to come up with something. It can start basic then get more complicated, from "plant" to "old cyberpunk sunpowered greenhouse" (actually this one is kind of cool...). For example, I could look at a plant or a biscuit and go "how would it taste like if Dazai put salt instead of sugar if he were to try and cook some? Would it be on purpose? Maybe." or "this reminds me of a café! Oh they could go to one" or again "such a cute little plant, would this be a hassle to take care of it? Probably not. Wait what if Chuuya wasn't used to take care of plants... would he be the type to mysteriously kill a cactus in a week?" and here I am already rambling and thinking bahahah

Basically, i'm not really judgemental when thoughts come up at first so it leads to many other thoughts and so on. I know the "that reminds me of-" line is generally seen as negative but if you keep it to yourself, it can help you link thoughts together and brainstorm (btw I don't mind at all this sort of thing unless it is used as mean mockery, it usually even teach me things so that's fun) You don't have to put everything on paper, finish every drawing idea and you don't have to show everything either (in fact you only see a fraction of what I draw daily). Ideas are simply that: ideas. This is the kind of things to say that I think is always important, it makes me feel better when drawing becomes stressful.

I don't know you personally (I mean... you're even an anon after all) so I won't assume anything when it comes to the very source of your artblock. Just know that you are able to draw what you want to draw and nothing has to become a timeless masterpiece. You can draw and throw the paper right after or draw the same thing for the fifth time just because you like that one scene, that's fine. That white piece of paper isn't your enemy, it is a friend that helps you breath some life to what's on your own mind.

That being said uh- go listen to some music, watch movies, read something or do anything else that can inspire you or get you in a good mood to fuel your ideas. If it's still difficult to think of anything, try prompts generators! They're very useful to come up with something unusual. Or try drawing some memes, it's a very fun way to draw sillies with no pressure. Oh I'm mostly talking about drawing but everything can be applied to writing as well. Just make it a fun process overall and it'll be easier!

[ethereal-blossom]

How BSD characters react when you can't fall asleep

ft: dazai, chuuya, atsushi, akutagawa, ranpo & kunikida

Dazai:

There is a huge chance your man is awake as well and noticed every turn and sigh of frustration.

When you turn for the umpteenth time, Dazai lets you know he's awake by making a teasing comment on your restlessness.

Naturally, this man struggles with falling asleep almost every night and knows what you're feeling. He happily stays awake with you! (it isn't like sleep is kind to him when it does come anyways.)

Would love to read you to sleep <3

Not reading out of his -eh- favorite book though, but he'd happily read one of your favorites! There's something intimate and peaceful about you resting your head on his chest, one of his arms tenderly wrapped around your frame while his other hand holds your favorite book in the depths of the night.

Dazai could also ramble and tease you for hours if you prefer that. Depending on what Dazai thinks you need, he'd either make you cackle by telling the craziest made-up stories or lull you to sleep with his soothing voice.

If you refuse to try to sleep again while Dazai knows you need it, he's going to bargain with you. No morning or awake kisses for you because you'll have to wake up for those.

Chuuya:

He's either passed out when you're struggling to catch sleep because of how demanding his job is or he still isn't back from his job. say thank you to the port mafia /s

One word: cuddles.

When you wake Chuuya up because you can't stand it anymore, the first thing Chuuya does is put his arm around your waist and tightly press you against his chest. He doesn't even say anything; the only thing his brain processes through the sleepy fog in his mind is that you need him.

Chuuya would run his fingers through your hair, play with your braids or just play with your hair in general! Chuuya doesn't even realize he's doing it, but his subconscious knows it'll comfort you.

Would also be willing to give you a little massage so your muscles can relax. Chuuya can barely keep his eyes open but that isn't a problem: he knows your body very well. With closed eyelids, he'd kiss your shoulder blades and neck, softly humming every time he removes his lips from your skin.

Soft "I love you's" fill your ears. Even if you can't fall asleep or have given up on it, the warmth of Vhuuya's love for you will embrace you no matter what.

Atsushi:

Not a deep-sleeper, so Atsushi will likely be awoken by your turning and tossing. Even if you purposefully woke him up, he doesn't mind at all.

The first thing he asks is if there's something wrong followed up by the question if there's anything he can do to help, our sweet tiger boy <3

Atsushi is naturally going to try to stay awake with you. He's immediately overloaded with this sense of wanting to help you as much as he can. He always wants to be there for you even if it's something as small as not being able to fall asleep (it also depends on the reason why you can't fall asleep ofc).

Tea tea tea!! with lots of sugar.

Sorry but you coffee addicts won't be getting any coffee.

Especially if you're hungry, Atsushi is going to make you a simple but warm meal, maybe chazuke! A filled stomach can do miracles and Atsushi knows it.

Blushes when you wrap your arms around him and thank/praise him for the good care. Bonus points if you caress his back because you got this weretiger clenching his jaw not to embarrassily pur.

Overall very supportive. He doesn't mind staying awake with you even though it makes him look like a sleepy kitten. Besides, you can always wake him up if it means he can eat chazuke with you.

Akutagawa:

He might not show immediate sympathy < / 3

The man is a light sleeper because of obvious reasons. You don't even realize your significant other has woken until he suddenly opens his eyes and asks why you're moving so loudly.

When you explain the situation, he'll turn silent for a second. Akutagawa is a fighter by instinct and his softer side doesn't come out as effortlessly as we would want to. Give him a second to think about his next response because he genuinely does care about you.

Tea, the answer is tea. With lots of sugar at your service as well.

Akutagawa silently watches you. It's almost creepy how his eyes won't leave the sight of you while you stop your rant about how you're unable to catch sleep to sip the tea he made for you.

Akutagawa too isn't unfamiliar with sleepless nights. When your glass is empty, your boyfriend commands you to tuck yourself well under the covers (unless it's a hot summer day).

Right when you think that was it, you feel his fingers touching yours for a second. They are gone immediately.... until you feel them again. Your fingers lock with one another and slowly, Akutagawa tightens his grip. He thinks about the time his friends would tell each other a good night story when the other couldn't sleep.

Akutagawa surprisingly is a fascinating storyteller with the way he adds a poetic touch to every emotion, thought, and action.

Not only will it help you fall asleep or at least find peace in this darkness, but you can also see through your half-closed eyelids that Akutagawa has a serene look on his face. You're not the only one who finds peace in this interaction.

Ranpo:

First of all, this man is ten times more clingy when sleepy. When you wake him up because the frustration of not catching sleep becomes too much, he will cling to you like a koala while hiding his face in your neck.

Asks in a whiny tone why you had to wake him up and when you answer it is because you can't sleep, he'll immediately know the reason why (even if you don't know yourself).

Based on that, Ranpo will change his attitude. Although, he'll mostly try to distract and tire your mind.

After a midnight snack, that is! It is never too early or late to eat candy in Ranpo's humble opinion. It's also a good way to distract you since your man knows his stuff about candy.

Keeps you busy with those candy knits and teaches you everything (if he hadn't shown you already).

Afterwards, Ranpo convinces you to have a cuddle session on the futon so you could try to fall asleep again. When Ranpo has his head rested on your stomach with his hands wrapped around you while you play with his hair, you both realize how lucky you're to have each other.

Kunikida:

You are bit unsure at first the minute you give up on falling asleep whether you should wake Kunikida or not. After all, being woken up by his lovely significant other is not a part of Kunikida's schedule.

However, Kunikida already noticed that you stopped tossing but also concluded due to your breathing and groan of frustration that you were not successful in catching sleep.

Even if you had to wake him up, this man would not mind at all. Quite the opposite, he's going to ask in a concerned and slightly disorientated tone what's wrong (almost panics because oh no did he sleep through his alarm?).

Listens patiently to your frustrations on how you can't fall asleep, and also to the reasons of why if you know them.

Also one of the guys to make tea for you <3

When you say there's no need and that you can do it yourself because this was not part of his schedule, Kunikida responds: "Nonsense. You're always a part of my schedule. I have this exact scenario written under my emergency ones."

Back in bed, Kunikida wraps an arm around you as you nestle your face in his chest, making him unwillingly give a sigh of contentment.

If you still can't fall asleep, he will rattle on about his schedule and everything written in his notebook until you fall asleep.

If you haven't one already, Kunikida forces you the morning after to participate in his night routine because structure can do a lot <3

[feralshadowdemon]

Chuuya and Poe friendship headcanons because I love these two to death

Drunken rambles by Chuuya being annoyed about Dazai. Possibly at least one with Poe rambling about Ranpo but also Poe probably doesn't drink a lot if at all, so it's mainly Chuuya having these drunken rambles as Poe gives him pats on the back and just doing an awkward thumbs up of reassurance when Chuuya says "And what he did was so fucking stupid, right?"

Their movie nights are on the weekends and they usually watch horror/murder mystery movies - whether it be making fun of the horror movie tropes, trying to solve who the murderer is in the mystery movies, or just in general pointing out flaws. Plus, sometimes they find some of the movies they watch pretty good

Sometimes they have book clubs; usually murder mystery or horror genres end up being the ones they cover in the book club, but sometimes they check out the romance genre. There was a time when one of the members of the Port Mafia found Chuuya reading a romance book and slowly walked away pretending they saw nothing (It was probably Higuchi)

One time Poe and Chuuya both got drunk and somehow ended up making a conspiracy theory about how Q looked like a lovechild of Fukuzawa and Mori. They still believe it but of course never told a soul. They still have the bulletin board they made that has all the evidence somewhere

Karl has a little sweater, Chuuya made it one time out of spite when Dazai said he couldn't knit/sew. Dazai was proven wrong but still questions how Chuuya managed to do it. Poe doesn't know either but Karl likes the sweater so no questions are to be asked

One time Poe asked Chuuya to take care of Karl so Chuuya walked Karl around the Port Mafia with a child leash. Many questions were asked that day but no one got a good answer

Poe and Chuuya fall asleep when a movie is too boring for them. Karl acts as their alarm once the movie ends

When Poe and Chuuya first met Chuuya did not have the feral urge to bite Poe's ankles like he does with many other tall people. He still didnt like the fact Poe made a book to trap him in, but you know what it's okay, Poe has a pet raccoon

[sword-dad-fukuzawa]

This is such a random question and I don't know if anyone asked this before but what do you think of the whole "Mori is a sadistic doctor that experiments on people/Dazai for fun" thing?

I encounter it waay to often in fanfiction and from what I remember reading in the manga Mori isn't a person that would do such things?

I mean yeah it's mentioned pretty often that he is extremely calculating and keeps most things (people) out of either interest or because they are useful to him/the mafia but isn't that directly indicating that he wouldn't randomly harm them for his own amusement since he still needs these people for his plans? It generally doesn't make much sense to me?!?

It seems so out of character and stupid to me but it could be that I have missed something?

Hi anon! This was such a cool question, holy shit. Thanks for yeeting into my inbox and giving me something to think about ;)

So, lemme preface this by saying that I don't actually read a whole lot of BSD fanfic and so I can't say I have firsthand experience with the Mori interpretation you're talking about. But from what you've said, it sounds like an interesting take on his character that can be done well--and poorly--depending on what someone does with it.

I don't ever want to police what tropes and characterizations people write. So if someone thinks Batshit Crazy Doctor Mori is a fun thing for them to write, full power to them! Fuckin' go for it! I bet it'll be awesome!

I don't know if it's an interpretation I'd read, though, considering that trope is...ehhhh for me. It's great for standalone horror pieces but I'm not a fan of human experimentation horror in general, it kinda squicks me out.

But as for if it's strictly in-character, I'd say no. I've read the manga a bunch of times and I'd agree with your view on canon Mori. His most defining trait is that he's utilitarian. Not so much in the view of "for the greater good, always" but more that he views humans as pros and cons, always considering liabilities and risky investments. He treats people according to how much worth he's assigned them for a particular venture. Above all, Mori is deeply and terribly practical.

It's why he's a compelling villain. You can see his motivations and his thought process and you can see where you'd go "no, that shit hurts people, don't fucking do that." Because you're not an evil bastard. But Mori is an evil bastard who sees those places too, he just doesn't really give a shit.

This makes him an evil bastard, obviously, because he only considers human emotions and desires other than his own as either a lever for manipulation or a means to an end. He sacrifices Oda in Dark Era because it gets rid of several problems with only an unimportant casualty, he goes to war with the Guild because they're a threat, and he orders his men to help civilians during Q's Rampage because it's worth it to protect his turf.

Mori's a dick (affectionate) but he's not crazy. He doesn't hurt his people unnecessarily. If anything, Mori would experiment with expendables. With enemies. With prisoners. And not even then if experimentation might degrade their usefulness.

To put myself in his shoes (which I do often, considering I adore him and I adore writing him) I wouldn't experiment on my people. I want them slavishly devoted to the Port Mafia. And damn it, Mori's good at engendering loyalty--see Chuuya, Kouyou, manga Tachihara--and that's because he doesn't put his people in harm's way if he can help it. Even at the cost of his own wants and needs! Mori is a damn good leader and damn good leaders don't experiment on their people!

Just look at Cannibalism! He tells Fukuzawa, ostensibly a guy he likes even if it's in a tsundere way, that he should die. He's less important than Mori. Which, sure, you can argue that's him saving his own skin. But his logic is fucking sound. The PM would raze Yokohama to the ground if he died. The ADA would not. In the impossible situation with only two choices, having Fukuzawa die benefits the most people.

Mori is the type of person who considers this and picks it as the better option despite the fact that it means someone he likes has to die. That's how practical he is. And a person that practical cannot possibly be as batshit insane and impractical as a mad scientist who does unsanctioned experiments on his own followers.

So no, it's not in-character. But mad scientist Mori can definitely be played with and written well, as with most tropes and characterizations. If it ain't your thing, it ain't your thing, y'know? I just wouldn't say it's a thing he'd do in canon.

Anyway, those are my thoughts! Thanks again for giving me an excuse to ramble about one of my favorite BSD characters :D

[leonawriter]

I often see that when people do meta or analysis (or even headcanons/fics) on Chuuya, they’ll touch on how he is with the mafia, and they’ll ask the question of “is he actually happy there, how free is he” among other things. Often these opinions are ones I have conflicted feelings about, as I’ll freely admit I’m biased toward him staying in the mafia, and some may have a harsher view on the mafia’s influence on him, or just in general, than I do.

Earlier I saw a post that touched on several things about Chuuya and the mafia that made me think. Some aspects had been mulling in my mind for a while, too. 

(I may go into a ramble here. I’m tired and there’s stuff going on. I just hope some of it makes sense.)

The first thing is that when we compare Chuuya’s relationship with the Sheep to that with the PM, it’s easy to say “he was never respected in the Sheep, they took advantage of him and used his power, emotionally manipulating him to feel responsible” but something that sticks out when Chuuya is dealing with Mori is that in spite of the Sheep being a “democratic” organisation, everyone outside of that group sees Chuuya as its leader. He’s the one who looks out for the members, he’s the most visible, so he’s the “king.”

Effectively, Mori treats him as such in their interactions, and recognises and respects that Chuuya, despite saying “I’m not a king, I just have a trump card up my sleeve!” several times, does want to have that kind of respect. To be listened to when he says to people “don’t do that” because he knows it’s in their best interests.

Chuuya’s downfall in the Sheep is that he’s the one with the most power in terms of violence and raw physical power, having all of all of his agency and social power taken away from him in small ways. Even such things as him wanting the kids to not go to the docks and buy alcohol is them saying that they don’t care about his opinion, they don’t care about his well-being. In their opinion, they do as they like, and when they fuck around and find out, he bails them out. 

Despite his repeated protestations of “I’m no king!”, he must have on some level have internalised the idea that not only should he take responsibility, but that the responsibility to look after the kids under his protection means that they should, in theory, listen to him as well. He was no king because he was a puppet monarch; someone who is there for show, but doesn’t make any decisions.

When Chuuya watches the way that Mori works, he’s already seen how the Sheep treat those they’re afraid of, even those that they should have trusted. He sees that his former allies, his former family, would give him up in a heartbeat if they thought he was a threat. Anyone who went through that would at some point ask “where did I go wrong?”, and Mori is the one who answers him in a way that doesn’t spare his feelings, and also encourages him to pick himself back up.

If you look at what Mori says, it explains to Chuuya why Shirase (and assumedly the Sheep council) acted the way that they did. He isn’t stupid, he knows it was controlled and orchestrated by Dazai and Mori, and even says so when he’s picked up by the mafia after being betrayed. But hearing Mori leads Chuuya to understand why it happen, and if you can understand why something went wrong, then you can learn how to handle things better next time.

Chuuya respects people, he likes people, he wants them to live. He grieves their loss. I truly think he’d come at being the boss - as I think he’d inevitably become, at some point in the near or distant future - in an entirely different way to how Mori does, purely by how Chuuya doesn’t think about things in such a logical, optimal solution-based way. However, he does very much think in a way that suits the mafia. He can weigh one life against another’s, and choose the life of his own against that of someone who's done no wrong other than to go against him. He can choose the “organisation” over other people. He was good at the jewellery business when he first started out, and I’d love to know what he’s been doing since then. And he doesn’t seem to show any discomfort with that!

The thing is this - there are many reasons Chuuya stays in the mafia. 

One is that he respects and admires the people he works with, and his boss. That respect and admiration is also not a one-way street; these people see him as more than just his ability, even when they know what that is and what his origins are. That’s enough for a lifetime of gratitude, and more than just gratitude, but a feeling of “how can I ever repay this?”. And the only thing that they want from him in return is that he keeps developing, becoming more confident and better at his job(s).

Another reasons is, as said above, he has the mindset for it. He is that strange kind of person who is both infinitely kind and capable of love but also infinitely capable of cruelty and violence. Each time I think “where would Chuuya be if he weren’t in the mafia” I think of how the closest we see to his sort of mindset is either in another criminal organisation, in the Hunting Dogs (who aren’t criminal, but are the only organisation that are allowed to do such things and also be within the law), and, well... Tanizaki. Tanizaki, who would be perfectly happy to assassinate a guy just to save his boss’ life, and who someone said would do just fine in the mafia. 

The thing is, the ways in which Chuuya is trapped by the mafia are general only of his own making. He seems to have this idea that he has to have a certain kind of self-image, one that he began to cultivate back when he first joined, so that he would be given respect. In some ways, however, this also is reminiscent of Mori himself, who will be acting in an unprofessional way (trying to get a “young” girl to please get some clothes on) but have to cover that up once someone walks in. 

But this isn’t just a mafia thing! Fukuzawa does it too, and we can see it in the way that he wants to make the right kind of responses, but if he weren’t director, he’d just go with the flow more. With how he wants to just go out places and pet cats, but has to put up this image of the dignified director that people can rely on. 

In Chuuya’s case, I think it’s something he needs to work on, so that he can become a self-assured and confident adult, but in general it’s just... adulthood, to need to look professional while you’re doing your job. The problem with some of these characters is that their job is so closely tied with who they are.

To summarise:

Chuuya wanted the respect of being a leader even as he was denied personal agency while in the Sheep, and was given the ability to work toward that respect and earn it from others on his entry into the mafia. Mori’s words showed him what he lacked, but also highlighted what hadn’t been given to him before.

Chuuya’s place is in the mafia as it is where his talents lie, but more importantly it is most likely where he would feel the least out of place, and the least uncomfortable by peoples’ assumptions that he “should” act or think in a certain way. Just as in many ways he is seen as “too nice and kind” for the mafia, so would he be seen as “too violent, cruel, and callous” to work in the light, within the law, and his continued ability to stay loyal to the mafia without discomfort for what they do would make it impossible for him to work for the ADA.

[achoo-tagawa]

Akutagawa's Potential Response

Everytime I think about the new chapter, I always wonder what Akutagawa's response would be to Higuchi's confession if he actually heard it.

I mean that was what she was trying to do, right? Before she got bit by him instead of sharing a vulnerable moment?

Would he accept them or reject them?

You see my heart says... ' of course he loves her and they're gonna get married and be happy together bluh bluh bluh'

But my brain, who is little bit more reasonable, would notice that Akutagawa doesn't seem to have any romantic interest towards her (or anyone really) throughout the manga. There's no hints of it at all. It would be quite abrupt if he did. It's not really part of his character arc either.

But maybe that's not a bad thing.

This might be biased since I don't really ship akuhigu at all as a romantic pairing and you have every right to disagree with me.

However, I'm really happy that higuchi gained the confidence to try and tell Akutagawa her feelings. It's a step in the right direction.

It reminds me of a time when I fell in love with this girl once and I thought we were really close but I refrained from saying anything in case I break the friendship. Then a few months past by and at the first time I saw her again, I was so overwhelmed with emotion, I just sprouted out things that were kept hidden behind a door for so long. She politely rejected me and of course I was devastated but tbh our friendship is better than it ever was now because I didn't feel the urge to impress her anymore. I didn't rely on her attention all the time and began to accept the person I was.

Maybe that's what Higuchi needs as well.

If Akutagawa rejects her feelings, then that would be great opportunity to move on forward, to gain more confidence and independence for herself, not needing to be put on Akutagawa's good list all the time, just doing her best because she's absolutely brilliant when she can be.

This might be a stretch but it can link back to irl Higuchi as well. Her mentor didn't reciprocate the feelings she had for him but she used that pain of rejection, to write amazing stories and look! She ended up being one of the founding faces of Japanese Literature!

Furthermore, maybe Akutagawa would change his attitude towards Higuchi after seeing her be open with him because let's be honest, it could be better. Their whole dynamic has so much potential and I really think they could be a formidable team if there wasn't any of this unrequited love business.

Edit: Although, who knows! Maybe they do become canon.

I think we can all realise after chapter 88 dropped that Asagiri has no fecking boundaries.

I am quite cynical when it comes to romance too and though Akuhigu is really cute in a fanon sense, I genuinely don't think an actual relationship in canon will benefit these two at all. Akutagawa gets most of his development from Atsushi anyway and well Higuchi ... she would just stay the same which isn't really what I want from her.

Even if Akutagawa doesn't reciprocate the same feelings, I want him to at least notice how much she's done for him and be grateful for once for the people who generally care about him like Gin and Chuuya etc.

As Akutagawa will slowly get over Dazai, I think Higuchi should stop her obsession over Akutagawa too, ya know?

Whatever solution Asagiri thinks of for the final climax, I hope Akutagawa and higuchi's companionship changes for good because they are both amazing characters who deserve the best outcome!

But of course people are allowed to ship whoever they want and everyone is entitled to their own opinions. This is just mine.

To anyone who managed to read all of my rambling , thank you. It means a lot. I keep adding on to this so I apologise if this is very jumbled and inconsistent. I just have a lot on my mind :')

[drangues]

Oh, so like, they they can kinda,, Feel them, but painlessly? Assuming I’m understanding correctly- Like, there’s pressure, but it isn’t overwhelming??? I’m sorry I’m very tired and I don’t always understand well asdfghjkl,, But I DO understand that everyone knows Dazai is Dramatic, on and off the stage. It’s just How He Is and it’s hilarious. To be fair, it balances itself out with Oda’s big brother instinct rather well~ (Nyanon, 1/8)

Anyways, rocks are cool and I may or may not not have had a geology phase as a kid,, Also what kinda personality do you think a fusion of Dazai and Atsushi would have? I always think stuff like that is cool and I can’t stop thinking about it,, Especially because their outlooks are so different? Like, constant suicide attempts versus an adoration of the act of living- How do you think that’d work? How would that combine with, like, imploding or something? (Nyanon, 2/8)

Like, they think being alive is great, but they don’t deserve it, because their poor senses of self also fused??? I’m sorry I’m a nerd ignore meee- AND AAAHHH IM GLAD YOU LOVE IT CHUUATSU IS PROBABLY DAMN NEAR TIED WITH DAZATSU FOR ME BECAUSE,, THE POTENTIAL,,, Anyways, I could see Atsushi and Akutagawa being friends here!!! Both because of ages, like you said, but also because they’re seen as the next coming of Chuuya and Dazai so they end up working together a lot. (Nyanon, 3/8)

Of course, without the motivation of “Dazai’s Subordinate” Akutagawa had in canon (and BEAST but that’s another painful story), I think they’d get along much better. As for Dazai,, see I’m very torn because on the one hand I have a darker version of things where he ends up the villain because he goes Full Unhealthy Yandere for the For Atsushi because he’s Interesting and Nice, An seems he rarely gets either of those things, much less both, but. (Nyanon, 4/8)

I also have a fluffier version where they meet be chance, and Dazai doesn’t realize that Atsushi is Chuuya’s “amazingly adorable, better than you could ever do” new apprentice, and Atsushi doesn’t realize that Dazai is Chuuya’s “awful, bandage wasting mackerel that you shouldn’t associate with” partner. Shenanigans ensue when they somehow manage to become friends (and yes, in the version, Dazai is nicer to Akutagawa when he becomes his mentor because. Fluff. (Nyanon, 5/8)

It’s mafia but I want Fluff, damnit). Anyways yeah Chuuya can and will Throw Hands if Dazai so much as suggests anything abusive in Atsushi’s general direction. But, my rambling aside, here’s the next AU Concept: I call it the In the Beginning AU, and in it, Atsushi and one or two others are primordial deities from before their universe really existed? Only for Atsushi to nearly get killed by something that woke up when they started experimenting with their abilities. (Nyanon, 6/8)

Meanwhile, his partner(s) got severely injured, and all of them lost their memories and became human. I’m not certain of too much yet, outside of the primordials being based around the “Who/What/Where/When/Why” and the Bad Thing being the “How.” What they’re called, however, is more along the lines of “Us/This/Here/Now,” though I haven’t figured out the equivalent for Why and How yet... I’m tired hush. Anyways, some of the associations are cemented. (Nyanon, 7/8)

For example, Here and Now are Space and Time respectively, and Here is Atsushi before his memories left. I’m just torn on everything else, and who and what they’d be? Thoughts??? (Nyanon, 8/8)

yes theres pressure but painless!!and dont worry about it we all are there i mean im tired and doing my assignment rn AAAAAAAAAAAAA

a fusion of dazai and atsushi?? they would probably love living but not think theyre worth it and will probably be extremely polite and uptight with people they barely know but have the usual dazai antics around people theyre very close to (and shush im a nerd tOO)

I LIKE THE FLUFFIER VERSION MORE NGL- it would be so dramatic like romeo and juliet but in the end chuuya is like “*hard aggressive sighing* F I N E,,,,but if you FUCKING treat my baby wrong ill KILL you”

oh God okay okay lemme gather my Thoughts Here,,,,,us could be the,,,,Creations?? creations made?? and then Who/What/Where/When/Why i really have no clue there bro im so sorry

[astheravensighs]

omg hi!! i read your tags >< it’s not that i’m uncomfy, just really shy LOL but i really appreciate that you’re so careful about others!! either way, i’m interested in hearing about 7, 14, 19 and 25 😌

heck yes i am SO excited to talk abt this stuff tbh lol... #chronicoversharer

anyway! anyone that is uncomfy with spicy/sexy stuff or uneccesarily detailed depictions of my sex life, pls scroll away from this now lol...

other possible tws just in case! slight dom/sub, restraints, general kinkiness and roughness, my absolute lack of shame when it comes to talking abt this stuff, etc lol

I’m on mobile as well and stuff is disappearing as i type ??? so if the formatting is weird or anything is typed twice or not at all i apologize djsksh and let me know if this shows up and you don’t want it to so i can tag it for you!!!!

7. Any favorite positions?

gosh honestly i like just about anything but having two boys to deal with leaves some room for creativity for sure lol,,,, I’m a fan of spitroasting personally bc they still just suck at sharing lol so inevitably whoever’s in my mouth gets jealous of the one behind me and they end up getting super riled up and competitive and it’s just 😍 when it’s just one of them at a time i reaaally like anything from behind or anything a toy can be used at the same time (Dazai is more of fan of toys than Chuuya tho, Chu manages to get jealous of a vibrator more often than not lol)

14: what’s something that usually gets your f/o in the mood?

they’re basically a constant source of horny tbh so it’s not entirely difficult,,

Dazai is super weak to anything new and different, like a cute new outfit (even if it’s totally normal and modest) or a new position to try. the one way to guarantee Dazai getting riled up is when i get shy or flustered by something, like he says something that can obviously be taken as an innuendo and i blush, he’s just like *target acquired* and doubles down till he’s just straight up dirty talking me in the middle of the ADA office lol... Kunikida puts up with too much. I’m so sry pal. remind me to send him a gift basket or smth he deserves it

Chuuya is weak to challenging his dominance for SURE... like

‘hey babe can you hand me that’

‘hmm... nope’

‘...so you wanna play it that way, huh?’

also biting Chu is instant dom activation,, just straight up crunch on his arm and hes like. ah. you’ve chosen death. (death by dick, RIP me) and i have a habit of just. mindlessly chomping on anything that gets close to my mouth?? idk why the fuck i do that djsksh but seein his eyes go from ‘wtf are you doing’ to ‘oh, I’m going to ruin you’ is just... chefs kiss 👌

(personally watching them train or fight in battle is like. welp. after yall are done killing all those people would u pls fuckin ravage me, thx)

19: does your f/o tease you, or you tease them? How you do/they handle it?

Dazai is a whole bastard when it comes to teasing,,, this asshole will tease for so long and then all the sudden an orgasm hits and i don’t even realize till it’s over?? like?? how ??? he will 100% use shibari or restraints, and hes known to do nothing but dirty talk (which he is so good at it should be illegal) and never even touch anything till the whole next day 😤 idk how the hell he does it but it’s definitely worth waiting for bc he makes me go full on feral and just sits there and laughs @ how much i need it fhdkshsksh

when i tease him, well... it doesn’t last long, lol. sometimes if i ask reaaally nice he’ll be the sub for a night but somehow he still seems to be the damn top by how much he makes me fight for every reaction. i could be doin my damnedest and he’d just be sittin there handcuffed to the bed with an eyebrow raised like “that’s all you got?” he won’t even make a damn noise until i give him what he wants,,, Chuuya has never once successfully teased him he just ends up choking him out (jokes on him, hes super into that)

Chuuya... he tries to tease, he rly does..... but he is just not able to control himself like dazai can lol. he can tease for maybe an hour max?? no matter what he WILL need his dick in me at some point so i don’t have to worry abt being totally denied,,, hes just impatient as hell but he has stamina for DAYS so it’s not like it’s over quickly anyway thank god

Chuuya CAN sub and will for Dazai more often than the reverse, so teasing him IS possible... but only if Dazai is also present. after like 5 minutes of teasing he would want to just break out of whatever is holding him down and take what he wants, so Dazai has to keep a hand on him to cancel his ability or he’ll break ANOTHER pair of cuffs and they are expensive goddamnit

25: do you and your f/o hold hands while making love? How tightly do they hold you?

depends on the mood rly!! if it’s sweet n loving n intimate, absolutely. Dazai is more of a hands holding my face kind of guy but it’s basically very much the same,, Chuuya almost always will in these situations, he likes that my hands are teeny and his are huge so he lets me hold his hands for balance too.

when it’s not gentle and sweet it’ll happen in one of my favorite ways tho- usually Dazai’s behind me being super rough n degrading and dominant and I’ll have my head on Chuuya’s lap and he holds my hand and pets my hair and praises me 🤤 i can’t get enough of that dynamic i stg dhskshskshdkd

anyway !!! thank u for asking and i apologize for the insane amount of horny on main lately y’all dhdjdj my hormones are off the charts,,, i hope i didn’t make anyone too uncomfy but that’s what my blacklist tags are there for lol pls feel free to block #spicy bc boy it WILL get spicy :V either way!! thank u for asking !! i didn’t think id get to ramble abt this stuff n i very much like to so hfkhsjdk thank u!!! ❤️

[catsbythegreat]

Kind of spoilers for the Beast light novel, about normal timeline Dazai: 

So I know that au!Dazai knows everything, but I don’t think that normal timeline Dazai does. Even though a lot of things go according to his plan, a lot of his plans have likely been formed after he gained key information. (This is not complete by the way because I’m tired and don’t want to go through the entire anime/manga so I’m going off what I remember): 

-normal!Dazai didn’t know anything stuff in the Dark Era plot. He didn’t know for certain that Ango was a triple Agent, even though he suspected it more than Oda did. He didn’t know about the special abilities permit being the reason that Mori brought Mimic into the country. 

-normal!Dazai also didn’t know that Oda was going to die. He tried to save him, which he wouldn’t have done if that was meant to happen. He also wasn’t prepared for Oda to tell him to go to the side that saves people. Everything from that point forward was up in the air until he joined the Agency. 

-Dazai tells Atsushi that he can’t do what Ranpo does during the Murder On D Street story. He pretty much says that while he can get pretty far with the evidence presented to him, he can’t actually reach a conclusion as often as Ranpo can. 

-in S1 Dazai didn’t know that the people after Atsushi were the Guild. That’s why he asks Chuuya to tell him where the Mafia keeps their info.  

-Dazai’s big plan for Kyouka’s test and Atsushi and Akutagawa working together to defeat the Guild wasn’t just his plan. He had Ranpo help him, and Ranpo was the one who knew where it ended. 

-although it’s never said, I don’t think Dazai knew he was going to get shot by Fyodor’s men.

-more than 3 people know about the Book in the main timeline (au!Dazai says that if more than three people know about it in his world, it has more of a chance of collapsing.) At the very least Natsume, Dazai, Fyodor, Fitzgerald, and Takeda know about it. Either the main timeline world is more stable or more people can know about the Book because none of them have actually seen into the other realities. 

-a page from the Book is being actively used in the main timeline to alter the memories of the Agency members, In the other timeline it seems like Dazai is the only one who has access to the Book. 

So, my feeling is that main timeline Dazai is just incredibly smart, in the same way that Mori and Fyodor are always several steps ahead, but doesn’t actually know about the alternate realities or about how everything will play out. He also seems, for lack of a better word, less weighed down by shit. And in general, he seems more capable of moving forward, and caring about things and people that aren’t the Book or Odasaku (Kunikida is a good example--Dazai was concerned about how his ideals would affect him.) 

He also has faith in other people more so than in Beast, where he seems to take it all upon himself until the very end, where he nopes out and leaves the rest to Atsushi. Main timeline Dazai is (slowly) learning to work with others. 

It’s also interesting that au!Dazai used harsh methods until the very end, but normal!Dazai started out with harsh methods for Akutagawa and has learned to be a kinder (though not perfect) mentor for Atsushi. 

These are just random thoughts and me rambling because even if Beast is tied to canon by that last bit Asagiri put in there, I don’t think our Dazai is all-knowing. 

[akutagawaprize]

No offence, but I feel as if in this chapter, the author got tired of this entire ark in general, as the entire situation was solved ridiculously fast. Now, I don't really understand Japanese, so this may not be accurate. But from what I see, both highly powerful opponents were ridiculously quickly subdued, and somehow Fitzgerald decided to side with the Mafia and the ADA for no reason. We didn't even get to know Fyodor's ability yet, and he's already defeated.

I, too, was disappointed in this chapter, but after collecting my thoughts, I decided that it wasn’t a bad way of ending this arc, if this indeed is the end. Sure it may have looked abrupt, but it could have been worse… Or so I like to tell myself.

(Warning: I try my best to be unbiased and objective but this may read like a lot of whining. Only proceed if you’re fine with that.)

The good:Akutagawa’s promise to Atsushi; appearance of the rest of ADA and Port Mafia; Fitzgerald saving the day; Ango and his crew appearing; that not-so-subtle nod to Odasaku in the end

The “I don’t have much of a good or a bad opinion on this”:Shin soukoku new combo move;  Chuuya still in the book

The bad:Quick resolution to the arc; implied lobotomy(!?); Dazai and his keikaku doori antics again; strange sense of déjà vu since they used practically same buildup as the last arc, but now it’s the remix version

First of all, I’ll just have to throw out my wildest (not really) theory out here: Fyodor is still the “final boss”. Come on, he gets the moniker “The Demon” and gets jailed off like that? No, no. It doesn’t make sense at all, at least to me. So my guess is that Agatha and the Order of the Clock Tower will swoop in to try and mess with the Agency, but when they’re on the verge of defeat, Fyodor steps in and uses this chance to strike ADA for himself. So uh Guild Arc 2.0. Or something along those lines. This could’ve been a test drive. Or he could have other Rats in Russia waiting for orders in case there’s a Phase II. Call me optimistic, but that’s what I would like to believe.

We jailbreak from Azkaban and invade Ministry of Magic now.

There really isn’t much to say about Dazai proving himself a formidable chessmaster again, other than I called it on an earlier ask. I just hope I’m not the only one tired of him being right all the damn time. No one can be that all-seeing…

People keep asking about Chuuya. Some were disappointed he only had one panel, some were rejoicing because it was “in-character” he stayed because he enjoyed fighting. But Ranpo kinda confirmed Chuuya stayed not because he wanted to beat people, but because it’s faster that way than using his brains? He’s not dumb, but come on, why would he prolong his stay if at that time his current concern was to protect Mori/kill off Fukuzawa? So yeah, his fate doesn’t really interest me, because I’ve always thought he was someone who is too popular to die… Not important, because sheesh let’s face it, Asagiri hasn’t really fleshed him out yet and doesn’t seem to have the intention of wanting to anytime soon. (Light novel soon please? Or a backstory in the movie if they wanna get dat yen lmao)

I’m more curious about how Ranpo got out, because the last time Poe trapped him, he was transported back with Yosano after solving the case. Was there some unwritten rule that a person can be selective with who he brings back with him? I hope we get clarifications on this, I’m a sucker when it comes to analyzing abilities and their corresponding limits and restrictions. It bugs me that in BSD there are a lot of additions and contradictions when it comes to abilities and that they come up only when it’s convenient to the plot. (For example, anyone can activate Doppo Poetry as long as they have a page with them. I don’t think it’s been mentioned before, but anyway it bothered me for some reason.)

Another big thing this chapter: Akutagawa’s promise to Atsushi. I got an ask talking specifically about this, so I’ll write a post about that later. For now, I can just say that it’s probably the best thing that’s happened to Akutagawa after the “You got stronger” shoulder pat. I’m not expecting him to turn over a new leaf, now full of hope and vigor for life, but he’s trying and he might come up with his own concluson to an unanswered question in his heart: “What is my life worth living for?”

Oh and Atsushi being able to rip out abilities… Imagine if Wolverine can No Longer Human enemies… I don’t like this at all, but what can you do, he’s the protagonist anyway so he gets a pass.So for now I’ll be bumping Atsushi to No. 2 of the most powerful known Ability users second only to Lovecraft. Granted, he had to team up with Akutagawa to come up with this Ultimate Dark Claw thing, but still. I guess I just like balance. In any case, one can argue that shin soukoku needs to grow stronger if they want to fend off the coming Europeans.

Food for thought: If Dazai can nullify abilities and Atsushi can also cancel out abilities with tiger claws, will they cause a singularity if they got into a serious fight?

Hmm.

Fitzgerald! He didn’t care about Fyodor getting his leftover assets actually, but remember, it was Fyodor who crashed Moby Dick. He also reasoned that while he has no interest in whatever he’s “left” behind, he didn’t want a rat using his leftover resources. In short, he did it to spite the Russian. So while I can respect that, I was still hoping that instead of Dazai coming up with the deal (how did he even know Fitz acquired Eyes of God?), it would be Katai who would call this to attention. After all, as someone who is knowledgeable about technology and electronics, he could have picked up information on Eckleburg. Of course, there’s a fair bit of chance that he heard about it from Ranpo or Atsushi (they were there when Alcott asked for help) but there was no explanation for how Dazai came to that knowledge. Ah. Well.

I mean, until now we don’t know how Natsume saved Katai.

Dazai then went on to say that Fitzgerald will declare war on them again so this + the yacht are the last friendly gestures they’re going to get from the Guild. Wonder what happens to Lucy and Poe now…

They totally could have asked for a Special Ability Permit in exchange for their services but okay Richard!

The victory afterparty. Kunikida and Katai were nowhere to be seen, so was Yosano. You know who else we haven’t seen? Hawthorne and Katsura. With Katsura, he could have been helped by Kunikida… who I believe is still mourning the deaths of the innocent children… They should really address that next chapter. Or whatever. As for our Winter Soldier, he’s either roaming around aimlessly or he was captured. Who knows? We don’t know how he got mind-controlled either (another Rat? or suffered a similar fate with Ivan…). But if his goal was to heal Mitchell, then Yosano is the perfect answer.

What else? Oh! Fuku wasn’t in the party too right? Meeting up with Natsume and Mori? I don’t know…  As you can see, I come up with various scenarios and get them wrong 75% of the time. I was being dramatic too over Elise even though I knew she’d come back, but… This was fast. Glad to see her again though!

Oops. I rambled enough. Those were my thoughts, more or less. As I’ve said, it was a fairly standard BSD chapter. Disappointing, but still has a lot of loose ends which can be neatly tied up in upcoming chapters. I know a lot of people liked how this chapter ended, but… I’m not one of them, I’m afraid. I hope to be more enthusiastic about future chapters.