#this isn't oda vs chuuya this is oda covering for dazai

[originalartblog]

Because of Flawless, Oda had to live through Dazai breaking his window twice. (ref)

[kaurwreck]

not to have rewatched bsd upwards of six times on main, but I really don't think sigma could have been created by the page.

according to ango's info ability, sigma stabbed taneda and stole the page from the special division, which is why decay of angel is even in possession of it. although one could argue that sigma was retroactively created by writing into existence the sky casino and backdating it by three years (1) sigma then orchestrating the events of his own creation would create a paradox, and (2) the bsd universe is canonically sensitive to paradoxes which are marked by singularities/subclasses of singularities (oda vs gides, shibusawa vs atsushi are examples). so it seems charmingly pedestrian that sigma stabbed taneda and made off with the page without any physics-wrinkling consequences.

also, taneda and sigma's encounter and the nikolai's chainsaw parlor trick are suggested to have roughly happened concurrently. it's ambiguous, but the lighting is parallel. if this timeline of events is roughly accurate, that doesn't preclude the decay of angels pre-drafting the events that they then wrote out very quickly upon receiving the page.

but based on the timeline in which mushitaro collaborated with fyodor and then was snatched by fyodor, it seems more likely to me that ranpo being framed as killing taneda and the agency being framed for nikolai's chainsaw snip snip WAS the work of a reality bending skill— which mushitaro's canonically is. his skill seems to cover up crimes by eliminating evidence, but nothing suggests that the skill won't frame others based on their proximity if simply disappearing evidence isn't enough to obscure the crime's actual perpetrator.

also fyodor is first and foremost a conman. that was the purpose of showing us his encounter with ace. the tricks he's used before, he isn't likely to retire. he convinced ace that he could bend reality when he was only really bending ace's perception of reality, which he explains but also which dazai teaches sigma how to do in the context of rock, paper, scissors. (and to quote chuuya from the onsen audio drama— dazai doesn't waste actions. There's a reason he taught sigma this in particular.) further, we know based on ivan that fyodor loves a good lobotomy. why emphasize that ivan had been lobotomized only to then kill ivan shortly thereafter? like dazai, there's no reason to believe kafka asagiri is using the limited space his mediums allow to just fuck around. it's more likely a hint that one of the tools of fyodor's trade is inducing amnesia and suppressing the personalities of specific people. which would explain sigma thinking he's a three year old whose entire purpose is defined by the sky casino.

anyway. this is all conjecture. but I think it's substantiated conjecture worth considering.