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reblog to give the person you rb’d this from a hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows
Something I think is kind of cute that isn’t talked about much is the fact that Hirotsu uses the suffixes -san and -dono to refer to Dazai when talking directly to him, but every time he talks about him to someone else he uses -kun.
Because, like, he sees Dazai as a kid, but Dazai was still his boss so he has to show respect, but he drops it as soon as he’s gone. I love that.
Theory: Since the nape of the neck is considered Sexy and Alluring in Japanese culture, Sherlock has longer hair now so his hair and ponytail cover it because he is a Married Man Now and has to keep his sexy neck and collarbones covered.
I’m going to throw up. In Dead Apple, soukoku really said, without actually saying a word to each other:
Dazai: In 12 hours, Chuuya will punch me and cure me of the poison
Chuuya: I have a feeling that in 12 hours, I’m going to need to punch Dazai
bsd modern/uni au where the jail arc is all the meursault girlies going to a jailbreak-themed escape room for Fyodor’s birthday but they’re all drunk asf (except Sigma, who’s the designated driver) and. Dazai gets in and immediately lays down on the ground and accepts death but he’s so bored he starts solving the puzzles from the floor anyway and Nikolai is climbing the walls trying to see if the ceiling panels open and Chuuya is trying to brute-force various doors and safes open and poor Sigma is trying so hard to solve it and get out and Fyodor is waging psychological war with the person watching them over the cameras but he scares them away and starts trying to psychologically fight Dazai instead and at this point the worker assigned to them has just. left so they’re stuck in this room with Chuuya and Sigma’s crumbling sanity for like. three hours. in the end they get out bcuz Dazai solved the code for the door without even doing the rest of the room. anyways just think about it
Best type of character causes at least 50% of their own problems and then cries about it
atsushi has a pretty good survival instinct if i say so myself
Reblog to put one of these in your mutuals’ pocket when they’re not looking
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rain and the magical morning after
dazai's "... woah" reaction to learning nikolai plans to kill fyodor is really funny considering it's basically the same he had in 15, when mori explained to dazai that he would die in a double suicide with chuuya and dazai's brain just. stopped for some goood seconds
and later he tells fyodor "seems like you have a nice friend", regarding nikolai's murderous intentions. we can't see his face as he says it but I'd be willing to bet he genuinely finds that aspect of the fyolai dynamic interesting. specially if we take this scene from the light novels into account
and if we consider "I've been coming up with ways to kill chuuya for the past seven years". and the fact that chuuya very much wishes he could kill dazai too sometimes. really makes you think about the way dazai sees it :)
Everyone stop what you're doing and look at tiny Oda.
Look at him.
Have you seen him? Good, have a nice day. :)
Genuinely don't think I've seen anyone talk about chapter 25 as a pivotal moment for Dazai so I'm gonna put this out here because I think his reactions here kind of negate that whole omnipotent Dazai interpretation which I hate with every fibre of my being.
Firstly, he's like, clearly caught off guard here. And don't try to tell me he wasn't, because this is just one instance of his genuinely horrified reaction to Q's release and when he realized what was actually going on with Atsushi, Naomi and Haruno.
Him being caught off guard carries significance here because you'd never catch him screwing up this bad later in the series - which is exactly my point.
I wrote a post earlier about how I don't think Dazai really is very much like Mori or Fyodor at all, and I stand by that, because their motives are different. Tldr for that post: Mori and Fyodor are ambitious and proactive, while Dazai is empty/numb and reactive.
What this leads me to believe is that Dazai is less a chess master like those two and more of a contingency planner - he's so good at "predicting" because he is uncannily good at thinking like his opponent and then planning for literally any possibility under the sun he can come up with. He's no gambler. Everything and everyone is practically (and unknowingly) micromanaged. It's almost paranoid in a sense, and I definitely think it's a trauma response to something he went through that we don't know about yet - after all, he was more than capable of this before he even met Mori.
...which brings to me to Mori's influence here. It's straight up like Dazai forgot how willing Mori is to gamble huge risks for a good outcome. It's like he forgot the mafia could be a real threat to his best-laid plans.
Going to throw out a wild claim here that I don't think is actually all that baseless - I think it's widely assumed that Dazai molds himself to what he needs to be (true!) but I think this misses the idea that he is also easily influenced by the mindsets of the people around him (see: the difference between Entrance Exam Dazai and early manga Dazai, the whole "the longer he was in the mafia the darker and more incomprehensible he became" thing from Stormbringer, how dark his eyes get in the prison sections with Fyodor, etc.). I could go on, but for the sake of not making this post too much longer, let's assume this is true because it suddenly makes sense as to why he failed to predict Q but predicted other events much later that were inherently more difficult to predict:
He was in the wrong mindset. He was thinking like an Agency member, and dare I say, he even got a little complacent. He started to get used to not having to manipulate every last variable - he was removed from a toxic environment - only for Mori to pretty much instantly fuck that up in one scene.
Let's also not forget what happened the last time he miscalculated Mori's intentions.
The consequences of this blunder could've been a lot worse and he knows it.
In his mind, thinking like an ADA member wasn't good enough to stop a potentially awful outcome - awful outcomes that could bring him pain. So, he goes back to what he knows - think like the demon prodigy. Think like Mori. Later on, think like Dostoyevsky. Because it seems to me that he believes as long as he is still working for the light that it doesn't matter if he uses these horrifically manipulative and inhumane methods of getting there. But he is wrong. Darkness within the context of good intentions is still very much darkness, and it hurts people all the same.
In the very next chapter, Dazai arranges Ango's car accident. And he only gets worse and worse throughout the series as he regresses back into his paranoid darkness that manifests as this omnipotent facade - his safety net that ultimately prevents him from developing in a positive, more human direction.
kunikida's hair got longer??? i grabbed my pen so fast
See this is why I'm banking SO HARD on the "Mori is partly responsible for the Arahabaki project" theory cause ruining this kid's life and THEN meeting him years later and being like "damn I could try again" is EXACTLY something Mori would do.
Stan couples who would die for eachother
Bungou Stray Dogs as some of my favorite Epithet Erased quotes:
Dazai: Mano a mano! Pistol to pistol! Ugly rat man vs the... grossest face I can make while fighting!
Fyodor: You know, I do have feelings.
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Atsushi: He's trying to lure me into a false sense of security! Well, joke's on him! I've never been secure in my life! And I'm not about to start now!
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Kunikda: I promised I'd work myself to death by the age of 35! Anything less means I wasn't trying hard enough!
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Tachihara: Listen here, Mr. Assassin-
Gin: Miss.
Tachihara: Oh! O-oh my gosh, I am SO sorry.
Gin: It's quite alright! Please, continue with your threat.
Tachihara: Oh, right. Thank you.
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Kyouka: I wish my mom was a ghost. She's just dead.
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Dazai: Aww, c'mon man! Be cool.
Kunikida: Everyone knows the coolest thing to be... is an upright citizen.
Dazai: LAAAAME!
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Akutagawa: (regarding Atsushi passing out) Did he just pass out from the shock? What a weenie. Half of my bones are broken and you don't hear me complaining!...much.
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Kouyou: [The woman steps forward and unsheathes a real ass, goddamn sword and points it at them.]
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Chuuya: How did you manage to crash my car in the TEN MINUTES I was gone?!
Dazai: I don't know, man! It's not my fault!
Chuuya: Dude, you've crashed five cars in the same year? I think you're the common denominator at that point!
Dazai: (whining) THE ROAD WAS WIGGLY!!
i’m thinking thoughts
Dumb video I made a while algo, hope u like it
Legit they can’t be straight at this point
every once in a while i remember this official art exists and i just have to pause for a second cause wtf
"Kunikida. As long as you continue to pursue those ideals and remove those who get in your way, then one day you, too, will come to harbor the Azure King's rage. There will be nothing left around you then- only ash. I've seen it happen all too often."
imagine chuuya tries to bring up dazais speech so that they could have a genuine, honest conversation but dazai just starts gaslighting him
only in bungou stray dogs do you get a detective agency consisting of one (1) detective, a catboy and some fourteen year olds, among others. and a mafia with members including someone whos half god Or Something, the personification of a sad angry wet cat, said mafia also employs far too many fourteen year olds. also theres a load of americans that live on a flying whale with members like a farmer and his eldritch horror boyfriend, and a goth writer with a pet raccoon who hasn't got over his crush from six years ago. and that's all without even mentioning dazai
You know what? Kudos to BSD for being a manga that is so GOOD with the stupid power of friendship trope even amongst its philosophical angst, family feels, and fandom ships. No, I'm not talking about friendship destroying the big bad.
I'm talking about Ranpo extending a hand of friendship to a Yosano that had lost all hope in herself, humanity, and life.
I'm talking about Odasaku reaching out in his last moments to tell Dazai he was his friend.
And about Dazai telling Mori Odasaku was his friend, and feeling angry when it looked like Ango's friendship was based on lies, then letting his friendship with Odasaku spur him to be a good person.
It's about Atsushi and Kyouka building a tenuous friendship starting with her letting herself open up to Atsushi, and him inviting her to look at the city, and her protecting him fiercely when he's in danger.
It's potentially also about Tanizaki insisting they save Atsushi from the Port Mafia.
It's about Tachihara, Gin, and Hirotsu when Tachihara refuses to kill those he has come to call friends despite being a man of orders.
It's also about Kenji's full power being unlocked when his friend died from a natural disaster, and when he heard about Atsushi getting tortured.
And when Kenji snapped out of it to offer a hand of friendship to Tecchou
I'm also talking about Chuuya growing to care about people even though he lost all his friends poor man
It's even about Kunikida and Katai having this deep bond that as of yet remains to be explored.
Can't wait to see Dazai (anime only) stans go crazy when their fave gets his flat ass thrown in prison to play mind games with the Mickey Mouse.exe rejected
louis james moriarty opens a tumblr account:
louis: WHAT IS SHERLIAM?? NII-SAN WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THAT DETECTIVE.
william, sipping tea: hm?
albert, writing sherliam fanfiction: hm?