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something about Dazai being comfortable enough around Chuuya to be vulnerable and let him see his genuine reactions (especially his genuine shock) as he processes out loud is SO SO IMPORTANT TO ME

plus Chuuya not being shocked to see the genius at work tells us this isn’t the first time he’s seen Dazai actively figuring things out in real time…

the way Chuuya knows Dazai's nervous habits— noticing that Dazai is worried, and subtly checking on him. the way Dazai drops his facade in favor of putting all of his focus into the mental game at hand is such an obvious sign of trust & closeness for someone like Dazai, whose facade is his main form of defense

how they interact with each other in the downtimes when there’s nobody watching…

all i can think is, look how far they’ve come since they were 16 when Dazai couldn’t trust anyone with his plans. how even now, Dazai is always putting up his “all according to plan” front, even with the agency. how Chuuya is the one person we’ve seen him truly drop the mask around, and Chuuya doesn’t bat an eye. even their banter is ongoing, but subdued.

soukoku and their subtle displays of intimacy will be the death of me 💔

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Good to know Chuuya is Dazai's personal rubber duck

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Poseidon and his horses :]

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Very very very experimental doodle of a possible Poseidon design for those in my ask box requesting to see my take wahaha

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been messing about in photoshop again and my current wallpaper looks sew gud. proud of myself!!! typography sucks but i've always been shit at that sigh

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happy au i don't know her

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sometimes you just have to elbow drop your sister

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You dip out, and the whole world flips over...

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I found a guide for a no tape, easy to unwrap wrapping tutorial to make Christmas a little more accessible, wish I just found it sooner

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Part 1 of my Bree’s scars Backstory comics I’ve been having fun making >> See my page for part 2!

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Yep it's going well....

*the song I'm listening to*

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lmao an AU where Skulduggery stayed as Vile, but thanks to Plot Convenience™ works with the Sanctuary these days would be so fucking funny

Skulduggery Pleasant: *turns up to Gordon's funeral making an insane number of quips*

Skulduggery Pleasant: *drops right back off the face of the earth immediately afterwards*

Meanwhile:

Vile: *a mute rat bastard. It's not that the guy can't talk, it's that he won't talk. Ghastly's heard him laugh when he thinks he can't hear!* *the rest of the Dead Men are also his handler when they deign to show up.*

Baby Stephanie: *really wants to learn how to set shadows on fire like Mr Lord Vile did, please*

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something something, the fact that Dazai despises dogs and yet is so insistent on Chuuya being one.

he isn’t wrong: of all the animals out there, Chuuya has the traits so stereotypical of a mutt. he was always one, i think, from the moment he was experimented on. and if he wasn’t under Dr. N’s rancid hands, then he surely was once the Sheep got a hold of him. sure, he was called the King of the Sheep, but what is that other than their herding dog? a shepherd so loyal to his flock, that even when a blade got buried in his abdomen he still cared for them. in the manga, it’s implied that his choker is the Sheep’s signature bracelet repurposed. he moved it from one pulse point to another, changed it from the sign of belonging to a crowd to the sign of defending one with a bloody maw. it’s a collar now, strung tight.

it’s explicitly stated that Chuuya will forever care about others, no matter how much they have hurt him. in his heart, there will always be a place for those who have done nothing but mutilate his life. a kicked dog whose tail still wags.

and. Dazai hates dogs.

genuinely, he’s disgusted by them. he takes every chance to mock or insult them. yet, he immediately became so fixated on calling Chuuya his dog, framing him as this portrait of unending loyalty, littered with wounds and stained with viscera. Chuuya becomes the one Dazai trusts the most in his current world, so much so that four years apart doesn’t change a thing. they’re back at each other’s side, lives immediately in the other’s hands; one soul, two bodies. the ends of a dichotomy that hides an endless spectrum within.

within hours of meeting, Dazai had decided that Chuuya was a dog, a mutt. he has yet to be proven wrong, and he has yet to truly hate him. something something

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By the setting sun,

the wind blows away

all that’s left to say

something (tears, bandages, a body) falls.

into gravity’s embrace.

There’s a story left untold.

There’s a place he longed to go.

Say good night to the suicidal man who didn’t really want to die.

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Skk art I resonate with

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dazai is in a mood 😏

all credits to the original artist @geister_030 on X