#Abdiel

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Assorted textposts i made while dinner cooks

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Demibino

It started with an attempt to try something out , that seemed to be very well received (which of course made me very happy🥰🥰) and then it became several pictures ♥

[bramblie]

Roleswap AU part 2!!!!!!

[doodlesdreaming]

Someone said SMT V and Ultrakill in the same sentence and my brain cooked.

[alexandor]

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90% of Bethel's would be solved with one simple trick (push them into a kiss)

[emilianatsuki]

Found Ichiro Dazai's reddit account

[l00ney-m00ny]

THEM IN THE BACKROOMS??????

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I am so sorry SMTumblr

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SMTVV SPOILERS

I think my main issue with Dazai's writing in V and my main issue with his writing in VV are largely the same but also different. In V, I hated how abrupt that heelturn was, but like... I could almost justify it. I could almost write it off as Abdiel's control over him, and his desperation to protect in a fucked up Law alignment way. It still isn't GOOD by any means, but I have to jump through less hoops to not hate him as a character. In VV, that heelturn is there but even LESS justified. I think the lack of the Pandemonic Summit and the political drama of the Nahobino defying the condemnation (which is why I still think that it should have been in Vengeance, in some manner, and that should've been where the Tsukuyomi Nahobino should have showed himself -- you know in V, how Koshimizu stands up to Abdiel in the way that makes you like the Chaos route more than Law? Yeah. imagine that but the Nahobino, unfused to reveal it's Tsukuyomi who defied the condemnation, the ultimate act of spitting in Abdiel's face) really works against Vengeance's story. I don't dislike it, obviously but Abdiel and Dazai feel like even LESS of characters here. And I know why. They aren't really needed for Law anymore. The Law vs Chaos dynamic is better in Vengeance, sure, but now it's between the originally unaligned Tao Isonokami and the new Yoko Hiromine -- for the large part, the previously Chaos Yuzuru and Koshimizu become Law aligned. They largely want what Tao wants, a preserved and idealized Tokyo. it's done in a way that does not feel disingenuous to their characters, and doesn't feel like it's shuffling things too much. But now there are a lot of characters who are law aligned. And the chaos alignment is just a little bit too radical for someone like Abdiel or Dazai. So where does that leave them? It falls apart pretty easily. Abdiel and Dazai really have no grounds to stand on. They want law, but without Abdiel being willing to become a Nahobino (which I actually surprisingly think is more true to her character, I do not think she was pushed hard enough to justify becoming a Nahobino and defying the condemnation in V) and without their stance being more overtly "I hate the Nahobino and wish for them all to be purged", they aren't really left with a proper place in the story. In the least fucked up way possible, I think they should have been killed off as shock value rather than allowed to stifle as bad characters in the story. It would've added fuel to the fire of either alignment, and also not allowed Abdiel and Dazai to suffer from the writing disease of "I don't know what to do with these characters so I'll just make them Bad".

[bramblie]

Revived my Patreon and already dropped my in-progress thingy :) In the future, I will post some excusive stuff there too(yes that includes demibino >:3)

[darkwater-reservoir]

Decided to hop on this trend while it's still popular. I apologize in advance lmao

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[alexandor]

Original under cut

[dudeijustsawaplane]

Mpreg is more fun with unnecessary amounts of lore

[emilianatsuki]

Ichiro Dazai was my favorite SMTV character in the original game and even if I liked Tao more she wasn't fleshed out much until Vengeance. However I see a lot of people confused on his arc in CoV and I just wanted to write my own interpretation based on NPC lines and cutscenes.

To start off with, if we speak to some of the students on the dorm roof they often comment on their pov on Dazai and it's mentioned he comes from a wealthy family. There's implications his parents basically pay people to be friends with him. Due to this there's implications Dazai's parents see him as a failure and a nuisance. It's because of this and his lack of any real companionship he pushes himself so hard towards something he believes he has some skill at. Even moreso in CoV we see him try increasingly hard to bond with Kei and Yuzuru without much luck until he's able to push Yuzuru with some hope into saving Miyazu. However even then we cans ee he's straining himself to impress the group.

Ichiro Dazai at his core just wants friends, people who understand him, accept him and while flawed in his belief. He only gets this through being Abdiel's knowledge. Mastema brainwashes him in CoV which explains his sudden switch up too. The cast basically ditch him alone with Mastema without staying around to see if he's okay. It's believable in my opinion that Mastema was able to brainwash him so strongly into thinking he'll never belong with the group and his real purpose is to become a 'savior'.

In summary I really love Ichiro Dazai's character and arc across both Canon of Vengeance and Canon of Creation, he's as fleshed out as the other main characters and I'm sort of tired seeing people not read into his arc in the new route.