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kaurwreck · 4 months
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based on what fukuchi said regarding the one order, fyodor can't use it. the one order has already been configured to fukuzawa. it's not clear that fyodor knows this (although it's explicit that fukuchi didn't trust fyodor).
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it's also telling that fukuchi comments that fyodor wouldn't be able to interfere. he doesn't clarify with what fyodor wouldn't be able to interfere. (such as, for example, fukuchi reconfiguring the one order against fyodor's conception of the plan.) it's also relevant that fukuchi says "no one else could have thought it up," indicating he understands, to some degree, fyodor's genre of strategic reasoning. surely, then, he's picked up on fyodor's overt blind spots regarding others' capacity for trust and subversion based on trust.
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that fyodor can't command the one order renders fyodor's threat moot, although nevertheless informative.
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because if the one order coordinates all of the users' subordinates, then anyone subordinate to fukuzawa could be commanded by fukuzawa. bram, shortly before fyodor took him, pledged himself as a knight to aya, even forsaking his prior title to subordinate himself to her.
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his subordination to aya is so deeply ingrained that fyodor even still calls her princess and affirms that the vow remains.
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in other words, all aya has to do to give fukuzawa control over the vampires. is subordinate herself to fukuzawa. vow with her whole, fierce heart that she is his to command. or, fukuzawa can reconfigure the one order to respond to her voice; if fukuchi was able to transition the authority he was granted to use it to fukuzawa, then fukuzawa should similarly be able to do the same.
tl:dr, the one order is useless in fyodor's hands, and, together, fukuchi's love for and trust in fukuzawa and bram's love for and trust in aya are a chekov's gun.
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dazaistabletop · 1 year
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Yes but I can assure you that you are v pretty :)
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bunnihearted · 7 months
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📚💭
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lesbianyosano · 1 year
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legitimately what the fuck was that
#ig im dissapointed lmao#sorry most of it i just kind of expected (bram regaining his body and stopping the vampires. fyodor dying bc there isnt really anything els#you can do with him. dazai and chuuya both alive)#mostly i wish aya awakened an ability give her oneee also i want to see how they manifest#idk we'll see soon where this goes ig but 1. i really wish fukuzawa had just died alongside fukuchi and 2. that there would be some calmer#chapters more focused on political repercussions rather than more fighting but the 2 hours later thing isnt really pointing to that huh#ill have to reread this arc at some point bc fukuchis and fyodors plan got so convoluted i was barely following it#and also 1. what abt sigma do they just. leave her there#i mean surely not bc she has info on fyodor but dazai really just did not care#and 2. yeah i wish fukuzawa died but now that he didnt. does he???? just keep the one order#and wheres that fucking page#and whats exactly on it#bc i dont think they can just rewrite anything 1. they dont know how much space is on it and theyll need a lot to fix this mess#2. god knows if they even can do anything or if theres some condition written in already thatd stop them#also asagiri for the love of god get into anticapitalism bc you cant just go into criticing states and military without talking about it#and i still need the hunting dogs dead even if i know its likely not going to happen#but how are you going to go all “absolute power corrupts” and “omg fukuci dont create a military state” and then just leave the super cops#running around and getting redeemed bc “they mean well” yeah they do but it doesnt matter#they are complicit in the state violence THEY ARE state violence#asagiri pls i can show you theory you havent even dreamed of#txt.
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monarchamos · 4 months
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first kunibram now for kunifyobram i see
aya out here taking all of the father figures and i am all for putting them in a poly relationship
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verysanebsdfan · 4 months
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My favs x bday!reader
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Saiki Kusuo (the disastrous life of saiki k), Muichiro Tokito (demon slayer), Killua Zoldyck (hunter x hunter), Neuvillette(genshin impact), Dazai Osamu (bungo stray dogs), our!Ciel Phantomhive (black butler) (seperately) x bday!reader
Synopsis: them with s/o who has birthday, how they celebrate, what do they do etc.
Notes: IT'S MY BDAY GUYSSS!!! I honestly wanna go back to being a little child, but oh well, i still have a few years. probably contains grammatical errors but oh well. not proofread. Am I happy with it? no. Am I gonna publish this? absolutely. i also wanted to include Bram Stoker from bsd but my brain was blank and i had no ideasss :((
cw: none i think?
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Saiki Kusuo:
Would not make you a surprise party, but i feel like he would buy you your favourite cake, pastry, sweets, snack...just something that he know would make you happy. Nothing extravagant, just an average present, from an average guy. It's the thought that counts<3 Would like to spend some quality time with you, but if you wanna hang out with friends or spend time with family, he doesnt mind. He would make sure everything goes smoothly and you would be safe tho<3 Prolly wouldnt make a big deal out of this...It is just birthday after all, but he loves to see you happy soo<3
Happy birthday y/n...i hope you like the (favourite dessert) i got you
Muichiro Tokito:
It really depends, if you are a demon slayer, you would maybe have private training session, and a cute lunch on a break. Now if you aren't a demon slayer (condolences) he'd make time for you'd watch clouds together, eat lunch and spend some time together, but he is busy so... :( I bet he was smiling teh rest fo teh day though :3
Look...that clouds looks just like (favourite animal)...happy birthday y/n...i love you
Killua Zoldyck:
Thinks celebrating something like an anniversary of your birth is stupid :3 Would definitely ask Gon for gift ideas<3 Now, if you are helping Gon find his dad too, I feel like you two would end up having a play fight of a sort? Yk, to train your nen:3 But if you dont, or its already some time after the og plot line, he'd take you on a date, and give you choco robots! Tease you a little too!
look at yourself, in a few years, i wont even be able to call you a baby :3 is it just me or youre even more beatiful? must come witha age:3 Happy Birthday silly:3
Neuvillette:
Humans celebrate the anniversary of their birth? Why? He asks, why celebrate being even closer to death. It scared him...your death...It's so close, yet so far. When you explained him that it's to commemorate your past years, and celebrate what's to come. he understood, after all, humans have only finite amount of years to live, so he was going to make yours the best possible. He would clear up his schedule, or at least try. He would get you flowers and then he would take you to a romantic dinner to the finest restaurant in all of Fontaine, and then to a romantic walk by the shore, to watch otters (:3) He hopes many of these so called birthdays of yours would come.
Mon amour...we should do this more often, not only on special occasions...I love you so much...and these..."birthdays" only remind me of...future without you...
Dazai Osamu:
My man will ask you to commit double suicide i am not even joking. Honestly would either not gaf about your birthday or would be really attentive and romantic and i cannot decide.
Would you be willing to commit double suicide with me, on this important day? *smack*
our!Ciel Phantomhive:
It's not like i am lazy to write, but it's really hard to think of anything okay. I believe you would have tea party. A lot of Earl grey tea, a lot of sweets...and chess or other board games. You will just spend quality time with him...and technically Sebastian too, since he will be tending to your needs, and preparing all the food :3
Happy birthday dearest, i hope the cake is to your liking, i had Sebastian prepare it out of the finest ingredients
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chuuya-kisser · 2 months
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im finally free so that i can fucking scream abt bsd 117 and tell my thoughts on this heartbreaker of a chapter (will def make another post feeding my delusions)
(spoilers utc)
firstly.
ASAGIRI. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUXK ASAGIRI. ASAGIRI WHEN I CATCH YOU ASAGIRI I THOUGHT YOU WERE KILLING-YOUR-CHARACTERS-PHOBIC?????? NOW YOUVE MELTED TWO IMPORTANT CHARACTERS IN TWO CHAPTERS???? WHOS GONNA GO NEXT CHAPTER HUH WHO'S NEXT IN YOUR DEATH NOTE
well
Uh yeah so anyways basically heart broken for multiple reasons so we'll go in order
1- aya. oh my gosh aya. shes what, a ten year old?????? and in the span of a day, she has found out about a vampire lord who is responsible for destroying or saving the whole world, shouldered the responsibility of getting said vampire lord away from the enemy to save the world, developed a father-daughter relationship with said vampire lord, sacrificed herself and got saved by him, believed that the world could be saved now, saw her new father figure's body be torn apart and replaced by a greasy ratass who wants to destroy everything or whatever, with said new father's last words telling her to run to save herself, being saved by said father, then having him dissolve and die again in front of her eyes again. shes a ten year old. what the actual fuck. oh and don't forget, she doesn't know that she lost her other father figure too!
gosh she is going to be SO traumatised and even that is an understatement i really hope she has the strength to recover
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2- so akutagawa is back huh? about time, about time (though im not very happy about the cost it took- but atleast he's back?)and he has agreed to protect aya on brams wish? thats surprising honestly, so im wondering if the stuff atsushi told him while fighting him at the airport or whatever affected his subconscious or something so that he consciously wants to start protecting people?
OR maybe! he sees a bit of himself in aya or smth? i mean look i dont exactly remember what happened before he met dazai and was taken in by him okay, dont come at me. but maybe he sees that terrified little kid and something stirs in him or smth anyways go akutagawa go you're her third father figure please dont die again ‼️
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(also he looks so good-)
3- and the biggest bombshell
kunikida.
KUNIKIDA‼️‼️ NO NO NO THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY HAPPENING PEOPLE THIS IS NOT I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT I AM IN DENIAL
just- THINK ABOUT EVERYONE. think about atsushi and tanizaki. who saw him disappear slowly in front of their eyes, to buy them time. think about fukuzawa. who wished for kunikida to be the next president because he was the most ideal. who cares so much, even if he doesnt show it as much. think about aya. she has such a deep bond with kunikida, and now she'll have to face the devastating news that one of the only people who truly believed in her is gone too. think about ranpo and yosano.
think about dazai. who is much too far away to do anything right now, who miscalculated once which led to him being too far to stop fyodors rampage in any way. who was truly doing all this because he wanted to keep the detective agency safe. who, when he realises what will happen next, his first thought is to warn them. who was his new partner, kept him alive, even made him a part of his schedules. who i think he must have to care for, even a little bit.
dazai, who thinks that anything worth wanting is always lost the moment he obtains it. and its happened again. and by the looks of it, it will happen again.
i genuinely want to know how he'll react but i dont want to at the same time. gods i cant fucking do this man
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like huhhh asagiri are you tryna make me cry or some shit???? Because youre succeesing SPECTACULARLY
also- are we gonna see tanizaki get liquefied too next chapter? because this panel sure looks like it
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im scared for september now like what else are you gonna throw at us, huh asagiri? and what do you mean i have to wait a whole month this is crazy
and i am STILL in denial and will continue to be in denial guys wdym, ofc kunikida is alive and well! hes coparenting aya with bram, having fun at the agency and stuff ‼️‼️ hes perfectly peachy theres no helicopter singularity out for everyone's lives!!! (wow this post is LONG)
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freyadragonlord · 1 year
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So now that anime watchers are caught up with the MADNESS, I decided to share the list i made back in august after chapter 109 came out, to try and hang onto sanity...
(spoilers if you are not up to date with either the Bungou Stray Dogs manga or the anime)
REASONS WHY I BELIEVE DAZAI IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT:
He still has plots that are unresolved, mostly his relationship with Akutagawa.
If/when he were to die, I honestly dont think it would be by losing to Dostoyevsky, it doesn't seem like the right ending for him. Similarly, i don't think Chuuya is the one destined to kill him; ever since meeting each other, Chuuya has only ever given him reasons to stay alive.
I don't think he would die away from the Detective Agency, after being apart from them for so long. They are important to him and for him, and i think he has still a role to play in Atsushi's story as well.
He apparently "died" without thinking of Oda? Suss as fuck.
Dazai never planned for Sigma to join him or to even be at the prison, he couldn't have predicted that. And apparently he never planned for Chuuya to be there either, while Dostoyevsky had previously made plans to have Chuuya brought there to help him. SO, what was Dazai's original plan for escaping and killing Fyodor? Just the time stopping ability user?? It seems unrealistic to me that he and Ango went so far into plotting this from the beginning, and Dazai didnt have other plans in case of unforseen emergencies. Dazai doesnt have a fighting ability, so reasonably there has to be another plan or ally to help him escape and kill Fyodor.
They most likely need Dazai to turn back the vampires, we have no idea if Bram can turn them back into humans himself even if he gets control over them back.
The missing bullet hole on the wall behind Dazai's head (this was very evident in the manga, but it can be seen in the anime too if you look carefully), plus the fact that he could still talk after being shot in the head from 0 cm away (this was cut from the anime, but in the manga he wispers "finally" before gently closing his eyes), seem to indicate he was not really shot in the head.
If he IS dead, Chuuya can turn him into a vampire and reanimate him - this trick has a precedent in one of the light novels, so we know for certain that Dazai can be reanimated by an ability if he is dead, as long as it happens very quickly after he dies.
If Dazai was really dying, I think his last words to Chuuya would have been more genuine and serious.
Dazai still has to prove that his bond with Chuuya isn't as shallow as Fyodor taunted him for. Cmon guys.... Are we letting Dostoyevsky get away with that one?? I don't think so. Dazai's biggest advantage over him has always been the power of friendship!
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suspichui · 8 months
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kunibram angst!! (very quick made) (im sorry)
ok so imagine kunibram "in love" like, they hangout very often and are raising aya together. they both flirt with eachother sometimes and are just waiting to feel 100% sure about their feelings before confessing. but the more they get to know eachother, kunikida fells more inlove bc.. well, u dont PLAN falling for a vampire but they have their charm yk, listening about their old life, how things used to be, even the way they act, talk, move, EVERYTHING; but this doesnt happen with bram, the more he gets to know kunikida, the more he realises he doesnt have anything in common with his dead wife, just the looks and the need to have everything planned + organized, but bram *knows* and *sees* how much kunikida is falling for him, and he tries so much to feel the same, but he just can't bc the reason he was ok with developing this kind of relationship was bc bream rlly thought kunikida was the reincarnation of his dead wife, he was *so* sure that this situation didn't even appeared in his mind. so, now, everytime kunikida flirts, he just tried to react like he used to do when he saw *her* in him, but its just not the same, kunikida is slowling realizing somethings wrong, but he trusts bram to tell him whats wrong; maybe he just started to feel bad about falling for a man, afterall ppl was even more homophobic when bram was not a vampire, but that never happens rlly. he just sees day past day how bram stops looking at him with so much light in his eyes, he starts treating him like the others in the agency, and now he only talks to him when he needs to communicate something about aya, but why? well, bram just feels rlly bad about himself, he feels so stupid for believing that he found his daughter *and* his wife at the same time. a few months later, kunikida is re-writing his ideal woman bc he ripped the page when he fell for bram, believing he wouldnt need that ever again, but here he is.
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the-demon-prodigy · 4 months
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a note on the vol 25 cover \\ mini analysis
so, regarding fyodor!
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as we can see, fyodor is holding a black chess piece. it doesnt look like a rook, a knight, or a pawn. although it may be a queen, for the sake of this theory im going to assume that it is the king piece. (also, im going to ignore like every little bit of actual chess rules for this adladlksjrl)
the volume will cover the chapters 110-112 (i think), so its likely that this is only 'foreshadowing' (of course, what im going to cover here is the most recent events, in chaps 114-114.5 as its already happened its just not in this volume)
now then, from the vol 16 colored spread, we can see that fyodor is the black side.
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so, it doesnt mean that hes put dazai in checkmate.
however, lets talk about what the king does in chess.
has very little mobility, is what decides the game, and is on the same 'side ' as fyodor, being the black king. who fits the bill?
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thats right, its bram!
so, my little interpretation is that fyodor holding the black king in this cover is symbolic of how he will overtake brams body very soon after the events of this volume.
now then, moving on to dazai!!
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so, this cover very reasonably gave almost everybody a big scare ;w; but i dont think it means that dazai will die. in the first few chapters included in this volume, dazai is presumed to be dead right after chuuya shot him. so i rlly think theyre just playing us but who knows,,,
anyway, red camellias which are shown on dazai here can mean deep desire/love, noble death, and are known to be incredibly rare (I THINK). i feel like its mostly about dazais personality (as his view of the world is 'rare' and he sorta maybe 'died' a noble death in 109 but thats debatable) and the fact that chuuya was the one to shoot him (as skk have been associated with the flowers before [if that official art was actually real idk anymore])
another interesting thing is that dazai is in his ada outfit here, while in his appearance in vol 22's cover he was in his prison outfit. either its foreshadowing for a symbolic death of agency dazai or just meant to signal the end of the prison arc as we enter a new era of the story.
the presence of the swords and the complete lack of empty space in the volume cover displays how the tripolar singularity which occurs very soon after this completely shifts the world i think !
moving on, we can see atsushis human foot and his tiger foot (and his belt) in this volume cover but not his face. all the other previous covers show more of him, and assumedly this is showing how the focus is shifting away from him as a person.
now, fukuzawa and fukuchi.
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fukuzawa has a white backdrop while fukuchi has black, this could symbolize fukuchi who is dead while fukuzawa isnt but i see it more as their two somewhat extreme views on justice and how it polarizes them. they are back to back, their hair almost melding into one singular person showing that they both want to do whats right, but their associated colors and the swords show their differences.
fyodor sits between them, almost separating them, and showing how little we still understand about his true moral standing. (also, fyodor radiates black that is actually even darker than fukuchi's showing how, as karma said in his debut chapter, fyodor transcends evil.)
the red speckles may symbolize the tripolar singularity, and the cracks on the bottom of fukuchi and fukuzawa's sections could show the singularity's shattering of concrete morality and that which is real/is not.
atsushi and dazai are both in the area with the water, which may also symbolize how the singularity will flush out the past and bring fyodor's idea of purity closer to reality. atsushi and dazai being placed in the water shows how they are the ones who will make change (as atsushi can cut through the fabric of abilities using his tiger claws, and dazai nullifies abilities).
finally, heres the full clean cover of volume 25 so that you too can praise our lord harukawa sango <3
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(the manga panels included here were found on mangadex and the clean vol cover was found on the bsd fandom wiki)
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bloodenjoyer · 11 months
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the thing about francis ford coppolas 1992 movie "bram stokers dracula" is that it shouldnt even be named that its not even a good dracula adaptation. But like. its so awesome it doesnt even matter. you know.
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creatorbiaze · 7 months
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i love how people found out that Fyodor was alive during the 1400s-1500s and half the fandom immedietly went "he knew jesus"
thats 1 & a half thousand year difference but so many people are on board with it lmao
theres no(?) memes about bram being old even though we've always known hes a vampire , and he doesnt have a confirmed exact age
nope, Fyodor now knows jesus. they were bros. some say they dated. fyodor witnessed any & all historical events.
i love this insane fandom
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bsd yttd au,,, my brain is so big and no one is ready for it
the doa (plus shibusawa and ivan) are the floor masters. I like to think that in this au every chapter would have a floor master AND a vice floor master.
Chapter 1: Nikolai and vice is Ivan
Chapter 2: Shibusawa and vice is Sigma (Fyodor is there too. He pulls a Gashu and kills Shibusawa. I really like this idea bc in yttd Ranger is already dead cuz hes a doll and Gashu just kills him again, which is basically what fyo did to shibu in dead apple IIRC)
Chapter 3: Fukuchi and vice is Bram. Except I dont rlly think Bram is a vice floor master i think he’d take Meister’s place
I also think Fyodor would take Midori’s role moreso, but everyone thinks Fukuchi is the main bad guy when it’s actually fyo who is pulling the strings
the plot wouldnt go the exact same but i think it’d go pretty similarly
in this au, there’s no special abilities, port mafia are still criminals but arent actual mafia members (for the most part … i think it’d be cool if Chuuya and Akutagawa were still in the mafia and Dazai still used to be in the mafia). No one knows each other aside from a few exceptions (…like chuu and aku knowing dazai) (but like, atsushi wouldnt know dazai and kyouka wouldnt know aku and so on and so forth)
Some would come in pairs too like yttd- I like the idea of Atsushi and Kyouka already knowing each other and being kidnapped as a pair, as well as Chuuya and Akutagawa being kidnapped as a pair
I dont actually have a set story (shrug) BUT I have some ideas
I think in ch1, Dazai would plant evidence that he’s on the kidnappers’ side (when he really isnt, he just wants ppl to be sus of him), so he ends up getting the most votes in the first Main Game. But, kinda like what Kai did in yttd, Dazai kills himself instead of accepting punishment. HOWEVER, Dazai has this weird ass character trait where he keeps trying to kill himself but it never works. It’s more of a running gag atp in bsd (even in the gakuen au), but like it’s still a thing yknow. And I think Dazai would know that and completely take advantage of it. He ends up surviving his attempt while everyone moved on to the next floor, completely thinking he’s dead. And he planned all of that. He faked his own death completely trusting in that weird gag of his. He goes into hiding- it’s much easier to fight the enemy while they think you’re dead.
It’s actually Sigma who finds him. I personally think she would have a similar role that Safalin does in yttd and would run the clinic (even if Sigma doesnt rlly know much about medical stuff. He was just kinda assigned this).
Sigma isn’t exactly fully on the DOA’s side, and so when she finds Dazai, she actually works to stop his bleeding and stuff, and Dazai convinces her to betray the kidnappers (can u tell i like sigzai)
That’s most of the story I actually have planned out- haven’t thought about the other deaths or anything yet. But I am SO chronic abt it
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mamunches · 2 years
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the marblevalley brainrot never stops its time to absolutely ramble the hell out of this au
ok to start off Hey bram enjoyers. you know what i love. bram. and you know what this au has. bram. so here we go
- these three sillies hang out in the saloon every friday evening to just chill with each other and to take a break off of work! every once in a while they decide to play billiards together, and it usually ends with a funny commotion being caused. brians really good at billiards, and is pretty lucky when it comes to it, so he usually ends up giving everyone at the table a reaally smug look once he wins. tim on the other hand, not too great, not very lucky, and has to end up facing brians cheeky smirk when he loses. lastly jay is pretty decent when it comes to billiards! is a little lucky as well, but definitely wouldnt be able to beat bri on a regular basis.
- in cindersap forest bram ever so often goes on little picnic dates by the pond there when the weather is good. if the three of them are in an exploration sorta mood, they usually end up going into the secret woods as well and look at the weird little statue there
- since brian is a blacksmith, he likes to make gifts for the other two! stuff like jewellery, little trinkets, or even weapons sometimes. its cute i think. because imagine brian going up to them being like "i made gifts for both of you :-)" and jay and tim are just expecting it to be some cool matching jewellery but then bri walks back in with two daggers like "look, i made the sheaths look pretty and theyre your favourite colours :D i also carved our names into the hilts!! do you guys like them?"
- adding onto the gift thing, he would totally forge engagement rings for tim and jay and i just think its really Cute. he spends months in the mine looking for the right ores and precious stones to use, and ends up spending more time in his shop than usual making sure hes getting everything just right; trying his best to keep what hes doing a secret from the other two so that itll be a big surprise!! (except. they already know. because bri tends to talk in his sleep a lot and they find it sooo endearing)
- and since the two of them already know what hes up to, they decide to be teases about it. they pop into his shop "by surprise" while hes working on the rings, both of them watching him scramble to hide what hes doing. or once they start looking more ring shaped they tease him by being like "ooh what are you working on? are those rings? who in the town ordered those? :-)" and they just both think that this entire thing is adorable
- but like seriously. the idea of brian making their rings literally turns my heart to mush. going through various levels of the mine to find certain gems and stones. fighting through the ghosts, bats, slimes, etc. before finding what he needed. continuing to keep it all a "secret" until he was finished with the rings and could finally set up this long awaited proposal. sorry for being a huge romance lover but they mean the worrlld to me
- and if he doesnt forge rings and instead gets mermaid pendants. it would all be so funny just to see the three of them meeting up together, one of them proposes, and the other two are like "wait wait waaiit WAIT i had mermaid pendants to give you guys as well?? oh my gosh"
thats mostly it for now but i could write about them forreevveerrr
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bandtrees · 1 year
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!!!! BSD5 EP10 SPOILERS !!!!
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i take back all my ironypoisoned statements about bsd i loved that most recent episode a LOT a lot. its not like i disliked the current arc by any means, but it also reached a point in its absurdity where i stopped taking it too seriously - and MAN did this episode bring it back SO GOOD!!!
it did really well - between sigma and dazai being trapped in the flooded room, the sskk fight, the fyodor and sigma scenes, the bram and aya scenes - both with bringing all those subplots to very bleak devastating points, AND with something i have always always criticized about bsd: the violence here feels real, it has stakes - yes i expect a bsd-typical fakeout next episode after we saw dazai get (supposedly) shot to death, yes i know atsushi after being dismembered is probably gonna be fine, one way or another, cuzthats how this show rolls... BUT!!! BUT! let me bask in this until the next episode drops: the WEIGHT of it all!! how PAINFUL they made it!!!
bsd gives characters mortal injuries often, and doesnt really give them lasting impact. remember when atsushi lost his leg? kunikida lost his hands? or when dazai got shot in the eye in dark era? those bits essentially existed just for the striking imagery of violence - for the shot of dazai bleeding through his bandages, but he's still standing, pretty motionless, you know? and it's something you get used to with bsd, as much as i gripe about how the fights tend to not really have stakes...
...but this episode, though? i think going so long seeing these characters crumple and tear like paper and largely be fine, makes the absolute painful bleakness of this feel all the worse: dazai's crumpled on the floor from a broken leg, bleeding from the head, and he can't deliver many of his dazai-typical quips before he gets shot in the shoulder and just grabs it and screams. he doesn't get the satisfaction of being grabbed, or strangled, or whatever else by chuuya's hands, he doesn't even have the control of that: no, all he can do is just sit there while he's shot, over and over, and even when he's on a smarmy genre-savvy self-aware ramble, chuuya just stops him and shoots him in the head - and that's so fucking jarring and makes for INCREDIBLY striking imagery, i love it!!! for once, he's not safe! there's no plot armor! he's in so much pain and he is actively feeling it!!! AND THATS SO IMPORTANT TO HUMANIZING A CHARACTER LIKE DAZAI
AND THE SSKK FIGHT GOD DONT GET ME STARTED - the way atsushi's screams were voice acted, my god youd think they were actually tearing off yuto uemura's limbs in that recording studio. sweet jesus. you see people complain a lot about manga-aname adaptation changes but, as someone who hasnt read the manga, any cuts studio bones made were made up for by the absolutely brilliant audio - the music and voice acting - in every way, in this episode. the screams of pain. fyodor's gayass little stunt. so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
also sigma was awesome. aya was awesome. bram was awesome. fyodor made me feel a type of way (HIS ACTING WAS SO GOOD. MY GOD!!! TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SIGMA'S NAIVETE LIKE THAT!!! SPEAKING TO THEM IN TROPES BECAUSE THEY'RE LITERALLY A BOOK CHARACTER AAAUHHHH). 10/10 we are so fucking back. I LOVE ANIME.
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The first character I first fell in love with: chuuya. before i even knew anything else ab bsd i knew.i wanted him carnally
The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: kenji!!! i didnt think id like him this much i thought he'd just be some guy
The character everyone else loves that I don’t: uuummm oda tbh. i dont rlly know ab him tho so whatever
The character I love that everyone else hates: NAOMI I AM PROUD TO LIKE NAOMI. I DONT CARE AB THE INCEST ANYMORE shes silly
The character I used to love but don’t any longer: higuchi just cuz she doesnt get much attention so i forget she exists now
The character I would totally smooch: chuuya sigma poe kenji mark nikolai TANIZAKI!!! that's it. jumps off stage
The character I’d want to be like: anyone other than my irls (fyodor dazai q kaiji naomi)
The character I’d slap: chuuya and dazai. also several others but yk (ALSO BRAM!!!!!!!!!)
A pairing that I love: looks at my url. Technically that's a polycule wait ummmm. its a secret cuz i have never once seen anyone ship them but like. th. theyre silly you dont get to know who tho
A pairing that I despise: f.ukuran. Also ive seen people ship oda and ranpo. yucky
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