#Bungo Stray Dogs thoughts

[i-eat-mold]

i just drank half a bottle of wine and i can’t stop thinking about how chuuya would’ve felt about dazai, seeing him after 4 years. like yeah this bastard betrayed you and your relationship of several years and also your whole organization with no word and no goodbye. yeah that must’ve sucked. you must hate the guy. you must be feeling angry and hurt and full of grief. but also, you’ve seen him again after four years and there is light in his eyes. last time you saw him his eyes were completely empty and he wouldn’t stop trying to kill himself. he was so obviously miserable and stuck in a cicle of constant abuse. and you’re angry at him for leaving you behind, but you’ve just seen him and you can see both his eyes, there’s a glow in them, hes gained some color in both his skin and his clothes. he has found a family that isn’t based on abuse or fear. yeah, you’re angry, you feel left, you feel hurt, but you also know that this is the best thing that could’ve happened to him, so can you blame him? it must feel strange to have such a conflict within yourself, between hating him and feeling betrayed by him but also being understanding and happy for him

[eggsbenedict8]

People talk a lot about how they hope Akutagawas vampirism will heal him of his lung disease, but I really hope it doesn't. Curing Akutagawas illness this way would feel incredibly cheap, and I'd be highly disappointed. Especially after this

This moment is not only impactful because Akutagawa confesses his illness (something he views as a weakness) it was the first time Atsushi saw humanity in Akutagawa it was also setting up stakes for Akutagawas character i feel like throwing that all away with a magical vampirism cure would be one of the worst things for his arc

[dazai-on-my-mind]

Shaking the bars of my enclosure every time I think about how Asagiri purposely wrote all the relationships in BSD to be so impactful and complex that not only adds to the characters individual arcs but also has a major impact on the story.

Like how did you write something so unapologetically queer, state that yes the bonds each character has go beyond simple titles and then have it all actually matter to the plot????

YOU WANT ME TO NORMAL AFTER THIS ASAGIRI

[daffodilsinspring]

BSD SPOILERS!!!!

OMG!!!!!

WTF is happening??? Pulling a Black Clover with all these divine beings showing up😭😭

Kunikida!!!! :(((((((((

Theory Time!!!

I wonder if there'll be a time reset and things will revert to an hour or day before and atsushi will have to have make sure what's happening doesn't happen

[crowatyourwindow]

Do you think it would have been cool if Atsushi's white tiger aged with him as he grew up

[originalartblog]

Have you ever seen Scott Sterling Best Volleyball Blocks Ever? I think the ADA should make use of Dazai even when he's incapacitated.

[pebblul]

“teenage Dazai this” “teenage Chuuya that”

WHAT ABOUT TEENAGE FUKUZAWA

I know where Ranpo gets it from.

[solanumflare]

for some reason these two panels having akutagawa drawn at almost the exact same angle in the same pose but with completely opposite expressions and things he's saying makes me foam at the mouth. harukawa (+ asagiri) you can't do this to me

[damianito]

Before i decided on the triples i toyed with the idea of skk have one daughter. This are old-ish doodles of it

|COMMISSIONS OPEN!!|

[anticidic]

Keep thinking about the similarities and differences between Dazai's living conditions and Chuuya's living conditions, but how at the end of the day, they both just...don't know how to live. Even Verlaine looks around and asks how/why Dazai lives in the middle of nowhere and in a container, clearly pointing out that it's unusual but Dazai just shrugs it off. Chuuya has his desk in the middle of the room facing his bed when desks are usually in corners or against walls or facing a window but his is pointed at his bed. Meanwhile Dazai's is facing the wall. You walk into either of these rooms and wonder who lives there because you glean no personality or interests from them and wouldn't expect them to be where two teenagers make their homes. And there's something uniquely sad about that fact.

[cryptid-juzou]

I'm a big fan of the skk dynamic of them talking like they hate each other but their actions saying otherwise. And they would definitely never openly acknowledge those actions.

Dazai saying Chuuya’s hats are the tackiest, ugliest things he’s ever seen…but one day Chuuya notices a new hat amongst his collection that he definitely didn't buy himself, but loves the look of. He knows there is only one person with the audacity to break into a pm executive’s apartment.

During a joint ada/pm endeavour Dazai has a cold and is putting on the theatrics and Chuuya calls him a dramatic, whiny baby with the constitution of a wet kitten…but later on he stops by Dazai’s place with cold and flu meds and some soup he made himself. He bangs on the door to get Dazai’s attention and then leaves without saying a word before the door can be opened.

Chuuya intermittently leaving drunken voicemails angrily demanding Dazai stop using his damn card for his ridiculous and pricey purchases. But when Chuuya gets a new card when the old one expires he texts him his new card details with no context or explanation.

[i-eat-mold]

This is getting a lot more attention than I expected so I have two things to say:

1-currently workinv on a comic about this!! Can’t promise much but let’s see how it goes lmao

2- i can go on abour this and I will (also there’s a post prior to this og one that dives deeper into some of the aspects this discusses)

But let me talk to you about the episodes. To begin with, they don’t really ever specify what is wrong with dazai, though they both have an understanding of what’s going on. They won’t say dazai “is depressed” straight up, more like he’s having Those Days. One of the reasons they call it the Days is because dazai doesn’t like being treated like a stupid child, which is what he feels happens whenever someone tries to take some care of him- like a nurse would. “I’m not a child (he is a child, god he’s just a child) I don’t need your fucking pity. Get out. I bite.” Kind of mindset. Chuuya understands this and as much as he’s annoyed by how stupid dazai is he avoids doing anything that would make him have that reaction. It’s tough because chuuya has to walk on that thin line between making sure he won’t kill himself, not acting like he cares too much, and also not making dazai shut him off. On top of that, chuuya has a lot of shit to deal with himself. I mean the poor guy is living tragedy after tragedy. I’m more than sure these things have deeply affected this, but I believe they have done so in a different matter than dazai. I’m not saying chuuya wouldn’t have periods of feeling down, I simply believe he would deal with the hurt and trauma in a different way (which is also a whole other topic open to explore!!!). Adjacent to that line there are dazais thoughts about all of this. He doesn’t want people to pity him, much less Chuuya of all people. “This dude got backstabbed by his childhood gang, lived in the streets after blowing up the expedient he was part of, his supposed brother killed his friends in the mafia and almost leveled the entire city, and he just found out he might not be human at all. Not to mention the fact that there is a literal singularity god inside the kid. You’re telling me Chuuya, the worst shithead I know, can deal with all of that by himself, and on top of it act like I’m a hurt puppy? What the fuck? Hell no. I’m not letting THIS GUY out of anyone else pity me” (dazai was, in fact, desperately trying to push chuuya away from him so his “misery” wouldn’t spread to him- he would not stand to see chuuya swallowed by the same void he was in. But he could also never admit that outloud).

On the other hand, these two have a pretty good understanding of each others thoughts without speaking a single word. So none of them would mention it outloud, but chuuya could tell when dazai was getting worse, and dazai knew that. They didn’t say a word, but those days chuuya drily told him to hop behind him on the bike and dazai would sleep at chuuyas. Chuuya would call mori in the morning, saying dazais stupid ass got in some trouble and they’d have to take care of it, so they wouldn’t be in hqs that day. Or for the next few days. Mori knows it’s all a bunch of bullshit, and chuuya is aware of that, but he lets it slide because he also has noticed the two boys growing less and less loud and lively for the past few days. They’re just kids, they need a break. So he covers for them every once in a while. Only a diamond can polish another diamond in the end, and only a diamond can save another diamond.

Teen skk this teen skk that. How about dazais deep depressive episodes where he didn’t brush his teeth or his hair or shower and after a few days of not seeing him around work chuuya would go to his container, grab him and wash him like a dog. Wet black cat. Dazai is just annoyed. Chuuya lets him sleep at his place during the bad parts of the episode “so he doesn’t skip work leaving all the paperwork for him” but really it’s because he doesn’t like thinking about dazai alone in that cold container. Even the most annoying person on earth should have more than a mattress and four metal walls, I guess. So chuuya has him stay over during those days. Is it such a hassle really to make a little more food when cooking dinner? Both of them have always had trouble sleeping so might as well spend the night together watching shitty sitcoms or talking shit about coworkers or setting up pranks for mori instead of looking at the ceiling all night. In this essay I will.

[eggsbenedict8]

I love how bsd characters look so much like their names like I can't explain it but its like Harukawa looked at the name "Osamu Dazai" for example and made a character that looks like the human version of that name

[minimafioso]

Dazai stealing ability Auras...

[itsandyhere]

oops

[originalartblog]

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