#WHERE'S RANPO?

[ssaraexposs]

LONG LIVE THE ARMED DETECTIVE AGENCY!

[unicornpopcorn14]

Ranpo? Sweetie?? This isn't funny anymore, buddy. Where are you? Did you really get launched that far? Are you even in the airport? Are you even ALIVE???

[morphestic]

there is this thing asagiri said about souheki where "they have to sit side by side but never opposites" or something like that and i swear i've seen it before but idk what the context of it is or where to find it.

but yea, that has been rotting in my mind. i've been thinking about it all day.

[autumnleaf1111]

Ranpo: running away

Poe: goes along with it

[raiain]

two of them (edogawas)

[kimetsu-chan]

I’m not ready for bsd chapter 117 guys.

[inamagicalhallucination]

sskk no powers au where they both go to the same cafe everyday to draw 

on atsushi’s side

he goes everyday, orders a drink and a new sweet to try and then he sits near a window to sketch

sometimes a friend will come along - but the cafe isn’t too loud but has a steady amount of people and to atsushi its a perfect place to sketch and get ideas for his work

he likes to sketch all sorts of ppl

the short hatted ginger who he’d seen when he’d gone out with dazai - who had been lovely to draw until he saw dazai scowled and stomped away much to atsushi’s confusion

the red headed girl who’d noticed him drawing and struck up a conversation with him and was now one of his dearest friends lucy

and him

he came to the cafe just as much as atsushi himself 

he’d sit in the corner and scribble away

always alone

he had long elegant fingers and pale skin, dark hair the lightened at the bottom that he’d pull back after sitting there for a while

he always wore black and kept to himself

he was the most beautiful person atsushi’s eyes had ever seen

and in no time atsushi’s sketch book was filled with him

/

when atsushi’s friend called him up about a gallery type event open to a wide range of invited artists he’d been excited

especially when all that the theme had been was a simple ‘beauty’ 

his cheeks were only a little red when his section was filled with the same muse

//

on akutagawa’s side

akutagawa finds drawing ppl to be rather dull

humans can be intriguing but individually? akutagawa’s art focuses on the world - landscapes - groups of humans travelling - never one single person

akutagawa comes to the cafe after a long week of not being able to find anything intriguing enough

cafe’s are relatively crowded so he thinks he can sketch for a while until something hits him

when he sees him 

the sunlight from the window illuminating white hair, long lashes brushing his cheeks as he looked down at whatever was in front of him, pink lips curled into a small genuine smile

when the boy looked up, potentially becuz he felt akutagawa’s staring, akutagawa saw his eyes, purple and gold

akutagawa ryuunosuke was a smitten man

and before he knew it, he was coming back to the cafe every day hoping to catch a glimpse of the man, hsi pencil tracing the shapes of him over and over in his sketchbook

akutagawa had been wrong

this one person was the most breathtaking view, nothing else in the world could ever compare

objectively of course

/

akutagawa’s friends notice his newfound muse as they help him take out the pieces he’s selected for his section in the gallery of his sister’s friend’s friend 

akutagawa thinks its just becuz they know him so well - not all his works featured the boy’s face - though all were inspired by him

no one else would notice

well

other than the white haired boy standing in front of his work, wide eyed, red cheeked, and mouth agape

akutagawa would be embarrassed if he himself hadn’t just seen the white haired boy- atsushi nakajima’s - work himself 

//

so pretty much artist atsushi draws cute cafe boy and ends up putting cute cafe boy inspired pieces in a gallery and akutagawa draws his own cute cafe boy and puts them in the same event and boom they’re drawing each other so now they’re in the middle of the gallery doing that one spider man meme

[uzi-x33]

happy birthday ranpo, have some angst!!:3 and ranpoe😸

[ashksa]

[rosalinesurvived]

I should say smth about the new bsd chapter but ngl i just feel kinda dissapointed by it?? It felt really short and we’ve been stuck on the same characters for a whiiile. It just felt like nothing happened. We got Fukuchi but anime-watchers + that one cover of Fukuchi wearing the mask could fill that in without being told.

There are so many more people Asagiri has to fill us in on; the government’s response to all this, Tecchou losing everyone he loved, Atsushi’s feelings on this, the rest of the entire Agency. What does Kunikida think on Fukuzawa being unable to kill Fukuchi? How’s he feeling now that he’s responsible for the Agency members again?? Bro wasnt named their sucessor for nothing! What’s Yosano been doing, what are her opinions on the use of another immortal regiment for the sake of power? Kenji, Junichirou, Naomi?

I just need a goddamn break from Fyodor

[kcuf-ad]

Curious what you thought about Junichiro during the Cannibalism arc?

Lowkey, I knew that Hirotsu was cooked the moment he said "You have a sister, am I correct?" like bro, you can beat him up, break every limb in his body, make his organs look like jelly and he still wouldn't have been more bloodlusted if you didn't bring up his sister.

Wasn't expecting him to use his Light Snow as a decoy so that they could run away, was absolute shocked that he almost killed Mori if Kouyou didn't step in and he had a pretty good fight.

Now I see how he is the most bloodlusted dude in the Agency. He makes Dazai and Yosano look like innocent children in comparison.

[frankenjoly]

Rain + kunichuuranzai 😌

“Told you.” Was the first thing Kunikida said when both Dazai and Ranpo let out a synchronized groan upon seeing the rain still going strong. 

He had insisted on how everyone should get their own umbrella to minimize the risk of someone getting wet, to the point of sounding repetitive to even himself. And yet, though not surprisingly, those two had counted on being helped out instead of heeding his advice. The funniest part? That would come soon enough, a bit after Dazai ended up being the one being actually scolded while Ranpo got away with it.

Because some things never change even after starting dating, and because Chûya was with them too and would never pass up a chance to get on Kunikida’s side. Or to call out Dazai.  More so if he could do both if one sitting.

“You should’ve listened to Doppo, duh.”

“Why are you just looking at me? Ranpo didn’t bring one either.” Dazai pouted in an exaggerated manner, as he tended to do in moments like that.

“Why? ‘Cause I’m the most special one, c’mon.” Ranpo added, only half-joking; both at work and with their partners, he was always very much spoiled, and none of them could deny having contributed.

“You’re lucky you’re pretty. Both of you.” Chûya continued, making everyone snort and stopping to reach for not one but two foldable umbrellas from his backpack while Kunikida himself did the same. “If not we wouldn’t have brought extra for you pampered lil’ shits.” Well, Kunikida couldn’t have resisted doing it anyway, but he wasn’t going to add that.

Nor did he have time to do so, since in a matter of seconds Dazai and Ranpo were all over him and Chûya, showering them with praise and some kisses.

“See?” They said, so much in sync the whole thing might as well have been rehearsed. Of course not, those two didn’t need it. “We can always count on you!”

(Also on ao3.)

[flaresanimedump]

Thoughts on Ranpo

I said something about Ranpo being a jerk but being the nicest person around from his perspective on twitter yesterday and my meta got too long to post there. This got way out of hand and is more of a Ranpo analysis than an explanation. Anyway:

Let us first consider Ranpo’s perspective in general. Ranpo can look at a person, place, or thing and know everything about it if he so chooses. He figured out Fukuzawa was an assassin in about 30 seconds and that was before he gained 12 years of experience as a detective.

His glasses gave him the confidence to acknowledge he was smarter than everyone else – something he was afraid of because, as he said in Origins, being smarter than everyone else meant he was all alone and because being the smartest person around meant that if he was wrong no one would catch his mistake in time as we see with Kunikida. But what we don’t acknowledge often enough imo is that the primary thing Ranpo does with his glasses is not wear them.

What Fukuzawa said when he gave Ranpo the glasses was: “If you put these on, your ability will activate, and you will be able to see the truth, right then and there. On the other hand, when you’re not wearing them, other people’s simplemindedness will not bother you anymore.”

(This is, of course, the basis of the ability Fukuzawa later manifested – “You can turn your power on and off at will” – but I digress.)

But Ranpo could already do the first part. He was like Scott Summers from X-Men who can’t turn his power off. If you notice, when Ranpo’s in Poe’s book with Yosano, Ranpo isn’t actually bothered by knowing things. He starts deducing the case out of sheer annoyance, and it’s only when Yosano goes “wow you’re on a roll” that he snaps at her and stops. Despite all his supposed self-importance, he spends the entire case trying not to be special.

He also gets mad and asks “are you saying the president lied to me?!” which. He knows. Fukuzawa told him to his face it was a lie. What matters here is that he didn’t acknowledge it because he didn’t want to know.

Imagine you have the ability to be better than everyone at nearly everything. Go to get your car fixed and they can’t figure out where the short in your electrical system is? Well, you can, so shouldn’t you do it? You go to the doctor and they’re not sure what’s going on with that click in your wrist. Well, you'll know if you just read a couple of anatomy books, so shouldn’t you do it? You go to the coffee shop, to the grocery store, to the post office, and you can do everything better than everyone else, so shouldn’t you?

Fukuzawa correctly believed that Ranpo had the confidence and support to drop the glasses charade after their first case. But what Fukuzawa really gave Ranpo with the glasses, and what Ranpo clung to for so many years, was an excuse to turn it off. To say no, I’m not taking all that energy to do all that thinking for other people. To see someone be totally, completely, maddeningly wrong and go “huh, sure I guess,” as long as it didn’t interfere with his life. To not be expected to just deduce how the trains work.

And to save his energy for more important things. Yes, some of the information comes easy, but it did take him a little thought to figure out Fukuzawa's past. He believed everyone was doing some thinking all the time, but the revelation that he was the only one would put all that effort on him. There's a reason most colleges limit the number of finals you're required to take in a day: you can't apply yourself forever without burning out. Ranpo admitting he was smarter than everyone else without the glasses would have had him on track to either run himself into the ground or harden his heart at the tender age of 14 to protect himself.

Case in point: it's Ranpo who says he has to protect all the "foolish infants" around him just seconds after he finally admits he's smarter than everyone else - and just seconds after he's been given an excuse to not kill himself doing it.

Circling back to the statement that triggered this essay: Fukuzawa’s final bullet point in his explanation of Ranpo’s ability is that nobody hates him. Ranpo digests this, and in the anime we see flashbacks to him getting thrown out of the academy, but we also see him at his parents’ grave. Now, what would his parents’ deaths have to do with people being foolish or hating him?

Potential answer: Even when he shuts his brain mostly off, Ranpo knows what people are going through. He knows their pasts, when he needs to, their bad deeds and things they’d like to keep secret. We've seen that he knows what would hurt them the most, too (re: his intro episode when he repeats Yamagiwa’s last words to Sugimoto.)

Other people don’t.

Other people might make an off-color joke that they don’t realize breaks their friend’s heart. Other people might spend two years guessing Dazai’s history and making strong generalizing statements about how evil and deplorable everyone in the Port Mafia is. Other people might accidentally get caught whispering at a funeral about how they heard the boy’s mother had an affair, which, to Ranpo, looks like intentionally being overheard saying things you know are lies about a kind and wonderful dead woman.

For two years he didn’t understand that they didn't know. For two years he walked by thousands of people who saw an energetic young boy, but he thought they saw an orphan who was lonely and hungry and sad. It looked like people hated him, because why would they say the things they said if they knew? (They didn’t.) Why would they walk by him if they knew how he felt? (They didn’t.)

In the novel he says “all the times I was suffering” at this revelation, implying it happened often and he couldn’t understand why people were so awful.

Of course, Ranpo is still a jerk – but he could be much worse. He’ll tell people they suck to their faces and advocate for leaving Atsushi to be sold on the black market and be obscenely arrogant, but legitimate stabs, those awful moments when you put your foot in your mouth and really hurt people – he never does that by accident. But other people do it to him by accident. For friends he knows just what gifts they want for the holidays, knows their favorite and least favorite foods, and a dozen other little things other people don't know and make it look like they don't care about him enough to pay attention.

Which finally brings me to my original statement: Ranpo is a jerk but from his perspective he’s the nicest guy around. Assuming they're idiots and "not being bothered by the ignorance of others" lets him ignore their lack of social graces.

[tardigrade-skeb]

We got powdered donuts yuri before gta6 😭

This is kinda 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 sorry… I won’t do it again

Ranpoe Lesbians return!

[asmobeuses]

Kissing him

Kissing him is akin to putting yourself under lock and key. He won't let go of you once you start. The way he gets drunk off your lips seems unhealthy, but it's quite the opposite.

Coming home to you waiting for him, lips plump and ready to envelop his own is a key factor in your relationship and one of the many reasons why he's so deeply in love with you.

When you kiss, the world seems to fade away for both of you, leaving you overwhelmed by the other's lips. Your senses are heightened, and every touch is electric, leaving you breathless.

Kissing him is like floating on cloud nine. There simply is no better feeling.

Give him gentle, lingering kisses. He'll be whipped for sure. (Not that he wasn't already)

Give him teasing, irksome kisses. He may come back feeling a little vindictive, but hey! It was worth the little pout on his face when you pulled away.

"Your kisses are better than medicine!" Tell him to stay in his current profession, the medical field wouldn't go too well for him. He swears your kisses have magical healing powers. Ones that immediately make him feel better, no matter the ailment.

GOJO, Itadori, Yuuta - DAZAI, atsushi, RANPO, Chuuya, Tachihara, NIKOLAI - ITTO, Kaeya, CHILDE - DENJI - SAMPO, Jing Yuan - BACHIRA (idk blue lock very well I'm sorry) - Your faves

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[thesecretestofsimps]

Why is nobody talking abt how ranpo is unaccounted for again? Hes just.....gone? Like...he was there now hes not-?