#also rimlaine is canon

[rimbaud-fan-page]

Coincidence??? I THINK NOT

[nyxi-pixie]

i want stormbringer animated so bad bc the fact that like. 75% of the fandom has no idea what happens in it apart from like dazai saying he thinks abt chuuya every waking and sleeping moment, jokes abt dead flags, dazai living in a shipping container, and the vaguest understanding of chuuyas time in the lab. makes me sad. but also. do i trust bones to take it seriously? no.

[celestebunnie]

Me explaining Stormbringer plot but I haven't read it and all my knowledge comes from vague points in fics and Wikipedia and fans talking about it

- Paul is kinda like chuuya 2.0 With his Gravity manipulation and Brutalization parallel to corruption

-Rimbaud and Paul exchanged names..? Ig, Idk why

-Paul is the King Assassin and Agatha hates him..? He also killed UK's queen

- Rimlaine had a bad breakup and tried to kill each other because they disagreed on what should be Chuuya's future. Raised by villagers and not knowing his identity or Go to Europe and get experimented on, choose your fighter

- They both thought the other was dead

- Rimbaud lost memories and Paul got crazy

- Chuuya is having a identity crisis over his humanity, that's like the 70% plot of Stormbringer

- Paul is also having a Identity crisis over humanity and that's the rest 30% plot

- For once Dazai isn't having a crisis

- Rimbaud being alive would have solved the problem NGL

- Morally questionable Romantic movements

- The other Transcendents are dead, William Shakespeare, victor Hugo etc I think

- Wait why isn't Wells not in Stormbringer?? What's the point of having time traveling ability if you aren't stopping stuff damm

- Mori is awfully enjoying the commotion

- We also have Flags aka Chuuya's friends with really weird names

- like who named y'all Pianoman , Lippman , Doc etc!??? And why

- I don't think they have abilities..?

- They die , Paul kills them idk why

- Chuuya refuses to see his biological parents idk why

- I think they sold him to government but not sure

- Paul get his ability weakned forever after fighting soukoku???? I again don't know why

- Mori's whole motive in Stormbringer is to see his Ship Soukoku getting canon, reletable

- He cried over Rimbauds grave or something and got a vision or something

- Join PM as an executive..? Why

- But lives in Basement because of grief, understable

- He trained gin and kyouka

[youroriginalsublimecupcakestuff]

Traditional omegaverse society

Alpha or enigma dazai/omega chuuya

Either royalty, mafia or yakuza heir or rich company heir what is important is that chuuya run away.

He did that before presenting

Dazai and chuuya are engaged since childhood have this relationship like in swan princess they didn't get along, both hated this engagement.

But it's also chuuya hated this and hated him and while dazai is just as antagonistic ( well like their canon antagonism he's also really possessive that his fiance he was promised to him ).

also dazai was smaller than chuuya in their childhood ( i also have this idea of peoples making assumption dazai as omega, chuuya as alpha).

Chuuya was with with others peoples, have even tried mating out with others but got caught.

Then After he run away chuuya present as omega he met either the flags, rimlaine or kouyou and while he have trouble like his omega status and money trouble he's free like he never have been before, from his obligation and from his engagement to dazai.

While he try not because he will be happy to never hear about him again for the rest of his life, he hear about dazai because it's impossible not to.

( they're many rumor about oda, kunikida ect) , dazai have inherited his legacy and he found chuuya ( he never stopped searching for him ) chuuya benefactor got into debt and he use that against chuuya to get him back.

Chuuya could also have been courting someone else but dazai put a stop to that, he had to go to dazai estate and he feel like a bird in cage but they learn to know each others better and to get along.

[tachiharastanacc]

Rimlaine House of Strays: Teruko

Technically canon compliant bc it is also just Teruko backstory angst.

Reload. Aim. Fire.

There was no victory to be had through combat.

Faceless bodies lined the dirt. Dead on impact, if they were lucky.

Most weren’t.

Reload. Aim. Fire.

Most screamed themselves hoarse, writhing in the dirt, waiting to die.

If she were merciful, she may have spared a shot for them.

But in war, the merciful didn’t survive.

Reload. Aim. Fire.

She didn’t remember her parents. She didn’t remember her age. She barely remembered her name.

Fighting was mechanical. Emotions weren’t needed.

There was no joy. No sorrow. She was too old for such things now anyway. Or maybe she was too young to understand them.

Reload. Aim. Fire.

Order. Duty. Justice.

They were the last line of defense. Without them, those things would fall to ashes.

Not unlike her childhood home.

Reload. Aim. Fire.

Ignore the screams. They don’t matter.

Her parents had screamed as they were killed. She didn’t remember activating her ability. Just that she needed to help. To save them.

Those were the foolish wishes of a child who hadn’t seen the truth of the world.

Reload. Aim.

The rifle clattered to the ground.

She didn’t scream. Not as blood seeped through her uniform. Not as pain burned through her shoulder. Not as a shadow blocked out the sun.

A white-haired man was staring down at her.

She braced herself for death.

The man held out a hand.

Teruko took it.

[heartberrydog]

are there any other bsd ships you like? and do you have any favourite platonic pairings?

Ohoho this is gonna get controversial probably 😭

Whatever. This is my account. Yes, I do!! None of them have as much of a grip on me as soukoku does, but I do like some other ships. I think I’m just gonna make a little tier list of them:

Chuusano/Chuuaki/whatever you wanna call Chuuya x Yosano. This is the most controversial one I think (specifically bc it’s literally my second favorite ship) sheksj I HAVE A VISION OK

Atsulucy 🫶

Fukufuku‼️

Higugin. They are so Chappell Roan to me

Fyolai

Shin soukoku

Ranpoe. Ofc ofc

Odango except I always forget they exist

Rimlaine except I also always forget they exist

Kousano. On very rare occasion. Mostly AUs

Fyoya but like. In a very specific very manipulative very toxic very not-actually-love kind of way… Idk how to explain this one 💔 It’s a certain Vibe

Fyozai but in a very one-sided, implicit, subtextual way. This is has only joined the roster recently because I’ve been trying to understand Fyodor better for fic reasons + I assisted a discussion about Crime and Punishment despite not having read the book yet and I get the vision strictly because of it. I’ll form some more opinions once I have actually read the book… Take this one with a huge grain of salt until then

As for platonic pairings that I like:

I also…… I also really like Chuuya & Yosano as a platonic pairing… I swear I’m normal about them

Dazai & Atsushi

Yosano & Ranpo

Atsushi & Kyouka

Hirotsu & Soukoku, likewise Hirotsu & Dazai and Hirotsu & Chuuya. They are all at the same rank

Dazai & Ranpo

Akutagawa & Atsushi. I honestly prefer them as a platonic pairing, or at the very least somewhere between plantonic and romantic

Kouyou & Chuuya. On occasion

Dazai & Yosano but STRICTLY in an AU, and they’d also rank much higher if this was about AUs. I don’t think they’d ever get along in canon

I think that’s about it? Have a nice day and thank you for the ask!! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂)⸝♡

[cousticks]

Can you expand on Rimlaine in your zombie au? 👀

oh i sure fucking can. warning for self destructive behavior a little greater than canon because i did some rather messed up things to make them work!

I kind of gave them a bit of a "you're the only person in this town crazy enough to handle me" dynamic but more of as a quarantine measure because nobody else wanted anything to do with either of them. My explanation of how I translate their abilities and dynamic into this universe is kind of long so I'm putting this under a cut!

so, i spend a lot of time in this au trying to translate everyone's abilities into an ability-less zombie au. rimbaud's ability in translation kind of got broken down into two main parts: compartmentalization and control. in an ability, this is his ability subspace, and the manipulation of the rules within it.

now. we know rimbaud is kind of nuts. we also know that in canon he's used his ability to keep himself "alive" when he should have died.

you're probably reading this going okay cou, that's cool and all, but where's the zombie apocalypse part? well, resistance to death, compartmentalization, and control? rimbaud is going to survive several zombie attacks. in the most fucked up way.

i've mentioned my zombie virus's function is, among some other diseases, based upon rabies. rabies spreads pretty slowly in the body, through nerves. so if rimbaud gets bitten? he's not going down so easy. compartmentalization and control - he just fucking cuts off a solid chunk of whatever part of him just got bit before the wound has a chance to spread then carries on. (note: i do not know if this would work with real rabies nor do i recommend it. this is science fiction! i do what i want!)

so we've got rimbaud, who just lops off chunks of himself when he gets attacked to survive. he develops a bit of a reputation for this. after all, in canon, he's a powerful ability user. why wouldn't he be of high reputation (with people a little afraid of him) in this world, too? he's known for having ways of "dealing with" zombies.

now, verlaine. he, like chuuya, is an experimentally "cured" zombie (not cured. still zombie. just... staved off.) he's still dangerous and unstable to a point. the experimental cure is rather miserable and not super effective (most just die when its attempted). he's still very much infected with the zombie virus, but it won't be getting much worse, save for occasional "slips" of fun zombie brain moments (not fun in the slightest). shoutout to @/squidsandthings for giving me another virus type to look into for ideas on how these slips work!!! i love taking inspiration from real life diseases to make this work.

so after verlaine gets essentially thrown to the wolves after the zombie treatment, he gets passed off into the care of pretty much the only guy who can put up with someone that's just a zombie with a still functional brain, aka rimbaud.

yes, verlaine has bitten rimbaud a few times. this is fine though. remember how rimbaud literally gives himself up for verlaine at the end of stormbringer? i'm carrying that over, here, with rimbaud literally being willing to chop bits of himself off to keep verlaine around. and in return verlaine is the only person around not dismally horrified of rimbaud... Doing That.

i wanted at least someone to be kind of happier than in canon somehow in this universe so i'm allowing rimlaine to at least get to stay together without that separation they have in canon. but also one constantly runs the risk of killing the other either accidentally or out of necessity.

i also really wanted to create the rimbaud & dazai parallels of "immunity" of a sort, though rimbaud's is a distinctly different flavor of immunity since its very self-wrought.

so there you have it! that's the rimlaine zombie au dynamic. they're both miserable and having a bad time but at least they're having a bad time together. (fun fact! they can't like. kiss or anything. because, like rabies, the zombie virus can be spread through mucus membranes ((like mouths!)) i can make them as canon as i want and it still doesn't do either of them any good! <3)

[arahabakis-vessel]

If you could make one ship in bungo stray dogs Canon what would it be? (Other than soukoku)

hmmm... basic answers would probably be rimlaine or ranpoe but I feel like those are kind of cop-outs since they wouldn't really change much about their dynamics or the story. They'd just now be officially romantic. That being said, I think it would be absolutely fascinating if Fukuzawa and Mori were canonically involved with each other at some point. Not necessarily canon to the current day, but more were together at some point in the past. I already want to know more about what their partnership was like back when they were working together anyways, and I feel like it would just add layers to the bitterness and spite they feel towards each other after the whole Yosano situation. It'd also just be really fucking funny. I already joke that Mori's just upset that Fukuzawa took the kids in the divorce anyways lol.

[artheresy]

I made more because I crave Stormbringer content that is silly goofy and not utterly soul-crushing <3

[yurislava]

"Even Dazai had forgotten to breathe as he watched the storm that was Chuuya decimate the battlefield"

and that wasn't even the only time he forgot to breathe 😭. WHEN MORI IMPLIED DAZAI'S AND CHUUYA'S DOUBLE SUICIDE... also one of my fav:

3. many people have said rimlaine and im not in the slightest surprised bc same

4. Kunikida's internal monologue in the 1st ln

okay what is everyone’s bsd light novel scene/line that they didn’t believe was an actual canon part of bsd even though they read that with their own eyes

[kunikidas-lost-glasses]

BSD college!AU headcanons pt.5

TWs: crying, mentions of bad chronic pain days, Dazai-typical mentions of sewerslide, thoughts about sewerslide and SH, mentions of OCD, mentions of child abuse, mention of heart palpitations, very slight mentions of breaking down, mentions of panic attacks

Despite everything, they all obviously aren't as mentally fucked as in the canon universe in this.

Pairings: Kunichuuzai, Mushiranpoe, Shin Soukoku, Suegiku, Shibufyosiggol, Montcott, Bramcraft, also it isn't specifically mentioned that they are together/married but married!Rimlaine

Fyodor and Dazai are besties/ childhood best friends in this. Nothing more or less.

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Jouno and Tecchou are engaged in this

But like nobody knows. They don't keep it a secret though

Nikolai actually cries or at least tears up a lot. He just tries to hide it most of the time since back in the orphanage from which he fled as a child, crying was seen as showing weakness and it usually ended up with the caregivers screaming at him so by now he tries to act all goofy and cheerful when he feels the lump in his throat again and when he feels that his eyes start to burn again.

He still starts to cry/tear up often and easily

The shower drain in the shower of Fyodor's, Nikolai's, Sigma's and Shibusawa's dorm is regualry clogged with long white hair

Sigma actually fishes his hair out of the drain after he showered/washed his hair but especially Shibusawa doesn't do so

Shibusawa is usually so chaught up in his thoughts that he forgets to fish his hair out of the drain or he is simply too lazy to do so.

He also finds getting the hair out of the drain disgusting so he simply doesn't does it which is a problem since he has the longest and thickest hair out of them.

Nikolai genuienly just forgets to fish the hairs out. He is like four steps further in his mind already after leaving the shower and is working on autopilot then.

Shibusawa generally blocks the bathroom for up to an hours since this man has a like 15 step long selfcare routine (skincare, taking care of his hair, make up, washing himself in general, styling his hair,etc.)

Fyodor, Sigma and Nikolai love thier boyfriend dearly but this sometimes drives them insane. Especially when they have a thight schedule.

Dazai often hang around at Nikolai's, Fyodor's, Sigma's and Shibusawa's dorm, lying on thier bed and chatting with Fyodor while the latter is sitting on his desk, working on his PC.

Chuuya gets at least three calls a week by his older brother Verlaine in which the latter is checking in on how Chuuya is doing and asks if everything is alright or if he has to come over to kick some asses

Chuuya thinks it's a tad annoying. Especially since he's 22 by now and not a child anymore and also since he can kick asses himself perfectly fine

Kunikida thinks it's cute/nice that Verlaine cares so much about his younger brother

Arthur Rimbaud is more chill about the whole topic. He chats with Chuuya regulary but not really to check in how he's doing but more in order to gossip with Chuuya

It's not like he wouldn't care about Chuuya, he kinda raised him too after all and knows him since he's 6 years old, but he trusts Chuuya enough to tell him if something is seriously wrong and he also thinks that he himself is able to tell if something is wrong.

Arthur is more of a chill and funny "parent" in a strange way. He's calm but he can be so damn sarcastic and is able to roast people in ways were they struggle to find a come back

He's calm yet chaotic and chill about a lot of things and Chuuya loves it

He's also more open minded when it comes to Chuuya's relationships and gives his parters a chance while Verlaine wants to strangle Dazai since the day he first met the other

Bram owns a grey nightgown with small little, realistic looking bats printed on it and he loves it

Fitzgerald is the funny, chill yet weird buisness management professor

Sigma can't decide if he likes him or if he finds him annoying/if he makes him uncomfortable

Fitzgerald made a joke about Sigma's name at least once

Fyodor sometimes dances with one of his boyfriends in thier dorm

One time he danced with Sigma to one of the latters favorite songs when Sigma had a bad day

One time, Fyodor took the lead while Sigma leaned his head against Fyodor's shoulder, closing his eyes and letting himself feel safe and comforted

Dazai just randomly bursting into Fyodor's dorm at the most random times is a thing (Dazai has key to thier dorm for whatever reason just like Fyodor has a key to Dazai's and Chuuya's)

If Bram has a horrible pain day, he stays at his dorm, lying in his bed, not going out or to any lectures and tries to survive the day somehow

Lovecraft also always comes over then

He is at Bram's dorm most of the time anyways

He will bring Bram some books, makes him tea and keeps him company

He knows that there isn't much to make his partner feel better/ to ease the pain but he's still there for him

Often Bram just tries to sleep it off, just like he does with everything else which plagues/bothers him and even theny, Lovecraft will stay by his side, often falling asleep too but still being avilable whenever Bram should need something

Sometimes Bram starts to cry silently out of frustration and pain and while he hopes that Lovecraft won't notice it, the other will always notice it

He then asks if there is anything he can do and if there isn't anything he will simply ask Bram if it would be okay if he lies down next to him, holding him

If Bram gives the okay, he will lie down next to the other, hugging him carefully, not touching his legs and pelvic bone at all, not wanting to cause any more pain and lets Bram cry silently

They don't need any words then. Lovecraft being there is enough then.

Often Bram ends up dozing off when the pain gets a bit lesser and since he is exhaused from crying and usually Lovecraft dozes off right after making sure that Bram is asleep and as well as he can be in such a situation

Each and every time Jouno and Tecchou are in the cafeteria together, there will be a huge discussion about Tecchous food combinations

It's kind of entertaining to watch

Mushitarou has heart palpitations which come from him being stress 90% of the time and from his OCD and they get worse whenever he has a lot of stress again

When Chuuya gets very emotional, angry or irritated, his french accent gets audible and can get pretty thick

Dazai thinks it's adorable

Chuuya dropping french curse words here and there is a thing

Ranpo and Jouno often wear noise canceling headphones in the cafeteria if it's super crowded

All of them are either majoring or minoring in litrature so they often suffer together when they have short deadlines or ask each other what they've wrote for a creative writing assignment

Poe and Chuuya check each others poems

They surprisingly get along super well

Chuuya and Ranpo don't really get along though

Sigma sometimes bakes way too much cookies and brings some cookies to other dorms

Poe can be quiet sarcastic when he's in surroundings where he feels safe

Poe basically trained Karl to also function as a service animal so now he's not only a friend, pet and collegue to him but also a big help when he's getting a panic attack again

Karl will start to nudge Poe and pull on his clothes when the latter is too chaught up, spiraling in his thoughts to notice that he's starting to have a panic attack again

As soon as he is aware of what's happening, Karl will go and search for Ranpo or Mushitaro (or both) and will drag on thier clothes, nudge them and will even bite them in thier ankles if necessary (Poe didn't thought him this. He started doing this himself. Poe scolded him once for it but he keeps doing it when they aren't realizing what's going on or if they won't pay attention which happens rarley thaught.) He then shows them where Poe is.

As soon as they are taking care of his owner, he will bring Poe a bottle of water and some sweets and will proceed to cuddle and lick his cheeks or hands then.

Sometimes he also lies down on his lap as if he's trying to calm down and comfort Poe

If they are in public, he will also get super defensive and tries to keep people who aren't Ranpo or Mushitaro away from Poe

After Mushitaro joined thier relationship and after Karl started to accept having to share Poe with yet another person, he surprisingly started to act them same way when Mushitaro was getting a panic attack or was close to breaking down again

Atsushi spends a lot of his free time at the cafe down the street where his best friend Lucy is working

He spends hours chatting with her, lets her rant about rude cutomers and helps her out sometimes

Louisa is also often in the cafe, visiting her girlfriend

Lucy will always make herself some free time for them

She will always ask Louisa how she's doing, how college is and if anyone dared to bother her

She can and will waltz into the college and she will absolutly destory any person who dared to make Louisa feel bad

She also always praises her girlfriend, makes her her favorite drinks, gives her her favorite pastries and also tries to stop her from overworking herself once again

She is a bit lesser soft to Atsushi (or to any other person who isn't Louisa) but that doesn't mean that she wouldn't care about the other

If she knows that Atsushi will visit her at the cafe again, they will have "coincidentally" his favorite pastry in store and if he forgot his money at his dorm, she will give him the meal on the house "but just this once!"

It will always be "on the house" then

If Atsushi is struggling with college stress, she will roast him for choosing to go to college instead of starting to work like her but she will then offer him support in her very own ways

In general, she supports the most of them during exam season and cares about Atsushi's and Louisa's friend group greatly

She is also the reason why Atsushi, Dazai, Kunikida, Chuuya,Fyodor,Nikolai, Bram, Lovecraft, Steinbeck, Louisa, Higuchi, Gin, Akutagawa, Sigma, Shibusawa, Ranpo, Poe, Mushitaro and Yosano are allowed to make thier study sessions on fridays and why they are allowed to stay there, even after the shops closing hous, especially during exam phases

Atsushi sometimes brings Akutagawa or Akutagawa and Gin with him to the cafe

Lucy doesn't really like Akutagawa a lot but as long as Atsushi is happy she doesn't mind

Atsushi loves watching series for kids when he's stressed

Dazai sometimes doesn't trust himself while showering at all, especially not when his mental health is worse again, so he sometimes manages to ask Chuuya or Kunikida if they could sit in the bathroom while he's showering so that they can jump in if he tries or does anything funny

Of course they will never deny the request and join him in the bathroom, not looking or judging him

Usually Chuuya sits on the floor with his back against the shower door, playing video games on his Ninentdo or working on his tasks for college while occasionally asking Dazai if everything is okay in there or just randomly chatting with the younger

Kunikida on the other hand often sits on a chair somewhere in the bathroom or also sits on the floor with his back against the shower door, working on his tasks or fixing some issues in his schedule

He never rests tbh

As soon as Dazai is taking way too long, the water is on for way too long, Dazai goes a bit too quiet, they don't hear any movements anymore or as soon as something feels off, even if it's just Dzaai's voice if he replies to something they said, they will get alerted, put away whatever they are doing and knock on the door, asking if everything is okay. if Dazai won't reply they will ask if it's okay if they can come in or go in.

This was only the case once though and luckily nothing dangerous happened. Dazai had started to get too chaught up in dark thoughts and was close to breaking down so Chuuya turned off the water, gently got Dazai back in the here and now, calmed him down, carefully wrapped him up in soft towles and took him out of the shower where he sat him down on the bathtub and tried him off before leading him to thier beds, brining some pyjamas and informing Kunikida about what happened

The other came to thier dorm immediatly, where Chuuya was currently lying in bed with Dazai, holding the other and caressing his back, trying to cheer him up a bit

Kunikida then lied down next to Dazai, hugging him too and asking him how he was doing

They spend the rest of the evening lying in bed, talking about lighthearted stuff and talking shit about people while cuddling thier boyfriend

Nikolai loves gossiping with Sigma while he is doing his make up

He is always super curious about what happened at the casino again

Nikolai and Sigma love playing animal crossing, just like Dazai, Ranpo and Atsushi

Dazai is basically only causing chaos on the islands of others though

Chuuya, Kunikida and Dazai play so much video games together

When Dazai found out that Bram's name was actually Abraham and that "Bram" only was short for it, he was pretty dumbfounded and acted all offended afterwards because how could Bram not tell him such a thing

Bram was basically just like "What"

He infact never told anyone besides Lovecraft. Dazai only found out because he saw Bram's student ID

Not that he wants to keep it a secret tho.

[linklethehistorian]

Part 2: Thoughts on Canon Relationship with Arthur Rimbaud/Randou

[Read Part 1 here!]

Thoughts under the cut to allow people to avoid ship talk if it makes them uncomfortable. Also, spoiler warning for Fifteen and Storm Bringer (again).

If you want to know my educated opinion on if they canonically, romantically love each other or if it’s completely up for interpretation with no intent or confirmation inherently placed either way, well, to be honest, I don’t think ‘opinion’ is even necessary here.

Don’t get me wrong; people are always free to interpret stories as they like and make up their own headcanons to change or add to things according to their comfort zones, and I’m well aware that VerRim/Rimlaine as a ship can even be quite controversial to some due to the canonical abusiveness/unhealthiness of it, as well. Thus, it is entirely valid if someone else doesn’t want to view them as such, and/or has a different ship in mind. It always is.  I, myself, ship BSD!Arthur with someone else in current time (even if I do ship Arthur and Paul in the past, up until post-Storm Bringer, for the angst factor), so I can even relate a little.

Hell, if you want to just make them siblings in your headcanons, or father and son, grandpa and grandson — you name it. I don’t care. I support you 100%. Go do your thing and have fun and write stories about it if you want. You absolutely have your right to do that. You don’t have to personally accept them as a romantic couple if you don’t want to.

That being said, I do think that anyone who outright tries to deny or convince others it isn’t the case that, at the very least, the two of them were clearly written with the intent on Asagiri-sensei’s part for them to have a heavily implied romantic relationship dynamic between them in his canon, really really is reaching too hard to justify their dislike for the ship and/or the people who ship them — because here’s the thing: VerRim isn’t like any other ship in the fandom; it is deeply, deeply rooted in historical fact, and again, as we all know, the author of BSD is extremely dedicated to doing heavy research into his characters’ namesakes and tying both key and subtler elements of their lives into their fictional counterparts. And it isn’t even like this is some obscure fact about them, either; their relationship was absolutely crucial to their history and deeply affected the works they produced. Whether you personally might think it’s for better or worse, historically and culturally, their relationship is every bit as famous if not more than their works alone.  If it was just some small, obscure footnote in their lives of, “oh yeah, and I guess they quietly were romantically seeing each other for a few weeks or something”, then yeah, I’d say absolutely, there is a possibility there was no intent at all to have them have feelings for each other and it’s 100% up for interpretation, but they were neither quiet nor absurdly brief about their affair; even at the time, it was a pretty huge scandal, and is something they are actively remembered for. Literally as someone who, before the release of Storm Bringer and really, truly deep diving into the historical background of the characters, used to kind of get annoyed about people claiming they were a thing, it is beyond absurd to try to deny that their relationship didn’t actively, intentionally factor into the story Asagiri-sensei wrote surrounding them and get reflected in their relationship.

Furthermore, the subtext regarding it isn’t even subtle — especially in Storm Bringer (and with the Stage Play of said book, I dare say it hardly even qualifies as just ‘subtext’ anymore at all, personally, but that is a side note.)

I’m not going to address all of the examples here, as again, I feel that is something better saved for my article and its future follow-ups, where I can go into detail about it, but just for starters, when Paul is trying to understand the reason why Arthur saved his life and smiled at him even as he faded away, even after all of the betrayal, not only is it stated that Paul knew exactly why it was and that he just didn’t want to face it because it hurt too much, and not only is it something that remains some unspeakable answer the book never gives us directly, but it is also related to a memory of how shy Arthur was when handing him his birthday gift. Come on. Even separately from that context, what kind of person is going to get all shy about handing their ‘best friend’ of several years a birthday gift, unless they have some kind of feelings for them? Put that together with the aforementioned context and it is completely obvious what was meant there, just as it is obvious when Paul shuts himself away from the world for at least 6 years after losing Arthur because he is the only thing in the world he would ever care about, and stays and writes poems to him in the basement all of the time.

And yes, I agree, prior to the end of Storm Bringer, their relationship is canonically abusive and uncomfortable, and still to this day is utterly tragic. I agree. But that’s the point. That’s exactly how it was in real life. Horrible, complicated, sad — an utter mess.

So do I think that Asagiri-sensei intended them to be romantically involved? Absolutely, there’s not a shadow of doubt in my mind, though it’s clear it was (primarily) one-sided on Arthur’s part until the end of Storm Bringer, at which point Paul realized and returned his feelings far too late.

God, those two and the story surrounding them are so fascinating…

Anyway, I guess I’ll wrap this up for now. Thanks for reading!

[chaoticchaosart]

Paul Verlaine but pokemon trainer

Spoilers for all of the Gen 7 Alola games and Bungo Stray Dogs Stormbringer

Silvally, the evolution of Type:Null; Type:Null was created to destroy ultra beasts by the Aether Foundation to fight the ultra beasts but was taken away by the Aether Foundation (who are evil btw) by Gladion similar to how Verlaine was Created by Pan and then saved by Rimbaud although Rimlaine’s story ends less happily than that of Type:Null and Gladion. I think Verlaine would relate Type:Null and thus befriend it enough for it to evolve into Silvally.

Dreepy: Dragon Type, hence Guivre. Also ghost type, Which relates vaguely to the nature of the black hole that is demonic beast Guivre

Minior: in reference to how Verlaine refers to himself as a lonely comet

Inteleon : Based on a spy

Dusclops: Canonically is basically a black hole also learns the move gravity

Furfrou: it’s from Kalos and also… Stray Dog?

[catboy-ranpoe]

Okay so like. Essentially, this has to do with Arthur's ability and the stormbringer epilogue, and what him making himself an ability entails to. My interpretation is He basically made himself Schrodinger's dead guy, where upon this he basically took himself out of the normal living/dead dichotomy and is now an ability. Now, we know that he did some kind of shit with Verlaine that took out the Guivre part of Verlaine's ability, but. We dont know exactlywhat the hell happens to the previous ability in Illuminations, and thats where I start thinkin

There are different versions of how this could play out in my head, both of which are based upon almost nothing and also since my memory tends to be bad may even be completely contradictory to canon.

1. A very nice haunting - this doesn't even necessarily need the ability paradox shit, but what if Arthur was a very active ghost in the Basement with Verlaine, and just kinda chilled with him. Hes not always there, flickers in and out, but sometimes they can touch and hug and shit. This ones sadder but still better than alone in a dungeon forever.

2. Dream visits - Arthur visits Verlaine in "dreams", thats it thats all. The problem I have with this is that I need a reason that Verlaine would be doing anything other than sleeping bc tbh I think he would be downing nyquil like a madman if every time he slept he got to be with Rimbaud.

3. The one thats really bullshitted and may depend on deliberate stupidity but i like it a lot - before I even start. I have not read or seen dead apple. I barely know what happened there. BUT. I know there was ability fuckery and I know it affected everyone. So. I have no details for how this happens or why, but somehow or another in the resolution of it all Arthur is just. There. He remembers everything(for once) about the events of stormbringer and fifteen and is just as confused as everyon else about the fact he is there, amd importantly, he no longer has an ability. While for rimlaine reasons I usually imagine him spawning in the basement with Verlaine, I also think that him spawning around other characters like Dazai or Chuuya would be very funny.

Anyway if this actually makes sense yo anyone else i will be surprised bc tbh it doesn't even make sense to me really. I just want Verlaine to have his bf back.

Anyone wanna know my heres how rimlaine can still win aus or nah.

[kunikidas-lost-glasses]

BSD college!AU headcanons pt.2

Tws: Mentions of breakdown, crying, scars, unhealthy relationships with food, mentions of starving oneself, mentions of slamming ones head against a wall

Pairings: Soukoku, Shin Soukoku, Poly decay (+Shibusawa), Steincraft, (for now) one sided Bram/Lovecraft, Ranpoe, maybe developing Perfect crime trio/Mystery trio, Montcott, Higugin, Kunikatai, mentioned Rimlaine, platonic!Fyozai? Idk?

Obviously thier mental health isn't as fucked up as in canon

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Shibusawa has three big scars over the right side of his face from a horrible accident and he always covers them up with tons of make up since he is terribly embarrassed of them and hates them. A perfect appearance is very important to him. After all, he studies fashion design

When Fyodor accidentally saw him without make-up, he didn't say something about the scars at first but Shibusawa panicked and was afraid that Fyodor wouldn't like him as much anymore, especially because Fyodor liked beautiful people so much and he thought of himself with scars visible as kind of ugly so Fyodor gently grabbed his face and told him that he still loved him very much and that he still thought of him as beautiful.

He then kissed each scar and layed his forehead against Shibusawa's afterwards. He didn't forced him to tell what happend, he probably could guess it already but he urged him a bit to tell Nikolai and Sigma too

When he told them, both were kind of shocked at first, Sigma hugged him thight and reassured him too that they didn't liked him any lesser now only because of some scars

Nikolai kissed him and also reassured him. He also told him that he himself also had obviously a scar in his face which he never tired to hide and the others weren't bothered by it at all

He also jokingly said that he and Shibusawa matched now because both had scars in thier faces

Dazai and Fyodor may piss each other off sometimes but they get along really well

They are really similar and love to talk about anything

They really enjoy thier talks and one can often see them literally giggling about stupid shit which one of them said

Thier boyfriends know that they aren't cheating on them but they don't really understand thier weird bond

They shouldn't get complelty separated or else they will most likely secretly miss thier best friend

Fyodor and Dazai know each other since they were young teens

Bram's first love was Lovecraft. They met as teens back in Ireland in Bram's hometown but they never got together/had the guts to confess and lost contact after Lovecraft had to go back to America.

When they met each other after years again at this college they had a bittersweet reunion. Bram is now in a wheelchair, sleeps more than needed to escape reality and is still in love with Lovecraft and Lovecraft is in a happy relationship with Steinbeck.

Bram still has a special place in Lovecraft's heart tho since he was secretly Lovecraft's first love too.

Dazai actually goes to therapy

Higuchi and Gin are one of the power couples at college but it took a while for them to get together.

They got together after Higuchi stayed at her dorm for a week because she was experiencing a lot of bi-panic and serval existence crises after she found out that Gin was a girl and Akutagawa's sister.

Gin and Tachihara are best friends. She can rant to him about anything and he was her main emotional support when she was feeling heartbroken because Higuchi loved Akutagawa for a long time while Gin loved her but she always comforted Higuchi after Aku shoved her away again

Kunikida is the only one besides Chuuya with a actually healthy sleeping schedule to which he sticks but sometimes he is way too anxious about something to sleep, most likely because some professors put too much pressure on him and expect too much of him, so he randomly started cooking small meals in these nights to calm down

Katai often wakes up then (if he slept and wasn't gaming again), talks to Kunikida about what is going on in his mind, comforts him, eats with him and then gently drags him back to bed again

Chuuya and Dazai often visit Verlaine and Verlaine's husband Arthur on weekends

Verlaine despises Dazai but Arthur is very kind to Dazai and is always making sure that Chuuya and Dazai are both okay when they stay at thier home

Arthur gently asking Verlaine to give Dazai a chance and the fact that Verlaine only wants that his little brother is happy are probably the only reasons why Verlaine hasn't attempted to strangle Dazai yet

Louisa often visits Lucy in the coffee shop in her free time and Lucy always makes her her favorite coffee or hot chocolate for free.

Lucy has memorized how Louisa and Atushi like thier coffee and hot chocolate but she wouldn't openly admit this

Nikolai once played the role of an slightly insane and slightly lovesick clown and he did it so well that some professors were concerned for his mental health

Nikolai is in fact okay. He just can act really really well. It has always been his dream to be an actor even when he was still living in the ukrainian streets as a young kid and he works hard to achieve this dream

Fyodor and Dazai make weird bets regularly

Shibusawa has a kind of unhealthy relationship with food caused by his fashion major

When ever he has to model for a task he starts to eat lesser but his boyfriends don't have any of this shit and kindly force him to eat enough

Shibusawa is allowed to help the theatre students with thier costumes and costume designs after Nikolai introduced him to his friends there

Nikolai is the best actor out of all the students

Chuuya thought Akutagawa how to make a perfect eyeliner wing during one of thier band meetings

Atushi is normally very strict with himself when it comes to college stuff and always comes to the lectures but when Akutagawa got sick he called in sick too and stayed with him until he was better again

Whenever Karma comes over to Fyodor, Nikolai, Sigma and Shibusawa and is completely overwhelmed with a subject because he doesn't understand the topics for the upcoming class test, Fyodor will always help him to study and explain him everything. When he can't because he is packed with work himself the others will do thier best to help him

Sigma is very good at maths but not if the problem is split up in very small steps like in the elementary school books so he once despaired because of elementary school math problems.

Nikolai saw it, wanted to help, looked at the problem, internally despaired too but didn't wanted to admit it and then proceeded to tell Karma that maths isn't important in life, that a bad grade isn't something terrible and that he should just do what makes him happy instead of stupid maths which earned him a smack on the head from Fyodor

Shibusawa suffers from overwhelming boredom often and had a breakdown because of it once after it wouldn't fade away for days, leaving him bedridden, depressed, unmotivated but also desperate to do something

It took all his willpower not to repeatedly slam his head against the walls and cry

He just cried instead and rambled about it to Fyodor while the russian held him

Fyodor and a few others who play orchestra instruments sometimes play pieces for the plays of the theater students and he does it happily

Fyodor is one of the best of the cellists and he plays the cello which such elegance and passion and it looks so simple when he does it that Nikolai always watches him in awe and then proceeds to tell everyone that this man is one of his boyfriends

When Fyodor goes out, which happens rarely, he often listens to music over his headphones. The most think that the kind of creepy looking man who is way too intelligent and seems to know everything only listen to dark classical music but that actually isn't true

Yes he mainly listens to classical music but he actually also often listens to Russian rock (often from the late 80s), the favorite songs of his boyfriends which include Lady Gaga songs, Vegas from Doja cat, IAMX songs and Disney songs and he also listenes to the ratatouille soundtrack regularly

Dazai and Fyodor are both in the chess club but only play against each other since the others don't want to play with them

Nikolai once visited them, played against a student, ate chess pieces and cheated because he had serval chess pieces in his sleeve which he kept placing on the board when the other wasnt looking and left again randomly

He is actually good at chess tho

Ranpo had a hard time figuring out if he liked Mushitaro romantically just like he loved Poe or if he was just very fond of him as a friend

He was acting like a complete moron in this time because he was so deep in thought all the time

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BSD college!AU headcanons pt.1

[linklethehistorian]

Talk about your current wips. Pls I'm curious

37: Talk about your current wips.

So, this means, like, the WIPs I’m currently working on/have started at some point but not yet finished and posted, right? Well, despite the fact that I have a ton of ideas floating around in my head already and that I’ve been holding in my mind, I don’t actually have all that many that I’ve started working on at any point (mostly because I am the type of person who prefers to work mostly on one or two things at a time, alternating between them only when I have writer’s block). 

Still, let’s see…over the years, I think I’ve accumulated at least nine WIPs total that I can bring to mind at the moment, but one of them is a new chapter for Cherish, and two are of the others are surprises, so I’ll just tell you about six of them for now. :)

I’m going to place them under the cut, both for length and to allow anyone who for some reason might want to avoid spoiling themselves on previews for upcoming works of mine.

Works will be separated by two categories — one-shots, and multi-chapter projects. Each work will be listed by title, along with a brief overview of anticipated series, major genre, ships (where applicable), and expected important tag warnings — though seeing as they are unfinished and not yet posted, all of these things are subject to change.

One-shot W.I.P.s:

1. Everything Has Changed 

Series: Bungou Stray Dogs

Primary Pairing: ChuuArt (Chuuya Nakahara/Arthur Rimbaud)

Other Pairings: TBD

Anticipated Rating: T

Canon-Compliant: No

Anticipated Genre: Fluff (with Light Angst)

Other Important Tags/Information: Gakuen (School) AU but Arthur and Paul are both students, Chuuya and Arthur are the same age (16 years old)

Placeholder Summary:

Ever since he was very young, Chuuya has had the same mysterious memory lingering on the edges of his mind: darkness everywhere, and then a mysterious figure cloaked in light reaching down to pull him out of the endless abyss… Though just a blurry, faint echo, that memory of that person — that light that briefly set the world aflame with warmth and a new hope — has been burned into his brain.

And yet, no matter how he tries to chase after that shadow of an unforgettable individual, he has yet to ever find them — the hat they left behind being his only proof of their existence.

Today, he rides the bus at the start of another school year, his heart empty and dull, as whispers fill his ears of new exchange students coming in from other countries. Surely, there may be new faces, but that face will never appear before him. Nothing will change this year, again…

…Or will it?

Excerpt Available: Read here.

2. Emerald Eyes

Series: Bungou Stray Dogs

Primary Pairing: ChuuArt (Chuuya Nakahara/Arthur Rimbaud)

Other Pairings: None, but at least implications of past VerRim/Rimlaine (Arthur Rimbaud/Paul Verlaine)

Anticipated Rating: M (only due to the controversial nature of the fic, but still TBD)

Canon-Compliant: Yes (but it can possibly be inferred that more days passed during the events of Fifteen than we were explicitly shown)

Anticipated Genre: Fluff (but the ending will be bittersweet for those who know what happens the next day)

Other Important Tags/Information: This fic takes place somewhere during the events of Fifteen, so it may be a bit controversial to some in the fact that it depicts a 15 y/o Chuuya who has fallen in love with the then 27 y/o Arthur. Whether or not it is at all mutual will be largely left up for interpretation by the reader, but there are at least some implications that it is (at least mostly) one-sided, as it is obviously hinted within that his heart is first and foremost elsewhere (with his partner, Paul Verlaine).

(Furthermore, it should also be noted that regardless of how it is interpreted, at least in my headcanons (which will be shown bit by bit through other fics in the ChuuArt series), both Chuuya and Arthur are actually reincarnations of ancient angelic beings whom had previously been in love, and it is also not until Chuuya is well past his current age in the main manga by several years that he finally manages to find a way to revive and actually fully develops a mutual romantic relationship with Arthur — at which point they are nearly the same physical age, so there really shouldn’t be that much cause for discomfort over the matter to the average person, but I will be tagging it carefully anyway to give ample warning just in case there is someone who would be uncomfy about it.)

Placeholder Summary:

A bored and lonesome Chuuya gets a text from Randou one important night, asking him if they might meet near a shrine at the top of a nearby hill overlooking the ocean.

It goes without saying that he accepts.

Excerpt Available: Read here.

3. I Don't Want to Miss a Thing (Re-Write)

Series: Doctor Who

Primary Pairing: 10th Doctor Duplicate (Metacrisis Doctor)/Rose Tyler

Other Pairings: Past 10th Doctor/Rose Tyler, Past 9th Doctor/Rose Tyler

Anticipated Rating: T

Canon-Compliant: Yes

Anticipated Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance, Fluff and Angst

Other Important Tags/Information: TBD (tags did not exist at the time this was written and I will have to figure out most of them later when I post to AO3), but it is worth mentioning Jackie Tyler makes an appearance in flashbacks and is somewhat an antagonist in the story. Also this story takes the stance that because Metacrisis Doctor is a human-Time Lord hybrid, he is incapable of having children. It’s complicated.

Summary: 

The Metacrisis Doctor has been having the same nightmare for a week. Every night, he dreams of a small boy standing alone in a barren field, whose life is soon to threatened by an unlikely enemy…

(This one-shot was meant to be my own take on what happened to Metacrisis and Rose after "Journey's End", using information from the deleted scene, and meant to go alongside the episode "The Magician's Apprentice.")

Excerpt Available: None currently, but you can read the old version of the work here. 4. Untitled fic

Series: Bungou Stray Dogs

Primary Pairing: Past VerRim/Rimlaine (Arthur Rimbaud/Paul Verlaine), ChuuArt (Chuuya Nakahara/Arthur Rimbaud)

Other Pairings: None

Anticipated Rating: M

Canon-Compliant: Yes

Anticipated Genre: Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending

Other Important Tags/Information: TBD, but it will probably not be pretty (at least in the flashbacks)

Summary:

Also mostly TBD, the most I can say is that I started writing this fic while I was sitting by a real fireplace in a hotel about 2 or 3 years ago around Christmastime, and it was ultimately about Arthur reminiscing on (and thus took place mostly during) a bad fight he had with Paul in which he ended up out in the cold pouring rain sitting on the doorstep to the building where they were currently staying, thinking on how cold the world and life was then as opposed to now, with Chuuya. 

For the moment I just call it “The Fireplace Fic”. I can’t recall if I ever gave it a proper name beyond that, but if I did, it certainly isn’t coming to mind.

Excerpt Available: 

Total strangers going about their daily lives occasionally passed by even on a night like this, either casually strolling along carrying their trusted umbrellas and dressed in their warmest, weather-proof clothes, or dashing their way across the street or sidewalk while covering their heads as best they could with some article of clothing, heading for the nearest, safest shelter they knew.

Though Arthur had never been a prideful man by any means, he had to admit he preferred the latter.

It wasn’t that he cared if that happy couple who passed him, giggling and whispering to each other under their shared umbrella, were discussing him or what he was doing outside at such an hour; no, it was the way that they and some others who walked nearby were looking at him bothered him — often staring at him with sympathetic eyes, as if they had taken such pity on him and his condition that they might even offer for him to come in out of the rain with them.

He couldn’t do that; he couldn’t accept that kind of compassionate proposition — not under any circumstances, not even if part of him wanted to.

Of course, he couldn’t really blame them for it, though; it wasn’t as if he wouldn’t have done the same in their place, and besides, he had to admit, with the way he looked right then and there — a tired, disheveled, sickly excuse for a human being shivering out in the elements with a pathetic look in his eyes, not making any attempt to find a better location — to the nearest onlooker, he probably appeared as a desperate homeless man with nowhere else to turn but to foolishly settle himself outside of someone’s house, in hopes that they would come outside and take pity on him.

...At least, he hoped that was how he looked; it was certainly better than the alternative. Anything was better than the alternative.

Reaching a gloved hand up to his forehead, he ran his fingers through the hair that hung limply in front of one half of his face, shoulder-length strands of wavy black hair primitively combed and spread out to further cover a bruised cheek and eye.

Good… An audible sigh of relief escaped his lips this time, as he relaxed and let his hand drop back into his lap. Everything is still in place.

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Multi-Chapter W.I.P.s:

1. Within Shadows (Re-Write)

Series: The Legend of Zelda

Primary Pairing: None

Other Pairings: One-sided GhiraLink (Ghirahim/Link) undertones (implied)

Anticipated Rating: M

Canon-Compliant: Yes

Anticipated Genre: Fantasy, Tragedy, Angst

Other Important Tags/Information: TBD (tags did not exist at the time this was written and I will have to figure out most of them later when I post to AO3), but Major Character Death is definitely one of them I will be using.

Summary:

In a time between the events of the Skyward Sword manga's war between Hylia and Demise and the events of Skyward Sword, a forgotten incarnation of the Hero, Link, finds himself in peril in a place of pure evil. 

(This is the origin story of the Shadow Temple and the present-day Sheikah eye symbol, the events of which are based on a theory I had written about it.)

Excerpt Available: None currently, but you can read the old version of the work here.

2. The Heroes of Hyrule (Working Title)

Series: Multi-fandom (All fandoms to be listed TBD at this point in time, but I’m sure you can infer The Legend of Zelda is one of them by the beta title)

Primary Pairing: None

Other Pairings: TBD

Anticipated Rating: M or E

Canon-Compliant: TBD

Anticipated Genre: TBD

Other Important Tags/Information: TBD

Placeholder Summary:

A strange, ragtag group of the ordinary and the extraordinary come together and eventually find themselves drawn into a world they would never have imagined was real. 

Together, they will discover the destiny laid out before each of them and become legends in their own right, shaping history and slowly unraveling, piece by piece, the great mystery of the force that brought to these lands…

A re-write of an old multi-chapter, multi-volume fic I have never posted online. May take quite some time to get around to and be extremely slow to update once posted, as it is more a personal project than anything and basically the lowest priority I have at the moment among the things I wish to write and share with the world. (Partly because I feel there is very little chance more than one other person is going to read it anyway, and partly because I already have a very longterm multi-chapter fic to work on and write currently, and it by far has the most priority.)

Title is far more than a decade old by now; might change by the time I actually someday get around to re-writing it properly.

Excerpt Available: N/A

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