#bsd chapter 121.5

[petitesmafia]

can't lie Dazai would've lost me after "you're at the airport" like pause can i get some lined paper so i can take some notes at least. "intersecting orthogonally" "sound attenuates rapidly in proportion to the cube of distance instead of the square" i just witnessed several ppl die and i'm 0.3 seconds from crashing out why are u using big words and throwing equations at me

[lost--dimension]

i don't think i can even properly wrap my head around this. akutagawa regained his memories as soon as ATSUSHI SACRIFICED HIMSELF FOR HIM. the way atsushi looked at him in those moments, the soft smile and the half lidded eyes. just like akutagawa did with him back on the ship. the drop of the chapter name: "a mysterious thing called the heart" right afterwards. akutagawa screaming for atsushi. the shift in his eyes as he Realized. atsushi seeing akutagawa in the fourth dimensional space and immediately calling out to him. them calling out for each other in different dimensions-- searching for each other yet unable to reach. you could not have prepared me for this in any way.

[ace-of-amaryllis]

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. asagiri you can't do this to me

[nyxi-pixie]

what if you died for me and then returned as a vampire got possessed by another vampire then lost all your memories and then i die for YOU and repeat the dying words that you said to me to you and this causes you to remember who i am. and we are both boys. and have tried to kill each other. hashtag love wins

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Ok, I still haven't had the chance to actually read the new chapter yet but there's a whole lot of information overload happening within universe ever since Decay of Angels arc began, huh?

Atsushi getting overwhelmed by Sigma's information transfer after Sky Casino.

Ango relaying his own past experiences with losing consciousness after a lot of information was transferred at once.

Sigma losing consciousness after reading Fyodor's memories.

And now Atsushi fighting not to get overwhelmed in 4D space.

I don't know. Just something I'm thinking about.

[ettaevie]

Love how this chapter was technically just the main character getting annihilated and yet I'm sitting here like WE'RE SO BACK

[dancing-dawn]

away with you...

[anticidic]

I've got two fun ideas picking at my brain after reading this part, specifically when Dazai says brains of three-dimensional humans cannot properly perceive the realm.

One: Dazai is completely an illusion and Atsushi is being fed this information through Sigma in his unconsciousness because Atsushi wouldn't be able to fully process the space without losing consciousness himself, so Sigma is acting as a catalyst to pass it on

Two: a version of Dazai somehow inserted himself into the space through a giga brain move way back in Meursault knowing Fyodor would target Sigma, and he entered Sigma's unconsciousness and is in the world along with Sigma — who may or may not be lost in the realm

We know Sigma was created, and while he's a living, breathing human, in a roundabout way he's a two-dimensional being created from a page. Or possibly even four-dimensional himself considering the Book's capabilities

Atsushi's still a "bookmark", and bookmarks "save" spots at certain places, but Sigma could also be the guide leading Atsushi back in time to that moment, offloading some of the information he processed. Fyodor also previously said that the tiger's claws can tear through dimensions, and it's how Atsushi will free himself from amenogozen after the information is passed on to him

[the-armed-detective-gaygency]

ngl, lowkey sus for the chapter title to be this especially after sskk became canon.

like asagiri do have something you would like to share with us?

[leniisreallycool]

we're all kind of in a "oh fuck asagiri definitely ships sskk" but like holy fuck everything is starting to make sense

first, atsushi is doing what he always does, which is to hallucinate his mentor when things go wrong. that mentor used to be the headmaster, but atsushi has come to terms with his death and now dazai is the one he instinctively seeks guidance from. dazai isn't really there, he's still at mersault waiting for sigma to wake up. as far as we know for now.

second, the divine being slurping up the ada members after turning them to bubbles didn't make sense to begin with. there are easier ways of killing someone than that. transporting them to the fourth dimension where their brains can't process everything, though? they're still alive and the things they knew are still available somehow to fyodor in some way.

third, of course atsushi already knew all of these things. that's what we've seen over and over, that his memories have been locked up (like him killing shibusawa) until he needs them, and then he has a terrifying and vivid hallucination of his mentor. in this case, it's dazai explaining something incomprehensible to him because atsushi has the information, it's just buried too deep and he doesn't have the context to remember it

fourth, i think atsushi is going to find out where the book is. i think dazai is going to lead him there, but before we get to find out what's happening, the perspective shifts to sigma and the memories he got from fyodor. and then the chapter after that will be atsushi and sigma alternating pov as shit unfolds and we get to see more panicky dazai and then it'll go back to atsushi and stuff will happen and everything will be resolved eventually

[ace-of-amaryllis]

most FERAL noises any human being is capable of making

[nyxi-pixie]

anyway obvious and never doubted but nice to make it explicit AGAIN win for people aware that dazai is not some mystical being and this is just atsushi hallucinating like he does all the time w multiple characters

[featherstorm2004]

At this point I'm convinced illusion Dazai is either the tiger or the manifestation of Atsushi's subconscious, or both. After all he is known to block out memories, and we don't shit about his past before the orphanage or what the tiger knows.

[cherwya-e]

#Spoiler!!! #chapter 121.5

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At this point i feel like its the book thats talking to atsushi.

Cuz im confused, but this may be due to the tiger thats with him, and plus we all know that the tigers an entity attached with/to the book. So my guess is that the book itself is talking to atsushi..? But the thing is why is he (dazai in the above photo) saying that atsushi knows what its actually like inside the space/realm? Is it something that...like? part of atsushis conscious is er with the book? And thats why he knows what its like inside the realm and that exactly why he is the only exception too?

And the last line, ' thats what you do when you want to experience the past'., it is saying that atsushi has already done this or encounter this before or just saying that?

Is it connected with the hallucination or visions that comes to him? Because the line, 'feel strongly', like when atsushi is in panic mode or something that when the past comes in, and well the emotions that he feels during those times are when he feeling heavily down or something because we have seen in the train part too when he was under control of Qs ability dazai had to slap him to slap him to snapout of it, he was having heavy feelings and than headmaster(who is from the past) comes in to mock him? (i think forgor).

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well I don't know thats just my theory/opinion or whatever you call it.

[tsujikitty]

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 121.5

OH MY GODD WHAT DO U MEAN ATSUSHI SACRIFICED HIMSELF FOR AKUTAGAWA IM SCREAMING

ASAGIRI COOKED SO HARD WITH THIS CHAPTER MAN

[crowscadence]

Sskk nation I think I’m gonna go feral who wants to come with