#bsd fanwork in progress

[poe-tat]

Information for 'I can't dance'

I may make some people mad and I don't care it's my story :/

First off, since it's a non-romance au, the main ship will be non-romantic so therefore, I can in fact have the main ship be ChuAku, and besides, Chuuya is canonically 2-3 years older than Akutagawa 🙄 but it wasn't going to be romantic anyway considering my standing on romanticizing mentor and mentee relationships. So, no the main ship will be ChuuAku and Soukoku will be a side program- i mean ship.

Second off, the fan comic will NOT be produced til I know how much scenes per chapter I'm drawing and what my style would be for it and I learn other comic basics, and therefore the fan comic would be released after the fan novel just I'm not sure how long that would take.

If you aren't happy with MY story, rewrite it yourself or just suck it up read it anyway, or fuck don't read it at you won't hurt my feelings

Thanks so much for your patience while I figure out the plot and other story elements, thank you so much!

[originalaccountname]

I don't understand the vitriol being thrown around after the latest Asagiri interview. Asagiri said he wishes to write Kunikida and Dazai interacting more, and that skk ended up taking more space than anticipated on first draft because of how popular they ended up being.

Yes Fifteen was written on his team's demand, but so was BEAST, being originally and respectively a skk and a sskk bonus story for Dead Apple promotion. Nobody asked Asagiri to write 300+ pages of Chuuya backstory and singularity lore and Adam POV though, same way 55 Minutes wasn't either. His team keeps asking for a deeper dive into Dazai's opinion of Chuuya but 1. the story doesn't need it to progress and 2. Asagiri is steadfast in keeping Dazai as unknowable as possible, so it wasn't gonna happen anyway. Skk hate each other, it's written in their character sheets, it's what their canonical relationship was built on, and still they did (gestures at bsd) all that. It's all things we know!

Asagiri just repeated info we already had and added some yearning for his baby Kunikida as a behind-the-scene bonus. I wish him the opportunity to write him and Dazai again soon, because they are so very entertaining to watch. But first, Asagiri is gonna need to stop making Kunikida suffer from Favourite Character Syndrome and let him not die/ get tortured/ arrested/ be in a coma/ spiral into despair for a hot minute so he can like. interact with people. for a change.

also Asagiri said again that reader interpretation and fanworks are everything and we should all go as wild as our hearts desire in whatever direction is most appealing to it

[autumn-foxfire]

So like i think its important to acknowledge the context here for some of this. The context being that between chuuya being introduced and us getting chuuyas backstory its been A WHILE. Like for a good while i used to joke that they were really wasting chuuya cuz they had a fan favorite character who we had like no information and backstory on. Like i wanna say its been at least two years between chuuya introduction n backstory but honestly im terible with memory n even worse with time progression so all im gonna say for a very very long time the fandom didnt know shit about chuuyas backstory. The most we got in guild arc was the hint that kouyou was his mentor n of course that he n dazai formed the ace in mafias sleeve n for a long while that was pretty much it. Fans ran wild with that n everybody had their own headcanon n there were a lot of fics exploring his possible backstory. From him being a french (flashbacks to french chuuya era) immigrant/ child trafficked for his ability to him training to work in kouyous borthel (that was a popular headcanon for kouyou but i dont think it has any base in canon) until they discovered his ability and were like oooo this baby dangerous. My favorite was anything that included kouyou just picking up a half feral kid chuuya n being like ahhh im keeping this, mine now. Feral Chuuya gives me life n i still like to read about it. The point being when chuuyas backstory came out it was going to have to contend with A Lot of fan content some of which was really really good.

Anyway i dislike the whole oh there was a god shoved in him when he was a kid bit. I wont stick to this a lot cuz im honestly past the point 'ugh this is So stupid' n to the point 'i dislike it but i also dont really care' but ye, im not super big fan of throwing gods around so randomly cuz i feel bsd isnt really built with that in mind, n i considered that whole part a really boring explenation to corruption and eh, im not gonna pretend that the fanwork didnt influence me n that i might have liked it better if i didnt read so much speculative fanfiction cuz it really comes down to 'its not like in my headcanons so i hate it :/'n thats p much all there is to it n thats no fun to talk about.

I did like sheep parts tho loved dat.

No what im here to talk about is how KOUYOU GOT FUCKIN ROBBED. Like we barely get any chuuya kouyou interactions anyway despite her being shown as his mentor like how mori was to dazai n kouyou herself really only had time to shine with kyouka n like this was the perfect oportunity to explore her more. She was shown as chuuyas mentor from the start, she was included in every fanwork that included chuuyas backstory, if ur gonna do chuuyas backstory you need to have kouyou there she is his mentor after all

Nope nope what do we get instead

FUCKING RANDO SAN

LITERAL GUY NAMED RANDO

Like ok fine u needed a villain for the novel thats fine, make it the person who tried to grab chuuya out good good great BUT WHAT WAS ALL THAT SHIT ABOUT FUCKING RANDO SAN BEING THE ONE TO RECRUIT CHUUYA INTO MAFIA. WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT CHUUYAS FUCKING HAT BEING RANDOS, WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK WAS THAT SCENE OF CHUUYA SITTING ON HIS GRAVE LIKE FUCKIN DAZAI WITH ODA

WHAT THE FUCK

I will not stop yelling

Like honestly it made me so upset. I dont mind fucking rando san as a villain or whatever but i do mind him kinda being pushed into the spot of chuuyas mentor (whos kouyou) or recuiter (whos dazai) n him being tied into his character so significantly like the tradition of a mentor giving their student something is obvs a big thing in mafia what with dazais coat n all n it just made me so upset that chuuyas hat was given to him by some fuckass named rando n not kouyou. Or that rando seemed to impact him so much to be considered some sort of great influence when he p much just busted him out n then dazai did all the work. Like it just made me so upset that this random one but villain named literally rando was shoved as an important figure in a story of a character whos backstory we've been clamoring for so long when kouyou was literally right there like 'hi im here ready to be relevant forever.'

Like we already got a nice view of her with kyouka what with her wanting to protect kyouka but being willing to let her go wgen she sees thats the best for kyouka n that she will be happy n protected with the agency. Like i doubt she would be as protective with chuuya since their age difference is a lot smaller (4-5 years i think) so shed probs view him more as a friend or a younger brother than a literal child she has to protect but like i wanna see that i want them to have a bond, why hint at her being his mentor n then do nothing with it when mori is of such significance for dazai.

Like i think all this comes down to is obe of primary problems i had with bsd n one of the reasons i ended up growing tired with it: bsd really likes introducing new characters n new groups while at the same time doing very little with ones it already introduced if they arent like atsushi akutagawa dazai n sometimes kunikida n chuuya. N like that just gets boring after a bit i dont care about new evil group no 65 i care about the characters i already know so BLS DO THINGS WITH THEM BLS

...I’ll be honest, I didn’t notice that Kouyou was supposed to be Chuuya’s mentor. Did I just miss that in the anime or something? I didn’t know they had a bond at all.

As for Chuuya’s backstory, I also... didn’t really mind it either. I know the god part was a bit random but I also thought it was kind of fitting that Chuuya’s ability, or a part of it?, was born from something out of this world. It really does fit the “corruption” theme too, in my opinion, in the sense that his body has been corrupted by a god and it would also explain why his body isn’t able to handle the body too.

I also thought that the point of Rando being the one who “gave” Chuuya his hat was symbolism of Chuuya finding a piece of his past because of him and that’s why he visited his grave (almost as a silent thanks in a way). Plus I think it was another one of Dazai’s manipulation to get Chuuya into the Port Mafia, he knew he would never accept a belonging given to him by Dazai (he even pulled a face when he heard that Dazai, as his recruiter should be the one to give it) but when he learned it was Rando, a person who while had attacked him but had also helped him learn a tiny bit more about the god inside him, made accepting the hat more easier for him.

At least, that was my take on it.

I am a little disappointed myself about the lack of attention some characters have recieved compared to others (cough Kenji cough) and I wished they were given a little more, but I also understand why new criminal groups are introduced as bsd wants to draw a stalemate between the Agency and the Port Mafia.

I guess this a matter of different opinions XD

[chubbyhippo]

Thanks to @chom-raaa for the tag <3

List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or as little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on.

This can be writing, art, vids, gifsets, fanwork, or original work!

Oh boy lemme pull out my to-do list haha (no actually I’m not joking orz) Basically I’ve indefinitely extended my hiatus due to school and writer’s block. I’ve only recently started writing again and I’m trying to get all my old ideas done as fast as possible but school and that darned writer’s block isn’t helping orz but here’s my list of WiPs that will hopefully be finished soon-ish

p.s. these aren’t in order of anything except the last 3 which are def on the back-burner

1) Multichapter (12) fic for skk based on a nursery rhyme Progress: First chapter written but not edited

2) Live to Die Another Day: need to do the other six chapters I’ve had planned since April… Progress: Planned

3) Oneshot fic for skk w/ a little Fyodor in it ooh la la Progress: I wrote 122 words in September…

4) Oneshot fic for skk about the moment they first meet (this is more exciting than it sounds like I swear) Progress: Planned

5) Oneshot fic for skk using the 5+1 format ft. a little physics ;) Progress: I wrote ~1k words to try and push through writer’s block (it didn’t work and this is lowkey garbage atm haha…)

6) Oneshot fic for skk soulmate AU Progress: Editing

7) Twoshot fic for skk week day 3… I know I know… it’s coming… Progress: Planned (since June 26, 2017 ;u;)

8) Multichapter (4/5) fic for skk week day 4… Progress: Planned (since June 26, 2017 ;u;)

9) Oneshot fic for skk week day 5… Progress: Planned (since June 26, 2017 ;u;)

10) Oneshot fic for skk week day 6… Progress: Planned (since June 26, 2017 ;u;)

(some misc oneshots floating around that I haven’t set down properly on my document b/c the above need to be done first)

11) Oneshots in a sort of series (not really connected at all) for bsd characters. I call this my Birthday Fics series b/c I meant to post on everyone’s birthday for 2018 but Q’s birthday (Jan 4) was too early and then I gave up… so I’m not sure how I’ll be posting yet or if I’m just gonna start my year-long rotation whenever I want to Progress: uh… none…

12) Huge multichapter fic for skk, sskk, and others (lowkey everyone) based on a manga I like (this is constantly getting worked on but so not happening in the near future) Progress: Pre-planning (I’m world-building…)

13) Multichapter fic for todobaku and everyone else in bnha based on the fantasy ending Progress: Mostly planned except this one (big) detail which derails the whole thing… (pls if you can plot help me ;u; i will pay you virtual cookies)

Thanks to anyone who actually read through all of these haha

Tagging anyone who wants to do it :)