#bsd got me in a chokehold

[verxsyon]

canon compliant bsd. dazai x ability user!gn!reader

started to binge bsd this week and now i’m on s4 >:))). gotta say eng dub for this series is honestly amazing (addicted to akutagawa’s voice tbh i'm here for it). s2 gave me so much brain rot so lo and behold, this idea with dazai.

might be a series. kinda like slice of life of reader and dazai and pm!dazai to ada!dazai. or an equivalent of an 100k+ fic slow burn lmao. 

reader’s ability is named momentum, which is the title of the potential series. the following bullet points are how their ability works. hopefully it makes sense lmao:

it’s an amplification ability that works on ability users, themself included. allows them to exceed their limits for a short period of time. activates by adrenaline rush. themself: only step required if applied to themself. ability users: needs to achieve that step plus contacting anyone through touch. think of it as a sound amplifier. it won’t work if the source and reader are too far away from each other. 

there can be fatal consequences from using the ability as it is dependent on adrenaline rush, which can have negative impacts. ability users: their abilities are at risk of overload, possibly leading to death. themself: would experience adrenal crashes and may not use their ability from 1 day to 6 weeks depending on the severity of the adrenaline rush.

reader despises it due to what happened to their older sibling, trying to repress it as much as possible and want to get rid of it (if that’s a thing). they basically want to live a normal life, a promise made to their dying older sibling. after their death, reader inherited their house and left all of their belongings untouched. they’re still able to go to school despite all that, though doesn’t have many friends.

the goal of normalcy ends when they meet dazai at the school rooftop at 15, the time when he became an executive of pm. similar to atsushi’s first encounter, he tries a new way to commit suicide by jumping off there, scaring reader shitless. they consider dazai as their first friend.

he’s anything but normal. people are after him for who knows what reason, and unfortunately reader got dragged into the mess of an enemy group’s crossfire. they’re forced to use their ability to protect him and themself. long story short knowing dazai, it’s a setup orchestrated by him. the enemy group’s none other than his division to capture the one responsible for a certain incident years ago, which involved their older sibling.

this is like a good chunk of the prologue. afterwards it’s the slice of life stuff featuring the pm and the ada ofc with some special division over there. expect fallouts between dazai and reader tho because that’s bound to happen.

[tachiguin]

I was struck by the horrible realization that what if Fukuzawa's "All Men Are Created Equal" also affected Light Snow, and what if, assuming the the "Naomi is an ability construct" theory ends up being true, the effect that Fukuzawa's ability had on Tanizaki was giving Naomi autonomy over herself? I know I've mentioned before in my Tanizaki theory + references masterpost that even if Naomi was an ability construct, she's fairly independent and has shown to act on her own, without Tanizaki's input. The theory is also interesting if you consider it alongside the "Tanizaki switches to PM" theory, because it adds an additional layer of angst where the more Tanizaki is corrupted, the more he loses sight of the ADA's values, the closer he becomes to losing Naomi for good. Which, is an interesting subplot to consider in theory, but also, I forever standby the fact that there's so few female characters in BSD, that it would suck if one ended up just being an extension of Tanizaki's unconscious will.

[a-tired-human-draws-junk]

Some doodle pages I liked

[antikr1sta]

yo🤙

i have fully commited to being a feral dazai kinnie and uhh here's a facereveal idk ✨🪤

can't go even a week without posting pics of myself woops (they)

[alphakuriboh]

Y’know, I’d forgotten the days of fiending so hard for a series that I looked at raw panels an hour after release in Japan.

[dazai]

santos → dazai

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[aobawilliams]

3 sentences tag game!

If you see this consider, yourself tagged:

Write 3 sentences on your writing project, post them, then tag three other person!

(Please make your own post)

Have I been tagged? Probably, I think by either @cryptid-crawly or @achairwithapandaonit

But the point is I finally sat down to write so you know:

It was Dazai who told him of this place. A quiet little café, hidden between two streets. The last place the headmaster went, before he got run over by that truck. Maybe it was morbid curiosity, maybe it was closure, he didn't know what brought him here. But he sat at the counter, and asked for a tea.

Tagging! Ehehe, @bloustorm @achairwithapandaonit and @figurativepieceoftrash

[astolfofo]

bbg appricieation post (real)

with the babygirls

[mania-sama]

Random ask, who are your favorite romantic relationship's couples in any media, like anime/manga, tv series, books, etc (can be canon or non-canon)? Feel free if you want to write the reasons or not of why you love them....

Thank you so much for sending in an ask! I would love to answer this question! I didn't go through every fandom I've been in, though I went through quite a few!!! Usually, there is only one ship I really love in a fandom that ends up being my favorite, but I like/love plenty of ships and don't limit myself to just one ship. I will say that when it comes to engaging with fandom and fanfiction, I tend to actually prefer platonic relationships, centered on found family and blood-related family than anything else.

Bungou Stray Dogs -> Shin Soukoku (Akutagawa Ryuunosuke/Nakajima Atsushi). I think most of this comes from the way they are quite literally yin and yang (my favorite symbol of all time) in almost every aspect. I firmly believe Asagiri is beating us over the head with a mallet saying "Look! Look what I did! Please look!" I'm under no impression that they will be canon, but BEAST gives me the hope that they can at least become friends, and that's testament enough to the development they go through. There is just so much there. I'm not an enemies to lovers person, but for them, I make the exception. There are so many parallels to draw between them, so much to look at and really dig into. I'm not delusional enough to say they wouldn't be toxic (all of the BSD ships except for, like, RanPoe, are toxic let's be real), but I am lenient enough to say that they can be good to each other in fanfics and decent friends in canon. Also, this applies to their BEAST counterparts, too. BEAST makes them better.

Jujutsu Kaisen -> ItaFushi (Fushiguro Megumi/Itadori Yuuji). There is a sort of trend I have with shipping, I think. I tend to like the second most popular ship, usually the younger generation of the most popular ship, which is arguably a form of torture in and of itself. JJK is not as bad as the BSD fandom is about the popularity difference, but it's still painful. Anyway, I think my love for this ship stems from the fact that Megumi has a big fat crush on Itadori and I will accept, under no circumstances, any other interpretations of his relationship with Itadori. Everything from the SatoSugu parallels (who are one handhold away from being canon let's be real), to their whole shtick being to save each other (physically and mentally), to Megumi literally describing Itadori as his type of person. Gender neutral. Even though it is so incredibly easy to use gendered terms in Japanese as it is in English. I feel like Gege is doing this on purpose because there is just no way he sees this as normal friend stuff. Recent chapters got me in a chokehold. I am SCARED. Besides all this, I think they just work very well together. They are also horribly tragic. Perfect combination.

Genshin Impact -> Xiaother (Aether/Xiao). I debated pretty heavily with myself here on what my true favorite is. I came to this conclusion mainly for one reason: Xiao. I love Aether, but I love Xiao. He is my favorite character, right next to Razor, so obviously he carries this ship. I also think that, of all of the implied relationships Genshin has supplied in plenty, Xiaother has had the most development. Every scene with them is better than the last, and the way that they make each other better is something I adore. And as for the ship being specifically Aether and not Lumine or nonspecific, it's because I chose Aether, so I'm more accustomed to using him as the traveler vessel rather than Lumine, but I'm honestly fine with either.

Identity V -> Elisop (Aesop Carl | Embalmer/Eli Clark | Seer). I haven't played this game in a hot minute for storage and laptop reasons, and I'm also not updated with the lore (nor was I entirely familiar with it from the beginning, outside of the MAIN main lore). But this ship and game were a huge part of my personal development, I think, and I do want to return to playing it in an honest effort eventually (I WANT MY ROBBIE RANK BACK). I think I perceive it differently than other people do, mainly because people oscillate between two sides of the Aesop Carl characterization spectrum. But there is something really fun in the idea that Eli, with his ability to see the future, thinks that he can somehow "fix" Aesop, under the impression that his and Getrude's relationship will never mend. And Aesop, who sees Eli and feels real love for the first time, finds that he doesn't know if he wants to kill and embalm Eli, or if he wants to indulge in this feeling called love. Toxic, probably. Their color schemes also match very well together (which is actually what led me to ship them in the first place, before fandom influence), and they are extremely compatible gameplay-wise.

Haikyuu -> IwaOi (Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru). If you told me two or so years ago that this was my favorite Haikyuu ship, I would have LAUGHED IN YOUR FACE. I hated Oikawa and didn't care much about Seijou. But then. But then. I went through a like. Month-long Haikyuu revival not too long ago and only read IwaOi fics because I came to this revelation. Oikawa is really goddamn relatable. I think we are all, in a sense, Oikawa, at one point or another. He is THE teenager. He is someone you can project every single one of your problems onto because his struggles with being untalented and unworthy are interchangeable with pretty much any self-worth conflict: internalized homophobia, eating disorders, socializing, etc. Iwaizumi can also provide these internal debates, but in a context with Oikawa makes it even better. Does Oikawa carry this ship for me? Yes. I don't care what you think I'm not here to defend myself.

Voltron: Legendary Defenders -> Klance (Keith Kogane/Lance McClain). Do NOT talk to me. They have ruined my life in pretty much every aspect. Also an exception to the not shipping thing because they are kinda the whole reason I even watched this show past season... three probably. I don't even wanna talk about them anymore because it'll just upset me. Just know that as far as the Sheith vs Klance debate goes, Sheithers are wrong for that after Keith called Shiro his brother. There. I added my fuel to the ever-burning garbage fire that is Voltron shipping. I may talk about Klance again in the future but for now I wanna leave my thoughts off here.

Merlin BBC -> Merthur (Arthur Pendragon/Merlin). Thank you Merthur fandom for teaching me what a good fic is supposed to taste like. They are kind of the epitome of the ships I tend to gravitate to: TRAGIC. The ending of Merlin is traumatizing and the fact that all of the cast pretty shipped it (as well as you can see the faint mouthing of the words "I love you" in the final death scene) is like. The first true healthy immersion into a ship I've ever had. I never obsessed over them too hard, I think, but Merlin is still my favorite live-action show, and Merthur is always well and true to my heart. They also got me introduced to the master/servant trope in terms of medieval times, and I had a very long affinity for it in fanfiction. I don't like it as much anymore, but I look upon that time with happiness rather than the usual slight embarrassment.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power -> Catradora (Adora/Catra). I also make an exception for enemies to lovers for them because they even added that extra-friendly step of friends to enemies to lovers. Genuinely, no show surprised me as much as She-Ra did. Shout out She-Ra for giving me the worst envy I've ever felt in my life. I want to rock a suit as well as Catra did in that one scene. Anyway, I loved their development. I know some people criticize it for being rushed towards the end, but I like the way they were able to forgive Catra so easily. They understood what it meant to be used and manipulated, what it meant to be unable to fight against oppressive forces. People are mad at compassion, even though that's the literal whole point of She-Ra. Whatever. They could never make me hate you Catradora.

Percy Jackson (all book series) -> Percabeth (Annabeth Chase/Percy Jackson). The blueprint. That's it. That's all you gotta know. I don't read fics about them because there is nothing to improve upon. One of the best written series and best written romances of all time. It was basically everything Avatar: The Last Airbender failed to do with Kataang (sorry for ragging on them for a second but that's the only thing I didn't like about ATLA; the romances) failed to accomplish, with all the same in-depth and wonderful characters. Like, they are everything I aspire to have in a relationship. The way they are simply meant for each other and aren't rushed, but are always implied to have that cutesy young crushes until they finally got together. I love them. Ugh. Uncle Rick you win again.

Anyway, these were some of my favorite ships of all time!! Sorry, I blabbered a lot. Probably listed more ships than you meant to but I take whatever opportunity I can to talk about things I enjoy IN DEPTH. There were also a lot of M/M romances, which, I swear to God, just happened out that way. I love plenty of F/F and F/M relationships, they just rarely end up as my top favorite. DO NOT accuse me of anything because I WILL NOT hear it.

[chiliyue-archived]

oo !! bsd literally has us wrapped around its finger. i also ended up rambling a bit, I’m sorry ahh 😭😭

i also haven’t been reading or watching any new manga or anime as of late. i’ve been reading more webtoons though, so if you ever want recommendations for that hmu 🫡

bungou stray dogs

jujutsu kaisen

fruits basket

attack on titan

noragami

i think that at the current moment, these would be my top 5! bsd obviously has to be my #1 animanga right now. i can’t seem to write for other fandoms because i’m just so bsd-obsessed 😭

jjk was the manga that had me in a chokehold before bsd did. i watched it in march of 2021, and it had me in its grasp until i got into aot last spring. i think out of everything i have watched and read, jujutsu kaisen holds the most special place in my heart

fruits basket was also the anime that got me into anime in general, so i think that’s also why i keep it close even after all this time. my favorite animes are normally dark fantasy and have lots of action, but there’s something about this story that i just love

aot is probably one of my favs story wise. idc if people say it’s overrated or whatever, i think the story is tragically beautiful and right up my alley. i love stuff like this, and that’s why many of my favorites are what they are

noragami… definitely the most underrated on this list. the story is so good and i honestly wish studio bones would pick it up again because the manga is so good. bones doesn’t like noragami or bsd huh :((

honorable mentions that could’ve also been 5th would probably be classroom of the elite, tokyo ghoul, oshi no ko and sakamoto days

OMG ANGEL DONT APOLOGIZE AT ALL <33

I love love love when ppl gush about their hobbies and interests (even if I have no clue what's going on :'D)

bsd is like a virus, making all of us obsessed jfjdkd. and after 109, I've sealed my fate for the rest of my life.

I've heard a lot of jjk !! to my understanding, a new season is currently running? I own the first volume to the manga, I just haven't gotten around to reading it. I'm hoping to watch at some point tho, I've heard so many good things !! (& I've seen clips of a certain white-haired man 🙈 & that the vc for dazai voices him too 🫰)

I have seen the first 3 seasons of attack on titan. I adore it so much tho (≧▽≦) I own some merchandise from it hehe. I definitely agree about it having an amazing plot & some of the scenes ? 💋

fruits basket & noragami are ones I know absolutely nothing about :o I've seen you mention noragmai on your blog before. I'll definitely have to give it a glance !!

studio bones are called bones for a reason, it seems :/ they're leaving us with scraps 😔

[orviposition]

hihi!!

i noticed that i got quite a few followers recently so im not gonna question what made you guys follow me but just to clear up misunderstandings that might rise in the future:

i am currently very hyperfixated on orv. i dream orv. i wake up with orv. i drive to work thinking about orv. you get the gist. the characters and the plot and the everything within that story has rewritten something in my brain and here i am now, in a chokehold

i also tend to post about my other interests (currently hsr and somewhat a rekindled bsd) maybe once or twice a week.

with that said, i am also a very ship oriented fan. thats how i operate, so to speak. i love kimcom because found family didn't exist before them. i love yoohankim for being so cosmically linked and deserving of happiness. but joongdok is the only pair i ship both romantically and platonically so as far as this goes expect that this ship will take center stage 7/10 times (maybe more, maybe less. depends on my mood). so please keep that in mind

if you've read up to here and decide to stay then welcome to my blog. hopefully we'll get more opportunities to interact and be friends somewhere down the line 😊

[madraleen]

Bungo Stray Dogs - Kafka Asagiri/Sango Harukawa Volumes 5-6: Tainted Eyes, Cats and Dogs, and Me Simping for Dazai - A Commentary (*anime spoilers)

-i'm such a simp for dazai, i saw him on the cover and was so delighted. ridiculous

-kouyou and ranpo are the same age? KOUYOU AND RANPO ARE THE SAME AGE?

-in the excitement of the anime, i don't think i appreciated properly the strength of character and the sense of self of kyouka. her will to become something else, something less sinister.

-kenji-kun <3

-okay but why is lovecraft so relatable -.- not leaving home, not wanting attention...

-i love dazai, have i mentioned that lately

-dazai's neck bandages aren't missing as often now. and it feels like the character designs are more set

-NO, DAZAI, YOU'RE NOT IN THE "with yosano-sensei we can keep ourselves healthy, as long as we don't die" GROUP, DON'T SAY "WE," JUST BE CAREFUL, YOU FUCKING DUMBASS

-DAZAI-CHUUYA POSTSCRIPT, HELP ME. i'm imagining dazai has chuuya in a chokehold, judging from chuuya's reaction

-ahaha, according to harukawa-sensei, then dazai has mafia eyes with a tiny touch of a "chance to go back" from having a stained psyche. ahaha...hah... *sob*

-well, in this volume dazai's eyes get "tainted" ie all black when he's about to interrogate kouyou, so i'll assume he's the one whose eyes get a bit tainted once their true nature comes to the surface, but i will keep a close watch on eyes from now on. i've noticed from the start that dazai's eyes span the monochrome rainbow anyway

-akutagawa be tainted to the core eyes-wise

-so when akutagawa's eyes turn white, is he vulnerable and not his usual tainted self- ARGH, am i going to be over-analyzing eyes now?!

-akutagawa and nathaniel have turned into somewhat of literary poets in their encounter, they don't usually speak like this

-honestly, props to yosano for not lopping ranpo's head off when he says "war is so boring"

-CHUUUUUYA. tainted-eyed CHUUUUUYA

-i keep voting tanizaki for the mafia because he'd fit right in, but you know what, maybe we should send them kenji-kun. he'd make everyone insane in one week tops and the mafia would be disbanded

-kenji's wide-eyed sparkly-eyed "OOH!" at chuuya? that's me when i see chuuya

-"do you think the agency is some stray dog" fukuzawa says- okay, so if the agency isn't a dog, and the mafia are dogs, it makes sense for dazai and kyouka to dislike dogs, but it's interesting that akutagawa dislikes dogs, but also he doesn't like himself very much either, so- *DEEP BREATH* i must stop with the cats and dogs thing

-ranpo, my lil bb <3

-yes yes chuuya's bio, we know, you dislike dazai as he dislikes you. sure jan. also chuuya is older by almost two months and you can't convince me they've never used that in an argument

-"dazai-san told me" DAZAI-SAN HAUNTS EVERYONE'S THOUGHTS, EVEN NAOMI'S!

-my my, what big tainted eyes you have there, mr lovecraft

-margaret's skill "able to make things wither away by exposing them to wind"?? we've barely seen that, i hope she gets to do more in the future

-i mean, kunikida my man, mr grape of wrath literally sticks seeds in his neck and grows vines, what's "simply bizarre" about lovecraft's tentacles? what, the transformation? your jinko literally transforms into a tiger

-yes, for tanizaki, naomi comes FIRST, before the agency, before good or evil or morals. to the rest of the agency, arguably the agency comes first. my man tanizaki, let me show you the way to port mafia. please child, relieve my fears. HE EVEN GOT TAINTED BLACK PUPILS FOR A BIT THERE, FFS

-me reading bsd: "mmhmm. mmhm, i see. mmhm." me reading bsd when dazai: "mmhmm :). mmhm, i see :))). mmhm :)))))."

-ONE MINUTE OF SCREEN TIME! IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN ONE MINUTE TO INCLUDE DAZAI TEASING THE DOG IN THE ANIME

-yes so, if the port mafia are dogs, and this dog barks at dazai, then dazai is a cat, and if a tiger is a cat, and natsume cat started the agency, and atsushi belongs to the agency, and the agency are the "foes" of port mafia, the agency are cats, cats vs dogs, and if dazai is a cat, then dazai decidedly belongs to the agency, do you see where i'm going with this

-aaand dazai continues to eat dog treats as though they're popcorn. okay sure

-dazai be like "only three plans? three HUNDRED plans, who do you think we are"

-dazai's "war is a living creature" fits very well with how he overpowers fyodor in the "end," with fyodor "losing" because dazai constantly readjusted his plans and improvised as things unfolded

-dazai be like "my mafia senses are tingling" when he ditches atsushi

-i'm sorry, but my man dazai is so beautiful. such a pretty man. such a pretty princess. i cannot.

-my girl higuchi doesn't have tainted eyes

-look at that man. look at that whole man. (*dazai. obviously)

-dazai is so wtf about mori-san's proposal to his returning to the port mafia that his eyes became untainted for a sec there.

-HAHAHA that's where you left the chapter?!?! WITH MORI'S QUESTION?! FOR A MONTH?! nooo!

-the bits about the actual authors are so interesting. higuchi feels nothing like the real higuchi. she feels more like her sister tbh

-re: "the heartless cur": I LOVE IT OMG. THE DAZAI-AKUTAGAWA MEETING STORY IS SO INTERESTING AND I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR IT FROM THE ANIME FOR AGES

-THE FRINGES OF AKU-KUN’S OUTFIT WOULD APPEAR TO SPROUT FLOWERS?!?! F-FLOWERS?!

-re: dazai's reputation: "he would kill his own parents in a second, take down buddha himself at first glance, and laugh it all off with cold cruelty afterward." TELL ME MORE

-dazai has a habit of letting his kouhai try to kill him before he adopts them, huh? a ceremonial ritual if you wish

-AKUTAGAWA WAS GIVEN AN ACTUAL HONEST CHOICE BY DAZAI! he would literally have provided for him and gin and then disappeared! but aku-kun chose differently!

-AND GOING BACK TO MY CATS-DOGS THING, mafia akutagawa "the heartless cur," "the silent mad dog"?? hello??

[mistas-thicc-ass]

Thank you @fah-keet for tagging me

Favorite Color: pink :)

Last Song: imagine siblings by No Buses

Last movie: silence of the lamb

Other stuff I watched this year: I got super into watching shows so I made a list and.... Hannibal, criminal minds, community, bleeder, pusher, the hunt, midsommar, reanimator, another round, Casino royale, ‌ red dragon, deadpool, detachment, the perks of being a wallflower, ‌ eyes without a face, en kort en lang, wilbur wants to kill himself, fight club, confessions of a shopaholic, Adam's apples, across the spiderverse, idiocracy, suburban gothic, the voices. I hope it's not too obvious that I was completely infatuated with a certain actor....

Shows I dropped: Brooklyn 99 (it was nice but I don't have netflix anymore), better call Saul

Currently listening to: andromeda by weyes blood

Currently reading: Frankenstein

Currently working on: assignments, exam seasons are near y'all I'm about to lose it. I also keep drawing jjk characters so there's that

Current obsession: jjk especially satosugu have me on a chokehold, bsd

Tagging: @blublopplop @i-am-a-hedgehog-blog

[k----a27s]

Nov. 5th update.

sighs. Spoilers.

Destiel, how we doing here?

Remember Dabi dancing? Putin stepping down rumours?

Some Fawke's character. . . WELL GUESS WHAT. IN THE SPAN OF 3 YEARS,

Some fandom sexy tumblr man madness happened

Another tumblr fandom madness with onceler randomly coming into the steven universe crossover thingy.

BAKUGOU FUCKING DIED BUT IDK ANYMORE. BSD HAS ME IN CHOKEHOLD. WTF JJK FANDOM AND DISNEY? (Tiana and Nanami is so good tho. . .) "Satoru" "Suguru" then this SHIT /pos "We were destined-" *gets fucking shot and turned out to be a plan.* A FUCKING EMO DIED TO SAVE HIS WERETIGER BOYFRIEND. *Fucking dies in front as your Rashomon goes to were-tiger* "My boy"-Chuuya, who probably adopted emo. DAZAI IS A DOUGHNUT. I don't even wanna know what's going on with the BNHA fandom.

AT LEAST I GOT BACK INTO TRANSFORMERS. WTH IS GOING ON WITH THE DAMN TEEN WOLF MOVIE? I'm going insane. I fell in love, btw. Moving on, nothing here is in order. TF has be in chokehold, but BSD wins. Sorry, JJK I'm done. BNHA, go in the grave. AOT, they're a fucking ghost. Genshin. . . well I never had a date with you, sorry. Starrail? Interesting.

ASAGIRI YOU BITCH/POS

Wow, FNaF came back.

Thank you for listening.

[seijorhi]

Running back to your ask box because yaaaaaaaaas bsd!!!! It's one of my fave!! I am so hyped up whenever someone gives it a try like hxjskslalskskmc pleaaaaase what are your thoughts rhi???? Btw I am a dazai whore. That scheming, manipulative bastard (atleast that's how I see him) will be the death of me. I got introduced to yandere fics thru him so props to that man 😂

And also also, I decided to start reading trigun first before diving into the anime. So far so good!! Really excited to meet that black hair dude with huge ass cross ndjslsladndj I haven't done a thorough research. I just saw the characters very briefly and we'll see if he will be my fave lol.

-🍮

Ahh BSD was an unexpected thing! I really just picked an anime with a few seasons to watch while I was at the gym and then I got… invested 👀

I can’t help but adore them <33 dazai and Chuuya are for sure top of the list but there’s a few others creeping their way up. I’ve just started the fifth season so basically up to date with the anime but I have a feeling I might have to dip into the manga too cuz I wanna Know Things dhhdhdjskalfjjd

I do wanna get around to writing for it eventually, along with hxh, but first I gotta break this drought an write for some old faves and maybe someone new ;)

As for trigun, tbh I haven’t actually read the manga. I know that trigun stampede (the anime I’ve watched) is different to the 90’s anime, which is different again to the manga so I haven’t yet deep dived into it. I will, at some point, maybe after the second or third rewatch hehehe but fr I love trigun stampede so much. I very much went into it thinking I was going to lose my mind over wolfwood (the black haired guy with the big ass cross) and while I do love him, vash and Nai just have me in an absolute chokehold, which is half the reason I wrote maelstrom

[ladylovesalatte]

Bsd<333

what right did they have making the characters (esp Chuuya and the woman) so gorgeous???

Dark plotlines and backstories, compelling (and pretty) characters and queer undertones, a brilliant show, id like it to run me over 5 times w/ a monster truck thank

anyway, fav plotline?

OK YES seriously who gave them the right to make Chuuya like this

I stg the moment he showed up in that PM dungeon and held Dazai's head I felt my heart slipping out of my body into the screen

If this show stepped on me I'd say thank you and more please

And to answer your extremely difficult question... there's so many amazing plotlines AHHHH this is gonna be such a long and incoherent answer I'm so sorry

I think Dazai's character arc from dark -> light is very compelling, and alongside him Chuuya's story is also so interesting to watch. When I heard that Asagiri-sensei created Chuuya as a sort of foil for Dazai, I started looking out more for how he executed that foiling. So plotline 1 that is my favorite has to be FIFTEEN. On one hand you've got Dazai, who's seen Mori murder a man in cold-blood, one-eye always covered, portraying himself as unfeeling, cold, and calculative. Then you've got Chuuya - he feels too much, he's got the weight of a crown on his head, he's a ball of rage and passion and power. And then you put them in a room together and they become children. Their dynamic is so unique and getting to see how it started out was lovely to me.

Kinda continuing with that, I'm actually a really big fan of how Chuuya was "left-behind" in the mafia but kept his big heart, and Dazai grew a heart after leaving, and then they meet each other again and it's this nonsense:

Plotline 2 that I love is Dead Apple. Just everything about it was so good. We got the crew fighting against their abilities, Dazai out there looking like (see below), Chuuya fighting a freaking Dragon bc he trusts Dazai and vice versa, some more Atsushi (my son) backstory. All-around so much fun and a great intro to Fyodor.

I think in conclusion any plotline involving Chuuya heavily is my favorite bc I love him so much, and I esp love contrasting him with Dazai and their dynamic together. That's not to say I don't find other characters as compelling (Akutagawa going from "I'm gonna stab the weretiger to death" to "let me use my ability to shield you so Dazai can be proud of me when we beat Fitzgerald" is *chef's kiss*), but there's something about Soukoku that has a chokehold on me haha

I should also tell you I have yet to catch up with the manga and I haven't gotten to vamp stuff yet but I have a feeling I'm really going to enjoy that

Anyways, I hope that answers your question! Thank you for being my first ask :) Also I'm curious to know your favorite plotline!!