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kaurwreck · 9 months ago

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ooh you’re reading beast! when you finish, and only if you’re inclined, i’d be very curious to see your thoughts on how you make sense of chuuya’s character in that universe? personally, i have trouble analyzing him because he only appears for an insignificant paragraph cameo with virtually zero impact on the story— and tbqh there’s a tiiiiny tinhat part of me that suspects he was only included at all to head off questions about another potential dark-era-esque absence— but regardless of that and assuming asagiri did have something in mind with including him considering he is in there at the end of the day, i’d love to know how you make sense of him within that narrative?

yes, chuuya's hypervigilance and dazai's dismissiveness of him illustrate how far dazai's gone and how unreachable he's become, expositing Dazai's route of self destruction and foreshadowing his suicide.

#bsd beast #bsd #bungou stray dogs #i havent finished it yet #but ive watched the movie and read enough to have encountered chuuya and seen where he slots into the world #also idk why he would have been in the dark era arc anyway or why asagiri wouldnt include him in beast #so i dont think those two things are related #but chuuya and atsushi are both salvific in the main universe #so chuuya's narrative defanging in beast means that he's incapable of embodying the shades of dazai's salvation that he does in mainverse #by beast!dazai's design #same with what he does to atsushi #who is also salvific in mainverse but suspended in fruitless anxiety in beastverse #beast!dazai nullified any hope for himself #by literally and proverbially collaring the narrative's sources of salvation #it's a rather massive impact on the universe if not the story

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