#but skk isn't

[ilistentogirlinred]

Soukoku isn't 'friends to enemies to lovers' or 'enemies to lovers'. They're 'reluctant friends dragged kicking and screaming into having mutual respect and caring deeply for each other with a pretend rivalry that they made up so they can be in denial but like homoerotically'.

[everdistantstars]

Skktober - Day 11 - Dogs!

The fluff ball likes the dancing fruit

Prompt by @featheryphoenix ~

[unicornpopcorn14]

Chuuya's reaction to Dazai getting hurt during the Lovecraft fight has always been so interesting to me...

Because it's the kind of worry you'd never expect from a character as gruff as Chuuya, who had displayed nothing but hostility towards Dazai so far. Usually, characters that are labelled as "angry" or "anger issues" (which Chuuya is much more complex than that but you get my point) act more as a tsundere type of way when the one they "don't care about" gets hurt. And show their care in very, very subtle ways (ex. their eyes widen, their mouth parts and closes again, etc) before putting up their front once more.

Chuuya, however, is open, and vocal about it. His worry is clear not only to us, but to Dazai himself, the one he shouldn't be displaying the concern to (as per the cliche). Shouldn't it be some sort of secret that Chuuya does care? Isn't that what skk's dynamic has been shaping up to be until now?

I'm telling you- the way my mind blanked when Chuuya just casually.... showed concern not once, but twice, was a sight to see.

Besides, the context makes it much more confusing, because Dazai isn't some rookie, and Chuuya knows that more than anybody. He was the youngest executive in Port Mafia's history, of course he can handle a hit or two. Of course he'd seen him handle a hit or two, sometimes without batting an eye.

Heck, Chuuya himself was hurling Dazai like a ragdoll in their reunion, which was their last meeting. And you could argue that he was going easy on him, but Dazai has mostly withstood the same damage (as far as I could see), and Chuuya was as bitter as ever.

So that kind of contradicts both what we knew of Chuuya so far, and how their dynamic was shaped to be. I mean, that just makes Chuuya a hypocrite, yeah? What makes him care now, all of a sudden? What makes him care at all?

Well, to me, this backasswards reaction implies one (or more) of the following:

- Dazai rarely got physically hurt during their partnership and thus this is an unexpected thing for him to see (during a mission).

- The four years of separation made Chuuya unsure of how much Dazai can withstand physically now. Also the fact that he isn't in the mafia anymore, aka fighting enemy organizations on the weekly, would naturally make Dazai lose his touch in a way, what prompts Chuuya's reaction.

- Dazai getting taken off guard took him off guard which led to panic. Especially since the situation was (momentarily) out of their depth. Seriously wtf even was Lovecraft?

- During the dungeon scene Dazai was an enemy, while in the Lovecraft fight he was as an ally. The difference might be significant to Chuuya.

- This has always been Chuuya's reaction to Dazai getting hurt regardless of the situation.

- "Only I can hurt him like that" ahh logic

- Asagiri was still experimenting with their dynamic and thus there are some inconsistencies.

This scenario didn't play out again (after their reunion) for me to exactly determine which one is more plausible, but it is 100% canon for Chuuya to shamelessly show his concern and run to Dazai to check on him before properly dealing with their opponent, which I find to be such an appealing layer to their dynamic, and a good spin on the type of character he gets stereotyped as.

Bonus: Dazai also becomes a softy when Chuuya's hurt, especially post corruption. Dead Apple alone displays that multiple times.

All in all, Skk are doing a terrible job at maintaining their 'hostile' and 'antagonistic' relationship post their reunion. Freaks.

[ivoryratdoggerythethird]

dazai making up a whole language with fyodor that no one else can understand is amazing but imagine him using codes that, very objectively speaking, you could crack, it's just that no normal person would ever make the insane leaps in logic that it requires. except for someone familiar with dazai's weird thinking patterns, that is.

i just love the idea of dazai's unhinged antics being dialed up to an eleven when he was in the port mafia, and oda being the only one who simply wouldn't bat an eye at it but chuuya was the only one who would actually get it.

like imagine ango at the end of the jailbreak, his boss saying he should allow himself to sigh and lean back and maybe indulge himself, pat him on the shoulder, tell him what he pulled off reading heart rates wasn't easy and he should be proud for being able to keep up with such a plan

but ango i-drank-with-teenage-dazai-and-also-had-the-records-for-every-soukoku-mission sakaguchi can only remember the time dazai was like using greek sign language through his breathing patterns to communicate from a submarine from beneath the pacific ocean or something, and chuuya could not fathom how no one else could understand him.

and that was the day mori signed off on skk being exclusive partners because every subordinate in the room was crying tears of blood by the time chuuya finished explaining which blood pressure level was warning them about a bomb, which blinking sequence was him conveying the vault password and which series of inhales was just him calling mori a bitch.

(ango also pointedly did not want to think about how smug dazai had looked after the mission when mori confirmed skk would only be each others' partners for efficiency and to maintain everyone else's sanity

or about how when he called chuuya to tell him about dazai's prison break scheme he could only get like 3 out of 276 steps into the plan before chuuya rolled his eyes, said "got it" then hung up and pulled the whole thing off without a hitch.)

[lotus-pear]

yeah sure therapy is nice but teen soukoku is faster and a lot cheaper

[chuuya-fan-page]

we so won in this QNA harukawa and asagiri did

now people can't say chuuya is dumb and has anger issues, I got heavy straightfoward evidence now

[alchemicon]

one of my favourite running themes in bsd, is the power of gay male partnership. like you and the guy you're psychosexually obsessed with can truly change the world. anyways happy pride month asagiri

[esmiara]

Catzai and Chuunya appreciation day

[originalartblog]

my tiny!skk brainrot rn is that they cling to their opposite big self and yowl and howl like they are being murdered when pried apart and its so special to me actually.

chuuya's vest is torn in like twelve separate places bc tiny!dazai sat on his shoulder once and regular dazai tried to get him down and was Unsuccessful™ (tiny!dazai sleeps on the rim of chuuyas hat change my mind). tiny!chuuya sits on the gem/button on dazai's bolo tie and hisses at him periodically whenever he says Something Stupid.

im holding them like a couple of grapes in my palm i love them sm op this is the best thing ive seen all day 😭😭

Dazai keeps forgetting Tiny Chuuya is with him today and keeps having to pretend not to jump every time Tiny decides Dazai deserves to be called out (not doing his work/making fun of someone) and starts yelling

[blue-thief]

the fact that in dead apple when ango was like "nooo chuuya you don't have to do this, don't fight the dragon, you might die", chuuya could have just been like "i have to do this, i will risk my life to protect this city" but NO the reason he gives is "i have to do this, i will risk my life to punch dazai in the face" and then he proceeds to FIGHT THE LITERAL GOD INSIDE OF HIM just to give dazai the weakest punch possible under corruption

heterosexual behaviour indeed

[moraymiso]

people take shipping WAY too seriously sometimes like i am baffled every time i see someone genuinely tweaking out over a ship they don't like

"this is ooc!! these characters are nothing like this!! they aren't canon, seethe!!" brother it is never that deep can you let me make my barbies kiss in peace

[halokarii]

Headcanon that, despite his otherwise serious clothing, Dazai wears the most ridiculous colorful socks...

[tamanegi-san]

My submission for @luneariann's DTIYS >:]

Thanks for hosting! Love your stuff btw bro, keep it gOINN 🔥🔥

[flowers-of-buffoonery]

chuuya:

chuuya, a couple minutes later:

[sorcerersandskillusers]

Asagiri causally saying skk don't get along while saying Ranpo and Poe have a deeper relationship then them

[lotus-pear]

mr bungou stray dogs.. my fav shojo love interest