#ch: akutagawa gin

[tamanegi-san]

you can't tell me he didn't see at least a glimpse of a younger Gin in Aya

[kyomon0]

Gin-chan in a suit 😳

I can't draw suits but backgrounds are harder so that was a great combination of attempts (kill me.)

Panel: Vol 16, Chp 67 Cover

Heres the original ver bc I edited the red on after I merged all the color layers 🥴 I'm so smart (lie)🥴🥴

[kyouka-supremacy]

Something about Tachihara counting Ryuunosuke among the people he loves

[akutagawa-daily]

Akutagawa daily 341/★

[sskk-manifesto]

ಥ‿ಥ

[out-of--context-manga]

[kyouka-supremacy]

This + the omake continuation!!!!

Pour one out to the best manga panel that bones decided to not include

[calmlb]

writing patterns ✨

rules: share the first line of your last ten published works or as many as you are able and see if there are any patterns!

i’m honored to have been tagged by the incredible @nyxi-pixie to do this & i’m finally getting around to it 🥲

Baby I Know Places We Won't Be Found (skk, babyzai, multichapter)

“No, they slipped away before I could get a good look at them.”

Better Not to Hear You (skk ft. the flags, sickfic)

Lippmann closed the door behind him as he left the Boss’s office.

Damsel in Which Dress (skk, undercover mission)

“This is ridiculous,” Chuuya muttered as Kouyou bustled around him, adjusting his dress.

More Than Meets the Eye (skk ft. the Akutagawas, sickfic)

Gin watched as her brother dodged another metal disk, Rashomon striking out like a viper.

Don’t Let Me Down (skk, ch 114 missing scene)

“What he needed…was to be killed by a vampire.”

A Joyless Ride (skk, sickfic)

“Move your ass, Shitty Dazai. We gotta get outta here before the cops show up.”

All the Better to See You With (skk, post canon fluff)

“That should be the last one.” Chuuya clapped the dirt off of his gloves as he finished relocating a heavy, metal support beam.

Is There a Way to Make This Last Forever? (skk, roommates au)

Chuuya checked his phone for what felt like the hundredth time in the last half hour.

Home Alone (With You) (skk, sickfic)

Dazai peeled back heavy eyelids to stare into the pitch black above him.

Weapon of Mass Contagion (skk, sickfic)

Chuuya sniffled as he waited outside the airport.

the only pattens i noticed were that i either start with dialogue or i establish the status of the pov character. i usually try to make my first sentence a hook :’)

idk if any of you have already done this but i’m tagging @whathorselegs @unicornpopcorn14 @theroadtosomewhere @amythecinnabunny & @play-rough bc i’d love to see yours 🥹 (+ anyone who wants to join— no pressure ofc!!) 💕

[daniraevys]

Similarities between Ch 24-25 and current storyline of BSD:

For context, Ch 24 & 25 deal with Q introduction and Q brainwashing Atsushi, only for Dazai to return and save him.

In ch 24, Dazai and Atsushi are together when Dazai senses a threat- somebody is following them, i.e. mafia. Dazai leaves Atsushi behind alone and goes to deal with the threat.

Dazai exchanges words with Higuchi and Gin trying to figure out what their plan is.

Dazai realizes that Q(Kyuusaku) was released, and the threat was not with him, but with Atsushi whom Dazai left behind.

Dazai rushes back to save Atsushi--

Meanwhile, Atsushi's co-workers Naomi and Haruno are injured and Atsushi breaks down feeling he is responsible for it(even though it was Q's brainwashing.)

Atsushi breaks down and feels unworthy to be alive--

Dazai arrives and neutralizes the threat of Q.

Dazai saves Atsushi from the brink of despair with some advise and a questionable slap to Atsushi's face to wake him out of his downward spiral.

Current storyline:

Dazai senses the looming threat of Fyodor over the ADA and Atsushi. Dazai leaves Atsushi behind but this time with ADA and Akutagawa as backup!

Dazai mentally spars with Fyodor during his stay at jail, trying to uncover Fyodor's plans.

Dazai realizes a great calamity has been unleashed(god-like Fukuchi & Fyodor), the actual threat was not in Meursault but back at the airport in Yokohama with Atsushi and others.

Dazai is far away but trying to get back--

Meawhile, Atsushi's co-workers Tanizaki, Kunikida and Kenji are killed before him and Atsushi feels responsible for their fates as it was his fault he failed to save them!

Atsushi breaks down and accepts his impending death---

!!! It is Fyodor who arrives and neutralizes the threat of Fukuchi!!!

Fyodor arrives with a proclamation that he is here to save Atsushi...? (Atsushi who is currently vulnerable and in a downward guilt spiral!)

Ch 24-25 ends on a happier note with Atsushi finally crying and recovering from his downward spiral, he finds some support and hope as he follows Dazai and his colleagues back to the agency.

But what about the current storyline?

Because Fyodor has kinda hijacked Dazai's role as Atsushi's saviour-- saviour as in the person Atsushi relies on for hope and guidance when the situation is dire. (not that Atsushi is happy with this new saviour.)

Will Fyodor really "save" Atsushi? If so what is he actually saving Atsushi from?

And what about Dazai? Can he return in time to save Atsushi and the rest of the ADA?

As always, there are so many questions...

[morievna]

Why Port Mafia will stay as vampires

Hello~~

This time I wanted to broach something different^^

I usually like to check fandom opinions when new chapter drops and there was something that really puzzled me – that lot of fans thinks that vampirism needs to healed and like it is the worst thing that happened to our characters.

I mean I understand feeling protective about characters – ofc, it is bad to lose free will, but from story perspective it is just another trial to test our heroes and help them grow. They will be fine, don’t worry^^

But still, no matter how this arc will conclude I think that PM will stay as vampires and here are my reasons:

PM is coded similarly as vampires from very beginning

You know the basic – both vampires and PM are strongly associated with night and death.

As part of Tripartite Tactic PM stands for night. Moreover, through the story PM is compared to night very often -  maybe even almost enough for drinking game xD

“The merciless tyrant of the night and his army of the death – that was what people called Port Mafia”

“It’s time to remind our enemies why we used to be called the terror of the night”

– both from Fifteen

“Mafia takes their role as ‘Wardens of the night’ seriously” – Dazai about PM in ch 46

“Whatever pride they have in their speed, they can’t run from ‘the night’ forever” – Mori in ch 46

There is probably more, but you know the drill.

As for death – mafia rules through power dominance and killing is not a problem to anybody from that group.It is just the way they works.

And visually too – i mean, just look:

Especially in anime, they gave him so much vampire lord aura xD In manga too, his ‘doctor’ attire is just an act and his true self is PM leader in that fitting clothing - black trench coat, red scarf and white gloves – which all are very vampire style. Through this perspective even Elise can be interpreted that way – immortal being in a form of young girl – just like Claudia from Interview with the Vampire.

Speaking of that novel  - you know there is also insanely powerful redhead with bad temper xD Though it can be just coincidence as personality-wise Armand and Chuuya are very different and have rather opposite morals xD

Let’s move to Aku:

Whole Akutagawa appearance is much reminiscent of vampire – pale complexion, black coat with white jabot - really give that feel. Also Akutagawa uses a bit of archaic language, which is something often appearing in vampire stories too.

Frankly, imo from the start Asagiri thought of Akutagawa (and maybe whole PM) eventually becoming vampire – after all, our MC Atsushi is were-tiger (as a spin on werewolf) and in pop-culture natural opposite of werewolves are vampires just like Atsushi-Aku are.

Vampire healing as power-up

If you look at it practically – vampire healing can actually be really useful for main PM characters:

Chuuya – healing will help a lot sustaining wounds during Corruption (I am 80% sure we will going to see it in next chapters) and maybe even vampire mind control will help with controlling Arahabaki

Akutagawa – healing as bypassing his incurable illness. Just honestly, I would be very surprised if Asagiri intends Aku to stay dead for good – he is just too important to Atsushi and Dazai character arc

Tachihara – as Hunted dog he needs monthly check-ups to not die. Healing would render that not needed if Asagiri intends for him to stay in PM, which is most likely as he is ‘true mafioso’ at heart

Even for rest of PM like Higuchi, Gin – healing would be strong asset as well.

To sum it up, it is just too good opportunity on too many levels to let it slip

Vampirism and abilities are not bad

It is important to look at it from thematic perspective – abilities are not villains of the story but the people who use them in wrong way.

Vampirism is not the main problem to our protagonist, but the fact that Fukuchi and Fyodor use such methods (vampirism, one order), which robs people of their free will to achieve what they want. Even if their goal is not necessarily malevolent in its nature – still it is very ‘the end justifies the means’ approach which is morally bad one.

Especially it is important that source of vampirism – Bram is just being used by DoA and he personally doesn’t want to create any fledglings. But again, because Fukuchi controls him via sword – he had no choice but to spread the infection or die. 

My guess is that we will see Atsushi running into Aya and Bram in next chapters and that after internal struggle he will realize that killing Bram is not a option - that ADA goal should be to free all vampires from mind control. Even it could go how usually vampire stories go – that vampirism as skill will be transferred to someone from PM (probably Mori or Aku, though it can be also Fyodor), who will switch off mind control.

And this would grant happy ending for Bram too – starting to live as normal human - pretty please, poor man has been through a lot T_T

Ofc it is just my theory and story can go other way – but still it makes more sense to me than simply healing everybody from vampirism and returning to status-quo. But we will see~~

Thanks for reading and have a nice day💖 💖 💖

[kyouka-supremacy]

A series of un-fortunate events

behold: the promised sskk from kunikida's pov fic

Read here.

[askryuu]

here's the video, if you're wondering.

"[A video suddenly starts playing on a TV, showing a reporter talking while the Port Mafia’s five-skyscraper base looms in the background.]

[However, it soon becomes clear that the report is a glimpse into another universe—one where bad events befell the Port Mafia.]

[“…months after the Port Mafia’s fall, significant progress has been made in turning their former base into a memorial for the mafia’s victims. The exhibits will include victims’ names and photos—along with stories about them that will be shared by their loved ones. The Mafia Victims Memorial is set to open in early March next year.”]"(from this link: https://www.tumblr.com/askryuu/734366673863409664/for-ch%C5%ABya-and-gin-a-video-suddenly-starts?source=share)

have you not seen it before?

-🪶

This is… concerning… I-

Well now you had to go and ruin all my progress in all this~

Nakahara and the younger of the Akutagawa siblings had been a hassle… now him?

Who- what are you?! Rashō-

[a thud is heard as words die out, footsteps nearing the phone]

you would do well to refrain mentioning any information concerning the book, myself or any alternative timelines~

[evenfallwriter]

yuna's bungou stray dogs masterlist

works with [♥] are angsty, [🗡] involve straight-out whump, [☁︎] are fluffy and/or have healing, [🖋] are canon rewrite, [⚠] contain topics such as mature content in them. (as a side note some of these might come up in the future chapters and also, i don't write nsfw) almost all of the fics revolve around triggering things that are canon compliant and showed up in the series.

- au's

(the moodboards can be found in the masterlist's)

soulbond au || written in the stars [♥ ☁︎ 🖋⚠ ] masterlist

dazai osamu has seventeen soul-marks, most of which are platonic, and in the short-run of things they do nothing but make his goals to keeping the promise he had made for odasaku impossible- in the long run, however, they are probably the reason he has yet to close his eyes to this world that they are living in. they are probably the only reason that he is still alive...

fem soukoku au || peach blossoms and red camellias [♥🗡☁︎ 🖋⚠ ] masterlist

osamu is eleven when she runs away from home after being betrothed to a man twice her age and is found by mori who takes her in for his own gains.

figure skaters au || to land a quadruple axel [♥🗡☁︎ 🖋⚠] masterlist

after a staged accident on ice that cost dazai his carrier rather than his life, he starts to lose himself and his will to keep going on- the two kids that he meets on the ice, kyouka and atsushi, however, end up giving him something akin to hope.

role reversal/time travel au || to set things right [♥ ☁︎] masterlist

chuuya leaves after the flags dies and dazai is left behind to watch as he becomes one with the light- till he no longer has to anymore. the first time chuuya leaves, he does it alone- the second time, however, he finds himself dragging dazai along for the journey.

amnesiac dazai/dazai gets shot instead au || something worth remembering [♥ ☁︎ 🖋 ] masterlist

dazai is shot instead of odasaku, loses his memories and ends up being taken in by natsume who fakes osamu's death to protect him.

CH 107 fix-it au || it starts up in out bedroom after the war [♥ ☁︎ ⚠ ] masterlist

in meursault dazai closes his eyes in his ex partners arms. chuuya is dead-set on keeping him alive though, he isn't letting him runaway again.

boarding school/rebirth au || written in the stars [♥🗡☁︎ ⚠] masterlist

dazai saves atsushi once more, giving him a place to call home, and atsushi is determined to do the same for him too.

fem skk + drunk dazai || all my agony fades away [♥ ☁︎ ⚠] moodboards 1 & 2

It was three am, when dazai called chuuya in the morning, clearly drunk and far too gone at that point.

- other stuff

appreciation post's/ character studies

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manga thoughts

screaming about CH 107 CH 107 analysis theories about the book

other shenanigans

what the hell is going on with dazai ships? were there empty spaces and people just said 'get in' to anyone that showed up at screen once and was older than 18?! ships surrounding the best girl, gin akutagawa WIP game's dazai!niece au

[kyouka-supremacy]

And for the Akutagawa detail we're overanalyzing of the day: Akutagawa's bandaids in this panel. How did he get that kind of small wounds? Are they consequence of cold? Malnutrition? Or did he get them himself due to a clumsy use of Rashomon? Akutagawa is so young here, what if he couldn't control Rashomon with precision back then? And it's literally a power coming from the clothes he wears, so there's no escaping it? Can you picture little Akutagawa, trying to use Rashomon and hurting himself in the process because he's still so young and too inexperienced? Most importantly, did he patch himself up? Was it lonely? Or did someone else apply the bandaids for him? Did someone care for him to the point of worrying to patch him up? Was it one of his family in the slums? Was it Gin? Did Gin's small skinny fingers delicately apply the bandaids on his brother's arm to try and soothe his pain even if just a little? And how did they get them in the first place? The only way would be stealing them, wouldn't it? Did Gin or someone else go out of their way to steal, just so Akutagawa could be patched up? How did Akutagawa feel about it? Etc. etc.

[akutagawa-daily]

Akutagawa daily 705/★

[kitsunelike]

it's been long enough that i think i can talk about this and accept ill never have the motivation to finish it but eternity's timekeeper is one of my favorite things ive ever written and i had a lot of plans for that ill just summarize

the main plot was that after akutagawa's death in ch 87 that atsushi succeeded in defeating the rest of the DOA out of rage and obtained the book, in which he used to attempt to bring akutagawa back. instead, the book gave him a pocket watch that allowed atsushi to travel between universes and attempt to save akutagawa in these various timelines

i wrote out the vampire universe, apocalypse universe, and part of the beast universe segments. there were going to be two more segments with an erased au (with akutagawa as kayo and atsushi as satoru) and a universe connected to ANOTHER akutagawa fic i wrote in which akutagawa ability transfers rashomon to gin, who then joins the ADA. ect ect

the plot of the beast segment was really just beast dazai being like I Know What You Are and atsushi getting way too close to beast akutagawa leading to dazai deciding to take akutagawa down with him in his suicide to "get back" at atsushi

if you've watched erased you know what happens here... but if not the basic summary is little atsushi trying to protect little akutagawa as much as possible from a murderer. and the result is finding akutagawa's corpse again Anyways

and then the last one was just gonna be short in which atsushi finds out of gin that akutagawa had already died in that universe and drives atsushi to border insanity and rapid jump between universes until he basically Broke the universes and meets "sigma," or a personification of the book taking the form of sigma.

atsushi jumps universes again and ends up one near identical to his og universe except akutagawa is already dead. but before he can jump again a Second akutagawa appears with a similar pocket watch (atsushi of course thinks he's finally gone completely insane). akutagawa 2: electric boogaloo has been doing the exact same thing as atsushi bc in his og universe atsushi died instead. neither are quite like the others original pair but they decide it's for the best to stay together. so they travel to a new universe together and try to find normal in that. the end. ive been wanting to share this forever because I KNOW IT'S SO COOL but fuck my life guys writer's block is always killing me