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kaurwreck · 5 months ago

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It is intensely relevant to this au that Verlaine hasn't had any closure or catharsis nor an ego death. He is just as fervently governed by his passions as in Stormbringer, without any outlet. But Rimbaud has experienced his own and is wiser and more aware of what Verlaine needs than before. More to the point, the person who taught Verlaine to care for humanity at all is still there and alive, and with the person Verlaine understands as his own salvation too, the same person Verlaine was willing to kill Rimbaud to save.

So, his passions are just as fierce but less desperate, not as grief stricken. He's hungry, not starving.

they don't know. they don't know about the elaborate rimbaud lives canon divergence au that lives rent-free in my head.

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd verlaine #bsd rimbaud #this belies how much of the AU is rimbaud learning he hates teenagers who arent his own #and being utterly deranged in the way you must be to decide to dig up a corpse that's been decaying for over a year #in order to cause wild amounts of intense and superstitious gang violence #to get someone's attention #and also with the flags all alive dazai is fighting for his LIFE in the pubescent desire for chuuya war #lippman is a literal movie star whose ability is hella charisma #dazai might conspire with verlaine himself to kill the flags at this rate #it's a silly AU but in the only way i do silly which is silly but played psychologically sincere and raw

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