#dazai too!

[chr0n1c-ag0ny]

I need more platonic kunikida and dazai softness actually.

kunikida who calls dazai a few times every day, especially if they don't see each other at work, and can tell just by the sound of dazai's voice that he's not doing well.

kunikida who rushes right over, regardless of what he's doing or his schedule to be by his partners side.

kunikida who sits on dazai's crummy couch and watches his sappy dramas or childish cartoons for hours, just holding his hand, cause theres nothing else he can do.

kunikida who washes dazai's dishes while he sleeps, tidying his apartment, making a grocery list, doing laundry, or whatever else needs doing so dazai won't have to worry about it.

kunikida being the person dazai calls when he knows he's not doing well and needs help. who calls him when he wants to hurt himself, when he wants to fall asleep and never wake up.

kunikida who holds onto his partner as he cries, pained by the weight of simply existing, as if to take on some of that weight for himself.

kunikida who spends every few weekends force-feeding dazai soup and rice or gently, oh so fucking gently (cause he's terrified dazai will shatter one of these days) throwing his partner in the tub, barely undressed, eyes blank, so he can wash his hair with careful hands.

kunikida who keeps the spare room in his house free, just in case dazai needs a place to go.

kunakida who complains about taking on a lot of dazai's work, but 9 times out of 10, doesn't mind cause he knows dazai needs the help, and its the one place he actually asks for it.

dazai who always wakes up first after long nights cuddled on the couch, waking at an ungodly early hour, making sure to tuck a blanket around his partner before laying back down against him.

dazai who calls kunikida over to eat shitty take out and binge a new season of a soap they've been watching.

dazai who, no matter how much he complains about him to his face or to close friends, is always admiring the other man, making sure anyone who doesn't know him face to face knows how amazing he is.

dazai who trusts kunikida more than he trusts anyone else, who lets kunikida see his scars, who lets him closer then he lets most other people.

dazai who had kept a count of every debt he owes the other man that he hopes to one day repay. who makes it up by remembering which teas he likes or what books he's been meaning to pick up for the library and leaving them on his desk anonymously.

dazai who sits on kunikida's counters as he stress cooks, tasting and gossiping and being a nuisance (he gets kunikida to smile).

dazai who sits next to him while he's having a breakdown of his own, not being anywhere near as skilled as kunikida is in terms of handling someones failing mental health, but trying his damndest to help.

dazai who worries about his partner in the field.

[actually-mentally-ill]

finding out making up whole detailed scenarios with fictional characters in your head is a “sign of mental illness”

[moonphotos0]

was thinking of drawing ship art

(added the original)

[dead-body-in-the-basement]

Chuuya does not condone the shoving of orphans

[lotus-pear]

horrendously late entry for @luneariann’s dtiys!! congrats on one million ely i’m so proud of you <3

[nugget-child]

when you “hate him” but there’s official art posted on Valentine’s Day of you reluctantly giving him a gift at a popular date spot in Japan

kinda gay if u ask me

[saltedbiscuiit]

Apple Zai

[piedpip3rrr]

The port mafia presents

[nekovale]

4+ comic pages for a stupid punchline? apparently

[yomeiu]

Y2K SKK

[spoksstuff]

Home 🏠❤️‍🩹

all credits to the original artist @zaerxa on X, ig & tumblr

[sensitiveheartless]

A belated birthday comic for the birthday boy! (Later in the day Dazai had a party with everyone at the ADA and had a good time :D)

[ssaraexposs]

Dazai IS a fucking mood

[lotus-pear]

characters that lose the most important person to them and are devastated by having to live in a world without them and get stuck in a futile time loop that turns them crueler and crueler and more and more fervently obsessed with the person they initially lost because they just want a world where that person is alive and are initially written off as heartless before the sickening realization that their devotion is so painfully human. you will always be dear to me.

[cosmicquilt]

Overdramatic to the very "end"...

[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.