#it's about Akutagawa!!! and Atsushi!!

[hannigramislife]

People making Beast au about Dazai and Chuuya is my literal 13th reason. If I think about it too much, I'll scream.

[c7arisse]

Atsushi learned to bake after chapter 88...

[venelona]

This is how I envision reunion happening

update - (polished version here)

[kyouka-supremacy]

Still can't get over the fact that sskk spend time thinking about how the other dresses

[bungobble-my-balls]

OK correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the main 'yin/yang' parallel with Atsushi and Akutagawa is not something like 'this one is bad but secretly has a good side and this one is good but secretly has a bad side'.

I feel like it's more about 'who they are at their core vs who they choose to be'.

At his core Akutagawa is kind and at his core Atsushi is not. But despite this Atsushi tries every day to make the kinder choices and I love him so much for it. He has to work so hard to be good.

He wants to be a bitch SO bad I know he does but he tries his best to help people and be nice (sometimes he fails but that's OK <3)

Atsushi doesn't always WANT to help people, a lot of the time he's selfish and scared, but he does help people anyway. He keeps helping people over and over again. There's still some selfish motivation to it, and his initial motivation for helping people was because the headmaster told him that's all he was worth, but overall he does care about the people he helps and it weighs on him if he fails to save them. And of course, as the series goes on he starts helping people more because he can rather than because he feels like he needs to.

In Akutagawa's case, he's still capable of being kind but his environment led him into being someone who chooses to hurt people. But he's always been a protector at heart. In the start he was bad compared to Atsushi because he was choosing to hurt people and keep the cycle of abuse going. Just like how Atsushi developed in why he saved people, Akutagawa starts to get redeemed when he chooses to not just act on his rage. Not only does he start to spare people, but he speaks more kindly to them (apologising to Higuchi and telling Kyouka he's proud of her). It all culminates into the moment he chooses to help Atsushi and sacrifice himself for him, going back to his core value of being a protector. Even when he's finally revived, he keeps this role in his new position as Aya's Knight.

I kind of see the streaks of white in Akutagawa and the streaks of black in Atsushi not as their 'hidden sides' but as their fundamental selfs. That's who they are at their core, and their main colours (black for Akutagawa and white for Atsushi) are how they're presented to everyone else and how they try to have people see them as.

[sskk-manifesto]

It's Shin Soukoku Starting

[degenerateshinji]

(read left to right)

in a dream, on a wave.

[qquokkari]

can’t decide if i actually think this is funny or not. well anyway

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[kiksniko]

guys. hear me out

[iridescentgleam]

you ever read an interpretation of your favorite ship(s)/character(s) that is just so contrary to what you believe and/or canon that you can't help but read more bc it is just so fascinating how wrong a person can be?

[shionaster]

Tribute piece to Akutagawa because I'm very normal about him and Atsushi yep totally normal it's not like every corner of my room is covered in him and I definitely don't think about him every day

[evilkaeya]

soukoku took trust games to a whole new level like what do you mean you hid antidote in your mouth, joined the villains, got stabbed and was deliberately in a comatose state trusting that your ex partner slash enemy will activate his self destruct stage of ability to come and save you

[flumpermergen]

Haha yeah guys we’re so bungou-back haha….

[venelona]

I polished my gif of how I envision reunion happening

(referenced from a gif from 'beyond the boundary')

[kyouka-supremacy]

I love this illustration so much. The way all the characters are turned to look directly at Atsushi. Dazai's face of pure, unfiltered delight. Atsushi being the sun everyone gathers around. Franchise of everybody is in love with Atsushi for real

[karmicpunishment]

basically me after this chapter