#just atsushi things yk. the usual

[this-is-krikkit]

dazai: in twenty years, i guarantee you i'll be chuuya's 2nd husband atsushi: ... what happens to his first husband? dazai: nothing you can prove

[gh0stface-k1sser]

ermm bsd hcs :3 just random ones. Aka. Projecting onto them

Don't tag as soukoku or shin soukoku. I will block you lmao.

@g0ttal0ve101 @sleepygamerotaku @crowisinthetrash

Ranpo's literally so sassy n sarcastic but sometimes it's hard to tell if he's being serious or not. Yk how sometimes people sound different when there being sarcastic. Yeah. He doesn't a lot of the time.

Poe n Ranpo teach/taught each other English and Japanese (respectively)

^ they could both already somewhat speak the other but not fluently or very well.

Ranpo cries REALLY easily sometimes. Sometimes it isn't full on crying though, sometimes it's just tears starting to well up and he quickly wipes them away.

^ So does Atsushi. But he doesn't really hide it.

Im pretty sure Chuuya is canonically good w kids but. When he isn't actually working, he regularly takes Q, and the younger members of the ada out for food.

Kenji's just. In awe of everyone's abilities tbh, to the point of being distracted when fighting sometimes (obv he ends up fine lmao) He's just a little boy <33

Koyou and Yosano regularly have wine together.(they're secretly dating.)

^(the two of them n RanPoe go on double dates sometimes. Poe's usually reluctant but ends up enjoying it anyway.)

You will NEVER see Poe without Karl. Unless Ranpo has him. Which, Poe usually isn't far so..

Poe is oblivious to how much he spends and genuinely leaves Ranpo in shock every time. However, he actually enjoys buying things for him, so it's not like he minds.

DOA POLYCULE!!!!!!!!!!!! (Nikolai, Fyodor, Sigma, and Bram)

Yosano LOVES taking Kenji, Kyouka, and Atsushi shopping.

Dazai's actually rlly sweet when he wants to be, he just chooses to be a little shit.

Kunikida is on Dazai's ass Abt his schedule n shit, but more lenient with the younger members

"Chuuya's so lana del Ray coded" yeah but he does. Not. Listen to that kind of music. That man listens ac/dc, Slipknot, Korn, Metallica, Disturbed, etc. Trust me I know from person experience

Atsushi can purr.

Chuuya HATES white wine, you will NOT catch that man ever drinking it.

[toohappi]

‘You’re being too touchy idiot stop!’

Physical touch - ‘expressing and receiving affection through touch, physical closeness, and other forms of physical connection’

「 I feel like he’d be extremely touching and teasing in anyway possible ?!?! Like he’d love to bite you,hug you, grab you at random times during the day yk?. 」

. (Biting and overall just Dazai being Dazai!! Short and sweet !!)

. ☆・．❕

Dazai is touchy and a huge tease, especially when it’s with you. Everyone had said he’d do a lot of touching but for the most part it’s playful and doesn’t go past that, you’d known Dazai for a minute now and he’d been touchy but it seemed to get a little more intimate as time went on, you two had established your relationship as really good close friends and from your knowledge it’s not unusual for friends to be touchy,right?

In your office at the Ada it’d just been you two, Kunikida had been out with Atsushi and Kyouka to do some stuff and everyone else was just doing their own thing. You’d been doing something on the computer when a certain brown haired boyhad came behind you and rested his face fairly close to your neck

“Hiii Y/n, whatcha doing?”

His voice was soft and held its usual playful tone, you just gave a sigh still typing on your computer

“Something for the Ada, Kunikida had asked me to do, I figured I’d do it now since it would probably take a minute and I didn’t really have anything to do”

You felt him shift behind you and he pushed you slightly off your chair before lifting you back, practically sitting on his lap as his face was burried into your neck.

it was a usual occurrence so you didn’t mind, not until you felt his lips touch your neck as he opened his mouth and softly bit you on your neck, and then he pulled away. You wanted to question him but you didn’t say anything.

Feeling his hands snake onto your lap, lightly placed onto your thighs as he gave a squeeze, as you were really trying your best to focus and get this work done for the Ada but he unfortunately wasn’t making this and easier.

He stopped squeezing your thighs and placed one of his hands onto your hip, taking one hand using it to move your shirt to the side exposing your shoulder so he could bite into it, the bite was harder and drew a soft sigh out of you, and then you opened your mouth to speak

“Dazai - stop what you’re doing, I’m trying to focus.”

You said Trying to sound as stern as possible hoping he’d get the message and town it down, instead he just scoffed and bit harder and you let out a yelp, it wasn’t loud but loud enough for him to hear it and he pulled back looking at the mark he’d left.

“Look how pretty this mark is, it compliments you so well Y/n, you’re skins so soft and sweet too”

He put his soft lips onto the skin kissing the mark before he’d pulled your shirt back covering the mark and rested his head back against your shoulder, watching you work for a second before deciding what you were doing didnt peak his interest and he’d just fallen asleep on your shoulder.

Still a little stunned and the bite stung a bit but you just smiled and decided that was a problem for later- not like anyone could exactly see it so it wasn’t too bad, least he had the decency to make it to where people couldn’t see it? At least until you’d check a mirror and realize he left 2 and the first one was far more noticeable.

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Asshole..<3

[luffyvace]

what BSD characters are like driving!! 🤗 (😀)

includes PM, ADA & DOA

(these are short + no gifs bc it’s a LOT of characters)

Killing/threatening warning, yk, PM stuff..

PM

Mori Ougai: (I don’t condone his behavior—they ruined what he could’ve been)

actually a decently normal driver?

occasionally pushes the red/yellow light, especially if he’s late for smth important

will you Elise to be like “please my little girl is in the car 🥺😕” if he’s gets pulled over

Only trust him to drive you around if your one of his executives…otherwise if he asks you to get in his car- DONT.

Nakahara Chuuya:

ultimate road rager

really it’s not him it’s all these grannies drivin around!! 🙄

gets a million tickets a month but has the money to pay them off

i mean, he would. If he didn’t just kill/threaten the police officers..

don’t let him see Dazai either 😭😭

will probably be like “HEY DAZAI, ITS A DREAM COME TRUE” and (try to) ram his car into him—using his ability too, as a bonus

Kōyō Ozaki:

swears/mutter under her breath about how “people are idiots” more than she actually curses people out

i feel like she only would if someone were to damage he beautiful car (she has it custom with lots of pink floral patterns, not in a childish way!- it’s very pretty 😊)

she can afford to fix it ofc but it still upsets her

that person definitely doesn’t go home that night…..

she’s very beautiful so she could probably con her way out of getting tickets “I won’t do it again officer~” immediately rolls her eyes and calls them names that will not be stated here as soon as she drives off 😆

Ryunosuke Akutagawa:

I believe he’s a decent driver as well

Only drives recklessly if he’s angry/Dazai forced him to take Atsushi with him 😃😭

definitely drives safe when his sister’s in he car 🥹💗

usually turns the music all the way down

Gin Akutagawa:

would prefer to walk or have Ryuu drive her <3

but she does know how, knows the basics but sometimes forgets what random buttons do

gets pretty shy when she’s pulled over (she was either speeding because she was late for work or just happened to be caught going during a red light) so the officers let her go with out a ticket, just a (non literal) slap on the wrist “don’t let it happen again kid”

doesn’t play any music at all

Ichiyo Higuchi:

uhh she’s either driving wildly because she’s trying to help out Akutagawa or decently but parks on curbs/hits others car often 😃😅

forgets to turn on the radio since half the time she’s in the car she’s rushing

yeah I don’t have much to say since she drives pretty okay 👍

Ryūrō Hirotsu:

prefers to walk 100%

doesn’t even know why he has a car

actually yes he does it’s because it’s an old school model he’s had forever and is proud of

so he also doesn’t drive bc he doesn’t wanna scuff it up

would be a good driver if he did tho

will be the driver for other people’s cars tho

Michirō Tachihara:

very impatient

especially since most the time he’s trying to get to work

im ngl he’s probably made his car fly to work one day since he can control metal

maybe Chuuya has done that too…..definitely.

honks the horn like crazy 😭

tries to tone it down if one of his superiors are with him tho, like Kōyō, Hirotsu or Mori

Sakunosuke Oda: (Odasaku)

only drives crazy during emergencies

Good luck to whoever is in the car with him at that moment, your getting flung all over the place- seatbelt or not 😂😂

Otherwise you can 100% trust him to drive you around :)

very responsible, turns on his turning signal, stops at even yellow lights and never gets tickets 😊💗

Ango Sakaguchi:

another reliable and responsible one!

except he’s not as bad when it comes to emergencies 😭👍

he drives fast inbetween lights when it comes that kind of thing, like if it’s 3 green lights he’s stepping on the gas, but if there’s a red he’ll speed to that very light 😭

or he’ll just keep going since he’s a officer 🤷‍♀️ I forgot abt that..OOPS

ADA

Yukichi Fukuzawa:

really good driver

stops for animals, people, red lights, yellow lights

only downside is he sometimes doesn’t notice the green light

he’s one of those where you have to be like “uhhh the light is green”

Akiko Yosano:

uhhhhhh don’t drive with her

Professional road rager

has a quicker temper with men than women but she’s still speeding past you angrily either way….

only difference is she might hope out to curse out the men if she has the time

gets like 4 tickets a month..😭

Atsushi Nakajima:

he’s getting there! 😃

would drive better if Dazai didn’t keep rushing and distracting him 🤦‍♀️

tries to drive extra safe when Kyouka’s in the car /p (I don’t ship them she’s 14)

has to drive Dazai a lot of the time, and is pretty much the go to pick up guy for Ranpo too

or anyone who needs a ride really, he’s too helpful for his own good because he knows they’re gonna drive them crazy- but helps them out anyway 😅

Doppo Kunikida:

vv good driver 🫡

ultimate best driver passed his driving test with flying colors

Dazai be driving him crazy when he’s in the car with him but it’s okay he can drive with his feet/knees 😭🤷‍♀️

plays soft music from underrated bands

Jun’ichiriō Tanizaki:

uhh Naomi bothers him way too much while he’s in the car

wouldn’t accidentally run so many red lights if it weren’t for her

doesn’t even notice it’s red until she points it out and he’s already passed the stop line

They agree to both pay for the ticket

Kenji Miyazawa:

doesn’t drive

lives walking and would rather to say hi to the citizens everyday

likes to take it slow so he gets up early to walk to work

hes used to it since he’s a farmer 😊

Kyōka Izumi:

knows the basics

will start speeding without warning if you tell her an emergency has happened

hold your horses yall 🗿

mostly let’s Atsushi drive/prefers for him to so she can stare out the window

prefers no music

Osamu Dazai:

don’t even get me started

he only drives regularly when something serious happens

Don’t be fooled he’s certainly going over the speed limit

but he’s not being loud and obnoxious for once

will sing along to songs annoyingly loud and encourages whoever’s in the car to join (only Kenji does, but nobody mind him <3)

accidentally runs a few red lights but at least he’s never ran over anyone (it’s came close….)

Ranpo Edogawa:

doesn’t drive

only hitches rides from others and by others I mean Atsushi

I mean he can he’s just too lazy to and also likes to stare out the window

Wants to be the one in control of the radio despite not being the driver “I’m the worlds greatest detective! And I deduce you should let me choose the station!”

Naomi Tanizaki:

only gets rides from Juni

i feel like she doesn’t have a license yet

she walks to school and rides home with Tanizaki after work

always bugging him while he’s driving

she’s learning to drive from him even tho she doesn’t want to do she could keep hitching rides with him

probably thinking about failing the test on purpose but she realizes she wouldn’t be able to drive him to the hospital/agency if something were to happen..

Kirako Haruno: (office clerk lady)

if something happened to Tanizaki she would be the one to drive Naomi around

just make sure she never tries to drive while drunk…

otherwise a decent driver….probably occasionally pushes yellow lights

only gets a ticket once every 6-7 months or so

DOA

Kamui:

safest driver in the lands

yk cuz criminals be the safest drivers so they don’t get pulled over

LOL /j but even if he did the officer would immediately recognize him, apologize and back off

so yeah! Not to say he’s recklessly but he can definitely get away with running red lights :P

Bram Stoker:

um…..I actually don’t know why I put him here

LOL

would obviously hitch rides untilll…ifykyk 😊

but even then driving a car would be way too complex for him to even WANT to learn to do….

Fyodor Dostoevsky:

Okay now the actually criminally safe driver is him (PUN INTENDED LOL)

could probably use his intellect to get out of getting a ticket anyway

knows all the laws and has the memorized somehow and will probably outsmart the officer

doesn’t drive unless needed tho

Nikolai Gogol:

what does HE need to drive for?! 😭

bro just use your cape!

anyway he’d probably only do so if his goal required it or fun to run people over and set them free 🫡🕊️

another one who doesn’t drive

Sigma: (male alpha giga chad 🙂)

⚠️S5 DEATH/ENDING SPOILER⚠️

HELP ME I SEARCHED UP FYODOR’S NAME IN ANOTHER TAB AND I FORGOT HOW TO SPELL IT INSTANYLY SO WHEN I CLOSED MY KEYBOARD FYODOR D AUTOCORRECTED INTO FYODOR DIED 😭

Can I get a moment of silence for sitting here and taking the time out of my day to write all them COMPLICATED AHH NAMES⁉️🗣️

[nxathyx]

Help I love your work so much omg- it's literally my type of thing like a little bit of Crack but in a yk😁 way. Anyways are your requests open? If so, and if your comfortable hb giving bsd men (such as fyodor, dazai, at sushi etc whoever you can) the silent treatment for a day. It can be nsfw or just crack your wish. Love you bye!! ⋆˙⟡♡

Okay okay!!

Tw: nothing but the usual cursing, and mentions of sex and intimacy

Atsushi Nakajima

°why would you do that to him 🤨 🤨

°personally I headcannon that Atsushi has stopped dwelling as much on his emotions (around the s3 timeline due to Akutagawas words)

°that being said I doubt he'd cry but it's quite obvious he's upset or just confused why you're giving him silent treatment

°overthinks a lot

°bro is almost fucking harassing you cause he's desperate to know what he did wrong 😃😃

°definitely goes to Dazai or Kyouka for advice

°can't focus that much on work and ends up getting scolded by Kunikida

°you better fucking apologise.

°definitely no like sexual "punishment" cause he genuinely thinks it's morally wrong to punish someone through sex and it should be an act of love and affection or some shit like that (same though)

°he'd definitely be confused and might be afraid to fuck up for like the next 3 months so he needs a bit of reassurance after that

Dazai Osamu

°he knows but will play oblivious and just stick to you like a literal fucking magnet

°he will just annoy you till he gets what he wants (which is for you to snap and break the treatment)

°makes a sexual joke or few but doesn't mean them

°finds it entertaining when you try not to snap at him

°however he would probably prefer to sit down and just question why the fuck you were acting like that

°definitely suggested a lot of intimacy as a form of making up for it but it's fully up to you whether you want to or not

Akutagawa Ryuunoske

°he cried cause he's a little bitch (/j)

°gives you the silent treatment for twice as long cause he's a dick (fails after 5 hours and starts complaining about everything)

°I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS OF HIM AS SOMEONE WHO COMPLAINS 24/7 WHEN HE GET COMFORTABLE

°deffo calls you pathetic and then literally nags you for like 10 minutes and then goes back to doing his work (he legitimately doesn't know what to do in his spare time now

°he sleeps on the couch that night (or throws you out on the couch)

Chuuya Nakahara

°just leaves you to it and patiently waits till you have calmed down and then you two sit down and decide on a mutual agreement

°(he's starting to doubt himself but will just keep it to himself until it's "the right time to talk about feelings")

Fyodor Dostoevsky

°I'm sorry but he doesn't give a fuck

°"ah yes this is all according to plan😈😈" (he didn't plan shit)

°give him silent treatment till he treats his lice💋💋

°he will just sit in his discord moderator cave being a sugar daddy on roblox or something I don't fucking know

°after a while he'll legitimately get annoyed why you're acting like this "what did did I do wrong, baby girl ☹️👿😕😕

[that-weeb-in-ur-closet]

It’s the voices anon, write how a normal day for any of the bsd characters (you choose) would start, but then it gets more and more bizarre and weird and they’re going crazy. Maybe with some crossovers too.

Also imma put a name for myself bc I CAN.

- 🚁💥 anon

That's basically just BSD in general, but yk what, why not ♡ thanks 🚁💥 anon !

I don't really understand the prompt but it's a good one, so

I'll start with...

Osamu D. ★★★☆★★★

As Dazai wakes up calmly in his futon, he looks around. Everything is in place. Everything is how he left it before he went to sleep. The empty bottle of wine from a year ago still on the floor. His work clothes hanging on the closet door. His bandages on his desk. Some guns randomly splayed across his room. And of course, the rope hanging from the ceiling.

It's completely normal.

So, what does he do? He gets up with a yawn, stretching out his arms and standing up. He takes off his shirt and starts unwrapping his bandages to put on new ones like he usually does, tossing the old ones in the trash as he wraps himself up.

Once he's done, he hears a knock on the window. He looks over with a "hm...?" To see a woman with a camera and microphone, screaming, "Sir, Sir!! Are you the one who keeps trying to kill himself and failing?" She yells, voice muffled through the glass.

He blinks. A few more times. Before a confused grin forms on his face as he walks over and opens the window. "This chick climbed up the building? I'm on the second floor..."

"Yeah, that's me! The infamous Osamu Dazai!"

He exclaims excitedly, grabbing one of the shirts that's lying on the floor to put it on. When he glances over the woman's shoulder, he sees a huge crowd of people bickering with cameras, notepads, etc. When I say huge, I mean at least a hundred.

He's absolutely stunned. How... Did this happen? No, what's happening in general?

"Sir—" "Dazai-!" "Will you," "Do you think—" "That boy is-"

The crowd mutters among themselves, writing things down while pointing the cameras at him. One person shouts louder than everyone, marching through the crowd.

"WHAT IS EVERYBODY DOING HERE?! LEAVE AT ONCE!!" As Dazai looks down, he sees Kunikida. He's extremely confused now. At first, he thought this was a joke, but after seeing Kunikida, he knew it wasn't.

After a minute of staring blankly, he closes the window and goes back inside, staring at his wall while thinking. "Is this because of the Port Mafia? No, she mentioned Suicide... Maybe it is?... Whatever."

He thinks to himself before he shakes his head, walking downstairs and to the office and looking at everybody. He sees Kunikida sitting at his desk, doing paperwork and immediately is even more confused. He looks out the window and the people are completely gone. Not a trace of them. Now he's slightly panicked.

"..... Good morning, Kunikida...." He mutters, not in his usual energetic and teasing tone, which makes Kunikida look up from his papers, raising a brow. "Good morning to you too, Dazai?" He says, going back to work.

Dazai just keeps blinking, standing in place. Which causes Atsushi to look over at him, tilting his head. "Are you okay, Mr. Dazai?"

Dazai pauses, seeing how everyone is being normal, just sighs and smiles. "Of course, I am! Why do you ask that~?"

"Well... Because you kinda have a rope around your neck–" Atsushi stops and sighs, seeing as that makes a lot of sense, since it's Dazai.

Dazai, on the other hand, stops smiling and feels his neck. There's a thick rope wrapped around it, wrapped pretty tight, but he doesn't feel any pressure on his neck whatsoever. He didn't put that rope on. "O-o-oh, I do, h-huh? Y-yeah, I guess I do..." He says, the panic clear in his tone. He didn't know what the fuck was going on anymore. He just woke up...

"Dazai, do you wanna go get some suicides with me?" Ranpo speaks up, leaning back in his chair with food in his hands.

"S-some... Some whats?" He asks, messing with the rope that's around his neck, eyes wide.

"No, Ranpo, you've had too many suicides! Don't trick Dazai into doing it with you!" Yosano pipes up, glaring at Ranpo.

"... Where am I?" Dazai asks, looking around. Everyone is quite clearly who they are. The Agency is the exact same. But Everything is weird. Why was there a crowd outside his window? Why was there a rope around his neck? Why was Ranpo talking about suicide?

He asks, looking around. Everyone looks at him like he's crazy, which he's starting to think he is....

A voice pulls him out of his thoughts, but he can't figure out where it's coming from. "Dazai... Dazai, wake up..."

"But... I am awake..."

"Dazai, open your eyes, come on..."

"My eyes are open...."

He thinks before a sudden pain in his cheek makes him jump out of what is happening. When he does, he's in a white room, lying in a bed. Nobody, but the nurses and doctors are there. There was no pain in his cheek. Or rope around his neck. Or crowd. Or Ranpo. Just doctors and nurses.

"Ah, you're awake. You ate some poisonous mushrooms and landed in the hospital. Please, don't be alarmed." The nurse speaks.

"Mushrooms... OH !! THE MUSHROOMS!! Another failed suicide attempt..."

"Don't be alarmed, huh? Well, the only thing that alarms me is your beauty, Belladonna~"

(This was my first time writing anything but smut for anime, so tell me how I did!! And if you want me to make this into a smut story lemme know! Thanks for reading!!!)

[konishirrr]

hello sweetheart!

I really like your writing, it just fits the characters and you make it sound so casual like ahhhh I love it sm ❤️

I was wondering if you could write some hcs of what being best friends with Dazai, Tachihara or Atsushi and your fav characters would be like? ( I couldn't find the post with info on who you write for, I'm sorry 😭)

also thoughts on calling Kunikida "kuni-kun"? 👉👈

Hiiii <33

ahhh ty I was getting worried that I’m mixing their personalities😭

Bestie Hcs <33

-> Dazai

The type to call u to hang out in the weirdest times

like, u could be in a meeting for anything and he’d text u “I told Kunikida I did my work let’s go to that café :p�� <- didn’t actually do it

if y’all r ever get attacked while hanging out he’ll nonchalantly give u a gun and be like “yk what to do” after explaining nothing

but dw he’ll never put u in a position where u do need to use that

teases u for whatever geeky stuff u like

like, “y/n, I didn’t know u liked this stuff” and then start shouting it for everyone to hear

especially when it’s embarrassing😭

makes super weird nicknames for you and always uses them w mutual friends he doesn’t really know <33

-> Tachihara

the reckless cutie type :p

he rlly does care for u but ppl would say his recklessness would say otherwise 😢

he’s a literal spy and a mafioso so I bet he’ll try to keep u away from his work

tells u abt all the tea abt everything honestly

like, “ah, y/n. Took u long enough! Anyways, get this-” and start talking abt the most outrageous things with a casual face

loved going to arcades and amusement parks w u, makes him feel free of all responsibility

usually uses cute nicknames for u but when he’s mad at u or in a jokey mood he’d prolly pull out those weird ass names and stuff u did like 10 centuries ago <33. -> Atsushi

very pure but also very chaotic

like, if there was something going on he’d be like “y/n, do u see this shit?” While staring

tried to make u laugh 24/7 but always happens when he isn’t really consciously thinking abt it

tells u all the tea abt Dazai <- the source of all his problems 😭

always make perfectly planned out plans but somehow there’s always something in his way whether it be a former 15 y.o mafioso or anything tbh

feeds street animals together :p

Loves watching movies together and usually hangs out in one of u guys house -> Fyodor

He’ll prolly be on his computer while ur talking abt all the shit that happened like,

”and then, that bitch actually killed the guard!”

“Well that’s not good” he’d prolly say silently cackling and you’d be like

”I can see u laughing!” While (lightly) glaring at him

the adviser <3 usually his advice is nice and actually makes sense but sometimes ur reminded how much of a terrorist he is bc he goes on talking abt murder and hiring an assassin-💀

tries making u play board games w him like chess and if u don’t like chess he’ll prolly try to understand monopoly <33

finds dead languages to learn and is like “this seems fun. Why don’t we give it a go?”

Also, Kuni-kun is sooo cute <33 + very believable I feel like some person in bsd already calls him that lmao😭

[tetchqspng]

WARNINGS: suicide attempt, abuse (?), toxic relationships, nd more but its like. bsd so yk.

DAZAI X CHUUYA (CHUUYA X SHIRASE?)

He's yelling again.

He's jealous again. He's talking about shirase again. He needs to stop insulting my best friend infront of me. It's hurting me to try to listen, God. Does he ever calm down? I can't leave. I promised.

We aren't dating. Shirase and I are just friends. Only friends. We're only friends when I burst in. Only friends when i'm crying in his arms. When he's kidding me head, holding me right. We're only friends.

CHUUYA.

Chuuya hated the concept of death.

it was stupid. What even happened after death? Do you cease to exist? Do you mindlessly float? Do you become a ghost? Is there such thing as heaven and hell? chuuya feared death. The concept of deaht is scary. What happens if your heart stops?

So, if chuuya is so scared of death, why is he carving into hisskin? Why is he falling to his side? Why is his blade so suddenly heavy?

Why is he trying to hurt himself?

Why is he passing out

CHUUYA X SHIRASE

It's a bad day today.

It's a bad day when you wake up to a screaming lover. He was yelling today about how he felt unloved. He was yelling about how chuuya was talking to other people. He was yelling. He had finally realized Chuuya had the lack of a collar. And stormed out. Probably to go scream at Fukuzawa.

It's a bad day today.

Chuuya had burst through the door, shouting about his day. which, went horribly. He was welcomed into Shirase's apartment with a hug and a kiss to the head. Chuuya missed Shirase. He missed the way he would be greeted. He missed being able to fuck around with the sheep. He missed the sheep. Chuuya began to rant about his day. A usual, at Shirase's. He was met with compassion, nothing but love. Chuuya felt his eyes sting. He knew he was crying when Shirase had pulled him into a hug. He tried to calm himself, for fucks sake- he's crying infront of his best friend! He would rather be burning in a pit.

DAZAI X SHIRASE

Dazai lay awake in the bed, his mind was plagued with thoughts. They were all about Chuuya. What if chuuya left him for shirase? What if chuuya hated him? What if chuuya left him without a word? Shirase is such a homewrecker. Shirase is so ugly, too! What does Chuuya even see in him? His hair is weird, his face is ugly, he's so nice, he's caring, he's- Wait. What is he thinking? Dazai shouldn't be complimenting Shirase like this. It's out of character. Ugh. Curse these thoughts.

It's warm. why is it warm? What happened? Why do i feel this way? It's usually cold. My hands won't move. Let me free. I want to struggle, but my arms are weighted. I can hear a voice. It feels far. It's getting louder. What happened? I was just out- I want to go home. Where- Where is home? what is home? who am I? why do I exist? It's-

It's so hard to move. Why can't I move? Move. Get up. Struggle.

Oh. Chuuya's holding me! I feel better n.. wait. Chuuyas hold was never like this. Chuuya- Chuuya? Where are you? I can't see you. I can't open my eyes. I can't feel anything. I can't hear well. I want chuuya. I want to scream and kick. I want to scream I want chuuya. I can feel something moving really fast. It's pounding against my skin. Ow. Stop that. That hurts. Who- Why-

It's my heart. It's racing. Ow. Why is it racing? It's hurting my head. It's- I want to move. Why can't I move still?

I don't know whose holding me, but Its kind of nice. It's warm, I feel safe. It's a gentle hold. I love the warmth. It's. It's nice. I wish I could say that. I wish I could voice my opinions.

FYODOR & ATSUSHI

Atsushi's head hurts.

Why was everything larger? Was he dreaming? No, his head was pounding against his skull. He let out a small whine. He was in so much pain, and he can't do anything. His limbs felt so heavy. He wasn't in his uniform. He was wearing a fuzzy hoodie, and some shorts. It had cats on it. He could count four on each sleeve, when he moved his eyes. He tried to squirm. To see all the cats. He liked cats. But his body was so so heavy. He whined louder. No words escaped his lips, just a few noises here and then.

He tried to whine and cry for attention. Hoping one of the Agency members would come to his rescue. His vision was suuper blurred, so when who he thought was Dazai approached, he tried to cling. He was picked, and he let out a happy huff. He couldn't move. That was, until he got a bottle of water in his mouth. He began to drink, a bit confused. His fingers twitched in happiness. He gasped, choking on water in the process.

He spat water all over the cat hoodie. And over Dazai. He whined, unable to apologize properly. He leaned against Dazai, and got a few back rubs in response. he closed his eyes, purring happily. thats when the hand stopped. he whined loudly. his thoughts weren't right. he was a big kid! his mind wasn't supposed to be so foggy.. he's a 18 year old person!

He earned a chuckle from Dazai. and he huffed. When was dazai so quiet? This isn't dazai. He would feel Dazai speaking.

HIGUCHI X RYUUNOSUKE ?

And then it was love.

It was love when his hand struck her cheek. When it repeated the action until her cheek was raw. Her face hurt from his knuckles. Her eyes stung from her tears. Her body trembled as she fought against the urge to fall. Her face was stuck to the side. Eyes suddenly finding interest in the wall. She wasn't worthy of looking up at Akutagawa.

It was love when he dragged her away. It was love when he cared for her. It was love when he tried to treat her wound.

It was love when he would constantly hurt her. Then try to help like nothing had happened.

And then it was love…

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analyzing sadism and violence in bsd

this will contain bsd manga spoilers

let's face it; jouno threatening the living hell out of everything on sight is kinda attractive. same thing with dazai and fyodor's murdering spree, and who knows how many people swoon over chuuya being aggressive and gogol tormenting atsushi. because i know i did.

it's funny, right? but it's just fiction so let's call it hot, shall we?

sadism is generally seen in media as an underlying personality trait, in the sense that it's on par with courage, kindness, being stoic and bubbly and such. it's just something that you accept because you assume it's part of the person and it's totally fine to be sadistic. this is where one distinguishes sadistic impulses from sadistic tendencies.

that's why i'm going to be making an analysis that no one asked for of bsd characters and their relationship with sadism and violence.

warning: all the warnings that come with psychoanalyses yk, terrible grammar, not edited, really really fkking long i'm sorry this got out of hand it's over 10k words-

to start, here's the definition from Britannica:

"Sadism, psychosexual disorder in which sexual urges are gratified by the infliction of pain on another person. [...] Sadism is often linked to masochism (q.v.), in which sexual arousal results from receiving pain, and many individuals respond in either role. The sadist, however, often seeks a victim who is not a masochist, as some of the sexual excitement derives from the victim’s unwillingness. The level and extent of sadistic violence may vary considerably, from infliction of mild pain in otherwise harmless love play to extreme brutality, sometimes leading to serious injury or death. [...] Sadism may be a factor in some violent crimes, particularly rape and murder. The term sadism is occasionally used outside the sexual context, to describe individuals who are purposely cruel or who seem to derive pleasure from humiliating and dominating others in social situations. In this context, some milder forms of sadism are relatively more acceptable, such as the use of humiliating sarcasm as a conversational tool."

to break all of that down simply, i'm going to be using a bunch of characters.

(note: it makes mention often of sadism in the sexual pretense, however, it usually bottoms out into "receives pleasure from hurting others". whether this pleasure is sexual in nature or compensating for an emotional desire for feeling, it is still considered sadism.)

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

let's start with the man, the myth, the depressed emo

the spineless sadist with undertones of anxiety.

a spineless sadist is defined as following: "They are typically deeply insecure and act like cowards. In anticipation of real danger, they project their hostile fantasies and strike first, hoping thereby to forestall their antagonist and ask questions later. They use aggressive hostility to send the message to others that they aren’t intimidated or fearful, so that they can control their inner feelings and display the exact opposite of how they actually feel. They seek out scapegoats to gang up on, which allows them to assault the exact things that exist within themselves that they want to deny."

if this isn't akutagawa, then i don't know what is.

let's roll back to the beginning of the information we have on him from the very start to understand why power is so important to him.

when he was a child, he lived with about 8 other children as orphans with gin by his side. at some point, these kids heard about information regarding a port mafia shipment, and eventually were killed by the aforementioned, leaving only gin and akutagawa to survive. he went back to get revenge for them, eventually meeting dazai who had murdered all of the port mafia men who killed the children, then offered for the grieving and rage-blind aku to become his subordinate. the wiki describes it best like this:

"In a fit of rage and grief, Akutagawa joined Port Mafia, overcome by a foreign sense of respect he felt towards Dazai."

the reason i love this sentence so much is that it sums up a lot of major points regarding his relationship with dazai; overcome by a foreign sense of respect.

an embodiment of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", his initial reaction when he found dazai must've been something of a shock.

in my interpretation of their relationship, what I would say is that akutagawa has a lingering sense of weakness that he can't shake, not because he isn't strong but because he wasn't born strong. he must look back often on any of his defeats and curse himself over and over again until he reaches the brink of worthlessness in his own mind.

many people say that he's been abused by dazai. yes, but yes. but also no.

akutagawa is a strong individual in a society of strong individuals. in the very beginning of bungou stray dogs, he was mentioned as a warning to atsushi by kunikida. "whatever you do, don't run into this man. and if you do meet him, run for your life," or something along these lines.

i found this interesting since everybody acknowledges his strength, except dazai.

why, might you ask, does dazai not acknowledge him?

part of this is going to be discussed in the dazai section, but it's mostly because akutagawa is no longer looking for something that's attainable.

think of it like a man climbing a mountain; akutagawa has been escalating for his entire life. his scars from his earlier falls still remain tethered onto his body and mind, and he can't get them out of his sight, but he must keep moving up. he must. he can't see any direction but up.

only, he's going up an impossibly steep hill, posing an insurmountable amount of resistance which ultimately lead him to be spending a lot of energy just to stop himself from slipping downwards.

dazai is standing at the top; he sees that the odds are stacked up against akutagawa, but decides not to tell him. in fact, he actually throws a bunch of objects in his general direction as a means to make akutagawa's trek upwards even harder. yes, it would help infinitely if he told aku about his situation, or gave words of reassurance, but either way, it still doesn't help him get to the top that he desires so much.

meaningless analogy? maybe. i feel like we've all climbed a hill or tree at some point in our lives, just for fun. it's fun when you don't fear returning to the base; for akutagawa, this is a pain worse than death.

back to violence though.

imagine you're climbing upwards with all your strength, putting in a ridiculous amount of energy and never resting for a moment, despite having life and the person you respect most working against you.

then this furry fucking pulls up and climbs the neighboring mountain, which has a much more suitable terrain and he's equipped with the latest gear and tech, and your mentor is head over heels for him.

akutagawa and atsushi's relationship isn't something i would personally call "romantic" to all you shin-soukouku shippers, but ship what you will, idc.

all that i know for sure is that akutagawa must feel terrible constantly comparing himself to him, which is why he won't hesitate to to physically injure or challenge him.

he's lashing out because he feels inferior.

he's lashing out because he's projecting his own terror onto others and wants to vanquish them.

he's lashing out because he's trying to seem intimidating, ruthless and his own ideal of perfection.

there's a very good chance that akutagawa feels great while landing blows on atsushi, or any enemy in general, really. but afterwards? nothing. he goes back to feeling inferior and treating his strength like it's not enough, treating himself like he's not enough.

similarly, he displays physical violence when interacting with kyouka, his own apprentice. he frequently acknowledges her ability's strength (not in helping others, but in hurting people). which is terrible given that, once again, he is projecting his own relationship with dazai. just because he wants dazai to call him strong, he decides to do the same. whether this is because he wants to be a better mentor or because he sees himself in kyouka (or both), it's a matter of perspective. the important thing to take away is that he overcompensates for flaws that aren't even his, which is a reason that i believe that he doesn't particularly enjoy hurting anybody after he's realized what he's done. he just likes the feeling of power it gives him temporarily.

he also treats her the same way he would treat his past self. if baby aku and present aku (not the vampire one tho, the alive one) met, he would likely treat himself the same way he treats kyouka; harshly and trying to ingrain this ideology of weakness of heart being equivalent to weakness of mind being equal to being unfit to live. spineless sadists often do this; hide their weaknesses by acting in an opposing way to their true nature.

also, there have been numerous signs that akutagawa doesn't want to be a sadist, deep down, even if he shows he is. he's terrified of appearing weak to others, even if he likely truly wants to be vulnerable with someone, anyone, even himself.

especially himself.

if we were to correlate this with all of his displays of violence, it makes sense. he is the violent individual who is violent to make up for the softness of his heart, which he sees as a flaw.

my favourite part of bsd is the fact that they're linked to real people, so of course i'm going to drag the real akutagawa into this.

he died of an overdose.

dazai kinnie? no. towards the end of his life, akutagawa began suffering from visual hallucinations and anxiety over the fear that he had inherited his mother's mental disorder (his mother was a very important figure in both his life and his writing. in the latter, most women were seen as "dominant" and "threatening", while men were the victims, which makes me think he was likely a victim of toxic masculinity and societal tendencies that required him to be strong.)

his last works were mostly autobiographic in nature, so i recommend reading Tenkibo and Daidōji Shinsuke no hansei for a better look into the man behind the character.

to sum this all up, akutagawa's violence was like a drug, something he'd use over and over again, even if it made him feel like shit afterwards and he knew that he didn't truly desire it.

what he desired was just a pat on the back and "you're amazing, aku" from somebody, anybody at all.

Gogol Nikolai

"the longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes."

if this quote from irl gogol doesn't describe him perfectly, then idk what would.

the machiavellianist with undertones of factitious tendencies

it took me everything in my being not to make this post 99% about gogol because i find his character to be the most relatable and beautiful of all the bsd characters so far.

maybe it's because humans find beauty in the broken things.

gogol's character is mostly based on his desire for freedom, which i think many people misinterpret in so many ways.

but let's rewind.

what is machiavellianism and factitious tendencies?

"in the field of personality psychology, machiavellianism is a personality trait centered on manipulativeness, callousness, and indifference to morality."

to put it simply, it's rather similar to psychopathy. however, there's a fundamental difference on many levels. they are both part of the dark triad (along with narcissism) and refer to a branch of psychology that is morally inept, those who are most at risk of committing crimes, regardless of whether they feel remorse or not afterwards.

whereas psychopathy says that "violence is power", don't know how to deal with others' emotions given that they themselves can't feel much and don't feel the difference between right and wrong; machiavellianism says "violence is necessary", are emotionally calculated and know the difference between right and wrong, but fail to acknowledge it.

so, clearly gogol is machiavellianist, right?

wrong.

he is living in a lie that he fabricated for himself, which is where the factitious tendencies come from. factitious disorder in and of itself is a serious mental disorder in which someone deceives others by appearing sick, by purposely getting sick or by self-injury.

very little is known about this mental illness due to the amount of deceit regarding it, but most agree that lying about your physical and mental health is done to receive sympathy.

based on my knowledge, i believe that they most likely lie in order to gain acceptance from themselves, whether sympathy from others is a medium in order to achieve it or not.

now, why would gogol want acceptance from himself? he's hot af and could rip this 🅱ussy in half any day of the week 😍😍😍

sorry. back to being serious. (that isn't to say i wasn't serious when i said HE COULD RIP THIS-)

gogol seeks freedom, this is the most evident thing that has been mentioned explicitly in the manga and is canon.

but freedom... from what?

here's an excerpt from his conversation with atsushi:

In another scene, he explains the following: "Yet, Dos-kun was different. He said, 'Splendid. In opposition to god, you are fighting to lose sight of yourself'. It moved me deeply. He was looking into my essence. Dos-kun was the one person in my life who understood. My intimate friend. That's what I thought. And then I realized..."

first off, all of this is kinda gay bro.

second, i love what fyodor said. "you are fighting to lose sight of yourself".

remember the factitious undertones to the sadism? yeah, that's it.

gogol feels things. he feels guilt when he murders and hurts others, he feels empathy enough to decide to let his victims die in a somewhat sparing way (meaning he let them believe he was insane. somehow, believing that you're being killed by another human being rather than a monster who is out of their mind brings peace to us. humans are such odd creatures.) in short, he feels things. he is not a psychopath. he is not entirely machiavellianist, even if his actions say he is.

back to the initial question. what does gogol desire freedom from?

he wants to be free from his emotions.

one theory i've seen somewhere, which i agree wholeheartedly with, is that he said he wanted to kill fyodor because fyodor represents his empathy, in a way. this is someone who understands him, who he considers his "close friend".

whether you ship or not, there's an undeniable connection between the two characters. it's sort of like when you drop out of school to join a gang; wouldn't it be better to start fresh? to remove all the remnants of the old days?

now, all that's left is to cut off him off from existence.

one question i have that i can't answer in a rhetorically intelligent way is why the fuck would he want to take away his humanity?

if someone sees their humanity as a restraint, something that keeps them from flying off with their own wings, don't you think it would be safe to assume that there must be something so terrible that scares them off, like birds flying off a tree branch as soon as they are shaken or they hear a loud noise, like a gunshot or a scream?

gogol likely desires to have control over his emotions. since emotions are uncontrollable things, he decides that he'd much rather be rid of them.

these restraints, these limitations to his freedom, so to speak, are just further proof that he's trying to convince himself of something. he's taking "fake it 'til you make it" to the extreme.

he wants to be able to murder people without having a mask on. he wants to be unburdened by empathy and sadness. he wants to live a life in which he isn't truly living.

this draws a beautiful parallel between him and dazai, but i'll get into this later on.

for gogol, violence is an escape. he feels great thinking about it, he feels great hurting others, and he feels great afterwards.

at least, he wants to feel that way.

(which is contradictory; does he want to feel nothing, or does he want to feel no empathy? in my opinion, he wants a little bit of both)

he's a clown, really. he makes us laugh and presents playfulness while tormenting atsushi. however, he isn't just a joker; he's a person behind his mask too. this is why i started by saying that he's a sad story hidden behind a funny one. once you truly get to know him, you realize that there's an emptiness in his soul. a dead soul.

for this reason, gogol suffers a lot, in my opinion. more so than the majority of bsd characters, which is already a lot. he has a hollow heart that craves to be whole, which in turn craves to be unbreakable, causing him to display a hollow heart. he's layers upon layers of lies to the point where he can't tell if he genuinely enjoys violence or not.

as someone who struggles with a similar loss of truth on a daily basis, I can tell you that it's more terrorizing than feeling pain flat out, it's like a shadow creeping out of your closet. if you knew for a fact that it was nothing, you could sleep soundly or tell yourself that it isn't real. if you knew that it was a person, you could react adequately; but what would you do if you don't know what it is? you can't sleep but can't lay awake, constantly second-guessing yourself until you've gone totally mad. for gogol, this "shadow" is a representation of his emotions, and he can't be at peace so long as he can't tell what's going on. no wonder he'd want it - whether good or bad - gone, for good. he'd finally be free to be at peace with himself and the world.

now, linking it to the real gogol.

Nikolai Gogol's greatest and most renowned work was Dead Souls (funny, isn't it? what he has and/or what he desires most is a dead soul) in which the main character ran around buying dead people in legal terms in order to get money out of it. he was a con man, that Chichikov, a faint resemblance to the bsd version.

Funnier still was that the book has no ending.

He burnt it.

A priest (some people argue that he had fallen in love with said priest and that he was undoubtedly gay) told him that his second volume was sinful and that he should destroy it.

If I had to relate this to the character, i would say it shows two things about gogol;

he still has a moral compass, a sense of what is right and what is wrong; he will listen to others and by listen, i mean truly listen to what they're saying, and then take in consideration their words. (personally, i'd've wished he told the priest to go fuck himself and walked away so that i could read the end >:( )

second, he isn't attached to his work. after spending sleepless nights, days upon weeks upon months writing a book, would you throw it out as easily as that? i don't think i would. does this mean he valued that priest's opinion a lot? or did he maybe desire to display his detachment to reality, that he was perfectly capable of discarding the item and moving on with his life? to convince himself that he was capable of doing as he willed, not as his emotions willed?

i guess we'll never truly know.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

the mass murderer and terrorist. i wonder how he made it onto my list.

the enforcing sadist with undertones of narcissism and psychopathy

god i love talking about fyodor.

he's often reduced, just like his fanon bff gogol, to a shadow of himself. "stinky anemic rat with a god complex".

can't say i don't love the slander as well, but he's so much more than that.

when gifted with superhuman abilities, most people wouldn't say "ew this is gross, god wouldn't allow this so it's time to go murder everyone and sabotage society".

however, he's not like other girls ⛓🥀🖤👨‍🎤

OK I PROMISE I'M DONE NOW I THINK BACK TO THE POINT

fyodor is not a full on psychopath, people.

get this in your heads before i make an entire post dedicated solely to explain why he's not a psychopath.

first of all, psychopathy is a SPECTRUM. we all have a little psychopathy in us, and it's not particularly a terrible thing. fyodor may rank highly on this spectrum, but he is predominantly lenient towards narcissism

psychopaths care little about their own prosperity and have trouble sticking to long-term relationships and plans, which partially explains his inability to take care of himself. but idk fyodor, i don't think you created your plan to wipe out all ability users in the world overnight. his lack of self-care could very well be the product of something else, a lack of energy from his anemia or a disregard for his own health in the face of his goal.

this doesn't mean he doesn't fit a lot of the criteria; he lacks empathy for others, is emotionally calculated and doesn't burst out in rage or sadness.

...which ends up being countered as well. if he were a true psychopath, he'd be a lot less surprised in the end of season 3 when he got caught; instead, he'd've shrugged and been like "oh". he equally would probably not derive pleasure from something small like classical music and playing the cello.

he also leans towards narcissism; he believes he is the only one destined to do this. i see him as being emotionally equivalent to the main character of Notes From Underground; he has this blatant belief that he's better than others and knows that he thinks he's better than others.

from this reason, i've been going back and forth between "he's a psychopath", "no he isn't", "yes he is", "what if he was a narcissist?", "SHUT UP I'M DEBATING WHETHER HE'S A PSYCHOPATH OR NOT! "

it's the same tale in his relationship with violence and sadism; he doesn't feel empathy for his victims. i doubt he thought about bby karma a single time since killing him. he lives in the grey area between "i don't care, period," and "i am the only one who is allowed to kill them because i'm the chosen one so it's okay if i don't care."

the enforcing sadist is another term i've thrown into there. enforcing sadists tend to be people with other authoritative functions who feel they should be the ones controlling and punishing people who have broken rules, regulations or laws, which immediately signals narcissism.

i find fyodor's religious view important as well, actually. you might've overlooked it, as has most of the fandom, but he often says "sin" and mentions god when discussing his virtues and motives.

you'd think a religious man would be just a TAD bit less murderous.

fyodor believes his violence is justified, though, which dehumanizes the victim for him.

he sees the crime, he inflicts the punishment.

everything he does is for god, or his beliefs, so why wouldn't he enjoy it?

in current society, religion is being given less and less importance. back in the time and location of irl fyodor, however, it must've been big, explaining why he mentions it.

he is actually the only one who mentions his devotion to god frequently out of all the bsd characters.

why, why? that is the question, why the devotion?

some people stick to religion because of culture; others because they were forced to by their family; a select few because of instances of inexplicable moments occurring in their lives that drive them to seek answers in the skies; not to forget the majority that stick to it because they believe.

fyodor believes. boil it down to "communism" if you will, but he likely believes in the equality of all men. or maybe, he just sees power as untrustworthy in the hands of "mere mortals" (i agree, and so do tons of past philosophers. even socrates criticized democracy because it gave power to idiots and educated people alike, which is why i think fyodor might believe this as well)

unpopular opinion: fyodor is incapable of genuine happiness.

i believe he might experience brief schadenfreude (enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others), but accomplishing things just go through his head.

everything goes according to plan, and then he makes another plan.

it's a way of surviving, but not of living.

he has a deep character that is dumbed down to a genius, but where's the beauty in being a genius?

geniuses lack this fundamental connection to other people because they're often considered beneath them. this is the same with dazai, who can't emotionally connect because he knows he won't be understood, which in turn makes him belittle their value.

so, does fyodor fit the bill for a sadist? does he enjoy hurting others?

i don't particularly think so.

he just hurts others because he "has to", and doesn't feel much during, before or after it. perhaps to say he doesn't feel much is going too far; i'm sure watching others squeal and squirm under his grip inflates his sense of self-worth and self-importance, but very limitedly.

a particular point i'd like to make was when fyodor "removed feeling from Ivan's brain". sir, how the fuck did you do that. part of his ability? perhaps. in that case, it's very plausible he used it on himself.

now, onto irl Fyodor.

he was a philosopher on top of writer, and is no stranger to death. if i recall correctly, his wife and children died during his lifetime (he remarried though, partially to get out of his financial debt), and was arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia, he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. he spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. yikes. that's bound to expose you to a nasty part of humanity, which was evident in his writing and books.

The House of the Dead has a lot of information on this. In the first few chapters especially, MC discusses how terrible it is to be in isolation and how it can drive a man mad. if you want to read a dostoy book, check out Crime and Punishment, but if you're going for a closer look at his life, that is the book to read.

so, prone to violence? no, not necessarily. but he's been around it and has seen what it does to people, all the terrible things that exist. (read his books btw they're so nicely written, dark but there's trickling beauty in his darkness)

tl;dr: he's a stinky anemic rat with a god complex

Teruko Ōkura

child with anger issues.

jkjk i love her she's so pretty like pls step on me

the explosive sadist with severe mood swings, potential borderline personality disorder (?)

the question mark next to bpd was very much intentional.

now, it's pretty obvious why i included this, given her apparent mood swings. she goes from threatening everyone in the vicinity to sucking up to fukuchi in a split second.

(very small side note: i believe her attitude towards fukuchi needs more attention. why would she be so obedient towards him in contrast with every single person she meets? i have a small theory that she might have some kind of a past with him that mirrors yosano's with mori, that she was recruited for her ability/talent by fukuchi and it actually went well. eerily so. @ asagiri, gimme answers ho 👹)

back to her violent nature.

an explosive sadist is described as "those who are prone to losing control, known for being unpredictably violent. this manifests through tantrums, fearsome attacks on others, especially family members, and uncontrollable rage."

there's a but.

1) let's not kid ourselves, she's a queen and she deserves praise. when you put aside her personality and attitude, she clearly has some strong ideals under that terrorizing expression. what needs to be emphasized is that she doesn't hide her ideals under her sadism, like nikolai, nor does she use this mask to protect her true thoughts, like dazai.

her sadism is directly linked to her belief in the goodness of society.

it's really amazing how well this was displayed in the manga, and frankly i'd like to see more of it, but she had a moment, right before kicking the shit out of sigma, where she was being genuine in her explanation of the hunting dogs and her belief.

"Without order, people 'built for violence' would end up standing above the population. A world like that would be garbage. Therefore, if the Hunting Dogs exercise the strongest power as society's servants… We are searing the flames of order into our own selves."

she explains that she and the hunting dogs go through monthly surgeries to maintain their superhuman bodies.

why is she explaining this?

to make it perfectly clear how strong she is

part of her sadism comes from a domineering sense of superiority that she displays frequently. she is allowed to threaten jouno and get away with it because she is strong and could very easily kill any of them, or damn well torture them out of their minds with a flick of the pinky.

most strong bsd characters either don't think they are strong (akutagawa), overestimate their strength (fitzgerald, sigma) or are perfectly content letting their actions prove their strength to others (most of them, such as dazai, fyodor, mori, chuuya).

what makes teruko different is that she constantly reminds everyone of her wrath.

if you're so pissed all the time, just kill someone? wouldn't that be easier than constantly threatening everyone around?

clearly, it's not all bark and no bite. she does bite, and she bites rather hard. no, the reason she threatens everyone is because she has a faint trace of superiority that she enjoys.

sadists typically enjoy being in control. for teruko, she likes to see other people cower before her, once they've gotten over the initial shock of her age/personality. afterwards, she makes it painstakingly clear that she could kill them at any moment; that's what she loves the most about violence. yes, she may enjoy it during the moment, or perhaps afterwards looking back, but she loves the foreplay of the violence, if you will. she likes riling them up and asserting dominance over this person before physically destroying them.

i believe this is the reason she explained herself as a hunting dog to sigma. she didn't have to give her mini speech, but she does anyways. she shows him that he's severely overestimating himself, that the "desperation" he regards as his biggest strength is in fact just a daily part of life out in the real world.

after gouging out her ear to avoid his attack in chapter 76, this is what happens:

Sigma: "Do you see, hunting dog? This is it! Everything I've attained here, the strength of my feelings!"

Teruko: "...'The strength of my feelings', you said? Then, I'll ask... Why do you feel? When the one carrying that strength of feeling is you alone?

(yet another side note: i won't be analyzing sigma, but i would like to insert a small remark here. contrary to fanon sigma where he's baby and anxious all the time and we should protecc, he's actually so much more violent in canon. he tried to get innocent civilians to fight against the hunting dogs, a very dangerous unit, basically jeopardizing their lives just to save himself and his casino. he pulled teruko down with him in order to save the casion, basically trying to kill her (he did try to straight up kill her multiple times tho). desperation and anxiety makes people a lot more violent than we give them credit for, so no, sigma is NOT baby. more like a temperamental toddler that could very well ruin your life.)

this brings us to our second point:

2) she believes her violence is motivated. notice how she singled out Sigma because of the fact that he operates alone?

evidently she takes great pride in her cause with the hunting dogs, despite all of the sacrifices she's made to reach her current level, i.e. physical endurance and alterations.

so, the satisfaction from violence, for her, stems from the feeling of accomplishment and duty, not the actual pain. when she explodes and threatens people, it's more likely a side effect of living in the kind of dangerous environment that the hunting dogs operate in (if i were a child battling with some of the strongest adults in the world, i'd make sure i make my mark, too. in a competitive world like this one, you have to fight for your spot and maintain it, which is also a reason she gave that speech to Sigma, she's known desperation too and finds it insulting that he believes he can reach her strength with that alone).

here i'm supposed to talk about irl Teruko but it's criminal how little information there is about her.

if someone finds something, let me know please!

Mori Ōgai

his description should include child abuser.

the tyrannical sadist with undertones of psychopathy.

before i start, i need to clarify a very important detail.

i don't endorse mori's actions, he is a pedophile and that is disgusting. however, his entire personality isn't just that, and for that reason i'm going to be analyzing him objectively. if mentions of pedophilia trigger you, skip this section because i will be mentioning it often.

out of all the bsd cast, he's the most likely to be a psychopath.

i'd absolutely love to see more Mori content. not where he's traumatizing children though, more like his backstory.

the abuse that affected dazai, akutagawa and kyouka, as well as most port mafia members and yosano all started with him. he's ground 0, yet there isn't a reason for his behavior.

since we can't see the past, let's work with what we have

mori is greatly detached from emotions, both his own and others'

he's ruthless. he treats death like a game. he hasn't shown any specific scenes in which he demonstrated raw emotion, which is where my conclusion that he ranks very highly on the psychopathic spectrum stems from.

his calmness is eerie. in his first appearance, he was trapped in Anne's Room and did not once panic. he remained calm when he discovered tachihara was a double agent, when akutagawa failed in capturing atsushi he said that "effort is what matters, results come second".

which is crazy, when you think about it. after all, he'd killed and manipulated such a large amount of people, yet he doesn't take failure of his subordinates to heart? why could that be?

easy.

he doesn't have a heart.

I don't often like decreeing that, since there's usually a story behind the heartlessness, and eventually some kind of soul under all those layers of trauma, but plain as day, Mori sees violence as nothing more than violence.

it hurts people. when hurting people is advantageous for him, he hurts them. when hurting people is not advantageous for him, he doesn't hurt them.

it's simple; the epitome of reasoning and logic without emotions clouding your judgement.

he prefers manipulating children because they're simply easier to control than adults whose ideals and personalities have, for the most part, already matured.

he is a tyrannical sadist, where forcing his victims to cower and submit gives him satisfaction. but he's not even that sadistic; sadism is, as i said before, deriving pleasure from other people's pain. Mori's pleasure is indirect; he doesn't necessarily like inflicting the pain (nor does he dislike it), he likes seeing the aftermath.

The aftermath being; brainwashed people and children who do everything he says; getting held in either high respect or high fear (sometimes a mix of both) by those around him; achieving his goals, as he did for yosano's arc where he forced her to heal soldiers and eventually mentally broke her, and being able to get the port mafia to thrive.

Another thing i want to mention when it comes to his tendency towards violence is that he rarely implements it directly himself, likely because this is logically the least advantageous of many options. he prefers, such as in the case where he leaked naomi and haruno's hideout to the guild. he didn't even have to fight anybody, and lessened the port mafia's workload by having the ADA and guild fight each other.

and in the end all he had to do was say the right words to the right person in order to ruin everybody else's lives.

the few times where his implication is direct is, unfortunately, when dealing with children. as seen with elise, his literal ability who conforms to what he wants her to be (meaning that he makes her bratty because it legit gives him sexual satisfaction what the actual fuck-) aka a bratty child who rebels against his orders.

just like dazai and yosano

in yosano's case, he did in fact break her, but this was in a different environment than dazai. they were in war. his goal was to demonstrate how useful ability users are to warfare, and she just happened to be a slightly bratty, naive girl who had a strong ability and no sense of what awaited her. he quite literally picked her up from the bakery or wtv where she worked and said "you have to heal all these dying people, who will be sent into battle and then come back to be healed once again". she was set up for failure, and i'm certain mori was aware of this. but did he care much? partially, for he doesn't like failure, but mori doesn't dread failure too much. if it happens, he moves on, just as how he came back for her after a while when she'd gotten taken in custody and said "get in loser we're going shopping" and invited her into the port mafia. she would've, had fukuzawa not came in and intervened, which makes her in a way somewhat lucky.

for dazai, this is a bit more complicated. he is very similar to mori in his actions and thinking, but is emotionally a fundamentally different person. mori knew that they were similar, and that's what scared him the most; fyodor had a similar approach, saying that dazai was the only person whose mind he "couldn't read", aka that he was unstable and unpredictable, which is what essentially caused controlling him becoming very difficult for mori, especially as someone who has trouble understanding emotions. he prompted oda to go take down mimic by leaking the information about the orphans, knowing fully well that oda would likely die. what he didn't expect was that dazai would react to his death by defecting, not delving further into the darkness. mori knew that dazai's intellect could very well one day be his undoing, and for that reason paid him special attention. however, it's still very difficult to deal with dazai, for reasons i'll get to later on.

i think his attraction towards children stems from a pleasure in seeing them raw. adults and older individuals are usually more self-conscious, constantly trying to prove to themselves and others that they're strong. mori knows how to deal with them because their emotions, their thoughts, their actions are so painfully predictable and easy to manipulate.

children, on the other hand, are much more brash and often think themselves the center of the universe. they have character, they have more unpredictable emotions, and when they get emotional, they get mf emotional. he sees this as both a challenge and a convenience; they're easy to manipulate, much more desirable to change the essence of a person when they're young, yet they still provide that futile bit of resistance, a characteristic shown often in the young girls which he preys on (yosano, elise)

however, he isn't 100% psychopathic.

he has goals. he respects certain people (natsume soseki). he is still capable of somewhat understanding other people's emotions.

therefore, mori's relationship with violence is complex, but down to the basics? he thinks it is power and uses it when needed, not excessively or anything though. he's a remarkable man, that i have to admit, and gets shit done, at the expense of everyone else around him's mental stability.

now, onto his irl.

his relationship with elise is, obviously, a demonstration of Mori's relationship with his daughter, Mari, who was also an author. he died when she was only 19, but afterwards she wrote extensively about her relationship with her father. Starting with her 1961 novella, A Lovers' Forest, she wrote tragic stories about love affairs between older men and boys in their late teens which influenced the creation of the Yaoi genre, stories about male-male relationships, written by women for women.

that last bit had little relevance lmao i just wanted to share that with someone.

he had to suffer through the war, which might be the reason why the bsd character is so prone to strategic intellect, but he was in fact also very talented, being an army surgeon, translator, multilingual and a writer. i respect the irl counterpart for his hard work, but clearly he had a questionable relationship with his daughter so NVM-

Jouno Saigiku

the literal canon sadist.

the presumed psychopath who is in fact just your everyday sadist.

i won't be spending too long on jouno because his psyche isn't actually as complex as one can believe.

he's the product of his upbringing; sort of the same way as when, as a kid, you slowly learn over time certain things. for example, if you want candy, you have to ask an adult nicely for it, say please and thank you, and that you have to be polite about it, if you cry and throw a tantrum you won't get the candy.

jouno was trained to figure out that if he wants candy, he can just take it.

it is mentioned that, before becoming a hunting dog, he used to be a criminal executive, which is where his belief in doing wrong stems from. as he explained it himself,

"I just want to hurt people in the name of the law, corner them, and hear the sound of their destruction. […] I am a public evil. No matter how many criminals I torment, society will only give me praise and success for it."

this is 1) proof that his sadism stems not from a lack of emotions or a desire for certain emotions, but it's simply the way he was brought up. if a strong individual finds out they can take everything they want by force, who's to tell them that they can't? 2) he doesn't gain particular satisfaction from hurting others, he's simply indifferent to it. it's what he knows how to do.

for example, when interrogating the civilians, he didn't hesitate to showcase his strength and, most importantly, how unregulated it is. he could beat them up or kill them if he wanted to, the only reason he didn't was that tecchou was there.

i don't believe that he sees anything inherently wrong in his behavior; he knows his actions are wrong morally, but they're praised in society, so does that truly make them wrong? nevertheless, he still has a moral compass, as was demonstrated when he declined fukuchi's offer to join the decay of angels.

so, a bad boy? not really. jouno was just bred to value ruthless actions and keeps it as his modus operandi due to habit. he's a good man, though, and I would very much trust him with my life.

for his irl counterpart, once again there isn't much info on him.

from what i know, he was a gesaku writer, which is a school of Japanese literature that is basically playful, mocking, joking, silly, or frivolous, all alluding to his personality. like i said; nothing exceptional about his sadism. it's just fun and games, and it's harmless. in this case, i would classify it as sadistic tendencies rather than sadistic impulses.

Dazai Osamu

the one and only suicidal maniac

(whose relationship with death is rather intriguing, but i'll get to that later)

the machiavellianist who just wants to feel something.

first of all i need people to STOP saying they kin dazai as if it's their only personality trait. i'm going to repeat this a thousand times because i physically cannot keep reiterating this to everyone who claims to be a dazai kinnie

he is more complex than simply being suicidal

in fact, i would go so far as to say that he isn't truly suicidal. but i'll leave that for last, because isn't death the epitome of violence?

there's also a significant difference between the three "phases" of dazai, if you will; dazai before he met chuuya, dazai before odasaku's death, dazai after odasaku's death

as you can notice, the three segments of his life are not revolving around an important event, but around people.

that is the first sign that dazai has empathy and emotions, thus is not a psychopath.

similarly to gogol, he is a machiavellianist: (recap for those who don't remember, machiavelleniasm says "violence is necessary", are emotionally calculated and know the difference between right and wrong, but fail to acknowledge it.)

where he and gogol differ is their desire for emotions.

dazai wants to feel something. gogol wants to feel nothing.

dazai welcomes pain. gogol wants to be rid of it.

dazai is fighting against his past to become a better person. gogol is fighting against his past to become a worse person.

now, for that last segment, dazai isn't necessarily trying to become a better person, per se; and gogol isn't trying to become worse. the former is simply attempting to embrace his emotions more often, while the latter is trying everything in his power to get rid of his.

now, how does this play into his relationship with violence?

notice how the machiavellianist says "violence is necessary"? that's a key point; dazai doesn't feel good about his violence. pre-chuuya, he obviously felt nothing about hurting others, nothing with a hint of catharsis. as shown in the gif above, he's shooting that man over and over again, even if it's not necessary, which is where the slight catharsis comes into play.

however, it doesn't truly let his emotions out. it's a bit like self-hypnosis, you get into a groove and cannot stop because there's something trance-like in the way that he keeps shooting, over and over again. it's something he has control over. it's something that is simple. it's something that doesn't require emotional strain.

dark era dazai, on the other hand, doesn't have that erraticism of his younger counterpart. if you will, his relationship with violence matured; he doesn't use it excessively.

it is during this phase of his life that he most resembles mori.

after odasaku's death, everything changes (a large amount of analyses about why this is have been written. I recommend going to check those out because I won't be talking about why his view of the world changed, but what impact it had on his sadistic tendencies).

dazai no longer sees violence as the only way.

but it's still an option.

something that can be pointed out as a factor of how much importance he attributes violence is how often he puts on his mask of being a goofy, laid back individual.

you see it around 15 when he teases chuuya; yes, he's broken. yes, he commits a lot of murder. but he doesn't hurt the children. he doesn't have this cloud of darkness that follows him everywhere he goes, unlike dark era dazai, for whom silly moments are much less frequent. then, there's ada dazai, who is simply always in the mood to annoy kunikida.

it's a pretty accurate rep of how sadistic he is because dazai is unable to feign happiness.

(a quick reminder that happiness and light-heartedness are two distinct things.)

dazai can act carefree, but he cannot act genuinely alright. there's a subtle difference between the two, and for that reason they've been mistaken for each other on many occasions.

when dazai is light-hearted, he somewhat enjoys the violence, meaning that he doesn't mind it. it's simply a part of his day and doesn't affect him.

when dazai is happy, he avoids violence. he will get someone else to do the dirty work, and even then he'll chose the most pacifistic solution.

unlike some of the other characters, dazai's emotions does not rely on his violence, but his violence relies on his emotions.

to put it in another way, how much pain he's willing to inflict is based on his mood, which is the opposite of, for example, akutagawa who attacks in order to repress his fear and feel better about himself (sadly, it doesn't work).

onto akutagawa, who was the victim of his abuse.

aku felt respect for dazai's machiavellanism. he looked up to this man who was (or at least appeared) indifferent towards violence and said, "i want to be like that".

in turn, dazai saw aku as a sort of toy to play with.

it's a power that he wanted over his own emotions, but was unable to get. so, he decided to mimic his desire but over someone else's emotions.

it's a basic sadomasochistic tendency; to project yourself into another person and take control by hurting them.

he dissociates from the world, and views it all as if he himself is no longer a human, and then takes a certain pleasure of tormenting this other person as if he were tormenting himself. it is for that reason that he is violent when light-hearted; light hearted is a façade, a mask he puts on in order to hide the fact that he feels empty.

dazai's emotions are a beautifully complex thing and it just breaks my heart when i tell people about him and they say "oh yeah, that's the guy that's suicidal right??"

if he truly wanted death, he works in a pretty dangerous field and could go out. he has no family holding him back and with the mindset he has, he might believe that all his friends don't care about the real him, just the "dazai show" he puts on. so really, nothing is stopping him.

that's where his boredom comes into play; while in Meursault, he told fyodor that at first it was fun, but now he was getting bored and they should start to think about getting out.

this also applies to his mood swings, and hence his violence.

dazai gets more sadistic when things become dull.

or, inversely, when he himself begins to fall into a mind melding routine. you see, dazai hates the idea of letting his feelings settle among the dust. instead of, as many millennials might opt to do, curl up into a ball and act lethargic and listless in your day to day activities, thus worsening your mental state by doing nothing to stop its decline, dazai actually decides to shake it up. it keeps him alive and allows him to continue to teeter on the thin tightrope he created for himself out of fleeting moments of energy, hovering over a vast expanse of a field of death and despair to which he nearly succumbed several times.

i won't be drawing the comparison between dazai in the anime and irl dazai because there's so much to unpack and he's an emotionally complex character. so, go read No Longer Human and tell me yourself what you think!!

Fukuchi Ōchi

literally everyone hates his guts. enforcing sadist as well as spineless sadist all mixed up into one cocktail of major dickhead.

woah woah, let's slow down there, did i just classify him as the same type of sadist as.. aku??

give me a second. I'm getting there, sheesh 🙄

i'm going to be putting personal hatred for the man asides, because I think a lot of people immediately label him "dickhead" and forget to understand him first, just as with Mori.

Fukuchi is a war hero. he went to the same academy as fukuzawa and things were great... until he enlisted in the Great War. he saw and was forced by the government to torture women, children, men and all other genders and eventually couldn't take it all, began harboring a hatred for the government for creating this disgusting war.

it was all he ever knew, war. he came to believe he was "born on the battlefield".

here's an extract from the bsd wiki to show what kind of change happened afterwards:

Despite these facts, 12 years ago, he was invited to the opening of the Armed Detective Agency where he drunk himself silly, caused a ruckus, and urinated all over the newly made Agency doorplate which Ranpo saw and was disgusted by. Despite the shameful actions, Fukuzawa interpreted them to be a sign of grief and wailing that he had found his life's purpose one step ahead of him and that he was lonely because of that fact. It was on this day that Fukuzawa told Ranpo that he trusted Fukuchi more than anyone in the world, which reinforced Ranpo's trust in him based solely on blind faith alone, while Fukuzawa was completely oblivious to his friend's hatred and bitterness towards him.

after that, he created the hunting dogs and amped up his battle, fighting all kinds of huge threats and eventually becoming Kamui from the Decay of the Angels.

i don't blame him.

if you look at it from an objective point of view, Fukuchi is, just as Fukuzawa suggested, a grief-stricken man. he saw death, experienced it, caused it; death was all he'd ever known.

there are two ways to react to that, to crave light dearly but still enclose yourself in the darkness, as Kyouka did.

or, you can rebel against it all.

tachihara rebelled against his family, nikolai rebelled against his emotions, akutagawa rebelled against his fears. fukuchi is the same, only he rebelled against the goddamn world, and that isn't an exaggeration.

circling back to violence, fukuchi isn't a particularly violent individual. i wouldn't say he loves it, nor hates it. he himself is a erratic person in terms of hygiene and shame, doing borderline disgusting things such as throwing up from drinking too much, farting, flat out saying that he's still young because his ass cheeks are still fucking peachy.

these are all coping methods

when you start to belittle the value of life of others, your own seems to be less important as well, in certain senses. his pride, his image, they all don't matter in the end; he's still a tool of murder.

now, for someone who is so against war, he seems just a little too eager to start one.

he's been praised all his life for his skill and ability, his ego must be huge at this point. with all this power, why wouldn't he think that he's the only one fit enough to fix the world? the book is a very powerful thing, and he believes himself in charge of it, and thus the entire globe.

he clearly doesn't spend too much time dealing with his doa subordinates (fyodor is about to fight to the death and gogol who orchestrated this is literally waving his hand in the air and asking sigma to get him popcorn). this is a sign that Fukuchi sees them more as tools, and he doesn't even need them all that much.

he's a hypocrite. an enforcing sadist who believes he's the only one who is allowed to kill thousands in order to bring world peace, yet he hates war. a spineless sadist who is lashing out at the universe because, as Fukuzawa pointed out, he's lonely.

The guy is really just lonely.

It's the saddest of all the bungou stray dog characters' stories, in my opinion. Not because it's tragic, or because it speaks to my heart, but because he'll never have a happy ending, nor will he have a happy middle.

He's a sad old man who keeps digging himself deeper in his troubles with the very same violence he hates, and I think he knows it; but he's too deep in, now, to see the sunlight.

and for what is he digging this hole? why does no one tell him that he's not mining for gold, but digging his own grave?

And when he dies eventually, ruler of the world or not?

No one at his funeral would truly know him.

bonus: Tetchō Suehiro

the loml.

the pacifistic soldier who, despite his job, still desires to protect those with a good heart.

I find that tecchou needs to be given more screen time in order to better appreciate and understand his character because I personally believe that there's a fundamentality of strength of beliefs needed in order to achieve the diligence that he exhibits.

first and foremost, we have no information on his backstory, which really makes me mad.

when fukuchi went through war, he decided to dominate the world and kill thousands. when jouno was in a crime organization, he came out believing that violence gets praised in this society. when tachihara suffered the loss of his older brother and constant belittlement from his family, he became extremely erratic and chaotic.

then there's this gorgeous fucker.

i'm certain he's witnessed plenty of death, some of which might've been his fault, due to his line of work. yet he is firm with jouno when it comes to protecting innocents?

i frikkin love him.

but there's something i'm missing.

let's take kunikida as an example. he sticks by his ideals with an almost comedic grip, never ceasing to believe in doing good, even if it costs him his life.

the reason? partially because he's failed before in saving people. (unpopular opinion; kunikida deserves more unconditional love. the guy has a heart of gold, whereas his bratty and murderous partner with a tainted soul gets all the love.)

now, is that the case with tecchou? what could possibly have made him despise violence and cherish good people so much?

i don't have an answer for that and i'm currently writing a 10k word essay to asagiri to demand an explanation/hj

now, my first instinct was to think that it had something to do with his weird habits and tics, especially with food and concentration.

i quickly discovered that i was a clown, not that this was new information.

The name Tetchō means 'Iron Stomach'.

haha, very funny, asagiri.

what i do value the most out of tecchou's character is how simple he is. he fights for what is right, takes down what is wrong, and is efficient. he trains to get stronger, he eats the food, he watches the ants, there's nothing more complex to him, which is where the beauty of his personality stems from.

on top of this, his soldier-like personality is just a clever allusion to irl tecchou's samurai lineage.

perhaps sometimes there truly is nothing to analyze. for this reason, i'm not going to be complicating the character.

he has a wonderful design and i hope to see more from him, perhaps an outburst of emotion (since he's been rather emotionless ever since he was introduced. not like dazai or fyodor, but like he's got nothing going on in his mind and he really just doesn't give a single shit about it) once he discovers that fukuchi was a fraud.

----------------------------------------------------------------------- there are, of course, many more i did not mention, and i could go on and on forever about each individual, but these are the biggest names that have enough information about them up until now and as good of a summary that i can provide. i would've loved to include agatha as well, but she hasn't appeared nearly enough, and verlaine, but i haven't done enough research on SB. would yall want a part 2 with any specific characters??

a quick reminder that all of this is purely my own interpretation of the characters. feel free to discuss this further or point out any mistakes i may have made, i love to hear other people's opinions!! also, this has been done for leisure; i am not a psychologist and cannot diagnose any of these characters with anything.

bungou stray dogs is perhaps the anime that spends the most time talking about the characters' mental state in a somewhat realistic way, and for this reason, i've grown to love the fandom so much that i pulled this unedited rambling out of own ass to try to contribute to yall 😩💗 ly, stay safe and have a nice day :)

[kunikinnie]

Ace Attorney/Lawyer AU! One of my first posts on this blog that I never went full out on lol. It's still quite similar to canon BSD but yk HAHA tagging: @requiem626k feel free to add to the brain rot when you have time HAHA

warning: contains spoilers, but nothing too revealing?? (technically most LNs, S1-3, and even from the manga)

Nakajima Atsushi

College student who became the prime suspect because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time

Dazai Osamu was his lawyer (thankfully he got him acquitted lol)

Shifted to law after that because Dazai really inspired him

Then he tried actually learning from him... let's just say his opinion of the man has changed drastically

He's still not practicing but one day he'll get there! (but he has already been unofficially adopted by the firm lol)

May or may not have been kidnapped a few times

After a string of strange events, has unofficially adopted a spirit medium named Maya Izumi Kyouka and they're now living together (yes spirit medium because irl Kyouka-sensei's works had a lot of supernatural elements, yk like Demon Snow/Pond)

Dazai Osamu

Currently a defense attorney at a small law firm run by Fukuzawa Yukichi

Used to be a famous/notorious prosecutor in a bigger city and was on the road to go international until "things happened" yk what I mean

One of the greatest yet worst lawyers Kunikida has ever had the misfortune to know

Usually only takes the most mind-boggling cases because 1. He likes using his brain 2. The ratio of brain power to paperwork is significantly better than boring/tedious ones

Not a regular lawyer in the slightest. Comes to work late, rarely submits paperwork on time, and absolutely still violates the law (in secret) when obtaining evidence (at least the evidence is real tho)

Has superb conversational skills. Can extract information from anyone, but enjoys dealing with female witnesses the most

Kunikida Doppo

Another defense attorney at the same law firm; Dazai's senior by a year or so

Best employee award goes to this man every single month. His impeccable organization skills and willingness to salvage tasks that certain coworkers refuse to do save the agency's ass all the time (main weakness is his interrogation skill - it's too intense)

Became a lawyer because a man he respected was wrongfully convicted. He tried to get licensed as soon as he can to get him out of prison and hopefully give him another chance at life

Almost wanted to quit his job when he started to harbor feelings for a certain very-much-guilty defendant (the same case Dazai first observed/assisted in) because it's not just unprofessional, it's morally wrong

Is the only one who has never heard of Dazai's prosecutor days. The reaction he gave when he learned that is one of the firm's most prized videos

Edogawa Ranpo

No, he is not a lawyer OR detective. He ain't about the dull married life with never-ending paperwork and arguing with people

He's this unofficial-official "consultant" of the firm (and the very reason why it exists)

Sometimes tags along as any of their lawyer's assistant. Not sidekick, assistant. There is a difference

Of course the strangest cases go to him but the actual court part is carried out by someone else

His father was a renowned detective, but Ranpo was left orphaned and without a guardian after both of his parents died in a car "accident"

Fukuzawa just so happened to know his father (by name only tho) and felt bad for the kid so he took him in reluctantly

Fukuzawa Yukichi

Defense attorney who has a penchant for adopting stray kids

Owner/whatchamacallit of a small law firm, which he inherited from Natsume Souseki (a small one in a small city - offered to him as a chance for a new start)

Doesn't take on cases anymore for the past 5 or so years - just leads the whole mess of the "law" firm (more like random things agency)

But sometimes he feels like he will have to appear in court soon - for other reasons, specifically because of the tendencies of most of his employees lol

Main apprentice is Kunikida (both in terms of lawyering and kicking ass- I mean martial arts)

Mori Ougai

Currently the chief prosecutor (is also a licensed doctor)

Big shot guy with a lot of connections (both above and underground) so bribery is afloat

May or may not have had people killed

Used to take care of Dazai (self-appointed father figure) but ofc it didn't work out in the end

Also used to know Fukuzawa (rivals in court) to whom he holds a grudge (because of Yosano then Dazai). He doesn't do anything too serious to him tho since 1. he respects him 2. no one wants to make Natsume-sensei angry

No one really can stand against him in court because he's so fricking intimidating (smthn like Manfred von Karma from AA) except again, Fukuzawa, which is why it has been "boring as of late"

Nakahara Chuuya

Prosecutor and is currently assigned to Dazai's old city

Is possessed by the all-consuming desire to crush him in court (because he's lost to Dazai in a lot of ways)

Another of Mori's stray kids turned lawyer

He's only really known in court for his sharp tongue but aside from that he's pretty decent and is reputable

Except for the fact that he's an absolute nutjob whenever he gets his hands on alcohol

Because of the people around him he does do a lot of underhanded things here and there, but only because his aim is to take down people that play around just the same

Unofficial "babysitter" of the city's prosecutors

Akutagawa Ryuunosuke

Student artist at day, master forger and assassin at night

He's quite skilled with his hands that he does a lot of the non-exhaustive dirty work for Mori and his allies

His relationship with Dazai is a bit more personal: he met him when he was struggling to get into art school when his would-be master appeared

"I'll pay for all your fees, but you need to do something for me in exchange"

Which is the evidence forgery and the occasional assassination (the latter usually falls to his siser)

It puzzled him so much Dazai left just like that and has been searching around for him, wondering what he's been doing

Is beyond furious when he learned that some wimp from his school (who was younger than he) was now his master's apprentice

Yosano Akiko

Owner of the Yosano clinic (where if anyone from Fukuzawa's Agency gets hurt, they go to her)

Used to be under Fukuzawa's wing (first Mori, but there's no need to acknowledge that) until she went independent

Specializes in trauma cases

Is probably guilty of a few offenses herself, but that's only because some patients are insufferable - which is why she never got penalized (it's good have lawyers at your disposal, no?)

Sakaguchi Ango

Police detective who helps around certain cases (or to whom Fukuzawa and Co bump into regularly)

Best known for infiltration jobs

Used to work directly with Dazai when he was still a prosecutor, but every now and then he still helps, usually by retrieving and sharing information in not-so-legal means

Tried to take down Mori and Co but to no avail (which is how he met Dazai in the first place)

a/n: I'm trying to think of a forensic person but idk who fits best HAHA

[hella1975]

hi hella i hope you’re doing fine because i know i’m not and it’s YOUR fault. let me explain.

okay i have an exam this week and my fucked up brain decided to start bungou stray dogs (i’m currently reading the manga. pray for me) because APPARENTLY when i run out of things to watch i turn into ‘what hella said was watching?’ and start whatever shit you talk about on your silly little blog. this happened A LOT in the past (i did not forgive you for banana fish). it’s not really your fault i’m neglecting my academic studies to watch gay people but i have to put the blame on someone????? i can’t blame my own idiocy???? ANYWAY. i’m writing this ask not to complain to you about my brain but because i want to know your opinion on something, cause i trust your judgment. genuinely curious: what do you think about akutagawa and shin soukoku????

hope you have a great *insert the time you’ll read this ask* !!!! <3

BESTIE IM SO SORRY SDKGJHSDKJGHDKJSGH but also CHUUYA NAKAHARA like there really is nothing better than that you have absolutely made a good call here

im guessing you're asking about my thoughts on akutagawa and ssk separately and not one in regards to the other? i absolutely ADORE akutagawa like he's sooooooooo funny 'i dont remember introducing myself as mute' KING SHIT but also on a more serious note he makes me sooooooo sad and it only gets worse the more of the manga you read. i can really see some solid foundations for a redemption (mind 'redemption' means in regards to bsd where very few characters come close to actually morally good so yk. pinch of salt) and i just think if dazai got his happy ending the akutagawa should too. there's a whole cycle of abuse in bsd that goes mori -> dazai -> akutagawa -> kyouka and out of ALL OF THEM kyouka was the only one to break away from it, but AKUTAGAWA was the only one to show some sort of humanity. even dazai only complimented akutagawa because he was kinda pushed into it by atsushi, whereas akutagawa UNPROMPTED with ZERO GOOD ROLE MODELS told kyouka that he was proud of her. he's still incredibly young and he was brought into this world when he was even younger and he's very much a 'i excuse his heinous crimes' character bc he was cool while he did it. i just want him to be hugged :(

so yes im a BIG shin soukoku shipper because i love akutagawa but i also love love LOVE atsushi, and i just think them paired together works so surprisingly well. initially it was the classic 'light/dark, sunshiney one/grumpy one' etc, but it's actually more than that. atsushi, someone usually so kind to the point of being a bit of a pushover, never hesitates to snap up Thee Port Mafia's Hellhound. like they argue with each other! and it's so important both for akutagawa, who doesnt really have anyone keeping him in check let alone even ATTEMPTING to enforce a moral code, and also atsushi, who seems to only defend himself so shamelessly, so instinctively, when it comes to akutagawa. they're on complete level playing fields for the first time in their lives and they make each other stronger and they're each other's greatest fear and worst enemy and other half and it's a love story told twice before and certainly will be told again and maybe one day, one day it wont have such a tragic ending

[starglow-xx]

hello ! when requests are open could you write atsushi x younger!sibling reader (maybe 13) who has a crush on kyouka? i think that would be cute ^^

awh you’re totally right, that sounds adorable! 🥺

i hope this is to your liking anon!! thanks for requesting! (and sorry for the wait!) ⸜( ˙˘˙)⸝

a/n: this was actually supposed to get published like two days ago, but my computer broke so i finished writing this on my phone; sorry if anything is off! enjoy the hcs!

edit: please see this post and this post regarding this request! me and someone else had been double requested and this explains a little bit of the situation :)

atsushi w/ a younger sibling who has a crush on kyouka

(slight izumi kyouka x gn! reader)

she may have been trying to kill your brother at first but ADHAKF she was pretty

your little crush on her was obvious to just abt everyone but her and your brother

go figure

but your heart ached at the girl who to you, was in a lot of pain :((

you truly wanted to help her and if jumping out of train alongside your brother was one way to do that then so be it!

when you found out what akutagawa had done to her in the mafia ooh boy you were ready to throw some hands

but your brother wouldn’t let you and kunikida was ready to give you an earful for it

unfortunately kunikida made you leave the restaurant with him leaving your brother w/ kyouka, and when you learned that he took her out on a date later that evening well...

“nii-san how could you?!”

“huh?!”

“why would you do that?! i wanted to do that!”

“do what?!”

“take her out you fool! i can’t believe my own brother is going to be my love rival!”

“your what?! (y/n) we almost died!”

“but you lived!”

that happened after you fretted over the well being of both your big brother and and kyouka

you loved your big brother dearly, so his health and well being was one of your top most priorities

another priority was his self-confidence and his insecurities

you made sure that he knew that you were so proud of him for saving kyouka and beating akutagawa

you yelled at him after yosano cleared him to be good to go

when you and atsushi walked into the agency that one morning you basically passed out seeing her in that maid outfit

you also gave your brother a heart attack when you woke up literal .2 seconds later

you thought she looked adorable!

and you loved that instead of the blank, empty stare she wore the day before, her eyes were bright and they had sparkles in them

cue lovesick sigh

unlike in the canon, you were the one to first vouch for kyouka to stay at the ada

atsushi then followed you shortly after!

“nii-san stop stealing my thunder!”

“huh?!”

remember that one scene when atsushi woke up to kyouka in the dorm?? well hehe

you woke up in your usual spot next your brother only to be met with blue eyes

you were kinda still half asleep so you went

“oh look, an angel”

then like .4 seconds later you realized who said “angel” was and started screaming

your screaming caused atsushi to wake up confused, then his eyes met kyouka’s and then he started screaming too

yk

just nakajima things

you were over the moon when you found out she was going to be living with you and your brother

it gave you a chance to get to know her!

YAYY

granted, atsushi would be third wheeling all the time, but it’s still a chance

both you and atsushi made sure to make sure she was comfortable every step of the way

the two of you made sure not to overstep any boundaries and to speak in quieter tones bc it was obvious to the two of you that she wasn’t a talkative person

as for sleeping places, your brother took the closet, you gave her the open area where you and atsushi used to sleep, and you simply moved your futon to the kitchen area

you also made sure to go run by to the nearest convenience store to buy her the essentials like toiletries, a towel, etc.

remember when kenji got taken by lucy in that one episode and at the end kyouka ran and gave atsushi a hug bc she got worried abt him??

well she did that w/ you too

and you were frozen for a good couple seconds bc ANWBDKDSHE WAS HUGGING YOU

ahem

anyways

when you met kouyou for the first time ahaha yeah that didn’t go so well

both you and atsushi were there after kyouka’s first job and 😬😬 it wasn’t pretty

your brother stayed with kyouka on the bench outside and you went to buy her a crepe to help make her feel better

you sat next to her as she spoke and then suddenly a fricking katana pierced through atsushi’s chest

and ooh boy were you pissed

bc 1) why won’t ppl leave your big brother alone and 2) this random lady keeps trying to take kyouka to mafia and to leave the “light”

like hell you’d let her

you may not have an ability like everyone else but you’d be damned if you let someone, port mafia executive or not, bring her back to a place that she wants to leave behind

so atsushi, kouyou, and kyouka all watched as you mouthed off the mafia executive (or herself, in kouyou’s case)

you impressed her slightly (both kouyou and kyouka)

i think that’s when kyouka really started to see you if you get what im trying to say

ah young love

time skip a little bit to when kyouka nearly died in that aircraft thingy due to her ada entrance exam

you were sent on the moby dick despite you not having an ability bc you were supposed to try and head to the controls to make the whale descend while atsushi takes care of fitzgerald

so you were there when kyouka was explaining her plan to yk, basically die

before you were dragged off by akutagawa, you heard her say

“thank you, (y/n). thank you for everything”

:,))

obviously, both you and atsushi were devastated but then relieved beyond measure when she came back safe and sound

you were very very surprised when she kissed your cheek after she nearly suffocated from being hugged by both you and your brother

both yours and atsushi’s along w/ kyouka’s cheeks flushed, but you were far, far worse

atsushi was mostly suffering from secondhand embarrassment

“k-kyouka-chan?!”

“mh?”

“y-you k-kissed (y/n)! a-and wait—(Y/N)?!?”

yeah you passed out like how aku did a few moments prior

for whatever reason, i personally hear a lot (like very very often, it’s rlly weird) that first crushes don’t last long and or never work out, but in this case? for you? id say it worked out pretty well (⸝⸝ᵕᴗᵕ⸝⸝)

like i said earlier, my computer is out of commission rn and i finished this on my phone so im sure that there are a couple errors here and there. when my computer gets fixed, i’ll go back and edit it there! using my phone to post my writing feels weird haha

but as always, reblogs and shares are appreciated! i hope you all stay safe! and just in case nobody told you they loved you today, i love you! you are enough! <3

writing belongs to me! please do not plagiarize! the reblog button is there for a reason

[fairy-writes]

hi!! could I please get romantic male matches for bsd jjk and/or death note? i use she/her pronouns :) 5’7 & enfp

personality wise im extroverted and very talkative, i don’t mind if my partner is as loud as me or not so long as they’re willing to listen to me go on for hours because I definitely do not shut up lol- I would say i’m an ambitious person and i like debating people on theories and opinions and what not (not in a mean way just for the fun of it yk) i can be quite sensitive so my emotions tend to guide my decisions before my head sometimes- yet although they contradict each other, I also don’t open up easily. im definitely clingy with the people i am closest to and my love language is physical touch for sure.

my interests are basically anything creative but mainly drawing, I’ve always been fascinated with animation and similar stuff! i’m also into makeup, fashion and some video games (I get highly competitive 👁👁) im also always listening to music i cant opérate without it tbh

in a partner i think id just look for someone who wants me around a lot, doesn’t mind the constant affection and reciprocates it at least a little, and shares my sense of humour? and like my ideal date would be something like an arcade date maybe ?

i hope i did this right aha, im always like what if i missed something when i request people tbh xD thank you so much! <3

Hello lovely! I hope you like your matchups! 

Bungou Stray Dogs Matchup: I pair you with… Nakajima Atsushi!

Atsushi is exactly your height! You also balance him out nicely with his introverted personality and your extroverted personality! He happily listens to you for hours and admires your ambition. He feels like your clinginess makes him feel wanted, so he definitely doesn’t mind that. 

His receiving love language is words of affirmation; he likes to be told he’s doing a good job or that he’s worth having around! His giving love language is physical touch; he likes to hold your hand and give you kisses (even though it makes him embarrassed).

While he’s not the best at arcade games, he’d love to take you to one! He’d try his best to win you a prize if the arcade has something like that. Or he’d take you to a carnival (or go himself so that he could surprise you) just to get you a special gift! He always wants you around and tries his best to reciprocate :)

Jujutsu Kaisen Matchup: I pair you with… Aoi Todo!

Todo is a whopping 6’3” and loves you just as much, if not more, as he loves Takada-chan! He matches your extroverted side with his eccentric one and will listen to you talk for HOURS if you so choose! The two of you debate things all the time but in a friendly way. However, some people like Miwa think you’re arguing and get a little afraid for your relationship.

While Todo is a bit of an emotional person, he usually lets logic guide his emotions unless it comes to you or Itadori. Then that logic goes out the window, and his heart guides his actions. He wants to protect both his best friend and you, his partner. Also, his love language is both giving and receiving is physical touch!

He loves to watch you be creative. He jokingly offers for you to draw him, and if you actually take him up on the offer, he’ll be over the moon. He’ll happily take you to all the arcades if you really want to go, and your dates always go off without a hitch and are great memory makers!

Death Note Matchup: I pair you with… Matt!

He’s actually an inch shorter than you at 5’6” but will debate with you till the end of time that he’s actually your height and not shorter than you. He’s kind of introverted, if that makes sense. Like Mello is a people person, Near is NOT, and he’s kind of in the middle? Either way, he’s more introverted than you and balances you out nicely. 

The two of you debate things all the time, and sometimes Mello will get after you for “interrupting his alone time with your shenanigans.” But he still cares for the both of you, so you can usually get away with it. Matt happily listens to you ramble about anything and everything while he plays his video games. He’ll just quietly play while you talk :)

VIDEO GAME DATES! You cannot tell me he wouldn’t have a video game night where the two of you play and rage and compete against one another. Soft music is always playing in the background of your shared apartment, and he lets you have complete control over what plays. He’s down for anything!

[drangues]

with atsushi being a he/they idea i like to think that anytime a client disrespect them bc of their identity kunikida has to stop dazai from punching the client ( even though kunikida 100% supports the idea if punching the client he doesn't want them to be irresponsible) so he makes sure thay after solving the case. dazai is able to do something a little mean mean to them and you know if they end up crying afterwards then yikes that seems like a personal problem.

also !! port mafia. a part of me wants to day mori ( surprisingly) respects atsushi's pronouns and identity. he actually like goes out his way to harm anyone that says any transphobic things because he's like " im might be fucking trash of a human being, but i too have bars that i won't stoop." and the atsushi uses that anytime a citizen is transphobic to him. " the port mafia leader respects my identity and other port mafia leaders and EVEN other people that have tried killing but you can't?" and he says it with such a deadpan look =-(((( they deserve better =-((

the worst part is loke atsushi is used to people invalidating him ( looks at orphanage) so when clients invalidate him he usually doesn't show thay it hurts. just takes it with stride but it hurrs yk and it sucks =-(((((((((((((((

but it's okay now since he has people thay cares for them and loves them and uses both of their pronouns (he/they) and just wouldn't change them for the world =-)))))

AAAAA PEOPLE BEING SUPPORTIVE Y E S it makes sense that mori respects that cus hes a Doctor so he must know basic biology. dazai being sneaky and getting revenge on people is my cup of T E A cus no atsushi, u shouldnt get used to people being trash