#kunikida is punk

[foreverfreebsd]

Imagine Atsushi's shock when he meets Kunikida outside of work.

Tigerboy is walking down the street, thoughtfully looking at his feet, when he suddenly hears the jingling of some chains and badges. And he sees Kunikida, whom he knows: piercings in several places in his ears, a black biker jacket and ripped jeans, all with stripes. On his feet are something like ankle boots or Converse, he himself is wearing a lot of leather and iron jewelry. He would have to take a long time to explain to Atsushi. A very long time.

[littencloud9]

asagiri hasnt given us kunikida’s backstory because 16!kunikida would be the biggest rebel with piercings and an undercut and leather jackets and the world’s not ready to handle that yet

[starlightshadowsworld]

In Anne’s Room

Atsushi: Is Kunikida okay? I mean he’s not okay but is he…good?

Yosano: Beats me he’s been screaming into a pillow since he got here. It’s kind of impressive to be honest.

Katai: It’s because one of the Hunting Dogs told him he would make a good solider.

Kunikida screams in punk

Atsushi: Wait you can understand him?

Katai: Yup.

Yosano: He shouldn’t get so worked up about it. We all know he would make a terrible soilder

Atsushi: Yeah he follows the President but I can’t imagine him following anyone else. Pretty sure he’d overthrow the government if they took him in.

Yosano: For sure.

Kunikida stood screaming and looks at them all teary eyed.

Kunikida: You mean it?

All: Of course.

[hoicacti]

I want Kunikida to schedule a day where the ADA doesn't have to dress business casual(although I do believe they don't have a dress code, but shhh. Bendjng my own stuff for this idea) and then just come in with a full punk look

[timefospookies]

teenagers

[nonbinary-akutagawa]

Punk Kunikida 🫶🏼

[knightpetrichor]

atsushi is emo, akutagawa is goth, and kunikida is punk. thats it thats the post.

[leniisreallycool]

I need to see a fic where Kunikida meets his favorite heavy metal band (the ADA was hired to bodyguard them because death threats) and just openly goes into insane fangirl mode and the band looks to Dazai like "you look semi normal hELP"

[kaurwreck]

the blunt, all or nothing, dichotomous approach to characterizing kunikida as prim and obedient for his probity and obsessive adherence to structure as his means for kettling the parts of himself too untethered to leave unchecked IS very silly and falls apart against canon like an overworked block of dry melamine foam.

but, like, the insistence that he must be punk because he speaks colloquially, brazenly withholds deference to quite literally everyone who isn't capable of either throwing him to the ground or discerning the truth of all matters with preternatural acuity, and disdains authority is also a blunt, all or nothing, dichotomous approach to characterization.

like, punk fanon Kunikida is not a retort to staid fanon Kunikida. they are both package-dealing in the Ayn Rand use of the phrase: whether punk or prep, both fail to discriminate crucial differences between Kunikida's character and the stock characters to which fanon attaches his name.

Kunikida's rigidity in adhering to his self defined, self evaluated, and self-imposed virtues is not remotely the same as legalism. Kunikida fucking anguishes over whether he is sincere and unfaltering in his ideals. (see: Jouno taunting him + his unbridled fear that he is internally hollow and the ideals holding him aloft are not the substance of deeply held convictions but hot air fueled by his loved ones for whom he is only puffing his chest and performing someone capable of carrying them, and without whom he lacks the spirit to fill that space within him where a greater man might have cultivated a spine, such that he will sink, sink, sink to crumple shapelessly to the ground, liberated from artifice only when there isn't anyone there to lighten the weight of his leaden ego, his isolation as common as the dirt coating his tongue, his transcendence precluded by the cruelty with which reality disfigured his instinct for goodness into a desire for power and empty glory until his soul, still gnashing on the rot of those he couldn't save, starved.)

In other words: his ideals can't be performed or externally enforced. They must be internally cultivated, coaxed into bloom through introspection, their flowering petals manifestations of his deepest feelings. otherwise, he is nothing but hot air and tepid flesh.

except he's not! because while his faith is faint and his body easily crushed beneath the weight of external forces with little regard for love, sincerity, and labor; his body can't feed his ideals anymore than his ideals could feed his body. His ideals can't fill his belly like meat and potatoes or expand his hollow heart like a hot air balloon because, unlike matter, his ideals are intangible. They do not occupy any space or time, and reality can't crush or despoil what it can't grasp, and it can't grasp what doesn't exist by its own laws. It's not that Kunikida's ideals grapple with his reality; nor can his reality erode his ideals. There's nothing to contradict everything, so everything persists.

Kunikida can't trust that he isn't empty, but nothing is emptiness, and his ideals are nothing, so absent inherent faith, absent substance in the yawning void within him, Kunikida nevertheless has his ideals. He has courage, sincerity, love, truth, and labor, not despite his emptiness, but because his emptiness is as conceptual as his ideals; he can't eat concepts but nor can concepts ever be rendered inert — inertia relates only to matter and the material world, which emptiness, nothing, ideals, concepts transcend. They can't be stripped of power, and there isn't any power anyone could exert over them because power is a measure of effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time — mathematically, if linear, power is the quotient of force multiplied by the displacement of an object, divided by time. There is no object, there's only nothing, and nothing is mathematically represented by zero, which, when multiplied and then divided, is unchanged. It works if power is rotational instead of linear too; there, it's the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time. again, 0, unchanged.

(Keeping in mind that I have dyscalculia and I am shit at mathematical logic, zero can be both a real and imaginary number, Kunikida's skill is batshit and he doesn't really see it as anything other than convenient. He essentially renders concepts into tangible reality. Like, that's his skill: he conceptualizes something that he's seen rendered tangible before, and then by jotting down its name on a page which is matter, he assigns nothing, 0, a finite point in infinity, and it becomes matter that exists within reality. This is why his notebook can be filled and replaced or destroyed or cut to shreds. The physical notebook isn't his ideals, it's just full of ideals, which he manifests by writing down his intangible thoughts and introspection so that he might then assign them a finite point in himself as the tangible embodiment of his ideals.)

(In Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam, Kunikida defines his skill by its limitations, which prevent it from the seemingly undefined, limitless capacity that Dazai possesses. But, like, could Kunikida theoretically create a finite time singularity— which is what happens when time is defined and divided by zero? It's cute that he was studying mathematics and sciences.)

His body can't house his ideals because emptiness, nothing, ideals, concepts, perhaps even faith do not occupy any space. They can't be created or destroyed, only conceptualized, and, when embraced and cultivated by someone grounded enough to recognize that his ideals can't be, manifested in the physical act of jumping out of a helicopter to blow up a militarized cop.

Nothing can't be confronted by everything, and everything can't suffocate nothing. Reality can't erode what its own laws have rendered nothing. his ideals, like he himself, are ungovernable.

but he buys an artisan notebook from a craftsman who only makes 100 each year; he's not punk, he's just abrasive, doesn't extend respect unearned, and his writing was marked in his use of colloquial language. he's also wildly pretentious. he's so patronizing; he is mommy, where's that aesthetic for him. he doesn't need doc martens; he needs multiple child leashes.

anyway. punk fanon Kunikida is the same overworked block of dry melamine foam as staid fanon Kunikida, just flipped over. his apparent contradictions dont need to be reconciled or discarded; nothing and everything are in unity as opposites that overlap and exist/don't exist within him, around him, and through him, regardless of him, and only because of him.

like, obviously, do what you want and have fun. I don't really care; i just like babbling about kunikida, and i crave substance. also like. strip your respect from authority figures who haven't earned it. correct your teachers/professors/mentors. disappoint your parents. contribute to the inherent tension between individual freedom and authority. it's good for you. you don't even have to join a counterculture submovenent to do it, you can argue with your therapist at any time. do it for him.

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Aaaagh I was inspired by some punk Kunikida headcanons I saw (I think from StarlightShadowsWorld???? Idk their url tbh)

So I drew him (this is literally the best time I’ve ever drawn Kunikida- he’s so hard to draw :( )

Also a Femzai as a treat

I put her in my own fit (I didn’t actually wear the fit, but that’s what I planned to wear)

[foreverfreebsd]

THERE ARE SO MUCH PUNK KUNIKIDA HEADCANONS.

[pretty-oooodd]

BSD men with a punk s/o!!

Featuring: Dazai, Chūya, Atsushi, Ranpo, Kunikida, Akutagawa, Sigma, Fyodor, Nikolai.

TW/CW: no tw, this is a fluff "domestic" one. Mention of tattoos, piercings. Let me know if you want me to add more (bc I'm not really practical with tws).

Enjoy <3!!

DAZAI is the kind of guy that's always been interested in these kinds of subcultures, especially punk, but he didn't really had the reasons or will to get into it.

He likes the trash pants, the one full of patches, chains and tears.

But his absolute favorites are the skinny ones full of tears, with fishnets underneath them.

He's a big tease, so he would really have fun poking the holes in his s/o's clothes. Especially the ones on their tights.

You have tattoos? Cool, give him sharpies (Crayola ones) and he'll color your tats.

Piercing on your lips? He'll make sure to lick it when he kisses you.

Ow come on, our buddy CHŪYA is a punk soul.

Argue with the wall.

He listens to punk music with his HEART.

And kinda likes the clothing, he just prefers his elegant attire.

So, if his s/o is punk he will love it. Absolutely admire you for your style and strong ideals, bc let's not forget what punk is abt!!

If you have tattoo sleeves, especially flowers, he STANS.

Nose piercings and studs lover here. He himself wants a nose piercing.

If you wear the same size clothes, he maybe steal something from your closet.

Would probably bring you to a concert.

ATSUSHI is so soft and probably doesn't like studs but he would never offend you ^^

He wasn't really interested or educated on this community before meeting you.

He learned the lace code just for you!!

Doesn't really understand and like the music, but supports you and everything you like!

He LOVES your tattoos! He thinks they are so cool.

If you have piercings he will make sure to learn how to clean them and help you with it.

RANPO thinks that your style is interesting but doesn't really mind it.

If you're a messy, chaotic person, you will get along.

If you have one of those wonderful haircuts like Mohawks or just bright hair color he will absolutely love it.

Likes playing with your hair and coloring your tattoos.

The patches in your pants and vests are his favorite parts.

Doesn't listen much music in general, so punk isn't really his problem anyway.

LMAOOO, HOW???

I still haven't understood what's KUNIKIDA's "ideal woman".

Btw, he isn't a fan of punk or these cultures in general but likes you anyway.

Considers tattoos and piercings (everything abt this style) "unprofessional".

And he will tell you but there's nothing he can do abt it.

We stan a punk monarch.

Will always be the one to remember you to clean and treat your tats and piercings.

Kinda likes the dedication you put into styling your own clothes and hair.

And he likes the fact that the community expresses its ideals too.

Bro doesn't care.

Lord give him two shits to give pls.

Jkjk, AKUTAGAWA kinda likes the "aggressive" style.

He's into the metal music probably idk.

Likes the studs and boots with platforms.

Likes to sew the patches on your vests and pants.

Piercings like nose bridge are his absolute favorites!!

You shaved your eyebrows for him, how sweet.

He's an introvert but the moshpit would be his natural habitat, just to let the rage out.

Poor man, SIGMA got scared the first time he saw you.

He doesn't fully understand the "use" or "meaning" of this style but he's learning.

Not a fan of the music but loves you, so he will listen something if you ask him.

He likes your tattoos, as he thinks of them as a form of art that makes you unique.

Piercings aren't his thing tho. Really doesn't understand them but loves earrings.

You two probably have some matching sets of earrings.

He finds punks intimidating but in a good way.

HOW PT. 2?????? WHAT?

I mean, I think FYODOR's kinda into metal and goth things but punk???

Punk really isn't his thing.

Doesn't like piercings, idk.

But tats are a form of art for him, just like painting.

He appreciates your dedication to the ideals even if he doesn't fully agree sometimes.

His favorite parts of your outfits are the boots!

He probably likes your hair too, bc they're particular.

Doesn't like the concerts so he won't come with you.

He probably looks cool af in a leather jacket with studs.

NIKOLAI is a biiig tease.

He likes to play with your hair and piercings.

He's the prime example of man child: give him sharpies and he will color your tats gladly.

Probably wants to get a piercing just like his s/o!!

He dies your hair. You have no escape from this.

Skinny jeans fan!!

Nikolai isn't really into punk music but likes early 2000s emo culture (early Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy).

My boy will torment you if you don't let him try your clothes on.

[starlightshadowsworld]

I have this idea of Punk Kunikida who wears his canon outfit to work but dresses punk outside the office.

And just the Agency dealing with a domestic violence case or a child abuse case, something along those lines. And Kunikida showing up in full punk attire to intimidate the preparators to get them to talk.

Kunikida knows they’ll take one look at his professional attire and dismiss him entirely. So he will show up to the case, to court dressed to the nines.

Piercings. Rings. Studded boots. Battle jacket with his notebook tucked inside. Sleeves rolled up to show his tattoos.

Kunikida knows exactly how perceptions of him shift dressed like this. And it’s exactly why he does it. It scares them because they learn very quickly Kunikida is not to be messed with.

The best part is, is that he’s not playing a part he’s just bringing himself to work.

In the early days Katai, Ranpo and Yosano would tease him for being a guard dog. But sometimes it was truly what they needed.Kunikida would be standing by the doors of the court house, arms folded and eyes blazing.

No one gets through these doors unless he allows it.

It was a surprise to Kunikida that many victims were fine with him being there dressed like this. In fact many preferred it because they felt safe with him.

Someone willing and ready to do anything to keep them safe who could scare their attackers.

The kids felt the same, the little ones would stare at him in awe and Kunikida would crouch down so they could inspect his jacket.

He’d get into conversations with teens about music and put his jacket around them as a sign they were safe

Because that’s who Kunikida is, whatever his outside appearance may show he is a protector

[caffeiiine]

should be catching up on art requests today!!!!!

[lnkedmyheart]

The way the fandom views kunichuu is so funny to me like you gotta swap the personalities a little. Kunikida may seek order in his personal life but despises authority, and Chuuya for all his punk aesthetic needs an ordered system with clearly marked leadership dynamic to thrive in.

[delphiniumarchangelmoon]

Me: I need to work on my recostuming posts

The demon in my brain: but what if. Fae au. Or non-detective au. Or-

Me, straying the demon with a water bottle: ONE THING AT A TIIIIMEEEE