#oda's orphans

[sunsetsushiii]

BEAST Chuuaku with the orphans

Yes, I counted them all. (Soccer team.)

There's actually 15 of them... I just checked...

Had to check the manga for reference. (Some of the kids designs are random.)

[choosinganamebrokeme-notagain]

now how did this happen ... ฅ⁠^⁠•⁠ﻌ⁠•⁠^⁠ฅ

[hannigramislife]

If you think about it in a certain way...Beast Dazai had a ton of faith in Beast Akutagawa. He really jumped off a roof and left the world he carefully constructed and dedicated his entire life to in Akutagawa's hands — 'cuz let's face it, Beast Atsushi is so traumatized, man can't make a decision for himself to save his life. Like, Beast Dazai got Atsushi out of the Mafia and sent him to therapy, meanwhile Akutagawa may or may not have a corruption-crazy Chuuya to fight in the near future.

[carbonateds-oda]

oda is so fucking funny this man rlly said “oh right there’s a child next to me. I cannot possibly smoke in front of them.” while he was walking said child to a fucking bar, all in hopes to temporarily stop him from committing suicide mind u

[1bringthesun]

what a lot of bsd fans, especially the younger ones, don’t understand is why or under what circumstances characters are described as “childish.”

it’s always a slap in the face when i see someone say, “oh, Oda called Dazai a ‘crying child,’ and people still ship them? obviously he’s his father figure!”

i’m not gonna argue against the fact Oda could have been some sort of authoritative, caring, older, responsible guy to Dazai, but under no circumstances do i think Oda saw Dazai as a kid.

as far as BSD goes, Oda is one of the most respectful characters to other people’s perceptions of themselves. hell, he didn’t even see his orphans as children. he had a convo with one of the em in dark era that went something like this:

“It’s always so upsetting when Pops treats us like children. We’re not kids, y’know? We’re adults. Is the fact that we grew up so fast an issue for the grown-ups?”

“Mhm, it probably is.”

so, if Oda doesn’t see a literal eight-year-old as a child simply because he knows how mature he is, what makes people think he’d see Dazai of all people as one…?

the reason Oda described Dazai as wearing the expression of “a child about to cry” has nothing to do with his age or his maturity- it’s because there’s a distinct difference in the way adults and children cry.

when adults cry, it’s with the knowledge that they’re not the only one suffering. that the world isn’t against them, but instead, they probably got themselves into a bad situation. when children cry, it’s free from rationalization and logic, just pure unadulterated agony at something that may not even matter in the grand scheme of things.

it’s not that Dazai is dumb, can’t understand that the world doesn’t revolve around him, or seems like a kid to Oda, it’s that the chasm in his heart transcends the normal despair of what you’d expect to see in a grown-up. it’s the same flavor of raw pain that you can see a child display when something doesn’t go their way, the same blindness to anything outside of their own point of view.

Dazai looked like “a child on the brink of tears” because while walking into the outstretched gun of a sniper, he could only see his own abysmal emptiness.

Oda also described Mori as having a child-like grin or something of the sort, so if he sees Dazai as a kid because of that, i’m going to claim he saw the boss of the mafia who happens to be double his age as a kid, too.

this is just something that has been on my mind, especially since i’ve been seeing an influx of Oda dad content. everyone’s entitled to their own opinions and headcanons, of course, but it admittedly grates on me when people get attacked for something stupid like this, and since the tumblr bsd community seems to be forgiving, i’m talking about it here.

[wiwiurikawa]

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[seratlantisite]

The way learning about the vinsmokes and sanji's childhood re-contextualized so much about him hit me like a truck and i still reel when i remember that feeling

"You can die for your pride if you want, but listen - if you eat and survive, won't that give you the opportunity to fight for pride truly worth having?"

"Give up your ambition and live!"

"When he's fighting, he's not afraid of anything. Not even death."

These three lines stick out to me the most when thinking about sanji, but also the progression of these three lines too. Sanji says that first line to a starving man and it's sensible, it's wise. Live to fight another day, and all that. And the second line seems reasonable too, on its own. Why throw your life away when you know you won't win? It is a waste. But it also clashes with the heart of the scene - of zoro putting his life on the line for his dream. If this fight is the ultimate goal of zoro's ambitions, the point of his whole life, how can he just walk away? Because this is the thesis of the series - that extraordinary dreams are worth risking it all. Luffy says himself, with a smile on his face, that if he dies chasing his dream then he'll die. At least he tried. So how can sanji be a main character in a show about chasing dreams if he won't risk anything?

It's because the vinsmokes are still holding him back.

Of course sanji has this mentality, that when danger arises he has to keep his head down and survive until he reaches a mythical someday when everything will be fine. That's what got him through the hell of the first eight years of his life. Things will be better later, just hold on for now.

But the thing with humans is we take our worst days and burn them in to our memories so if they happen again we can survive them again. No matter how much time passes. "Give up your ambition and live" is good advice for a bad situation, but Sanji couldn't see he didn't need it anymore. He's been stuck in that mentality for years even after breaking free of the life where he needed it every single day. And zeff didn't know how to make him see that.

But luffy could show him. And zeff could sit with his son and watch what it was like to live without fear.

[fractorian]

Father Oda

Father Oda had many children

Many children had Father Oda <3

The desire to be adopted by him is getting stronger by the second.

[pinkisacreativecolour]

Asagiri really just. Won’t let a kid and father-ish figure duo be happy. Will he.

[raddestrose]

but like why does he beef with kids so much

[sunsetsushiii]

Oda and the orphans, with the kotatsu

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Hot take, but I don’t think Odasaku would be a good father.

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

BLOCKED

[tochugesya]

anyone up for the buraiha and ada og 3 role reversal au

[rosalinesurvived]

Very Mori of Dazai to arrange for the murder of the girl Kunikida had a crush on btw.

[wiwiurikawa]

oda & children

Who also thinks that they planned sneak attack for him in heaven?