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I love seeing Kyouka and Akutagawa's interactions in Dead Apple. Sure, they don't seem particularly fond of one another, but their interactions with each other are still interesting.

I like this line, here:

Before Atsushi could ask him to clarify, Akutagawa said, "Kyouka... with your assassination skills, you could easily kill me, now that neither of us has our abilities." "..." But Kyouka didn't reply to his taunts, and Akutagawa smirked at her expressionless face. "What's wrong? I thought you wanted to cut ties with me once and for all?"

its kind of personal? its not cutting the ties with the Mafia, its cutting ties with him specifically. i also can't help but wonder if he's a little bitter kyouka has also now betrayed the mafia to go join the agency like dazai but i don't believe they were close enough for that to have much of an impact beyond recognizing the repeated pattern itself.

but also, later,

"Because he has information... and we can use the Port Mafia's secret passage, Kyouka replied in a matter-of-fact tone. "And most importantly, he'll be a powerful asset in battle once he gets his skill back. Our goal is the same: Eliminate Shibusawa."

There's no if. I'll always love Kyouka's bluntness. She's fully confident Akutagawa will defeat Rashomon and regain his ability, without a doubt. They clearly have a certain level of respect for each other's abilities (Akutagawa conceding that Kyouka could easily kill him) if not respect for one another as people. The way Kyouka's mafia history is acknowledged throughout Dead Apple will always be interesting to me in general because it keeps proving useful but she keeps clearly hating it, poor girl. It all comes back to the grey morality of bsd, but I could go on and on forever about that.

Especially knowing Dead Apple has to happen relatively soon after Kyouka joins the Agency, its so interesting to see kind of where everyone lies with it. Technically speaking, as far as we know, nobody has really betrayed the Mafia so openly and been able to tell the tale afterwards since Dazai. (I don't count Ango since he had inherent use as a cross-agent.)

I just love Kyouka in general I should talk about her more. Akutagawa too for that matter.

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dead apple and the way it forces those that struggle with their abilities to come to terms with them

kyoka seeing demon snow as an enemy

atsushi fearing the tiger

and how it forces others to be more than just their abilities. like akutagawa. who needs needs Needs to be more than his ability and its so good for him

hopefully I can make more coherent posts on the relationships with abilities dead apple allows later but ohhhhhh. i remember why i watched dead apple on loop back when i first saw it

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y'know how before the ada has to deal with the mafia, in theory dazai gave the ada a rundown on the ability users of the mafia to watch out for, right? including chuuya

imagine like, talking about stories from the mafia or something in the ada, dazai offhand mentions something about having had to work together to 'beat up chuuya's weird older brother' or something. just, super drive-by sort of mention

but the ada is like... "nakahara has a brother???" because, holy shit, if one of the most dangerous members of the mafia has a big brother, how dangerous is said big brother?

but the only other person there that's ever met verlaine is kyoka, right? but she met him after he shunned himself off to the basement to train assassins.

and with her typical Kyoka background levels of Haunted in her voice just kind of mentions "he... isn't a very happy man." or something

and like. maybe the rest of the ada imagines 'unhappy' as in kind of quick-to-anger and grumpy like chuuya, but even he can have a laugh with the ada now and then.

but no, verlaine's unhappy in a way only people who've lost someone dear to them in front of their eyes can be unhappy.

and the people there in the ada that (as far as we know right now) can relate to that feeling? are the people that have met verlaine. dazai and kyoka. and i think the mood would shift for a little bit in there for a while before dazai cracks some joke to break the odd tension that forms.

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Kyouka chan for the ask game :DD

kyouka!!!! i love her SO much. she fully deserves to get to bite and kill and maim, but i don't think she wants to do that anymore. i wish only the best for her forever

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THERE SHE IS!!!

i think i've made too many angstable posts in a row, let me post something happy

[shuffling my thoughts like note cards] there's gotta be somethin happy in here

uh. hmm

kyoka exists?