#skk too probably

[allshewhispers]

Dazai quickly changing the subject after failing to win Chuuya over with his flirting😭

[lotus-pear]

the fine people of bsd tumblr have asked for fem skk and i shall give it to them

[yuyonyu]

Gogol’s unrequited love

[attaiii]

i'm imagining chuuya curled up all dainty and warm in his expensive silk pajamas while snoring like a malfunctioning chainsaw in dazai's ear every night. dazai hasn't slept since whatever god forsaken day they started sharing a bed. he lies there with a pillow over his face every night and agonizes while chuuya shifts and honks like a goddamn foghorn

[nyxi-pixie]

okayyyy ive been meaning to talk about this moment forever because i think the way i see it differs from a lot of general fandom opinion.

for context, this is from the dhc section of the dead apple manga. skk are talking about an executive who just died and dazai makes a joke about it, prompting chuuya to deck him in the face and say nobody could believe dazais human. (believe, very importantly. not that he Isnt, just that its unbelievable).

humanity is a key theme to all of bsd, but its Very explicitly central to the skk dynamic. chuuya is an intensely human character in the way that he acts and thinks, and yet! between his ability and ofc the history in the lab, it still gets called into question.

(its pretty solid that our chuuyas the real one, but thats not the point here. sb being an exploration of what it means to be human and whether Actually Being One is all that important to what you are and do, through a Distinctly human character- Thats the point. How you are being more important than what you are.)

then we have dazai on the other hand, where what he is doesnt come into question at all. Even his ability, despite its name, isnt dehumanising to an outside eye, compared to chuuyas corruption or atsushis tiger for example that can take away from their control of themselves. its the how he is, in contrast to chuuya, that comes into question with dazai. he very consistently holds himself outside of humanity both implicitly (through self isolation - shipping container being an extreme example) and explicitly (dead apple dazai talking about humanity as an Outside Observer. he is Not including himself as one of them).

When we are encouraged to doubt his humanity, its dazai Telling us to. he deliberately poses himself as inhuman because he FEELS it. and the dhc moment to me has always felt like chuuya seeing through it and calling his bullshit. Dazais making light of a death to be a dick, to push chuuyas buttons, but also because hes got this constant need to present the worst possible version of himself.

actually if you look at the panels of him when hes talking about the guy being dead, just before he gets dramatic ridiculous exaggerated dazai about it, he doesnt seem to think of it so lightly

(smthn smthn dazai imposter syndrome. the need to deny any of his more human qualities because he feels they dont Fit him. and the links w his questions to atsushi at the beginning and end, his bs 'do i really seem like the type of guy to do x thing'.)

chuuya says hes acting inhuman, that his humanity isnt something people will believe because of the way he ACTS. and then chuuya does an example of his own Chuuya Humanity Act, an act of service for the people he cares about in the form of going to solve the situation himself. AND. ultimately, dazai ends up planning around this later to lead chuuya straight to him so the two of them can deal with it together.

skk pretty consistently ground eo to humanity. dazai through nullification/corruption, but outside of their abilities too (its the thought of dazai - more specifically, not thinking like him - that stops chuuya from killing N in stormbringer and denying verlaines assertion that he shouldnt have been born). and on the flipside, chuuya is part of the reason dazai doesnt khs during or after fifteen. dazais protecting people thing really starts out with chuuya. and again, chuuya makes it his business to call dazai on his shit. (even right the way back in chapter 31 of the main manga, we have that interaction over Q, with dazai saying he spared them only for self serving logical reasons, and chuuya saying he doesnt buy it).

this to me has always felt like part of that. its not 'youre not human', its 'the way you act makes it unbelievable that you are'. its an invitation to prove he is by doing something Real, something worth more than sleeping there til he dies.

and dazai does.

[villain-byteniwoha]

Oh sskk with their opposing black and white aesthetic (both in fashion and in ability), their parallel backstory, their shared loyalty to Dazai (who is canonically preparing them to become partners, mind you), their clashing ideals; the way Atsushi unearths the humane side of Akutagawa and how Akutagawa, in turn, nurtures Atsushi's rage.

The fact that they make each other hold on to their self-worth... So, so much of the text can be read as romantic, it's insane to me.

Akutagawa's ability is literally using his clothes as a weapon, and for him to be able to give Rashoumon at all while leaving himself bare to violence? Just so Atsushi, who's always had to beg for the pain to stop, who's just gained control over his damn ability to regenerate, can be armored—be stronger.

Tell me that's not a metaphor for vulnerability, I dare you. The inherent intimacy of giving someone your cloak to shelter them while you take the brunt of the harsh environment. The contentment of having the person you love, safe. (This is an ode to Chapter 88 btw in case you didn't notice.)

Like—there is something so raw about being someone's enemy. It is showing the worst parts of yourself (the anger, the self-worth issues) and knowing your other half will come back to you, regardless. It's feral and wild and uncontrollable; Akutagawa will bear his scars like they are the most tender love marks, and while Atsushi may heal, he will always know the pain of Akutagawa's claws.

Their abilities aside, they just click with each other, but they live with circumstances where that connection is (portrayed as) unwanted. BEAST is proof enough that they can bond over the horrors of their past, where others would not be able to comprehend them.

There's also, you know... Something something, Atsushi telling Akutagawa that he's more than what Dazai says. Akutagawa telling Atsushi he's stronger than his past. Something along those lines.

Something something I love you because I know no other way than this, where I does not exist nor you and all the other love sonnets in the world.

[shirtdraws]

The night you disappeared from the organization, I opened a bottle of Petrus 1889 to celebrate

After uhh nine months (?) I bring more ada!chuuya content, woo!

[evilkaeya]

Sometimes I think I'm being dramatic but then I remember Dazai dropped the L word ONE DAY after meeting Chuuya

[rosesapphire2323]

latest on Yokohama, APPARENTLY:

mori won his bitch-off against fukuchi over fukuzawa by sitting around and doing nothing and has been awol since the actual apocalypse started, fyodor dostoevsky is a certified Eldritch Horror™ and is trying to end the world via a four-dimensional ceiling fan, shin soukuko adopted a child because bram said so but nobody tell atsushi yet he's dealing with The Horrors, ango needs a raise, ranpo officially escaped certain death YET AGAIN and would've ended the war through the power of Gay and his American Boyfriend Poe's Ability™ if fyodor wasn't a crafty rat, sigma is, in fact, the key to world peace which checks out, you can achieve world peace in casino, and dazai is apparently the only one who can kill Bram's sole competitor for 'who's the oldest?' game.

[human-adjacent]

so confused why there’s people insisting that dazai couldn’t have known about chuuya’s trick until the elevator scene or until he shot him because like…are we talking about the same dazai here?? the same guy who says shit like this

there’s no way he’d be fooled, he knows the real chuuya too well. idk if he knew chuuya would come to meursault but once he showed up dazai definitely saw through the entire act immediately

[whennoodlesformwords]

One SKK Order (Medieval AU) for the counter

friend of mine went on about how they were recently watching youtube instead of homework (mood) and watching videos like how medical school through medieval times were like and how to train falcons

they also like skk, so im like screw it, we combine them all

may i offer (idk if this is actually historically accurate but we ball):

Falconeer chuuya and Medieval Medical Student dazai

now tbf i cant remember a whole lot of details given (i don't think a lot were mentioned either but we'll come back to it later maybe) but imagine

dazai, studying in his medical school tower, stumbling upon this stray falcon that perches on his windowsill (did they have windows or open stone arcs?) and just kinda looks at him, almost pressuring him to complete his anatomy diagrams or whatever, and dazai keeps staring at it head empty and then goes back to his work until all of a sudden a call comes out the window

its as horrible as a falcon screech and when dazai looks out to tell whoever it is to shut up he's met with a face full of feathers bc apparently the falcon doesn't wanna leave him and now that they're both kinda dangling out the window the voice turned from screeches to actual human speech (figures, its another person instead of some random falcon or half-falcon figure, dazai didn't know what he was expecting) and at a small whistle, the falcon leaves and now he can see a figure out a ways away from the castle wearing what seems to be lots of black and tan, but he can't quite make it out

he watches the falcon fly back, then watches as the person and bird seem to do more training, and dazai loses himself marvelling in the circles the falcon flies in, and after a while the whistles and calls don't seem as shrill, and he turns back to his work, only noticing the pair had left when he can't hear anymore sounds, and not being able to find the strangely clad figure anymore

que the event happening a few more times, and dazai eventually watches for so long at some point that he follows the person walking into the treeline off of the school's property

boldly, the next time the falcon alights on his window, he gives it a piece of meat (he didn't want to feed it yet, so it was more apt to say he chucked it at the poor bird and the falcon caught it) and after a while he gets the falcon's trust enough to give it a piece of paper before it has to leave and delivers it to the falconeer (the contents were indeed quite interesting, he thinks)

the next day, the falcon arrives with another piece of paper, saying 'don't you dare poach my bird you *curse curse curse* and don't give it paper to eat, you may thrive on a diet of fiber but birds actually need protein u *curse curse*

over time, the back and forth goes for days as dazai learns more about the person in the fields, while telling more about himself, and the falcon keeps delivering their messages consistently

it keeps going until finally, dazai sneaks out to meet the mysterious falconeer, and....

[xlillyle]

FMABeast master post

This is a master post to gather everything about @caelanglang’s and I’s FMA AU with Beast SKK!

Cae and I are collabbing on a big fic/art project with Beast SKK as Royai from FMA in the FMA world! It generally follows the canon plot, but we sprinkled lots of extras in there and it includes our own post-canon version, too! Right now it is a big work in progress, but we wanna share snippets and sneak peeks here and there and hope you all look forward to it :)

This post will contain all those snippets, but you can find us generally talking about this AU under the fmabeast au tag!

Cae’s art sneak peeks: 1

Lilly’s writing snippets: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

[leftoverbriocheloaf]

Recently I read a fic where 2 ppl fake dated to try and get over their hopeless crushes but it was all in one friend group so it was messy and dramatic as hell and I didn't know I lived for the drama but apparently I do

And now I need to write one but i can't decide who to do it with because it could be like ranpo w a crush on dazai trying to date poe to get over him but it could also be poe and dazai with crushes on ranpo who decide that ranpo isnt ever going to date them so they might as well date each other

Or chuuya w a crush on dazai and poe w a crush on ranpo who date each other bc they're both 100% certain that their crushes are unrequited

And then theres do they actually get together or do they end up dating who they wanted to date after a whole dramatic plotline or do they defy odds and go poly 😭

[drlqra]

free matching couple skk profile picture yay or nay?

[astralspen]

I have kept this in my brain for like a month now and I can't fight the voices that say to spit it out anymore. Under the cut is a stupid long rant about how I view skks relationship is. The TLDR would be I see them as two people who dance around and near eachother constantly, yet never meet.

Ok to get more into this, I mean that they express their every feeling through actions. They move perfectly in sync, their thoughts lining up with the other perfectly, where one can't succeed the other does so with ease, they don't speak about anything, they just act on what the others actions tells them. The thing is, they're still dancing around the other. They don't move to the other to do a full on partner dance, holding the other in their arms as they guide each other. They never allow any distance to close, never fully unguard themselves, never allow the other to come close. So, they stare from opposite ends of the stage, moving in sync, yet never touching. To add on to that, it's like they're in a masquerade too. They have masks on, false faces and personalities to conceal their true selves. Even when around the other and alone, I don't think the mask is ever truly off. Their actions say one thing, but the voice and faces say another. Sometimes, they see little cracks, imperfections in the others act, yet those are patched up as quickly as they were seen. They care but they pretend they don't. Their actions, the way the move around each other, screams that they want to be close, that they want to show every last bit of themselves to the other. Yet, when they look at each other, the mask is still on, they still have their manufactured personalities. Sure, they see the less used personalities, the ones that tend to expose some truth, that tend to create cracks in their facade, yet never is it gone. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that they read each other perfectly like an open book, but since they never speak about it, never talk about what they see in the cracks or the others actions, they never reveal themselves. They are stuck orbiting around each other, never meeting, yet always there in view of the other. Both want, neither takes. Whether that is out of fear, defensiveness, protectiveness, something else, or some combination of several, neither of them ever really try to meet each other. Or take off the masks. Perhaps Chuuya does sometimes, but he is still holding himself back. Dazai straight up doesn't try, but he does fight internally with himself about it.

[wtowingedtragicobsidian]

“They don’t like you, Dazai. You’re useful and they don’t know how shitty of a person you are. That’s not the same thing.”

“No Chuuya I really think they like me~” Dazai hoped he had sufficiently masked the strain in his voice. Unfortunately, if anyone would be able to notice, it was Chuuya.

“Then tell me Dazai what would happen if you stopped being useful? If your ability just vanished and you cut out all the emotion manipulation bullshit and really let them see you? All of you? Do you think they’d stick around after they knew what you’ve done? Who you are?” Chuuya didn’t sound angry, or even annoyed. Just tired and honest, too honest.

“They’re good people, they wouldn’t leave me.” Despite his best efforts Dazai felt his voice breaking.

“Yeah. Yeah, you’re right, they are good people. That’s exactly why they would have to leave.” Chuuya condoled, nothing accusatory in his tone. It was almost fond. “Look at yourself Osamu, you’re hardly a person and you certainly aren’t good.”