#what is BSD even about at this point

[entertxinmyfaith]

The fact that bungou stray dogs readers were confronted with a semi-graphic panel of a character being impaled in the eye via a sword through the back of his skull this week but, rather than being horrified, everyone just breathed a collective sigh of relief cause at least the panel also finally confirmed that the character being skewered was in fact just a regular sex freak all along and not an incestuous one…

Really makes you think.

[zinniapetals]

seeing how Atsushi was in the orphanage his whole life, I bet he went absolutely crazy for train stamps; like taking Ranpo out to the train and noticing the stamp booth and asking 'whats that?' and Ranpo explaining the system and Atsushi immediately buying a notebook to get his first stamp! (he downloads the app for the local line stamps which offer digital stamps) then him freaking out that the metro does stamps as well?? cue him always agreeing to go out with Ranpo and the other Agency members taking him along and bringing a page of the train stamp if they ever leave Yokohama without him

[sadlynotthevoid]

Since I saw that post about og!Cale solving a murder crime in Alberu's noble meeting, I've been obsessed with detective!ogCale, who solves crimes on his free time because he's too fucking bored.

Hence: bungo stray dogs crossover AU where, while a transmigrated RokSoo and company go around doing the usual "let's mess with white star" stuff, og!Cale got basically adopted by a bunch of weird professional detectives.

I'm talking about an AU where bsd happens in the world of tboah/tcf. So, while a member of the agency was going through the county for reasons, they witness og!Cale stealthy dropping a hint about a mystery to a near knight. Then he leaves, pretending to be drunk all the way to his home.

What everyone else sees is the local drunkard ready to cause trouble at the minor inconvenience.

What the detective in question sees is a very bright teen, good at solving crimes, who has nothing to do but pretend to be drunk. Needless to say, they take Cale back with them.

(It could be anyone, but it's most likely to be Dazai if they just take Cale with them and don't tell anyone. Though, I think it would be funny if it was Kenji the one who did it. Double-way adoption ensues)

Og!Cale is puzzled at how he ended up at the Armed Detective Agency as a recruit, but he doesn't complain. He even likes his job and his coworkers, even if Dazai keeps trying to unalive himself.

Besides, he doesn't have to keep with his trash act here. Everyone here is smart enough to tell he's acting. They're detectives, damn it. It would be strange if they didn't notice.

So, freedom.

And the ADA people like him too. This quite quirky, smart, witty and creative teen fits just right with them.

At some point, Ranpo has to tell him that "no, you're not smart. You're really smart. Not as much as me, although" because og!Cale's hypercompetence is normalized for him and sometimes he doesn't realize that "everyone else hasn't reach to that conclusion yet" when talking with normal people.

Fukuzawa looks at this sassy child and is like "I guess I got yet another son". Because, why would the hella rich son of some noble be so happy to join a group of strangers and do all this hard job? You can say he obviously loves his family from the way he talks about them, but he also brights up at the minor genuine act of care. It's concerning. Not urgent, but still concerning. He's keeping him. He's eighteen, legally an adult, and came on his own will. So, It's not a kidnapping.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Well, at least Fukuzawa got his wish granted, I guess.... he's finally inside Fukuchi <3

[kyouka-supremacy]

That time I was showing my cousin the Oda death scene and as a light-hearted, thoughtless question she asked me why Dazai threw away his coat and I answered without hesitation “that's to symbolize how he's repudiating everything he's ever known for Oda”. I still stand by that

[lady-shadow-and-darkness]

Listen, Listen, I'm aware that Chuuya is an amazing character and doesn't get enough screentime in the manga, but : we quite literally haven't seen characters like Kouyou, Gin, Lucy, Naomi, Yosano in ages. And Chuuya has an entire light novel dedicated to him, not to mention he is a part of the main plot of fifteen.

Aside from Naomi and Yosano, who are ADA members (who we haven't seen in a while as well), the other three are locked in Asagiri's basement and no one is talking about them.

[sskk-manifesto]

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[zukkaoru]

i think. everyone should stop reading my most popular fics that aren't really that good and start reading the ones with 18 kudos that are significantly better

[starrcatz]

starrcat often receives gifts from those in the districts they often patrol. they can be pretty much anything, some are friendship bracelets, some are rocks that young children have given them. no matter what the time is, starr has a dedicated shelf in their room where every single thing that has ever been gifted to them is carefully organized.

often times at night, starrcat stares at the trinkets while unable to rest. every small offering reminds them of why they do what they do, and it helps keep them motivated.

one specific trinket that starr remembers receiving, was from a young girl who they had saved from a robbery. she was the only one home at the time of the attack, which starr figured out once they had already apprehended the criminal. the little girl had been sobbing by the time they had made their way to her.

starrcat remembers how she clung to them as if her life depended on it. starr just sat there until the girl calmed a bit, not moving an inch, only offering slow, soothing, motions on her back.

once they assumed she had fallen asleep, as it was past midnight at that point, they carefully searched for her room before tucking her in the plush covers.

just as starr was walking away from her bed, the girl reached a tiny hand out from the covers and handed starr a minuscule keychain. the keychain had a small pink bow on it.

starr isn’t quite sure why that one item held such a significant placeholder in their mind, but they find themselves gravitating towards it every now and then. some days they choose to clip it onto their sweatshirt before heading off to patrol the streets.

the civilians truly are what make every scratch, bruise and dangerous part of their job worth it in the end.

[nemomo]

just noticed dazai 2k24 and greeny (the old oc in my profile pic which i drew circa 2019) have quite similar haircut. funny thing, the expression is also almost the same

[keithbutgay]

ok this is totally random and a complete guess

but

dazai has bandages over his eye when hes working for the port mafia

but not at the ada

so

um

i assume theres like a plot reason why

my only guess is that at some point before season 1 he got injured badly while working for the ada and yosano used her ability on him and that healed it?

and if so

how far does her ability go?

like

that would mean it can heal old wounds

can it fully like regenerate limbs and stuff like that?

OOH OKAY

so. this is never actually explained. we know he started wearing bandages (over his eye and also all over his body) after a suicide attempt that mori saved him from, and we only see the eye bandages when he's in the mafia (explained in the manga and also in beast)

we also know that it's taken as a metaphor (when oda dies he pulls off dazai's eye bandages, and this is to represent him being taken out of the dark and into the light aka the agency)

and for some background on yosano and dazai- yosano can regenerate limbs as far as we know however she doesn't fix scars and other various older wounds for plot reasons so it's unclear whether or not she can do that

also, since dazai's ability nullifies hers, she doesn't heal him like ever because she would have to fully kill him first. this does happen once canonically in one of the light novels but his heart had stopped and she had like a fraction of a second to bring him back

now for my personal headcanon: dazai is blind in one eye from an old injury from the very attempt that brought him into the mafia. my reasoning:

1. whenever he fights with someone he trusts, they're always on his blind side and people he doesn't trust are not

2. since most of his bandages presumably hide scars (not confirmed, but based on placement and what we know about him we can assume)

3. i mean... mori was his doctor. it wasn't as if he was actually going to fix him without messing him up further for funsies

anyways, long story short nothing is confirmed but there are many many many theories. technically the direct implication of the show is that the bandages are nothing but a fashion statement and also that the eye bandages are just a metaphor but. i and most people disagree--

[dazaistabletop]

So....was Dazai intending to let Chuuya die?

Translation by @popopretty

[anti-dazai-blog]

Got the most baffling ask from [redacted] about an hour ago saying that I should “stop judging Dazai for past actions” and I’m still thinking about it.

What. what does that mean.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

this torture we're going through with the anime must be divine karma for slandering Bones all this time...... they said "oh, you don't like how we adapt things? you say the manga does it better?? okay then, well now there is no more manga. it's Bones or bust, bitches."

[kyouka-supremacy]

Well.

[kaurwreck]

okay, but irl Ryuunosuke Akutagawa was also chronically ill and smoked. like, I hear you, but Ryuunosuke diagnosed-with-dry-pleurisy-which-refers-to-inflammation-of-the-lining-of-your-lungs-that-causes-sharp-chest-pains-known-to-become-worse-when-you-breathe-or-cough Akutagawa loved filterless Golden Bat and Shikishima cigarettes to excess.

it is innately human to indulge at our own expense sometimes (or nearly all of the time). then again, in his own words—

He put a cigarette in his mouth and was striking a match when he collapsed face-down on his desk and died. It was a truly disappointing way to die. Fortunately, however, society rarely offers critical comment regarding the way a person dies. The way a person lives is what evokes criticism.

Horse Legs, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (tl: Jay Rubin)

It’s so funny when people draw aku smoking like guys, please, he’s literally dying