#yokohama port mafia

[nopeleavemealoone]

If you can’t get your boss, go for their sister, the assassin

[nervmaup]

[kaurwreck]

Oh I loved your post about the whole guild arc and ADA&PM complicated relationship, that was beautifully written and it captured everything that I couldn't put it into words myself.

And the way you talked about Mori? Thank you, thank you thank you! While I'm don't mind the fandom misinterpretation of characters, it was quite refreshing to see someone talk about Mori as a human being that's not purely evil.

Now if you if you don't mind.. I need to know your opinion on this hypothetical theory: that Mori regrets everything he has done to Dazai and Yosano (this is canon) and he is actually trying to change and do better (the hypothetical part).

This is why he wants both Dazai and Yosano back, other than the fact that he cares for them, he also wants to try again and do better.

My reason for saying this is:

Looking at chaptet 14, if everything is taken at face value, when Mori makes the strategic decision to sacrifice Akutagawa for avoiding an all-out turf and keeping peace, it's really similar with how he sacrificed Oda to avoid bigger conflicts in future**.

But while looking at the meeting Higuchi had with Mori at the start of the chapter, somethings bothered me 1) Mori's inscrutable stare at Higuchi's reaction when he mentioned the possibility of Akutagawa not recovering 2)how Mori specifically lets Higuchi to know what will becomes of Akutagawa's situation and what PM's solution for it would be.

This made me think Mori knew what action Higuchi would take later and was counting on it. Plus I'm pretty sure Mori knows Akutagawa and Gin are siblings, so he also knew Gin also would go save her brother.

And I find it odd how in this chapter everything got resolved with 1)PM winning and their enemies destroyed 2)PM managed to take back their stolen agent 3)the whole thing was in the end just a squabble between agents and nothing more.

What I'm trying to say is, I like to think Mori values his agents more now and wouldn't just sacrifice them in a cold and calculating scheme. Maybe I'm reading to much into things here...

(**I know comparing the dark era situation with Oda and chapter 14 like this isn't quite right but that's the only frame of reference I could think of)

anon thank you <3 I don't get why people want him to be pure evil. it's so much more fucked up and richly acidic that he loves fiercely and jealously and feels their loss like a brain bleed.

i don't think he regrets it though. he says as such to hirotsu with regard to dazai while staring at the old boss's bed. he'd do the same, again and again and again. what he did re: the great war was try to stop war; and because of what he did re: mimic, yosano and dazai live in a world where they are safe and loved and driven to save and love others. mori may want them back, but mori wants lots of things he can't have (control, ango's head on a spike, verlaine to stop smoking indoors). he can live with want. it's senseless loss of life that won't do.

also, re: akutagawa, yeah, i have no idea why people think mori would sacrifice akutagawa. like, even if you think mori is evil, like. why would he do that. to what end.

but!!!!!!!!!! anon, you've misunderstood our wife. mori didn't make a strategic decision to sacrifice akutagawa either. mori made the strategic decision to surround akutagawa with people who won't let him self destruct. mori is aware that akutagawa is a horse hellbent on breaking his own legs, and he accounts for it.

and it's not because he's changing. he doesn't need to change, there isn't anything wrong with him. that is how he loves; he meets the needs of his people by placing with others and in positions where they have a support network. this is literally canon, like, it is both illustrated and exposited in stormbringer, and also literally every arc.

mari mori wrote about this trait of irl mori's btw:

"It was not his fault if his love, despite its depth and greatness, lacked warmth. Like a creature carrying its shell, he had this lump inside him and yet he loved people. I can see this clearly in my mind's eye."

he's also always valued his people. when the flags were killed, mori attended their funerals with their families. re: oda, mimic was destabilizing the city and killing his people. mimic was an existential threat who wouldn't stop until they got what they wanted. the special division backed mori into a corner by predicating legitimacy and his capacity to realize the entire point of him spending years in the grime and bloodshed that was seizing control of the port mafia on him demonstrating that the port mafia could contain the violence. and they had JUST started to recover from the dragon head conflict. it wasn't cold or calculating, it was a trolley problem and mori doesn't love it when the french kill his people en masse, which is a thing that keeps happening to him.

anyway, below i explain why mori was livid at higuchi. it has to do with higuchi being a horse girl.

Akutagawa kills the way pet dogs and cats do when allowed to free roam, which is superfluously and way outside of the scope of necessity. He quite literally violates his express orders from Mori so frequently that Mori says, "Besides, Akutagawa-kun has always been that way. Going rogue, destroying everything in his path, and contributing the most in the end. One could say he has a knack for it. There's no need to punish him as long as he keeps succeeding."

Consider what "succeeding" means in the context of that particular quote from Mori— Akutagawa has both protected the city and himself survived it. The only time Mori has remarked that Akutagawa failed, it's not only that Akutagawa did not traffic Atsushi, it's that he lost himself, engaged in relentless violence without any regard for his own life, and blew up in a ship because of it. And he did it for nothing. Nothing was gained from him nearly self immolating. There was no purpose to it. Not only has Akutagawa potentially rendered himself permanently comatose, but he did so in such a way that invited others to come finish the job, and Mori can't act to protect him without risking greater escalation.

Mori is furious, not because he considers Akutagawa expendable, because Akutagawa treated himself as if he were. He doesn't even call Akutagawa a liability; he says being retaliated against is a liability, Higuchi accuses him of calling Akutagawa a liability, and he affirms that Akutagawa is talented and his violence (their currency) outclasses anyone in the Port Mafia, and then asks her, "But what about you? Have you ever thought about whether you are suited for this work?"

Mori knows and values Akutagawa for who he is, but because he knows who Akutagawa is, he knows Akutagawa is prone to and invites violence onto himself. Higuchi has a skill, but not one that is apparent or combative. She is clumsy, not particularly skilled at fighting, and hopelessly silly. She also adores Akutagawa, she looks at him like he hung the moon, she trips over herself to attend to him. And, when she thought Byakko was about to kill Akutagawa, she intervened to draw it away from him, and when Akutagawa thought Byakko was about to kill her, he did not hesitate to lash out to kill before it could. He does not instinctively protect himself, that's much of what Dazai's acts of violence were meant to build from scratch, but he does instinctively protect Higuchi.

Mori is angry at Higuchi when she wasn't even on the ship with Akutagawa, and he remarks with utter disdain on the choices they made that led to that moment, including the raid on the Agency. He tells her Akutagawa is good at violence, but does she really think she's suited for it? Gin holds a knife to her throat, and Hirotsu reminds her that while she has the authority to command them, it isn't their titles that command their loyalty, it's their reverence for Akutagawa, and she should consider what there is for them to respect with Akutagawa unable to move. It's easy to construe this as suggesting they don't respect her or would be quick to kill one another if given the opportunity because they're scary, violent mafioso. Then, she flashes back to Akutagawa's deranged bombing of the smugglers. Which he did without her, she was running to catch him and insisting she was supposed to assist him, he tells her he doesn't need anyone, and then he scampers off to go make terrible choices. She reflects to herself that she isn't suited to the Mafia, that she sought to leave it but then stayed, evidently because of him. In the end, it's her stubbornness and willingness to rescue him that compels Black Lizard to not only join her but give her deference as their commander.

She is not suited to violence, but her authority in the Port Mafia is such that she only answers to Mori and Akutagawa.

irl!Higuchi added a special awareness of suffering and sensitivity in her exploration of low-life characters. That's what she's good at. She shouldn't forget it, those low-lifes need her.

(but also, literally, yeah; Gin is his little sister and Mori has ALWAYS trusted his silliest, most idiot babies to Hirotsu. Hirotsu is like that elderly gray wolf in yellowstone who just gave birth for the 10th time and uses her aged sagacity to keep the other wolves out of trouble. just like that wolf, Hirotsu is old as shit by Port Mafia standards. and has shown no evidence of menopause.)

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

I need like a wan-style spin-off of just the everyday people that live in Yokohama who have to deal with whatever the hell the agency is doing at any given moment.

Sweet little farm boy rips up a stop sign and obliterates a few structures? Oh damn somebody must have forgot to feed him.

Somebody fished the bandaged guy out of the water? Yeah that’s like his third time this week.

“How was your day honey?” “Some doctor lady got catcalled on the train and she broke his arm.” “Again? Good for her.”

“Oh yeah, I was gonna go study in the cafe but I think it’s about to get stormed by the mafia again.” “Yeah. Let’s go downtown.”

Vendor down the street tries to up-charge a little girl for some crepes and is met with a glowing katana? That’s just good business on her part.

Hey man, did you hear? A whole whale fell from the sky into the port and they didn’t even cancel class today.

The government stormed a cafe to arrest some Russian dude? Yeah man I got free drinks and food.

I just think it would be so funny

[elleastic5]

𝔸𝕜𝕚𝕜𝕠 𝕐𝕠𝕤𝕒𝕟𝕠 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕒𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕪… 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕣𝕚𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥

[literarywhoard]

i love tachihara and gin together but not in a romantic setting (don't throw tomatoes at me but i feel this way with atsushi + ryuunosuke as well, i have my reasons...)

i need them to be best friends, but at first glance you think they hate each other. no they annoy each other for the bit. they take turns bullying each other. they're the reason why hirotsu has gray hair. i need gin to smack tachihara on the head because he's on her last nerve. i need tachihara to mock what gin says in funny voices. but i also need gin to see tachihara as a second brother and confide in him when ryuunosuke isn't around. and i need tachihara to come to gin asking about advice with girls.

i just wanna see cute boy/girl port mafia friendships man waaAAAAHHH

[discountsoysauce]

It's a good thing Chuuya can't dream bc I think if he ever had a dream about Dazai he'd proceed to blow up an entire building about it

[ssaraexposs]

Atsushi's POV:

THE AVENGERS

[joeymiya]

Beach day ⛱️

[daturas-are-pretty]

Petition for Mori to quit Mafia-ing and drag the entire organization into the culinary industry.

[nopeleavemealoone]

He got surprised into laughter

[rosalinesurvived]

He’s so insanely Deranged i love him

He’s WALKING THE PEDESTRIAN WHILE CARS ARE STILL ALLOWED TO MOVE FUKUZAWA YOU MENACE

[knockyasocksoff2022]

“Mr Dazai, your son threw up at school.”

(Relationship Reveal and soft but chaotic parent Dazai because I can. Don’t worry there’s no graphic descriptions of throwing up. Gets super fluffy at the end. This was kind of rushed so may not be the best, also you can probably tell I suck at titles.)

Kind of long so it’s under the cut (2,360 words)

Kunikida P.O.V.

I'm always the first at work so when I arrive on our floor I start to put the key into the lock but when I do the door opens. I immediately tense and open it cautiously, in case this is another break in. But no thieves are in sight, just Dazai sitting at his desk, deep in conversation with the president.

My briefcase falls to the floor with a muffled clatter.

"Good Morning, Mr. President, Dazai-san" I pick up my case and head over to my desk, a bit embarrassed, but neither of them looks up.

Soon all the members are present and the work day begins.

—

Just as I finish my first report, a phone rings from the other side of the room, and Dazai's suicide song starts blasting. I sigh looking over to the man's desk only to find him trying to hang himself on the coat stand.

"Oh, Kunikida-kun" he sing songs, "Could you hand me my phone please."

"Oh fine." I huff, shoving the device at him, "But you better not be long, we do have work to do."

"I won't." He sing songs, he definitely will. UGH! Lazy waste of bandages.

The call starts and I find myself curious as to who would be calling Dazai this early in the morning.

He holds the phone to his ear while listening and a look of amusement crosses his face. After a second he answers sounding confused, "Yes, this is he. Why? Has Saku-chan done something problematic?"

Saku-chan? Dazai has a girlfriend?! I shoot him a look asking who the hell Saku-chan is and why is he speaking so formally, but he ignores me.

"Ahh, I see, what is the matter then?" He nods, a look of worry that I've never seen before crosses Dazai's face.

Dazai’s P.O.V

It’s awkward with the noose around my neck, but I finally manage to get the phone to my ear. A woman speaks into it. “Hello? This is Nurse Kajimura, Yokohama Primary School. Am I speaking to Dazai Osamu?”

I don’t understand, I just dropped Saku off an hour ago. (the school is on my way to work which was why I was early, also it was fun to see the looks on my coworkers faces.) What trouble could he have gotten in already.

“Yes, this is he. Why? Has Saku-chan done something problematic?” I answer.

(A/N: Soukoku named their kid after Oda 🥺🥹)

“Don’t worry, Sakunosuke is not in trouble, we called you because your husband was not answering his phone.” Oh that makes sense because Chuuya is on a mission in another city, probably super busy. Ohhhh! How dreadfully I miss my Chibi! “Ahh, I see, what is the matter then?”

“We need you to come and pick your son up as soon as possible, preferably immediately. He vomited in class this morning and has a cough, he is also running a low-grade temperature. He says his head and throat hurt. We think it may be the flu and suggest that you keep him home for the remainder of this week and through next week.”

Oh, my poor baby! I say in my head but decide not to be dramatic on the phone. “Oh, of course. I’ll be there in 10 minutes.”

Kunikida’s P.O.V

As soon as the call clicks off Dazai unties the noose faster than I've ever seen anyone untie a noose and is grabbing his car keys. His movements aren't frantic though, they never are.

"Hey, lazy Dazai! Where do you think you're going!? The workday isn't even half over yet!" I stand in front of the door.

He smiles calmly, then his face shifts into a wide grin as if he's about to say something he knows will shock me. I brace myself for whatever outlandish excuse he's prepared, knowing full well I could never actually stop him from leaving.

"I'm afraid I have to leave early, Kunikida-kun, my son threw up at school, and he has a fever. The nurse said I must come and get him as soon as possible."

Despite my mental preparations, his words catch me off guard. He takes advantage of my silence and continues, "Normally I wouldn't just up and leave like this," he's fully smirking now, "but my dear beloved husband is out of town for work so we're all alone."

"Y-your what . . . you're what!?" I struggle for words. What the hell made him come up with this?

"My husband, he's out of town for the next few days. That is why I have to pick up Saku-chan." He says simply, and I can tell he's enjoying this.

I shake my head to clear it and exhale. "Dazai, I don't know what's going on but you can't just ditch work when you've hardly even been here for more than a hour, honestly I've had enough!"

His expression turns from joking to icy cold in an instant, "May I remind you Kunikida, that I was here before you. And I will leave, so if you don't mind, I am going to pick up my son from school and I will not be coming back. If you want me to turn in a leave application I will, tomorrow. See you then."

His expression is serious, in a way that I've never seen it before, in fact I've never actually seen him look serious before. All his expressions that I thought were serious, pale in comparison to this death stare. I know that he is an excellent liar but . . . this expression. He must be telling the truth. The embarrassment is extreme. Of course it was only logical of me to assume that he was joking as an excuse for slacking off, given his reputation but still.

"Dazai . . . I apologise-" He's already out the door and I turn in defeat, only to see everyone else standing up at their desks, clearly acting as spectators to our confrontation. To my comfort they look as shocked as I feel. Well, not Ranpo (of course not) and the President. Did the president know about this? I feel slightly betrayed.

Junichirou recovers first, "Dazai-san has a child?"

"Possibly more than one" Ranpo offers though, obviously he knows exactly how many children Dazai has, and is choosing not to tell us.

"Well I think that that's wonderful." Kenji says smiling, "I would love to meet his children."

"Do you think that kid is alright, I mean, guys you can't forget that this is Dazai-san we're talking about." Atsushi gestures vaguely around the room looking worried.

"Who's the mum, do you think? Someone he knows or from an adoption centre maybe?" Kenji wonders

"Now that I think about it, it all makes sense. Maybe he's always late because he has to drop off his kids but the school is really far away and leaves early for the same reason." Junichirou thinks out loud.

"That's a good point, but then why was he early today?" Atsushi asks.

"Oh yeah, maybe the kid switched schools for some reason."

"Yeah maybe."

"Why is nobody talking about the fact that he's married, and to a man much less?" I ask everyone, earning five funny looks and a small smile from the president. "I mean, it doesn't matter but is no one surprised" nobody says anything, "at all? I mean you've all seen the way he flirts, and it's only ever with women." I look at their expressions and the sentence dies in my mouth.

Junichirou thinks for a second, "Well, it is surprising that he's married–"

"But to a man? To me at least he seemed like a total ladies man. It's just surprising is all, is it not?" I question again.

Immediately there's a "No." from Yosano

"Nope." adds Atsushi

"Nuh-uh." Kenji just keeps smiling

"Nah." Ranpo mumbles still eating snacks, enjoying the free drama.

The Tanazakis shake their heads.

"Really?" I can't believe this, "Did everyone but me know?"

"Yes." Yosano deadpans

"I mean, wasn't it obvious?" Ranpo shrugs popping another biscuit in his mouth

"It was, but Kunikida's just really straight." Yosano and Ranpo exchange a look of humour.

The entire office cracks up, even the president lets out a small chuckle

"And Dazai-san is still a massive flirt, married or not. His husband must hate it, I know I would absolutely lose it if Junichi even so much as looked at another girl." Naomi says (it sounds more like a purr) as she slides her hand up Junichirou's shirt. I look away quickly.

"Alright, everyone, I get it. Dazai is gay, and has an unknown number of children, let's all get back to work."

"He's bi actually." Ranpo laughs, I sigh and walk back to my desk leaving the cackling detective alone to be smug. "and his husband is a wonderful person."

Wait, what? Everyone whips around to face Ranpo (except for the president who's in his office) "You know him?"

"Not well, but we've met."

"Is he someone we all know?" Yosano asks

"You may have seen him but none of you really know him."

"Well that's helpful." the doctor rolls her eyes.

"Of course, happy to help."

"At least tell us how he looks." Atsushio pleads the genius detective

"Well, let's just say he stands out, you'd definitely notice him if you did see him."

Several groans and sighs echo around the room and we decide to give up . . . for now. Ranpo just smirks and goes back to snacking. (It's a wonder how his desk is so clean and that there's never a crumb on his paperwork)

Dazai’s P.O.V

I walk out the office door, thankful I built in extra time to my journey just in case something like that happend.

I hear Atsushi's voice as I head downstairs "Do you think that kid is alright, I mean, guys you can't forget that this is Dazai-san we're talking about." and something inside me wilts.

Why would they think I would make a good parent? I've never given them that impression but it still hurts me (extra because I know it's my own fault that they think that). I push the dark thoughts down and drive to Yokohama Primary School.

When I go to the front desk to fill the early check out form the desk clerk eyes my bandages and gives me a strange look, thankfully she says nothing.

"The nurse will bring your son from her office in a moment." She says, motioning for me to sit down on one of the padded folding chairs.

Nurse Kajimura brings Saku out and he immediately collapses into my arms. The nurse smiles a little and waves us goodbye. Saku is too tired to wave back so I pick him up and carry him back to the car.

On the way home I stop at the pharmacy and I call Chuuya to let him know that Saku is okay. He picks up on the first ring. I look back but Saku's passed out cold.

"Hay babe, I was just about to call you. I saw that the school called me earlier, is everything okay?"

"Mostly, Saku's sick, I had to pick him up because he vom–"

"Eww, no. I don't need to know every single detail."

"Aww, Chibi's so squeamish."

"Hey, I could kick your ass!"

"I know."

"Why'd you bring him to school sick anyway, dumbass?"

"Le gasssp! You're so mean, how was I supposed to know?"

"The fact that I even need to explain says a lot."

"He was fine when I dropped him off."

"Well, I'm just glad I'm not home, to catch whatever youth plague he has." I can practically see Chuuya wrinkling his nose in disgust on the other end of the line.

"Wow, do you not love us, to leave me all alone with a sick child."

"Okay I'm going to hang up now. Bye shitty mackerel."

Just as I'm at the checkout counter I see a new text: You have to get the children's medication. The one in the blue and green package.

I laugh and send: "I know, but it's so sweet that Chibi is worried."

He leaves me on read.

—----

It was easy enough to get Saku into bed but he just can't seem to fall asleep.

"Do you want some juice?"

He shakes his head, "Father, can you tell me a story?" he asks quietly

"Sure, what type of story."

"Hmmmm," he drags the word out, thinking for a moment, "How did you meet Papa?"

"Oh." I was not expecting that.

"Well, we used to work together."

"Where?"

"At a company."

"What type of company?"

"They, um, they work at the city's ports."

"Cool, what were you and Papa's jobs?"

Noo, please, Saku, I beg mentally, please go to sleep. "We were kind of like the managers."

"What's a manager?"

This is an easy enough question. "It's someone who goes out and makes sure everything's working alright and that everyone is doing what they're supposed to be, because the company won't work unless everyone works together." There a lesson in teamwork, now please go to sleep!

"What happens if someone isn't doing what they're supposed to be?"

Ummmm, they get tortured and possibly die, depending on the severity of the crime. "Oh, they get fired."

"What does fired mean."

Another easy question, "It means that they can't work for the company anymore."

"Oh, where do they work after they gte fired?"

Hevean. Hell? "I don't know, it's different for everybody."

He nods, "Did you get fired?"

"No, I left."

"Why?"

"It was a toxic work environment."

"What's . . ." he struggles to pronounce 'toxic work environment'.

"My boss wasn't very nice. He fired a friend of mine."

"That is mean, but what about Papa?"

"While we were working together I had fallen in love with Papa so we decided to stay together even after we had different jobs. A bit after that we got married and then we adopted you, and we're very happy. Now you need rest so you can feel better, go to sleep." I kiss him good night and leave the room before he can ask anymore questions, barely making it out of the room before bursting into laughter. Chuuya is definitely going to be pissed that he missed this.

(A/N: I also think that dazai having his kid call him Father is just the type of weird shit he would do. (Also because only Chuuya gets to call him Daddy, anyways))

[anidealistatbestburntoutatworst]

this is so unhinged bros i’m so sorry

[stormbringer chapter one spoilers]

chuuya: “its byob dazai…. what could you not afford a couple beers.”

dazai *looking to catch some hands*: “could you not afford to save the flags?!?”

the ENTIRE port mafia *quaking in their boots and unsure what chaos bout to happen*

[feralshadowdemon]

swap au where fukuchi is the leader of the ada. send post

[marshmellodragon]

Yokohama in Bungou Stray Dogs is like New York in Marvel. I don’t think I need to elaborate more.

-<3-

Just in case I do need to elaborate: (Cause the Detective Agency / Port Mafia and Avengers living in the middle of their respective cities wasn’t enough):

Some random citizen in New York: So Hulk threw my car at some alien again, sorry I couldn’t make it to the meeting on time.

Boss: Well we only allow 3 Avengers related absences and after this you only have 1 left, so be careful.

Citizen: I did make it to the meeting, I was just late-

Boss: Only 1.

Citizen: *in a low whisper* I hate this city.

-<3-

Also some random citizen in Yokohama: Yeah so Chuuya smashed my whole apartment building during the Shibusawa attack. I am homeless now so uhh, can I crash at your place?

Friend: Dude the whole city got trashed, we’re all homeless.

Citizen: God I hate this city.