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asachuu · 7 days

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Paul "I'm not going outside for 6 years bc my partner is the only one i want to see" Verlaine doesn't actually grieve his partner trust me guys asachuu said so

Paul "I'm so sorry rimbaud now that you're gone I'm so terribly sad" Verlaine

my brother in christ asachuu can you actually read!!!!

-rimbaudthursday (sadly still blocked :( )

Um…anon…? I’ll scratch this up to an honest mistake, but…

You are aware that in the very same sentence I do acknowledge his grief post-epilogue, plus that is something I’ve never denied once, I’ve spoken about it multiple times as well, right?

Also, you are aware that I’m talking about every single thing happening pre-epilogue, in which— I’m not sure if we’ve read the same novel, but I’d like to sincerely believe you’ve accidentally skipped over what I quite obviously meant and downright said— Paul explicitly states himself that he hated Arthur, which is then further told to us on multiple occasions, and thanked Chuuya for bringing upon Arthur’s death, all which happened following his betrayal and Arthur’s “first” death…right?

To put it very simply:

Yes, Paul does indeed grieve his partner very deeply, regretting his actions more than anything, AFTER THE EPILOGUE OF STORMBRINGER.

BEFORE THE EPILOGUE OF STORMBRINGER, he does not— in fact, he does the exact opposite, expresses his disdain for Arthur in both words and actions many times, and this is what I’m referring to back in that post— I have absolutely no reason to be talking about Paul’s feelings at the very end when it’s absolutely irrelevant to covering his entire past with Arthur, in which it could not be made more clear those are not his feelings yet.

Additionally, on the chance you’re trying to make an argument of Paul carrying the grief with him up until the epilogue in which it’s made clear even to the audience— I don’t know if this is your opinion, of course, but I’ll say it regardless, just in case that’s what you were aiming at— you wouldn’t believe me saying this, but there is, canonically, at least some hesitation and grief in Paul’s mind shown to us right before he pulls the trigger on Arthur, but that’s where it ends for the time being, until the epilogue. Whether or not Paul somehow “secretly carried it around”, which…I can’t say I haven’t seen people claim already, would not only be downright impossible to tell with his constant reminders that yes, he did, in fact, hate Arthur, but also, it would change absolutely nothing about his behavior if it clearly had no influence on it— before the epilogue, I’ll remind you— when he still betrayed his partner, still expressed his joy over Arthur’s death, still spoke harshly of him on multiple occasions throughout the entirety of Stormbringer and still was the reason his late partner died sincerely believing he was never doing enough for Paul and he was the one in the wrong the whole time, among other ways he behaved extremely coldly towards Arthur that render any potential hidden guilt in his heart completely irrelevant, because none of it softened, let alone prevented a single thing he’d ever done.

Now, anon, I very much don’t find any use in being rude to anyone, but I do have to say, since you’ve been so kind and sweet to me first— and please take this in the most neutral, non-personal way you can— before you question whether I can read or not, in the case this wasn’t a simple, innocent mistake of yours at all, could you please find out the answer to this question about yourself first? While I will gladly explain what I’m talking about to you if you need more clarification on it, albeit I would be much happier to do so for a polite request rather than anything you’ve sent me so far, if you’ll deliberately ignore half of my words in the exact same sentence you must have read to even come up with this, I won’t be able to try to correct or explain it to you even if I do so fifty times, because you could easily just cherry-pick whatever you want to read yourself out of my words while discarding the whole rest again.

Nevertheless, with all that being said…to answer your question properly, yes, I believe I am able to read, thank you very much for asking. 💕

#I really don’t know what else to tell you #admittedly I just woke up so I hope I was able to clarify this properly #in case it somehow wasn’t clear before #ask #anon #bungou stray dogs #bsd fifteen #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #bsd arthur rimbaud #bsd paul verlaine #rimlaine #asachuu

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asachuu · 7 days

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I’ve got a headache and I’ve partially sworn to both myself and another person I wouldn’t go over this, but…it just won’t let me rest, so I’m sorry to anyone the apology is due. I open my other abandoned socials once in my life, and the first thing I see is debates on this I didn’t even think would be possible, and there’s only so many days I can just bite my tongue.

Refer to the tags of this post for more context if you wish, but I’ll make this separate instead of a reblog in case it may reach more people.

Spoilers for phase 18 of the Fifteen manga below.

So, ah…let me just get the extremely cheap joke out of the way. Heaven forbid the Literary Stray Dogs fandom has to be faced with…oh dear goodness…literature…

If you’ll excuse that, I truly don’t wish to be anyhow outwardly hostile, but I don’t know what would be more fitting to say. In my former vague-ish post (tags excluded), I did say I initially thought this was pointless to go over, but I see that it’s inevitable— so, before I leave my two cents on this, as an absolutely shameless self-plug, since I won’t be going over any deeper Rimlaine-related context in this post to an extent I’d like to properly explain and elaborate on, I’d redirect any curious soul stumbling upon this to my essay about the pair, which will explain a lot more as to why I find any of this worth my time and why I will speak of them in a rather uncharitable manner.

I believe the above is a self-explanatory warning as to the fact that despite talking about a certain panel from the Fifteen manga I’ve seen a rather questionable amount of people use as backing for their ship, I will be doing the absolute opposite, and if that’s not what you want to read or hear, I’d suggest leaving this post be. As much as I mostly try to come from a place of understanding, I don’t think you’ll find much of it in this post, both because I’m not feeling well at the moment and I’ve already explained my strongly held stance in softer terms before, linked above. As always, none of this is personally directed at anybody whatsoever, but that doesn’t mean that some simply wouldn’t want to read a slightly harsher analysis of what could perhaps be their comfort ship for any personal reason they may have, to which I say, I very much suggest not hate-reading this and clicking off, please always look after yourself.

So…while I was going to spare myself a longer post due to my physical state, you best believe me that I will do anything in my power to make it not hinder me, just so I can write this whole thing properly this time around. Without further ado, here is the panel/page I’ll be referring to from now on.

All translation credits go to DarkestJay868 on Twitter.

I think I have to start this off by saying that if this was a different story, a different situation, different inspiration and different characters to match, I would understand the fandom’s reaction. While I’m someone who’s far from shipping characters in most media I consume, I only have one OTP across everything I’d ever engaged with and can’t think of another ship I like from the top of my head, I do understand if people see two characters interact with each other in one way or another, perhaps one rather close way or another, and jump to shipping them for their personal use or just for the sake of it. Ultimately, there is absolutely no point in trying to go over why, because it harms absolutely no one, and these are all fictional characters anyway, it’s not as if we’re intruding on real people’s personal relationships doing any of this.

I also understand that not only is it a well-known fact that MLM ships are far more popular in fandoms than any other, but also, when two characters have a dialogue/thought process/etc. of the nature you can read above, it comes as no surprise that people would like to spin their own narrative on it, and I’d say that’s usually more than fine, go for it, have fun— except in this particular case, I’m astounded. Generally, at this point, I cannot tell whether Rimlaine is a ship born of the indomitable human spirit that won’t be swayed by quite deeply serious topics this pairing is outright created from and exists because of, or one that won’t falter even while not only explicitly written words, but also graphic depictions show exactly what scenario is being presented and it’s simply not the one so many in this community have imagined, but in the case of this scene, it would be downright nonsensical to claim that some form of active dedication is not being used to back the claims I’ve seen going around.

I will be providing no specific examples, as what they all boil down to in various different ways is speaking of the lower panel as some form of canonical confirmation of Arthur and Paul’s closeness, be it in a platonic or romantic way, and believe me when I say this— not a single part of my counterargument will have to do with the thought of one hand on a shoulder(?) meaning nothing, because trust me, in fandoms, I can’t say it’s not ordinary.

You see, out of any and all context, I’d find it amusing, but the simple fact of the matter is, this panel:

is not out of context,

is not canon, even,

has a very real chance of depicting a character’s imagination based on the very next panel, which is this:

And this is about the panel only— don’t worry, I will remind everyone the origins of Rimlaine by the end of this post as well.

I cannot believe I’m sitting here saying this while bearing in mind that my desired audience are people who have read the Fifteen manga at the very least, and while I insist on it being anything but a sufficient adaptation of the original novel, this particular scene is one I did praise for how it was depicted. Nevertheless, this scene is a third-person recollection of Arthur’s memories, and while it is both written and drawn for us all to see, “(…) at least, that’s how one of them felt” is a line directly quoting the original novel, being quite clear, straightforward and explicit confirmation that these were, in fact, not mutual feelings for them both, those feelings also being explicitly stated— their partnership, trust, friendship and whatnot was something only Arthur himself believed, all of which you may find black on white in the Fifteen novel, and surprisingly, even in the very manga people are using images from to speak of Rimlaine as if it were a canonical ship now, often based on this one panel.

In addition to that, this doesn’t only apply to these panels, but for the whole manga and any other adaptation of a source material— it is not the original canon. Fifteen adaptations never fail to prove this point on a regular basis, so I believe this shouldn’t be something difficult to grasp. The same, naturally, goes for this specific panel— nowhere in the original novel itself does it imply any kind of mutual closeness between the two partners whatsoever, in fact, it proves the exact opposite time and time again, and this panel is ultimately a creative liberty taken by the artist. In my personal opinion, however, I don’t have a problem with it in this case, given both how much it emphasizes Arthur’s point of view and the very obvious effect the next panel has on it— very directly showing that indeed, this was only a part of his imagination, or so would make the absolute most sense to me, but it seems that kind of “deeper meaning”, which is nowhere near deep or complicated to understand from the given material in any way, is just…lost on this fandom?

Might I also add that it makes no sense in canon, either— even if it was something signed off by Asagiri-san himself, I’d raise an eyebrow, because there is nothing in any of the media Arthur and Paul appear in that implies Paul would be the one to be close to Arthur and not the other way around, yet that’s exactly what’s drawn in said panel. It is very explicitly stated canonical information that Paul hated Arthur at the time, especially before their final mission together, and I could go further here, onwards to addressing some rather far-fetched claims of him somehow always repressing his true feelings he held for Arthur the whole time because he “felt a bit guilty for pulling the trigger” despite both the entire character arc for Paul being intended to culminate in his sudden genuine regret at the very end AND the fact that his continuous total lack of remorse or any shred of grief for his late partner is constantly spoonfed to the reader, but I’m here for one panel only. And one panel is now damn near enough to make me write another essay.

It’s not even as though Rimlaine is canonically a more ambiguous relationship up to the reader’s interpretation— both Fifteen and Stormbringer are, at least to me, very clear in conveying the message that if the feeling of affection, be it platonic, romantic or any other, is present anywhere between these two, it’s from Arthur towards Paul, and it’s entirely unrequited. Their whole story revolves around it, I’ve almost typed it out word for word in my essay if no one would be up to reading any of the necessary passages in the novels, the whole point lay in Arthur’s genuine care and affection towards his partner which is never returned or anyhow acknowledged and appreciated, that of which canonically deeply affects the former throughout his whole life and beyond, but at this point, I’m willing to bet that even if a hypothetical light novel centered around Arthur and Paul out there actually started with the words “this is a story of very obvious unrequited love and a toxic/abusive relationship that’s practically impossible to interpret in any other way”, I’d once again find myself in a spot where I’m giving far too much credence and leniency towards various arguments as to why said disclaimer is somehow wrong.

I promised one more thing as I finish this up, reminding you all the origins of Rimlaine, and why exactly does this all probably read like I’m rather irritated about some mischaracterization that doesn’t have any further impact beyond a fictional work, because that’s not the case. If it were, I’d care far less, the same way I don’t write lengthy paragraphs about Soukoku or any other ship I believe to not be anyhow healthy whatsoever, even though I do actually enjoy one character out of them both.

I could do my third absolutely shameless self-advertisement and refer to part 4 of my essay, but that’s only for further details and clarification, if anyone wanted it. What I’ll say next is something I don’t want hidden somewhere in thousands of words for the deeply curious willing to tread through them, I very much want this to be common knowledge in this fandom, regardless of whether it will deter people from ignoring absolutely all canon, misinterpreting both characters and entire story arcs in rather impressive ways at times to fit their own ship, or just rallying to support it. The choice is up to you, but keep this in mind:

BSD Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine are, in fact, based on two real-life poets, which is made clear beyond merely their names— their characters, abilities, partially personalities and even aspects of their stories are heavily and directly inspired by them. If you wish to claim their real-life affair as something Asagiri-san has obviously heard of and thus must have kept in mind, meaning BSD Rimlaine is either canonical or just somehow healthy, fine, something that “comes naturally” under these circumstances in general, I don’t want to hear you forgetting that this affair was between an abused 16-year-old and a homicidal 26-year-old. That’s the inspiration— real-life abuse, and not only that, abuse of a minor, AND not only that, due to the fact that I’ve not placed any trigger warnings above, I will not go into any details, but it’s nothing short of a horrific story that never received a good end to it.

That is why I insist on this so much, because there is only a tiny handful of very specific good-faith reasons I could possibly think of for practically just supporting the BSD ship. I do hate phrasing the sentence that way, but “support” is the closest word I can use here for the washing away of information, spreading total mischaracterization, and overall just romanticizing any part of this without any care for its origins or true nature, which can be one of two things— or both— to you. A real-life tragedy, or a very clear story of an unhealthy, possibly abusive relationship in BSD.

I know that, in my essay, I said I understand why people might long for such ships and so on, but perhaps I’m just stubbornly typing this in blinding physical pain that obstructs my senses from being able to return to that train of thought or all I’ve written above renders it nonsense even to myself, the original author, because right now, having said all this, I can’t say I’d understand it with all this information provided. The inspiration is a story incredibly sorrowful, dark and truly harrowing, the BSD counterpart couldn’t be more explicit about how extremely one-sided and unhealthy Arthur and Paul’s relationship is, and yet, I feel as though it really won’t matter in the end, because if I’m writing all this over an interpretation of one single panel I can only describe as completely out of left field, which is quite literally directly disputed by the next panel following it, is this really a matter of knowing all the necessary context and information, or am I unknowingly describing something that’s actually common knowledge?

Anyhow, I would perhaps go on, but sadly, I’m left with no choice but to end this abruptly. I…hope this panel will never haunt me again.

#I’m super sorry if this is too harsh #I can’t proofread this anymore as I really need to lie down #but I want this out of the way #bungou stray dogs #bsd fifteen #bsd arthur rimbaud #bsd paul verlaine #rimlaine #asachuu

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asachuu · 8 days

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So far, what I’ve gotten from learning Japanese instead of working despite risking total collapse very, very soon:

1. I can partially read the Japanese comics that have been saved and rotting in my gallery for years now as the closest free media I can get my hands on.

2. I somewhat feel deeply cursed by point 1, purely because those comics have been saved for artworks of one single character in them, very much not the actual content itself. A silent nod to my telepathic audience is in order.

3. But god damn, do I have to admit through gritted teeth…are they entertaining sometimes.

Maybe someday, I’ll be able to read a manga to my liking…I’ve currently decided to dive headfirst into N3 vocabulary instead of all the work piled up on me that I’ll likely be explaining to hospital staff in just under a week, which— according to public opinion— is a perilous mistake, but is it worth the three seconds of pure happiness at being able to understand something, literally anything, even if it’s deeply questionable media from the depths of my storage?

Yes. Of course. I don’t care if I’m sitting here like Sisyphus trying to get the same three words I keep forgetting for two years now into my head over and over again back somewhere from N5 while knowing how to use less grammar than a watermelon. Finally, finally, it feels like everything is starting to pay off.

And yes, this does deserve a main account post. I haven’t been sitting here for so long, for years treading through endless months of absolutely no motivation, wish or energy to learn this language, let alone do literally anything else, to not post something ten times less uptight than my usual textposts when for the first time, I’ve gotten somewhere like this through my own efforts I’ve miraculously never given up on.

I suppose…if you want to do something with a goal you deem far too ambitious, it’s always worth a try as long as it drives you, and I say this as an impatient pessimist who barely ever has any hope and usually wants results immediately. Admittedly, realistically, not everything will always be possible, but nobody can tell what exactly that may be, and I thought that the point I’m at right now was unachievable. Two years ago, I was probably sitting in the same spot I’m sitting in at the moment, frustrated that I was making much too invisible progress—if any at all— and today, I can’t even explain the feeling of catharsis this provides. It hasn’t been the best day, week, month or year, and that’s the most sugarcoated understatement of the century, but despite everything, I feel almost relieved right now. Maybe it won’t last me until tomorrow, maybe it won’t get me through the week, but it was all still worth it for this moment. Even if all this time and effort meant I’d spend just one single evening feeling a tiny bit lighter…I think I’d do it again and again.

On a side note…perhaps, somewhat ironically, the reason my past self was so unmotivated and miserable is actually the reason I’ve gotten here now, in a strange way…I’ve never paid for classes, barely ever spoke to anyone from Japan, only ever kept a Duolingo streak alive to at least face the language one single time per day for less than a minute, and I pretty much studied grammar and vocabulary whenever I felt like it instead of having a set time every day for it. If that meant going weeks and months without looking at it much, so be it, I always made it something I actively chose to do at any given moment instead of doing it out of necessity. Considering I’m…well…very, very prone to burning out terribly fast, as I’ve come to find out in the most unfortunate of ways, even having a class weekly would start feeling like a stressful necessity to me I’d get tired of, but this way, albeit very slowly and frustratingly enough at times, I ultimately never truly gave up on it and never lost even the slightest ounce of interest through means out of my control, and…it still got me somewhere. Slowly, quickly, doesn’t matter— in the end, I can see I’ve gotten further than I ever believed I could, and perhaps it’s not much objectively at all, but even to someone like me, for once, it’s beyond enough.

Anyhow, do forgive the messy ramble. I private or delete most of my impulsive textposts, but perhaps I’ll keep this one for a bit longer, just for the sentiment. It’s…something to cling onto.

#text post #asachuu #I’m a bit mournful about the fact that any tiny shred of happiness just has to get drowned out #by the fact that it’s currently shoved between so many godawful things happening #but just for a little moment I need to cherish this #I hope I can find a way to come back to this feeling after this nightmare passes #maybe that’s why I’m leaving this post up even if it’s too personal for my liking

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asachuu · 16 days

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That moment when you’re writing something quite positive as a totally informal manga reaction, skipping over one single small visual detail because it was both so insignificant you didn’t even notice it at first, and it would also contextually be so heavily overshadowed by something far more important everywhere around it, only to log on somewhere one fateful day and see that it is precisely said detail which has become gospel, despite the fact that it makes rather little sense in canon.

Ah well, I say as if I were to let it go, knowing very well the tags will be another literary work again.

#I’m not going to rant about it BUT #yes this is about the flashbacks in the last Fifteen manga chapter #specifically that one panel of Paul and Arthur looking rather…close #I don’t even want to bother saying much because of everything surrounding it and how much it wouldn’t matter one way or the other #though I’m very confused as to why it’s Paul reaching out to Arthur and not the opposite #only one of the two canonically hated the other at the time and I’m not sure if he’d want to be anyhow physically intimate yk #unless it’s a visual representation of how Arthur was thinking about their relationship the whole time given the following panel #but yeah I’m not going to look into this because it’s not worth my energy #I’ve already said I’m not opposed to the manga flashbacks at all and I believe they speak for me here #I won’t be stopping anyone from fishing out Rimlaine stuff in the middle of a flashback literally about #how Arthur was actually alone in thinking about them as close friends the whole time #so long as all that outside context is right on display for anyone to see and make up their own mind I’ll let it go #because I’d just be repeating what’s right there already #bungou stray dogs #bsd fifteen #bsd arthur rimbaud #randou #bsd paul verlaine #bsd manga #asachuu

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asachuu · 25 days

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Evening Asachuu,

I have an inquiry that requires your expertise on the character Arthur Rimbaud.... a predicament if you will

Do you think he, being the sophisticated and well kept man that he is, would mew? Maybe even mog, if you would entertain the notion....

Please respond ASAP with your opinions on Rimbaud's looksmaxxing journey, I look forward to hearing your opinions

Dearest anon, I would like to inform you that I received this ask in the dead of night and I truly thought I simply hallucinated its existence, up until I found it once more in my inbox many hours later.

Nevertheless, despite every single one of those concepts being incredibly cursed, if I am to give a proper serious reply to this proper serious inquiry…it is quite hard to say, however I would lean towards him being the kind of person to not participate in such questionable matters, rather simply watch them from a distance in great confusion, as what I would argue is the more sane thing to do. Never mind the fact that BSD is not set in the year of 2024, and therefore looksmaxxing wouldn’t be anyhow widespread amongst the population at the time…

But, hey, what do I know, there is no reference in any kind of official content to any aspect of it, so perhaps I am severely wrong and that man spends his days mewing. Upon having to look up the concept of mogging, that I do not think would be an area he would venture into whatsoever, but who’s to truly say…

#ask #asachuu #none of those words are in the bible #bungou stray dogs #bsd arthur rimbaud #randou #I think I have to lie down again cheers anon

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asachuu · 29 days

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I am lovingly booping you a thousand more times than I can physically boop you, I hope you know this 💖

Oh, the same goes for you too, I’m also lovingly booping you a thousand more times…somehow telepathically, I’m sure it’ll do the job. 😂 💕

…and I’d flood you with a thousand extra Tumblr boops as well, if my app didn’t threaten to set my phone on fire. A fate most unfortunate…😔

#ask #asachuu #linklethehistorian #in soul and heart you have ten thousand new boops #perhaps I’ll bypass the crashes just for you…who’s to say 🧐

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asachuu · 1 month

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Okay, this is not pre-written, planned or anyhow structured, mostly because I write my reactions to the Fifteen manga chapters right after I read them and I’m in absolute shambles at the moment, but I’ll still try, just because…it’s a monthly thing now.

Fifteen manga phase 18 spoilers below.

So…this will be a much shorter post, purely because phase 18 has given me half of what I’ve been waiting for this whole entire time— how exactly will the manga deal with Arthur’s death. The other half, I’m assuming, will come out next month or so, which I’ll probably just add as a reblog to this post if I have anything to say as I’m probably not going to be able to type a whole essay about that, but for now, I’ll just dump my thoughts on what we have so far.

Setting aside all my former criticisms on how Arthur is portrayed generally as you can find them all in my previous posts (which I will have to link together at some point), to the prelude, I don’t have much to say, perhaps aside from Arthur seemingly picking Chuuya up to take him in as a part of his ability in a way that— in my opinion, of course— is much colder to how the novel itself goes about it, mostly due to how Arthur himself is made out to be throughout the whole manga that makes this scene feel almost heartless instead of regretful and what I assume was him attempting to be slightly comforting, as the original Arthur is already known to not want the whole fight to happen instead of…what I can only describe as not caring about it in the slightest, because I truly have no idea how I’d describe the actual setting in the manga itself. I’m assuming you’ve all read it to be reading my own reactions where I don’t link back to specific pages half the time, so I’m guessing you know what I’m talking about.

Nevertheless, what I’m actually here for is everything that followed. For once, this won’t be paragraphs of criticism exclusively— I actually think it was portrayed decently, but of course, I can’t help being salty here, I will say that it still lacks the true impact the whole ending of Fifteen’s fight has, because the one dying in such a horrible situation and a horrible way is not the villain of the story— at least not in the original novel— quite the opposite, for which I’ve definitely said more than enough, but I digress. If there’s anything I’m…somewhat morbidly thankful for, it’s that Hoshikawa-san didn’t shy away from Arthur’s actual death, unlike a certain anime studio I dare not mention, even though staring down these panels to write my thoughts on them does bring me a great deal of sorrow…although, I can only wonder if this is a shared feeling between me and other manga readers, or if this is a moment where potential manga-only folks are cheering instead, purely due to how it’s spun. I’m afraid that this could very easily come off as a shocking, unexpected moment of a great victory for Chuuya and Dazai, no matter what Arthur says or does following it, because nothing can take away everything preceding this exact moment, which will doubtlessly draw away any and all sympathy from his character for those who know very little about him or are introduced to him this way.

That being said, the one thing that I do want to praise is the flashback, and more specifically, the panels between Arthur and Paul, in which it’s stated that ‘only one of them thought so’— I can’t say I had any hopes for any part with both Paul and Arthur in it to not be butchered, which…stems from how Studio Bones treated Chuuya and Dazai in season 3, how they go about fanservice and treatment of a popular ship, and I’m aware that Rimlaine is nowhere near as popular as Soukoku, but specifically in Fifteen/Stormbringer-centered communities, it’s certainly up there. I was somewhat dreading the possibility of sweeping those two’s actual canonical relations under the carpet in favor of softening them, ignoring them or whatever else to gain more traction or love from fans, but so far— and I so, so dearly hope I won’t jinx it— with the flashback and that alone, as for how those two are both portrayed, I have to give credit where credit’s due. The panels where Paul and Arthur are side by side, only to show Arthur alone are just…something I’d certainly do, should I have been in charge of drawing that section of the novel. Even so, there’s still Arthur’s recollection of what happened between the two partners awaiting us in the next chapter or so, which I will admit I’m ready to pay extra attention to in terms of specifics that are rather important in that scene, and I dare not prepare myself to celebrate this small victory just yet.

Anyhow, that’s all for this time, mostly because I can’t say much else when most of my attention is purely drawn to watching my favorite character die in a terrible way once again, but I suppose all the overarching issues are detailed in my former posts, and I will stand by every single one of them regardless.

#bungou stray dogs #bsd fifteen #bsd manga #text post #thoughts #my thoughts #bsd arthur rimbaud #bsd nakahara chuuya #randou #asachuu #imagine me if you will #writing this post teary-eyed looking at the last panel of Arthur in p18 #oh the things sets of pixels do to my heart

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asachuu · 1 month

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Now that Arthur’s design in the Fifteen manga…well…exists and is quite immovable from this fandom, I’ve decided to simply use it as an excuse to draw more versions of messed up Arthur designs. I mean, what else am I supposed to do?

Some say, if you can’t beat them, join them, but I’d say I’m more just using the opportunity to shamelessly create more edgy designs on the basis of one from an “official” BSD content source. I’m…certainly far from joining whatever was the original thought behind this, that’s for sure.

On another note, not to get anyhow personal on the main blog, but I’ve been in a quite miserable state of not being able to draw absolutely anything for a very long time now, but I found out how to use this artstyle by chance, and…it almost feels as though someone threw my lost inspiration back at me, so perhaps I’ll be able to return here slightly more often for at least a while, I’m truly hoping for that. I really like the way it looks and it’s not anyhow tiring or very time-consuming for me, which are all things I’ve been missing, and honestly, I’d be quite content with just some silly doodles nowadays instead of full pieces, so this will do more than fine.

Anyhow…that aside, for those curious, these were all just little designs I came up with on a whim, nothing somehow elaborately planned or thought out. My personal favorite is the one in the top left corner, I’m almost tempted to reuse it someday…but for what, I wonder?

#art #my art #rkgk #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #bsd fifteen #bsd arthur rimbaud #randou #asachuu #I’m being serious when I say this artstyle is saving me #I feel like I’ve risen from the dead over here #hopefully it won’t last me five minutes only

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asachuu · 1 month

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I adore watercolor-style drawings, so I tried my hand at one. I might continue to use this style for the future.

#art #my art #rkgk #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #bsd arthur rimbaud #bsd fifteen #randou #asachuu

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asachuu · 2 months

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Also, this is just a side note here, but I’ve gone back to check in with the novel, and I’m a bit surprised about the choice to not show Chuuya’s actual physical state.

Minor spoilers continue down here, but no images are shown.

Since this manga seems to be focused on the more horror-like elements and displaying just how powerful Arthur’s abilities are, I wouldn’t have assumed it would shy away from showcasing their true effect, which is— according to the novel itself— Chuuya being covered in blood and lacerations at this point in the story, not quite his usual self or seemingly almost unharmed as he is by the end of phase 17.

I cannot even begin to speculate about the origin of that choice, but it did hit me while looking at those two last pages, where Chuuya is meant to be weary, nearing his limits, and quite badly hurt. As I said, that was the reason he couldn’t escape and got his hand pierced by the scythe in the novel, not having Arthur hold him down to do so. I’m going to give Hoshikawa-san the benefit of the doubt here and wait for the next chapter, given the fight is nearing its end and Chuuya is quite violently beaten there, making the potential choice to simply ignore the fact that he’s meant to have broken bones, wounds all over, bruises and whatnot much more questionable, but considering that one page has already clearly been changed due to the consequences of not showing his actual physical state and having to change the original actions, it’s a bit difficult.

Nevertheless, while it’s a bit late for it, I’ll still be waiting for the following updates to see if it turns around, although I do think I should point this out as well by now, given it’s already had a noticeable impact on the story. The anime took this same route as well, only showing Dazai’s wound (singular, at that) instead of the consequences it had for Chuuya as well, with the manga quite reminding me of it on this note, though I suppose bringing up the anime’s rendition of the fight is somewhat irrelevant, considering the whole entire thing is practically just Studio Bones’ original content.

It’s that time of the month, folks, you know what that means…naturally, my thoughts on Fifteen’s phases 16-17, as well as just some more stuff I simply want to add, because this manga keeps on giving me things to talk about, for better or for worse.

Please note that there will be image spoilers for phases 16-17 below, proceed with caution.

This will be more of a freehand ramble about whatever comes to mind while I’m typing, I’m admittedly somewhat tired today and there’s not much new I could really add as a whole atop the persisting flaws in it, but what I will say is that I’m now starting to think even Chuuya fans are slightly losing here as well, looking at some of these panels. That is not to say they’re badly drawn, once more, I must give all credit to the artwork as I have to admit I very much like it and appreciate the effort that goes into it, but the focus of many of these pages seems to be purely to shock, intimidate or disturb the viewer in a certain way by highlighting the exaggerated abilities of the characters, rather than having the visuals balanced with the actual point of the story itself, which is not— and never has been— about the amounts of power Arthur and Chuuya hold, respectively. Perhaps I will be repeating myself here, but if anyone is to read the novel, they’ll come to find out that there is no more focus on abilities than there is on expanding Dazai, Chuuya and Arthur as characters and human beings within the story of BSD.

Nevertheless, it just so happens that Chuuya thankfully has a certain fanbase, of which the majority of people seem to understand he isn’t meant to be a cold-hearted maniac despite harboring the power of Corruption and being depicted/interpreted in various ways showcasing the extent of his abilities, but speaking from personal experience, the same can’t be said about anyone who comes to know of Arthur, which I don’t mean inherently negatively— I was also once such a person, for which I must sarcastically thank the anime adaptation that initially introduced me to him. At least, on Chuuya’s end, there are always attempts to show his humanity, his actual personality, and I’d have two guesses as to why— first, he’s one of the two most popular BSD characters who has the spotlight on him either by the creators or the fandom almost everywhere he goes; second, his story directly revolves around whether he is or isn’t human anyway, so it’s entirely understandable that a contrast between himself and his abilities would make sense to show, even sometimes exaggerate, just like in Hoshikawa’s adaptation.

Unfortunately, this contrast is just lost on Arthur’s end, because there is no other side of him being anyhow shown to the readers. Personally, I wouldn’t come out thinking Chuuya is some kind of heartless monster, given that he’s shown to interact with other characters normally, he’s seen coming back to his senses after a few panels, and generally, no matter what has been cut out and what has been left in, it just so happens that there is simply enough content of him to be able to merely afford to do any of this— all of which can’t be said about Arthur, who has all the necessary content to understand his character better specifically in the Fifteen light novel (and Stormbringer), not scattered all around several other books and mangas to be able to sacrifice one adaptation of the source material and still carry on. Albeit we still haven’t seen the end of the fight, in which I’m dearly hoping his dialogue is going to be portrayed properly with the same emotion it was presented to us with in the light novel as the absolute last chance for this to turn around in the slightest, I can safely say that there were opportunities to create this same effect with Arthur as with Chuuya, yet these opportunities were all passed up.

From the start, we’re introduced to this strange, yet harmless-looking sub-executive of the Port Mafia, that of which is revealed to be a ruse set up by him, and from that point onwards, throughout the fight, there is no further indication of anything beyond Arthur supposedly being nothing other than a simple cartoon supervillain who doesn’t really care about his actions, even though the novel has enough evidence scattered around that he does— he doesn’t want to be in that situation, he doesn’t actually want to kill anyone, and what he’s after is a memory of someone most dear to him which he’s desperate to get back, and believe it or not, all of this dialogue is, in fact, not supposed to be said coldly and flatly before having his ability centered to no end once more, shining the light on that aspect instead of a character who was originally someone most unfortunate and hopeless, someone who was in an inescapable situation that would have never ended well for him no matter what he’d done, and someone who was far from the person being portrayed in the manga currently.

With all that being said, one more thing I’d like to point out, which is a bit more specific to phases 16/17 at the current moment, is the way the interactions between Chuuya and Arthur are being portrayed as of right now. In the novel, it is made quite clear the two are, indeed, opponents in their fight, but Arthur has no actual desire to kill Chuuya, and Chuuya himself doesn’t actually hold anything against Arthur— in fact, it’s quite explicit in showcasing the fact that Chuuya has respect for him, understanding his motive of wanting to save a dear friend, even cursing out Dazai for not believing it or taking it seriously, and never showing any kind of outward excitement for this fight, which…will be relevant in just a second. If that’s not enough to convince a person, there’s also Chuuya visiting Arthur’s grave further in the novel and quite literally stating he will return to it again, and before that, I believe that Arthur telling Chuuya to live in his last moments also speaks volumes about the fact that there was no resentment or genuine conflict between the two, rather an unfortunate fate they were met with. In the manga, however, I don’t think it’s a reach to say that I’m not quite getting the same feeling. I’ll go ahead and admit that I’m focusing on this because of personal bias, but even despite that, I feel as though having Arthur written off as merely Chuuya’s opponent and nothing more is still not the right way to go about it, considering what I said before— there wasn’t an actual hostility between the two, and not only did Arthur tell Chuuya to live, he also was the one to call Chuuya a human being and see him as such, that of which I’d expect far more attention to just due to the mere nature of Chuuya’s character.

Now, for the first time ever, I will go into some very specific details, because I need them to show what I’m talking about. All further translation credits go to DarkestJay868 on Twitter.

This page from phase 16 was the one right after what was originally Arthur’s monologue about wanting to save his partner, and I believe it’s quite clear how I feel about that part, but I haven’t redrawn this page in particular despite it being in my original plans, so it’s only fair I give my thoughts on it while it’s relevant.

I would normally only nitpick these aspects privately instead of posting them online, but since this manga makes even such small things important for all the wrong reasons, I have to point them out. I initially didn’t think so much of this page, though I did find it a peculiar choice to make him look almost excited for the fight, atop the final line which never appeared in the novel itself— something that may seem insignificant, but ultimately, it does create the effect that Chuuya is somewhat eager to engage in this conflict for whatever reason, which is simply not the case. I could go on about some smaller dialogue changes, even his lack of harshness towards Dazai’s comments that makes his original reaction quite downplayed, but I’m leaving those in a quick mention of acknowledgment, as they’re only secondary to what I’m aiming at here.

I would have ignored this, given there’s a much bigger issue for me to focus on, had Chuuya and Arthur’s skewed interactions not continued onwards to phase 17 as well— more specifically, after Chuuya’s attacks, by the end of the chapter.

If someone were to tell me these two didn’t actually have any kind of internal conflict going on between them beforehand, I wouldn’t have believed it for a second, but here we are. From the first page, in which the original Chuuya of the novel was hurt and tired instead of almost feeling as though he isn’t taking anything too seriously, all while Arthur never said a word that nearly implies him looking down on the latter (his direct quote is “Nothing I say will help…this is my space”, you simply cannot tell me that isn’t far more neutral than what the manga turned it into), to the second page, where not only is Chuuya’s first line much more accusatory and directed at Arthur himself, rather than the original (“…everyone’s an ant to a European ability user…”), but also, might I add that Arthur wasn’t the one to hold Chuuya in place? It’s explicitly stated that Chuuya could no longer avoid the attacks by fault of using too much of his power, and even though this may sound like an insignificant detail when one is to consider the following scene of the novel— that is, almost being the one to end Chuuya’s life, which is absolutely no less cruel than a mere action like that— it still gives off the impression as though there’s some kind of hostility between them when there really wasn’t, not even during a fight to the death, and that, in the context of this manga and its very likely fandom reception…well, I’d much rather just cover even the smallest of details than watch as it ultimately gets misconstrued, as so much media surrounding this novel often does.

Anyway, that’s my take on these chapters for now. I’m aware it’s messy, I’ve only seen phase 17 a couple of hours ago and haven’t exactly prepared some kind of proper dissection. Naturally, feel free to take all this with a grain of salt, or even a whole bucket of it, because yes, I am very salty about the way this manga is going, but I’m hoping to ultimately compare it to the novel and give my own opinion on the development here.

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd fifteen #bsd analysis #bsd manga #bsd arthur rimbaud #randou #bsd nakahara chuuya #thoughts #my thoughts #asachuu

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asachuu · 2 months

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Please note that there will be image spoilers for phases 16-17 below, proceed with caution.

Now, for the first time ever, I will go into some very specific details, because I need them to show what I’m talking about. All further translation credits go to DarkestJay868 on Twitter.

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd fifteen #bsd manga #bsd arthur rimbaud #randou #bsd nakahara chuuya #thoughts #my thoughts #asachuu #well if there’s one thing I will slightly agree with #it’s that yeah. that man IS a creepy son of a bitch #but at this point it’s just not Arthur anymore #and hey I’d be the first to love a character like this #so it’s not as though I just wouldn’t love a villain because believe me I absolutely would #not to mention manga Arthur looks sick as shit #but this isn’t the actual character from the novel whatsoever

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#reblog #nonfandom #non fandom

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asachuu · 3 months

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I have no clue how desktop Tumblr works, so pardon me if I mess something up, but upon drawing 17 pages of a manga for a week straight, I don’t think this is the biggest problem for me anymore.

Minor spoilers for specifically the Fifteen manga below the cut, but it’s really just one visual detail.

I’ll make the joke for you so you don’t have to; yes, there’s four things I don’t draw often and it shows: Dazai, Chuuya, backgrounds and facial expressions. Now that that’s out of the way, I’m still delighted to present you with my week-long full-time torment I’ve chosen for myself, just because the last chapter of the Fifteen manga was ever-so-slightly frustrating, albeit admittedly visually right up my alley.

I’m not going to go into why, I’ve already spoken about what I find dissatisfying in particular about this manga that extends to every chapter and is no different this time around either, but I’ve decided to honor Hoshikawa-san’s creative choices nevertheless and borrow at least Arthur’s eyes from the latest chapter, just because…why not? Still, to achieve balance, I had to take phase 16 and turn the absolute lack of any emotion whatsoever to the exact opposite, and although I’d be willing to admit I’ve had to mildly overdo it, the stage play disagrees with me on that anyway, so I suppose that’s just fine here.

Now. Do I believe half the pages look as if I were drawing them in an extreme hurry? Of course, because I was. But do I care? Not enough to prevent me from posting this, and if anything, I can redraw some stuff later if I feel up to it and edit this post. I don’t have enough time nor a decent budget to try and create some kind of Mona Lisa at the moment, but what I do have is at least more care for the original source. At this point, I’m somewhat grateful for this slightly lengthy, tiring experience, just because doing this again will be easier the most-likely-inevitable next time.

All novel translation credits go to DarkestJay8686.

#art #my art #rkgk #bsd fifteen #bsd arthur rimbaud #bsd fanart #bungou stray dogs #bsd osamu dazai #bsd nakahara chuuya #randou #asachuu #I quite literally procrastinated on being sick to draw all this #I find it funny how the first pages have so much effort put into them #meanwhile the last pages seem like I’ve been slamming my head into a wall #it wouldn’t be far off from the truth

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asachuu · 3 months

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Also, this should not be hidden in a reblog as it would definitely deserve its own post, but this, alongside a couple of other things I’ve seen stated about Arthur’s personality truly leads me to believe that just because he’s a spy, one half of an assassin duo, a government agent and mafia member, it must mean that he cannot be anyhow anxious, shy, regretful, caring, or any of the traits he displays in canon, even if it’s all written black on white.

I’ll back this one up with the locations of where to find all these parts for quick access, because I think it’s quite important. I’m aware that we all interpret certain things differently, but you simply cannot come up to me and claim that Arthur is entirely cold-hearted and doesn’t care about murdering people purely because of his job, when he quite literally doesn’t consider it a success if no one is left alive (Stormbringer, Arthur’s memoir) or he expresses his clear regret upon either having to kill two children or a mass of former co-workers coming to assassinate him (Fifteen, Arthur’s fight). Neither can you claim that just because his job is already difficult and harsh, he could not possibly be anxious or any kind of emotional person in his actual life, not when he cherishes Paul to a point of disregarding his own teachings of not having personal connections, worries about a single gift he gave Paul for his birthday even 11 years later (Stormbringer, Arthur’s memoir + epilogue), blames everything that happened between him and his partner on himself (SB epilogue), doesn’t know how to respond to being called a criminal and doesn’t want to take anyone’s lives (Fifteen, the accusation and the fight), is directly stated to have been shy just handing Paul a gift (SB memoir), and can’t even directly say that he killed Paul (15, post-fight). Some try to claim he isn’t as forgiving and kind-hearted as people like me would tend to consider him as, to which I present you with Arthur feeling no anger towards Paul upon having been betrayed and threatened with a gun (SB flashback), wishing absolutely no harm upon Paul despite knowing very well his partner is an indirect reason behind his death and instead coming to apologize to him (SB epilogue), not once placing any ounce of blame on Chuuya or Dazai for ending his life (Fifteen, post-fight) + in fact, telling Dazai— who asked him whether he had “any regrets, as [they] could…” that he had no regrets, possibly implying he no longer wanted to be saved upon regaining all his memories. This is only naming a fraction of whatever I can think of from the top of my head, I’m sure I could go through both novels and highlight every single passage that deserves pointing out, but I believe these will suffice in getting my point across.

I think some people could assume that just because Arthur is initially shown to be this strange, somewhat socially outcasted man in Fifteen who would give off these impressions if he stayed that way for the rest of the novels, but he winds up being revealed as a traitor who has been pretending to be an entirely clueless mafia member with no ulterior motives, he could not possibly retain those personality traits afterwards, but based on all the content we have of him both before and after his mafia years, we can safely conclude that he was pretending to have absolutely nothing against the Port Mafia’s cause on his mind, yes, but as for his actual personality, it absolutely wasn’t all just fabricated.

A part of me wants to say that I can place my guesses on why some people are so deeply allergic to the concept of Arthur actually being a character who is very much contrasting to his job, his circumstances and his powers, being in a very dangerous environment as well as being a highly capable special agent, even one of the Transcendentals, yet simultaneously someone who should have undoubtedly been in a far different, safer and calmer place, someone who is capable of care, of love, of regret, of sorrow, worry and whatnot to a degree that’s quite obvious in every other line of his, even for people he doesn’t know or have any personal relationship with, but ultimately, I’d be pretending to understand. Not only would I think that this type of character would be one who’d seem very enticing to an audience, someone whom half the readers would definitely want to save from their authors, but also, we have this type of character in BSD already, and not just one background character who is so insignificant to the plot that you’d be able to miss them entirely. They’re not the same by far, but tell me, what about Kyouka, John, or even Oda? I don’t see anyone claiming those three have grey hearts of ash purely because of their jobs; in fact, I see more posts explaining why they’re purely in horrible circumstances and would have been wonderful people otherwise, but as soon as it comes to Arthur, a decent amount of posts are dead set on claiming that people like me are the ones who are deeply misinterpreting his entire character, that he shows no such traits, that we’re making him sound like far more of an emotional wreck despite him being canonically a spy who simply must be cold and calculated because of it, and I just don’t know if anyone is actually reading the same novels? In no world is he cruel, uncaring, forceful, and Hell, he’s not even as much of a saint of rationality as some tend to claim he is— if he’s backed into a corner, he does lose his calm composure (Fifteen, post-accusation), and he quite literally allowed his enemies to have two minutes of a discussion without attacking them (Fifteen, the fight), it’s not that he’s some kind of emotionless robot who is the epitome of the perfect, flawless agent.

Maybe I’m just feeling quite salty tonight, but I can’t wrap my head around any possible reason as to why he seems to be the exception to not even a rule, but a basic fact that yes, actually, a character can have a personality that doesn’t match their circumstances, and that’s a premise so much fiction operates on. And hey, maybe this will surprise some, but I don’t mean to claim that Arthur is some kind of extremely pure baby that could do no wrong, absolutely not— he has his flaws, he certainly is no saint, but to claim he isn’t anyhow human with his worries, his kindness, his regret and all his actual emotions in canon is just plain absurd, as well as it is absurd to claim that none of these things significantly interfere with his life. Whenever I don’t see people completely erasing these aspects of him to make him some kind of intimidating threat, I occasionally see the opposite, as I think I made clear with the original post above, and I simply don’t understand why it’s so inconceivable to think of him as just a character in a world that wasn’t anyhow made for him, not a caricature of heartlessness personified or someone whose one and only personality trait is his obsession with Paul, nothing else.

Rising from my grave to inform you all that I legitimately do not understand this “Arthur is forcefully, obsessively in love with Paul” claim/trope I’ve seen a couple of times over the years and I quite frankly don’t know where exactly it originated, but it’s just…a bit confusing, at the very least.

I don’t dispute that Arthur may have very well been in love with Paul and quite deeply so, far from, but some people speak of him as if he were this yandere stereotype in canon (AUs are AUs and those I am not talking about here), and I’m not certain of the context behind it? I can only perhaps think of the line in Stormbringer in which he swears to bring Paul back home no matter what, but that’s a stand-alone line he says on a mission during which his most trusted partner betrays him, and all other implied interactions between the two lead me to believe that Arthur is really just this shy, lonely 15-19 year old— see Arthur’s whole memoir claiming he wasn’t allowed to have any personal relationships, his supposed canonical age at the time, Paul’s recollection in the epilogue of Arthur “shyly” handing him over his gift, and speaking of said gift; Arthur’s uncertainty of whether giving it was the right thing to do, plus his worry about it over a decade later in his final moments— not this forceful, deranged maniac so far blinded by love to a point of thinking himself to have some kind of ownership over his partner. I suppose you could point to Arthur’s second death being only for Paul’s sake and nothing else, a self-sacrificial act that doubtlessly paints him as someone who most definitely cares about his partner far more than he should, but get this— he himself claims he’s already dead, and Paul was the only person he’d been allowed to care for, to look after, to stay beside and so on, not to mention he doesn’t see himself as anything of importance anyway— claiming no one will remember him after his death and he’ll only get an unmarked tombstone doesn’t invoke anything else, really— so I don’t think he’d take it as something of the same exact magnitude that it must have had in Paul’s eyes, and besides, he’s never seen it as something for Paul to constantly remember him for after his death to haunt him, for instance; it was only an act of saving his life to make up for a birthday gift he didn’t like, or so Arthur himself claims.

I certainly don’t doubt Arthur’s adoration and evident self-deprecation being horribly unhealthy, it definitely is and I haven’t written an essay on it just to claim otherwise, but there’s nothing pointing to him being anyhow forceful, possessive, completely dismissive of personal boundaries, rather the opposite— the man quite literally, canonically worries whether giving Paul a gift was the right thing to do, considering he wasn’t anyhow appreciated for it, and in not a single sentence is it implied he thinks of himself as having some kind of ownership over Paul beyond having raised him and given him a life— which, might I also add, he says as Paul points a gun at him with the intention of killing him, something which he doesn’t even hold against him a single time. In very simple terms, if I am to summarize it, I’d say Arthur is more of an extreme doormat personality, someone who doubtlessly puts his partner on a pedestal while thinking of himself as nowhere near, and although that’s nowhere close to behavior which should be rooted for, he’s certainly not some lovesick madman who is entirely oblivious to how much he’s overstepping— while it is true that Paul doesn’t appreciate his care for him or his attempts at comforting him whatsoever, that’s just…not a display of obsessive love on Arthur’s part? I’m not entirely certain on how to explain it to get the point across, but there’s a huge difference between wanting to comfort the dearest person to you, even if they despise it like Paul did, and showering them with unwanted affection, being possessive over them and whatnot.

Besides, Arthur has not once expected a thing in return for his actions throughout both novels— he’s never claimed he wants Paul’s gratitude, appreciation, love, anything, or that he’d feel anyhow entitled to it, perhaps even that he’d wind up getting his way someday if he continued, or any other such thing that this trope very often comes with. All of Arthur’s actions have never been to gain anything from Paul, and that’s clear from his memoir alone— if there’s one thing he actually wanted, it was to have someone to care for, someone to matter to, but that wasn’t something he was forcing Paul to show in any way, that was what he’d already felt he achieved from the start, most likely because he couldn’t have had any other frame of reference. There was nothing he ever wanted to force Paul to do, and if anything, what he saw Paul as was a human being of his own, not something which ultimately belonged to him in any way, shape or form, or someone who was indebted to him for all Arthur had done for him.

All that to say, this is just a short post against blatant mischaracterization, not against AUs, as I said. I admit the AU concept itself is very much not my thing either, but my personal opinion is obviously not the opinion of everyone else, and if that’s what you enjoy creating content for, feel free to go for it— just please don’t claim it’s actually canon. That’s all.

#impulsive post over now back to hiding #bungou stray dogs #bsd fifteen #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #bsd arthur rimbaud #randou #asachuu

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