Name's Silver • fan blog • Bungou Stray Dogs, Servamp & more • thoughts, theories, headcanons, fanart, incorrect quotes, opinions, or just the stuff I like • current main interest: Octopath Traveler
Sometimes I almost forget how many serial killers there are in servamp. Like I'm not saying you can't love them despite that, but canonically characters like lawless, tsubaki, touma and tsurugi are all serial killers.
Like, it's fiction, like what you like. But sometimes it feels like the fandom ignores that these characters killed a lot of innocent people except maybe when it comes to touma because he's just that much of an asshole. Lawless might regret it now and he does remember their names, but lawless did kill all of his eves after ophelia before he changed his mind in the main story. These people didn't do anything wrong except being "exceptional" at something. I like lawless. I like that he feels regret for killing tsubaki's subclass. I just feel like he could feel a bit more regret for killing all that mostly young, talented humans he killed because of his own issues. These people had their whole lives ahead of them.
So you know how during the Gallopolis quest in act I, when Eleven is impersonating Faris, there's this scene of everyone cheering for him before the race starts, and... do you think he was imagining himself in this position?
He was born a prince. It could be his people calling his name, his father looking at him so proudly. He's not really Faris, and sure, it doesn't really matter, but it could have been him. If things had gone differently so many years ago, this would be his life.
Sure, I really don't think he'd be happy living as a prince after the way his life took. But still, he got to experience a glimpse of something that was taken from him before he ever truly had it.
(Kinda spoilers for a late game banter i guess? That’s abt it-)
(Transcript under the cut)
(Hikari, Throné and Temenos are seated at a table)
Hikari: (singing) "Once ambitions are sated and done are deeds, the day shall come for us to lead. Our hope, shining bright. Our home, bathed in light.”
Temenos: What song was that, Hikari?
Hikari: A song for my friends
Temenos: A song… For your friends?
Hikari: Mhm
(Temenos and Throné gasp, and start tearing up-)
Partitio: Oh hey I can sing too!
Partitio, singing horribly: COUNTRY ROADS!!! TAKE ME HOME!!!
(Temenos, Throné — and now Hikari too — start crying but worse-)
Bungou Stray Dogs really managed to have an arc where the story goes from 0 to 100 without killing off half the cast and I have nothing but respect for that
"#i have a post canon ''au'' where the ada is forced to (temporarily) take in the disbanded Hunting Dogs"
what??? that sounds so cool??? can we hear more about it
Gladly! I'm happy to get to talk about it :D even though it's sort of a loose concept lol
This is excluding Tachihara (for obvious reasons) and Fukuchi; as much as I would want him to spend time and properly reconnect with Fukuzawa, I doubt he'd get the opportunity to after the whole mess with the DOA, either because he's going to jail, or... well, that other thing...
So anyway, I see two possible reasons for this, one of which being related to Yosano's ability and the surgeries (credits for the idea to @sinetempore lol) or the less likely but far funnier option of Kenji dragging Tecchou to Fukuzawa like "can we keep him :D".
On the one hand we have some very awkward interactions with the people that were literally hunting you down like a week ago, which is equally uncomfortable for both parties. They'd eventually warm up with each other (Tecchou and Kenji setting a good example by being the only ones actually interacting with each other casually at first), but until then no one is having fun with the arrangement. And everyone is aware it won't ever happen for some of them. Jouno and Kunikida just sort of ignore each other completely, and you won't ever find them alone in the same room.
(I feel like Lucy would get involved in this process too, probably dragged in by Jouno who noticed that she used to be in a similar position. She is, in fact, even more wary of them than the ADA members, the only exception here being Tecchou.)
On the other hand, though, this opens some really nice angsty possibilities for the Hunting Dogs, and I'm not talking about the physical ones. We don't know how long they've really existed, but assuming it's between 6 and 14 years the chains of the government must be imprinted so deeply in their minds. And without the surgeries, their capacities are nowhere near as where they used to be; and that's leaving the side effects of not receiving them anymore aside. Imagine them out on their first new mission and failing. Imagine their panic. All aside from the punishment they would have received as Hunting Dogs, failure simply isn't a familiar feeling for them anymore. I doubt Fukuzawa would send them away all on their own for multiple reasons, and the ADA members accompanying them are... concerned, to say the least. It takes a long and sort of one sided conversation to even figure our what's wrong, and even longer to sort it out. It was, in fact, the first and last time Jouno and Kunikida actually talked to each other. Neither of them ever acknowledged it again later.
On the OTHER other hand, we could get the friendships I want to see so badly. Ranpo and Teruko. Dazai and Jouno. Guys I'm not joking I need Dazai and Jouno to be friends so badly. They (and Fyodor) are in fact the only characters I have not one, but two childhood friends AUs for. I need to see them together.
Here. What? What’s this? What’s this? Iguro-san, what’s this? Take them. Huh? For me? *nods* Whaaaaat? I’m so happy! I promise you, I’ll treasure them! No need to treasure them. No way. That would be such a waste. It’s fine. If they get ripped… I’ll give you a new pair.