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wistfullywaiting2 · 26 days
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The biggest misconception in the bsd fandom ever to me is people constantly portraying Atsushi as someone who trauma dumps excessively when he canonically barely talks about it at all.
The entire point is that Atsushi does not talk about his trauma he’s just constantly thinking about/reliving it. He can’t escape the memories of his past so he tries not to acknowledge them.
He only mentions it when asked, either directly or when someone asks him to explain himself.
Atsushi doesn’t even give a cohesive explanation for what he saw while under Dogra Magra, he just apologizes to Haruno and Naomi.
If Lucy hadn’t had her whole “you’ve never suffered the way I have” spiel then I doubt even the audience would’ve gotten to find out about his scars
If Akutagawa never asked him how it felt for the orphanage headmaster to die Atsushi would have never told him that he’s been hallucinating.
In the omake where Kyoka asks him why his hair is like that it’s clear he wouldn’t have told her that unless she had asked.
In 55 minutes Atsushi very briefly mentions sleeping on a dirty floor somewhere to Kunikida because he was trying to explain and justify his behavior.
And the thing is that there are scenes that implies that the other characters see Atsushi behaving strangely and are visibly confused because they do not understand what’s wrong with him.
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Remember, we as an audience get to see things about characters that the main cast doesn’t. Just because we see into Atsushi’s mind doesn’t mean the other characters know what’s going on in there.
Also little footnote here that I think the scenes with Lucy and Akutagawa in specific are probably references to the moon over the mountain but I digress
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atsushi 🤝kenji🤝kunikida
having compression gloves for hand pain
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kyouka-supremacy · 1 year
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Me watching Spy × Family: I'm not watching this because Akutagawa's va is in it. I'm not watching this because Akutagawa's va is in it. I'm not watching this because Akutagawa's va is in it.
Me when Yuri shows up and his voice is completely unrecognizable from Akutagawa's: I'm no longer interested in watching this show
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threadmonster · 11 months
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Atsushi and Akutagawa battling on the air ship is so funny cuz they're just... having this weird battle versus each other that is almost like "fuck you, I hate you, you definitely have worth so shut up." Beautiful really.
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monstersqueen · 1 year
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The director had held his arms out wide before me…like a father embracing his child. The truth was clear. But no matter how quickly the truth pierced my heart, my brain simply wasn’t trying to understand.
The director was dead on the floor. Never would he say another word.
don't fucking care that man was a piece of work. don't fucking care if he was trying to help atsushi in his own way he fucked him up way too much for me to care.
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Bsd where Atsushi is one of Oda's children.
Oda survives because Dazai gets there in time and shoots Guilde himself. It's not till much later that they learn one of the kids is missing.
Oda found Atsushi after he'd escaped Shibusawa and was in the city. After the Dragons head incident so Oda doesn't know which Orphanage Atsushi came from.
Oda is hopeful he can find him and Dazai promises him that they will.
That was 4 years ago. Both have since joined the Detective Agency. Odasaku is out accompanying Ranpo out on some case out the city when Atsushi shows up in Yokohama.
Dazai doesn't recognise Atsushi because any pictures Oda had of his kids were destroyed. And they didn't meet prior.
Atsushi knows of him, and is suprised Dazai's in the Agency. He doesn't say anything, given no one else knows about Dazai's past and Atsushi doesn't want to upend that.
That, and the Headmaster had sewed seeds of doubt in Atsushi's mind about whether his dad ever loved him.
"If he cared for you so much, why did he leave you? Your birth parents abandoned you, so did he. The world has abandoned you Atsushi, you were not made to be loved."
So Atsushi's afraid if Dazai knows who he is, he'll be dropped from the Agency.
Dazai is sus, because hmm random orphan child who has a father in Yokohama. But he isn't from here... And he has the same name as my friends missing child.
Hmm????
He could outright ask him. But where's the fun in that? That, and Atsushi shuts down whenever his past has been asked about.
And Dazai doesn't want to upset him. He also doesn't want to call Odasaku until he knows for certain.
It all comes ahead when Kunikida makes a comment about Ranpo and Odasaku's case being over and that they would be heading back in a few days.
And Atsushi looks terrified. He practically runs out of the building and to the dorms. Dazai goes after him, concerned at his reaction. He figured with how lonely Atsushi clearly was that he'd be escatic.
But he's terrified.
"Dazai I... I can't talk right now I have to go."
Atsushi looked so small and afraid, clutching a bag of his meager possessions. "And you can, I'm not stopping you. But I'd like to talk first. If you still want to go, I won't stop you."
That calms Atsushi down a bit to sit down. "I'm guessing Ranpo's not the reason you ran out of there." Said Dazai. Atsushi shook his head, looking down in shame.
"I know Odasaku, he's a great friend of mine. We go way back in fact and I can tell you quite confidently that he's not a threat to you."
"I'm not scared of that..." Said Atsushi, he's given up hiding what Dazai has obviously figured out. "I don't want him to hate me, more than he already does."
"Why do you think he hates you?"
Atsushi looks at Dazai, tears in his eyes. But Atsushi won't cry, because kids who have been abandoned by there parents don't have the luxury of crying.
"Because I failed him. He... He went to his job and these men showed up..." Atsushi hugged his knees, the memory painful to this day.
"We all got put in a van it blew up. The tiger saved me but I couldn't save the others, not Kyousuke not Sakura...."
He couldn't save any of them, only himself.
"I got up, I went as far as I could before I passed out from the pain. I woke up in a hospital. The Headmaster was there, he took me back to the Orphanage. And that da-... Oda had abandoned me in the wreckage."
So that explained that. Odasaku had never legally adopted the kids, so of course they called the Orphanage.
Dazai felt a unique mixture of anger and sadness. Anger that Atsushi suffered, that Odasaku had suffered. Anger at that Orphanage and if Odasaku didn't kill that man Dazai would.
And sadness. Sadness that Atsushi had suffered, that Odasaku had suffered and Atsushi was so afraid Odasaku wouldn't want him.
"4"
"4?"Asked Atsushi confused. "4 years, that's how long Odasaku has been looking for you. He's been searching for you day and night since he found out you might be alive."
Dazai had never seen Odasaku so distraught as the day his kids were killed. He'd have walked to his own death.
But hearing Atsushi could be alive, that sliver of hope had ignited life back into Odasaku's eyes. Maybe that's partly why they'd joined the Agency to begin with.
Dazai looked Atsushi in the eye, needing him to believe him. "Odasaku would never knowingly abandon you. He thought you were dead, he ran off guns blazing for revenge. And you did not fail him."
Atsushi processes of all of this. Hope ignited in his heart along with the fear. He wanted so desperately to believe it was true.
Dazai said his piece and waited a while before asking if he could tell him. Atsushi nodded, putting his things away as Dazai stepped outside to make a phone call.
"I've found him."
Oda came barrelling into the room a lot quicker than he should've been able to. The moment his gaze found Atsushi, tears welled up in his eyes.
"You're alive."
The sheer relief in his voice bought tears to Atsushi's eyes, because Dazai was right. He wasn't abandoned, he wasn't hated or forgotten.
"Dad!"
Odasaku caught Atsushi as he ran into his arms. He sobbed into his embrace, and Odasaku wasn't much better. Hugging his boy, his son in his arms for the first time in years.
"I'm here, I'm here. I will never, never let you go again. Atsushi I'm so sorry. I'm so, so sorry." Sobbed Odasaku. "I thought you'd hate me, that you didn't want me." Said Atsushi and Odasaku shook his head, running a hand through his hair.
"Never, I could never hate you Atsushi."
Dazai watches them with a soft smile before leaving. They'd have a lot to talk about, but for now they were together again and that's all that mattered.
He had another phone call to make.
"Dazai, is everything alright?"
"Everything fine Ango, more than alright actually." Said Dazai, and as if reading his mind Ango smiled. "He found him, didn't he?"
"He did, which brings me to my call" the smile on Dazai's face shattered to pieces. "I need you to find the bastard responsible for taking Atsushi away."
"Tell me what you know so far. We'll go from there."
The Headmaster and all those involved was going to pay for this.
The Guild would probably crumble too the moment Odasaku found out about Atsushi's bounty. But that was for another day.
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Genuinely don't think I've seen anyone talk about chapter 25 as a pivotal moment for Dazai so I'm gonna put this out here because I think his reactions here kind of negate that whole omnipotent Dazai interpretation which I hate with every fibre of my being.
Firstly, he's like, clearly caught off guard here. And don't try to tell me he wasn't, because this is just one instance of his genuinely horrified reaction to Q's release and when he realized what was actually going on with Atsushi, Naomi and Haruno.
Him being caught off guard carries significance here because you'd never catch him screwing up this bad later in the series - which is exactly my point.
I wrote a post earlier about how I don't think Dazai really is very much like Mori or Fyodor at all, and I stand by that, because their motives are different. Tldr for that post: Mori and Fyodor are ambitious and proactive, while Dazai is empty/numb and reactive.
What this leads me to believe is that Dazai is less a chess master like those two and more of a contingency planner - he's so good at "predicting" because he is uncannily good at thinking like his opponent and then planning for literally any possibility under the sun he can come up with. He's no gambler. Everything and everyone is practically (and unknowingly) micromanaged. It's almost paranoid in a sense, and I definitely think it's a trauma response to something he went through that we don't know about yet - after all, he was more than capable of this before he even met Mori.
...which brings to me to Mori's influence here. It's straight up like Dazai forgot how willing Mori is to gamble huge risks for a good outcome. It's like he forgot the mafia could be a real threat to his best-laid plans.
Going to throw out a wild claim here that I don't think is actually all that baseless - I think it's widely assumed that Dazai molds himself to what he needs to be (true!) but I think this misses the idea that he is also easily influenced by the mindsets of the people around him (see: the difference between Entrance Exam Dazai and early manga Dazai, the whole "the longer he was in the mafia the darker and more incomprehensible he became" thing from Stormbringer, how dark his eyes get in the prison sections with Fyodor, etc.). I could go on, but for the sake of not making this post too much longer, let's assume this is true because it suddenly makes sense as to why he failed to predict Q but predicted other events much later that were inherently more difficult to predict:
He was in the wrong mindset. He was thinking like an Agency member, and dare I say, he even got a little complacent. He started to get used to not having to manipulate every last variable - he was removed from a toxic environment - only for Mori to pretty much instantly fuck that up in one scene.
Let's also not forget what happened the last time he miscalculated Mori's intentions.
The consequences of this blunder could've been a lot worse and he knows it.
In his mind, thinking like an ADA member wasn't good enough to stop a potentially awful outcome - awful outcomes that could bring him pain. So, he goes back to what he knows - think like the demon prodigy. Think like Mori. Later on, think like Dostoyevsky. Because it seems to me that he believes as long as he is still working for the light that it doesn't matter if he uses these horrifically manipulative and inhumane methods of getting there. But he is wrong. Darkness within the context of good intentions is still very much darkness, and it hurts people all the same.
In the very next chapter, Dazai arranges Ango's car accident. And he only gets worse and worse throughout the series as he regresses back into his paranoid darkness that manifests as this omnipotent facade - his safety net that ultimately prevents him from developing in a positive, more human direction.
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appleinyoureye · 1 year
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BSD │ Sweet Dreams to the One I Love
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Summary: how they cuddle you to sleep! (and if they're a pain in the ass in the actual act of sleeping)
Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs
Characters: Atsushi Nakajima, Dazai Osamu, Kunikida Doppo, Ranpo Edogawa, Tanizaki Junichiro, Akiko Yosano
Word Count: 702
Type: headcanons
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Atsushi
Since he’s never received any good forms of physical contact, at first he’s a bit scared. So frightened that he almost falls down from bed, because he’s afraid to be close to you. You need to introduce him to this type of feeling, slowly assure him that you’re not here to hurt him. Even if you’re really close on a daily basis, Atsushi’s still hesitant, since during sleep he’s completely vulnerable. But after a few nights together, he’s the most cuddly person on the whole planet. Big spoon, loves to hug you from behind and has that strong ass dead grip, not letting you go anywhere. He’s never slept so calmly before, and he doesn’t plan on losing it.
Dazai
Dazai likes to cuddle before sleep. He rubs your back, arms, plays with your hair and loves to pepper your skin with tiny kisses. He also wants all of this in return. However, once you say the final “goodnight”, everything changes. This little bitch turns around so that you’re facing his back, gripping the duvet as hard as he can. You can be sure that he steals most of it to himself, and that there’s no way of taking it back, because after only a few seconds you can hear him snore (you also know that he’s only pretending, but there’s nothing you can do about it). Hug him from behind and hope that the night will be a warm one, because you’ll be completely fucked otherwise. 
Kunikida
He’s not a big fan of cuddling. Little gears keep turning in his head, thoughts on a loop: “It would be kind of inappropriate. Would it be improper?” It’s not like he doesn’t mind it and it’s not like he doesn’t like it too. It’s just… confusing a bit. When you go to sleep though, he lays flat on his back, one arm stretched in your direction so that you can lay on it. Kunikida doesn’t even hug you fully with it, just the fact that it’s there should be enough. Oh, and he talks in his sleep. Like a lot. He babbles about his ideals interchangeably with scolding Dazai.
Ranpo
Ranpo wants you to cuddle him if that makes sense. He wants to be pampered, so scratch his back, stroke his arms and play with his hair. His head is full of ideas so he needs something different to focus on to fall asleep, and the way you rub his skin helps him just perfectly. But be prepared that as much as you may love this guy, you’ll hate him during the night. He’s everywhere on the bed, spreaded like a cat on a hot summer day. One leg hanging from the side, the other on you, left hand high above his head, right, no matter how many times you smack it away, keeps slapping your face. It’s not an easy night but at least he doesn’t snore, right? …right?
Tanizaki
Weirdly enough, he looks like he’s the most normal of them all. He’s just a guy that wants to cuddle before sleeping with his loved one beside. He hugs you, talks about his day and asks about yours. Tanizaki listens to you very carefully, playing with your hair and stroking your leg with his. If you can’t fall asleep he even offers to hum you a song. He likes to be a big spoon and a small spoon, but his all time favorite position is on his back, your head on his chest, while he hugs you closer to his body.
Yosano
She likes to have you close. She will hug your arm close to her body, expecting that you’ll play with her hair as she tells you about stupid people she has had to deal with at work. After Yosano gets sleepy, she forces you to turn around, and big spoons you, her arms tightly closed around your body. Just as Atsushi’s big spooning feels as if you’re hugged by a koala, in Yosano’s case it feels as if being manhandled by a gorilla. Her grip is so strong you can forget about going to the toilet in the middle of the night – she doesn’t plan on letting you go before the first rays of sun enter your bedroom.
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heartsfourdazai · 6 months
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hello! I've been reading your posts for quite a while now and just got the courage to actually ask something. I would like to request Dazai, Chuuya, Atsushi, and Akutagawa with an S/O who has a chronic pain disorder (think EDS or fibro) that hides it SUPER well. how would they react to learning of the pain they are in day to day and just, act like isn't there. or would they catch on super quick? maybe they walk in on their S/O in bed unable to move due to pain? I would prefer fem reader but I don't mind if you do something else. Also, I'm giving you the freedom to pick the setup you want to do. hope you have a good week and make sure to take care of yourself!
with a chronic pain disorder reader
dazai, chuuya, atsushi, & akutagawa<3
warnings: lowercase writing
a/n: apologies in advance for any mistakes! ty for the request<33 female reader!!
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good luck trying to hide shit from this dude
he reads you like a book, so it's hard to keep secrets from him.
why would you?
in small words, he catches on real quick!
he hates how you try to hide it from him.
it makes him feel like you don't trust him to take care of you, and that you don't think it's a big deal.
literlly tries anything he can to make you feel more comfortable with your condition around him.
cuddling with you.
whispering sweet nothings into your ear when you started to bite your lip to stop your sobs.
just stays with you when you need him.
he doesn't know how to exactly feel when your pain? he knows what to do, yes, however he can't help but talk to himself while he's comforting you.
if you have trouble sleeping due to this pain, he'll be awake with you attempting to sooth you and distract you from the pain.
sometimes you never get sleep, affecting his own slumber, not sleeping for up to two days.
you feel terrible seeing him as tired as you are, to the point you feel like just crying but he's here to remind you it was his choice, and will stay awake for an eternity if it means to comfort you.
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just like dazai, good luck tryin to hide anything from him.
he knows when your happy.
he knows when your sad.
he's like santa, dude knows you!
you couldn't get out of bed. he had to come back all the way home from work to get you out and actually help you stand.
entering your room, you were curled into sobbing ball, his heart shattering into small glass pieces.
he has to think on his feet for this one, and just sat in bed with you, a leg crossed over one as he sat on the edge.
his hand rubbed your back gently, shushing you softly when he heard your sobs turn louder with each second.
he's known about your condition the moment he started dating you, although you were hiding it at first when you met him and started working for the port mafia, you weren't the best at hiding it from him.
he has sharp eyes, and just knows.
sometimes it's scary, but that doesn't worry you.
if he notices you have trouble sleeping, he's in bed with you. if you kick from the pain and hit him, he doesn't care. he just keeps holding you until your calm.
usually you fall asleep, but on the nights when you stay up till 4am and your still not asleep but really tired, he awake with you and distracting you.
asking you what your excited for today. if you want to go on a date sometime to your favorite place in Yokohama.
he's by your side. all the time.
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i see atsushi as a visual person.
he's a mixture of dazai and chuuya when he catches on people hurting.
he keeps an close eye on his friends, making sure they're not hurt or sad.
so off the bat he notices you trying to hide your pain. your his girlfriend, how could he not notice he's around you almost all day, besides different missions that you've both been assigned to.
he confronts you when your both alone.
please don't lie to him. he already knows your in pain and is ready to help you.
well, try his best to!
he wants you to talk to him and feel comfortable around him so he can help!
so...after a while you do speak to him alone at home.
now he's on his feet, not trying to keep you to himself, but just keeps an extra eye on you now that he knows about your condition.
when he see's you in pain, he's quick to come and comfort you and help you with whatever you need.
trouble breathing? he's here to help you and demonstrate.
terrible pain? he'll rub that said spot with a gentle touch and whisper sweet nothings in your ear.
he's just so sweet and paient with you, you can never get annoyed at him when he helps you.
if you have trouble sleeping he'll heat you up a nice tea and let you choose a movie you want to watch.
if you do fall asleep, boom his idea worked, but if you both stay up the entire night because of your pain he won't complain. he'll just help you the best way he can.
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um.
i think...he'll just be quiet.
like, he has no idea how to comfort people.
and if your in pain? what-what can he do?
he's lived off pain, he is used to it. so seeing someone else in pain just causes him to freeze and walk away from the situation.
however he made a promise, to always be with you and you always be with him.
its liked you both signed a love contract to never leave each other.
sure, an arugument that may last for a while is bound to come across your relationship- but he never wants to actually hurt you.
back to the main point lmao-
maybe he'll hold your hand...to let you know your not alone??
he doesnt...like...seeing you in pain. and especially because it's something you cant control makes it worse for him.
tears start forming in your eyes and you cry?
fuck. what does he do now?
well, he actually hugs you.
sure. he's stiff...but his touch actually makes you feel safer and good.
he stared to notice you started to try and hide your pain from others besides him, and that just sends a warm and fuzzy feeling inside of him.
butterflies?
your not even doing anything!!
that just proves he cares for you and may not say it.
if he catches you taking all-nighters, he just lays in bed with you.
usually...he never sleeps either.
he stays up late or even sleeps at all.
so your both in the same boat for that part.
he's trying his best. he does care, but has a hard time showing that off to you
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akutasoda · 7 months
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hiii!! Have you heard of the song ‘Dial Drunk’? It’s becoming my comfort song so-
reader who uses alcohol to cope and will just randomly call them crying asking to be taken back? Even if they’re still in a relationship? I’d say it’s because reader might see them as someone from a past relationship cause reader can’t get over them yet?
(with Dazai, chuuya, atsushi, Fyodor, and kunikida? + anyone you want!)
-🌀Anon!
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synopsis - feelings are strange and often become more prominent in certain circumstances
includes - atsushi, dazai, kunikida, chuuya, fyodor
warnings - gn!reader, angst, slight comfort, quite heavy, alcohol, mention of underage drinking, fyodor being horrible with emotions, wc - 720
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atsushi nakajima ★↷
as someone who only wants the best for his partner, would be absolutely so sad to see you in such a state. but seeing the fact that you're with him would probably mean your close to his age - so that would be even worse for him to see.
and getting any kind of phone call from you and seeing you so upset would mean he's dropping everything he was doing and going straight to you to comfort you.
would want nothing more than to help you and maybe get you out of using alcohol to cope, telling you that he would always be there to help and support you in whatever way you wanted
no matter the reason he would try his absolute hardest to help you. afterall he believes you deserve everything and seeing you like that breaks his heart.
osamu dazai ★↷
a man who personally and very id very much ashamed of it, but had turned to the bottle a couple of times when feeling particularly low. but that all changed when he had met you, you finally gave him a reason to attempt to crawl out of his bad habits.
but throughout the relationship he could tell something was slightly off but respected your privacy and wouldn't pry.
but when he found out about your habit it pained him deeply as he knew all to painfully what you were feeling. to receive a phone call from the one of the only people who bring him happiness sounding so distraught made his heart ache.
he would want nothing to comfort you in times of need but unfortunately he was never all too good eith his own feelings, let alone another persons. but he'd be damned if he didn't try and help you in the ways you've helped him. whatever the reason for you to turn to the bottle he would try his best to help you.
doppo kunikida ★↷
would only ever touch a bottle of alcohol in celebration or, very rarely, in times of desperation. although he heavily strays from the second as he knows how bad it is and wants to avoid it at all costs.
receiving that drunken call from you did nothing but break his heart even if you two were still together. would try and comfort you in whatever way possible and whatever the reason that you told him he would still offer nothing but support.
wouldn't openly tell you how much he hated your way of coping but would try and slowly gett you to stop and find another way around, with your consent of course.
chuuya nakahara ★↷
yet another who is no stranger to turning to the bottle in his darkest times. sure he does openly drink but it is never in serious amounts unless its really rough. and he knows, and he's not proud of it.
so receiving that phone call from you in the middle if the night, he couldn't help but feel himself be nearly brought to tears at your drunken, distraught cry to be taken back despite nothing between you two being off. what made it even more painful for him was knowing exactly how you felt.
now he knew he wasn't one to criticise your habits but maybe you two could figure it out, get both if you off the habit and do nothing but be there for each other. whatever the reason for your habit he would listen and offer his most heartfelt advice.
fyodor dostoevsky ★↷
someone who would rarely even think about touching a bottle of alcohol. not only does he just hate the idea but he hasn't really got a healthy body. so alcohol normally is out of the question for him.
but that's mainly because he isn't a fan of it, so seeing you resort to something like that msde him feel something he didn't want to feel. and receiving that phone call definitely didn't help. wouldn't immediately comfort you because he's kind of hopeless in that area.
but would talk about it with you later, once you sobered up and agreed to talk about it. would try to support you, again he's not that good with emotions but tries his hardest for you and hates to see you resort to alcohol and really wants to get you to find a new way if coping. a better one.
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wistfullywaiting2 · 24 days
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kaurwreck · 4 months
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I think Dazai, while young, became attached to Natsume when Natsume was lonely and so was he (which is why he calls him Sensei in the Dark Era, like the protagonist in Kokoro); that Natsume brought Dazai to Mori after Dazai attempted suicide (which is why Dazai never touches him in Bar Lupin, why Natsume follows him from the Port Mafia to his meeting with Taneda and then to the Agency, why Dazai knows Natsume well enough to allude to his history to Tanizaki and to recieve the jump drive Natsume brings him in the Cannibalism arc— Dazai knows him); and that Natsume performed a partial skill transfer similar to Kyouka's mother to ensure it could not come that close ever again (and that's why Dazai is one of the few if not only touch/contact-based skill users whose is involuntary).
I think No Longer Human isn't merely nullification, I think (similar to how Bram's skill reverses death but through the framework of vampirism and Atsushi's slices skills and regenerates in addition to his transformations), there is more to Dazai's skill such that it precludes him from dying (which is why he can stand in front of a hail of bullets and be thrown by Chuuya through several buildings in the Port Mafia, why he can't seem to commit suicide successfully, why Kunikida and Chuuya remark on his preternatural inability to die, why Dazai says to both Atsushi and Fyodor with such certainty "you can't kill me," and, cheekily, why Kunikida tells Dazai in 55 Minutes "You're no longer human! You've lost that right!" when Dazai says he finally managed to die, however briefly).
I think Natsume's skill bends reality in the shape of the narrative structure over which he had such mastery and he decided that whoever he failed to snatch from the cyclical jaws of misery and suicide before (again, borrowing from Kokoro), he would not let this boy die; and how cruel that must have felt at first (which is why Dazai hates pain— he's been denied the easiest escape from it that he knows), but how reality bent to weave a narrative such that Dazai could be saved again and again in such a way that might shatter Koroko's inescapable loneliness (this is why, in 55 Minutes, it's implied HG Wells might not have existed, might have been an apparition from an earlier era, as if reality itself rippled space and time to reconjure someone who made sense to protect Dazai when it seemed unlikely anyone else could; why Akutagawa happened to have business there; why Akutagawa and Atsushi happened to cross paths).
It's well known that the titular cat in I Am a Cat is a calico. But, the story was based on Natsume's IRL cat, who was a black, striped cat. And aren't Dazai's bandages a little like stripes?
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kyouka-supremacy · 2 years
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I... Like (hate) the theory that Dazai sent Akutagawa to Atsushi's rescue already knowing he would have died, but I like even better the theory that Akutagawa's last deed to save Atsushi was a first (and last) act of free will: Akutagawa doing something completely unexpected that Dazai could not predict and finally - if only in his last moments - freeing himself from Dazai's conditioning.
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burninbriight · 10 months
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after reading the sun and the star my semi-dormant pjo obsession has risen and is infesting my brain side by side with bsd. so.
bsd percy jackson au: a series of self indulgent hcs
skk is the percabeth of the situation. iconic duo. unstoppable. EVERYBODY has heard about them. literal legends among the demigods baby
dazai is a child of athena, chuuya a child of ares
dazai's team beat chuuya's during capture the flag once and chuuya went aight bet. and kicked dazai's ass during the next capture the flag. his team still lost but at least he got an excuse to fight that annoying know-it-all bandaged and beautiful son of athena
the rest is history
the akutagawa sibilings are children of hades. goth mfs
now imagine them having the same storyline as the di angelo sibilings... now in this au you can see why akutagawa talks like he belongs to another age
gin would consider joining the hunters of artemis, but in the end they end up refusing to not leave their brother alone. plus, being immortal would mean seeing him and all of their loved ones die, and gin has had enough of her loved ones dying
if skk is percabeth, shinskk is solangelo
does atsushi fit the standards for a child of apollo? idk but i can't think of another godly parent for him so be it!
unlike will solace, healing is not atsushi's strongest task but he still spends a lot of time helping in the infirmary
and that's where he meets ryūnosuke
unlike solangelo the initial hostility is NOT one sided. ryū behaves like a bitch? atsushi gets bitchy right back.
cue to atsushi looking extremely pissed while bandaging ryū's arm and them muttering insults at each other
ryūnosuke swears he hates that fucking failed doctor and atsushi would almost believe him if it wasn't for the amount of times ryūnosuke has tried sacrificing himself to save him during their quests
also in this au rashomon is a hellhound like mrs. o'learly. she's a sweet doggo that devours space and souls
or she's one of ryū's cocoa puffs? (does this count as a tsats spoiler taken out of context?)
you know that one scene in tsats where nico kisses the back of will's neck and says "i'm proud of you"? now picture that as atsushi to ryūnosuke. yeah.
also atsushi has plague powers bc i say so
yosano is the real will here: overworked healers who feel extremely guilty for every patient that died under their watch to the point of considering themselves murderers
she runs that infirmary like it's the navy
she's also a hell of a fighter, both with bows and arrows and with her own fists
bff with ranpo, who's the oracle!
they gossip abt apollo (boyfail) and complain abt their respective fundamental but hella hard roles at chb
also besties w/ chuuya
also hear me out on kousano in this au... yosano falls helplessly in love with hunter of artemis!kouyou. kouyou tries to convince herself that she's not falling for that bossy and selfless and brave doctor because she has an oath to keep and she couldn't let love knock at her door again. so everytime the hunters come to chb kouyou keeps yosano company and it's all longing looks and painful yearning. yosano wishes she could convince the redhead to break the oath and stay.
but she won't. i <3 kousano angst
moving onto happier lesbians. gin loves wandering by themselves in the forest or by the lake. people know them as the demigod who just fucks off to take a stroll in the woods and disappear there for an indefinite amount of time
and that's how she meets an awkward, stubborn but lovely dryad: you guessed it, it's higuchi!
gin was having a bad day and kicked a tree because they were just so angry— anger turned to guilt when the tree fucking yelped
gin immediately apologized and higuchi asked them what was bothering them. gin never loved to talk, so they were very surprised by themselves when they started rambling about their problems to a dryad they just accidentally hurt
from that day gin began spending even more time in the forest
sometimes they bring higuchi to camp
it isn't unusual for dryads to wander around camp, but higuchi usually kept on her own before meeting gin
higuchi helps gin to open up about their emotions and lower their walls, gin helps higuchi to make friends and to value and love herself
chuuya's fatal flaw is loyalty, dazai's is pride, ryūnosuke's is holding grudges, atushi's is holding too tight onto the past, gin's is also loyalty, yosano's is guilt
tachihara is a child of hermes. parallels between two regretful traitors el oh el
except that luke fucking sucks while tachihara has my heart
OKAY NOW OPEN YOUR EARS. STORMBRINGER ENJOYERS RISE. RIMLAINE AS SILENA AND CLARISSE..... CAN YOU SEE WHAT IS SEE........
lucy is deffff a child of aphrodite but she's so lovely she doesn't even need to use charmspeak to get what she wants. whatever you say beloved princess
idk why but i can picture her throwing an hairbrush at an ancient titant like rachel... her and rachel are acc pretty similiar imo but i will not elaborate
poe is an athena kid! the biggest loser in cabin 6!
lucy and yosano tease him on his crush on ranpo
ranpo is there like damn. is this guy gonna confess or do i have to tell him we are going to date via prophecy
poe is a surprisingly good archer, the apollo kids are almost jealous
nikolai is an hecate kid. a little trickster. a silly magician. he will steal your nose but like in the literal sense and he might not give it back
his best friend is sigma from the aphrodite cabin. sigma cannot fucking stand him
nikolai is actually the reason why sigma has split colored hair. it used to be fully white but one day nikolai went heyyy girlie look at this new hair trick my sibiling taught me :] and sigma ended up actually loving the look? so they kept it
the dryads love sigma and he spends a lot of time with them. they braid flowers in each other's hair and chill
nikolai on the other hand somehow befriended the arpies
fyodor is a child of nemesis. edgelord
jouno is a child of hermes, the eldest in the cabin
half of the camp wants him, the other half wants him gone
teruko is a child of hebe, the goddess of youth!!!!
she's ones of the oldest campers along with jouno, but she prefers to keep her child form for unknown reasons
also i can see her joining the hunters tbh
that's it for now folks i hope someone appreciates my brainrot xoxo
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greasyghosts · 1 year
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❝ When they come home late and injured ❞
Featuring: Dazai, Kunikida, and Atsushi
C/w: wounds, gashes, ect. Alcohol, slight angst in dazais, stab mentions, swearing, use of bella/belladonna in dazais part. Blood mentions. (Let me know if I missed anything!) Not entirely proof read
A/n: This was written at 3am, so I apologize if it's horrid lol (I typically hate using y/n, but.. I couldn't figure anything else to use for some characters. If you have any suggestions, please leave them in the comments!)
!please don't repost, plagiarize, or copy my work ♡
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Dazai:
He gotten injured SO many times so you're probably used to it, nevertheless still massively scared about him
You expect him to come late, but tonight he came back EXTREMELY late, probably into the next day.. I'm talking 3-4am
it's probably because afterward he had a drink at Lupin and probably fell asleep there, lol
Sometimes you slip his mind cause he's just used to coming home injured and alone
But when he finally comes home, the alcohol has worn off on him, and he realizes, "Oh.. shit"
He feels bad, but he may try to make light of it.
When you turn the light on him and he sees your swollen eyes, your red nose, and patches of pink on your cheeks.. God does he feel horrible now.
He enters your shared apartment, sighing as he removes his bloodied coat.
"Belllaaaa" he called, not even expecting you to be awake
But to his surprise you come running to the door
"Osamu-!" You say as you immediately wrap him in a hug, in which he hisses in pain
You move back, finally realizing the wound on his waist
You sigh as you practically force him into the bathroom
"Belladonna.. I can take care of then myself" he tries to take the first aid kit before you do but you beat him to it, turning your face to look at him
And then he notices...
God does it hurt his heart
"Then you should've taken care of them before you had gotten home practically drunk. Yeah, Dazai, I can smell the beer on you." You practically snapped
All he could do was stare at you sympathetically, he knew you were right to be upset.
So he just sits on the closed toilet and lifts his shirt, letting you do the work
"Im.. sorry, love." You look up at him
"What happened..?" You tried to lighten the mood
He'd chuckle in recollection
"I got stabbed" he'd say through a cocky smile
Your face completely read 'what the actual Ffff-...."
He seemed to wear it like a medal
"You saw it coming though.. I know you can predict these things" your voice showed no signs of venom, just exhaustion
"Why do you keep letting yourself get hurt, Dazai?"
When you look up at him, his brows are furrowed, and his head is resting on his hand.
"I truly didn't see it coming, bella. I'm sorry I made you wait so long, and that I got you worried. " his voice was sincere, so you sighed and got up.
"Cmon Osamu.. I'm tired. " You'd pull on his arm, which in return you got a chuckle and a hug from him
"I love you, bella" he cooed. But as he was sort of suffocating you in his chest, the best you could say was a muffled "I love you too, NOW LET ME BREATHE"
Kunikida:
Let's be fr, this man would not let himself be late. Even if he's injured.
But let's just say there was an extremely rare instance where he was (max would probably be 30 minutes ☠️)
He'd come home, calling your name. He probably texted you beforehand
His arm tied up in a random piece of cloth to hold pressure on his wound
He'd see all the lights were on and you cooking something
God, this man is in love with you. When he sees your face, he immediately smiles
Of course, he'd decline when you offer to properly dress his wound, but you'd manage to take care of it anyway
When you heard his keys click against the door as he unlocked the door to your home, you ran up to meet him.
"Kuni!" You jumped into his arms
His lips immediately curl into a smile
"Hello, Y/N, I hope you got my text?" He asked
You'd nod, that being the reason you even started making a meal for him
As he filled you in on what happened at the ADA your eyes drift to his left arm and see the bloody cloth surrounding a wound
"Ughh, Kunikida you should let me dress that for you.." You started unbuttoning his top so that you could reach the area
Shaking his head a bit before he spoke
"No, dear you've already done so much, I'm perfectly capable of doing it"
Then you just sigh as you drag him into the bathroom to take care of it for him, afterwards enjoying a comfy meal together.
Atsushi:
He's literally wanted by so many people it's hard to think he won't get injured
And if he does, the only time he wouldn't call to say if he was coming home was if his phone was either down or broken and he had no change for a payphone
When he'd come home, he'd probably be too tired to say something and would let his head fall on your shoulders as you tended to it
If you give him a few kisses while you're at it, you'll have this tiger melt in your hands like putty
You had left the door unlocked for him, you knew he had a difficult mission today so you didn't mind waiting, you just hoped he was okay. And even if he wasn't, you had the first aid kit next you and ready.
Atsushi walked through the door, groggy and slow, but still smiling at your face.
You greeted him warmly before he sat down in front of you, face buried into the crook of your neck
Of course you expected him to be injured, luckily it was something that could easily be taken care of.
Atsushi would grip your arm in pain when you'd put the disinfectant agent on the gash on his forearm.
So, to relax him, you'd place a few kisses on his face. To which he'd wrap his arms around your waist
"Atsushi I can't get to your wound!" But he'd just mumble something incoherent and you'd stay they're for a lil while..
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A/n: sorry if this was super bad lol, but please leave recommendations and requests!
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That one bit of 55 minutes where Atsushi says how he hates pain. But it's become such a foundation of his life that being in pain makes Atsushi feel like himself.
Will forever break my heart.
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