#lunarelly rants

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dazai isn’t in love with chuuya guys, just because he gave him a reason to live and he said he wanted to see what chuuya’s insides look like and he waxes poetic about him when he’s fighting and he’s constantly thinking of new ways to annoy him and they share a soul does NOT mean they’re in love. idiots.

#bungou stray dogs #sukoku #bsd #soukoku #bungo stray dogs #lunarelly rants

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i don’t think chuuya’s complexity as a character is spoken about enough honestly. one of the recurring themes in bsd is that good people do bad things, and bad people do good things, and morality is complicated and never perfect in any person because it is literally a concept of humanity.

to me, chuuya embodies this the most because while he has taken countless lives and doesn’t hesitate to do so, his most prominent lore centers around him protecting the people he cares about (the sheep in fifteen, his colleagues in storm bringer, the mafia in the cannibalism arc, he even shows concern for Dazai despite their complications).

there is no debate that he has killed and caused devastation with his ability, but he was also a child when he was burdened with the responsibility of protecting the entirety of the sheep, and was still a child when he was recruited into the mafia which would cause anyone’s moral compass to become questionable.

chuuya is loyal to and protective of the people he cares about, and his biggest moral complication is that he will do anything for them.

#i just think bsd is full of all these amazing themes regarding humanity and morals #and i think it goes unnoticed somtimes #there is *depth* #and every character has grey areas #anyway #bsd #bungou stray dogs #chuuya nakahara #chuuya #bungo stray dogs #lunarelly rants

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there are probably many logical theories as to why dazai is no longer covered in blood when he reveals himself to fyodor as not actually being dead but in my head chuuya patched him up and wiped away the blood i’m happy living with my delusions (:

#lunarelly rants #bsd #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #skk #spoilers #bsd spoilers

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imagine your boss is a retired assassin and your partner is an ex mafia executive and even the kids you work with have faced unfathomable adversities and meanwhile you’re just some guy who taught math

#kunikida how did you get here #ofc he’s more than that guys ik ik #but it’s funny #also no i haven’t read his novel yet hush up #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #kunikida doppo #kunikida #dazai osamu #fukuzawa yukichi #atsushi nakajima #kyoka izumi #lunarelly rants

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I often think about how, between Dazai and Chuuya, Chuuya initially seemed more likely to abandon the mafia to pursue a life in ‘the light’.

Right from the start, Dazai is shown to care very little for others and blatantly expresses his lack of regard for the loss of lives, showing no remorse for his fallen colleagues and even sees their deaths as a stepping stone at some point.

Interestingly, from the very beginning Chuuya is the opposite, showing extreme regard and compassion for others (of course he also has no quarrels with killing people who harm those he cares for, though I think this furthers my point)

Chuuya is described as being extremely loyal to the people he cares about, and expresses great grief when he loses any of his colleagues or friends, while Dazai was the exact opposite. Because of this, it’s interesting to me how circumstances led to Dazai leaving to pursue of a life of good and not Chuuya.

#(this is especially apparent in stormbringer) #of course dazai develops morally up to the point of him leaving #i just find it interesting #soukoku #bsd #bungo stray dogs #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #stormbringer #lunarelly rants

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hc that chuuya’s power made him a source of comfort for many of the kids in the sheep so he inadvertently adopted a caretaker role and is used to taking care of other people and has experience with patching wounds and lulling kids to sleep after they have nightmares

hc that he couldn’t quite shake this nature of his when he joins the mafia and often ends up taking care of dazai by changing his bandages, protecting him during fights, and overall using his presence to ward off anyone who might want to do dazai harm

hc that he can’t quite shake his protective nature and dazai isn’t used to having someone care about him like that so he just short circuits every time and it’s ultimately what makes him fall twice as hard for chuuya

hc that dazai sometimes deliberately puts himself in situations just so that chuuya will have to patch him up or rescue him cough cough dead apple

#i think about them a normal amount #bsd #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #chuuya nakahara #dazai osamu #soukoku headcanons #skk #headcanon #bsd headcanons #lunarelly rants #my post

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verlaine reads like a cryptid to me bc the whole time that all of this absolutely insane shit has been going down he’s been like what?? knitting in the PMs basement or smth

#he is simply skulking around in the recesses of the narrative #he pops his head out occasionally to say “hey i heard a loud noise that sounded like yokahoma exploding” #and they’re like ‘’bet you recognize that sound really well” #bsd #storm bringer #bungou stray dogs #chuuya nakahara #paul verlaine #verlaine #lunarelly rants

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chuuya cursing angrily as he patches up dazai’s injuries in the most aggressive yet somehow still gentle way

#and dazai just sitting there like 🐒 #lunarelly rants #bsd #bungou stray dogs #skk #soukoku #chuuya nakahara #dazai osamu

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everything happening in bsd rn feels like one big convoluted fucked up gay love triangle

#love square??? #lunarelly rants #bsd #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #sigzai #fyozai

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i love my characters to be trauma addled in the same way a filthy little raccoon is riddled with fleas

#i want to see my little meow meow on the verge of a mental breakdown #i want to grab them by the scruff of their neck and dunk them in soapy water #as a treat #listing the blorbos bc i know you all get it #karkat vantas #chuuya nakahara #dazai osamu #bsd #pjo #nico di angelo #bungou stray dogs #honestuck #dave strider #kazuha kaedehara #genshin impact #fma #fmab #lunarelly rants #trigun #trigun stampede #evangelion #nge #shinji ikari

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the way dazai is on a constant mission to tease and harass chuuya is very reminiscent of an emotionally repressed 5-year-old tugging their crush’s pigtails on the playground

#he’s like ‘i think abt chuuya all the time i must hate him down to my core that’s what this burning passion is (: i’m a genius’ #disfunctional ass #bsd #soukoku #bungo stray dogs #chuuya x dazai #dazai x chuuya #lunarelly rants

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sometimes i just think about that scene in storm bringer where chuuya holds a younger version of himself in his arms while it dies graphically and horrifically because it can’t survive outside of its test tube and i just think about it but in a healthy way though i’m fine

#my little trauma addled bastard #bsd #bsd spoilers #storm bringer #storm bringer spoilers #chuuya #chuuya nakahara #bungou stray dogs #lunarelly rants #bungo stray dogs

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girl help i’m thinking about how asagiri said that chuuya and dazai share a soul again

#if you see me tagging this no u don’t #soukoku #dazai x chuuya #chuuya x dazai #bsd #bungo stray dogs #lunarelly rants

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sometimes I think about how Chuuya and Dazai's abilities are literal reflections of each other's lives because Chuuya's ability makes him "no longer human" and Dazai's life is "the tainted sorrow" and then I think about how without Dazai's ability Chuuya would literally be dead by now because Dazai's ability is the only thing that can pull Chuuya from Corruption and Dazai initially had a deal with Mori to finally end his life but that deal is conveniently forgotten about once Chuuya joined the mafia

#by sometimes i mean constantly #hot girl shit #asagiri managed to set up the most tragic soulmate story and then just left it there to fester in our gay little hearts #soukoku #chuuya x dazai #dazai x chuuya #bsd #bungo stray dogs #lunarelly rants

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sorry what was that im busy thinking about how chuuya nearly died under someone else’s control meaning he almost died while actively being used like a puppet which is a fate that has always been a possibility for him since his ability’s full potential is the price of his autonomy and i’m thinking about the cruel irony of that and i’m so okay about it i’m fine i’m not upset

#i’m okay #and i’m not thinking about how cruel it would be of dazai to allow chuuya to go out like that #since he is the one person able to unify chuuya with his control #and should understand the horror of chuuya dying while being controlled #bsd spoilers #bsd manga spoilers #bungou stray dogs spoilers #bsd #bungou stray dogs #chuuya nakahara #chuuya #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs manga #bsd manga #lunarelly rants

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i want to hear people’s hcs about what dumb kid things teenage soukoku would get into. as in what normal dumb teenager shit did they do when they weren’t ripping out people’s throats

#this is an invitation #gimme your hcs #or i’ll find you #i’m talking pranks and beating each other up with pool noodles at the store and breaking into random apartment complex pools #soukoku #bsd #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #bungou stray dogs #lunarelly rants