#retribution.fic

[chuuyanakaahara]

street-racing au lore!

no one knows why dazai, or "human error" retired, just that he disappeared after the crash and subsequent death of golden-era racer "flawless."

gin's racing name is "burnstrike", and she is one of two (2) racers who races a motorcycle, but she is the only one brave enough to do so on mountain passes. the other racer is higuchi, who goes by "bombshell."

because every other racer in retribution got their alias after their ability, gin & higuchi were hard to come up with names for. gin got "burnstrike" because it sounds badass, and higuchi got "bombshell" as a nod to the blond bombshell trope she fulfills in the circuit.

sigma runs the betting stand, has no desire to race whatsoever, is one of the very few people to stick around between the transition of the golden era to the monster generation, and no one actually know's sigma's real name. everyone else's name is a plausible deniability thing (so you might know light snow is junichirou, but you don't call him that at the circuit due to the circuit's illegal nature.)

the agency of repairs was founded because ranpo met fukuzawa at 14 when he stole fukuzawa's car

kunikida met dazai as a racer because dazai saw him in some trouble in tokyo and went "you know what will help? NOT driving like that", and subsequently, kunikida joined the AOR because fukuzawa smoked him in a race but thought he had style - he even offered to help kunikida pay to move to yokohama.

while chuuya was known as "arahabaki" in the circuit between ages 15-19, where he retired at 19, when he makes his return at 22, he switches the alias out for "tainted".

akutagawa named his dog at home "rashoumon".

tachihara's brother was a former portside reporter who often wrote positive journalism on the circuit until he was killed in a crash

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #osamu dazai #chuuya nakahara #gin akutagawa #higuchi ichiyou #kunikida doppo #retribution.fic #once again reminding yall i LOVE talking abt this au if u have any thoughts questions or comments PLS let me know

[therealdeemz]

Soukoku's Driving in the Golden Era

I don't know how much of this will come out as coherent but I think you guys will appreciate it regardless because I think this is a neat parallel

Although Chuuya and Dazai were undoubtably *fast*, they're fast in their own distinct ways that they're enough of a treat to watch in on itself, and it shows down to how their cars are built in the first place.

Dazai's car is more built for downforce; the concept in motorsport that if you go fast enough, the wind would bog you down enough that it can add weight where it doesn't exist. It's why race cars have massive wings, and is commonly used in usecases where traction (the contact between the wheels and the road) is not broken and grip levels are predictable. This means that you rarely find it on cars built for a mountain pass like in Retribution. But at the same time, Dazai is batshit crazy, and I don't doubt that he could see the wind as he's pushing the car to the speeds that he does.

This necessitates Dazai's driving style back then to be precise, surgically precise. Every small movement of the wheel is smooth and calculated to maintain as much grip as possible, and his main goal is to get in front and leave his rival behind as he essentially paces his own race in the small stretch of mountain road he's given. I don't think you can even see Dazai when he's pacing his car in the speeds he does and in the sheer darkness of the Touge, but you could certainly *feel it*. You could feel that, whatever just passed you was just breathtakingly fast in a way that's just not possible.

Chuuya's car, on the other hand, was a rally car that was meant to tackle loose surfaces and tarmac on occasion, which meant that what grip the car had relied more on mechanical grip; the contact patch between the tyre and the road. Rally cars also have minute differences, like a faster acceleration speed, more driving wheels (all-wheel drive), etc etc, which heavily rewards a driving style that can work all orifices of the car as it courses down the tarmac.

Of course, Chuuya's driving style reflects it, as with every corner, you can *feel* his presence in an entirely different way that's simply overbearing. You know whatever's coming at you with all the tires screeching and the sheer sound emitting from it is *insurmountable*. And it's only added by the times that Chuuya comes into view, the car prances through the corner like a whirlwind, kicking up tyre smoke and an unhealthy amount of fuel that's not too away from being aviation gas. Chuuya drives the thing like it's alive, and he's making that car his bitch as he makes micro-jitters to account for every little thing that that amount of speed throws at him.

So in short, Dazai drives his car like he's threading a needle, while Chuuya drives his car like he's wrestling a bull.

They're both equally impressive, but considering they both carry the same speeds down that hill; a speed which is *far* removed from even Rashoumon or Burnstrike could chalk up (their best times are consistently 10-15 seconds away from Soukoku's best times). You can see why they have a cult following behind them; almost 3 or 4 years after their leaving. They're *Gods* to everyone's eyes, because they graze that ragged edge of reckless abandon and unfettered speed to an art.

#retribution.fic #none of this makes sense but I'm still posting it #Cherri I hope you like this

[chuuyanakaahara]

hey did u guys know that it's retribution time again. it's that time again. yeah it's time for me to talk about retribution. did you know -

#retribution.fic #retribution my fucking BELOVED but yall know that at this point #cherri.txt

[chuuyanakaahara]

everything on retribution for the dead, thus far

if you didn't know - retribution for the dead is the name of my bsd street-racing au.

chapters one-four on ao3 retribution cars & notes / black lizard works vehicles here /comprehensive spreadsheet on everything retribution spotify / pinterest

planned installments:

retribution for the dead; sskk-centric

retirement blues; skk-centric

little white lines; tachizaki-centric

hit the ignition; kousano-centric

the crash course of parenting; fukuzawa & ranpo centric.

anything posted on here about it is tagged with #retribution.fic as a way to keep track!

+ i have so much trivia about it it is astounding so you should totally ask me about it whether u click the links or not !

#cherri.txt #retribution.fic #sskk #tachizaki #skk #kousano #bungou stray dogs #bsd #im sorry im brainrotting over this so much lately u guys. it just won't leave me alone #alternatively if you don't want to see it it IS all tagged w retribution.fic #if you want to blacklist it

[chuuyanakaahara]

okay. okay so i just realized i've only written 3 tachizaki fics? which is not something that me, obsessed with that ship, should do? i've written more for sskk... and don't get me wrong. i love them. but i am actually pretty normal about them comparatively.

anyway. i've decided im gonna write a little one-shot set in the general retribution-verse with tachizaki, but it isn't going to be canon in that verse, because there's a different tachizaki fic planned. take some exposition, if you will.

Junichirou Tanizaki lives in a world comprised of adrenaline, lust, lights, and everything he could ever want. It comes at the cost of engine grease perpetually stuck under his nails and a death wish nailed to his heart, with the added bonus of living his life like a gambler the way he can afford a deposit on a new apartment one day and is scrounging spare change for groceries the next. 

His world is contained in the Portside Circuit. Yokohama’s street-racing haven, unofficially the sponsors of the Agency of Repairs, where Junichirou spends his day fixing up cars to then go and race his own. 

It’s nothing special. 

He’s nothing special. 

It’s a life, though, and it’s his own life to live, and Junichirou will be damned if it gets taken from him; by the cops, by his own stupidity. The Portside is a way of life to those who know the route.

As it is, Junichirou’s currently in the abandoned underground parking lot the Portside favors to hide their cars from wandering eyes, leaning up against the hood with a cigarette held between his lips as he glances at the expense of concrete that surrounds him. 

The sky is gone, right now. In a couple of minutes, he needs to extinguish the cigarette on the pavement and go to the betting stand, tell Sigma that he’s got some more mods on his car so that Sigma can inform the betters. Needs to race, feel his heart leap out of his chest, the few minutes — if it’s even that — that give him a reason to live, win or lose. Go to Decadence, the club run by some dirty government official that Junichirou likes celebrating his wins at. 

#fic.txt #tachizaki #retribution.fic #<- as a catch all tag

[chuuyanakaahara]

“Ah,” Atsushi says, like an idiot, because he can’t think of more fitting syllables to string together into a coherent sentence, like adults and even small children do. God, he really is hopeless.  Akutagawa tuts in response, something that should solely be reserved for the protagonists of shitty Victorian movies, but it seems that Akutagawa has missed his genre and his mark. “If you wreck my car —”

retribution, everyone. they're so fucking dumb (i really really love them)

#i have to go to work soon but if anyone wants to send in asks #abt either retribution au or the process of creating it :3 #i would adore that !!! #cherri.txt #retribution.fic #sskk

[chuuyanakaahara]

chuuya appearance from atsushi's pov is so funny he's like. damn. does that guy know where he is.

#cherri.txt #retribution.fic #fic.txt

[chuuyanakaahara]

HELLO?? STREET RACERS AU?? WHAT? HOWD THEY GET INTO RACING???

THANK U SO MUCH FOR INDULGING ME (<- you don't understand i have three different documents + a spreadsheet open just with notes on the timeline and world-building)

ok ! ok so the series is called "retribution for the dead", and the name is actually a play on dazai trying to get retribution for oda's death in the only way he knows how - by fixing the circuit. it actually has five installments (each has a different ship focus; retribution is sskk focused; the installments are about tachizaki, kousano, skk, and then fukuzawa + ranpo (platonically ofc) respectively)

the basics:

the portside - yokohama's street-racing culture, commonly referred to as the circuit. the circuit is compromised of meets, highway races - which are 2-3 races down flat stretches of highway, and touge races - which are essentially winding mountain passes. the portside is able to afford all of this because a) racers bring their own shit and b) they're known for the maybe-not-so-legal import & export of cars.

the agency of repairs - the mechanic shop founded by fukuzawa after he retired from racing to take care of a very klepto fourteen-year-old ranpo, who did try to steal his car.

NOW, how they got into racing varies from character to character ! atsushi's is the only one we actually get to see, and he gets into racing because he moves to Yokohama into a shitty apartment and his neighbor happens to be dazai. and dazai happens to ask if he needs a job and when atsushi's like "well... i don't know anything about cars", dazai goes "that's fine!"

dazai also introduces atsushi to the portside, since it is so closely entwined with the agency. he was banking on atsushi being fascinated by it. and atsushi was! then dazai takes atsushi to his own workshop and says "hey, here's this totaled car. you can fix it up for practice, but if you get it running, you can race it."

important to note that not only does dazai not offer to teach atsushi anything about cars, atsushi also doesn't know how to drive.

the reason dazai wants atsushi in the portside is because he wants to make a rivalry. he wants atsushi & akutagawa to be at each other's throats and he wants it to trump everything else the circuit has going on.

because, you see, the circuit is much more bloodthirsty than it used to be. there's more death, more carnage, more wrecks; it's about living fast and dying hard when it used to be about cars and specs and value. it is somewhat dazai & chuuya's fault the circuit is so bloodthirsty, but they're both retired.

dazai wants atsushi & akutagawa's rivalry to get so big, so all-encompassing, that it changes the circuit's mentality and culture.

#i have hcs & plans for literally every character in this au if u want to ask specific characters as well #cherri.txt #bsd #bungou stray dogs #atsushi nakajima #osamu dazai #retribution.fic

[chuuyanakaahara]

retribution bickering / banter makes me happy <3

“Stop staring at him,” Kunikida huffs, tossing a screw that Atsushi fumbles with more than he should. “Tanizaki isn’t helping. You can be. What am I working on right now, Atsushi?” “The engine,” Atsushi says confidently. Kunikida’s sigh tells him that that was not the right answer. “Which part of the engine?” Atsushi shrugs. Junichirou snickers. Kunikida might end up catching the wrench that Junichirou is throwing and bludgeoning both of them. “I’m trying to figure out what’s going on with your spark plugs.” “I don’t think they’re that far down in the engine, and I don’t think there should be a screw near the spark plugs considering you threw one at me.” “This engine is a mess,” Kunikida says confidently, tiredly. “It’s been years since Dazai worked on it, clearly, and when he did, I’m starting to wonder if he was on LSD because I’ve found three different socket wrenches, dry wall screws, and what might be an oil leak considering I don’t know what’s on my hands.” “Shouldn’t you know which fluid is which? How long have you been working on cars, again?” “And that is what should make you nervous, too,” Kunikida says. “It might be oil. It might be fucking wiper fluid. But whatever it is, it’s dyed the wrong color.” “You can’t dye those —” “Well this doesn’t feel like oil, and it’s pitch black.” Kunikida holds his hands up, and — indeed, his hands are caked in some mysterious dark liquid.

#retribution.fic #i dont really know where to put retribution excerpts #bc i feel like the ones i want to share are too long for tumblr #and ik most people in the servers im in dont rly care abt this au #which is totally fine since it has a lot of backstory and such #but i wanna share more excerpts from it but they get like no interaction anywhere [ pensive face here ] #idk man

[chuuyanakaahara]

retribution atsushi smoking is very important to me however i know he coughed so bad when he first tried it like tanizaki actually got scared for a second

tanizaki was under the impression that it was something atsushi had done before so he offered him a cigarette and it just such a serene moment in the dead of night, post-circuit party, and then atsushi was hacking his fucking lungs out with actual tears in his eyes and tanizaki's first thought was literally "are you allergic to nicotine do we need to go to the ER?" and atsushi, thru tears and coughs, was like "no im fine" and tanizaki was like. okay. yeah. sure.

atsushi is the epitome of "pro: someone saw me do something cool. con: it was tanizaki, and he will never think im cool ever." cos he isn't.

#atsushi leather jacket tho... #retribution.fic #atsushi nakajima

[chuuyanakaahara]

writing retribution again. most relatable thing is after atsushi finishes his debut race, he just. immediately throws up outside the car. after going those speeds? with his lack of experience? i dont blame him.

#mf survives the harrowing experience of touge tracks and immediately throws up while one arm is still tangled in the harness #cherri.txt #retribution.fic #atsushi nakajima

[chuuyanakaahara]

partner has asked me about the retribution au lore i will NOT be recovering from this omg omg omg

#where do i start #how do i drop the lore while also appearing still dateable and not at all weird #please i am SO excited to drop the expansive street racing au lore for the au that i haven't properly worked on for months #cherri.txt #retribution.fic

[chuuyanakaahara]

“Everyone likes to think of street-racing as this high-adrenaline, impulsive, quick thing,” Junichirou shrugs, his gaze not on Atsushi or the car but rather the expanse of road in front of them, standing to the side with Junichirou’s car parked to the side of the road, at the general start of the pass. “And it is, to an extent. But half of your skill comes from knowing the track. There’s a reason we don’t stray from those - it gets dangerous.” 

“More dangerous than it already is?” Atsushi asks sarcastically, scoffing. 

Junichirou snorts. “You’d be surprised, but yeah. Instead of passing Kunikida’s speedometer test - you’re passing mine. You’re gonna either drive or walk this pass enough times to, when I drive you down it, you can tell me every twist and turn we’re going to take before it comes up.” 

“Like a… like a glorified memory game?” 

“Yeah, like a glorified memory game.” 

retribution dialogue! ft. junichirou & memory games

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #retribution.fic #atsushi nakajima #junichirou tanizaki #speaking of tanizaki i cannot WAIT to write the tachizaki installment to retribution #no one else is going to write the street-racing shot-gunning sex-having tachizaki fic that i. personally. NEED.

[chuuyanakaahara]

its me. talking about retribution again.

#cherri.txt #retribution.fic #GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT <- im the people. i want to talk abt my silly racing au. #the real shame of having a racing au is when its a racing au published literally anytime AFTER motorsport was published #i have not read it but ik it is THE racing au so adlskjfalkdsjf

[chuuyanakaahara]

ideal reaction to retribution for the dead

#the car jargon isnt too thick i hope #cherri.txt #retribution.fic

[chuuyanakaahara]

TRLL US ABOUT THR STREET RACER AU

ok ok so the street-racer au

retribution for the dead

retribution follows atsushi nakajima as he becomes a figure-head of yokohama's biggest late night attraction - the portside, a street-racing circuit built into the city's very core. with death tolls too high to count and a rivalry brewing as a result of the circuit's competitive - and deadly - nature, atsushi is a rookie tasked with making his name mean something.

due to the INCREDIBLY illegal nature of the circuit, most of the racers use codenames. atsushi's is white reaper, if only because of the feeling of imminent death he'd first had on the highway and a whiteclaw he saw on the ground when he got there.

racers like HUMAN ERROR and ARAHABAKI ran the circuit for a few years, the two of them young hot-shot prodigies who dealt each race blow to blow for fame and adrenaline.

the circuit has seen several notable generations... but right now they're in the midst of the monster generation, one that old racers won't touch; one that admires blood for blood and engines as a way to get it rather than a love for the car and the engine blocks. with racers like RASHOUMON brutalizing every opponent, a disappearance of the legends - like human error and arahabaki - even finishing a race without dying is an accomplishment.

atsushi is thrown in by the behest of dazai, who barely warns him, and who doesn't tell him much about what he's getting into, other than that he has the october races to look forward to. atsushi doesn't even have a driver's license.

and now he has to somehow compete with rashoumon? no fucking way!

#lmk if you want more i have SO much fucking lore abt retribution #i have more lore about retribution than i do parts of it written... #cherri.txt #bsd #bungou stray dogs #fic.txt #retribution.fic #atsushi nakajima #osamu dazai