dazai’s entrance exam - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/vpeu/
dark era - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/pcxl/
untold origins - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/ghzd/
55 minutes - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/ppxc/
dead apple - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/wvkq/
beast - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/vaqg/
fifteen - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/msym/
stormbringer - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/gbxf/
i got a hold of these while z library was still in it’s full glory and thought i’d share! the translation on these is by yen press, if you want a site where you can download them dm me, send any complaints to my ask box :3 i also recommend checking out @/bsd-bibliophile’s website for fan translations
Everyone. Do you realize what this boy is begging for? Do you even fathom the weight of what he just asked?
This is the same boy who declared the lengths he'd go to in order to live wholeheartedly.
And now he's begging to die. Just to save his friends. The only people he can call family. Without even an ounce of hesitation.
The devastation in his eyes. The desperation in his voice. I can't take it anymore-
I have to get this off my chest because the requisite number of SKK posts have crossed my dashboard and I can’t hold it anymore.
SO everyone is familiar with the HC that Chuuya basically admitted to drinking about Dazai leaving the Port Mafia, but allow me to provide more context.
We know that Chuuya states he opened an ‘89 bottle of Pétrus wine the night Dazai left. And Dazai wasn’t kidding when he says Pétrus is exorbitantly expensive. It is a collector’s item. So even a polite 750ml bottle costs something to the tune of five or six thousand dollars or more.
Not only that, but it has an alcohol content of 13.5%, as far as all wine goes it’s a bit higher (average being 12%) with most supermarket wines hovering around 6-8% for scale.
That said, we know two things about Chuuya; 1) the poor lad can’t hold his liquor for shit, and 2) he would not open this bottle like this unless he planned on finishing it.
We also know that Dazai confessed to planting a bomb under his car the night he left.
So allow me to set the scene: Dazai had defected from the Port Mafia, without telling his partner of 3 years. Distraught, Chuuya pops his most expensive bottle because what’s the fucking point, and absolutely trounces it. Finishing the bottle, he stumbles out of the building, beeps his car and it explodes, knocking him on his ass.
And from the ground, in the light of his flaming car he mutters “a’right, a’right… I won’t drink’n’drive…” before passing out in the street.
Prosecution rests.
I know there’s a lot of solid angst potential with the concept of BEAST!Dazai meeting canon!Chuuya but also. I picture them crossing paths and Chuuya IMMEDIATELY takes out his phone and calls the Dazai he knows like “don’t freak out but I’m looking at a mf who looks exactly like u”
Dazai: wdym. there’s no one as handsome as me Chuuya: gags Dazai: are u hallucinating bc u miss me so much. is this what this is. u can just say that u know Chuuya: I’m SERIOUS
BEAST!Dazai: Chuuya…? Chuuya, on the phone with Dazai: what the shit he knows my name. is this a joke. are u playing a joke. don’t piss me off Dazai: I genuinely have no idea what ur talking about
Chuuya looking at BEAST!Dazai like. idk if ur like a fan or a stalker of that bastard but pls find smth better to do with ur time. one of him is ENOUGH society does not need more. have a good day (¬_¬)
Do you think Ranpo and Fukuzawa ever had a "You're not my dad!" moment when Ranpo was a still a teen?
Do you think they both just stood there shell shocked as the unspoken part of their relationship, the parent and child bond they share, was brought to light and spoken out loud? And immediately denied.
Fukuzawa never intended to replace Ranpo's father, he never meant to be a parental figure, but he can't deny that part of himself that thinks of Ranpo as his. That saw the lost, naive and desperate boy and felt compelled to gather him close and protect him. The part of him that wants to provide for and nurture Ranpo, not just out of responsibility but out of fondness. The secret feeling he has when he wakes up to Ranpo's noise and excitement, which yes does still tire him to no end, but also has him thinking "Thank God, I found him."
And Ranpo doesn't think of Fukuzawa as his dad per se, he's his boss, mentor, his provider. The man who took the time to understand him, who broke through his wall of isolation and gave him a place to belong when he had nowhere left to go. But he's more than that too, because Fukuzawa didn't just give him a home, Fukuzawa is his home. He doesn't know what he'd do if he lost Fukuzawa and that same admiration and love he felt for his parents is there for him too.
Do you think, Ranpo in with all his powers of observation saw the pain Fukuzawa couldn't hide in the short seconds after and felt the floor go from beneath him?
Do you think it was yet another moment of Ranpo clinging to Fukuzawa, sobbing and begging that he's sorry because he thinks he's about to lose his family again?
He won't though. Unlike the first time, where Fukuzawa had yet to understand their bond and froze, Fukuzawa holds onto Ranpo just as tight and tells his child everything's going to be alright.
Just the wording… look at those words.
Neither LIGHT nor GRAVITY
Not light being Oda, and gravity Chuuya. The two who understood Dazai the most and were the closest to him. Also both managed to give him a reason to live…
But it’s side B what are we expecting it just hurts on an other level
at long last, i'm coming to pick you up, nakahara chuuya... my dear brother.
— dazai, chuuya, age fifteen: epilogue
another page 🥹
Did Chuuya ever tell Dazai about the graphite scar though? Does Dazai know about the graphite scar? Had Dazai ever noted the graphite scar before Chuuya was told where it came from? From Higuchi's presence during that scene and the fact that she didn't know who Dazai was in the Guild arc hints at it happening after Dazai has left the PM. Does the number one defender of Chuuya's humanity know about the last little shred of tangible proof there is?
Sleeping at last — Saturn 💔
“Chuuya wasn’t in Dark Era, why is he in this art??”
wdym, he’s right here 🤨