(also Funny Coincidence: The Plot Synopsis For Decay Was Added After Ch91 Aka Ranpo Expositing DoA Plot) - Blog Posts
and here i was, thinking i'm immune to deranged baseless ranting.
so, within the BSD plot we're informed/led to believe that the 5 in question points to Decay of Angel (5 stages etc), with some extra Buddhism to pitch the idea to Fukuchi. The name itself is a reference to the Decay of the Angel book, which in itself is part of a series. One of the key characters, apparently, is a young manipulative sadistic orphan. In lieu of reaching 0% coherency, my suggestion is for the reader of this post to skim the synopsis with the idea of Touru <=> Fyodor, weaving in the vague theoryspace of Crime and Punishment being some form of resurrection, if only as the other way to look the same through the years. As a bonus, it would implicitly answer 'why not just put him in a box, forever', and if he's 2nd copy of (mafia) Dazai, where did the equivalent of the latter's suicidaility go? Is the stated end goal a red herring? Is it because he *can't* off himself? Or is that the red herring and it's actually just extension of C&P's 'specialest boy' angle? Is the sword Kladenets bit foreshadowing that the sword Bram was impaled on WOULD work? AAAA---
On top of that, the namedrop suggests Yukio Mishima exists in BSD (similarly to how ppl go 'Meursault? ah, Camus probably exists') - which also adds the possibility of 'fake reincarnation' leveraging some third party. …in fact, as i'm typing it, we are at ch112. At this point:
Sigma failed to die at the casino/interplay of All Men Are Equal and Sigma's ability means they'll wake up whenever it's plot-appropriate
Gogol failed to be sawed in half
Bram failed to die from having the sword pulled out (in anime) / the coin is still in flight (manga)
Fukuchi failed to die(?) as per the 'two hours later' (in anime) / the coin is still in flight (manga)
Dostoy [COPIUM OVERDOSE]
at this point i want Fukuchi to be k, let's see what themes of the story will do with a traumatized vet.
also: yep, the Untold Origins play sounds as ridicious as last time. Are we sure this isn't a mix of introducing idea of ability users = bad (but also: 'fallen' angels hiding in the normie populace), while Dostoy is tooting his own horn? I'd rather if it wasn't tho, and at least pulled double duty re: Fukuchi. Then it makes more sense to use theater specifically.
re: stars/singularities, isn't it stated… somewhere… that it's possible for one ability to into a singularity, by itself? As in, a star collapsing into a black hole?
Fourth (Third is here):
last but not the least
I've been reading bsd writers' works
I strongly recommend you do the same, they're absolutely magnificent
Sometimes you can even see obvious references
Like this one
I was reading Doppo's River Mist and other stories
I think Dead Apple is mostly inspired by it
one of the stories is named The Stars
it's about two stars in the sky who are in love, and come down to earth to talk in the garden of an author, in form of humans
Look at this part
sounding familiar?
No?
Ability Users are Fallen Angels,
Abilities themselves are Fallen Stars
It's even true scientifically
Remember the 'Singularity' mentioned?
Astronomically, a singularity can be formed by two gigantic celestial bodies (such as stars) crashing into eachother, resulting in the corruption of matter, forming something with infinite mass and zero volume, which we call "singularity" (yeah my study field's math/physics lol)
that's what was done in Dead Apple
Combining two stars
I love Kafka