I Love The Slap

I love the slap

I love it sm and I'm so glad asagiri added it.

A lot of people tend to either justify or shame Dazai for this but they are missing the point of that scene.

Dazai had JUST been confronted by the PM. One new member that only knows Dazai through what she has been told and one old member who has seen what he is capable of. They both agree that he is still the same person. They both open the door for him and say, "there's no changing. You'll always be a PM member. You will always be destructive."

When he comes back he sees two things. He sees Kyusaku: his first failure as a mentor, a direct consequence of his cruelty and malice. Then he sees Atsushi, the young man he is trying to imbue with as much good nature as he can using his ability to choke a defenseless coworker. That whole scene just proves Higuchi and Gin right.

He wanted to. He tried his hardest but the product is the same. He pushes people until they lose control and hurt others. He's been doing it since the PM and he was doing it with Atsushi. When Atsushi is freed he is still without control. He's spiraling and as terrified of his ability as he had been when Dazai first found him.

All at once Dazai realizes how little he has done to change things and how his past, just because he left it, doesn't stop having consequences. That entire scene is Dazai's fault. He put every character there on a path to end up there. It's horrifying for him, it's demoralizing and discouraging. YEARS of personal growth have amounted to NOTHING. He's scared so he falls back on strategies he knows will work. He slaps Atsushi.

It's such a monumental loss for him because he was making an active effort for so long not to be physical with ANYONE. But he regresses. He realizes that Higuchi was right. He is still PM deep down.

It is that scene that marks Dazai's decision to keep Kyusaku alive. He could keep using violence to try and fix all his mistakes but he would never grow from it. He chooses to let Kyusaku live because he wants to be different and he wants that for Kyu as well. After this Dazai takes a much less active role in Atsushi's development. After this when Atsushi loses control over his emotions Dazai is kind, gentle and reassuring.

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I love codependent freakish iwaoi so much… give me the toxic!! give me the insane!! give me the relationship that ruins the life of everybody else around them and ultimately may get them killed!! please!!!

Why are all the main characters of BSD trauma children?? I’ve been given too much to work with

I’m not letting this hide. Y’all are wild.

I think one of the saddest things people tend to overlook (at least in what content I’ve seen) about Yosano’s past is what happens after the war.

Yosano says that the war was one of the worst parts, she was actively traumatized by Mori, and exposed to things no child should see. She was attacks, hated, used and manipulated emotionally. Not only is that horrible and horrific and she lost her only friend in the military to suicide, and that’s a huge amount of trauma for an eleven year old to go through.

To me the saddest part of when she says; “Even after the war they kept me in isolation in a mental facility. I don’t imagine I would have left, even if the door was left open.”

It really shows that Yosano didn’t just leap over her trauma, the war started when she was 11 and the show and manga starts when she’s 24, it’s been years of living with Fukuzawa and Ranpo learning to deal with her trauma in a healthy way. A lot of situations, even if not as severe as Yosano’s deal with the victims feeling the same way!

As if they wouldn’t be able to leave, even if the door was wide open and freedom was right there staring them in the face. The emotional and mental manipulation can even make freedom be scary, it’s new and not routine and not, sad as it is, comforting or familiar.

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What does this mean??? Ryo what does this mean?? DO NOT CANNIBALIZE THE BUNNIE

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