Secret Ending:

Secret ending:

I love red backgrounds btw. God, they’re so cool.

Some Book of Bill musings about the theraprism below the cut.

Bill getting sectioned by the Axolotl (and time baby?) is wild to me.

What sort of therapy would be effective on an unwilling participant with such extreme issues with authority?

Do they enforce medication schedules, is there mandatory CBT or DBT sessions to make him feel bad about his decisions (and is guilt ever an effective method when dealing with someone with Bills issues) or do they do Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Can you use EMDR to process traumatic memories if the patient only has one eye (probably) or would they utilise tapping or electric pulses to trigger bilateral brain movement.

I know they do art therapy and have unhelpful patronising motivational posters on the wall, but who decides by what metric these "offenders" reach reform by?

And who decides their reincarnation fate, is there any oversight there to make these reincarnation decisions client led or is it just one more thing the offenders have to accept they have no control over. They are already dressed like prisoners and subjected to solitary confinement (which can be a passive form of torture in some cases).

Do they address the root traumas effectively given the owners of the theraprism seem to be all powerful (but not powerful enough to eradicate the systemic problems that cause the initial traumas) or do they victim blame and reinforce narcissistic injury through this process.

Are you cured when you stop fighting? When you give up and conform?

How is the theraprism a just solution and who controls it behind the scenes?

Are you free when you admit guilt (Bill already described himself as a monster) or when you take accountability?

Is accountability helpful at all when the Theraprism only seems to release patients to be completely reincarnated to a new form and life? How are you meant to make up for your failings in this life if you're just continually punished for it until you reach reincarnation stage and then continue to be punished in the next life (by only getting reincarnated as bugs or lower life forms if the butterfly is anything to go by). Everyone just trusts that the Axolotl is the good guy, same with Time Baby, but by what virtue are they in charge (when they seem just as mysterious, ambiguous and overpowered as Bill sometimes) and what have they done to prove they are worthy of this huge responsibility?

I have so many questions about the actual efficacy of the theraprism past a funny punchline for the Book of Bill.

I love red backgrounds btw. God, they’re so cool.

I dont see ppl say it often but those things of like mori forcing Dazai to live in the container make no sense to me.

I feel like it'd make more sense if Dazai had lived their BEFORE Mori like maybe they ran away and it just took shelter in the container? I know on a mafia salary (assuming he was being paid fairly/in money) he probably could've afforded a place so them staying there was probably smth self destructive but I genuinely can't see it as smth Mori forced it to do.

Dazai was born to be a magical girl and Chuuya was born to be in a battle of the bands manga. Preferably both are in the same manga and Chuuya is also a magical girl, and Dazai is also participating in the battle of the bands but on the rival team. Yes they’re both in Highschool, are you insane?

Oooh looks like I’ll have to reread Gaiden.

And Kyoka’s mother gave her the ability before she died, which is interesting that it’s possible (surprised the government hasn’t been trying to get her) and still fits the theory really well.

Ik abilities are like a reflection of how someone is?? Or however it was said in 55 minutes but it's interesting how a lot of ability users seem to have some sort of trauma which, for 1, is interesting by itself bc it means the bsd world has a whole other section if psychology just for abilities (probably but since they seem to know so little I assume it's under-researched)

But its also kinda fun seeing them as a reflection of ppl's problems. Like abilities seem to cause suffering for a lot of the ppl who have them (not all, some of them obviously hs reflect on who they are as a person, their goals, and whatever) but idk something in my head is half connecting accepting their abilities even if they cause suffering to trauma and working through that

But my thought is ending there bc I have the media/literary analysis skills of a 3 year old and I can't form anything beyond that