I Love How Greek Tragedy Coded Beast Is, Ignoring The Romantic Context Of The Original Myths, There's

I love how Greek tragedy coded beast is, ignoring the romantic context of the original myths, there's so many that fit into Beast.

Akutagawa's long odyssey back to Gin, a journey seemingly cursed upon him for choosing vengeance over his sister. Dazai is Poseidon the God he failed to impress and set him on this treacherous path, Oda is Athena who gives him the tools and knowledge to overcome it after years of hardship.

The tasks he has to perform for the Agency are like that of the Labours of Hercules. The madness he has to atone for with these tasks are his bloodlust and need for vengeance. The Agency give him back his humanity, show him the light and help him heal, but it's not enough to keep him away from what the fates (Dazai) have planned for him.

Aku's and Gin's reunion is like that of Orpheus and Eurydice. Again Dazai plays the role of a God, this time Hades, the one who tore them apart in the first place and the who Aku has to make a deal with to get Gin back. A deal he could never win. He loses not because he looks back at Gin but because he keeps losing sight of her.

Gin is like Echo, having listened to Dazai's manipulations for so long they're all she can repeat when confronted by Aku. When Dazai is gone she fades away, unsure of who she is anymore.

Atsushi is the Minotaur, he is Medusa, he is the innocent victim turned into a monster, forced to play the beast the hero must defeat.

Dazai himself is like that of Cassandra, cursed with the gift of prophecy, he sees all that there could be and is isolated by it. He can't tell anyone what he knows and the only man he tries to, Oda, doesn't believe him.

Of course Dazai has to die, it's not a tragedy if someone doesn't die. Akutagawa and Gin aren't reunited, and Atsushi is forced into hiding because heroes don't get the reward they want, but what the Gods deem fit to give them.

And Dazai's final part, played beyond his death, he's the Patroclus to Chuuya's grief maddened Achilles.

Grief maddened just like Akutagawa was at the start of the story, because the God's games are never truly over and Sisyphus will always be pushing the boulder uphill.

Imagine an AU where everyone saw in black & white until they met their soulmate, then they saw colors for the first time.

Cue Dazai being kicked into a wall & upon opening his eyes the first colors he sees are within flaming red hair & piercing bright blue eyes. A green jacket hugging the kids figure as his foot remains planted on Dazai’s chest.

Chuuya sees stark white bandages across one eye and beneath an ill fitting white dress shirt. Dark chocolate colored locks. One honey brown iris with flecks of maroon shining in the sunlight. A black coat lying beneath him.

They both freeze for a moment, staring intently at each other, eyes blowing wide at colors they've never seen before.

Then they make eye contact, holding it for one beat, then two.

Then slowly it dawns on them what this means and, of course, their expressions move from awe to irritation. They bicker immediately, neither of them willing to give into fate.

Chuuya scoffs. "Oh fuck no, no way my *soulmate* is some shitty kid from the fucking mafia."

"How eloquent. As if such a tiny, brutish *slug* could ever be *my* soulmate." Dazai mocks in return.

Bonus points if the colors fade when they’re not together, until they accept they’re soulmates that is.

atsushi with some stray kitties :3

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Operation “Distract Chuuya from the mission that went terribly wrong” was a success!

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