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some stuff i’ve kept in the backlog! these were meant to be on separate doodle dumps but my art program nerfed the other doodles i planned ;w;
moon poe and sour candy ranpo designs belong to @viiimancia !!
KOUYOU!!
anon, i don't know if you wished bloodshed but i hope you know this request humbled me severely
This collaboration is my favourite so far! Chuuya looks so badass and fancy, Kouyou is an absolute queen and somehow Odasaku looks elegant while still keeping his scruffy charm
i also love to ship kousano in canon divergent au's. like, I've got a kouyou-centric au that grew from one planned fic to So Many Fics, and another au where she is involved in the war, in yosano's regiment (I think that's the correct word?)
Defending Kousano online isn’t enough, I need to reach into people’s brains and make them understand that sapphic ships deserve to be just as complicated as mlm ones, and that a wlw ship being toxic doesn’t automatically make it unlikable. For years femslash ships in male-dominated media were only depicted as the “fluffy side-pairings” and we’ve been seeing a shift in that lately with the rise of “toxic yuri.” This is good!! Fluffy ships are great but lesbians deserve just as much diversity in their pairings as ships that involve men. Not everyone likes toxic ships but the people who do don’t deserve to be called evil when they’re not doing anything inherently wrong. The two strongest arguments against Kousano (“people only ship it because it’s hot” + “it would be toxic”) sound so hypocritical when you take into account how those same antis eat up mlm ships with the same problems. Most Kousano shippers are lesbians anyways so calling people lesbiphobic for liking the ship is both chronically online and just plain stupid
BSD + Pokemon Pt. 1 (ADA+PM)
And by this, I mean- like- each character I know well enough, I give them a Pokemon (singular or else I'll be overthinking it all) =w= It's just a thing for myself to scratch that part of my brain. Assigning them a single Pokemon that compliments them. Which might lead to some vagueness.
Other than that! Lets go-!
ADA
Fukuzawa: Kleavor (Not my greatest idea, I kept thinking about "It either has to be about something similar to katanas/swords, or make it cats". Which I cheated at because Kleavor has axes for goodness sakes. If I were to give it the option, I would have given him Aegislash or a freakin *Litten.* "But Lavender, there's Kingambit-" YES. I KNOW. BUT TRUST ME, THAT ONE HAS OTHER PLANS. *cough- fukuchi- cough-*)
Ranpo: Skwovet (Snacks. Just... snacks. Ranpo can deduce cases just fine, but ohs to the woes, he needs more places to stash his snacks. Bam. These babies. But if he wants a Pokemon to enjoy snacking with, Morpeko is the second choice. It's either stash is or eat it, bois.)
Yosano: Blissey (Blissey knows your location. Blissey is approaching your location. Blissey is at your frontdoor. Blissey offers you an egg in these trying times. [ . . . ] Look it's either Blissey incoming or Hattrem incoming, an egg or an smack, pick your poison.)
Kunikida: Indeedee (This one took me a second to figure this one out. But after thinking of a small few, Indeedee was what I chose with the idea of them helping him and his work. The other two were Espeon, Minccino/Cincchino, and Meowstic.)
Dazai: Absol (Now I hate reusing the same Pokemon [I wrote this stuff out of order hhh], but without spoiling too much, while Absol is known for sensing danger, in Dazai's case it would be that they "bring forth" danger. But other than that, if I did go with my unwritten rule, I would have given him Alolan Ninetails because ahahahaa kitsune dazai agenda)
Tanizaki: Hisuian Zorua (Illusionssss. Illusion buddiessss. And to make it a play on words with snow, I made it be Hisuian form because they spawn in the icelands.)
Kenji: Gyrados (I was planning on giving Kenji Sunflora because he is sweet summer child, but at the same time... my boi can hit like a semitruck. Not to mention the cute story that he caught this very weak Magikarp in his village, took care of it, and the next thing you know this kid is giving their [looks at pokedex] "the literal embodiment of tsunami if angry" on a walk. The absolute humor, guys. The *hinjinks*. That or I go with the trend of him bringing a cow to the agency and give him a Miltank.)
Atsushi: Growlithe (Surprise, we have a Growlithe. This is the closest thing we have to a tiger in Pokemon. Unfortunately, its shiny isn't white but yellow. You can decide whether or not this little Growlithe ir a normal or shiny, but in my hc it's just a white tiger variant of Growlithe LET ME LIVE MY DREAM-)
Kyouka: Froslass (All I could remember before looking at the Pokedex entry was that it has something to do with a soul of a woman, and jus- *Gestures vaguely at Froslass, Demon Snow, and the fact that Demon Snow was previously Kyouka's mother's ability)
PM
Mori: Ursaluna (This one gave me MAJOR trouble trying to figure out. My guy's a doctor, but at the same time is the big mafia boss man. The only other Pokemon I could think of were either Bewere, Drampa, or Dragapult, I don't know why I thought those Pokemon specifically. So I just threw everything out, looked at Fukuzawa's Kleavor, went onto the Hisui Pokedex, grabbed Ursaluna, and yeets it at the man. Ursaluna. God-)
Chuuya: Midnight Form Lycanroc (Angry red pupper, emphasis on red. Yeah, I had to, I am not sorry.)
Kouyou: Milotic (Powerful but also very beautiful ◡‿◡ . But at some point, I thought about Lurantis. )
Akutagawa: Mimikyu (This was in my notes before, but yes! Mimikyu. The popularity battle of Mimikyu v Pikachu is similar to Aku v Atsushi. Other than that, Mimikyu was the closest to being compared to Rashomon, with their shadow arm.)
Higuchi: Heliolisk (Unfortunately we are still unsure of Higuchi's Ability, if Asagiri does intend to give her an Ability. For now, though, I had to go off by her appearance. Simply grabbed black, white, and yellow. Looks at all the Pokemon, and decided on Heliolisk. And to be honest, I like it. Dunno if it's just me, but this Pokemon and Higuchi with her sunglasses on? Heck yeahhhh.)
Hirotsu: Meowstic (A secondary option to Kunikida, I decided to give Hirotsu Meowstic because I think the Pokemon and his Ability are similar. In my head, Hirotsu's Ability is basically an impact or what it is explained, "repulsion". And with Meowstic, it holds their physic power back by their ears. But if provokes and have those ears raise up, it'll unleash that power that it "powerful enough to obliterate a 10-ton truck or tanker to dust.")
Gin: Ceruledge (I wanted Gin's Pokemon to match Akutagawa's in some way but have there be blades. Took a look at Mimikyu's typing which was ghost and fairy. In fairy, Iron Valiant. In ghost, Ceruledge. And while, yes, Iron Valiant looks pretty like her, Ceruledge takes the cake.)
Tachihara: Steelix (Is the only reason I give Tachihara Steelix is because he can manipulate metal, and Steelix is... s-steel type? Yeah I'm not that creative. But if it makes ya feel better, I instantly thought of Onyx or Steelix for this guy.)
Q: Banette (One, it's a doll. Two, similar to Q [in a sense-], Banette was previously a doll that was abandoned. I was thinking about giving this one to Lucy, but I think I could find a Pokemon best suited for her. So Banette for Q!)
Kajii: Voltorb (The only reason is explodey bois. Anyways-)
random thoughts/memories w uzi, pt 1:
(possible tw?? For the first one, js skip if you want<3 )
one time Pinterest gave me an ad for r@zor blades, like jeez I was on FaceTime and I had the screen share on don’t out me like that pin holy shit💀💀
more thoughts:3
why do ppl feel the need to tell me who I am like girl- do you know me??? no!!!:33
unpopular opinionsss:
Dazai kinnie slander isn’t ok, neither is slander on anyone who decides to kin any character. Dazai kinnie slander can hurt like jeez wtf did we do to you??? We’re just trying to live😭 (or- not💀) ALSO LITERALLY JUST THISSS!!!!!!
I Heart junichiro sm<<<<333 he’s so misunderstood guys I love him☹️☹️💕 he’s just so silly I love him and his silly boyfriend tanizaki:3
another opinion, hating on other ppl’s ships isn’t ok. I can get it if it’s a pro ship they’re fuckibg disgusting. But if they’re just silly little rarepairs like junichiro x tanizaki or yosano x kouyo or Lucy x Louisa, they’re fine, I’ve seen so many ppl hate on them like bro let ppl be happy with their little ships 😭😭 there are some ships I personally dislike, but im not gonna be like “omg this ship sucks I hope everyone who ships it dies” like- no💀 im gonna be respectful and NOT SHARE MY OPINION UNLESS ITS WANTED AND IM ONLY GONNA BE HARSH ABT IT IN THE PRIVACY OF MY OWN SPACE😭😭😭
Last one before I go eep is soukoku. Just soukoku, I love soukoku:33
ow my head hurts, and my stomach, wtf. I’m gonna try and sleep I have to get up at 5:30 tmr for school
been working on my bsd apocalypse au a bit, here’s what I have of the storyline (i thought of this in the shower and this is the first time im writing this down💀)
ok ok so Dazai and chuuya r married (i love the husbands guys) the ada and pm r in the middle of a huge meeting, everyone is there, when the screen they use to project plans on goes to an emergency broadcast of the news “hello citizens of Yokohama, we have seen reports of nightmare-ish creatures from the dead, roaming the streets, we are currently working to figure this out, please stay in doors, they aren’t fast, but we don’t quite know what will happen if they bite you.” broadcast ends bla bla they think it’s all some joke but when chuuya goes to open the door but zombie’s push through, he freaks out and everyone starts running upstairs, trying to get to the heli pad on the top floor, luckily no one dies, but the agency is swarming, they get to the pm building, which is fine for now, they’re all panicking but trying to stay calm, ranpo has a deadpan stare, a stare that says, “we’re fucked.”
ANDD THATS ALL I HAVE, no this isn’t gonna be a fanfic, I don’t wanna do that, but if you’d like too make a fic like this or using this au tell me I’d love to read it!!! I don’t know how I came up with this lmao, this will be getting more updates & art, and I will posting A LOT more abt it hopefully. The pairings I’ll have will be dazai and chuuya, tachihara and junichiro, kouyo and yosano, ranpo and Poe, atsushi and aku, and uhh idk I think that’s it, im sorry for any spelling errors, im so excited abt this as a huge bsd fan and twd fan as well, which this is kinda inspired by!
I love the hc that chuuya and dazai r gossipers and they tell eachother all the dirt abt everything when they get home. It js makes sm sense😭 I js know Dazai, yosano, and ranpo, have a special lunch table and they spill everything (gossip trio real, and ranpo knows everything sooo😼) and that kouyou and chuuya talk shit in all their missions, occasionally joined by Higuchi:3 and whenever Dazai or chuuya gets home (one of them is always home before they r) they say “omg you’ll never guess what ____ told me!” “What?!” It’s such a funny silly hc and I love it sm, they’re such gossipers😭🙏
I'm thinking about a Alive! flags AU, and I'll add this trio in my list of headcanon. I already have a lot of ideas.
You know what's actually insane?
That for a very short time the Port Mafia had Iceman, Kouyou and Oda in it's ranks. Imagine what a trio they would have made if we had ever got to see them interact.
Forget Soukoku, Mori should have attempted to make this team up happen. He should have ushered in an age of deadly assassins instead of arranging play-dates for his problem children.
I know Oda has his no killing rule, but, shhhhhhh, he wouldn't have to kill on their missions, Iceman and Kouyou can take care of that part.
EDIT: Okay, I've been informed that they weren't all in the mafia at the same time, instead, Head canon! Wouldn't it be insane if they all were in the mafia at the same time
I need to know if everyone’s style and fashion drastically improved or changed after you started to watch/read bsd. I know it happened to me and I saw some other people say it happened too, but I need to know if this happens to everyone or just a few people.
Sometimes I get scared that my interest in bsd is going away, but then I get a notification saying that one of my favorite content creators posted something and then I go crazy from pure excitement and joy.
Have some random fluff my tired brain came up with
Yosano: I’m not a violent person. I just have a strong sense of justice. Kouyou: And a scalpel. Yosano: And a scalpel.
This is what happened. This is the only logical way.
3AM shenanigans just because I can
Dazai, who snuck Chuuya in his bag: *Drinking or re-enacting scenes from Jane Eyre with Kunikida who lost a bet* Yosano, with Kouyou: *Snuggling/sleeping/watching The Woman in Black* Atsushi, with Akutagawa after Kyouka left the room: *Playing UNO but Akutagawa doesn't know how to play* Kyouka, with Kenji: *Watching a documentary about Cows, Bunnies, and Birds* Ranpo, with Poe: *Terrorizing the Kitchen/attempting to bake* Kunikida, when he's not losing bets, with Katai: *Attempting to make Katai look presentable/sleeping*
ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY Nikolai: *Crawling out of a large grave*
Ok, follow up post to the original cause I wanted to actually offer my analysis/interpretation on this.
I feel like this is a right/left brain analogy 🧵
Dazai covering his right side, the side supposedly responsible for the emotional & artistic things. It says alot about his mindset, accurate for that time.
It’s intriguing, then, Kouyou covers the “logical” side
I feel like this lends to why Chuuya & Kouyou do get along well. While both Chuuya & Kouyou are no doubt very intelligent (Asagiri literally refers to Chuuya as a genius) they both still lean very much into their emotional side as well. Even if Kouyou seemingly does so less.
Kouyou reveals herself, however, not only in her care for Chuuya but we mainly see it how she handled the situation with Kyoka.
She could have insisted Kyoka come back without ever changing her mind but when Dazai presents her with a way to save Kyoka from dark, she agrees quickly.
Kouyou clearly cares & wanted to help & protect Kyoka even if she went about it poorly. She was trying to help based on her past experiences, lest we forget that she tried to leave the mafia herself once, for *love* no less. She also tends to get emotional when talking about her past or her wish to help Kyoka.
But once she was presented with another solution, a far better one, she didn’t do “what’s best for the mafia”. Kouyou agreed to what was best for Kyoka & that was definitely a more emotional choice.
This is an area where Chuuya & Kouyou align. So, of course they would get along.
Chuuya always seems to find the balance between his logic and emotion. However, he can easily & often does lean more into his emotional side first, then his logical side.
It’s similar for Kouyou, even if we don’t see it as much from her.
Back to Dazai then, when he left the mafia & the cover on Dazai’s “emotional side” was gone Dazai seemed to also move more towards that balancing of the two sides.
He started off heavily relying on his logical brain & struggled emotionally. Often feeling numb or apathetic mostly, hence his suicidal ideation.
Then he meets Chuuya & this shifts. Chuuya forces him to experience new feelings. As Chuuya is a living breathing example of most things Dazai felt the world lacked. It opened Dazai to the idea that there is more to the world, there is more to *people*. Chuuya intrigues Dazai enough to make him want to live a little longer again. Chuuya gave him a reason to keep going, a promise of more.
From the moment he met Chuuya, it was a process of letting more & more emotions seep into his mind & his heart. We see how he feared for Chuuya in 15 even after they just met, even though Dazai *knew* it was a plan.
I might even venture to go as far as to say Dazai may not have feared for someone else’s life that hard before. It was a burst of unrecognizable emotions to him. After this, he only had more & more emotion seep in as the years went by. In Storm Bringer he was ready to sacrifice the city to give Chuuya a choice.
That relationship opened Dazai up to others later, namely Oda & Ango. Which only further encouraged the intermingling of his logical brain and his emotions. Then reaching the point at which the bandages were finally removed entirely and then he, like Chuuya, moved to striving to find the balance rather than relying on one side.
Bringing us back to current Dazai as he is still attempting to find that balance.
He still leans more his logical side. This, of course, in contrast to Chuuya who, while intelligent, more easily leans into the emotional.
Yet another thing between them that completes & balances each other. Soukoku will always pull the other back when drifting too far.
So, of course, Soukoku complement each other & it benefits them both.
Having Kouyou on Chuuya’s other side I think also does help Chuuya stay grounded while in the mafia. Chuuya isn’t one to lose who he is but I think having someone else who he knows *cares* like he does helps.
Now, additionally, if we apply this to Beast, I think this also says alot about beast Dazai & why Asagiri says beastzai would be the hardest for someone to portray.
Because *this* Dazai, is perhaps *too* far into his emotional side. He’s always intelligent but in beast, his actions aren’t fully logical, they’re emotional.
He appears cold & calculating as always but he saw another version of himself suffer the great loss of a best friend & allowed his emotional desire to prevent that from happening take control. Thus, his emotional side takes over, thus him covering the opposite side from canon Dazai, he’s covering his “logical” side.
I feel like this is the main difference between all the various Dazai we’ve seen.
PM Dazai relied heavily on his logical side, especially before meeting Chuuya. He rarely took emotion into account unless it involved the 3 people he actually cared for. We see him make emotional choices when it involves Chuuya, Oda, and Ango. Dazai did seem to let more and more emotion seep in over time as a result of knowing them, however, leading to that moment the bandages are removed.
Beastzai is leaning far too heavily into his emotional side, getting lost in it even. Acting solely on an emotional desire rather than a logical one. His desire to prevent a tragedy. He only was using his intellect to further that emotional desire.
Current/ADA Dazai is the balance of the two, and seemingly the closest to happiness.
ADA Dazai uses his logical brain as always but he also actually takes emotion into account as well and has more people he actually cares for now.
I think that says alot to the theme of bsd, leaning into that “everything is grey” dynamic. Everything is about the *balance* of things. Showcasing that anything in extremes in either direction doesn’t work.
Anyway, just some thoughts I had and interpretations of mine. Take them as you want, as always.
Oh and just to be clear, I don’t think Dazai was ever “emotionless”, even at his worse. Even if he was numb and apathetic. He was also lonely.
Just saying the more people he came to care about (Chuuya, Oda, Ango then later the ADA) the more he was able to feel a variety of emotion.
My original post:
Bungou Stray Dogs as some of my favorite Epithet Erased quotes:
Dazai: Mano a mano! Pistol to pistol! Ugly rat man vs the... grossest face I can make while fighting!
Fyodor: You know, I do have feelings.
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Atsushi: He's trying to lure me into a false sense of security! Well, joke's on him! I've never been secure in my life! And I'm not about to start now!
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Kunikda: I promised I'd work myself to death by the age of 35! Anything less means I wasn't trying hard enough!
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Tachihara: Listen here, Mr. Assassin-
Gin: Miss.
Tachihara: Oh! O-oh my gosh, I am SO sorry.
Gin: It's quite alright! Please, continue with your threat.
Tachihara: Oh, right. Thank you.
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Kyouka: I wish my mom was a ghost. She's just dead.
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Dazai: Aww, c'mon man! Be cool.
Kunikida: Everyone knows the coolest thing to be... is an upright citizen.
Dazai: LAAAAME!
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Akutagawa: (regarding Atsushi passing out) Did he just pass out from the shock? What a weenie. Half of my bones are broken and you don't hear me complaining!...much.
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Kouyou: [The woman steps forward and unsheathes a real ass, goddamn sword and points it at them.]
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Chuuya: How did you manage to crash my car in the TEN MINUTES I was gone?!
Dazai: I don't know, man! It's not my fault!
Chuuya: Dude, you've crashed five cars in the same year? I think you're the common denominator at that point!
Dazai: (whining) THE ROAD WAS WIGGLY!!
Bungou Stray Dogs as Deleted Wikipedia Articles with Freaky Titles, pt. 3
Bungou Stray Dogs as Deleted Wikipedia Articles with Freaky Titles, pt. 5
a series of BSD gifs from this
(this is a repost from MY deviantart account, i did not steal this)