I Never Get When People Say Soukoku Are Doomed By The Narrative. Like It Makes Sense In Beast But Regular

Thinking about Tachihara deciding to stay with the Mafia after everything's over.

Thinking about the government refusing to give him his next monthly surgery since he's no longer a Hunting Dog.

Thinking about him accepting and coming to terms with the fact that he's going to die, and even saying his goodbyes to his friends in the mafia.

Thinking about Hirotsu, Gin, Higuchi, Kouyou, Chuuya, all refusing to let him die like this, and scrambling to find a way to save him.

Thinking about Chuuya and Kouyou threatening the hospitals to give him the surgeries, and Gin and Higuchi sneaking around to find something that could help.

And then it hits them. The solution, which now seems so obvious in hindsight.

Thinking about Chuuya on the phone with the Detective Agency, and of course it's Dazai who picks up the other end.

Thinking about him sitting in the office, head in his hands, as he hears Chuuya asking him to let Yosano go to the Mafia base for a while.

Thinking about Dazai, out of genuine concern for her, refusing to let her go back to the Port Mafia.

Thinking about Yosano being out the door before Dazai even puts the phone down, because it's Michizō Tachihara. This is Shunzen's younger brother, of course she has to help him.

Thinking about Yosano, when she arrives at the PM base, not having to hurt him even a little bit to use her ability, because he's already that far gone, that broken.

Thinking about her sitting by his side, wondering if when he wakes up he's going to hate her for using the same ability on him that killed his brother.

But when Tachihara wakes up, all he can say to the doctor is "thank you," because he genuinely means it. Because of Yosano's ability, he's healed completely. He has no commitment to the Hunting dogs now.

(If i end this with "he's free" is that cringe?)

thinking about how stormbringer makes a point to emphasise dazai being unpredictable and no one knowing how he works or what hes thinking. even adam, who is a literal robot with predictive analysis shit going on, cant figure out what dazai is doing. but chuuya looks him straight in the eye, says, "I know how you work." and proceeds to nail exactly what dazais thinking with almost no indication of it at all.

Дазаюшка🍄

Doodles of this loser

THIS.

I normally block hate like that out because it’s really not that deep it’s just fictional silly guys, but sometimes it reaches me and it’s so infuriating😭

ESPECIALLY when people say there’s no evidence for it. It’s SKK we are talking about here!

(When did we even need evidence for a ship?)

It could be read as platonic or romantic, and there is evidence for both. If you read the material you’d know that 😭😭😭

half of skk haters say it doesn’t make sense bc they hate each other and the other half say it doesn’t make sense because they’re actually so platonic they couldn’t feel romantic things for each other.

which one is it? do they hate each other or are they besties? 😭

Excerpt from the Storm Bringer stage play (official translation)

I've been seeing a lot of love for embarrassing teenager Dazai recently, so let me share the fantastic depiction of this scene in the stage play!

A ship dynamic between the type of person who loves obsessively, and one who longs only for the idea of love.

A, who loves with their entire being. Once they latch onto someone, they want to become their everything and be their everything in turn. They crave it, they need it, and they feel incomplete without it.

B, who longs desperately to love, laments their lack of love even, who takes any and all love offered to them with a smile, but also who can never quite find themself reciprocating love with the same intensity of A.

Neither will be ever satisfied.

A will inevitably wear B out to the point they can no longer act out the concept of love. And in B leaving, A will be destroyed.

Does anyone else remember how at the end of chapter 12 (I think) when Atsushi saved Kyouka and they jumped off the ship, Kunikida told him he did a good job? (Even though he wasn’t conscious to hear it.)

After looking back my brain has come to the conclusion that Kunikida was not just praising Atsushi for saving Kyouka, he was actually praising him for standing up for his ideals, defending himself, and succeeding in what he set out to do. After all, it was a big moment for Atsushi’s character development, and ideals are literally what Kunikida is all about.

Now that I think about it, I fear it is obvious.

I just-I just want another soul to see the chaos that is me and my partner’s texts.

Also one from me and my best friend: