Had An Icebreaker Activity In My Psych Class Today Which Was "talk About Something You're Passionate

@fluff-cember : [Prompt 13] Fire and Ice

Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs

Ship: Fyodor x Dazai

FINALLY I FINISHED THIS DAMN FIC, DEAR LORD. I am not philosophical in the slightest so this was an absolute pain to write, but I somehow did it. I had made a post about this earlier, where Fyodor would talk about Robert Frost's poem Fire and Ice with someone else, and I later chose that someone to be Dazai. Lemme know if they're in character. :') [btw they're in the prison here]

The day was as boring and dull as the previous, and probably the next. The only noise that could be heard in the space was the flipping of pages, and Dazai couldn't help but stare at Fyodor as the latter read some book.

He sat up in bed, eyeing the Russian’s figure curiously.

“What?” Came Fyodor’s amused voice, breaking him out of his trance.

“What’cha reading?” Dazai effortlessly shifted to his teasing tone of voice, leaning towards Fyodor’s cell.

Fyodor finally looked up from his book, giving Dazai an unimpressed look. “Poems.”

Dazai blinked, making a show of being repulsed. “Poems? Seriously?”

“Have you read poems by Robert Frost?” Fyodor asked, ignoring Dazai’s weird looks.

Dazai just hummed softly, glancing up at the ceiling in thought. “I've heard of the guy.”

Fyodor crossed his legs, corners of his lips turning up. “Fire and Ice.”

“That’s name of the poem?” Dazai whined. “Sounds so boring.”

Fyodor let out an irritated huff, bringing the book closer to his face to read out loud:

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

“So philosophical,” Dazai remarked, amused at the seriousness in Fyodor’s voice.

“I'd say this poem stands to be quite relevant in our time.” Fyodor gazed up at Dazai, tilting his head.

Dazai maintained their eye contact, leaning back on the bed. “...Whether the world is to end by fire or ice, hmm?”

“Fire, or ice—desire, or hatred?”

“Do you have an opinion on this?”

Fyodor set the book on the table, crossing his arms. “Regardless of the path, it is quite obvious mankind will lead to the destruction of the world.”

Dazai followed his movements. “I guess you'd advocate hatred and selfishness to win instead of violence, right?”

He slightly smiled. “Both.”

Dazai blinked, then laughed out loud, dramatically wiping tears from his eyes. “I don't know why I expected any less from you.”

Fyodor hummed. “However… I'd consider the role of ice—apathy, greed, and selfishness, to be grander.”

Dazai tilted his head. “Isn't violence practically second nature to us?”

Fyodor's smile widened, shaking his head as he explained, “It is the nature of humans to be cold too. The tendency to remain selfish results in mankind being unable to work together—”

“We’re apathetic, you mean?” Dazai chimed in. “Too caught up with ourselves to worry about others?”

“You are starting to understand,” Fyodor remarked, slightly irritated at the interruption. “They are blinded by greed, losing the ability to care unless something concerns them directly.”

Dazai yawned. “Bla bla bla, and this somehow ties up with abilities, gotcha.”

Narrowing his eyes, Fyodor ignored him and continued, “This lack of unity, alongside violence and a sprinkle of human stupidity, results in war.”

“What, so you think we're naturally inclined to start wars?”

He nodded. “War can begin due to the lack of empathy and understanding... or simple greed and selfishness.”

“Ehh, I don't think that.” Watching Fyodor’s eyes widening slightly, Dazai snickered and explained, “Resource scarcity, ideological differences, etc., lead to war; apathy is just a fuel.”

“Again, lack of understanding.” Fyodor sighed. “Which is basically apathy.”

"Apathy isn't always negative—sometimes, it can lead to peaceful resolutions.” Laughing as he made Fyodor awe-struck for probably the second time, Dazai continued, “If people aren't invested enough to fight, they might end up avoiding conflict altogether—”

“...Because people who are apathetic tend to be more indifferent and less aggressive,” Fyodor mused.

Dazai hummed, amused. “I'd say that could actually prevent fights from breaking out in the first place.”

Fyodor raised his eyebrows in interest.

“I assume you prefer fire, then?”

Dazai grinned. “As you had said earlier, fire and ice both will play a role.. because they are tied together.”

Fyodor quirked up a small smirk. “We can only tell as time passes, hm?”

“Seeing what the future has in store for us,” He murmured.

“Quite.”

Fyodor simply returned his attention back to the book, picking it up, as Dazai leaned back to have a shut-eye.

I really need to draw these two more! I’m still figuring out how I want to stylize them in a way I’m satisfied with, but I think I’m getting somewhere. Heck this is the first Klavier I’ve drawn that I’m happy with the outcome of. That man’s hair is hard to figure out! (At least for me). Anyhoot I love these two

I genuinely just can't believe how quickly Jan has gone like what

I still remember December being like I GOTTA WAIT UNTIL FEB FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER WHAAA

...and now...

wdym the shields are up bruh all i wanted was to shield myself from reality by AO3 😭😭

"Mama I'm chasing a ghost, I don't know who he is.

Mama I'm chasing a ghost, do I look like him?"

I know that these days in the Ace Attorney fandom the cool thing to do is to stan and defend Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and bash Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice (and don’t get wrong, those two DO have a lot of writing problems), but Imma be honest:

Disbarring Phoenix Wright was a seriously bad writing decision

“But…but…Phoenix isn’t ooc because look at the circumstances!” Yes, I agree, but you’re missing the point: the problem isn’t his characterization so much as the circumstances that created it. It cheapens the ending of Trials and Tribulations and tbh would have pissed me off if not for the fact I was playing it knowing his disbarment would be undone in the next game. I understand Shu Takumi was forced to put Phoenix in the game (it honestly would have been the best case scenario for us all and in the long run for the trilogy if he got his way and didn’t have to include him) but this wasn’t the way to go. I like the basic idea of his character of being a disillusioned lawyer who fell from grace, but not for an established character we spent a trilogy watch grow as I feel that’s an arc more suiting to an original character. I know criticizing Apollo Justice is taboo at this point but I needed to get this off my chest because all the “stop saying Phoenix was ooc in Apollo Justice that game is peak!” takes are dramatically missing the point.

The only thing I love more than a character who's extremely competent

Is a character who is unexpectedly competent

Just saw that there is some planned maintenance for ao3 in July 1 and the archive will be down for at least 10 hours apparently. I feel like I just got told to prep for doomsday.

Battle stations. Prepare for a siege. We shall weather this storm.

update 3: read the 3rd book of the shatter me series and MY BABY AARON OH MY GOD ID SHOOT ANDERSON'S ASS FOR THE THIRD TIME AND FOURTH AND FIFTH AND—

wonders if I should cross post my recent fics in ao3 to wattpad