Kunikida Showing Up In Any Fight Scene Is Honestly So Crazy To Me

Knkdz AU - How they met each other (vampire Kuni x human Dazai)

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But this is really only the beginning of their story.

i think we need to acknowledge more that kunikida has serious issues telling people that he cares about them — and that when he does tell them, unless he's being pushed into it, he does it in more... out of the normal ways.

kunikida is more than capable of saying nice things about his loved ones — however, most of the time, he says them in more private settings when they won't be able to hear.

it's funny because kunikida loves the rest of the ada (especially dazai and atsushi) so deeply — but he struggles so much with showing it.

he can't just be vulnerable like that and tell atsushi that he was worried or that he was proud of him — he has to do it in some roundabout way and ultimately needs to be pushed into actually being vulnerable enough to say what he means. he can't just tell dazai that he was scared for his life, and that he doesn't want dazai dead — he has to say that it's up to /him/ to kill dazai — dazai can't kill himself, because kunikida is the one who ultimately has to choose when he dies (because if it was up to kunikida, dazai wouldn't die until he's old and wrinkled).

it's actually really fun looking back on the series with the knowledge of how deep kunikida's issues with actually being upfront and honest about his feelings are — because you look back on scenes like this, which initially looked like kunikida being scared of the mafia — but which you realize now in hindsight was actually kunikida having been scared out of his mind over atsushi, and at the idea of the mafia hurting him.

kunikida loves those around him — and he loves them deeply — he just has deep seated emotional repression and vulnerability issues that don't allow him to say these things. he does show it all the time through his actions, however.

(buying time for kyouka and atsushi in dead apple, buying ochazuke for atsushi when they first met even if he bitched and moaned about it, making meals for dazai, buying time for atsushi and tanizaki, etc. it says a lot about the guy who repeatedly says that you can't save everyone because they're not heros, and sometimes you need to run away, that he's always the first to sacrifice himself to save the rest of the agency).

I think kunikida would have an existential crisis if he saw the book or a page or part of a page of the book. He could then replicate it, which means that he has to decide whether to not summon pages knowing that he could cause infinite great things with it, like ending world hunger or crime, but if he does, he risks it falling into the wrong hands and also being an authoritarian of sorts. Would he use it for emergencies? Will he start to expand what counts as an emergency? This ability would also be extremely dangerous because Kunikida is so gullible, so it would be easier to manipulate him into using it for something under the guise of his ideals and/or stealing it once it's summoned.

Anyway I just wanted to think about kunikida as an antagonist for an arc

Kuniki/Dazai

He looks like vanilla pudding with that chocolate syrup bottom... I can't get that off my mind...-

Anyway, the pallette here was tough mainly because I had to adjust a lot of Kunikida's colors since Bones decided to make them the most horrible shade of greenish yellow....

Otherwise, he was fun.

-Nix🌙

”which could mean nothing” is maybe my favorite phrase of all time. where would we be without it

teenagers

guys don’t worry it’ll be ok asagiri actually came over and told me so