Everyone is talking about the parallels between this new chapter of BSD (Chapter 121) and BSD Beast.
Before in the last few chapters (Chapters 115 - 120.5) were compared to the BSD Novel “STROMBRINGER”— specifically of how both Atsushi and Chuuya had lost close members that they considered friends and family to a power Ability Users that knows way more about them then they know themselves and wants them to themselves for reason yet to be known.
But now in this current chapter though, it parallels to the BEAST universe with Atsushi and fear.
Here we have “Hallucination Dazai(?)” talk to Atsushi about how he never needed to be ‘brave’ or ‘strong’ to get stuff done or fight what he fears.
The chapter talks about fight fire with fire— or in this case fear with fear as “Hallucination Dazai(?)” directs Atsushi’s attention away from how scared he is to fight Ame No Gozen to save Akutagawa because it was way he had lost a great portion of his friends/family—to the now fear losing whatever now remains of his family and friends with Lucy and Kyouka still waiting for him in the ‘Anne Room’.
This fear turns into motivation that makes him keep fighting.
Somewhat similarly, this is also seen in BSD BEAST of how BEAST!Atsushi used his fear of pain, suffering and specifically Death to become the Port Mafia’s White Reaper.
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And this is just my thoughts so feel free to just skip this, but I find it interesting that this is not the first time something like this happened. Every time we saw “Hallucination Dazai” previous it said the same if not similar things to Atsushi.
I get that it's in his head, that's what a hallucination is, and he has the same thing with The Orphanage Headmaster, and I know it takes Dazai form to guild Atsushi and that’s it’s a hallucination in his mind so that it shouldn’t mean so much. But after seeing the end of this chapter I'm wondering how this will go out.
Like all I want to see now are some answers to Atsushi “Who you really are” like my guy... what do you mean!!! Is this a hallucination or something else? Is it Atsushi’s Bookmark powers telling him what to do and stuff, is it Atsushi connecting to the Book with how much it reflects to the world of BSD!Beast or is it Atsushi’s tiger powers/Byakko talking to him.
I say this because Atsushi had referred to know what this “hallucination” really is meaning that it’s not what we originally thought it was/that’s it’s not really a hallucination of Dazai but something else entirely.
Or
Is it Atsushi finally understanding what Dazai had been teaching, what he is telling him, this whole time and discoing/realizing who he really is.
Looking into himself in the picture he made of Dazai to help him keep fight to finally understand that he has a right to live, that he doesn't need to be brave to fight-- that he always been able/has been doing this and that he should stop now because some rat drew some pictures and ripped some paper.
Having that anime protagonist moments of self-discovery and finding the will to keep fighting.
Guess we just have to wait and see. Next Chapter is coming next month, and I can't wait for what happens next!
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On another note, it's a very funny coincidence that when I went to the library the only BSD Novels there were that day were BSD! BEAST & BSD! STROMBRINGER-- both of which i took with me and am now reading! What a coincidence!!
So, one of the many future fics I am writing is a fanfic where Dev wishes Peri to be his Dad!
It's a Fairly Oddparents A New Wish Au where after an incident regarding Dale’s neglect towards his son and getting to know Dev better, Peri does the one thing he thought he would never– break “Da Rules”... The one thing keeping him from becoming a Fairy larger threat to all.
Acting a little freer, a little braver and a little more like himself, Peri slowly becomes the Fairy Godfather he had wanted to be– no longer seeing his godson as a job or a chore but the little ray of sunshine behind those shades of his. As the two spend more time together, learning to understand each other better and being more of a family than Dale could ever give, it seems that things are finally turning up for them.
But all good things could come to an end as the disaster of the birthday party takes its toll. A fight between father & son breaks out, leading to Dev breaking down as Peri tries to console him and a tearful, heartfelt, wish is made.
“I wish you were my Dad!”
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The story follows my idea and knowledge of old folklore--
Sooo to add on... Long ago, Fairies were once and still are known as Fae. Old Folktales spoke of how these trickster creatures used to steal the children of villages and towns for reasons unknown. To eat them, for servitude, as tropes or pets?
Who's to say....
But one thing for sure, though little is known of it, should a child go and follow a Fae willingly, without lie, through heart, mind, body and soul– with true acceptance– the stars that store their fates become anew… The child is reborn, their mortal body breaks and a Sprite created.
And a Sprite and their Parental Fae are the most powerful beings in creation…
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So thats my idea, let me know if you have any questions!
Cover:
First Few artwork pages:
Pages and Illustrations:
Character extra art:
Adam my beloved how I love thee—
My personal theory & thoughts about the roles of The Book.
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Atsushi = As we know now from chapter 119, he’s The Bookmark, representing the present– what's happening now in the story, marking where the story was left off, where to go back to continue reading, the function of a bookmark. He is also the guide/guidepost to The Book– this in turn led to many who were searching for The Book (The Guild and Fyodor) to come to Yokohama where it was believed to be.
But-- Here's my idea:
Natsume = Outside force, an Author (as seen in Oda’s flashback, he’s the Author of the books Oda was reading when he was a kid– it was the day they first met) or the Narrator of The Book. He was the past, before everything– before the Tripartite Framework was even made. He was the one protecting Yokohama for years before the Armed Detective Agency, Port Mafia and the Special Division for Unusual Powers. And Yokohama’s been seen as the place where The Book is in, all well as a page that was taken out of it that was being researched by the Special Division for Unusual Powers.
Oda = Reader, would have been the next Author or Narrator after Natsume–he did after all give up killing to become a writer, which was given to him by Natsume-- who book he was reading when he first met him! He was supposed to be the future (like how his Ability could see into the future, even for a few seconds), or timeline wise, be the present that the story is now. But after his death, the story couldn’t go anywhere, there's no one to keep writing the story Natsume had left– or so you’d think but he did help the story by creating a new path for the MC. Giving the MC of The Book a new drive to follow the new path, to keep living and becoming someone who would see the beauty of saving lives instead of ending them.
Dazai = The Original Book MC, the whole of the BSD story was supposed to be about him. I can’t be the only one to realize how in nearly every light novel Dazai or his presence in it, shows how important Dazai is to the world of BSD. Especially in “Bungou Stray Dogs: BEAST”, where BEAST!Dazai was able to see the original/main story of BSD and made a world where Oda– The Reader turned Author and more importantly his Best Friend who was the reason why he left the PM in the original story– was alive, The MC created another world after discovering the plot, changed said plot to ensure that his best friend would live in these one. And isn't it funny how the first person Atsushi meets in the beginning of story was Dazai, The Bookmark catching up with/following the MC, saving his life from drowning to keep the story going because there's still so many pages left, this is not where your story ends.
Sigma = The next MC after Dazai, he was or is likely supposed to be a sequel to Dazai’s story once it ended– I say this simply because he was created by the book.
Fyodor = Original Author, he created the story and world of BSD– or at least the backstory around its world. About how Ability Users came to be and other stuff. Now he wants to rewrite the story– the tipping point was losing his last reader and that's why he does what he does in the story.
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So yeah, that's my bit, please take this with a grain of salt, I just wanted to put something out there. Hope you like it!
Finally was able to get these done! Sorry for the long delay but here’s the art I promised! And even better new the next new chapters are coming out soon so be ready!
There we have the Cover Art (For Now), A picture of the 1st chapter showing Iruma’s Kidnapping! And the sketch and coloring of chapter 2 of the Adoption Contract!
Hope you like it!
Finally found the long, lost motivation to finish up this art work! Sorry it took so long.
Also as a heads up; I’m rewriting the first chapters of “Iruma’s Dad: Derkila”. After re-reading it, I didn’t like how it sounded— I wanted more details and better dialogue, to show growth in how the characters interact with each other and all that jazz— what I write sounded too much like a draft and was too fast for my liking and didn’t hit any of my goals.
So until I smooth out the chapters, I will be posting some sneak peeks and stuff about my Au and many other projects I’m working on—
Anyway— Here’s the New Colored in one:
And here’s the original:
Cough, cough Iruma’s Dad: Derkila Cough
Cover:
First few pages:
Pages and illustrations:
Pages giving more information about “The Book” + BEAST!Dazai’s Death:
I both love and hate this man—
Character art:
Akutagawa: Call me Diablo.
Danny Motta: Shut up Akutagawa. 😏
Hawthorne: Then this must be Mount Hermon.
Danny Motta: SHUT UP NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE!!! 🤬
Danny Motta: Why couldn’t we have Arthur Miller instead! ‘The Crucible’ Bangs!!!!
(Danny Motta YouTube video: “This Character RUINED MY LIFE | Bungo Stray Dogs 2x5 and 2x6 Blind Reaction”— 13:25 to 13:43)
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I’ll be the judge of that!!! Book Club just assigned a new book to read!
And Finally got to post! (Due to technical difficulties)
BSD AU!— “Old Kings on a New Chessboard”
Or— If Fyodor’s plan was successful and all Ability Users where wiped out off the face of the earth… with a few exceptions…
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The story here is that somehow Fyodor got to the Book and erased all Ability Users out of existence.
(Whenever something is written in The Book, everything is transported into whatever was written about– an example being that if someone had died in the real world, someone could writing a story about how that never happened and that the person who had died wasn’t died, and through that everybody would be brought into a world were that had happened and that person didn’t die. Like how it goes in BSD!BEAST with Oda being alive.).
So everyone is transported to another world where all the ability users start to disappear after the wish is made.
So pretty much every in the ADA is gone, including Dazai (who even though is powerful and Ability is nullification to all abilities— The Book isn’t a Ability and has more power than him so he’s gone) and Ranpo (who was killed by Fyodor’s hand trying to stop it from happening).
Everyone with an ability in the PM, The Guild, The Special Division, Hunting Dogs and very much anyone with an ability is gone— yes including Fyodor.
So everyone is gone…. Or so it was though…. Because Atsushi was called the “Antithesis of all Special Abilities”, he is the opposite of abilities. And with his connection to the Book/ being the Bookmark– he isn’t affected by this and to his absolute horror, still reminds as the only one left with everyone he knows and loves, where people with abilities, are all gone.
He failed..
He’s alone again….
And it’s his greatest fear, being alone like how he was back in the Orphanage. He’s losing it, the presser of it all finally broke the camel's back and no matter how many pages he tries to fill in the Book, the pages all stranded with ink, blood and tears, nothing can reverse the damage Fyodor had done.
No one was coming back…
He really is alone…
And then he hears someone coughing.
Turning around he sees a Knight whose armour was crafted out of cloth, whose eyes are so different from before but now– piercings into their soul, he sees familiarity within them.
He’s still here.
Akutagawa was still here. How?
(I’ll come up with somethings later— maybe because he was the last of the vampires to still be under Bram Stoker’s control after the end of Season 5, Bram had brought him back to life and now Akutagawa is now a vampire living with a new purpose to protect the princess and something something I’ll write later he’s still here and his memories are back.)--- Quick side note I made this all before chapter 119 was even up, so everything up until now was from 2024. But as the new chapters start coming information would be changed– so now we know how Aukagawa got his memories back, 121.5 kills me!
By Akutagawa’s side was a 10 girl that had, 2 hours ago when stopping the vampire apocalypse was all that needed to worry about, saved the world. Now her clothes are covered with rubble, face scared with scrap marks as tears tail down her cheeks. She's holding on to Akuatagwa’s hand like a lifeline as she takes in what had happened with a haunting expression.
She looks around, trying to find the other members of the Agency or at the very least other people beside the 3 of them that would answer her questions that she couldn’t voice. Akutagawa looks at him with the same expression he had given him the day he had found out that The Headmaster had died, a look assigned to pity, of understanding, of so many different emotions that it had no real name or definition…
Atsushi felt like throwing up.
“Where.. Where did everybody go?.. Did we win? Mister Detective? What Happened?... What do we do?” The girl asked with a quiver in her voice. Akutagawa held her hand tighter to offer comfort– whether it was for him or her, they didn’t know but that was all that could be done at the time…. After all..
This wasn’t their world anymore…
This wasn’t their home anymore….
They lost…
Atsushi finally broke. Just like Fyodor had wanted 2 hours earlier. He let out a cry as the realization had finally settled in.
He had lost.
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30 years later.
Atsushi ,now in his late 40s (48 years old), is the President of the Armed Detective Agency– though it was not by his own choosing.
He would have very much had took a page or two, hell the whole book, of Dazai’s “Complete Guide to Suicide” just to be with the others. But being one of the 3 or so ability users left in the world and the last member of the Agency, he was forced to take the position by the remaining non ability members of the Special Division and Government barely a week after everyone was gone to stabilize the public after the vampire apocalypse and answer whatever had happened that rid the world of all it’s ability users.
Now for 30 years, he had been tasked to keep the promise of the Triple-Framework to keep Yokohama safe in the twilight. Though he would rather end it all and let it all burn, Atsushi takes up the mantle because this place still holds the memories of his family and keeping the Agency and what it stands for going is the only thing keeping him alive in hopes to find a way to bring his family back.
While there may be no ability users left, they were called the ARMED Detective Agency, so many of the new gen members are skilled in using firearms to protect the public from any threats that come their way. From unsolved cases that the police could solve, to fights against the Port Mafia, Atsushi and the next generation of Detectives protect Yokohama from the darkness that still wishes to swallow them whole.
Speaking of the Port Mafia, Akutagawa (now in his early 50’s) leads with an iron fist as the Boss of the Port Mafia. Being the only ability user left and the last of the higher ups with the old Boss Mori, all the Executives and Black Lizard gone, he took up the mantle to control the underworld and nights of Yokohama so that the Mafia does lose its power or its control.
With Bram Stoker's Vampire ability still active even after his Death, Akutagawa has enough power to control the non-ability vampire mafia members into being the immortal army to protect the mafia and Yokohama. Sadly that didn’t include his sister who had died from a bullet to the skull during the end of the apocalypse. With his memories back and the last order given to him by the Vampire King, Akutagawa finds his purpose in protecting the city and the princess that were left behind in the aftermath.
The temporary truce between the Agency and the Mafia became a proper allices as the last two ability users work together to protect whatever remains of their home.
That is until Atsushi finds the answer they’ve been looking for inside The Book.
Erasing Fyodor’s Wish.
It sounds easy and simple on paper but in actuality it means to destroy the entire non-ability world, all the living beings that rest inside it, atom by atom, and return back to a point in time in the real, original world and never let what had happened happen. It also doesn’t help that the process of removing the wish entirely would have a better chance of destroying everything instead of turning back time.
But in the end Atsushi, Akutagawa and Aya (who i’ll refer to as the “A Squid” in the future) decide to take that chance to return to their friends and family and end Fyodor once and for all. With the Tiger Claws, Atsushi rips out Fyodor's wish and Akutagawa has Rashsoman eat it. The world collapses on itself as the wish no longer keeps it together and everything goes dark……
……. The A Squid wakes up, two in their bedrooms that existed long in the past and the other in a cage in a time long gone. All 3 noticeably younger, 9, 17 and 19.
They did it.
Their back in their world, back in the past!
1 year before everything fell apart.
But 1 year to prepare for the war that was to come.
And this time, the Rat wouldn’t know what hit him.
Because now, these Older Kings take their place in this new game of Chess.
Guess you just finished ‘Strombringer’ and ‘Beast!’
ME!!!
And I’ll never be the same again!!!
Why did I do this?? I have so much homework I didn’t finish!
Why couldn’t I put the book down!!! I knew how it all ended but I still kept going!!!
WHY!?!??
Damn you Asagiri for making me feel for characters I’ll never see again!!!
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Anyways I’m gonna post some pages later so that I can share some of its beauty!!! The BSD Light Novels are that a work or art!!
Hi I’m Author-Chan Pepsi Cola and this is my Blog where I hope to post my art and stories. I have a Wattpad account called Pepsicola011 where I’ll post said stories. I hope you enjoy my work. -Chan
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