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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.

BSD: Within the Pages and Beyond

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!