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BSD Chapter 121 Theory

Chapter 121 spoilers ahead

So I have a theory about who the Dazai in Atsushi's mind is. Dazai isn't the first person Atsushi has hallucinated about, the first person was the orphanage director. And what did the orphanage director used to do in his hallucinations? He used to give Atsushi advice. But at least from memory it's been a while since Atsushi hallucinated him. Instead he's started hallucinating Dazai. And what does Dazai do in his hallucinations? Also give him advice. So my theory is that hallucination Dazai is an evolved version of hallucination orphanage director and perhaps this is a sign that Atsushi has renounced the orphanage director and accepted Dazai as his mentor in his stead.

Let me know what you guys think!

Bsd 114.5 is WILD but like, someone pls explain how did that rat kill Karma then????

What if “The Book” is Oda’s story? / Oda = God? (BSD Theory)

I’m rewatching the start of Season 2 and haven’t read the manga (yet, I’m working on it). But here’s just a random thought.

I’ll add my evidence later, ig.

I do remember Dazai laughing maniacally at Fyodor talking about God and then saying “you don’t actually know anything about God, do you?”

And before that, in the second season, a lot of people, including Dazai, hold Oda as one of the most powerful people they know, but we aren’t exactly shown why apart from him being virtuous (but that’s not why, because Dazai tries to talk him into and trick him into killing. Which also ties in with Dazai possibly being Satan/Judas because that’s also repeated a million times and y’know the devil tempts the good bla bla)

Theres a lot more I could add, I just need to gather my thoughts.

Okay but it feels kinda in character for him, I won't lie

I love how the bsd fandom was celebrating chuuyas birthday being happy, joyful, a bit of angsty JUST yesterday and then fyodor just comes to ruin the party like that one auntie that no one of the family likes.

I honestly love this post so much, it made me realize that Asagiri has definitely caused the BSD fandom to go batshit insane and I'm sorry OP but that image at the end really embodies just

We're all collectively pulling our hair out and screaming until June and when the June chapter comes, we'll be clawing at the walls :)

fyodor ability theory !!! please note this was originally typed in discord, so sorry if its short or messy lmao

SO LIKE-- we know the body was different, but when did the switch occur ?? cuz my theroy is switching concouisseness or bodies, but it could also have something to do with nikolai. so i was looking at the body, and on the face- were those stitches or bandages? what were they for? and THE IMPORTANT THING- WHEN DID THE SWITCH OCCUR? becuase the timeing is everything cuz it could tell us how its activated. but we also need to take into account karma, and what happened with the gaurd. i notced that the vampire was different from the dead body (lets call him 9).

so who was that, and where did he come from? the only way a body could have been like that is A) nikolai switched them out using his ability, or B) [personal take] if fyodor can actually switch bodies, when he enters or takes them over, the physical features shift to look like him. that would explain how he looked the same in the memories sigma is seeing. or it could also have something to do with the stiches on the face. but if the switch occurred, that would mean fyodor would have had to entered the body of someone else. and who would that be? THE HELICOPETER PIOLET. my theory is that fyodors ability is activated when someone harms him, so that would explain what went on in the dungeon after the guard stabbed him. he would have switched after being stabbed, and that is what couldve happened in the helicopter. and the reason the dead body looks different is bc after fyodor leaves a body, it regains its og features and form.

that was all for scenario B. scenario A, with nikolai, is that they already had the different body prepared, but this one is the most unlikely for a number of reasons, the main few being that 1- nikolai's grief was genuine, 2- the timing was iffy. but this also works well because i looked closely, and i cant really see the stab wound. this would mean the switch happened after fyodors last words, meaning something happened with the different bodies. like i said before, it all depends on the time.

like i said, typed in discord, so its not alot lol, but ill def add onto this bc i have alot more evidence/theories !!!

also you can see my decent to madness the other night at 2 am below if ud like

He’ll be back guys.

Knowing what we know now about Fyodor’s ability makes me wonder what would’ve happened if Nikolai actually managed to kill him.

If Nikolai found out what would happen, would he still want to kill Fyodor?

Or would he try even harder to kill him?

Nikolai would get the death he so wishes but Fyodor would live. He cannot win.

Bro what if Port Mafia Dazai covered his eyes just so his ennemis think he's blind, and if they manage to gouge out Dazai's eye, then Dazai would just take off his bandage and would be like “Guess what? I'm not blind. April fool 🤭”

I always wondered if Dazai's bandages on his eyes when he was in the mafia was like a reminder? Like, he wakes up in the morning, and he sees that he's still under Mori's influence. So that he doesn't forget, so that it haunts him every day. Like a cage. Something to remind him “You are not free, you are a murderer, a mafia executive”

And when Oda took it off, it's like he's saying “You are free now”. Dazai sees himself in the mirror, and won't see the bandages that reminded him of the monster he is

Remember how akutagawa said he doesn't have long to live cause of his lung disease? What if - and hear me out - yosano could heal him? Bc she can completely heal anyone right? Like when the vampire thing is eradicated, i have hope that yosano could resurrect him.

WAIT i have a theory. Idk if this has been thought of before, but what if fyodor gains a person's remaining life years when he kills them? That'd explain how he looks the same age all the time, since he gains the years and the youth of those he kills.

I really don't think Akutagawa forgot who Atsushi was. When he said "Who the hell are you?" I think he was referring to how moments ago Atsushi yelled at him that it's no use. Akutagawas number one source of respect for Atsushi comes from that unyielding determination of his, to Akutagawa, it was his number one defining quality. It was what made Atsushi, Atsushi. Now he's seeing that same person yell at how it's no use while Akutagawa now has the capability to fight back, and Atsushi was groveling on the ground in front of Dostoyevsky moments ago. He doesn't feel like the Atsushi we all grew to know and love throughout this whole series. Akutagawa asking that question jot literally, but in the rhetorical "Where has the quality that made you, gone? Who are you without that blinding determination that fights even in futility?" Besides, when I see one of my friends go through a drastic change, I'll jokingly ask them "Well who are you?" to tease them that they changed a lot. So when I read that, I automatically went, "Oh, Akutagawa is seeing how much Atsushi has changed since he left, and that's just how he expressed it." I don't know, with Akutagawas personality, I don't think any effects of vampirism can erase the people around him, at least not entirely. Maybe it made him forget some of their nuances, but the person entirely? Well, I don't think he'd really be Akutagawa anymore. Besides, you can't tell me he'd forget Atsushi when their abilities fought on sight and when Akutagawa died for him. That's a bond no amount of weird ability shenanigans can destroy.

Here me out

The fact that part of a person's like will or feelings if its super strong will stay with fyodor when he takes over gave me a thought

What if fyodors original goal was never rid the whole world of abilities? What if it was just to get rid of his own ability? Like if when his ability activated for the first time after being killed because of someone trying to rob him or something in ye olden days, he hated his own ability. Like it happened, he didnt know what happened, and he went back to his house, and his family just looked at him terrified. Fyodor was still fyodor, but not quite the fyodor they knew. What if originally he saw and knew how precious abilities were to others, and thought that his was the only one was the one that had to be destroyed, because it defied the very nature of life and ruined meaning for trying so hard to live well? He tried his hardest to let himself just die normally, but no matter what, he was murdered, often times in revenge. As time went on, he kept getting killed by corrupt or insane people, their intense hatred of the world around them, no doubt some had an intense hatred for abilities too, and that stuck with fyodor. Every time it got stronger, to the point where it warped his own wishes and perception of life. That's when it went from his ability to all abilities.

I don't think Akutagawa has lost his memories, neither do I think he's faking it, or doing it as a way to get Atsushi to react and get back on his feet.

In chapter 117, when Bram saves Aya from the airport wreckage, he says that he transferred his consciousness into Akutagawa's body when Fyodor's ability took over his own body, and that his ability would also die with him, his consciousness disappearing as a consequence. . The question is: we don't know what happens to a vampire who turns back into a human, nor whether all vampires were transformed back, or just Akutagawa, because Bram took his body. I don't believe that all vampires have become human, as Fyodor mentions that as long as he has Bram's body, the echoes of his ability would still exist, and he can still control everyone who has been turned into a vampire around the world, so it is likely that only Akutagawa was transformed into a human again (vampirism having disappeared along with Bram's consciousness), even if remnants of his transformation are still present in his body, like a vampire's durability. It is these vampiric remnants and characteristics that make me think that Akutagawa's sudden amnesia was caused by traces of Bram's soul/consciousness in his body.

When Bram dies, we see Akutagawa accepting his mission to protect Aya. Everything in the manga suggested that this was Akutagawa's own decision, and to a certain extent, it is, but it is quite likely that Bram's traits and characteristics remained in Akutagawa's body even after his death. This whole role of a "noble knight" was a striking characteristic of Bram, who always saw the current world as if it were still his time, and used terms from that same time to refer to everyone. Part of Bram's consciousness may have remained in Akutagawa's body along with the vampire characteristics, causing his consciousness to mix with Bram's consciousness, or be overwhelmed by it, which perhaps could have been the cause of his lack of consciousness, and memory. Something I found curious is that Akutagawa not only has protecting Aya (or the princess) as his mission, but also the commoners, something that was not included in Bram's order/request.

So where did the part about protecting the commoners come from? Is it something caused by Bram's influence? A part of Akutagawa's new (and probably temporary) knight persona? Or a wish of his own? His own desire to protect people?

Well, I don't know, but if that's the case, I can see a lot of ways this memory loss could really add something to Akutagawa's character arc. We know that he is someone who is truly true to his promises, and when Bram's consciousness and influence begin to dissipate from his mind, he will probably still remind that he promised to protect Aya, and will commit to fulfilling his promise. Being placed in the role of protecting someone, for Akutagawa, would be something really good, it would help him understand that he doesn't need to kill for his life to have meaning, that there is also value in protecting other people, that this is not necessarily linked to a failure (the last time he protected someone, they all got killed), and that there is something good about protecting and helping people. Finding a new reason to live would also help him get rid of the idea that the value of his life is linked to Dazai's approval of him. It's clear how he was using rashomon in a much more effective way in the last chapter compared to his other fights, so much that even Atsushi seems surprised. I believe this comes from the fact that Akutagawa learned (due to his life both on the slums and in the mafia) to use rashomon as a weapon, not as an extension of his own body, as a part of himself, in addition to that he does not need to use rashomon to fortify his body, which allows him to use rashomon more freely.

Other things that I think could have caused Akutagawa's amnesia are his transformation back into a human (dying, being turned into a vampire, and then back into a human again could definitely do some damage to anyone's brain), and Bram's promise to Aya to protect her, as we know that in Bsd promises can be kept even after someone has turned into a vampire (as we see with Akutagawa and his promise not to kill anyone). Bram's promise to Aya surpassed Dostoevsky's ability, causing Fyodor to create a great will to protect Aya, so it is not so impossible that it also surpassed Bram's death.

If Kunikida comes back (which I hope he does), I think it might have something to do with the book, more specifically the page that was with Fukuchi before he died. We don't know what happened to the page after the divine being's appearance, but if it hasn't, I don't know, disappeared, it could still be used to reverse the damage caused by the divine being, perhaps even bringing back those who were killed by it.

Here's a theory, bram is only playing a prank on everyone bcs it's actually Aya's birthday!!! After he stabs fukuchi confetti will pop out and then fukuchi will stand, wiped clean from the blood on his clothes! And then suddenly they're all dressed up like Akutagawa from the 2hourslater scene! Except for atsushi bcs he's a very slow walker. Dazai and Chuuya will arrive on a pretty pink helicopter, throwing down gifts for Aya from everyone! And if you're wondering about the 2hourslater scene😂😂 well it's obvious!!! It was piñata fukuchi! No one else could destroy the piñata fukuchi and Aya became sad bcs she can't get her candy, so Atsushi and Akutagawa work together to break it! They will succeed and candy falls out of piñata fukuchi's stomach and they all live happily ever after! and sigma wakes up when Dazai and Chuuya are kissing. And then Fyodor looks down from heaven with Karma, they're looking at everyone and says "They are...the bungou stray dogs."

And then post sequence, Nikolai is seen sitting down near a grave that says "Dostoevsky" and then he does the thing that Grell from black Butler did and it turns out he was actually pregnant all along!

Little BSD theory thing

This isn't intended to be taken seriously; do as you want with it. This is like a week or two old??

(Little corner image is a Whisper from Won's Pinterest, idk how to @ ppl on here)