/ Orv Novel Main Story + Epilogue Spoilers

Here’s the first part of the animatic I posted

I had such a good plan but you know how it is

I’m legit going to spend the entire day thinking about who fits with who

With Percy Jackson finally coming out today I feel the need to say that if One Piece had a PJO AU, Luffy would be the son of Poseidon, not to follow the same path as Percy, but because it would be funny af that the son of the God of the Sea couldn't fucking swim.

What do you mean "it's not normal to obsess over fictional character" like what do you do when you have a favorite character? Not read fanfictions about them?! Not search for fanart about them?! What do mean???

Genuinely don't think I've seen anyone talk about chapter 25 as a pivotal moment for Dazai so I'm gonna put this out here because I think his reactions here kind of negate that whole omnipotent Dazai interpretation which I hate with every fibre of my being.

Firstly, he's like, clearly caught off guard here. And don't try to tell me he wasn't, because this is just one instance of his genuinely horrified reaction to Q's release and when he realized what was actually going on with Atsushi, Naomi and Haruno.

Him being caught off guard carries significance here because you'd never catch him screwing up this bad later in the series - which is exactly my point.

I wrote a post earlier about how I don't think Dazai really is very much like Mori or Fyodor at all, and I stand by that, because their motives are different. Tldr for that post: Mori and Fyodor are ambitious and proactive, while Dazai is empty/numb and reactive.

What this leads me to believe is that Dazai is less a chess master like those two and more of a contingency planner - he's so good at "predicting" because he is uncannily good at thinking like his opponent and then planning for literally any possibility under the sun he can come up with. He's no gambler. Everything and everyone is practically (and unknowingly) micromanaged. It's almost paranoid in a sense, and I definitely think it's a trauma response to something he went through that we don't know about yet - after all, he was more than capable of this before he even met Mori.

...which brings to me to Mori's influence here. It's straight up like Dazai forgot how willing Mori is to gamble huge risks for a good outcome. It's like he forgot the mafia could be a real threat to his best-laid plans.

Going to throw out a wild claim here that I don't think is actually all that baseless - I think it's widely assumed that Dazai molds himself to what he needs to be (true!) but I think this misses the idea that he is also easily influenced by the mindsets of the people around him (see: the difference between Entrance Exam Dazai and early manga Dazai, the whole "the longer he was in the mafia the darker and more incomprehensible he became" thing from Stormbringer, how dark his eyes get in the prison sections with Fyodor, etc.). I could go on, but for the sake of not making this post too much longer, let's assume this is true because it suddenly makes sense as to why he failed to predict Q but predicted other events much later that were inherently more difficult to predict:

He was in the wrong mindset. He was thinking like an Agency member, and dare I say, he even got a little complacent. He started to get used to not having to manipulate every last variable - he was removed from a toxic environment - only for Mori to pretty much instantly fuck that up in one scene.

Let's also not forget what happened the last time he miscalculated Mori's intentions.

The consequences of this blunder could've been a lot worse and he knows it.

In his mind, thinking like an ADA member wasn't good enough to stop a potentially awful outcome - awful outcomes that could bring him pain. So, he goes back to what he knows - think like the demon prodigy. Think like Mori. Later on, think like Dostoyevsky. Because it seems to me that he believes as long as he is still working for the light that it doesn't matter if he uses these horrifically manipulative and inhumane methods of getting there. But he is wrong. Darkness within the context of good intentions is still very much darkness, and it hurts people all the same.

In the very next chapter, Dazai arranges Ango's car accident. And he only gets worse and worse throughout the series as he regresses back into his paranoid darkness that manifests as this omnipotent facade - his safety net that ultimately prevents him from developing in a positive, more human direction.

More Sasuke ship-ish doodles. Let me mess with Sasuke a bit more.

/ cw death , suicidal thoughts

unnamed regression (read left to right)

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Extra note:

These two panels were arranged to look like "■■" because I thought maybe her ■■ would be tied to yjh saving her and her bringing it to a close. Despite this, there is a text box awkwardly separating it, it's not so much of a satisfying ■■ for her.

only in bungou stray dogs do you get a detective agency consisting of one (1) detective, a catboy and some fourteen year olds, among others. and a mafia with members including someone whos half god Or Something, the personification of a sad angry wet cat, said mafia also employs far too many fourteen year olds. also theres a load of americans that live on a flying whale with members like a farmer and his eldritch horror boyfriend, and a goth writer with a pet raccoon who hasn't got over his crush from six years ago. and that's all without even mentioning dazai

Reblog to hug the person you reblogged this from and tell them that everything's going to be okay

Happy fucking birthday to,

Our dearest Future pirate King 🏴‍☠️

Monkey D. Luffy

And our favorite Tiger boy 🐯

Nakajima Atsushi

Lots of love to our disaster protagonists and menaces to society <33

I have become what I sought to destroy

(I danced for hours in the middle of a crowd and encouraged my friends to join)