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leonawriter · 5 years

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Stray Dogs and Tiger Cubs (pt.11)

Read it on AO3 from the start

Fandom: Bungo Stray Dogs

Characters: Dazai, Chuuya.

Summary: In which there’s a bad case of miscommunication all round. This isn’t going to end prettily.

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Chuuya wasn't who Dazai had expected to see coming to harass him next, and he certainly wasn't who he'd wanted to see come down those steps, either.

Chuuya being here meant that Akutagawa wasn't, and that Akutagawa could be somewhere else, wherever that was.

Chuuya being here meant... well, that Chuuya was here, and honestly, Dazai hadn't been in the frame of mind to deal with that.

And yet, somehow, they had slipped back into old habits like an ingrained muscle memory. Messing with Chuuya meant that he'd have to mix up his prior plans, yes, but it also meant that he had an outlet for all of that pent up stress.

The flurry of kicks and punches, however, were a sharp reminder of just how much anger and resentment Chuuya had been nursing for him all these years, too fast to react to even when he knew that they were coming, too powerful to block, let alone counter, and before he knew it he was backed up against a wall, one of Chuuya's hands at his throat while the other held a knife, steadily drawing closer to the skin not covered by bandages.

"Game over," Chuuya was saying now.

Dazai took as long of a breath as he was able to, with that knife so close to his throat and getting closer. Chuuya had threatened his death so many times before that it had become little more than routine. Looking into his former partner's eyes now, however, with all of the bitterness he held, made him wonder if he would truly die here, like this, to Chuuya's own hand.

He couldn't say that there wasn't a certain allure to it. The idea of the knife sliding home fast enough that he barely felt the pain, and then-

"One last thing. Tell me... why did you let yourself get captured?" The siren call of death slipped away again, as if her presence had merely been to taunt him. "What're you waiting for in a place like this?"

And if I told you the truth, would you believe me? Chuuya had seen him, the best of him and the worst of him, up until just four years ago, and not even his best from that time would be something he would feel comfortable sharing with his current coworkers.

Never mind that, if I told the person I was a few weeks ago, I would have laughed in my own face.

All of which acted like the shock of cold river water after the old routines he'd slipped back into, a familiar rival-camaraderie, this reminder of why he was here and just how different their paths were, now.

"The silent treatment, is it? Suit yourself. You're only making the interrogation more fun."

The knife edged closer, touching coldly at his skin and sharp enough to leave a red mark.

Possibilities swarmed in his mind, suggestions.

(Hopes, maybe. Wishes, perhaps. Though he won't call them that.)

"I did it," he rasped out, words coming strangely with the thoughts in his head and the angle he's at, "mostly for Atsushi-kun."

The knife retreats, and he feels like breathing out a sigh of relief that he isn't sure what to think about.

"Atsushi?"

"The weretiger you're all so obsessed with," he says, as evenly as he can. The Chuuya he'd known would have picked at that like it was one of Dazai's old scabs that lay under his bandages, until he bled his answers out, but the Chuuya in front of him merely scowled. "I want to know which rich bastard put a seven billion bounty on a kid's head."

What sort of person could be able to set someone like Akutagawa on a kid like Atsushi, Mori aside?

"You risked your neck over that? What a sob story... or should I say, look where that's gotten you now. How the mighty can fall, right?"

Maybe Chuuya was saying something else, but the words buzzed around Dazai's head, meaning drowned out in the noise of it.

He had always watched other people and read the way they expressed their emotions, and he had for the longest time come away with the distinct impression that anger was something that in normal human beings, showed itself in heat - a redness in the face, loudness of voice, a heated tone of voice.

Dazai himself had never felt such things, and so of course he had wondered if he was even capable of such a normal anger, until Chuuya had put a strong grip on his arm, and talked him down from breaking the arm of the person who'd tried to peek past his bandages, told him to get a grip and calm down, all while glaring daggers at the now-terrified informant, not until Chuuya had told him I can understand getting angry, but there's a thing called going too far-

If Chuuya hadn't said that, he might have gone the next few months, years even, without putting such a word to the cold that was currently creeping in again, the detachment, the steady pulse in his ears.

"You say that I've fallen, Chuuya? Ha... if that's what's become of me, what should I call you, then? I'd personally say there's a certain irony in it, wouldn't you say? When I brought you into the fold, you asked for just one thing." Chuuya stilled, and the air tainted red. Dazai pushed on, because Chuuya's anger at being called out didn't matter. "Just don't hurt the kids, you said-"

He was cut off with by a choked gasp at being thrown bodily back against the wall again, the still-forming bruise on his head from earlier when Akutagawa had hit him flaring up again sharply.

"You really think you can dare to bring that up? Do you? After you fucking walked out-"

"Just try and deny it, then. Say that isn't what you're doing."

It wasn't Chuuya who was leading the crusade, he knew that, he'd barely even recognised Atsushi's name. And yet, he knew that it was happening, and he was doing nothing, and the very one who'd spent so many hours worrying over every soul he'd become close to in the mafia to the point that Dazai had wondered the point of it all, had become this.

"Try and- the fuck are you talking about, you damn bastard? We're not hunting down kids!"

"Atsushi is eight years old!"

The emotion took over, and in that one moment all he could feel was hatred and disgust and fear and if he could have traded it in for not feeling at all, then he thinks he would have, but that wasn't a choice, and even if it were, he isn't sure that he would, because that wouldn't be the person that Atsushi needs.

He almost misses the way that Chuuya releases his hold on him, knife going slack in his hand, but he can't miss obvious shock written on his ex-partner's face as he stares, daring him to bring up some sort of explanation for that one.

"The... the hell are you on about... is this some kind of sick joke, or what?"

He doesn't say anything. The cold has yet to recede. His bruises sting sharply, and somewhere, he thinks, something is bleeding underneath his bandages, which is going to mean that it'll be a pain to replace them later.

He breathes, but everything that should have calmed him down, is either dead or might as well be, or part of the problem in the first place.

"...You're not kidding, are you," Chuuya says, and Dazai's eyes shoot back open at the shake in his voice. Disbelief and more than a touch of fear. "You aren't."

"You know," Dazai says, unable to fully keep his own voice level, "that I never lie in situations like this."

His heart rushes in his ears.

The widening of Chuuya's eyes is a reassurance worth more than any words that could be said, that Chuuya hadn't known.

That Chuuya hadn't become the monster that Mori was in Dazai's absence, able to place what was essentially a hit on a child in order to get the outcome he wanted.

"Fuck," Chuuya said, and Dazai slumped back against the wall, allowing his eyes to close for just one moment in a sigh of relief.

#bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd stuff #Leona fic #dadzai au

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 5 years

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The shows that have made it this season will be getting their tags...soon. Because I fell behind early in the season, trying to read ahead is nastier than it really should be...

Update: I forgot to roll out the tags...! Sorry about that.

One Punch Man 2 1

This season’s name…sounds counterintuitive, to say the least.

I love how Genos is carrying a box of hijiki (which looks like hair) and Saitama’s wearing a shirt that says “hair” (in kanji) all over it. It’s funny for a bald man and his “work of modern art”.

I never knew Genos was so blunt. Maybe because the last season was a good 2 – 3 years ago…and was by Madhouse and Shingo Natsume, and so this feels slightly different.

Oh, Sonic…! I didn’t realise how much I missed you! (Not to mention, you look hot with the off-the-shoulder shirt, y’know?)

“Enoki” is a type of mushroom.

Oh, Garou!...Oh wait, there isn’t much more of the episode left, is there…?

Afterlost 1

Oh great…this is the second time the subs don’t work on my device of choice. Then again, it seems to be a problem with the ad blocker and not the video…Okay, fiddling with the ad blocker worked.

Let’s play Spot the Main Character Amongst All the CGI Guys! Yay! (obviously sarcastic)

Without the volume…this OP is, to not put it lightly, s***.

Shoumetsu means “extinction”, not “lost”.

And the reward for Jankiest CGI this season belongs to…

Okay…this is stupid…if it f**ks up even more, I’m out of here!

I know the horned owl is your mascot, but that doesn’t mean you needed a real owl.

Waittttttttt…how did the scientists know Yuki’s father was responsible for this stuff anyway?

I feel like Takuya was shoehorned in. I mean, there’s a better example of this character type in Naofumi (Shield Hero).

This guy’s name, as we know it, is Geek. Wow (sarcastic). Also, I find it funny Takuya has a “ta” on his licence plate.

“…she’s just a package.” - Welp, you don’t get any more blatant than that for female denigration! I think Anime Feminist had a field day with this one.

Come to think of it, I saw some helmets back at Geek’s place but Takuya never seems to use one…

You had one job, Takuya…*sigh*

I swear I said a few previews ago I don’t like 1st person cam…no one ever listens to me, do they???

Not dis shitto agen!

Okay, enough complaining. It seems Yu-no wasn’t bad enough, so they had to produce something like the Chaos Dragon and Seisen Cerberus of old…

RobiHachi 1

It’s Takamatsu being Takamatsu again. Also… I forgot to mention this earlier, but…Taiga Umatani seems to be related to Kurari Umatani (who is credited for Boueibu), so…I wonder if it’s a collective writer’s name for Studio Comet, like Izumi Todo for Toei? The only thing that goes against that is the fact “Kurari” existed during the Diomedea days of Boueibu. Also Isekandar seems to be related to Yamato’s Iscandar (which Takamatsu seems to like, based on the fact he once used Matsumoto metres as a shorthand for being in space). If you don’t understand, Yamato’s endgoal contains a place called Iscandar and that’s by Leiji Matsumoto.

Okayyyyy…what are these rabbit creatures…? But yes, it does smack of Boueibu simply because the episode layout’s the same.

Hmm…? So Robby seems be En (the do-nothing life) in spirit, but Kinshiro in background, but also he runs away from his fortune. “Hmm” indeed.

Oh! That’s what this string of misfortunes reminds me of! The monsters of the day from Boueibu.

Acrymalide.

Hatchi is a Kinshiro in looks but an Atsushi by being a goody-goody.

Hmm…they actually bother to show girls now…apparently Takamatsu went to a boys-only school, which is why his original works focus on dudes (as in, you can pick out when Takamatsu is adapting someone else’s work because it has a heavier focus on girls as supporting characters).

Mechs and spaceships are probably two of the only ways I accept CGI…and you, Takamatsu sir, have just done it (the latter)!

Aw! Lookit his (Hatchi’s) face light up like a Beppu’s! It’s cute!

Hatchi getting out the hatch…lame, but still somewhat effectve on me (because that’s my wordplay game you’re playing, Takamatsu…!).

LOL, it’s a transforming mech. It seems my words from a few comments earlier were basically foretelling the future.

Kimetsu no Yaiba 2

Yikes, “Sakonji Urokodaki” has a lot of strokes…

My Little Sister Lives For Headpats…hey wait, don’t all anime kid sisters do that(?)

For some reason, I know the “Don’t Lose Your Way” meme from Kill la Kill and yet I’ve never…watched KlK…?(!)

I swore that was Giyu (it’s the haircut, I swear), but it’s a random demon…

When all you have is a hatchet…use your head. (LOL)

Ooh, nice eyecatch!

This is really black comedy, in a sense. (I remember this demon fight from the manga which is why I say that.)

Hmm…this wispy stuff wasn’t in the manga.

Come to think of it, I don’t know how Tanjiro got his scar…

If you squint really hard, you can see CGI Urokodaki and Tanjiro…

He probably has no footsteps because of his shoes. Or the fact he’s a ninja. Were there ninja in the Taisho era…? Update: Tanjiro has the same kind of shoes…oops.

Come to think of it, Daisuke from DN Angel had to dodge traps every day before he became Dark…(thinking of this because I reread the first volume of DN Angel recently)

Oh! Manga panel preview! That’s quite fun, really.

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I just really like how Tanjiro’s eyes grew larger with what was clearly resolution before he closed the door.

Why do the non-descript hunters look like Giyu too…?

I’ve never seen KnY so comedic…and that’s coming from someone who thought the Head Demon fight from last episode was funny.

Welp, this is…kinda interesting (<- says a fan of Touken Ranbu).

This letter writing…it reminds me of Kekkai Sensen somewhat.

This realistic water…it’s beautiful, but it looks like it came straight out of Niagara Falls. Is that…too realistic for anime?

“No matter…”

It’s a fox version of Speed of Sound Sonic! Then again, the real Sonic is around this season and probably won’t be happy about that comparison…

Is “that guy”…Giyu? Or the demon who slaughtered Tanjiro’s family?

Spider lilies! I didn’t mention it last time, but the symbolism of the spider lily makes the ED real cool.

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I’v read the wiki page for Chuuya enough to know the next few eps involve the LN Fifteen, so even though I haven’t read a translation of the source material, I know some of the ins and outs of it already.

Ooh! Kitty! (If you’re a manga reader, you’ll know the cat’s significance.)

I think at this point in time, all viewers are used to Dazai’s bulls*** by now.

Is it just me…or did Bones use CGI for the city? It actually looks kind of good…! Sasuga Bones!

I have a fic that predates Fifteen and could be set in the same period (the fic’s vague enough that it could’ve been them at 15, 18 or even 12)…and basically the only thing I got wrong was the fact Chuuya doesn’t have his hat (because I wrote Chuuya as having his hat in the fic). Also, the banter is tenser than I imagined it, but that’s subjective and something only I, the fic writer, can compare.

I wonder who the yellow-tinted Ability holder is…? Update: That’s Randou. Spoke too soon.

There was a box in the subs…I wonder what symbol that might’ve been.

“…closest to the explosion.”

BSD 3 2

Oh, so that’s what Randou was for! I see now.

Chuuya may be OP, but he’s one heck of a fun character…also, he’s not as OP as Saitama, so…yeah.

Oh, the ED from last time is the OP. I should’ve known.

I like the almost storybook-style of this episode!

I thought Dazai was faking releasing the hostages…I was wrong.

Face-stealing aliens return! (They were around last ep too, I think, but they were harder to see then.)

Again, watch for the cat!

Well, with only one suspect (or 3, if you count the Sheep kids), it was quite easy to figure out one of them was behind it. I kind of suspected Randou, anyway, considering what I’ve learnt from all the mysteries I’ve read.

Because I was watching this episode with the volume down low (so I could hear the OP and ED), the volume really did work wonders for the plot this ep…!

King of Prism – Shiny 7 Stars 1

This is the final debut of the season, so basically how this and Shield Hero perform will decide what will stay and what will go. Oh, yeah…apparently this is the companion to a movie, but the movie and TV series have slightly different content.

This dude’s (the one at the very start’s) so grumpy.

…welp, I didn’t expect it to be that much CGI.

This chunk of exposition…makes me feel like I missed something. It was probably in the previous movies, come to think of it…

Basically, this is…uh, Makura no Danshi or Room Mate all over again??? I’m noping out of here…! Bye!

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I’m putting this on the chopping block…just so you know.

…uh, age gap romance? It’s hard to tell at this stage, but they (Filo and Melty) sure act like it is romance.

Welp, this survived the chopping block. “Raphtalia backstory” is a good enough reason to stick around for, isn’t it?

Double Decker! EX 3 (FINAL)

I always miss the OP when I’m not watching Double Decker, but I miss the ED even more…

I can’t believe they tried to get away with a Spirited Away parody…!

I can’t believe I get to see Dr Apple all buttered up like this…

I love how Kirill is censoring himself. (At least he can prove he’s not a girl, unlike Valery/Milla, whose entire shtick is the confusion between genders.)

Oh! I think I know the answer to the case already! It was Kirill’s soap, so Doug is the “killer”. But then…why is it Derick, of all people???

LOL, the angles were so reminiscent of Detective Conan…

Underwear-stealing sextuplets…? Why does that kind of sound like Osomatsu-san…?

Ahh…I really am going to miss this ED. See you next time!

Shield Hero 15

I never thought Raphtalia would be so angry…that’s Naofumi’s job.

Okay…it’s the age-old question: do demis listen with their animal ears or their human ears? Do they even have human ears??? (That’s 2 questions, isn’t it…?)

Uh…CGI dinosaur, much?

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…and of course, the Queen is a loli. Of course (<-sarcastic).

“Why’d I even have to feed this KFC farm?” – LOL, but I wonder what it sounded like in Japanese…? (i.e. I didn’t listen to it and when I try to do that, there’s always something over the top of it…)

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I wonder if I’ll ever get used to watching Ikuhara on a weekly basis…?

Kappamaki…geddit?

Wait…y’mean, Keppi’s breath smells like cucumbers? Uh…okay, TMI.

Enta’s Japanese house kind of looks like the one in Mawaru Penguindrum.

Wait…why does the Japanese word for “Fish Buffet” (Osakanazanmai) end in –zanmai? Does that mean Sarazanmai is…Dish Buffet?! (LOL)

Notably, one of the signs said “Union” in katakana. It must be an English play on words…y’know, trade union and union = connecting with each other? I’m surprisingly enjoying myself a lot with Sarazanmai, by the way. I didn’t think I would, but I am!

I think that might be Irohassu water. Or Dasani. I saw both those brands in Japan, but I don’t remember which had the green flowers.

Oh…my goodness! Nekoyama (Cat Mountain) Mokichi (written with kanji for “hair” and “luck”). It’s a Boueibu monster! Frick, I’m laughing too hard!

It’s very small and very thin, but the word next to the cat in the eyecatch is neko.

“…Meow God!” – It’s a pun on “Oh, My God!” but with a “meow” in it. It’s pretty forced, but it does get the nuance of the joke across…

Why the heck did the subbers choose “herb” as the word for weed in this? “Weed” is sufficient, right? Right…?

Well…if that spurt of water wasn’t symbolic…I don’t know what is.

The title translates better as “…but I want to steal”. Y’know, add a little force into it.

The two As and the “sara” below it seem to make a zombie face, huh?

Ooh, that ending…

#simulcast commentary #one punch man #sarazanmai #tate no yuusha no nariagari #Chesarka watches Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari #the rising of the shield hero #RobiHachi #double decker #bungou stray dogs #King of prism - shiny seven stars #Kimetsu no Yaiba #shoumetsu toshi #afterlost #Double Decker! Doug and Kirill #Demon Slayer #Chesarka watches KnY #Chesarka watches OPM #chesarka watches bsd #Chesarka watches Sarazanmai

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