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thedarkdisgrace · 3 days
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Ok, follow up post to the original cause I wanted to actually offer my analysis/interpretation on this.
I feel like this is a right/left brain analogy 🧵
Dazai covering his right side, the side supposedly responsible for the emotional & artistic things. It says alot about his mindset, accurate for that time.
It’s intriguing, then, Kouyou covers the “logical” side
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I feel like this lends to why Chuuya & Kouyou do get along well. While both Chuuya & Kouyou are no doubt very intelligent (Asagiri literally refers to Chuuya as a genius) they both still lean very much into their emotional side as well. Even if Kouyou seemingly does so less.
Kouyou reveals herself, however, not only in her care for Chuuya but we mainly see it how she handled the situation with Kyoka.
She could have insisted Kyoka come back without ever changing her mind but when Dazai presents her with a way to save Kyoka from dark, she agrees quickly.
Kouyou clearly cares & wanted to help & protect Kyoka even if she went about it poorly. She was trying to help based on her past experiences, lest we forget that she tried to leave the mafia herself once, for *love* no less. She also tends to get emotional when talking about her past or her wish to help Kyoka.
But once she was presented with another solution, a far better one, she didn’t do “what’s best for the mafia”. Kouyou agreed to what was best for Kyoka & that was definitely a more emotional choice.
This is an area where Chuuya & Kouyou align. So, of course they would get along.
Chuuya always seems to find the balance between his logic and emotion. However, he can easily & often does lean more into his emotional side first, then his logical side.
It’s similar for Kouyou, even if we don’t see it as much from her.
Back to Dazai then, when he left the mafia & the cover on Dazai’s “emotional side” was gone Dazai seemed to also move more towards that balancing of the two sides.
He started off heavily relying on his logical brain & struggled emotionally. Often feeling numb or apathetic mostly, hence his suicidal ideation.
Then he meets Chuuya & this shifts. Chuuya forces him to experience new feelings. As Chuuya is a living breathing example of most things Dazai felt the world lacked. It opened Dazai to the idea that there is more to the world, there is more to *people*. Chuuya intrigues Dazai enough to make him want to live a little longer again. Chuuya gave him a reason to keep going, a promise of more.
From the moment he met Chuuya, it was a process of letting more & more emotions seep into his mind & his heart. We see how he feared for Chuuya in 15 even after they just met, even though Dazai *knew* it was a plan.
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I might even venture to go as far as to say Dazai may not have feared for someone else’s life that hard before. It was a burst of unrecognizable emotions to him. After this, he only had more & more emotion seep in as the years went by. In Storm Bringer he was ready to sacrifice the city to give Chuuya a choice.
That relationship opened Dazai up to others later, namely Oda & Ango. Which only further encouraged the intermingling of his logical brain and his emotions. Then reaching the point at which the bandages were finally removed entirely and then he, like Chuuya, moved to striving to find the balance rather than relying on one side.
Bringing us back to current Dazai as he is still attempting to find that balance.
He still leans more his logical side. This, of course, in contrast to Chuuya who, while intelligent, more easily leans into the emotional.
Yet another thing between them that completes & balances each other. Soukoku will always pull the other back when drifting too far.
So, of course, Soukoku complement each other & it benefits them both.
Having Kouyou on Chuuya’s other side I think also does help Chuuya stay grounded while in the mafia. Chuuya isn’t one to lose who he is but I think having someone else who he knows *cares* like he does helps.
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Now, additionally, if we apply this to Beast, I think this also says alot about beast Dazai & why Asagiri says beastzai would be the hardest for someone to portray.
Because *this* Dazai, is perhaps *too* far into his emotional side. He’s always intelligent but in beast, his actions aren’t fully logical, they’re emotional.
He appears cold & calculating as always but he saw another version of himself suffer the great loss of a best friend & allowed his emotional desire to prevent that from happening take control. Thus, his emotional side takes over, thus him covering the opposite side from canon Dazai, he’s covering his “logical” side.
I feel like this is the main difference between all the various Dazai we’ve seen.
PM Dazai relied heavily on his logical side, especially before meeting Chuuya. He rarely took emotion into account unless it involved the 3 people he actually cared for. We see him make emotional choices when it involves Chuuya, Oda, and Ango. Dazai did seem to let more and more emotion seep in over time as a result of knowing them, however, leading to that moment the bandages are removed.
Beastzai is leaning far too heavily into his emotional side, getting lost in it even. Acting solely on an emotional desire rather than a logical one. His desire to prevent a tragedy. He only was using his intellect to further that emotional desire.
Current/ADA Dazai is the balance of the two, and seemingly the closest to happiness.
ADA Dazai uses his logical brain as always but he also actually takes emotion into account as well and has more people he actually cares for now.
I think that says alot to the theme of bsd, leaning into that “everything is grey” dynamic. Everything is about the *balance* of things. Showcasing that anything in extremes in either direction doesn’t work.
Anyway, just some thoughts I had and interpretations of mine. Take them as you want, as always.
Oh and just to be clear, I don’t think Dazai was ever “emotionless”, even at his worse. Even if he was numb and apathetic. He was also lonely.
Just saying the more people he came to care about (Chuuya, Oda, Ango then later the ADA) the more he was able to feel a variety of emotion.
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evilkaeya · 2 days
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MY GIRLFRIEND. MY WIFE.
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myshipsbesailing · 3 days
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Kouyou : Have any one seen my brother? He is small and angry . He is also clearly gay but we haven't talked about it yet
Mori :
Other Executives :
Dazai, who full well know where Chuuya is but no one is supposed to know their "secret", internally panicking : Maybe his tacky hat ate him
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poe-tat · 1 day
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The small Dazai and Chuuya chronicles part 1
Ignore the old one I don't feel like scrolling lol
They meet:
Small Dazai: Yea? Well... Odasaku Man is better
Small Chuuya: Nuh uh! The Doc is!!
Later
Mori: they agree that they both are amazing right
Kouyou: yep but they aren't going to let the other know that though
Mori: of course...
Meanwhile
Small SKK: *more arguing*
Akutagawa: what do we do Jinko?...
Atsushi: I don't know uhm... Separate them?
Akutagawa: that... Could help??
Atsushi: ... You don't even know
Akutagawa: I don't
And so... They get separated
Small Chuuya threw an even bigger fit
Small Dazai kept running outside (in the road) by himself
Then they are together again
Akutagawa:
Atsushi:
Small SKK: *arguing*
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toomanymarkers · 3 months
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People joke about Dazai and Chuuya being romantically experienced or whatever, but I think it's the opposite. Chuuya doesn't know what that stuff is because Mori thinks it's funny
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mothzan · 20 days
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Happy women's day !
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twilicidity · 3 months
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Based on this post
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diagonal-queen · 1 year
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[insert comedic and self aware joke]
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pillonemelody · 5 months
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Comic from an incorrect quote by @flamie-42
WHY IS THE QUALITY SO GOD DAMN BAD?!
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c0riiander · 2 months
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kousano oh my god yeah
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originalaccountname · 15 days
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It messes me up how hard Kouyou believed she was protecting Kyouka from the ADA. How much she truly thought that since Kyouka built her skills in a place as dark as the PM, she could not longer live a normal life.
She's not pulling evil manipulation tactics because she wants Kyouka for herself and lies to her to break her mind. She's 100% believing her own words because that's the lesson she got from her traumatic experience as a child: hope will disappoint and leave you broken; the people who tell you they can show you a better world cannot follow through on that promise.
She tells Kyouka she'll understand when she's older. Kouyou wishes she didn't have to live through being told she could see the world outside of (the Old Boss') mafia and then seeing the person who made her that promise be killed for it. Seeing her teenage dreams of peace reduced to nothing. She would probably say that she despises the man who gave her hope for having done exactly that.
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"It would have been better if she'd come get Kyouka earlier instead of waiting" she says. Because to her the pattern is already established: Kyouka has been promised better. But those promises are lies, they can't be anything else. So now she will inevitably suffer.
All because the situation, however different it is this time, is making Kouyou relive her own nightmare from half her life ago.
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thedarkdisgrace · 8 days
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Isn’t it interesting the two people closest to Chuuya when he joined the mafia cover opposite eyes?
Edit: I’m gonna post an short kind of analysis on this soon.
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Edit 2: posted the analysis
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asherrrrri · 2 months
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The girlfriends ever
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frenchonionsoop · 3 months
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RAHH HALFWAY THERE WITH THE ANIMATIC!!!
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f1ght-or-flight · 2 months
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Dazai, in a high voice, holding Barbie: hey Ken! I was thinking about going back to school and starting a career!
Chuuya, in a deep voice, holding Ken: nonsense Barbie. You're staying home and having my kids
Kouyou: what the fuck are you guys doing?
Dazai, still holding the Barbie: playing systematic oppression
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raccoonwxrks · 3 months
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They're so beautiful I want to cry so bad
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