``Your Highness`` Chapter 1.05

writing Chapter 1 here is the sneak peek because I am still doing designs for pirate AU ;^;

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King Paul Verlaine, but people just call him king Verlaine simply because it sounded better, was waiting upon the prince, who was notorious for being late for almost everything for one reason or another, Prince Chuuya.

The king tapped his foot in impatience. 'there should be no reason as to why he is late-' he thought King Rimbaud placed his hand on Verlaine's arm "Patience dear he is a teenager and it is the morning" he said Verlaine nodded. "Will try my best" he replied.

meanwhile, Prince Chuuya was trying to stay asleep as one of the servants was trying to wake him up. "My Prince if you don't wake up and go to the throne room to meet your parents, king Verlaine will kill me" they said with panic. The redheaded prince let out a groan then sat up. "Fine" he grumbles and gets up, after stretching he gets ready for the day.

meanwhile not that far away was a thief. "I am NOT a pirate! I am a thief!!" yelled the figure with maroon eyes. "..that's the same thing..." said the figure in front of him wearing glasses "Yea Dazai I'm pretty sure they are the same thing.." said the figure with red hair next to the figure wearing glasses. The thief named Dazai had an appalled expression "Odasaku! My most trusted friend! Sides with a geek!" he said overdramatically "If that geek is my boyfriend named Ango certainly" said the figure named Oda. The figure wearing glasses speaks again "I am not a geek" they said Oda shrugs and Dazai nods "You're right Ango you are not a geek..." he starts to trail off and the figure named Ango looks at him septically "You're a nerd!" Dazai states confidently.

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enough before I write the whole thing-

bungou stray dogs + @ao3-crack

Because of Flawless, Oda had to live through Dazai breaking his window twice. (ref)

can we talk about Dazai desperately trying to pull from his tragically limited will to live, trying to hand Oda all the tricks he tried to develop for himself to find a reason to stay alive like everyone else seems to have, all because seeing someone he cares about give up on living was too hard?

Can we talk about how it shows that despite his grim outlook on life, Dazai still wants to try to figure it out, because there has to be something he's missing, he just needs to look harder, and can Oda come with him to search for it, they will figure it out together?

Can we talk about how Oda gave up, but didn't want Dazai to follow suit, so he gave Dazai his own tricks he developed for himself to find meaning in his life: help people, take care of those who need it most, be good, then at least the world won't appear so grim.

They were friends, they recognized each other's darkness as their own, and both tried (clumsily, a bit insensitively) to give the other the tools to get out of that darkness. Dazai wasn't equipped to help a man whose darkness came from violence, but Oda had somewhat made the leap from bad to good before it all came crashing down, so he tried to hand that knowledge to his friend, to give him something different, before his death took that last opportunity from him.

IT DAWNED ON ME I HAVEN'T SHARED THIS LIL GUYS

some kiddies

translation from ukr (last pic): "Rubik's Cube, seriously, Odasaku!? I'm not 3 y.o! Come up with something more interesting!"

That one scene from "The Day I Picked Up Dazai"

"There is no reason for an enemy to call me that"

Odango

Create Bungou Stray Dogs memes of the DailyQuests variety.

Doodle dump!

Scenes from the first three chapters of my fic "We've Come from Ugliness", in which teenage Odasaku happens across kid Dazai on one of his jobs. Hilarity(?) ensues.

Tbh I really just wanted to give Odasaku a cool outfit lol.

“This is the only world where he’s alive and writing novels. I can’t let that world disappear.”

Those are Dazai's words in BEAST. They are painfully tragic, the proof of a man's dreams scorned by fate. BUT, through the power of speculation and canonical infinite realities, here are my suggestions:

1: There are worlds where Oda is alive, but gave up on writing novels. Angst levels variable, from fulfilling life with missed opportunities, to debilitating broken dreams and regrets. (other option: a world where Oda never got the idea of writing stories at all)

2: There are worlds where Oda wrote, but died anyway. Angst levels from acclaimed published author gone too soon, to unfinished draft left behind.

That's why I think scenarios like camp counsellor Oda who comes up with the best ghost stories to tell around the campfire but never even thought of writing them down, or Oda who missed the opportunity to read those books and meet Natsume, or Oda who did not die against Gide but gave up on writing for having killed again, are all plausible realities. No other reality being as ideal as Oda with his kids in the ADA writing novels like in BEAST doesn't mean he is doomed to die unfulfilled every single time. to me.