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akutasoda · 9 days

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I was waiting so long for you to open req but been sleeping on for days 😭 you so deserve this 1k 🌷😭🎉

So, that's for 1k event, bsd, oneshot, fluff/crack, Atsushi x F!Reader.

Readers ability is like Ron Kamonohashis (tldr if you didn't watched: his detective and his ability literally guilt trips criminals to kill themself, but its absolutely out of control when his working, doesn't matter whu did what and why, and the only way for him to do his job is to haw a "sock puppet" person that would do "judging" for him). Previously Dazai helped her (Readers personality is a lot like Dazai (he adopted her basically), so they get along well + she likes working), but when Atsushi roled in, he saw opportunity (to do less work) to give him more "mundane" experience.

I hope I did it right, congrats again!

synopsis - when he's offered a 'more exciting' job he didn't know what to expect, but it definitely wasn't this

includes - atsushi ft dazai

warnings - fem!reader (no pronouns mentioned), fluff, slight crack, slight angst, wc - 1k

a/n: im sorry i kept you waiting! but thank you!! I actually read rkdd near when it first came out but barely remember any of it :')

you're life hadn't exactly been a cake walk, atleast not since you ability formed. a vile ability that you had absolutely no control over it or even when it activated and it sure made your life more difficult than it should have been. it had outcasted you from your first employment and made it extremely difficult to find a new job that would take you on - and it wasn't even you're fault really.

you had sought out a brief part time apprenticeship in a small precinct as soon as you you could apply and found yourself helping with interrogations. it seemed perfect to you but you hadn't quite grasped you're ability yet, you knew you had one you just didn't know how to activate it. unfortunately, you were tossed from your apprenticeship very abruptly one day - you're only memories being going to an interrogation with your supervisor and walking out the room to be swiftly fired.

not too long after, the agency found you. more specifically dazai who was assigned to investigate you're ability as a nullifier when the president was approached to do so by your employer. you were to be given a second chance if you joined the detective agency, of course they couldn't let anyone join just like that but if you passed the entrance exam you would be promised a place of work that could help to figure out and control your ability, not be outcasted because of it.

that was one of the main reasons dazai was assigned to look over you, you had no control over your ability and barely knew what triggered it so it was for the best that dazai could be on hand to help. he was quite surprised himself that he began finding himself helping you more than what he was asked to, maybe he just saw you as a way to prove to himself he could be a better person or maybe he just genuinely wanted to help you.

you're ability wasn't exactly the prettiest nor was it the safest - the idea that you could easily and unknowingly pressure a murderer into ending their of life wasn't exactly the nicest thought. however with dazai's help you both could start finding tell tale signs that you're ability had activated, more difficult than he originally thought because you did have no control over when it activated. a few obvious signs were how your eyes and the victim's eyes would become layered with colourful glaze and the fact you became much more decisive and insistent on berating that person - if dazai saw any of these he wouldn't hesitate to nullify your ability.

eventually, dazai started falling into a role where he helped control when you're ability activated. it took a while but eventually the agency figured out that if somebody acted as a middle man for you and your ability and made the 'judge' the person for you, you could actually perform a much more successful interrogation and therefore do your job. turns out, you were much more efficient when you could complete all aspects of your job effectively.

when atsushi first walked into the agency you knew who he was, dazai had previously talked you're ear off about the new task he had been assigned. when atsushi passed his entrace exam you saw an opportunity, one to 'take him under your wing' - totally not forcing him to do some of your work. dazai even went along with your idea claiming that atsushi could do with the experience in interrogation by acting as the middle man - he also thought he'd find it rather entertaining letting his student attempt to help an old one.

of course if atsushi was going to become a new helper fo your cause, he had to be briefed on your ability. atsushi didn't know who he found worse, you or dazai because to him you both seemed the same especially when you both seemed to practically share braincells. however at the end of the day he could see the importance behind what he was being asked to do and as much as your ability slightly terrified him, he knew dazai wouldn't encourage you to pick him to help if you both didn't believe he could do it.

when you first asked him if he wanted to have a bit less of a 'mundane' common task, he wouldn't have assumed you were talking about helping making judgements in an interrogation. while he did know that dazai was right outside of the room ready to step in if anything went awry, it didn't make him any less nervous about messing up.

atsushi didn't really like the idea of being the reason this 'alleged murderer' would be killed at the indirect hands of your ability. however his worries could be set aside when he actually watched you interrogate the suspect - he had to admit you were very efficient and he wondered if he could do this as well as you. it was admirable really but he still froze up when you looked to him for help in the judgement after failing to weasel a confession out.

dazai would compliment atsushi afterwards, providing him that reassurance that he successfully performed this role. although, dazai really couldn't help but slightly add on the fact that he thought that atsushi and you would make quite a formidable team if you both kept working together like this. atsushi couldn't believe him at the time but he does now.

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daz4i · 4 months

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what makes you like the dark era?

joke answer: dazai kinnie disease 😔

serious answer:

i think it's well made :0! i haven't read the actual ln (yet. rip 💔) but from what i gathered it's a good adaptation!

from a directing standpoint, i think it utilizes the anime format well - the first time i watched it i was in awe from how different the tone was compared to the rest of the series, both visually and like with the music and even voice acting. also making odasaku's ability blue hurts me deep

from a writing standpoint! tldr: oof ouch owie. longer answer: it hits your emotions just right, i think.

the mystery around what ango's deal is keeps ramping up and the rate in which you figure things out along with odasaku is very well paced imo (as in, you get bits of information at the right rate, with enough space between them to digest what you just learned)

i think mimic are an interesting antagonist, and their motive is understandable imo (tho their execution of their goals is weird to me lol). the whole conflict around them feels realistic imo, both like. their origin story - war really is like that - and the way the government uses the mafia to handle them

speaking of, mori is extremely interesting there imo, and his relationship with dazai is as well. i think this whole story adds a great layer to him and helps you as a reader understand him more, and the way he chooses to approach things. and! dazai's reaction to that approach is also interesting, and highlights the difference between them which imo is important to dazai's character as well!

also i love odasaku (he was actually the first bsd character that made me go "omg blorbo alert? 😳" in my first watch hehe). like first of all he is very fun, i love the whole chill vibe autistic swag he has going on. but he's also extremely interesting; his refusal to kill, his dream of becoming a writer, his care for the orphans - and in turn, his drive for revenge, his refusal to listen to reason after the orphans die, his acceptance of his incoming death. his views of life and death as a whole are fascinating to me, i think he's one of the bsd characters with the most interesting ones tbh (along with yosano, dazai, and nikolai imo) precisely because he contains contradictions despite being so straightforward

on a meta level, i love the adaptation of the buraiha trio from friends in real life to friends in the series as well, and i think it deepens the characters' bond as well as just being a fun parallel :)

ok i think that's all i have in mind for now. apologies for the ramble and if you were looking for a simpler answer ajdkfjskfg but thank you for the ask 🙏🖤

#dan rambles #bc i accidentally went ham. sorry

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eternal-aegis · 4 years

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waiting for godot - 🔬 / 🎵 / 🎁 - because damn, i still have feelings! also, right back at you: HOW DO YOU DO IT OMFG?

Ah!!! LOL it’s the one (1) fic I have finished for BSD, everything else is a disaster. I do it with an intense focus on shoving as many layers of symbolism and angst as I can fit into this bad boy!! <3 <3 <3

Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs

Fic: Waiting for Godot

"It must be killing you," Dazai smiles, "not being able to decide whether we are alive and in a world where you wrote in the Book, not knowing it would interpret your vision as a request to erase all of humanity, or whether we are both dead, and somehow, we are each other's personal Hell."

🔬- Was there one scene you were building up to/knew you had to get just right?

I was both struggling and looking forward to making Dazai and Beckett interact in the second chapter. WFG used comparisons and contrasts as the underlying concept, so Dostoyevsky represents what Dazai could have been and is the opposite of what Dazai is now. Beckett, however, exists as a kindred spirit for Dazai. I got the vibe from all of my reading and Wikipedia research that his character in the BSD ‘verse would be someone who was also on this path to redemption (possibly someone who was in the Great War, but I digress). He’s a bit further along than Dazai, but I think he hit a slump before the events of the fic. I really wanted to get it right and I wanted to continue that theme of parallels, which is why I spent some time thinking about the mechanics of both of their abilities. Beckett’s is weird, a bit like Lovecraft’s, so that’s my *jazz hands* explanation for it. I wanted to end the fic with two kindred spirits going separately on their own ‘roads’ to redemption.

🎵- Did you have a playlist/piece of music that went with this story?

So, I looked back at my YouTube logs from the day I wrote the first chapter. I spent most of my time listening to CrashCourse philosophy (the Existentialism video, in particular) and I also listened to/watched a lot of videos on Waiting for Godot itself and Samuel Beckett. But, I do have two songs that go with this: “Weight of the World” and “Dear Fellow Traveler”, for the first and the second chapters respectively.

“Weight of the World” is a hypocrite’s song. It’s throwing the blame for a person’s actions at “well, that’s just how the world is” but also acknowledging that everyone will be the weak and the weary some time. People use the weight of the world as an excuse for their actions. Also, the line, “the long-forgotten have a habit of collecting loans,” just...strikes at me, for WFG. And for Dostoyevsky and his, “I was justified in every decision that I made.”

“Dear Fellow Traveler” is a bit more light and I just interpreted it as two travelers wishing each other well on the road. And with Dazai and Chuuya having gained a bit more understanding, and Dazai’s conversation with Beckett, it felt right and reminiscent enough. “And I returned to my beautiful city. Black skies change into blue,” is the peace of returning to Yokohama after the big bad threat is ‘dealt with,’ and the two parallel’d characters of Dazai and Beckett thinking of the kindred spirit that’s out there, in a way, as they continue their journeys. It’s mostly Beckett’s theme song, now that I think about it.

🎁- Any writing advice for people who want to write something like this?

This was a philosophy fic that I started with no direction other than making Dazai and Dostoyevsky have a conversation on a road, based solely off of being two minutes into this video. I just got a vibe, and then I delved into research, which helped inform my decisions when I wrote it. I’m always looking for more media that vibes with me so I can consume it. When I write, I’m constantly evaluating both the emotions of the scene and the symbols that I use. I had to think about this fic in two layers, because Dazai and Dostoyevsky are so intelligent that I had to think of the surface and then the underlying meaning, and I was thinking of how cryptic their chess match looks in the current arc.

So, what I’d suggest is letting yourself write to the vibe of your scene, if that makes sense. I follow the emotional threads and how a person’s thoughts would flow when I write, letting myself get immersed in the scene.

I also had a lot of broad concepts: parallels, deicide, redemption, and I suppose what I’d call ‘forces that you can’t control.’ For each of those concepts, I tried to tie a person or object to them.

Parallels: I just made sure I had the characters who I thought were good comparisons interact with each other strongly (Dazai & Dostoyevsky, Dazai & Chuuya, Dazai & Beckett, Atsushi & Akutagawa), and also tried to subtly do comparisons in the prose.

Deicide: it got lampshaded pretty heavily with Dostoyevsky talking about Chuuya, but it was also the entire underlying vibe of the fic. Dostoyevsky’s plan to rid the world of abilities is pretty Godlike. I think there’s a good piece of meta out there about Dostoyevsky and his whole God/Devil motif. So, by letting him get eaten stranding him on the road, narratively speaking, that was a deicide.

Redemption: that was much easier. I just tied the road to it a lot, the actual one in the fic. Dazai was literally standing on the road to redemption. Also, I was thinking just a bit about the road being morality and the grass being immorality. Y’know, the untamed grass, unchecked/nonexistent morals. Roads have rules, yadda yadda. You’re bound to morals.

Forces that can’t be controlled: I just did the concept of hunger and tied it to how Dazai and Beckett’s abilities worked. Cause you can’t control hunger, and...you’re not you when you’re hungry XD. And I kept that feeling of...some forces in the world, you can’t control, and that’s okay. It’s all about how you react to them. The world is senseless, but you’re the master of your fate, captain of your soul and such. Existentialism, yo. Make your own meaning in life out of the nonsense.

I suggest thinking of themes and what digs at the core of the character, and then figuring out how you want to try to display that with symbolism, metaphors, and their interactions. This was less of a ship-fic and more of a philosophical exploration for me, so I was very selective with the words and descriptions I used in order to achieve that effect. I do the horrible thing where I edit as I write, and then I just upload ASAP, because I can’t just put something down and come back to it later, that’s excruciating for my writing process.

TLDR; expose yourself to random things and look for what you enjoy in media; write to the emotional vibe of a scene; and figure out your broad concepts and associate symbols with them, in addition to making sure the narrative itself reinforces them. Think of the overall message you want to deliver with what you’re writing. Also research, lots of that.

Pheww...I always love getting to do fic discussions and analysis! Thank you so much, Dani!!! I hope that this answers the q’s and is entertaining to read through for everyone.

#fic meta #text post #answered ask #fanfiction #Waiting for Godot #cyanoscarlet #personal

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