I Can't Get Over The Connection That Atsushi And Akutagawa Have In This Recent Chapter. "Feel Strongly"

my favorites pics of 'the eras tour' ♡

akutagawa does give a fuck. like. a lot.

he is giving a lot of fucks by the way!!!!!

OH MY GOD?? LIKE THIS IS ACTUALLY SO BEAUTIFUL THOUGH?? IT'S SO GOOD

His expression is just right and oml the shading HE LOOKS SO PRETTY IM SCREAMING I love this 😭

Kunikida please come back

The recent bsd chapter is crazy good and I never would have expected Asagiri to take a sudden plot twist relating to how everything has a connection in the story. Asagiri is cooking

Okay so! The results are in :D

I did not think 169 whole people would vote omg 😭 ty to everyone who voted!

Sskk won, kinda unsurprisingly bc sskk is just perfect, so I'll be drawing and revealing my (kind of an OC) sskk love child first. I'll actually be designing and making every ship kid on this poll (and maybe a few that weren't mentioned), this poll was to pick who would be revealed first (⁠~⁠‾⁠▿⁠‾⁠)⁠~

So, in order of who will be revealed from first to last is;

Sskk (26%)

Skk (24.9%)

Ranpoe (15.4%)

Fyolai (8.9%)

Suegiku (7.1%)

Kunibram (6.5%)

Kenjikyou (3%)

Rimlaine (3%)

Steincraft (2.4%)

Tachitani (1.8%)

Other kids of ships that I haven't officially decided on yet (the remaining 1.2%)

I'll be giving each kid a character profile and just some extras on them, and this is just for fun, don't take it too seriously please :>

Can't wait to share my art (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

I'm aware my art isn't very popular or anything lol but please pick which kid you'd want to see me draw the most<3 (I'm also aware every kid on this list beside Kenjikyou's would be biologically impossible but uhh let's say there's just some ability user or whatever who can let two men have kids or smth, idk I'm here to draw not to have logic mk 😔)

I'll also name the kid and give them a bit of a story when I end up drawing whoever they are :>

His brain: I love you

His mouth: consider us even. Away with you, you fool

Something that gets me as much if not even more emotional than Atsushi sacrificing himself is... The fact that Akutagawa cares. He cares so much about Atsushi. And it's silly of mine to even be surprised, we already knew that he cared: he died for him! But all the same, Akutagawa is someone so who feels so inherently evil, so deeply cursed, so fundamentally unfit for love, the fact that he's capable of loving someone in a way that is so deep, so spontaneous, so raw– it's so profoundly moving.

we literally saw his “oh….oh” moment it was just and then……AND THEN….

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For those of you who may not be too familiar with the manga, during ch39: Portrait of a Father, Akutagawa shows up, as Dazai's informant, to give Atsushi documents about who the orphanage headmaster was and what happened to him.

At that moment, Akutagawa shows an uncharacteristic clemency towards Atsushi, saying that "Atsushi's master died today", and compares this to his own relationship with Dazai.

This was a long time ago now, and a lot has happened since. The Cannibalism arc is right after this, where they are very antagonistic towards each other, and includes this scene:

Akutagawa, despite his bitterness towards Atsushi for who he is to Dazai, has seen how similar they are in this sense. Atsushi hasn't, because his gratefulness towards Dazai prevents him from seeing that Akutagawa's experience was completely different with this same person. (he's also not given any time by the narrative to wonder about it)

but then just came along chapter 122!!!

Atsushi gets to see, 1:1, the relationship between Akutagawa and Dazai. For the first time, Akutagawa is relatable to him.

And of course, at the end, Atsushi calls out the illusion as being the headmaster wearing Dazai's face because we are closing this loop! We are forcing Atsushi to see Akutagawa the same way Akutagawa has been seeing him!

Look! They're in love