Skk genuinely make me crazy because the more you think into them, the more sad it becomes. Dazai is a bad person who is getting pulled more and more into the light while Chuuya is a good person who gets dragged deeper and deeper into the darkness. Dazai gets to be redeemed when Chuuya lost the one opportunity he had, and by now, he's way too loyal to ever leave; they're his family. And yet, despite Dazai being the "evil" one, he couldn't make the Port Mafia his home, not in the same way the Agency is. Even though Chuuya is by all accounts the better person in this dynamic, he's still the one who was forced to take what he was given and make it his, while Dazai kept searching for something more, even though at their cores, they're the opposite. A demon in the light and an angel in the dark. And that's one of the reasons why 22 skk is really interesting - they both live in that area of gray, they just got there differently. One came from white and came closer to black while one came from black and approached white. And it's over this middleground that they connect more than anyone else - Chuuya, a person who at his core wants to do good, but he's been forced into becoming a murderer and to live in the darkness while Dazai, who at his core is more selfish and doesn't value human life, is brought into the light for a chance at redemption the other will never get to have. It's something I don't see much in skk angst but my god does it hurt.
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I would like to remind everyone that this takes place after the Guild arc, meaning that Kunikida knows by now that Dazai was a Mafia executive. And that doesn't bother him in the slightest.
Skk's entire relationship in a single frame:
Listening to the Thunder Saga, as well as the new and improved Troy and Cyclops Saga, and. . . JAY NEEDS TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL VOICE ACTOR WHO'S WITH ME ON THIS???? FUNIMATION NEEDS TO HIRE THIS MAN I MEAN REALLY-
So like.
If that's not Fyodor, does that mean Nikolai is just hugging some random dude's hand???
Just wondering.
Concept: After the Guild arc, the news wants to do a live interview with the people directly responsible for stopping the Moby Dick from crashing and saving the city.
AKA. Atsushi and Akutagawa
It takes a bit of deliberation on both parts, but the Agency and Mafia eventually agree, because they feel it will be good PR.
They both get trained, as well as doing some join practices, for how to speak on live tv and not sound like they want to kill each other.
On the actual day of the interview, Atsushi and Akutagawa are there on screen, Dazai and Chuuya are behind the camera to guide their respective orphan's and get them to smile more (or in Akutagawa's case, look a little bit less like he wants to murder the camera), and Mori and Fukuzawa are there as the leaders of the organizations.
So. Three generations of skk under roof while the tv is live? What could possibly go wrong?
(hint the answer is everything)
I still think about the fact that when Dazai got captured by the Port Mafia, not only did no one in the Agency worry about him, Kunikida made him write a report on it when he got back.
Which only makes me wonder how often this happens that it's become standard procedure to write reports after returning from being captured by the enemy.
Sometimes, I wonder what the Agency's actual job is.
Chuuya's wardrobe and how it changes over the years truly is everything to me. He's on the streets, he wears a hoodie, a biker jacket covering the hoodie, and jeans. He joins the mafia and gets a hat. He immediately gets a fancy outfit to accommodate said fancy hat. He loses the hat, and then he wears the standard suit, but different, cuz he's Like That™. Then it's back to the hat, but also back to the biker jacket. Then it's the fancy outfit. Then it's a fancy biker jacket. Seriously, his wardrobe is such a perfect representation of his character. I love him.
Okay so you know your post about chuuya getting turned into a dog and the agency finding him and dazai turning him back???? Look at this
https://www.tumblr.com/sensitiveheartless/673471841118142464/this-is-more-of-a-rough-sketchdump-than-a-proper?source=share
Oooooh that's actually really funny. I imagine it going similarly, just it would take a lot longer for Chuuya to get near Dazai and for him to turn him back, because even though Dazai obviously would have figured it out right away, he'd wait so that Chuuya could get a break. Not that he'd ever admit that though. But yeah this is basically what it would look like.
Was in Barnes and Noble today, and I found a collection of Dazai's works titled "The Real Osamu Dazai." And this was on the back:
Like....why. How. I understand if you just see edits and stuff you'd think he's the main character, but like, watch one episode, read one chapter, and anyone with basic media literacy could tell that he isn't the main character. Even google could tell you that. Why does this keep happening??? My boy Atsushi deserves more than this.