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Feel free to request analysis’ with anything to do with BSD, you can request anything from Character Analysis’, abilities, morality, relationships, taking the literature work and applying it to the characters or more! I do have a few analysis’ saved up and ready to post when I edit them but requests are open for your information :)
Okay sooo besides Q- (the best character in bsd that is definitely not dead trust)
Analysis on Dazai and Chuuya’s relationship?
Because it’s interesting :>
Dazai’s and Chuuya’s Relationshup
Words cannot describe how I love Dazai’s and Chuuya’s relationship so this will probably be the longest analysis I have written so far.
Dazai and Chuuya have known each other since they were fifteen, this is nothing new to us, and their bond is INSANELY strong, they’ve been through so many life and death situations that it forces a codependency that you don’t really see represented in media as great as Dazai’s and Chuuya’s is. With these two we can see the amount of trust and sheer dependency, especially after the Prison Arc. But it’s not even their trust, but also the similarities and differences in personality that work so well together.
THERE MIGHT BE SPOILERS AHEAD
Chuuya and Dazai both question their humanity in different formats. With Chuuya it’s a matter of the possibility that he was a clone and was Arahabaki but with Dazai it’s a matter of if his apathy stops him from being human.
Chuuya’s dehumanization is a result of not only being experimented on but could also be related to being “King of The Sheep”, it’s heavily implied that Chuuya was used just for his ability and wasn’t seen as entirely human to the sheep. Instead he was (to them), his ability itself. They didn’t think he was human due to the power he has.
With Dazai, his dehumanization stems from his apathy, his inability to act like a “human”, throughout everything we have seen with Dazai, he seems to be just someone pretending to be human. Being labeled as the Demon Prodigy did not help one bit in this aspect as it made everyone view him worse. Dazai being the Demon Prodigy just made it acceptable for everyone around him to dehumanize him. It’s easier to pretend that someone bad is just a monster rather than recognizing they are an actual person with feelings.
Now, we know that Dazai was fully prepared for Yokohama to burn if it meant Chuuya could prove his humanity to himself, we know that Dazai fully thought of Chuuya to be human from the very beginning, he had no doubt that Chuuya was anything but human— and I think that stems from Dazai implying that Chuuya made him feel alive.
That isn’t a stretch, we can see in the anime itself where it was implied (when fighting Arthur Rimbaud and the Old PM boss) “Really, a suicidal maniac like you wants to live?” “I figured it was worth a shot.” In Dazai’s eyes, his purpose to continue- a goal to keep going towards, is Chuuya himself.
Chuuya seeing Dazai as human stems from the mistakes Dazai makes- his willingness to change- the way he’s calculated and planning. That’s what makes Dazai human to Chuuya.
And, we know that Chuuya would’ve left with Dazai, he would’ve followed out of the PM and Dazai knew that- but he also knew that Chuuya needed to stay there to support Akutagawa and have a friend on the inside of the PM.
Outside of the PM we can still see that their trust runs deep- past the lines of having sides. With Dead Apple, the Prison Arc, and even in Beast where their relationship is so complex and well-developed.
They’re also heavily codependent on each other, that doesn’t mean that Chuuya is weak or Dazai is weak but the codependency does exist in their relationship— Dazai relying on Chuuya as a person, the trust, the power, the relationship, the humanity. And Dazai, vice versa.
Even as an analyzer of BSD, I cannot label the complexity of their relationship. You can play it as romantic or as platonic. There’s no direct way we can know because of the writing. The writing of them purposefully leaves it ambiguous- something to figure out on our own and that what makes it so special to me.
I personally see Dazai and Chuuya as a soul ripped apart- meant to be one but can never be. Play that as romantic or as platonic, up to you. But, I do think that some parts of the fandom who think Dazai and Chuuya are the only “healthy” relationship in BSD is wrong. It’s impossible for a healthy relationship to exist in BSD. That’s just the nature of the show.
I was rereading Beast and near the end when Dazai is talking about the world taking place in the book, there’s this panel;
To paraphrase, it basically says that things written in the book switches places with the real world. So, the world isn’t the original.
And we know Fyodor wrote in the book, not to mention that in 119 Fyodor mentions that the book is their origin and originally I took this as a metaphor but then…why would a world need a bookmark as Fyodor called Atsushi. A world inside the book would need one but not the original.
So, the world we’re seeing could just be an alternate timeline and the original world is far away. This could also explain why everyone didn’t really die but instead get ‘materialized’, turned into atoms or dust or whatever. Their existence ripped out of the world, because it’s not their original world.
My old analysis of Q was kind of bad so here is a new and improved one! No spoilers hopefully :3
Q is a very complicated character in my opinion, simply because we don’t know much about them despite multiple approaches and Dazai fearing them, they have this air of mystery to them that is very interesting in my opinion so- let’s take in the literature base first, Dogura Magura by Yumeno Kyūsaku.
In Dogura Magura the narrator wakes up in a hospital, finding out that he was originally an experiment and killed his mother and wife and he inherited his psychotic tendencies. The novel is inspired by Freudian Psychoanalysis- an idea that people could be cured by making their unconscious a conscious thought and motivations, and by that gaining "insight".
So, relating this to Q, their ability is a mind control that forces illusions on people who intentionally or unintentionally harmed them, we can relate this to Freudian Psychoanalysis since Q makes an unconcious thought (I assume fear?) conscious as an illusion that drives people to attack others because of it. Q thinks of their ability as a curse because they know how dangerous it is, and we also know that abilites can influence the user as well so perhaps Q's psychotic nature is due to their ability and how they grew up.
Q has some major issues on how they see society as well, their hatred of their ability was obviously a result of how people treated them and perhaps they feel that society deserves to be forced to see their fears (we know that Q has "fun" when using their ability on others after all). Their personality seems to flip flop between being an innocent child and being sadistic, they are good at following directions and ignoring their wants.
When Q was captured by the guild, we saw that they were easily influenced, they took answers that were given to them and believed it easily, even when it was something that mentally harmed them or made them hate themselves even more. Q's appearance could also relate to their personality since it seems split, half black and half white hair, different shaped pupils, etc.
Though we know that character designs in BSD are based off of the popular works of the authors so I might just be reaching for straws
Nikolai is a villain on the surface level- he openly admits as so and is fine with being seen as this. Unlike most BSD villains, he doesn’t seem to have a clear cut goal- he just enjoys the violence that being in the Decay of Angels gives him because in his own thinking, it’s how he can be more free. So, what is Nikolai’s view on “freedom”?
Well- from my understanding it seems to be more than just the freedom to choose, but the freedom to choose without consequences. However, every single action has its consequences which is why Nikolai truly cannot gain his own “freedom”. This is also why we see Nikolai as cold or borderline-insane, he tries to get rid of his emotions since in Nikolai’s mind- emotions are what is stopping him from being “free”.
This ties into him wanting to murder Fyodor- Fyodor is someone Nikolai cares for, someone who Nikolai loves because Fyodor is one of the few that understands him- so, in all these emotions of care that Nikolai is holding, comes the want to murder. He wants to be free of his feelings that are attached to Fyodor.
It’s also why it was so startling to see him so upset over the possibility of Fyodor being dead- because Nikolai doesn’t *want* to feel those emotions but he does anyways.
Circling back to being a “villain”, Nikolai does so because it’s easy to push people away when you’re hurting them. It’s easy to lose yourself- easy to lose your morality because you’re doing bad things that society doesn’t approve of. Nikolai joined the DoA for a place of belonging- for a place to be free from society’s limits, emotional limits, but Nikolai’s want for “freedom” is impossible- and Nikolai knows this. He stays anyways, because the DoA and Fyodor is the closet he’ll get to bring “free.”
Also fun fact, but throughout Fyodor Dostoevsky’s works, there is multiple references to Nikolai Gogol or his works, Fyodor was inspired by Nikolai but they never knew each other in real life, with Nikolai dying before Crime and Punishment became widely known
Fyodor’s ability made no sense to me at first, especially with the theory of the “crime” being killing Fyodor and the “punishment” taking Fyodor’s place, so I read Crime and Punishment and it kind of pieced together for me?
So, first off we know that abilities in Bungo Stray Dogs can either be the most weirdly specific (I.E not getting harmed from lemon shaped bombs) or the qualifications are loose (I.E Chuuya’s ability) so, Fyodor’s one or the other, right?
Looking into the book Crime & Punishment, I found out many little things that could hint at his ability but I’ll put the few that stick out to me most-
SLIGHT SPOILER FOR BSD 116/117 AHEAD!
“Crime is always accompanied by illness”
“All transgress the law; they are destroyers or disposed to destruction according to their capacities”
“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment.”
Now, what does this tell us about Fyodor’s ability? It’s specific, unlike the pure chaos that it seems to be at first. We know that Fyodor killed Karma, made Ace commit suicide, and took over Bram’s body, etc. So, my guess is that it’s literally based off of the amount of crime one does. Ace and Karma are in the mafia, so it makes sense, and with Bram being a Vampire he’s probably committed so many crimes in his time.
The reason why Fyodor took over Bram’s body is because Bram did more crimes than either Karma or Ace did. Fyodor sees himself as some kind of “savior” as you will (which is also a direct reference to Raskolnikov being called a prophet in C&P, “What prophet are you? From the height of what majestic calm do you proclaim these words of wisdom?”)
Breaking this down more; we know from 116-117 that Fyodor knows a divine being (Ame-No-Gozen) and everything was Fyodor’s plan from the beginning. So- assuming Fyodor is a prophet (or maybe even have a god in him like Chuuya with Arahabaki) he is also fit to give out “punishments” to humans who commits crimes, and this is done by killing (or taking over) them.
Where I think it gets specific is how Fyodor/Fyodor’s ability determines the type of punishment one gets, because we know that it’s different for each person, Karma died from being touched, Ace died from suicide, and Bram died by getting taken over, so there’s some type of specifications that determines the punishment, I just don’t know what it is. It also brings into question how Fyodor determines a crime, since we know Fyodor’s morals are lose, much like Dazai’s.
Side note: I have way more theories if this does well and people are interested :)
