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[scribeherself]

There is no drug on earth that can replicate the absolute euphoria of hitting a writing flow state at 2:00 AM. You aren’t even typing anymore. You are a vessel. You are a channel for the gods. The characters are speaking directly into your brain and you’re just the stenographer trying to keep up. You feel like you could fight a bear. You feel like you invented the alphabet

[minimafioso]

I saw a new drawing template pop up and immediately knew what had to be done

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[elikaruna]

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[justalemon]

the op on r/bungo stray dogs I a thread set stormbringer code 10 said its gonna be on break next month.

You heard me. Grab your fucking pencils were gonna have to draw Christmas 16!chuuya and the flags by ourselves.

(I'm counting on you chat)

[equable7]

Where are you finding the chapters omgg? I can’t find any of both translated and raw versions past code 7 or so. The translator I normally follow hasn’t posted updates so I’m desperate for anything even untranslated.

[starri-deibreak]

Stormbringer epilogue

Ok so idk if this seems like super obvious and i just sound kinda stupid but the ending scene of Stormbringer genuinely breaks me Spoilers for stormbringer..shockingly

So just to make it clear, I mean specifically the scene where Chuuya's on his way to see his parents, and then turns away because he doesn't think that he needs to.

He says it's because the port mafia are his family now, but it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense for him to work his way up to being an executive, discover where his biological parents live, drive out there and only realise in that exact moment that he doesn't want to see them anymore. By this point it's obvious that he knows he's human, so that also wouldn't make any sense so the only logical conclusion is that he's willingly choosing to cut himself off from any outside influences.

Because he's an executive in this scene, we know that Dazai must have left the mafia at this point, so he's under the impression that Dazai's dead. Whether he sees him as a friend or an enemy or a lover genuinely doesn't matter for this exact moment because he was sort of an outlier in Chuuya's life. Sure he brought him in to the mafia, but he also treats him like a kid, he's one of the only characters that he's seen having actual fun with.

The Flags, practically Chuuya's only real friends in the mafia are dead, Rimbaud is dead, Verlaine is just in a basement ig he's barely any sort of link to Chuuya by this point (I assume..) because he's busy mourning Rimbaud and training others in the mafia, Dazai's gone and Shirase is in London. Chuuya literally has no one else outside of the mafia.

And so him willingly choosing to walk away from a potential link, two people that would most likely love him and be able to show him the 'world of light' that he's been cut off from for literally his entire life, is effectively him just giving in. He might have accepted that he's part of the mafia at this point, but I think that this specific scene is where he gives up all and any hope of ever escaping.

In stormbringer in general, Chuuya's behaviour grosses me out a LOT purely from his entire switch in demeanor. At 15, Chuuya's threatning to kill anyone from the mafia that gets too close, but at 16 he's outright promising to crush anyone that gets in the mafia's way. He's done a full 180 on his world view in ONE YEAR, which just can't be healthy or normal in any way (ill analyse that one day...) and that's almost definitely because his only interactions are within the horrible abusive system that's basically just training him in absolute loyalty no matter how much he's put through by them.

Overall, this scene is just really really horrible I think that's all I'm trying to say with my nonsensical rambling <33

[equable7]

Heyo, self-proclaimed Stormbringer analytic here. How I see it portrayed, Chuuya doesn’t want to “escape” the mafia. He never felt trapped in the first place. Yes he first entered because he sort of had to, but in reality, the sheep would have betrayed Chuuya at any time as they have always been exploiting him for his abilities, which would end up leaving him without a home.

Dazai just sped things up a little, seeing the inevitable, and insured him to have a new family of sorts. Chuuya ends up respecting Mori as a leader and swearing his loyalty to him after his recruitment. Which brings me to the next thing, his switch in his attitude is mainly political in a sense. He wanted to protect the sheep, and the mafia were a threat/enemy to the sheep who he felt obligated to protect, thus the mafia were Chuuya’s enemy by extension. After the sheep’s betrayal, he didn’t really have too many more grudges against the mafia, or personal reasons to resent them at least (besides the ultimate ragebaiter that is Dazai).

The whole parent scene is more subjective and complex I suppose, as that one seems more personal rather than “what side” Chuuya is loyal to.”

But I definitely don’t things Chuuya had “no one”. Keep in mind that while Chuuya is the character with the most information given to us backstory-wise, we still know almost nothing in the grand scheme of things. The events in Stormbringer were like a week, just a week of Chuuya’s life we saw. And Fifteen is even shorter, more like a quick story of a problem and solution than anything. My point here is, we really don’t know all of what Chuuya’s connection is to the mafia, but it is a strong one. A good example would be that Kaji and Hirotsu are drinking buddies.

I don’t think his loyalties to the mafia are as fragile as they seem. The flags after all were supposed to monitor Chuuya and ensure his loyalty, but they only really only saw him as a friend and even defied the mafia for him. So I don’t think Chuuya was brainwashed or trained in that way, he was more loyal and knew what he was getting into from the start.

Who knows, maybe we will get extra scenes or dialogue from the manga?

[likeshipsonthesea]

can we pretend that we're good?

so remember that 17k pwp-turned-character study that i've been complaining about?? well. it's done. :))) explicit af, read the ao3 tags for specifics

Dazai takes a steadying breath and steels himself before sliding to his knees on the carpeted floor. It’s not as graceful as he’d like it to be, what with his injured leg, but he manages to catch himself without using his hands or hurting his knees, so he counts it as a win. When he peers up at Chuuya through his bangs, the wideness of Chuuya’s eyes also registers as a victory.

“I know Chuuya is still angry,” Dazai murmurs, so Chuuya has to look closely at his lips to make out the words. “He may take it out on my body, if he likes.”

or, Dazai is (his version of) touch-starved after weeks stuck in his bubble in Meursault, so he ~convinces Chuuya to help him with his problem. He's not expecting all the revelations that come with it.

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[equable7]

I’m not crying you are

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Hypothetical scenario: The woods are haunted, but you must traverse them. The monsters are real, and might get you if you’re by yourself, but if you’re with someone else, they’ll leave you alone. The only person you can go with is an unstable serial killer.

In this scenario, would you take your chances alone or with the killer?

Alone

With the killer

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[preludicrous]

im not even a huge shipper but bsd makes it too fucking easy man. like soukoku are tragically divorced, ranpoe are married rivals, sskk has that i hate you but i secretly think you are the most admirable human in existence thing going on, rimlaine, suegiku bicker like an old married couple, the tragic old men yaoi of fukufuku, whatever the FUCK is going on with fukumori, the homoerotic murder and violence of fyolai, sigzai with how sigma is so done all the time, kunidazai with how kunikida is so done all the time, bramcraft with the otherworldly horrors. theres so much material idk