I was thinking that since his ability let's him take the body of the person that attempts to k!ll him, what if it began with like an abusive house like long long back obviously, and like he'd find comfort in God or smth. Then prolly a family member or such murdered him and so his ability let him have their body. And so after many incidents like this, he prolly assumed he is god's messenger or such. And eventually developed an opinion and decided on a goal to accomplish "in the name of God"
Like just food for thought I haven't properly read the recent chapter yet but like what if smth like that triggered all of it ykwim.
Can you talk about Akito and Shigaraki parallels, please? And about Tohru and Izuku ones?
Tohru-Deku & Akito-Shigaraki Parallels;
Okay so lets look at the parallels between Tohru & Deku and Akito & Shigaraki under the cut.
Tohru & Deku;
They are MC of their series. Though, Tohru is more like Uraraka, there are still some similarities. Tohru is too positive, Deku is too negative. They both raised with love. They are both extremely kind kids who wants to save everyone from their pain. They are both crybabies. They both housewife / househusband kind of character. They are both too expressive of their feelings. They both stubbornly bump in other people's business.
They are both self destructive. Deku breaks his arms to help someone, Tohru doesnt go that far but she still ran to knife to help someone. Deku’s self destruction is shown as flaw, Tohru’s shown as hardworking.
Tohru almost always succes which is very unrealistic while there are times Deku fails a lot. Tohru is always protected from dark plot while Deku always face against it.
Both Deku and Tohru have their own issues, Deku with bullying, Tohru with fear of abandonment. Deku is victim of system, Tohru has no relation to clan system.
They both try to save everyone and they think if they defeat their foils, they will acheive that goal, even though its opposite. They both decide to save their foils when they realize there is crying child inside of them.
Its like, there is invisible line between Tohru and Akito, even though they are foils, story didnt adress that they could be each other’s sitution, Tohru always stayed as pure and story didnt let Akito to grow while in bnha, we clearly see that Deku can be villain, Shigaraki can be hero in different situtions.
Akito & Shigaraki;
They are both 20 years old adult who is mentally child. They are both main villain of the story, actual villains of story are hiding behind them. They are related to theme of story the most and parallel with almost every character’s pain. (Though, i write some parallels between them in here but anyway, lets continue with more details.)
They are both used to kind, cheerfull kid who was crying but noone helped them. They are supported after abuse but during abuse, noone helped them. Shimura family ignored Koutaro’s abuse, Akito always had to deal with Ren’s abuse alone because they are the head of family.
They both have mentalbreakdown and became broken.
They are both chosen kids. Akito is groomed to be god by clan people, Shigaraki is groomed to be murderer by AFO.
They also have supernatural power. Akito’s whole god existence depens on her connections with zodiac and her power is literally being able to control them/forcing them to obey. Shigaraki's power is destruction. Its like; its impossible to not be abuser or killer in their position because thats literally whats their power about and what people expect them to be.
They are both dehumanized. Akito is called as god and gods action have no consequences, she is allowed to do whatever she wants with zodiac. Shigaraki is called as monster and its only natural that monster doing inhumane things because they are not human anyway.
They are both used as tools/objects by adults. AFO used Shigaraki to destroy current system while clan used Akito to make system work. Even though, they are the biggest victim of system, they are still seen as monsters.
Since they spend most of their times inside and didnt interact with people, they dont really understand other people.
They are raised with the mindset of ‘i can do whatever i want’, they treat people as their toys, like a child who is playing with toys because their mentality isnt developed like others.
Because of this mindset, they are egoistic, arrogant and have extreme confidence in theirselves. They both almost always in depressive, angry mood cause they feel empty. They both feel stockholm sendrom woars the people whom made them feel trapped.
They also self neglect a lot that people around them have to take care of them. Older zodiacs and servants are taking care of Akito, Kurogiri (and later Mr Compress and others etc) is taking care of Shigaraki. There is also always someone who watches them, try to control them etc.
They both deal with self hatred and they view theirselves as vilain/monster cause thats how they are treated, thats how people expected them to be. They both deal with severe of mental illness such as identify disorders etc.
Akito is literally like female Shigaraki. Akito is the queen, Shigaraki is the king. They are both cat characters who loves animals.
Only difference is story let Shigaraki to grow, he met with league (Toga and Dabi), people who wont listen everything he said, people who will go against him, people who wont be his toys. At first, he couldnt accept it but since he had to, he does. Later, we see him developing healthy relationship with league.
Akito’s relationship with zodiac is meant to be unequal, she never meet another person (except Tohru) besides zodiac, this is why she couldnt develop personality until she face consequences of her actions. What happens with Shigaraki at start of bnha happens to Akito at the end of furuba but they are very similar actually.
They have very tragic lifes and despite looking like monsters, they are actually good kids in deep.
Asagiri said Dazai is like a donut. Imo it's because we can see through him but not see him. When he's literally right there. He's really like any other character. But the way Asagiri wrote him (he does not make him the narrator ever so) makes it difficult to make sense.
He's a jack of all trades typa guy, he sees humanity in people, and he’s stuck — awfully stuck in his mind, all this because as a child, he was groomed in places like the Port Mafia, and was suicidal. (And childhood influence too but god knows what happened then)
When someone is too intelligent, with too much understanding of most things, they end up complicating their life and Dazai does that. He’s like a lost kid who knows a lot, too smart to be content. He wants to live on his own terms, hence wanting a reason to live, but he can't, as Oda said.
I feel like Odasaku sent him to work for something morally good so that Dazai could realize that one doesn’t need a reason to live but rather action. Life is action. Life doesn’t need reasoning. To live is to act, if you're stagnant, you just exist. Living is action based. (imo) Because every action at the detective agency adds to a positive outcome for people (humanity) hence it creates results as in adds to people's lives.
If Odasaku were alive and in the Agency with him, things would be so much better. Dazai would actually have a reason to live, a reason that feels his. He’d have fun while living. (That's lowk a fantasy but what if yk, sweet thought)
We all know Dazai seems rational, but he’s extremely irrational. In fact, I think a more rational person in the series is Chuuya. He's much more grounded and realistic let's be fair. Dazai on the other hand chooses escapism. Very relatable for many people.
It’s about familiarity. People dwell in familiarity. That’s what Dazai does too. That’s why people find him relatable.He clings to familiarity despite escaping the Port Mafia — through substance, sleeping around, and attempts. He did it then, and he still does it. He wants something to feel like home. He doesn’t have anyone truly personal in his life. We haven’t seen that in the series. So he clings to someone he had but is long gone, Odasaku. He only changed because Odasaku told him to, not on his own.
And I don’t think Dazai is a womanizer. (Super controversial ik, please bear with me)
I think it’s more that the Port Mafia taught him tactics to use his own body to get results. They teach that to minors. I also think that because it’s common for people to become hypersexual after having experiences of giving their body away or after sexual trauma, it’s understandable that he might resort to sexual means.
Irl!Dazai experienced such trauma so I'm counting that as a possible factor.
Anww that's all please spare me this is my first post on smth like this, tysm for reading <3
𐙚 idk but last night I randomly remembered this scene and how it's my most favorite from Fruits basket. A raw moment of vulnerability from Yuki that I massively relate to. | Fruits Basket (2019); S2, ep. 7
Chapter 122 reminded me of these sketches I made last summer. I was planning to paint in watercolors the last one (but I abandoned it...)
It's very self-indulgent I know, but I'm still convinced their reunion will be warm because I believe Atsushi won't hate Dazai. I think it wouldn't make any sense in a story about overcoming your past and second chances.
The message can't be that mistakes are forever and others will hate and punish you all your life unless you manage to hide those mistakes.
I know Dazai has a long way to go, and it's even possible that he will fail, but treating him as if he still was the same person he was... I can't imagine Atsushi of all people doing that
smth smth bsd’s recurring theme of your past not defining who you are but facing your past being necessary to move on anyway. the symbolism of atsushi’s abuser being the one to push him forward despite atsushi’s dislike for him—you cannot get rid of him. you cannot stop caring. you will cry when your father dies and you will hate him for it. you will never get rid of the ghost that haunts you but sometimes acknowledging it is the first step to healing. can anyone hear me
