#beast kunikida

[riolone-moon]

Kunizai Week, day 4: Beast AU

Maybe in another universe

For @kunizaiweek

[cynyari]

Day 4 @kunizaiweek | Beast AU

[hannigramislife]

You know what I find hilarious? The fact that Beast Akutagawa is such a menace, that if Beast Kunikida were to have to deal with canon Akutagawa, he'd start counting his lucky stars.

Like, canon Akutagawa has been in the Mafia for a while now. Technically speaking, bro has an actual job and is in constant contact with other people. Plus, the abusive hierarchy in the Mafia has honestly made it so he at least tries to follow orders and instructions. Plus, fighting people is literally in his job description; this is his 9 to 5, he shows up, completes the mission, he's chill (at least when there's no Dazai involved.)

Meanwhile, Beast Akutagawa is a hurricane who does whatever the fuck he wants, has the impulsiveness of a toddler, and will rip your throat out with his teeth.

Canon Akutagawa in comparison is a well behaved angel. Kunikida would fucking love him, are you kidding.

[lunarryuuyin]

Do you ever think about how in beast Dazai manipulated Gin into believing that Akutagawa only cared about himself and his revenge? How beast Dazai used both the Akutagawa siblings? How beast Dazai fed into Gin's resentment towards her brother for abandoning her, how he exploited Akutagawa's grief and pain to dehumanize him? Called him a mindless beast for going on an rampage mode and killing the thugs in the cost of his own life and sister, completely dismissing the fact that he was still a child who never got the opportunity to learn how to express himself in no other way but destruction, completely dismissing the fact that he had just seen his family whom he wanted nothing but to protect, die Infront of him? Akutagawa himself says that hell would've been kinder.

But he did abandon Gin. And Gin has the right to hold grudge against her brother for it.

But who is Dazai to manipulate that grudge against akutagawa?

He sent akutagawa a msg first saying he'd kill Gin. Then akutagawa rampages into the PM. Takes kyouka hostage and uses Atsushi to get closer to dazai and gin. But then they had an argument where Atsu mocks aku. Tells him that his violence comes from selfishness. That he's so selfish he'd take a little girl hostage.

The little girl, kyouka was trying to kill him.

And did Akutagawa actually do it for the selfishness of his heart?

Or because he wanted to reunite with his sister?

Everyone around him calls him selfish. Even Gin. It's true that Akutagawa, in his own rage completely dismissed him and abandoned her for revenge.

But was it because he was selfish? Or because he was grieving for  his fallen friends? Those whose lives were taken like they never mattered to this universe? That their lives were so disposable?

They call Akutagawa selfish, a kid in the slum who despite struggling himself takes other children under his wings to save them from the exploitation and trafficking. He kills all the dogs around the slum because one of them ripped his friend apart. He remembers that friend who died in the cold.

Gin calls her brother selfish, not knowing all these years he only lived to bring her back to him. That his guilt for abandoning her was so strong he was suicidal. That he wanted to kill himself.

"I told Oda sepai once, that there were two people I wanted to kill. One was the man in black and the other is.... Ryunosuke Akutagawa"

The entirety of beast, what Akutagawa has done was for others. He killed for his friends. He lived for his sister.

He's so painfully human but is constantly told how evil he is. How he's a mindless beast. Even though all he was a child forced to grow up in violence. Forced to see how his and his friend's lives were always disposable.

He didn't need the so called tough lesson beast Dazai wanted to "teach" him. All he needed was someone to believe in him. To rely on him. To say that he was not evil.

The only people who understood him, who actually saw the humanity in him were Oda and Kunikida. Not even his own sister. Whom I do not blame. She was also a child who saw her friends die and later saw her brother leaving her behind. She was also manipulated by Dazai who always destroys everything.

That's why when Oda confronts Dazai about Akutagawa, it's such a strong moment. He's telling Dazai that no matter what your intention was, it will never justify what you did to Akutagawa. No matter how much you think you did the right thing all you did was manipulated and sacrificed children who were grieving for your sinister plan. You pitted those tragic siblings against each other even though you clearly knew how much they both love each other.

That's why Oda pointing his gun at Dazai and refusing to acknowledge him as a friend is such a slap on his face. Even the master demon prodigy wouldn't have thought about the consequences of his actions.

Oda refusing to call Dazai a friend is the ultimate justice that anyone in this series would've given Akutagawa. He poured cold water on Dazai's every effort, on Dazai's every abuse he put the akutagawa siblings through. Because no matter what he did, he will never be forgiven for what he did to them. The ultimate karma he deserved.

Yeah my opinion might be biased. I hate Dazai after all. And I will always cheer seeing that iconic panel of Oda pointing his gun at Dazai.

[anneoftheabyssalred]

i actually get very upset whenever i remember we probably won't ever again get new beast! kunikida and akutagawa content.

[samhasnocontrol]

KnkdzWeek2024 Day 3 - Long distance.

Get it? Cuz one's always 6ft under? Get it? :D

KnkdzWeek2024 Day 4 - Mistletoe

Extra doodles cuz I feel like angst isn't my strongest suit.

Day 3 twitter

Day 4 twitter

[kcuf-ad]

I have never thought that someone would have bursted Kunikida's blood cells more than Dazai, but here we are.

[starlightshadowsworld]

Kunikida: I hardly believe that there is someone that is as hard as to work with than Dazai.

Beast Kunikida:... You would be thankful that you aren't working with Akutagawa.

Kunikida in every universe is just trying his best to wrangle his co-workers (he loves them but dear lord why are you like this.)