#bsd verne

[tsujimum]

"But all one could do was move forward."

Happy anniversary to 55 minutes light novel!! I love coming back to it, it's filled with so much soul and it's a shame it hasn't been adapted after almost 10 years. However, I always celebrate how much bsd helped me understand my feelings and discover so many things about art and myself :] Here's to 10 years!

[blizzyblitz]

BSD crack theory time!!!

1. Agatha Christie will be the main antagonist of whatever part two has in store (I think this is actually pretty likely)

2. This one's just me spitting nonsense. So I haven't read the new chapter yet, but from what I've seen, Atsushi ends up in nineteenth century London(?) I'm reading 55 Minutes now and would just like to note that the British section of Standard Island is said to look exactly like nineteenth century London. And, since Asagiri has randomly started bringing light novel characters in with no context, I'd say it'd be pretty on brand for H.G. Wells and/or Jules Verne to show up again. I haven't finished 55 Minutes yet, but I know Wells' skill is time travel, so what if she somehow took Atsushi back in time, to either before Standard Island was destroyed or to actual nineteenth century London?

Edit: Just got the explanation of Wells' skill, and I now know that this exact theory wouldn't work. But I won't let go until I'm wrong, so what if something happened that either amplified her skill or her skill was taken and turned into a singularity weapon?

3. Dazai and Chuuya will kiss

4. Sigma will wake up and be a-ok

[selfaware-bungou-stray-dogs]

Happy Birthday, Jules Gabriel Verne!🎂🎉🎊

🏝️ Verne offers Standard Island as a place where you and BSD Cast can spend summer holidays. But, because it will be impossible to explain the government where did you get a mechanical island, the offer remained just an offer.

🏝️ Verne become a sort-off big brother figure to Gab.

🏝️ Verne find interesting in flying kites.

🏝️ He is one of the few, who are interested in his Namesake works. Verne is thinking about pursuing a career in traveling or research.

🏝️ If he could, Verne would arrange every date on Standard Island. But, because of secrecy reasons, he is stuck to something more common. He prefers walks by the shore or seafood restaurants. He is fine sharing his time with you with Wells.

[pastel-puddle]

hey guys sorry i’ve been more active in twitter. but here’s a silly thing i did with the 55 Minutes trio❤️

[starlightshadowsworld]

Our Agency cultivated a good reputation. I couldn’t think of anyone with complaints against us wanting revenge.

No one tell him.

Let him have this.

I gotta love that Sasaki’s plan boils down to well what else was there to do 🤣

No but really it is interesting how far into all of this she went into that when her lover died all she had was to retrace his footsteps to feel anything.

And it’s a theme that’s come up in other light novels right.

Shibusawa had no memories and yet continued the work he did while alive because it was all he had to go off of.

Jules Verne lost his own identity and was stuck in a cycle of going after something he didn’t even care about after some point.

Rimbaud was alive but he couldn’t let go off the plan in his previous life even when he had no people to report back too.

Verlaine lost everything and didn’t even think himself human and yet he couldn’t let go of his plan in his previous life.

Odasaku lost his kids and resumed the life of an assassin that he had swore to leave behind, because it was all he had after losing the right to write.

And here we have Sasaki who lived but part of her died with the Azure King. Her ideals and her ambitious weren’t her own but his.

If Kunikida’s ideals are the Agency then Sasaki’s ideals are the Azure King.

Kunikida’s ideals will live him on without him but Sasaki cannot live on without hers.

It was like she herself was a wandering spirit only able to carry on what she’d done in life which was live for him.

But as we see from the other examples listed before us, it is not a path that can be sustained.

[mattsqueakerdraws]

Happy Birthday Jules Gabriel Verne!

[k-oliveros]

Happy Birthday my sweet Gab!

(Sorry, but I won't translate that whole thing right now, i'm quite busy so maybe later. Meanwhile if you wanna read how MUCH I LOVE Gab and WHY I do, you can translate in your own or wait until I do so ♥ )

Hoy 08 de febrero se celebra el natalicio del escritor Jules Gabriel Verne. Nació en 1828 en Nantes, Francia, y falleció el 24 de marzo de 1905 en Amiens, Francia con 77 años de edad. Fue conocido como uno de los padres fundadores de la ciencia ficción y la aventura literaria. Comenzó sus estudios de derecho, pero su verdadera pasión era la escritura. Era apasionado por los viajes y la exploración, lo que se reflejó en muchas de sus obras. Aunque nunca realizó grandes viajes durante su vida, investigaba extensamente para sus novelas y utilizaba esa información para crear mundos imaginarios convincentes, y también fueron sus libros con los que aprendí a leer. Leía sus palabras, sus letras me sacaban la voz incluso antes de que las comprendiese.

Quien diría que el personaje ficticio del que me fuera a encular fuera el homónimo de este sujeto. Que vueltas da la vida.

Como ya todos saben, (el nombre de mi perfil lo indica), estoy perdidamente enamoradísima del personaje de Gab de la novela ligera 55 minutos perteneciente a Bungou Stray Dogs. Cuando leí sus primeras apariciones, me pareció un morrillo miadito y castrocito, bastante energético, un sol travieso, probablemente lo que era la definición de un niño normal (cof, si ignoramos que era ladrón)

Y entonces falleció.

Asagiri nunca ha tenido le ha tenido miedo de crear personajes, que te encariñes con ellos 2 minutos y luego matarlos (cof, las banderas de stormbringer). Antes de morir, Gab y Atsushi tuvieron un pequeño momento de entendimiento y conexión, pensé que Gab en realidad era un niño muy bueno y dulce, pero entonces murió en agonía junto con sus camaradas que tanto apreciaba.

Y entonces revivió.

Yo si le llore a Gab su muerte, así que cuando lo vi vivito haciéndole un “Objeto o pastel?” a Dazai yo quede “QUE” y me enoje. Me enoje porque Gab me hizo creer que hubo una conexión real, me hizo llorar, sentí que jugó con mis sentimientos pero como ahi dicen “Pos ya que” seguí leyendo por que ahora tenía saber cómo fue que el morrillo estaba vivo y mas que nada, la necesidad de saber “¿POR QUÉ?” Las hojas pasaron, la historia pasó, y la pelea llegó. Saben, las crisis existenciales son algo terrible y no se las deseo a nadie, te hacen cuestionarte a ti mismo, la vida y tu humanidad. Es algo con lo que he sufrido por mucho tiempo. Eran tragos amargos que me pasaba a regañadientes, pues nunca estaba totalmente satisfecha. Cuando Gab menciona no ser humano (y que en realidad es una habilidad), note que eso no le generaba alguna crisis o inseguridad (a diferencia de Chuuya), de hecho, pese a no ser humano el SABIA que tenia humanidad, sabía que estaba VIVO y su instinto de supervivencia estaba muy marcado. Muchas veces en mi vida me he sentido atrapada en un bucle, congelada en un cubo de agua, lentamente esperando a que el día inicie y que el día acabe, derritiéndome. Aun así, siendo que yo he tenido mil veces más libertad que ese sujeto (pues en realidad no es un niño, tiene la habilidad de cambiar de edad por lo que es más seguro que sea adulto, solo dios sabrá lo que es) y aun así, aun así, Gab se aferraba mil veces más a la vida que yo. Me pregunto si se habría sentido miserable al tener que repetir el mismo bucle tantas veces solo para mantenerse con vida. ¿Habrá alguna vez añorado más? ¿Habría alguna vez mirado el rostro de sus amigos y sentir que ya estaba harto de sus rostros? ¿Alguna vez había sentido el deseo de simplemente dejar el tiempo correr y morir…?

No.

No, no lo pensó. Estoy segura que ese hombre no lo pensó ni por 3 segundos. Durante la pelea, hubo un momento en el que Atsushi le pide que acabe con todo esto, que acabe con el bucle, que ya había vivido lo suficiente, solo así el resto del mundo podría ser libre.

“Estoy aquí, estoy vivo ahora mismo, ¡nunca será suficiente! Nunca habrá suficiente de respirar, pensar, escuchar, hablar— nunca suficiente de estar con amigos. No habrá un momento en el que diga "hey, creo que estoy bien" y tu no eres diferente”

Cuando Gab dijo eso yo ya estaba llorando bien fuerte. En bungou, hay muchas muertes, si. Algunos no alcanzan a decir mucho, algunos fueron sacrificios, seguido hay llantos por la muerte de otros, pero son pocas las veces en la que el personaje está rogando por su propia vida, gritando desesperado que no quiere morir. Hay muchas personas que creen que vale más morir que perder la dignidad, el honor o la libertad, que sin ellas la vida no tiene valor. También hay personas encadenadas en el aburrimiento, sin libertad, deseando morir.

Entonces Gab grito:

“¡No necesito ser libre! ¡Quiero vivir! ¡Quiero vivir!”

Y yo lloré aún más. Gab no hizo nada malo, no puedes obligar a nadie a sacrificarse por otros, ¿A él que iba a importarle? Él sabía lo era estar no-vivo, el verdadero vacío oscuro y solitario, el verdadero no existir.

Su único pecado fue vivir.

Él amaba vivir. No le importaba que siempre viera las mismas caras, no le importaba repetir la rutina, no le importaba tener que defender su vida sin descanso… él amaba vivir. ¡Amaba vivir! Oh dios, ¿Cuántos de ustedes se atreverían a gritar con esa misma fuerza y determinación, sin dudas y con seguridad “QUIERO VIVIR”? Mi vida no es terrible como muchas otras, incluso cuando vivía con aún más comodidades, gritar eso se sentiría como una mentira. Me gustaba empatizar con personajes desgraciados que no soportaban vivir, que para ellos el oxigeno no tenia sabor, nunca me había sentido atraída a un personaje que quisiera vivir, tampoco había visto a una persona o personaje querer vivir como el. Porque una cosa es querer vivir por las cosas que anhelas hacer, y aparte está el querer vivir por amar vivir.

En mis early teens como dicen los gringos, hubo momentos en los que directamente pensé “Quiero morir”, pero gracias al apoyo que recibí de muchas personas de mi alrededor, esas palabras se desvanecieron en el aire y decidí que seguiría viviendo, que crecerá y haria cosas, conocería gente y crearía algo. El problema es que habiendo decidido eso, yo aun no sabia como se dice “Quiero vivir” ¿Con que cara o sentimiento podría hacer eso? ¿Cuál sería el sabor de esas palabras? ¿Cómo serían?. El mundo me enseño a decir “Quiero morir”. Las personas con sus lenguas me deletrearon cada consonante y vocal, pero ahora quería aprender palabras nuevas…¿Pero como?

“¡Quiero vivir!” grito Gab otra vez hasta su muerte.

Cuando termine de leer, estaba hecha un desastre. No solo por que murió el personaje del que mas me había encariñado, no solo por que el personaje que mas merecia vivir no fue rescatado, no por que murió con una sonrisa como si pensara “Fue bueno vivir”, si no tambien por que yo quería ser como el. Ese momento se sintió como haber encontrado el sol de mis días, el calor que derretiría el hielo y me dejaria ser libre, mantendría mi corazon calido y latiendo, en ese instante, en ese instante fue tan claro como el agua, en ese instante supe como era un verdadero “Quiero vivir”.

Feliz Cumpleaños Gab. Gracias por decir esas palabras.

[notsogoodangel]

Nobody cares about Bungou Stray Dogs: 55 Minutes and I will make it everyone’s problem. (Spoilers for the manga, Dead Apple, Dark Era, Fifteen and Strombringer).

I love this light novel. It’s like one of the only ones light novels I actually care about, and you should to if you care about world building on BSD.

But nobody has read it so I have decided to write some fun facts and food for thoughts that the synopsis and summaries can’t make it justice. Also yes, all those works are mentioned or connected to 55 Minutes.

Firstly, I want to point out how Atsushi’s transformation is described:

“He visualize a tiger… the complete opposite of his weak self… Like night cooling the ground, the frailty hidden deep down inside Atsushi grew until it was sinisterly ferocious. The tiger was not of this world. It only existed within him. It was his arrogance and cowardice, his pride and sense of shame. The more he tired to hide his weakness, the more exposed it became… His skin corrugated as his bones started to creak strangely.”

I just love how despite this taken place after the Guild attacked, he still consider himself weak, a coward, and needs someone to help him.

Europe, in average, has more skill users than Japan, and using the war they manufactured a lot of weapons. Nowadays, a lot of those weapons seem to be hidden or in the governments possession. 

Victor Hugo, Shakespeare and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are all canon, they are all Transcendents (just like Rimbaud), they participated on the war, and he fought and caused more casualties at once in the entire history.

H.G. Wells is also a character in the story, she is an ability user that can send the memories of someone 55 minutes to the past and only once, and she also participated on the War and created a weapon of mass destruction. Which is what most people are fighting for in the story.

Apparently Dazai knows how to control his heart beat because of his suicide attempts… know he does it to be a spy.

Andre Gide is also mentioned in the novel and they are partially part of why one of the villains, the Colonel, it’s obsessed with getting a secret weapon. By the end of the light novel, they were trying to piece together Colonel’s story and that it matches, only to find nothing, because the Mimic attack is hidden to the public and cover the event completely, which Dazai of course says so the ADA stops looking for it, since the government just won’t let them. Only for Atsushi to ask “do you know anything about them?” WHICH HURT MY SOUL WHEN I FIRST READ IT.

Dazai famously gets stabbed on this novel, and it’s so noticeable and impressive because he didn’t predicated it at all. The ADA had to make their own plan to rescue his ass. (And this is important to show that they can solve a case without his help).

It’s implied that Dazai is not the only ability user that has a nullified ability.

If an ability user has a to-the-touch ability (Fyodor) or one that doesn’t turn off (Fukuzawa) and they are dead, their ability cannot be used, but abilities can used on them. So if Dazai dies, Yosano can use her ability because he is dead, and like IRL, there’s a time in which people can still be brought back even if they are dead.

The main reason why I wanted to read 55 Minutes was because of Jules Verne and his relationship with Gab (his ability who obtained consciousness).Verne’s ability is Mysterious Island, in which he gains the ability of any user that dies on Standard Island (where the events of the light novel take place). Gab is what happened when someone abuses their own abilities and said ability mutates and grow. 

Jules Verne was someone who suffered in the war, his parents died and they did everything to stop the War and suffering of others. He met Wells long after the war was over, and they actually met because they were stopping a terrorist attack on the island Verne swore to protect, not only because it was part of his ability, but because it gave him a purpose.

Jules Verne, after his parents died, joined an organization to stop the war when he was around 12-15 years old. They were named the Seven Traitors. They stopped the war by kidnapping a bunch of world leaders so they signed peace treaties to stop the war… and it worked. Once the war was over, they disappeared essentially and they put Verne in charge of guarding the island. He was fine with it, because those years he spent planning with the Traitor, they all became friends. And with no family, and with the knowledge that his friends were safe, it gave him a purpose.

He is pretty similar to Sigma in that way with DOA. They got attached to a group and were put on a place that gave them a purpose. 

The difference is that Verne had the ability to steal the abilities of anyone that died in his island, and that would be his downfall. During Wells and Verne’s plan, she died and he was able to use her ability so she wouldn't die next time, and the problem was to that, in his next try, not everyone was safe, people still got injured. So he continued to go back, and something unexpected happen. The found out that Wells’ and his own ability grew every time he used them. He was able to travel more than 55 minutes to the past. So he started to go back in time over and over again, in part to save Wells and the people he cared about, but it got to the point he tried to go back in time enough that he could stop the War itself. That would be good in theory but the island got free will, and as it grew stronger he overpowered Verne, and eventually took over his body.

I have wanted to read this because this could happen to Atsushi at any time, if their abilities get free will. Which sadly they are. Verne's ability was Standard Island, but he got a name Gab. Atsushi's ability name is Beast Underneath The Moonlight. And we see this struggle with Verlaine and Chuuya on Fifteen and specially Stormbringer. They struggle to keep their sense of humanity, and the separation of them as people and as abilities. 

Alongside this, I want you to remember the war was 13 years ago, Jules, Gab and Verne and the entire island have being on a time-loops for over a decade. 

Something important I want to point out: Atsushi didn't fight Gab, it was only Byakko (the white tiger). During the whole battle, Atsushi just let Byakko took over, and defeated him. And most importantly Gab is talking to it. He said:

“I’ve been conscious ever since my master, Verne, controlled this body- but I couldn’t say anything. My voice reached no one. I was neither alive nor dead. I was just alone in lukewarm darkness, wondering who I was.”

(Which sounds kinda familiar if you have read Stormbringer)

There’s also an interesting parallel to the themes of DEAD APPLE: the connections of souls, abilities and the reason to live. “Gifts are lodged deep inside the human soul. You shouldn’t remove them” Which is interesting and notorious since Shibusawa and Verne NEED to kill the users to obtain their abilities.

ALSO, IMPORTANT: Even if Gab is on control, Verne is still conscious inside of the body. He just can’t reach anyone at all. Except, curiously, Atsushi. I wonder why (I have theories, but nothing is confirmed)?

Also @yarrayora here’s your “Bungou Stray Gods can be canon” evidence:

“I think a lot of skill users believe their skill is part of them” Atsushi said as if answering his own question “But maybe they’re wrong. Maybe they come from somewhere else and stick to us. Maybe they’re something we can’t understand… I don’t really know how to put it into words, but that’s how I feel.”

Atsushi, at the end of the events, thinks back to Verne and Gab, wonders if Verne and the Seven Traitors acted like the ADA, and maybe that’s why Gab joined the same group of people while stuck on the time loops, so maybe he could experience what Verne felt with the Traitors; and if Gab ever had true friends that he could have ended differently.