#defeateddetectives

[nneiljostenn]

oleg volkov for the character bingo :)

listen.

listen. daddy. sorry. daddy. sorry.

i just. jesus fuck. every bubbleverse fic i've written was either from his perspective or mainly about him, and most of my ideas i still hope to write out are also oleg-centric. i can read, write, think of, and obsess over serovolk, gromvolk, dragonvolk, vadim/oleg/sergey, igor/oleg/sergey, oleg alone and fucking tired and dealing with every ptsd symptom imaginable. i have, in fact, written serovolk, but my pd magnum opus is a 39k dragonvolk fic. i fucking love him. i get him on a level only few do. i've been thriving since the volkov standalone era. truly golden times for him

[lehdenlaulu]

lestat and armand for the ship meme if you havent gotten em already because OBVIOUSLY!

Yasssss. I counted on you. 😆

Okay, these might be a little obvious, but here goes:

who’s the cuddler: 

I feel like both of them are. And while Louis and Daniel for example accept their clinginess without complaint, I feel like with each other – once they got over themselves – it would be like... limbs tangled, fingers entwined or threaded into hair, faces nuzzled into crooks of necks, as close as physically possible. A whole-ass vampire Gordian knot. You know?

who makes the bed:

Armand. Lestat, bless his black little heart, is 100% a slob.

who wakes up first:

Hmm. Armand. He probably stays snuggled into Lestat for a good while, though.

who has the weird taste in music:

C'mon, anything weird is Armand's domain. Lestat loves music and gamely tries to be as adventurous as possible, but Armand still manages to hyperfixate on some obscure Peruvian doom metal that is played almost entirely on pan flutes or something and Lestat has to admit defeat.

who is more protective:

ARMAND. I mean, it's not that Lestat doesn't have sometimes even somewhat patronizingly protective feelings towards Armand, but... Canonically, not only is he Lestat's own personal guardian devil (come on, he even met Daniel because he trespassed on Lestat's resting place), he'll happily tear the head off anyone who even looks at any of his loved ones wrong, and probably use their skulls as decoration as well. Maybe eat their soul for good measure, you never know with him.

who sings in the shower:

Lestat. Obviously.

who cries during movies:

Lestat is a world-famous champion weeper, but I bet there's something completely unexpected that will get Armand misty-eyed. Or not so unexpected. Maybe he has cried once or twice while watching Blade Runner. Maybe he can relate.

who spends the most while out shopping:

Hmm. I feel like Lestat, an extravagant extrovert, enjoys the act of shopping more, but Armand is just as good if not better at burning money on things (and then abandoning them or forgetting they exist).

who kisses more roughly:

Huh. I don't think there's a clear-cut answer to this one. Their canonical kisses are all, IIRC, rather tender, sweet, or casual. I think Armand might get a bit more bitey, but not exactly rough, not with Lestat. 🤔

who is more dominate:

Again, there's no simple answer because their power dynamic is overall particularly complicated, nor do I think you can really separate the (semi-)sexual power dynamics from their overall power dynamics.

I mean, Armand is canonically a switch, and I always got the vibe from Lestat that he's probably too when it comes down to it. And then there's that whole aspect of odd mutual... deference, I could say, that has elements of worship. And I mean... Lestat looks a lot like Marius, which I'm sure initially absolutely messed with Armand's head, especially in those circumstances, so there's that. And Lestat on the other hand will probably always be a little bit in awe of Armand, in all meanings of the word. So I'll just say that it would probably take some time for them to find a balance that works for both of them.

my rating of the ship from 1-10: 

Honestly, can I even give them anything but 10? I don't know if they were originally my 'favourite ship', as I think my teenage self sort of went "right, these guys don't operate by any traditional human relationship conventions so 'shipping' something would be a bit silly" (okay I did have a soft spot for Marius and Pandora, but I digress). But I'm sure I always found them fascinating. Because... come on. All hyperbole aside, who is doing it like them?? Two centuries plus of drama, devotion, and... defenestrations? I could say so much more and pull so many quotes, but let's just leave it with: "Does anyone else know the size of your soul?"

[qserasera]

Four Dreams in a Row: A Dazai/Odasaku Rec List

defeateddetectives replied to your post “so i'm slightly intrigued by this bungou stray dogs stuff :O but i...”

/has to this day only seen dark era and is in agony. also FIC RECS WHERE???

i blame u and rinka for this disaster of emotions i have become i haven’t even thought about these two in foreveR????

Reminder to check fics below for warnings about dark materials, violence etc & these may or may not contain spoilers for movies or other novels like Beast

Rewrite by xVerdelet Oda knows he's going to die. That's fine though, because it hurts and he can't risk losing more. The Title of Your Life by YukiSkyes Oda Sakunosuke did not die that fateful evening. Instead, he’s miraculously saved, but it isn't without a price. Even so, Dazai helps him pull through. All they can do now is live life as best as they can together. Interrogation by MiniNepthys Odasaku's kids decide if Dazai is worthy of dating their dad. parallax by carpha Odasaku asks Dazai on a date. It goes better and worse than he expected. as we look out upon the sea by Himmelreich There's something strange, down by the harbour. Merpeople AU. to live, and to live again by walking_through_autumn The problem began with Oda visiting Dazai in a dream. Or, perhaps, if he had to be brutally honest, it really began with him going off and getting killed in the first place, which in retrospect might have been an act of incredible stupidity. Or: a rumination on life, the afterlife, friendship, and what it means to change. A Touch of Twilight by rchimedes "Hey, Odasaku - do you remember?" he asks the grave, knowing he won't get an answer. "Some years ago, we were talking about the sunset we watched together on the docks; how twilight is a time closest to both life and death at the same time. Sometimes spirits can cross over during this time." albatross around your neck by swanfrost how can you be kind, dazai wonders, how can you be kind in a world made to destroy kindness? odasaku takes a long, thoughtful sip of his whiskey. he doesn’t question why dazai is musing about such things out of the blue, doesn’t try to take apart the careful blankness on dazai’s face. it’s fitted together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, crafted to perfection for the outside world.still, odasaku pauses before answering. “that’s up to you,” is what he settles on. “after all, the world is what you make of it.” Run, Melos! by Metallic_Sweet The Port Mafia has done many questionable things over the years.To Dazai’s chagrin, keeping him alive is not one of them. (in a world where Odasaku survives, Dazai Osamu becomes the Boss of the Port Mafia) State of the Times by Metallic_Sweet Flawless doesn’t work on other people. Or, how Oda Sakunosuke becomes a Port Mafia executive.

ichiraba chode by teawriter “That’s not funny.” ”It’s not meant to be.”

Mafia boss and civilian trade stares. Oda focuses on the glint of the setting sun caught in Dazai’s eye, and wonders if there is any way to save a man that wants to die. Worlds Not Our Own by xVerdelet There's a world, somewhere, somehow, where they aren't where they are. (A story about the things that could have been.)

The Yielding Air by spirallings WIP. Oda Sakunosuke was a sullied young man, destined to servitude under a harsh hand, but from the blessing of a single god of rebirth, all he wanted was to make himself a better person and create a better life for the children in his care-- though it was not a life he would share. Dazai Osamu, the God of Desire, was bored and wanted for nothing-- for he truly wanted nothing. He felt nothing, no desire, no motivation, no meaning to his immortal life. not because our hearts are large by intimatopia When we were little we made houses out of cardboard boxes. We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with. Oda has a thing for strays, but Dazai isn't a stray. Dazai's dangerous. It's not an unfair judgement if it's right.

[cheselle]

# like...mikorei???? #i know it is Impossible for mikoto to be a professor #but seriously that's both of Them right there LOOK I WAS THINKING IT BUT THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT SO I DIDN'T HAVE TO!!! :') (mutual students everywhere remain Astounded!!!)

i both simultaneously hate and love that our brainwaves insist on this terrible version of reality (has GoRa released art of them being professors??? considering the multitudes of AUs they’ve made, i wouldn’t even be surprised)

anyway: consider yata and fushimi as those chosen few as students…fushimi figures it out asap and is Absolutely Disgusted, he never wants to learn this garbage,,, meanwhile it totally sails over yata’s head until the end of the term and he sees them leaving together one time and he’s like…oh my god…is professor munakata cheating on his husband…and fushimi has to, unfortunately, explain

[akitania]

world's worst bio club and 15 pls :D

(hey remember that exorcist au)

the shiki never spoke, and izaya was convinced there was nothing at all beneath the mask and hood, but he always felt that she was staring at him. he mentioned it to shinra once, but he just pouted and demanded to know if he should be jealous. she didn’t trust him, he thought, and he couldn’t understand why a monster’s indifference would bother him. shinra’s indifference — well, he was human.

she and shinra both watched, perhaps coolly, as he failed to string the bow. “your hands are shaking!” shinra called, meters further back than was necessary or polite. how on earth could he see. “don’t worry about us!”

he pulled the string tight, finally, and glanced unwillingly back. there was the faceless monster always watching, and there was shinra, blank behind his glasses a thousand miles away. he nocked the arrow and let it fly.

[epiphenomenal]

defeateddetectives replied to your post: M, P, and V for the meme please :3

also now i cant stop thinking of how terrible the ba(n)d break-up would be and why do i feel like they’d totally be the types to cryptically and passive-aggressively write songs about each other……meanwhile twitter goes wild over their feud and yet to the public press, they are always very civil and polite about how it was all just because of ~creative differences :)))~ ok i’m gonna shut up!!!

they would totally write songs about each other omg the fanbase has a field day annotating their respective first solo releases after The Breakup

also microanalysing video interview clips for the moment when the inevitable question is asked and you can actually see natori’s polite smile get turned up another sharp artificial notch

[danikatze]

Send me a character and a number!

Matoba and Tanuma for @defeateddetectives! 

[qserasera]

defeateddetectives replied to your post

“imo one thing that anime/manga properties seem to do really well in a...”

good food for thought....i also wonder how much of this comes from the cultural context animanga is born into vs. western media but that's a whole other can of worms

ooooooh yeah that is probably a very shiny can of worms

reminds me vaguely a bit about an article somewhere on how the storyboarding/animating part of anime is v different from western animation, like how for anime the scenery and the character is treated as one thing, one unit and you get more of flowing camera-eye’s view of things vs how in western animation, the background setting just remains still and the characters move through the set separately as two different things

also the cultural context part...i like how anime/manga have these characters who seem to be very quiet but there’s a lot of emotional turbulence going on through interior monologues and flashbacks, while most western animation doesn’t seem to do that as much and is more on the action-scenes and spoken-aloud-dialogue side & if something bad happens to a character in the past they’re kind of expected to ‘get over it’ quickly because it bogs down the plot???? neither is necessarily better than the other but one seems to lend itself a lot better to resolving family drama and romantic developments