#professor n

[slatinwater]

There’s something severely wrong with me but making this had me cackling, so let me present to you Shibusawa and Professor N the crack ship.

[a258singularity]

“No! No! You don’t understand! Nakahara was N - the scientist!” I say, the words pedantic and forgotten in the wind, the same way Frankenstein wasn’t the monster but the scientist has been for centuries now.

[nintendocompositions]

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[still-fatemeh]

None of the bsd characters are THAT hateable...

EXCEPT for this guy...

[azapofinspiration]

So I keep seeing people saying certain things regarding the events of Stormbringer, so I’ve written up a basic outline of what happened.

The timeline in SB seems to be:

Day 0/Prelude (before Chuuya knew what's going on)

- Verlaine broke into the PM, stealing back the hat

- Probably at the same time (and one day before the main plot starts) he seemed to try to go after Dazai and Mori (since Mori was apparently originally at the top of the list) but found Dazai first who bargained to buy time, promising info from the PM’s internal files (meaning files the PM has, not necessarily ones about the PM as we learn later)

- Verlaine tried to eliminate Adam who'd followed him to Japan (didn’t work)

Day 1 (Chuuya's involvement starts)

- Verlaine moves onto his next targets, the ones close to Chuuya, the Flags and attacks them

- Chuuya is not there due to Adam's arrival and despite being some of the Mafia’s elite up-and-coming members, the Flags die

- Verlaine then attacks Chuuya, revealing himself

- Verlaine pokes at the Gate and opens it for a few seconds

- Dazai, who'd probably been keeping track of Verlaine's actions while preparing contingencies and a plan to ultimately defeat him, now knows about the Gate's power that Chuuya and presumably Verlaine have and ensures that it's stopped

- Dazai drops Chuuya off at Old World to try to get some final goodbyes

Day 2 (Super busy)

- Flags' funeral

- Adam and Chuuya team up and suspect Shirase is a target (which is odd because Verlaine obviously did want to meet Shirase but he didn't try to kill him so... Was that a red herring all along?) and go to help him

- Verlaine meets Dazai at the storage container for the promised info (that was promised 2 days previous) that's the entire reason he spared Dazai (later revealed to be about N and the lab) and Dazai does so to buy more time

- Showdown at the police station; Detective Murase is killed (and seems to have been a target all along, not Shirase)

- Chuuya takes a breather after the detective dies, but N contacts them

- The lab stuff, including N, revelations, Dazai's arrival in an active plot role, etc.

- Verlaine gravity bombs his exit out, revealing he can crack his own Gate open, and kidnaps N

Day 3 (2 Days after Chuuya encountered Verlaine and had his Gate cracked open)

- Chuuya punishes Dazai for leaking info about N that resulted in Murase’s death (and his torture) while Dazai explains what will probably happen with his plan

- Verlaine has his own confrontation with N that once again shows N is a lying liar who lies

- Dazai's many staged plans and contingencies is fully revealed as action continues (tons of parts where Verlaine was almost stopped but had to move forward with the next plan - it’s very convoluted but it works, almost justifying the time he bought)

- They manage to win

- N ruins everything

- Dazai gives Chuuya two minutes to decide between his own wants and the needs of Yokohama

- Final fight: Guivre vs Corrupted Chuuya

- The day is saved thanks to Chuuya

And then of course the epilogue skips around in terms of time, place, character, and which of the book’s themes need to be wrapped up, but this is the basic gist of what happened overall.

[mosssdeep]

drawing of chuuya’s “biological” family :3.

[evermorethecrow]

Mild Stormbringer spoilers!!

Cloneya grimace shake

[ardelien]

This is probably the wackiest and most unnecessary theory out there, but given the ages/timeline, there’s a possibility that Ranpo’s father “Clairvoyant” was a detective at the time that Murase was a detective. Given the timeline, Clairvoyant would’ve been a detective for quite some time while Murase would’ve just been starting out. This is interesting because I wonder if the two could’ve possibly crossed paths even though Ranpo’s father worked just right outside of Yokohama.

I’m totally being wacky and delusional right now, but what if, Ranpo’s parent’s death was a planned accident, or perhaps, not that much of an accident at all. What if, through working with Murase on some kind of case, Clairvoyant discovered a little bit too much about the Japanese military, and perhaps, he might’ve discovered the existence of a certain scientist by the name of “Professor N”. Now, given Ranpo’s personality, I’d assume that Clairvoyant wouldnt be all too happy discovering that there was a wacko scientist that kidnapped a child and experimented on said child, and I can also most likely infer that Professor N or other members of the Japanese military would’ve not been too happy that Clairvoyant would’ve discovered anything about Arahabaki and the research done in Yokohama.

Im implying that either the military staged an accident, or Clairvoyant himself (or his wife who was apparently more clever than he was) could’ve set up an “accident”. The military would’ve done this for obvious reasons, while Clairvoyant could’ve done it to protect his son in some sort of way. (I don’t really know. I’m just saying stuff at this point)

The only kind of proof we have is the possibility that these two were detectives at the same time, as well as, Clairvoyant’s message to Ranpo to go to Yokohama Police Academy's principal for help if anything were to happen to him. If Clairvoyant hadn’t had any connection to the Yokohama Police, then why would he trust them or the principal of it with his son if something were to happen to him?

Don’t know what this would do for the story if it ended up being true, but it’s something fun to think about when your favorite characters are Chuuya and Ranpo.