This layout. I'm slayed. Honestly, looking at the header now, I just keep turning over and over whose hand it could be for some reason. It's haunting me.
Also the summary is perfectly forlorn and almost longing, at the start and then just drops off with He does not wish to know. and I just want to know who doesn't? Kunikida doesn't? I dunno, he cares too much. Chuuya doesn't? Most people would say that, but tbh I don't find him to be as irredeemable and terrible as some people do. He totally feels things. So then who? Dazai? It's Dazai, isn't it? You, sir, should feel the pain of being around yourself for once.
Nakahara
From the very beginning I just want to know what happened. Obviously Corruption happened, but you know. Your description of him coming out of being passed out after Corruption is absolutely stunning. It perfectly captures exactly how I imagine it feeling for him. It's like you're making me feel the pain, the disorientation, and the disgust with myself and it's just perfect. Okay, Gats, get a bigger vocabulary.
No, the last thing he remembers is Dazai. Dazai's touch. Dazai bringing him back down to Earth. Damn it, of course it is. I love the way you write how he feels and thinks about Dazai. It's flawless and I can just picture the looks on his face at the mention or thought of him.
KUNIKIDA YOU PRECIOUS ANGEL. He's so concerned and diligent and perfect. I just picture the conflict between wanting to respect Chuuya's position over him and his poor condition but also being insanely concerned and wanting to help him as much as possible and get all the info he can.
He found him eight minutes from where the mission was supposed to take place. Did it happen that way naturally? Did Dazai drag him there? Did he end up there himself? Did Dazai let him rampage around a bit before stopping him like a loser? I NEED TO KNOW.
That shower was excruciating even for me. The feeling of "get me out of here, I just want to sleep as if I were dead", you had me experiencing that right along with him. I feel it, Chuuya.
Corruption's the only way we'll get out of here alive. WHY YOU ALWAYS LYIN', OSAMU? I'm pretty sure For the Tainted Sorrow would be enough on the regular. So you better have a good reason for baiting that poor smol hatrack into using Corruption or I swear.
LET HIM SLEEP OH MY GOD DAZAI I WILL MAKE SURE YOU LIVE A LONG HEALTHY LIFE. JESUS.
I'm sobbing for my little bean. Your perfect writing and this perfect chapter. I demand to see this animated.
Kunikida.
Kunikida does not sleep.
He remains awake until dawn, thinking about nothing important. His back aches from laying in one position for too long and his head aches because he's stressed, he's always stressed, he's never calm. Kunikida, dude, you gotta take care of yourself. You're already so hard on yourself with following your ideals and stressing out over things going right. Don't worry about those asshats doing their thing, worry about you, you precious man.
My heart is hurting already and now. He considers himself dull? Oh no. No no. You are precious and beautiful.
You describe everything so perfectly, right down to the way he would move and think and I just. It's too perfect. And, even though he's obviously distressed and tired and wearing himself down to a nub, it's almost relaxing to see the methodical ways of his daily life described. Almost soothing, if what he's currently experiencing wasn't heart wrenching.
"You have a set time to work? This is no office, you know?" YOU KNOW WHAT, DAZAI? We can't all be blessed with the world at our fingertips. Some of us work for things and care about that work. I'll hurt you. I love him but seriously, sometimes, boy.
As they were walking into the warehouse and Kunikida is listening to Dazai beat around the bush about what his assignment is going to be, I started sweating, wondering what horrible thing could possibly await him.
And it was worse than I thought oh nooooo.
DAZAI DON'T YOU GO POOFING LIKE THAT YOU... YOU...
And then there's a growl - "Rashomon!" - that snuffs out any thought of this being okay... I agree, Kunikida, run. Oh my god.
The detail in your description of Rashomon and Akutagawa and how it seems unattached from him and so volatile and unknown is flawless and gives me chills. And when it catches him, god, I felt the fangs for myself, I swear. You goddess of description, I am unworthy.
This while entire fight scene is just flawless. From every move to Kunikida's thoughts and feelings I NEED TO SEE THIS ANIMATED AS WELL. THIS STORY NEEDS TO BE ANIMATED.
Kunikida has endured so much already and now he endures Dazai gathering all of his information on why he did what he did and stopping instead of continuing on. He has the patience of a saint. Or it's just fear. Or both. I can't blame him either way.
Dazai has fallen behind him, lacing his slender fingers through Kunikida’s ponytail like he so often does. It's like a physical manifestation of what he already does mentally. A light hold, enough to make you pay attention, but not so much that you always realize it's there.
He is not very comforted by those words. YOU AND I BOTH, KID.
This is my favorite story. I'm not even playing around. You depict everyone so perfectly, it's as if I'm reading something written by Kafka Asagiri and I am so excited to see what you have planned. And if it's as beautiful as the first two chapters, I may just die but I'll die a happy girl.
Also the summary is perfectly forlorn and almost longing, at the start and then just drops off with He does not wish to know. and I just want to know who doesn't? Kunikida doesn't? I dunno, he cares too much. Chuuya doesn't? Most people would say that, but tbh I don't find him to be as irredeemable and terrible as some people do. He totally feels things. So then who? Dazai? It's Dazai, isn't it? You, sir, should feel the pain of being around yourself for once.
Nakahara
From the very beginning I just want to know what happened. Obviously Corruption happened, but you know. Your description of him coming out of being passed out after Corruption is absolutely stunning. It perfectly captures exactly how I imagine it feeling for him. It's like you're making me feel the pain, the disorientation, and the disgust with myself and it's just perfect. Okay, Gats, get a bigger vocabulary.
No, the last thing he remembers is Dazai. Dazai's touch. Dazai bringing him back down to Earth. Damn it, of course it is. I love the way you write how he feels and thinks about Dazai. It's flawless and I can just picture the looks on his face at the mention or thought of him.
KUNIKIDA YOU PRECIOUS ANGEL. He's so concerned and diligent and perfect. I just picture the conflict between wanting to respect Chuuya's position over him and his poor condition but also being insanely concerned and wanting to help him as much as possible and get all the info he can.
He found him eight minutes from where the mission was supposed to take place. Did it happen that way naturally? Did Dazai drag him there? Did he end up there himself? Did Dazai let him rampage around a bit before stopping him like a loser? I NEED TO KNOW.
That shower was excruciating even for me. The feeling of "get me out of here, I just want to sleep as if I were dead", you had me experiencing that right along with him. I feel it, Chuuya.
Corruption's the only way we'll get out of here alive. WHY YOU ALWAYS LYIN', OSAMU? I'm pretty sure For the Tainted Sorrow would be enough on the regular. So you better have a good reason for baiting that poor smol hatrack into using Corruption or I swear.
LET HIM SLEEP OH MY GOD DAZAI I WILL MAKE SURE YOU LIVE A LONG HEALTHY LIFE. JESUS.
I'm sobbing for my little bean. Your perfect writing and this perfect chapter.
Kunikida.
Kunikida does not sleep.
He remains awake until dawn, thinking about nothing important. His back aches from laying in one position for too long and his head aches because he's stressed, he's always stressed, he's never calm. Kunikida, dude, you gotta take care of yourself. You're already so hard on yourself with following your ideals and stressing out over things going right. Don't worry about those asshats doing their thing, worry about you, you precious man.
My heart is hurting already and now. He considers himself dull? Oh no. No no. You are precious and beautiful.
You describe everything so perfectly, right down to the way he would move and think and I just. It's too perfect. And, even though he's obviously distressed and tired and wearing himself down to a nub, it's almost relaxing to see the methodical ways of his daily life described. Almost soothing, if what he's currently experiencing wasn't heart wrenching.
"You have a set time to work? This is no office, you know?" YOU KNOW WHAT, DAZAI? We can't all be blessed with the world at our fingertips. Some of us work for things and care about that work. I'll hurt you. I love him but seriously, sometimes, boy.
As they were walking into the warehouse and Kunikida is listening to Dazai beat around the bush about what his assignment is going to be, I started sweating, wondering what horrible thing could possibly await him.
And it was worse than I thought oh nooooo.
DAZAI DON'T YOU GO POOFING LIKE THAT YOU... YOU...
And then there's a growl - "Rashomon!" - that snuffs out any thought of this being okay... I agree, Kunikida, run. Oh my god.
The detail in your description of Rashomon and Akutagawa and how it seems unattached from him and so volatile and unknown is flawless and gives me chills.
This while entire fight scene is just flawless. From every move to Kunikida's thoughts and feelings I NEED TO SEE THIS ANIMATED AS WELL. THIS STORY NEEDS TO BE ANIMATED.
Kunikida has endured so much already and now he endures Dazai gathering all of his information on why he did what he did and stopping instead of continuing on. He has the patience of a saint. Or it's just fear. Or both. I can't blame him either way.
Dazai has fallen behind him, lacing his slender fingers through Kunikida’s ponytail like he so often does. It's like a physical manifestation of what he already does mentally. A light hold, enough to make you pay attention, but not so much that you always realize it's there.
He is not very comforted by those words. YOU AND I BOTH, KID.