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souheki hc! :3
neither dazai nor ranpo know how to drive because they’ve been chauffeured around most of their lives. they make other agency members drive them places instead.
GHSSUIGVKTSFJJXG YOUR ART IS SO PRETTY!!
unfinished Teruko WIP 😎
a drawing of a concept made by @briarry i had a lot of fun with this one
a doodle from the summer of my second favorite bsd character!! it’s not the best but i think it’s cute :3
ranting part three
why do some (not all) bsd fans hate the female characters so much? i don’t get it. like, everybody hates teruko for just DOING HER JOB because she was fighting sigma. then people say, ‘oh, i don’t like her because her childish personality is annoying not because she’s a woman just TRYING TO DO HER JOB’ and then their favorite character is ranpo. or, people will hate a female character because she ‘gets in the way of their favorite ship’. if you haven’t seen this before i’m happy for you, but an example is ‘lucy gets in the way of sskk!!’ seriously? like, seriously? that is so fucking stupid. (saying this as a sskk/taniatsu shipper) just ship whatever you want and let that character exist. and to those who deny this, if lucy was a man and akutagawa was a woman you’d hate akutagawa because she ‘gets in the way of atsulucy’ there’s also the ‘oh, her only personality is liking a man!!’ when we were first introduced to katai his only personality trait was liking a woman and the fandom still loved him. i don’t like that in any character, but i’m willing to put up with it if the author fleshes out the character’s personality later. i absolutely despise the way this fandom treats female characters, yeah, some of their writing isn’t the best but they’re still necessary to the plot. this has been lou. i’m sorry for all the rants i’ve been doing recently, but i’m pissed about a lot of things. thank you for coming to my ted talk.
merry christmas
TW: GORE, CANNIBALISM
this took me 5 hours 😭
both of them are my gender goals
like, what do you mean i was born as a woman and not a black haired man in business casual that commits war crimes?? i wish. god.
i don’t want to make kunizai yuri, but the PARASITES want me to make kunizai yuri 😭
i posted this to the bsd community on here
fyodor won, which is unfortunate because i don’t really like him, so i had to doodle some of my favorite concepts. i hope you like these :)
another random rant
ok, i’m so annoyed with some (not all) skk shippers. i saw a sigzai post on pinterest and all of the comments were about how they ship skk instead. it’s really, really annoying. i’m also saying this as a souheki shipper who has gotten hate on my other platforms for being a souheki shipper. my real point here is…not everything has to be your otp. i don’t go around on skk posts saying ‘tHiS iS cUtE bUt I sHiP rAnPo WiTh DaZaI’. if you’re one of those skk shippers please stop hating on people shipping other ships. it’s not the end of the world. if you don’t do this and ship skk i’m completely chill with you. just stop hating on other non problematic ships. i don’t hate skk or the non toxic skk shippers. this has been lou. i don’t hate any of the ships mentioned in this post. this is just basic fandom etiquette.
a little pen sketch i did of chuuya
it’s ok i guess
so, erm, quick question…
the Random Ship I Have in my head is mushizai don’t ask me why it’s so silly
wake up babe new dazai x person who can't fucking stand him just dropped
my bsd ship list favs :3
•souheki
•kunikatai
•sigzai
•taniatsu
•fyobram
•higugin
•kyoukenji
•tachiaku
•jousig (i like rairpairs, deal with it)
•mushimizo (my fav!!)
•mushiango
•kuniango
•odango
•beast sskk
•ranpoe
•hawmitch
•montcott
•kunibram
•fyozai
•atsuyuji x tsujimura
•siglai
•the rairpair i made up during a test: nikolai x kunikida
•rimlaine
•steincraft
•atsulucy
•suegiku
i like pretty much anything unless it’s problematic or a proship :3 no. i do not like skk. if you like other ships, that’s cool. i support you in that.
cowboy nikolai wip. it kinda sucks.
i’ll finish it later, i promise. don’t come for my family 😭
quick rant
i hate in whenever people say ‘fyodor has a god complex!1!1!1’ NO he has a savior complex. he wants to save humanity from sin (ability users). he does see humanity like a god would, but he doesn’t actively think he’s a god. i also hate in when people say he truly cares about nikolai or sigma. he doesn’t. he’s a low empathy being that isn’t above manipulating others for his cause. but he still does have feelings (for example when things don’t go his way he kicks things and he gets actively angry when people say dazai is smarter than him) i don’t agree with the twinkification of fyodor if you’re actively mischaracterizing him, but if you’re making him a little nicer for a fic (if you do understand his character) I don’t mind. thank you for coming to my ted talk, please tell me if i got anything wrong.
some more at school doodles. creds for the message on the right go to alex one eleven on yt. they’re literally my idol as an artist
i did it. i pulled it off. i drew jouno decently
don’t make me look at it anymore
ummmm, tanizaki doodle anyone??
i miss him sm :(
a dazai doodle i did in school. ugh i hate doing paper art 😭
Someone.... Give me.... Art commisions.... PLEASE 🥺😭🥺🥺🥺🥺
You guys know what, I just got a midnight thought.
If we observe closely, then we will find out that four (main) members of Port Mafia had tried or wanted to leave it or have succeeded in leaving it.
First was Kouyou with the man, when she tried to run away but failed.
Second was Murase and Chuuya where Murase wanted Chuuya to leave Mafia but failed.
( I am pretty sure that if Chuuya had heard Murase's last words like Dazai did, there would have been 60 to 70% chance of Chuuya leaving the Mafia.)
Third was Dazai and Odasaku, where Odasaku on his last breath told Dazai to leave and he succeeded.
And finally we got Koyka and Atsushi, where Atsushi helped Koyka get out of Mafia.
So we can see a pattern here.
One wanting to leave but failed and dead, other wanting someone else to leave but failed and dead , another wanting other to leave, succeeded but dead and finally last on wanting other to leave, succeeded and alive.
This trying to leave Mafia pattern just got brighter with each attempt....
Just a midnight thought....
If/when I finally get around to buying cosplay I NEED to aquire a chuuya one not just because he's an awesome character (which, admittedly, is one of the reasons) but my farmer ahh has sheep and I fear it'd be quite the nice little thing to cosplay him and take a picture with my orphan lamb
Imagine if Chuuya during Storm Bringer or Verlaine got this while doing Duolingo...
Not Fyodor fooling Google's AI overview in the real world despite not even existing... Man is just that smart lol. And AI is just that stupid.
Would be super interesting to see an analysis on your top 3 favorite characters. If you want to of course!
My top 3 favourite characters huh? Honestly my favourite characters tend to very depending on my mood but if I had to pick a top 3 I guess it would be....
Chuuya
Akutagawa
Fyodor
Not necessarily in that order. I'd love to write an analysis for all three but at the moment the only one I have ideas for is Fyodor so I'll stick with him for now. Honestly this man is a big question mark to me, we don't know anything about his background or what made him the way he is. We don't even know if he's human. All the same I'll see what I can do.
Before you read this analysis though I would like to make it very clear that I DO NOT CONDONE THE PHILOSOPHY EXPLAINED IN THIS ANALYSIS.
Spoiler alert: This analysis contains spoilers for chapters 120.5 and 46 of the BSD Manga as well as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky inspired by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky and his well-known work Crime and Punishment is one of the principal antagonists in the multimedia series Bungo Stray Dogs written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. Arguably the only intellectual rival to Ranpo and Dazai, Fyodor’s plans often cause the Agency and Mafia alike quite a bit of difficulty ostensibly for the purposes of creating a world without sin and ability users. However, upon closer inspection this goal doesn’t really make sense given Fyodor’s behaviour. That is, unless the reader takes into account a particular section of the novel Crime and Punishment, the namesake of Fyodor’s ability. This essay aims to explain how this section of Crime and Punishment informs Fyodor’s behaviour and goals in Bungo Stray Dogs. This will be done by first exploring Fyodor’s motivations based on what he says in the manga series, second by analysing the section of Crime and Punishment in question and third by explaining how these link together. For clarity Fyodor Dostoyevsky the character will be referred to as Fyodor, while Fyodor Dostoevsky the author will be referred to as Dostoevsky.
The first instance where Fyodor talks about his goals and what he wants with the book takes place in chapter 46 of the manga, The Masked Assassin. During his conversation with Dazai, Fyodor states, ‘Man… is sinful and foolish. Even if they know it is all an artifice, they cannot help but kill each other. Someone must purify them for their sins. That is why I seek the “book,”.’ Then again in the same chapter he states, ‘And I will use that book… to make… a world free of sin and skill users.’ Once again in chapter 120.5 Fyodor talks about his goal saying, ‘I, his humble servant, shall take up his dream… and go on to build a truly lasting peace.’ If what he says is taken as fact—Fyodor has lied even to the audience before—then it makes his goal quite clear. His goal is to create a world without sin, specifically it seems the sin of killing each other given he talks about creating world peace and what he says about humanity being unable to help killing each other. He also seems to want to create a world free of skill users. This is a fairly straight forward goal. However, there is one key problem. If Fyodor were to succeed, he himself would be unable to live in this world for two key reasons. Firstly, Fyodor is a skill user. Secondly, his methods to achieving world peace and a world free of sin have caused countless deaths as any reader will know. Additionally, on being asked by Fukuzawa during chapter 120.5 how he will go about creating world peace he states, ‘By triggering a world war.’ Arguably, what he means is that instead of uniting the world through virtue and goodness as Fukuchi was going to, he is going to unite the world against the common enemy of skill users. He himself says in the same chapter, ‘I will build a millennium of peace. Not with “good” and “virtue” but with the ugliness inside every man. And I will build it atop the corpses of skill users.’ Now given that Fyodor is telling the truth about his goal, the question is raised: how can someone as intelligent as Fyodor not see the contradiction behind what he is doing. He is going to cause suffering and blood shed, cause humanity to commit a multitude of sins, in order to eliminate suffering and bloodshed and sin. The answer is that he can see this contradiction but according to his philosophy what he’s doing is ok and not contradictory to his goal at all.
Raskolnikov, the main character of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment sets out this philosophy during his conversation with Porfiry in Chapter 5 of Part 3 of the novel. The conversation they have is about an article that Raskolnikov had written in which ‘a certain hint is presented that there supposedly exists in the world certain persons who can…that is, who not only can but are entitled to commit all sorts of crimes…’. At first glance this seems like a totally illogical idea, but this is simply Porfiry’s ‘forced and deliberate’ distortion of it. In his article Raskolnikov has stated that he believes that people are divided into two categories: the ordinary, and the extraordinary. ‘The ordinary must live in obedience with the law […]. While the extraordinary have the right to commit all sorts of crimes and in various ways transgress the law,’ Porfiry summarises in Chapter 5 Part 3. Raskolnikov states that this is almost correct but that he doesn’t think that all extraordinary people must break the law or commit crimes. What he believes is that an extraordinary person has the right to break the law or commit crimes if it is for the sake of benefiting humanity. The example he gives is as follows, ‘If […] Newton’s discoveries could become known to people in no other way than by sacrificing the lives of one, or ten, or a hundred or more people who were hindering the discovery, or standing as an obstacle in its path, then Newton would have the right, and it would even be his duty… to remove those ten or a hundred people, in order to make his discovery known to all mankind. It by no means follows from this, incidentally, that Newton should have the right to kill anyone…’. What this means is essentially that Raskolnikov believes that an extraordinary person, as he defines it, has the right to commit crimes if the end goal is the greater good of humanity. He goes on to explain that he believes that all ‘lawgivers and founders of man kind’, one of the examples he gives is Napoleon, have spilt sometimes quite innocent blood in their path. He states, ‘It is even remarkable that most of these benefactors and founders of mankind were especially terrible bloodshedders. In short, I deduce that all, not only great men, but even those who are a tiny bit off the beaten track—that is who are a tiny bit capable of saying something new—by their very nature cannot fail to be criminals…’. With this philosophy in mind, Fyodor’s actions and motivations start to make a bit more sense.
It is likely then, that Fyodor not only believes this philosophy but also sees himself as one of these extraordinary people and therefore believes that he has the right to commit crime because creating world peace and a world without sin would be a benefit to all of humanity. That is why to him, his actions and goals are aligned and do not contradict each other, to put it simply, to him, the ends justify the means. Because he is benefiting humanity, he has the right to commit crimes, at least in his mind. With this in mind his actions make a lot more sense. The way he sees it, he is simply carrying out his duty to humanity as one of these ‘extraordinary’ people. Therefore, he is not committing any crimes and were he to succeed he would be able to live in the world he had created.
To conclude, Fyodor’s actions and goals are aligned if one views them through the philosophy set out by Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. If it is assumed that Fyodor believes this philosophy then in his mind, he is simply carrying out his duty and is therefore not committing any crimes, thus he would be able to live in the world free of sin that he intends to create.
Have this meme I made while you wait for my Fyodor analysis.
Also, I know Fyodor says 'Dazai-kun' but it's funnier this way.