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i wonder why it's such a popular hc that BEASTzai was an erratic, unreasonable, and needlessly cruel boss when the text blatantly states otherwise π€
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I havent gathered my thoughts on this topic so im curious to hear your opinion. do you think the port mafia has been romanticized in recent bsd chapters? what with tachihara's arc etc.
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uhhh as for "romanticised", tbh i never understand what that term really means somehow. like, in canon it's seen as less dangerous and threatening now? yes i guess, it has definitely gone down the "first enemy of the protags that later ends up becoming a team in the face of greater evil" path, but that was obviously always the intent of the port mafia's arc. the very point of keeping mori at the head of the port mafia is that he loves yokohama in all its twisted glory, and just like the ADA and the Special Abilities Division, has a vested interest in keeping Yokohama safe from outsiders that infiltrate it for the Book.
talking about tachihara's arc (that is, how being in the port mafia is shown as a good thing), i think...hm. when thinking about tachihara specifically, his alternative is the hunting dogs, which to me reads as the frontline of authoritative fascism in BSD (flay me alive for this take but! fukuchi, their leader, falls for fyodor's fearmongering tactics and ends up killing thousands to keep "theirs" safe. classic.). as compared to that, you can't really say that the port mafia is worse in any aspect.
in BSD, i think all the organisations except the armed detective agency (which is the only agency to stick to their code of conduct even at great detriment to themselves, and end up disbanded because they do so), are involved in some sort of ill practices. the port mafia is actually portrayed as better than the governmental agencies who do all sorts of human rights violations (mushitaro and the seventh agency?!) "lawfully", and i can't say i disagree with that sentiment. in fact, i would say i find the hunting dogs far more unsavory than the port mafia.
i do have another frame of thought regarding this though, and that is when remaining in the port mafia is somehow not seen as a reflection of some characters just because the fandom likes them (coughchuuyacough). like certain characters are going to be seen as morally bankrupt (coughdazaicough) no matter how much they change their actions, showing that most people tend to base their idea of what is "good" and "bad" based on whose mentality they find more typical to society and hence more palatable rather than what they choose to do in their life.
i think trying to question BSD for showing someone as "good" when you (general) think of them as "bad" is a task destined for failure. the beauty of BSD is that it's made of people who are shaped by circumstance. akutagawa, who is loyal to the port mafia in mainline, detests it in BEAST. similarly for atsushi. just think about the kind of characters who are/were in the port mafia: kouyou was held captive there but she came to care for the organisation that mori shaped. dazai came there as a lost child who couldn't see anything worth living for in the world and hoped that he would discover something worth holding on to while witnessing humans at their rawest, and he left the second he realised there really was nothing he could discover externally that would fix the kind of impression of humanity he had in his mind. akutagawa was a child in horribly abused in the slums to the extent he lost the capability to show emotions or have any hope of a decent life, and he was brought into the mafia with the hope of being given a reason to live. mori wanted to save Yokohama from the erratic orders of the previous boss and. kyouka was essentially trafficked into the mafia and used as a killing weapon. i think this isn't a case of romanticisation but just showing the ground realities of the people who are involved. all of this is not even considering that the port mafia was the kindest option any Ability user had before the ADA because by god you can't trust the government (look at chuuya's case, or the hunting dogs).
tldr: BSD never tries to prove any character as morally superior OR irredeemable, so i think there's no point in thinking about whether the manga should condemn the port mafia or not. also, imho the humanisation of the port mafia isn't a case of romanticisation either.
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Can i just say Adachi absolutely nailed the only time we see Ranpo's inner thoughts that he didn't voice out in untold origins
The city is so much better.
Ranpo was absorbed in thought. Boisterous and puzzling still beat out quiet and dismal in his book. He hated the countryside. He hated the people, the school, and essentially everything else there. The only thing he liked was his parents.
- Untold Origins Light Novel
wait now u have to drop some of ur own headcanons #trade (if u want)
wow i managed to struggle past my general dysfunction and tumblr just decided to swallow my answer :D great :D
but here we go, disproportionately odz-flavoured BSD hcs take 2 electric boogaloo!
under the cut because holy shit that got long. i'm so sorry for how long this took me to answer too :(
β’ since asagiri said verlaine never arrived in yokohama in BEAST, i hc that BEASTzai exported rimbaud to france and then they fucked in the sunset or however you say it. thus the flags are still alive in BEAST and chuuya doesn't know about corruption (the movie is for fun purposes only and i don't take any of its lore seriously, drawing only from the LN)
β’ i already wrote about my post-dark era activities hc in this fic, but i also hc that dazai met fyodor for the 1st time in the 2 years he was underground as "payment" to the special abilities division. he nearly does die during this mission, worsening ango's guilt.
β’ while dazai found odasaku peerlessly interesting and unique and liked him a lot from TDIPUD itself, he fell in love with him after DHC when he took in the orphans (because to me he looks like he's been obsessed for a while in dark era, but in the dhc arc he describes his feelings towards oda as "interesting guy" in the guidebook)
β’ fyodor is not only embarrassingly bad at sex, he's also extremely vanilla. you never expect virgin awkwardness from an immortal dinosaur and yet here we are :P
β’ gakuen fyodor will end up with one-sided beef with odasaku over dazai (one-sided because oda has no clue what's happening)
β’ fyodor is homophobic but also will never pass on any chance with dazai. speaking of homophobia, i think kunikida is homophobic in a clueless manner (out of ignorance and social atmosphere more than actual belief that it's wrong). chuuya used to be homophobic in the exact way teenage boys are (sheep influence) but kouyou and the flags changed his perspective.
β’ trans hcs i fully believe in: kouyou, natsume, junichiro.
trans/nb hcs i have for fun and shits and giggles: oda (tguy), dazai (genderfluid), kyouka (tgirl), yosano (tfem), sigma (agender).
(Q is canon nb, i'm only talking hcs here)
β’ kouyou hits mori real hard on the back of his head any time he gets started about dazai, which is a real hypocritical thing for her kyouka-obsessed ass to do #rulesforthee_notforme
β’ oda bought a red laser and tried it on dazai once. dazai was very confused because oda didn't give a single word of explanation.
β’ before dazai met mori, he was aimlessly fucking around and trying to avoid being trafficked for his rather overpowered Ability (hence the shipping container...or well. that's only partially the reason for the shipping container, dazai's just plain weird tbh)
β’ in BEAST, dazai and mori used to work in silence in the same room for most of the time (because dazai became extremely integral to mori's work before his takeover), thereby ending up spending a lot of time together. mori wonders of things would have ended differently had they talked more.
β’ the reason dazai and odasaku were working together in the DHC arc when they met ango was because mori thought "wow, what a miracle, a guy dazai-kun actually likes?! maybe he will work properly if he's sent with someone he enjoys being around."
then dazai and oda roped ango into their bullshit and pulled him away from his work too, thereby putting an end to this experiment of mori's XD
β’ the rumour mill in the port mafia dazai and mori, and later dazai and odasaku, ran with full efficiency 24*7 without breaks
β’ ango was, and forever will be, in love with dazai and oda as a pair
β’ the matchbox dazai had would've disappeared too had he not kept it on his person so that Abilities couldn't touch it when everything about odasaku was erased by the 7th agency.
dazai thinks oda's favourite book is gone, but natsume has it for safekeeping.
β’ post-dark era, dazai bought odasaku's house. it's unlike dazai to assign meaning to materialistic things like that (because a person's things only matter when attached to the person themself) especially now that oda's stuff is no longer there, but when it comes oda he can't help it.
β’ BEASTzai really doesn't have his left eye, he lost it in the fight with Mimic. i think that would be nicely symbolic :D
β’ curry uncle and babysaku were actually imprisoned at the same place in untold origins, and curry uncle was working there as a chef there (as a prisoner).
babysaku started getting caught and imprisoned simply for the curry, and he would escape after eating it. growing sick of his bullshit, the guards begged him to tell him what he wanted, and he said he wanted to meet the guy who made the curry. that's how they met, and he bailed curry uncle out and funded him to open a restaurant simply so he could have the curry without going the trouble of being imprisoned. explains why he was broke af by TDIPUD lol.
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