Bandage-Squandering Machine

Chuuya, whose had his identity and humanity denied so many times. He was made to be King of Sheep over just Chuuya, Arahabaki over just a boy, he was told he was a clone, a personality made from codes, a vessel. The man who claimed he was his brother told him he could never be considered human.

In the mafia he's one of the few people who seems not to have a code name. Albatross, Pianoman, Lippmann, Doc, Iceman, The Demon Prodigy, Boss, Black Lizard, The Mafia's Dog. Chuuya doesn't have something like this. I'm not counting The Gravity Manipulator because that's just referring to his ability. And Soukoku is his partnership with Dazai, not just himself.

I think not having a code name is by choice. His name is important to him.

so. um-

I'm just genuinely happy to have anything at all

Is the anime adaptation perfect? No of course not

Stray Dogs Wandering Among the Crowd event from Yume 100

The birds pass by singing - the garden earth is sleepy like a deer. - The wood has fled, the farmhouse has fled. The sky is sad weakness.   My heart is sad…

By and by a faint light shines, the blue sky is opening. In the sky above Above, the god Jupiter’s hand-drum sounds. - The mountains of the four quarters subside.

The farmhouse garden yawns, the road greets the sky.   My heart is sad…

- Nakahara Chūya, “Winter Daybreak” from The Poems of Nakahara Chūya

hold my hand in yours, and we will not fear what hands like ours can do. | q. — the epic of gilgamesh. | hoshikawa shiwasu.

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ok honestly all of these are a BIG MOOD but