what the sigma

[Left —> Right] [Slight content/trigger warning for unsettling-ish drawings, mentions of death and implied death (kinda), grief, and just an asshole character]

never getting over the fact that the azure king and sasaki, A CANON COUPLE, were supposed to parallel kunikida and dazai.

I drew this for Kunikida's birthday back on August 29th, but I'm only posting it on Tumblr now...

You know what I actually had the same thought while making the drawing… I am very amused by the idea of everyone yelling “NO DONT TOUCH HIM YOU CANT TOUCH HIM YET” at Dazai because someone took pills made from The Matchless Poet

Glad someone else brought up food because that's something I also thought of

My assumption is that... lets say someone is eating an apple Kunikida created. If The Matchless Poet gets nullified while someone is taking a bite of the apple I assume that person would immediately get a mouthful of paper... which honestly sounds like an awful place to get paper cuts

But anything else beyond that with ability made food... I have no ideas. With medication I assume that after the drugs wear off and leave your system then it doesn't matter. But actual food is different.

I'm glad Kunikida's ability is what it is because we get fun questions like these out of it.

that this is kunikida's ringtone image for dazai is both terribly funny and terribly sweet because it's a double entendre. dazai is depicted as hanging in reference to his suicidal tendencies, but he's more specifically depicted as a teru teru bozu.

teru teru bozu are traditional handmade dolls hung outside doors and windows in Japan as prayers for sunny weather. they're made from tissue paper or cloth and are usually white, ghost-like figures with strings tied around their necks.

the dolls are a folk craft, but their name was standardized by a popular 1921 nursery rhyme that begins, “teru teru bozu, teru bozu, ashita tenki ni shite okure” (“sunshine monk, sunshine monk, please make tomorrow sunny”). the rhyme asks teru teru bozu to bring sunny skies, promising the weather-influencing monk sweet sake if the wish is granted. If the wish is not granted, the rhyme threatens to chop the monk's head off.

in other words, kunikida is likening dazai to a monk, capable of bringing sunshine (and pliable with sake...). he is also threatening to chop off dazai's head in the alternative. (which somewhat reminds me of kunikida's entrance exam imperative to shoot dazai dead should he have sensed dazai had evil in his heart.)