Lorian

fortunately, though, you don't have to watch! nobody is making you watch! and nobody's gonna take YOUR dolls from you. nobody can hurt your dolls, either! these dolls are an infinitely renewable resource. you can have your own iterations, that stay happy and healthy, forever! (and moreover, the dolls don't have real feelings, and cannot suffer!)

some types of stories about my favorite characters make me feel bad. so i don't read them! just like i don't watch youtube videos of people smashing toys

Genre - Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Slice of Life, Case Fic, etc.

AU - If it's an AU, what kind? What role do each of the characters play? How is it different to their canon role?

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Relationships - What is going on with each of your major relationships? Are there any relationship tropes like Slow Burn or Enemies to Lovers in your story?

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Sex - If your work includes sex, what kink(s) and specific act(s) does it involve?

Journalist : So what kind of girl do you prefer?

Roy : My husband.

Journalist :

Journalist : Okay... What about you? What kind of girl do you prefer?

RoyEd ABOverse + Hohenheim

With BND, the new creative team used the ending of the Watts trilogy as an excuse to revamp MCU Spider-Man into his actual personality in the comics (prior to OMD ruining them), and in doing so they gave Holland the space to show off his acting talents and how good he really was as a pick. Because he captures it all perfectly. The grouchy (sometimes almost sadistic) sarcasm, the self-centeredness and self-pitying and self-loathing, the isolating of himself and requirement of others to break through his barriers, the heart of gold constantly shining through despite himself, the bitterness and wrath and temper, the way he's pathetic and cool in equal measure, the empathy beneath his ego and aversion to difficult emotions, the willpower, the tendency towards awkwardness, etc.. It's all there.

Only a few other actors have really captured that complex, horribly flawed yet always entertaining and ultimately sympathetic personality. Even some genuinely great Spidey media in recent years have fallen into the trap of using the Post-OMD persona (the PS4 games and Friendly Neighborhood), but with BND, Holland embraced lovable loser shithead Peter from the comics and acted the shit out of it. And even more impressively, did so while making it feel like a natural evolution from the Home Trilogy and that "cute sad boy" portrayal he was given to work with previously, despite how radically different the personalities are. I'm really happy about it.

When the goal is not to almost kill Spider-Man in his own movie and you win by flying colors while sitting in a bathhouse:

I think it’d be really funny if the three of them had a sibling dynamic

References under cut :3

Ooo this is an interesting one.

The relationship between Dazai and Atsushi in BEAST is really interesting already, I love how Asagiri didn't just make it a carbon copy of Dazai and Akutagawa in the main timeline, instead its completely unique but equally fucked up. But comparing it to the main timeline I think it is the best example of just how far BEAST Dazai is willing to go in order to ensure Oda's happiness in that universe, even at the cost of tormenting someone main Dazai really cares about.

First lets look at Dazai and Atsushi's relationship in the main series.

Atsushi has absolute loyalty, love and respect for Dazai in the main series, Dazai was the first person who ever affirmed Atsushi's right to live and might be the first person to ever offer him kindness. Dazai also works as Atsushi's motivation to save Kyouka, he thinks of how Dazai chose to save him even though he would be a massive burden to the ADA, and this gives him the conviction to save Kyouka despite her past.

Dazai is the person who Atsushi always thinks of when he's in a terrible situation, he's who Atsushi wants to run too when he thinks he can't win a fight, in other words he makes Atsushi feel safe something he probably almost never felt in the orphanage where he was abused for anything he did.

(from 55 mintues)

These two pages capture this perfectly

And eventually Atsushi is able to replace visions of the orphanage director (who appeared when he was at his lowest and made him feel like he had no right to live) with Dazai giving him encouragement and the focus to keep going.

On Dazai's end:

I think Atsushi is probably the person who sees Dazai's true suffering better than anyone else alive in the series, even including characters like Chuuya and Ango. Atsushi (very similar to Oda) will often cut through Dazai's jokes and see through to what he is really thinking.

Atsushi is also one of very few characters to openly be kind to Dazai, off the top of my head it's only him and Oda who ever really say nice things about him to his face.

(notice both times Dazai is surprised by this)

Atsushi is even able to pick up a hint of Dazai's past when Dazai talks about mimic in 55 minutes.

So suffice to say, in the main series Dazai and Atsushi are extremely close, both being essentail to the others growth and a person throughout the series, I could probably go on for pages about this but for now let's talk about how BEAST twists this relationship into one of the darkest in the series.

BEAST Atsushi suffers more than almost anyone else thanks to Dazai's plan. Since he can't use Fukuzawa's ability to control Atsushi's ability, he makes Atsushi wear a spiked collar that stabs him in the neck while transformed and uses the pain of that to help Atsushi remain in control of the tiger.

Not to mention that BEAST Atsushi, just like regular Atsushi hates being hurt and hurting others, he is constantly terrified on every mission he is sent on and hates the pain he has to go through each time.

So why is he so loyal to Dazai? Unlike Akutagawa Dazai didn't physically abuse Atsushi until he became dogmatically loyal, he didn't need too, all he had to do was twist the suffering caused by the orphanage director in Atsushi's mind and make it work in his favour.

Trigger warning: Psychological abuse!

Another important factor is that Dazai himself is very friendly with Atsushi, letting him call him “Dazai-san” instead of boss and giving him praise for his work. This just further cements in Atsushi's mind that Dazai is the kind, generous person who tried to help him, which makes him even more loyal to Dazai.

It’s been a while since I read the BEAST manga, but if I remember correctly ‘Dazai-san’ is an address Dazai insists on rather than something he allows Atsushi to do just like Dazai insists on being alone with Atsushi over Chuuya’s objections. The subtext of that, I believe, is that BEAST!Dazai wishes he had the relationship that canon!Dazai has with his Atsushi and is trying to at least superficially recreate that dynamic as much as his plan will allow, which isn’t much.

Like canon!Dazai, BEAST!Dazai isn’t generally a sadist. He is a pragmatist like Mori; the ends justify the means and the ends are shaping his world into one where Oda stays safe. On the surface it seems like Oda is the only person BEAST!Dazai cares about and that seems to be the general consensus of the fandom, but I don’t think it’s true. Atsushi and Akutagawa’s lives are significantly worse than they are in canon… at first. If you notice, though, Dazai’s plan ends with them in much better places than they started. As in canon, Akutagawa still needs someone to teach him to “put the sword away” and he has Oda and the Agency’s kind and patient hands for that along with the motivation to change to get his sister back. Mori, whom Dazai had retire in secret rather than murder, takes in Atsushi as a proper orphanage headmaster and father figure.