hello! :D

something of an imposter myself 

then there’s the whole ‘dazai made akutagawa this way’ which honestly yes agreed i know akutagawa was a whatever ‘silent mad dog’ and stuff but dazai so obviously manipulated him to this point. like he fully does anything dazai will say in the pursuit of his acknowledgement, which i feel culminates pretty obviously in chapter 87/8 (don’t quote me on this i . have not read it for a while). and yes for the greater good whatever whatever either way dazai has coerced this utter disregard of the self for an expendable puppet who will follow his will with little questioning. and as much as atsushi might ‘hate’ akutagawa and everything he stands for, i doubt his morals stand for anything of the sort.  at the end of the day, akutagawa is largely a victim of manipulation. from someone who also manipulated atsushi’s view of him. i wonder how atsushi’s view of him would change should he know his full backstory

tgcf volume three kind of sus...