I think post season three, Dazai should be the one to release Chuuya from the book. Not that Chuuya isn't smart enough to get out, but his problem solving style - violence - probably keeps him stuck in the book long enough to cause frustration. Perhaps even enough so for Chuuya's powers to seep out of the containment and nail the book to the floor. Of course, Dazai would find that interesting (and, perhaps, nullifying Chuuya's power is like second nature to him at this point). In any case, he picks up the book - and Chuuya unceremoniously materialises on top of him. They tumble into a tangle of limbs.
"Oh. There you are, Chuuya!"
"Urgh, you're late, bastard!"
"At least I bothered to show up. You never came. All this attention for the boss, when I was in the hospital too :("
"You-! Urgh, did you really want to be kicked while you're down?"
[Smash cut to a moping Dazai]
"...nevermind, don't answer that."
Chuuya then grabs his hat, straightens out his clothes, and saunters off, waving goodbye. The 'thank you' is implied in the way he squeezed Dazai's shoulder a bit too hard.
And if it doubles as a check to see if Dazai is better, can handle the rough treatment, because the last thing Chuuya heard was that he was in critical condition? Well, that's for Dazai to guess, and for Chuuya to never tell.
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RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it.
All of them? Alright, oh dear, I'm putting them below the cut.
I'm splitting this into BSD and DCMK because that will probably make more sense to people? I will also go for a little more descriptive names because a lot of them are just "Doc 1".
🔍DCMK (all of these are AkAm)
Adoro te devote
Blue bells (Roommate!AU)
Der Schleier fällt (Elisabeth!AU)
Flowers in Freefall
Heartless Bastards
Putting the romance into necromancer <- answered
Spider Lilies Bloom Bright Red
Sweater weather nsfw edition
That one fire emblem awakening AU PT and I talked about a while ago <- answered
The Eulogy of Amuro Tooru <- answered
Why is it so difficult to get a DNA sample from your brother? <- answered
✍🏻Bungou Stray Dogs
Clink <- answered
Of daemons and demons
Heartbound <- answered
Nighttime visits (is this a WIP or a collaborative writing exercise? Unsure. But it is progressing, unlike some other things on this list XD)
Oh god the rubber duckies (I can't believe I forgot about the rubber duckies)
On heaven, the suspension bridge effect, and other delusions of one Paul Verlaine (Rimlaine)
The prince and his dog (dazai-centric)
.
Those are the ones that I can remember off the top of my head XD
I'm not tagging 15 people, that's excessive, but I will tag (no pressure):
@bastionbibi @clownakai @cosmicarp @nanoko857 @riasfallingpieces @rixareth and if anyone else wants to play along, feel free :)
PT originally sent in Rei and #26 (How dare [you]) for the micro stories ask game, but I know this won't be their cup of tea so I'm making a new post and keeping the prompt
Below the cut is some pest control raibabo. Tw violence and maybe murder? Bourbon doesn't care and so neither do I
The waitress leans over the table, all lurid grace, her hair a dark brown oil spill down Rye's chest, shiny and slick.
And just as suffocating.
It's not even his personal space that's being violated, and yet Bourbon can't help but grind his teeth. To no avail; black tar slides down his throat, heavy and bitter, seals off the air he breathes with sticky grime.
She laughs into Rye's ear, artificially bright, despite her oozing corruption.
How dare she-
What's the point of Rye not fooling around with his cousin, if he's just going to grab a plastic doll copy off the shelf?
Rye tugs her closer, a hand sliding up her fish-netted thigh, and Bourbon finds himself mirroring the action - to find the holster strapped to his own. For animals who are drowning in oil, sometimes the only solution is mercy; but Rye, tar-black though his soul may be, is not a helpless bird.
Once Bourbon removes the contamination, Rye will be just fine.
A single shot, a precise incision, and she screams, the fake plastic finally ripped off to reveal she bleeds red just like everyone else. With belated disdain Bourbon realises that she's bleeding all over Rye; oh well. Those clothes will have to go. Bourbon will give him a proper cleaning, later. And then he'll make sure to soil Rye so thoroughly that no one else will dare touch what's his.
Green eyes, finally no longer hypnotised by iridescent sheens, meet his. Clear and bright and alert, focused only on him - the extraction was successful.
The sludge is washed away by blood, and Bourbon, too, can breathe again.
For the character ask game thing: Rei. Obviously. 1, 2, 12, 15, 16. I tried to limit myself and not just say "all of them" but if you want to answer more of them, go for it. <3
For this ask meme
Oh dear, you've given me a lot to think about (thank you, I like thinking)
✨🔪Rei🗡️✨
1. Canon I outright reject
Alright, so. I'm actually good with most of canon. Not because I'm such a big fan of it, but because of my tendency to overthink things and go "okay, but how can this still work."
We'll get to what I think doesn't work in a moment, but first I have a bone to pick with Aoyama's word of god, aka his answers in the interviews. My gripe is mostly that I think he doesn't think his answers through (in the cases where he doesn't just give a non-answer).
Some I can work with. I've come around to "Scotch was a sniper in the BO" because it opens up the possibility of sniper due Scotch & Rye, even though I think Hiro deserved his own speciality (and also Aoyama is never going to show us Scotch sniping, so that's just a waste of potential).
Some I am undecided on. Aoyama refuses to give us answers on Rei's family, even though it would be quite relevant for his character (someone with a family that supports him would not be so cripplingly lonely). I hope Aoyama won't botch that, but I will hold my judgement until then.
Some confuse me. What do you mean, Rei wanted to keep Sherry (who he recognised as Elena's daughters) alive, but give her to the BO?? Wouldn't it be a great source of intel for the PSB??
An then there's the things I just can't get behind. Aoyama means to tell me that the whiskey trio didn't exist, that Rei's outrage and betrayal at seeing Rye over Scotch's dead body was...born in the moment? That Rei decided on making revenge his whole personality based on...nothing prior? That he and Vermouth accurately recreated Akai from a grainy bodycam video? I can, of course, read Rei as that kind of instantly obsessive guy who doesn't actually know Rye. But it's just no fun, that way, so I refuse. It's better if there was a simile of trust that could be broken.
Now, ignoring word of god and returning to actual canon, we're not quite there yet, but when it comes to the way things are going atm, I fear we might eventually head for a ship I have no good feelings about: amua*u. I'm certainly biased, but Rei deserves better than to have a girl who doesn't actually know his true self, not his name, not his face; better than the microaggresions and racism that when he calls her out on, she defends herself with "I'm not as smart as you, bleh"; someone who doesn't say she hates spending time with him because it will get her bullied online. Rei deserves someone who will stand by his side, keep up with him, and loves him for who he is. This girl is not that, and if it comes to it, I will reject this ship. But for now, this is only a hypothetical, and I really hope Aoyama will reconsider.
(Actually, while I was thinking about this, I figured out something that is canon, but that I outright reject: Rei's "crush" on Elena. I believe that he loved her, but that he saw her as a mother figure, and he's most certainly not still pining over her, shut up Matsuda.)
2. A canon or headcanon hill I will die on
Uh. Okay. What's a hill I could comfortably die on when it comes to Rei. Something that is mildly controversial, perhaps. Um.
I think Rei would look great with knives, but that's not really worth dying for, is it?
Hm.
I had a whole paragraph written about how I would like to see a more nuanced take on Rei, and not exaggerate things as much for comedic purposes, but I'm also guilty of that, so that would be quite hypocritical for me to say. And I try not to be that person.
Instead, I'll just stick with my guns. Rei definitely tops more often than Akai- /shot
12. Crack headcanon
Oh god. Hm. I mean. I think my beloved Demon Lord Rei (hail) counts as a crack interpretation of the character?
I don't really have crack headcanons lying around, if anything I usually go for the crack treated seriously approach and make an AU out of it. See also: way too many words on the sweater AU, which started with the crack take of Rei stealing Akai's sweaters.
Just for you though, I saw this
image just now, so today's crack theory is that Bourbon wears contact lenses. Maybe they're superspy contact lenses that block him from being identified in iris scans. And also this would explain (partially) how he was so comfortable dressing up as scar!Akai-
(See? See this is the problem, I'm trying to rationalize it again. Can't have pure, unadulterated crack in this house.)
15. Worst thing they've ever done?
Do you want an excerpt from a wip on that?
Throughout the years, Bourbon works whichever jobs the syndicate demands of him.
Fence, enforcer, honey pot.
Spy.
Torturer.
Executioner.
The list goes on.
Each of them ruins someone's life, some more directly than others.
Among the more insidious jobs, for its false promises of fortune to the desperate and destitute, is working at the casino in Las Vegas.
I like to think that Rei has committed a variety of crimes for the sake of the job. Naturally, he wouldn't feel great about them, but what choice does he have? They're simply necessary to maintain his cover.
When it comes to bad things, there's probably a few that would make the list. Perhaps trying to kill Elena's daughter is somewhere on it. Perhaps he doesn't have compassion for her; Rei, after all, appears to be focused on specific people that hold his attention, not their surroundings.
If one asked him, though, under duress and the influence of a truth serum, he'd probably say the worst thing he's done is to drag Hiro along with him right down into hell. Got him interested in the police academy, and then the PSB, and then this mission.
The price was too high, but Rei only came to realise it after it had already been paid.
16. Deepest darkest secret they won’t even admit to themselves?
Rei is cripplingly lonely, struggles to make new connections, and eventually, his job will not be enough to stave off the dark hours of night. He can work himself to the brink of exhaustion, or even death, but it won't matter. There is only one of him, and so, so many crooks that want to exploit and kill and destroy.
And eventually, if he lives long enough, he'll need to stop and face all his life's mission has cost him. The countless hours of sleep lost because he'd rather work than face the nightmares. The lives of his friends, which he didn't get to see aside from the few times they went to visit graves. The thankless nature of it all, as he works in the shadows to keep the public safe. He can't ever be a Hiro hero, he won't be; the public would condemn him for his deeds.
(It's already started; his hatred for Akai has superseded the mission. If that's gone, too, what will he have left?)
And at this point, at this crucial junction, I hope he finds a new reason to breathe. Because otherwise, I fear he might break down and disappear.
If it should please you, I would like to offer up;
"Don't let go. Just... give me a second longer, please."
From the hug prompts...
Pretty pretty please with two bows on top <3
here's some old men* yaoi for you, Liv-
hug prompts here
„Don’t let go. Just… give me a second longer, please.“
Dazai’s nose is buried in his shirt. The words soak into the fabric and sink into Chuuya’s chest. “Or five,” the greedy bastard adds, clinging to Chuuya like it’s life or death.
As if it hasn’t been like this every morning for the last eighteen years. As if there won’t be a dozen more, if Chuuya has any say in the matter.
Against his better judgement, Chuuya leisurely brushes a lock of greying hair out of his partner’s face.
“There. Now let me get up, I’m not letting Kuro starve because of you.”
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Rei always knew that Rye's intellect and his ability to plan ahead were what made him dangerous. He was really rather hoping he could avoid being the target of those skills. And yet here he is, having played right into Akai Shuuichi's hands.
(They're nice hands. Reliable. Steady.)
The sweetest kind of defeat, to slip a ring on the hand of the architect of his own downfall.
From the sweater AU's cutting room floor - a headcanon on Rei's non-existent relationship history (with a sprinkling of Hagimatsu)
A relationship was just never an option - with the course of his life set early on, he couldn't afford any distractions. And that was what the girls who confessed to him were, quite frankly. They didn't know him, only saw his meticulously crafted good looks and 'exotic appeal', as one of them had the gall to say to his face, as if it was supposed to be a compliment. Suffice it to say, those confessions never went well.
With time, Rei came to realize that maybe it wasn't just their superficiality at fault. When Hagiwara claimed those beauties would be wasted on him anyways, Rei couldn't see where he was coming from. They were just girls, no one of them more or less pretty than the others. His friend just gave him a strange look when he said as much, and instead invited Rei to double dates with guys.
(Matsuda had always joined them, and, looking back on it, Rei's reasonably sure it wasn't just because they were such good friends.)
He didn't find love there, but at least it helped him figure out his tastes. He was only human, after all, and sometimes he, too, needed relief. That was all there was to it; physiological functions that occasionally needed to be taken care of in order to maintain a healthy mind and body.
By the time he started working for the NPA, he became both too busy and too tired to even seek out that much. He had the opportunity to be part of something so much larger, so much more important than himself - petty dreams of home and a family faded into obscurity. The job consumed him whole, and Rei let it; his body became nothing more than a tool to achieve his goals. To finally be able to follow his calling, serve his purpose, was all he ever needed.
(Besides, someone who could see through the protective layers of deceit he'd wrapped around himself was a dangerous liability to have. Case in point: Akai Shuuichi.)
What's with me and Yosano's healing ability as a source of angst??
So far I've had exactly two skk fic ideas and it's this 55 minutes one and one that's about Chuuya that I'll write as soon as I can figure out how to contain it somehow
