#kunizai

Kunizai kiss

i miss them so bad guys

rendered the kunizai bsd as enjoltaire les mis drawing from months ago cause i keep getting notifications(affectionate) from @rad-rat-with-a-tophat (LMK IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE TAGGED IM SORRYYYYY) on that post and it reminded me to get my ass out of bed and draw something and also i feel bad about letting you appreciate something im not even proud of. so if youre reading this, dear rad rat with a tophat, thank you for sharing my vision and also dragging me out of a months long artblock, and i made this just for you. hope you like this :3 bw version under the cut

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.)