Smth Smth Bsd’s Recurring Theme Of Your Past Not Defining Who You Are But Facing Your Past Being Necessary

all of the panels with Dazai with a cold from the BSD Anthology 🥰 him being perfectly normal with a 39.8°C fever is so very Dazai of him...

i’ll never wear your broken crown

Fan art for @frenchonionsoop ‘s AMAZING WORLD CHANGING stormbringer animatic!!!! Everyone go watch it NOW!!

nobody gets tsukasa like i get tsukasa but one thing i dont get is if hes the mf beating hanako up. BC IT FEELS IMPLIED BUT ALSO??? weve never seen him move to hurt hanako. ever. he doesnt even defend himself whenever hanako grabs him, pushes him, STABS HIM??? like i cant see him doing that

and another thing i always considered was "maybe hanako i defending tsukasa" but tsukasa was actually very popular amongst his classmates, hanako says so.

so its clearly not that? but then what is going on?

one theory i have is that it has to do with their mother. we know she can tell something is wrong with tsukasa considering how she drags the poor boy to be exorcised multiple times. if she is potentially threatening/trying to harm tsukasa and hanako is protecting him, perhaps its that? idk gimme ur thoughts if u have any.

The fact that people think that Saiki is emotionless is so funny to me, because that’s the most dramatic guy you’ll ever see.

Canola is way too good at her job, Poor Felix.

What do you think could make Tsukasa cry? From the beginning of the series until now, he has never been seen to cry despite what happens to him, so I was curious to know what you think. I hope you read it and have a nice day! :3

Thank you ^^

If you want to know, what would make Tsukasa cry would probably be the moment he receives love.

When he hears Amane say for the first time that he loves him with every word, when he hears that he is important, when he hears that his sacrifices were things that Amane did not want because what he wanted was to be by Tsukasa's side because he loves him.

He will cry when Amane admits that he will protect him, when Amane hears his calls, when Amane is the one who will hug Tsukasa, and not the other way around.

All Tsukasa needs is love, affection, care. He did everything he could for his brother, even before he met the entity. He asked Amane if he loved him, he wanted to feel that love, but what he received was the opposite.

He is so used to no one liking him, to no one caring about him, that it doesn't hurt him anymore.

Tsukasa know this will happen, he himself said that "Amane won't come, even if I call him"

Why won't Amane come?

He also explains "he's never done it before"

Tsukasa is the boy who was abandoned by everyone, including the person he loved the most. People don't usually like him, he always hears and sees looks of fear and contempt from other people. No one has ever asked him how he was, if he needed anything, no one cares about him.

And he knows this, he's sure of it.

One of the reasons he looks for a reason to "stay".

At the moment he was most vulnerable, he talked a little about what happened to him and Amane, that sad and empty look.

And you see that look shine when Hanako finally shows up to save him.

Then, the shine disappears again when Amane says he saved him "because he was there".

Tsukasa had a little hope here, but Hanako killed it again.

You see some of that hurt reflected when Tsukasa calls Amane selfish, when Nene says she loves Hanako and Tsukasa is handcuffed behind him saying "good for you" in the official translation.

When shortly after that Nene says she hates Tsukasa.

Can you see it?

Nothing negative will make Tsukasa cry because he expects it, because he is used to receiving contempt and indifference.

When you expect hate and not love, the tears dry up.

But when love finally comes to him, Tsukasa will overflow, because he has never dealt with it, he would not know how to react.

I can even see him shocked, in disbelief at first.

Like when Nene JUST hugged him.

He reacted that way with just one hug, so imagine how he will react when the person he loves the most finally admits that he loves him deeply?

He sings in search of a place where he can be happy

Tsukasa is neglected even by the fandom.

I understand that he did a lot of wrong things along the way, but let's remember that Tsukasa is that little baby who spent his days fulfilling Amane's wishes to see him happy.

Little Tsukasa became Yorishiro with this troubled personality because of his union with the entity.

The entity greatly influences his behavior, but he chose to stay by her side because the entity was the only one who could fulfill his wish to save his older brother.

The entity was the only one who stood by him when everyone else turned their backs (even though we know that the entity is also just using him).

All Tsukasa needs is love, affection, kindness, and that will be enough to make him cry.

He is a good boy who suffers unfairly for having chosen to save the life of the person he loves the most.

He didn't do it for himself, he never made wishes for himself, he wasn't looking for any ambition, he just wanted to see his brother happy, even if he didn't feel that he was loved by Amane, he didn't care about that, he just wanted Amane's happiness.

The cost of Amane's happiness is Tsukasa's pain.

If you want to see him cry, truly love him.

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Tsukasa's loneliness…

I've been thinking about Tsukasa's situation. How he is so tired. Tired of waiting for Amane, tired of being alone, tired of staying awake.

You draw hats so well and im like so amazed by it because every time i try it looks like they're wearing buckets?? how do you draw them?? :o

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Thoughts on Dazai, Fyodor and manipulation

In the latest chapter, we get to hear Dazai & Fyodor talk about their methods from their own mouths. They both are masters of manipulation, but their ways of going about it are entirely different.

Fyodor suggested that they had a peaceful “discussion” on the current situation, but it was really just a way for both of them to assess each other’s information while keeping their own to themselves as much as possible. Fyodor acknowledged that being equals in terms of intellect, they were the only two people who were able to understand and keep up with each other, and Dazai agreed, after a moment of suspicion.

Fyodor asked Dazai for “advice” on how to make his subordinates more independent. To me, this sounds like Fyodor was trying to get information on how Dazai’s colleagues operated, and how they knew what to do. Dazai then gave a very Dazai-like response, telling Fyodor that he basically acted like a lazy ass all day, which gave his colleagues a reason to act on their own because no one wanted to rely on a “good-for-nothing”.

Dazai then asked Fyodor for a way to make the cafe waitress fall for him (again, very Dazai-like). This, to me, is Dazai’s way of asking how Fyodor won over his “allies”, such as Hawthorne and Mushitarou. Fyodor promptly replied that he basically got hold of their lifeline, found out their weaknesses, and gave them an “offer” they couldn’t refuse.

And there we have it, the two “demons” revealing how they manage to make people dance around them and do their work. Fyodor lured people in with promises of a better life, or safety of a loved one. At the end of the day, he would just be watching from a safe spot, casually sipping tea. Dazai, while pretending to do nothing, gave people room to act on their own will. Sure, his methods are questionable, and there are times when he cornered people into cooperating with him. The case of Ango, for instance, was Dazai acting selfishly to satisfy his own silent wrath, while achieving his bigger objective at the same time (he was so furious at Ango he even willingly put himself in danger. This angry child and poor Ango need a talk). But most of the time, Dazai’s deals made room for a win-win situation (Kyouka and Kouyou’s case, for instance). He also put Atsushi and Akutagawa in danger without their knowledge, but at the end of the day, they both had the chance to grow thanks to that. Dazai is also ready to step in when things get serious, the most recent example being him getting arrested on purpose to see through Fyodor’s plans.

While Dazai and Fyodor undoubtedly are similar, they differ in the way they see people. They both have people wrapped around their little fingers, but while Fyodor sees them as pawns to be moved around and thrown away once they fulfill their purpose, Dazai sees them as valuable lives, each having their own potential.

Since we got to see a glimpse of what moved Dazai to see the world the way he does, I hope we will one day get to know Fyodor’s story, as well. To me, they are both alienated individuals who chose their own ways to find meaning to their lives. It seems to me that Fyodor, in his own way, is trying to understand people, what moves them, and what causes them to become the “sinfully stupid” creatures he so looks down upon. Perhaps he wants to witness the brilliance of people’s lives at their brightest moments, the same way Dazai was trying his luck in the Mafia. Perhaps he never made any friends, and never had the chance to see himself as part of the sinful mess of human beings, the way Dazai did.

I wonder what happened with Tsukasa in this timeline? Why is the hole on his face? Why are his shorts and feet BLOODY?

right?? peak tbhk giving us more questions than answers lol I’m so excited to find out!!

I’m personally still operating under the assumption that the clock keepers changed something in 1968, which is when amane was trying to use the clock to mess with time in some mysterious way, so maybe they let him change in a way he was previously unable to? or in a different way than he did originally?

what seems to be true right now:

1. amane did not die when he was four

2. tsukasa still made some sort of deal with the god

so, operating under the assumption that something changed in 1968, whatever was changed then was after tsukasa made the deal to save amane’s life.

the backwards letters in tsukasa’s speech bubbles also imply to me he is way more god-influenced than the tsukasa we met in the red house arc!! this could be because kou and nene never went there to convince him to go back in this timeline?

but there’s something interesting you mentioned!! which is tsukasa’s appearance is very different here!!

he seems to be wearing the same shirt, but his suspenders and socks are gone, and his clothes are dirty. original red house tsukasa seems unscathed despite all his time there.

I think his clothes could be covered in blood, but they could also be covered in ash? maybe he was pushed back into the fire he set? why has the red house/the god stopped taking care of him? why is he in the school and not the red house? why was tsukasa originally spat back out somewhere in town and not on the property of the red house itself?

I definitely think amane got the clock to work and is responsible for this—I find adult amane incredibly suspicious!!

the watch he gave tsuchigomori is stopped, like the clock keepers clock originally was

and it’s incredibly suspicious he was talking to students about the tsukasa rumor with a reassuring smile on his face. this is hanako after all!! his calm, reassuring smiles are historically often untrustworthy!! (also in all honesty this is kind of a hope… I love when amane goes off on his own moral compass being a little unhinged)

the clock keepers specifically sent hanako back when he was feeling rejected by tsukasa and claiming tsukasa was an imposter, not his brother. maybe this is the future that happens when amane acts on that feeling, rather than how conflicted and forlorn we see him feeling about tsukasa in the original 1968.

it’s devastating, but I love the possibility that a past made through a boy’s grief and sense of rejection and pain has led to something like this… a more worn down, more haunted tsukasa.

is this who tsukasa becomes when amane doesn’t believe in him?

(honestly kind of hoping it’s something else though, bc it’s almost too sad to think of amane not believing in tsukasa, to the point of sending him back there…)