And When You Can't Sleep At Night, You Hear My Stolen Lullabies...

Happy 2nd anniversary of the biggest, wildest, happiest, joyful, fun, wonderful, magical, amazing, and Tour of The Century, The Eras Tour!!!! #TSTheErasTour #2YearsOfTheErasTour

So I decided to rework my old BSD tattoo and flower shop au

I finally decided to come back to this au after a lengthy hiatus from it, why did I suddenly come back to it? I just recently got a tattoo for myself and it reminded me of this thing I made so why not improve it since I'm bsd obsessed again.

Character lineup:

ADA (Armed Design Agency)

Additional Info:

Their shop is one of the best in their area

As intimidating as the place is, the people there are fairly welcoming

Kunikida is the only person there to make sure the place stays in top condition

The owner has strong values of sentimentality and remembrance in the form of tattoos

PM (Port Meadow)

Additional Info:

A go to spot for the best bouquets

Located across the street from the ADA

Rumours say the flower shop is a front for the owner to hide crime activity

Hirotsu and Kouyou have worked in the shop the longest and both know a lot more about the place

Miscellaneous characters (+Guild Coffee Shop)

Additional Info:

Around the block is a cozy coffee shop run by Francis

Lucy and Atsushi became friends after a scar cover up session

Poe is considered Ranpo's favourite client

Kyouka's parents are alive but they're always overseas

Something i really like about these panels, is the fact that both Atsushi and Akutagawa show emotions, we've not seen before. (i think)

It's the first time we see Akutagawa be gentle and the first time we see Atsushi be for a lack of a better word smug af.

While being both of their last moments.

I have "fanfic writer" in my desc but I don't even post about my works oml 😭

Anyways here's an old sskk two part oneshot I wrote;

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60111337

It was where Atsushi and Akutagawa were sent on a "mission" by Dazai to a nightclub and then romanticisms happen (because of course they do). it's a smut/fluff

When I look at the number 88, I get war flashbacks. This isn't a joke guys.

"At least that's what the demonic little voices in the back of Atsushi's mind whispered to him; in the dead of night, in the middle of a work shift, in front of Akutagawa, the voices were persistent on dragging Atsushi into hopelessness and despair."

Well

That one's fun

Anyone who sees this is tagged bc idk anyone 😔

Last Line Tag Game - post the last line that you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line.

ty for the tag @anticidic!!!

Liu Xiao had walked out of their hotel room alone, something sharp and vicious in his mouth, tasting the metal of victory.

absolutely not tagging that many people, if you are following me consider urself tagged. will tentatively say hi @marichild you should do this though.

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT IT ISN'T HATE

Akutagawa 👏 doesn't 👏 hate 👏 him

He was just told to hate him, taught to hate him

Akutagawa was so ready to despise Atsushi, to kill him, and then...

And then he really saw Atsushi for who he was

He learned about Atsushi and grew to know him and trust him, seeing Atsushi as his other half

He saw Atsushi from his own perspective, no one else's

I think he loves Atsushi.

OK correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the main 'yin/yang' parallel with Atsushi and Akutagawa is not something like 'this one is bad but secretly has a good side and this one is good but secretly has a bad side'.

I feel like it's more about 'who they are at their core vs who they choose to be'.

At his core Akutagawa is kind and at his core Atsushi is not. But despite this Atsushi tries every day to make the kinder choices and I love him so much for it. He has to work so hard to be good.

He wants to be a bitch SO bad I know he does but he tries his best to help people and be nice (sometimes he fails but that's OK <3)

Atsushi doesn't always WANT to help people, a lot of the time he's selfish and scared, but he does help people anyway. He keeps helping people over and over again. There's still some selfish motivation to it, and his initial motivation for helping people was because the headmaster told him that's all he was worth, but overall he does care about the people he helps and it weighs on him if he fails to save them. And of course, as the series goes on he starts helping people more because he can rather than because he feels like he needs to.

In Akutagawa's case, he's still capable of being kind but his environment led him into being someone who chooses to hurt people. But he's always been a protector at heart. In the start he was bad compared to Atsushi because he was choosing to hurt people and keep the cycle of abuse going. Just like how Atsushi developed in why he saved people, Akutagawa starts to get redeemed when he chooses to not just act on his rage. Not only does he start to spare people, but he speaks more kindly to them (apologising to Higuchi and telling Kyouka he's proud of her). It all culminates into the moment he chooses to help Atsushi and sacrifice himself for him, going back to his core value of being a protector. Even when he's finally revived, he keeps this role in his new position as Aya's Knight.

I kind of see the streaks of white in Akutagawa and the streaks of black in Atsushi not as their 'hidden sides' but as their fundamental selfs. That's who they are at their core, and their main colours (black for Akutagawa and white for Atsushi) are how they're presented to everyone else and how they try to have people see them as.