Francis: Rules are made to be broken.
Henry: They were made to be followed. Nothing is made to be broken.
Richard : Uh, piñatas.
Charles : Glow sticks.
Camilla: Karate boards.
Bunny: Spaghetti when you have a small pot.
Francis: Rules.
Henry:
Atsushi: I am really sorry for your loss little girl 😔
Aya: why do my dad's keep dying
Atsushi: oh....did you have two dads?
Aya: uh huh, technically four
Atsushi: h-how did that happen
Aya: I have a biological dad, who was the worst thing in my life
Atsushi: oh sorry
Aya: then I got Kunikida and things were okay for while, then he died.
Atsushi, tears forming: yes I just saw that 😭
Aya: Bra-chan became my dad too, he thinks I remind him of his daughter
Atsushi: awww 🥺
Aya: he was killed by Dosto-whatever-his-name-is in front of me
Atsushi: not him too
Aya: then the Dosto-person became my new dad, which I didn't consent to, he took Bra-chan's body!
Atsushi: this cannot get weirder
Aya: after all that Bra-chan came back to life for a min and gave me a new dad to replace him
Atsushi: and who's that?
Akutagawa: Princess, I brought your favourite doughnuts!
Atsushi: A-Akutagawa? What are you---
Aya: Oh here he is my new dad
Atsushi: you are a dad now?
Akutagawa: yes, it just happened recently. Jinko we have a child now.
Atsushi: W-We what?
Charles: There's nothing worse than people using big words they don't understand.
Bunny: I photosynthesize with this.
Bunny: Hey do you wanna hang out this weekend?
Henry: Generic excuse.
Bunny: I can’t believe you said that out loud, to my face.
Henry: I can.
Richard: Hey, Francis, where are you going?
Francis: Well, it depends. When I die, probably hell.
Francis: But right now I’m going to Starbucks.
Charles, teaching Camilla to drive: Okay, you're driving, Bunny and Henry walk into the road. Quick, what do you hit?
Camilla: Oh, definitely Bunny. I could never hurt Henry .
Charles, massaging his temples: The brakes. You hit the brakes.
Henry: Richard, you'll be working with Francis and Camilla.
Richard: Alright! My fantasy threesome!
Everyone else: *blank stares*
Richard: ...Of people on a team.
Richard : What did you guys get in your yearbook?
Camilla: 'Prettiest Smile'
Francis: 'Nicest Personality'
Charles : 'Most likely to start a bar fight'
Henry: 'Least likely to start a bar fight, but most likely to win one'
Bunny: *didn't make it to the end of the year*
Looks like a cinnamon roll, is actually a cinnamon roll: Richard Papen
Looks like they could kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll: Francis Abernathy
Looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you: Charles Macaulay
Looks like they could kill you, could actually kill you: Henry Winter
Could kill you by feeding you too many cinnamon rolls: Camilla Macaulay
Does not deserve cinnamon rolls, will actually get killed: Bunny Concoran
Dazai: This anime is obviously a romantic comedy. Chuuya and I are the main characters so that means we are love interests.
Kunikida, rolling his eyes: yeah and what are we?
Dazai: You guys are the homosexual supporting cast. So make sure not to get too much screen time
Yosano: isn't Atsushi the main character?
Junichiro: and Nakahara-san only gets like 20 minutes of screen time how is a mc??
Ranpo: I am sorry, but I don't think I am supporting cast material, homosexual or otherwise.
Sometimes I randomly remember Henry Winter didn't take the SATs for not being "aesthetically pleasing" and I wonder why I am studying in a field I am not interested in and wasting my life away; then it also hits me that Henry Winter was also rich as fuck and he can afford that.
Dark Academia is pretty in theory; it's too expensive for regular people. We can't go to exclusive colleges and do degrees in ancient languages and fine arts.
No wonder I read books to feed those desires I could never afford in real life.
Every valentine's day Chuuya gets desperate, passionate love letters from someone whom he doesn't know. It's full of poetic lines and cryptic messages about how they are fated to be together and are soulmates. He wonders who this secret admirer is and decides to write back to them and ask them out on a date.
He goes to the restaurant they decide to meet at and takes a U-turn back to the receptionist and cancels his reservation when he sees Dazai sitting there waiting for him. Because Chuuya.exe has stopped working.
People thinking Atsushi is just a cute lil soft boy are so WRONG.
Atsushi is one of the best executed C-PTSD protagonists who are not just "kind" because they are the MC.
Atsushi is sassy, he is mean and says things like they are, even to his own mentor Dazai, he is not afraid of saying bad things. He doesn't hold back on his words. And he can be quite quick when it comes to using sass ("are you a landmower?" "Why are you dressed like a half-finished mummy, Dazai-san" "Akutagawa, fancy a cup of tea?" "That's why Dazai-san left you")
He's not just nice. He thinks he should be nice and kind because that's what someone like him should be like. Atsushi has such a low self esteem that he NEEDS to show kindness to everyone because he thinks just like he got a second chance at life, everyone else deserves it too.
That's why he saved Kyouka and Lucy, he recognised that want for bettering themselves in them. He wanted them to get a second chance like he did. Because to him, people are not good or bad, but they have the ability to change no matter how far they have gone.
This is why Atsushi is the only one who can recognise and understand Dazai's true personality. Whenever Dazai says something self depreciating Atsushi ALWAYS corrects him. In Dead Apple when Dazai is visiting Oda's grave, Atsushi understands whoever this person was, they were very dear to Dazai. At the end of Dead Apple when Dazai says he thinks he's not a good person, Atsushi tells him he has never thought of Dazai not being a good person. Atsushi knows Dazai was in the Port Mafia, but he STILL confirms he sees Dazai as a good person regardless of his past. Because Atsushi believes in second chances, and HE gave the second chance to Dazai that Oda must have wanted Dazai to get, even if the ADA accepted Dazai, no one has ever reassured him being a good person before. (Also in BSD wan, when Dazai says "I want to go out beautifully" during the fireworks scene, in the end-credits Atsushi sits near the river the entire day because he was sad that Dazai was suicidal. And in BSD mayoi, Dazai makes a snowman of Atsushi along with Oda, Ango and Chuuya, showing how much he adored Atsushi)
It's the same with Akutagawa; Atsushi doesn't understand why Akutagawa hates him and he's mean to Akutagawa at times but it never crossed a line. Akutagawa had done so many bad things to Atsushi but at the end they still worked together. Because Dazai understood the only person who will make Akutagawa use his powers to "protect" instead of "attack" is Atsushi. During the ending fight in S3, Akutagawa makes an armour for Atsushi as they combine their powers. And in the end credit scene of S5, we see Akutagawa protecting Atsushi AGAIN. This time Akutagawa isn't wearing the same coat Dazai gave him and for the first time shows true loyalty to Atsushi. ("Just the two of us?" "Do we need more?" *SCREAMS*)
Atsushi's relationship with the headmaster of the orphanage shows how much the trauma affected him as a child. When he can't forgive the headmaster at his death, he hates himself for not being able to give a second chance. And that's when Dazai steps in and tells him, "we cry when our father dies" something Atsushi really needs to hear and he finally cries.
Atsushi reassures Dazai all the time and Dazai snaps Atsushi out of his self depreciation all the time. Their solidarity throughout the story, shows why that day when Dazai chose Atsushi for the ADA; he recognised not Atsushi's powerful ability but his true ability in choosing to believe in people when no one else can.
Camilla: If I fall…
Charles: I’ll be there to catch you.
Francis: *looks at Richard* What if I fall?
Richard: Then I’ll fall with you, never leaving your side.
Bunny : *watches these two interactions*
Bunny, to Henry: And if I fall?
Henry: I’ll be the one who pushed you.
Henry: This year, I lost my dear friend Bunny Concoran.
Bunny: stop telling everyone I am dead
Henry: you just wait :)
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