Waking up in the house of a man you haven't spoken to in years is certainly odd—at least for Dazai.
...Turns out being pathetically drunk has some advantages.
[Chapter 1/2] Soukoku <3
Just saw that there is some planned maintenance for ao3 in July 1 and the archive will be down for at least 10 hours apparently. I feel like I just got told to prep for doomsday.
Battle stations. Prepare for a siege. We shall weather this storm.
Did a (which to colour) voting poll on my IG story feed, and here’s the result ✍🏻🎨
ERM WDYM WE'RE GETTING THE NEXT CHAPTER SOON ISN'T IT DECEMBER RN???
YALLL guess who's running to ao3 after having read the folk of the air trilogy!?
@fluff-cember : [Prompt 13] Fire and Ice
Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs
Ship: Fyodor x Dazai
FINALLY I FINISHED THIS DAMN FIC, DEAR LORD. I am not philosophical in the slightest so this was an absolute pain to write, but I somehow did it. I had made a post about this earlier, where Fyodor would talk about Robert Frost's poem Fire and Ice with someone else, and I later chose that someone to be Dazai. Lemme know if they're in character. :') [btw they're in the prison here]
The day was as boring and dull as the previous, and probably the next. The only noise that could be heard in the space was the flipping of pages, and Dazai couldn't help but stare at Fyodor as the latter read some book.
He sat up in bed, eyeing the Russian’s figure curiously.
“What?” Came Fyodor’s amused voice, breaking him out of his trance.
“What’cha reading?” Dazai effortlessly shifted to his teasing tone of voice, leaning towards Fyodor’s cell.
Fyodor finally looked up from his book, giving Dazai an unimpressed look. “Poems.”
Dazai blinked, making a show of being repulsed. “Poems? Seriously?”
“Have you read poems by Robert Frost?” Fyodor asked, ignoring Dazai’s weird looks.
Dazai just hummed softly, glancing up at the ceiling in thought. “I've heard of the guy.”
Fyodor crossed his legs, corners of his lips turning up. “Fire and Ice.”
“That’s name of the poem?” Dazai whined. “Sounds so boring.”
Fyodor let out an irritated huff, bringing the book closer to his face to read out loud:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
“So philosophical,” Dazai remarked, amused at the seriousness in Fyodor’s voice.
“I'd say this poem stands to be quite relevant in our time.” Fyodor gazed up at Dazai, tilting his head.
Dazai maintained their eye contact, leaning back on the bed. “...Whether the world is to end by fire or ice, hmm?”
“Fire, or ice—desire, or hatred?”
“Do you have an opinion on this?”
Fyodor set the book on the table, crossing his arms. “Regardless of the path, it is quite obvious mankind will lead to the destruction of the world.”
Dazai followed his movements. “I guess you'd advocate hatred and selfishness to win instead of violence, right?”
He slightly smiled. “Both.”
Dazai blinked, then laughed out loud, dramatically wiping tears from his eyes. “I don't know why I expected any less from you.”
Fyodor hummed. “However… I'd consider the role of ice—apathy, greed, and selfishness, to be grander.”
Dazai tilted his head. “Isn't violence practically second nature to us?”
Fyodor's smile widened, shaking his head as he explained, “It is the nature of humans to be cold too. The tendency to remain selfish results in mankind being unable to work together—”
“We’re apathetic, you mean?” Dazai chimed in. “Too caught up with ourselves to worry about others?”
“You are starting to understand,” Fyodor remarked, slightly irritated at the interruption. “They are blinded by greed, losing the ability to care unless something concerns them directly.”
Dazai yawned. “Bla bla bla, and this somehow ties up with abilities, gotcha.”
Narrowing his eyes, Fyodor ignored him and continued, “This lack of unity, alongside violence and a sprinkle of human stupidity, results in war.”
“What, so you think we're naturally inclined to start wars?”
He nodded. “War can begin due to the lack of empathy and understanding... or simple greed and selfishness.”
“Ehh, I don't think that.” Watching Fyodor’s eyes widening slightly, Dazai snickered and explained, “Resource scarcity, ideological differences, etc., lead to war; apathy is just a fuel.”
“Again, lack of understanding.” Fyodor sighed. “Which is basically apathy.”
"Apathy isn't always negative—sometimes, it can lead to peaceful resolutions.” Laughing as he made Fyodor awe-struck for probably the second time, Dazai continued, “If people aren't invested enough to fight, they might end up avoiding conflict altogether—”
“...Because people who are apathetic tend to be more indifferent and less aggressive,” Fyodor mused.
Dazai hummed, amused. “I'd say that could actually prevent fights from breaking out in the first place.”
Fyodor raised his eyebrows in interest.
“I assume you prefer fire, then?”
Dazai grinned. “As you had said earlier, fire and ice both will play a role.. because they are tied together.”
Fyodor quirked up a small smirk. “We can only tell as time passes, hm?”
“Seeing what the future has in store for us,” He murmured.
“Quite.”
Fyodor simply returned his attention back to the book, picking it up, as Dazai leaned back to have a shut-eye.
Oh god wait I need to share this now after Reckless.
Obviously RECKLESS SPOILERS so if you haven't finished the book than don't go ahead. Or go if you want idk.
I have always had this Kaidyn (yes I'm using this ship name because it's perfect) headcanon.
Imagine a scenario where Kai gets heavily injured (in my head he jumped in front of a sword meant to pierce Paedyn etc) and he's bedridden for days and Peadyn stays by his bedside waiting for him to get up.
And I always imagined Paedyn holding onto Kai's hand and kissing them. Kissing the top of his hand, his knuckles, the palm of his hand or just his fingers. Just she always kisses his hand.
Now when I was playing around with this headcanon I was thinking that, since Kai always talks about his hands being drenched with blood of the lives he had taken, this would be a way for Paedyn to show her forgiveness for Kai and how she cherishes every part of him, even the hands he sees as nothing more than tools for delivering death.
BUT NOW WITH NEWFOUND INFORMATION FROM RECKLESS EVERYTHING CHANGES!
Because now, imagine the exact same scenario but Paedyn is kissing Kai's thumb. She's kissing his thumbs, the same thing he used to do to his little sister to make her feel more powerful, the same thing he did to Paedyn to try to give her strength during her toughest moments, and she's doing the same thing because she wants to give him her strength so he can wake up. Kissing his thumb because he's always been the one to give his strength with those thumb kisses and now he needs that strength back.
And for bonus hurting points, imagine Kitt witnessing this moment. Kitt seeing the woman he's forcing to marry him as revenge, the woman his brother loves to the point of dying for her without a second thought and the woman who has not strayed from his brother's unmoving body for days now, doing the exact same thing his brother used to do to their little sister.
He knows the meaning of the act and he not only realises how much of his heart and soul Kai has opened up to Paedyn but also how badly she needs to see him wake up, to the point she's relying on tricks for children that hold no real power. Because she can't transfer her strength to him by kissing his thumb, but she's desperate enough, hurting enough to try it.
me when I came back from war (studying for exam) to my beloved (ao3), only realising that they forgot my existence (logging issue)
HELP ME why am I JUST figuring out about season 2 of agggtm
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