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re: Fyodor's goals / Logistics of the Book

tl;dr cause can't be assed. The actual end goal is irrelevant. The point of pursuing the book is attaining infinity of power to accomplish whatever, aka. instrumental convergence.

If you had one, what would you do? Naturally fuse yourself with it, without losing agency, while gaining power to warp out of trouble, be unable to lose consciousness, et cetera et cetera. All to make sure whatever you actually write into it cannot be undone.

As a sidenote: that what has to be written on the page (and implicitly, into the book as a lookup system) has to have story-like structure. However, what does it actually mean? What determines if this criteria is fulfilled?

There is an external - and thus ultimate - authority, making the Book mere admin console you can't use to modify the book itself. Outside of inflicting Death of the Author (in which case how Homestuck-y BSD has to get for people to notice....), not too spicy. A call to fanwork-action (already there with general structure & Beast) and/or rebuking externally imposed purpose (which some smaller opponent can set up just as well), sure.

It's in the eye of the writer - that is, if the book's user thinks it's story-like enough it'll works. But also - if something breaks the writer's suspension of disbelief, they cannot pick that outcome (see also BSD Beast?).

The 2nd option has more edge cases that just keep getting more ridiculous, so let's go:

If it's the writer deciding if the story is legit, it implicitly bakes into the new reality author's assumptions how the world works. What if their ideas have no internal sense in a way that can be reconciled; will it disappear in a puff of logic? Does the great winner turn the page and there's just this huge EAT SHIT, like a Junji Ito scarejump?

In Beast, the option of the world being unstable is brought up. In a deliciously meta fashion - because we the readers know it's fictional, there are now too many in the know and thus it in-universe dissolves out of sheer 4th wall break. But what is the in-universe explanation? The above? The existence of an alpha timeline, and this one only exists as long as needed for someone else to do a thing that will Grandfather paradox it out of the timeline? We already know Fukuchi stabbed from the future to the present, and can do so via self-erasing time paradoxes.

But what if the writer is, say, horror-brained and decides the setting should progressively be more terrifying and incomprehensible. In a way that breaks the very laws of physics that enable (human, since the book probably has sanity check of "will this result in an intelligent species capable of writing") existence. Everything is consistent within the framework of "what good horror story should be". By the previous logic alone, it should work nonetheless.

But what if! The horror writer finishes up the manuscript, hands it over to someone that runs on fluffy slice-of-life pieces and have them write it into the book? Maybe changing word choice here or there, without changing the meaning?

But! what! if! The original manuscript is 1) translated multiple times 2) old as fuck? that would mean the text itself is powered by multiple perspectives - of both the OG writer, but also every translator AND every translator's opinion on not only the text, but the text's context!

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Akutagawa – Dazai – Atsushi: An analysis about their relationship

And why Dazai treats them so differently.

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The symbolism of Atsushi and Akutagawa:

From their outward appearance and their design alone, Atsushi and Akutagawa are meant as opposites, but they’re also a duality:

Both wear black and white clothes, but whereas Atsushi is mostly white with a streak of black, Akutagawa wears mostly black with a streak of white. It’s even represented in their hair colours.

Besides this, there are many other things that mark their oppositeness and their duality to each other:

Atsushi is a member of the ADA, while Akutagawa is a member of the PM. Atsushi’s ability colour is blue, Akutagawa’s ability colour is red. Being a member of the ADA makes Atsushi someone who works for the “light and day”, Akutagawa is someone who works for the “darkness and night.” Atsushi loves cats, Akutagawa hates dogs. Atsushi’s ability takes the form of a tiger, Akutagawa’s ability represents a dragon, both creatures are important elements in Asian mythology. Ultimately, Atsushi symbolizes life or is associated with life, while Akutagawa symbolizes death or is associated with death.

Considering this, the title Shin Soukoku (Double Black) isn’t even a fitting name for them, since they both aren’t simply a double, as both Mori and Fukuzawa or Dazai and Chuuya were.

[Beware: Spoilers starting from chapter 83]

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Atsushi and empathy: a relationship with highs and lows

I have seen a few comments and analyses about how Atsushi has a black and white thinking/doesn't show villains with tragic backstories the sympathy an hero usually does. With this, I want to add my two cents.

The first time he finds himself interacting with an enemy he can confront, is when Tanizaki pretends to be a bomber. In this, Atsushi is way out of his depth, but he tries to draw comparison to his situation, pointing out that he too underwent terrible things but doesn't go around bombing places. Dazai and Kunikida compliment him on making a very good impression of a degenerate.

Ahem. Moving on. The next enemy with whom he has a meaningful interaction is Akutagawa. Whose introduction to Atsushi consists into stomping on the tiger boy trauma trigger of 'bringing only troubles to other', reducing Atsushi's willingness to empathize with him to the negative numbers and thus coloring all of their following interactions.

Moreover, he slaps Higuchi around without a care, and Atsushi can immediately connect it to the way he himself was abused. He doesn't think for a moment to try and understand where Akutagawa is coming from. Which would be understandable, given that the other is trying to kill him, but then …

Kyouka tries to kill him too, but his reaction is very different. He tries to understand her, encourages her to express her wishes, and risks his life to save her. What changed?

Well, not Atsushi; rather, the nature of his enemy. Akutagawa introduced himself in a show of strenght, showing impressive control on his Ability and a willingness to abuse those around him. Kyouka introduced herself in a show of weakness and despair: she appeared as a young and frail girl; she didn't express a real willingness to attack; even her own Ability wasn't controlled by her; moreover, she stated the number of her victims for the mafia and her desire not to kill anymore, with teary eyes. 

As a result, he can very quickly see the parallels between her and his former, abused self. His reasoning becomes: if they're basically the same, why is he being saved and she isn't? It's unfair, and so, he will protect Kyouka, despite Kunikida yelling at him that she's beyond salvation. And he'll protect her especially against Akutagawa, who doesn't miss the occasion to present himself as even more of a villain, defending his abuse of the girl as 'making her strong and fit to live'.

So, Kyouka is a pure, innocent victim, whose violence was forced out of her; Akutagawa is a monster for no other reason that, well, he's a monster (Read: Kyouka=Young!Atsushi, Akutagawa=Headmaster).

Next one, we have Lucy. If Kyouka and Akutagawa were pretty clear-cut, she's a bit of a mixed bag. She introduces herself kidnapping people and tormenting them with a game that is almost impossible to win; but at the same time, she immediately tattles about her past in an orphanage, which since social services are unheard of in this world is as bad as Atsushi's. Fittingly, in this meeting Atsushi is ambivalent: he fights her with all that he has got, forces her to free her victims, but in the end, he tries to reach out to her; he doesn't succeed because she runs away.

In their next meeting, he finds out she lost her standing in the Guild as a result of this defeat, and now she's essentially just a serving girl. He does realize that he made a mistake here: he tried to help her, but didn't really take her situation in consideration, so he just made things worse. This reasoning, while chock full of Atsushi's typical self-hatred, isn't unfounded; but soon enough he gains other preoccupations.

Namely, the fact that an Ability is wrecking havoc all around Yokohama, and the only way to stop it is bringing Q's doll to Dazai, who is currently somewhere but on the ground as opposed to on a dirigible like Atsushi. Lucy shows up to gloat, relishing in seeing someone who found a home and friends (unlike her) suffer, and going on and on about how he couldn't possibly understand her. But Atsushi replies by showing her his own wounds; he was just like she was, and moreover, there are other children suffering just like they did down there; she has the power to help and save them by letting him go. This speech brings out Lucy's own empathy, and she decides to help.

Next, there is his confrontation with Akutagawa. What makes their fierce arguments and putdowns of each other so interesting is that, at the base, their problem is the same: they can't find internal self-worth, and need external validation instead, because the people in charge of them in the past raised them to believe that they were worthless until they did something specific. The fact that this specific thing is different is the reason of their superficially different ways to face the problem: Atsushi's Headmaster inculcated him the belief that he was worthless unless he didn't protect and save other people, Akutagawa's Dazai raised him to believe that he would be worthless unless he wasn't strong and violent.

On the top of that, each has something the other more or less secretly craves: Akutagawa has all the power Atsushi would like for himself, and has the nerve to use it to harm other people instead of saving them; Atsushi has Dazai's approval, and beyond that, the genuine human connection Akutagawa desires, and has the nerve to ignore it to complain about his past.

The fascinating aspect to their argument is that they realize the fallacies of the other's way of thinking, and yell them to the other's face, but they don't have enough self-awareness to realize that they're pretty much doing the same thing. It's only Fitzgerald who brings the argument to a sort of close by posing a bigger problem first and making them too exausted to fight when it's all over; confronted with him, they manage to cooperate, and even give some little validation to the other.

By the way, regarding Fitz himself, Atsushi does look saddened when it seems like he died after hearing about his family, but he doesn't try to reason with him, he just attacks. Well, there really is little time before the Moby Dick crashes down.

Then, Cannibalism Arc. There is this very interesting moment between Akutagawa and Kyouka, which reveals that she was the one to approach him to ask him to destroy her and her Ability, which she blamed for the death of her parents. Akutagawa refused to do that, and tried to make her 'worthy of living' in the only way acceptable in the mafia: training her to be a killer. It didn't work, and after seeing her in the Agency, he himself realizes that, and congratulates Kyouka. So, the girl has a much darker side, that Atsushi ignored in favor of seeing her as only a victim, and Akutagawa was trying to save her, in his own very misguided way. The situation is much more complex than it looked at the start, but our hero still doesn't know it.

Moving on with the arc, their infiltration of the Rat's base. With a line that really should be talked about more.

It's a direct, intentional attack on Akutagawa's biggest insecurity. Atsushi himself realizes that he said something very impactful, and in a first moment he feels uneasy about it ... to try and repeat it a few minutes later, to get Akutagawa to do what he wants. It already kind of worked once, right?

What is very interesting in this scene is that Atsushi doesn't even try to understand Akutagawa: he just judges him, without asking himself how he became that way. He basically takes for granted that Aku got out of his mother's uterus ready to murder, with no other factors possibly involved. Of the two, it's Akutagawa, the least compassionate and more violent, who tries to understand Atsushi, keeps questioning him on his motivations and actually re-evaluates him on the new information who receives. I'm not saying that he is a better person for that, but it's interesting how Aku, for all of his flaws, seems to understand people better than Atsushi does.

But at the end of the arc, there is the famous agreement between Akutagawa and Atsushi: they will face in six months, to determine who has the biggest will to live, and in the meanwhile, Akutagawa will not kill anyone, on Atsushi's request. Tiger boy notoced something: Akutagawa kills to prove his strenght. Maybe, if he forces him to go 'cold turkey', he will start to notice other things of value in life. Atsushi is starting to recognize that the situation is more complex.

The next confrontation of Atsushi with an antagonist is the one with Gogol. He is the one to question his opponent's motives, even if it's just for earn more time for help to arrive; but still, he is a little invested in that. He is shocked and confused by Gogol's behaviour, and states that he doesn't understand, earning a resigned reply from the clown. Honestly, given how he treats those who do understand him, it was probably for the better, Atsushi got to live.

The exact opposite happens the next time he meets someone from the Decay of Angels: Sigma. In this case, Atsushi fell in his usual fallacy: he saw Sigma as a victim, someone who had just been wounded and left to die by his own comrades, and of course his comment about not knowing the meaning of his own life, something Atsushi can relate to. So he tried to help him,and 

as a result, he got help from the guy himself, even if he ultimately failed.

Finally, we have the last Shin Soukoku fight, and its aftermath.

Atsushi was just thinking that he was alone against Fukuchi, and in comes Akutagawa like a boss, who has kept an eye on the situation insofar on Dazai's orders. And this isn't the only surprise he gives Atsushi.

He kept his promise of not killing anyone until their next confrontation. This comes pretty much as a shock to Atsushi; it's not specified why, but I suspect our hero, in his black-and-white morality, didn't think it possible that a violent killer such as Akutagawa was capable of understanding, let alone performing, something as honorable as to keep a promise; no, he had to be entirely rotten.

This gets very briefly turned on its head when Akutagawa pretends to be joining Fukuchi: Atsushi even seems indignant that the other would want to put his own life above a conflict in which he isn't actually involved. Coming from someone who sees no worth in his own life and seeks it in protecting others to personal risk, but he still criticize Aku for his dependency on Dazai's approval, not understanding that it comes from the same place as his dependency on saving people.

Then Akutagawa unleashes a pair of bombs: first, he has a lung illness and little time left to live, and achieving Dazai’s approval is the thing he wants most before dying (suddenly putting him in a sympathetic, vulnerable light) and then does what in Atsushi’s mind is the unthinkable: he sacrifices himself to save him. 

This basically turns Atsushi’s world up on its head. He just can’t fathom why. Akutagawa hated him, so why let himself be killed for him? He can’t stop thinking about that. Suddenly, Akutagawa stopped being this bloodthirsty enemy and became a real person, one with an history and thought processes Atsushi was not privy to.

The next time Atsushi will face Akutagawa, it will be his vampire form: nothing but a bloodthirsty beast, exactly what he thought Akutagawa was up to this point, and the contrast will only further his realizations. What will he do at that point will probably be a defining moment for his character arc, and I’m really curious to see what it will be.

To sum it all up: Atsushi is a very good representation of someone who grew up in an abusive and isolated situation, and as a result, while well-intentioned, is unable to relate to other people who lived in situations different from his own, terrible as these situations might be, and classifies the world between abusers and victims, with no space for grey areas. To become the best version of himself, to complete his journey as a protagonist, he will have to outgrow the worldview the Headmaster left him with.

Thanks to anyone who will bother to read my ramblings!

Newsflash: Chuuya cares for Dazai

This can be sort of counted as a part two of my analysis talking about Dazai's care for Chuuya. In this post I will be focusing on Chuuya's feelings and care towards Dazai, hope you enjoy! :)

Chuuya Nakahara is a very expressive character, therefore, it is logical to believe that his feelings towards Dazai are easy to grasp, which is true. But just because we can understand Chuuya's feelings easier does not make them any less complex.

This is going to sound much harsher than I intend it to but Chuuya's hatred towards Dazai is defiently more genuine and prominent than Dazai's "hatred" towards Chuuya. Fellow Soukoku shipper reading this, I know this hurts but bare with me!

Dazai's "hatred" for Chuuya is truly not as strong. Don't get me wrong, there are some aspects that Chuuya has that Dazai finds annoying, but he doesn't truly hate him. Chuuya is one of the first people that Dazai ever actually started to harvest genuine care for. Chuuya was also one of the reasons Dazai wanted to continue living in Fiftheen, not to mention how Chuuya was basically Dazai's drive to continue living and fighting in Stormbringer. I think that Dazai's reasoning to "hate" Chuuya is because of the sole reason that Chuuya was indirectly making Dazai bring out aspects of himself that he has never shown or even knew he had before. I believe that another reason Dazai could "hate" Chuuya is because of how loyal he is to the pm, which could be seen as ironic considering the fact that Chuuya's loyalty was exactly what drew Dazai in back when they were 15.

As much as I hate to admit it, Chuuya does "hate" Dazai. He even resents the idea of being associated with Dazai. The reason for this is simple: he hates what Dazai Osamu represents. Everyone in the port mafia saw Dazai as inhuman, even Dazai himself doesn't see himself as human, and Chuuya desperately wants to be seen as human. So he proyects his own anger and fear of not being human onto Dazai. Another reason Chuuya could hate Dazai is because of how Dazai, a biological human— rejects his own humanity. Something that Chuuya craves so bad.

The reason as to why I say that Chuuya's hate can be considered stronger than Dazai's is because both of these characters strive for one thing: Humanity.

Dazai sees Chuuya as a human. During Stormbringer he doesn't even doubts Chuuya's humanity even after Chuuya's sketchy background and orgins. Dazai even likes to drop small hints to Chuuya that he is human.

This pannel represents their view for each other very well. Dazai says "im human too, you know?" he says the word "too", emphazasing on the fact that he is also calling Chuuya human. And what is Chuuya's response to that? "Nobody would believe that shit." So... Is Chuuya talking about himself or about Dazai here? I would say both, on one side this can be seen as Chuuya insulting Dazai. But if we look at the bigger picture and also Dazai's choice of words, Chuuya is actually saying that its hard to believe that he himself is human. But at the end of the day, he is just proyecting his insecurities and anger towards Dazai like he always does, but this time it was an insult that hurts both of them.

Chuuya "hated" Dazai. Back when both of them were in the pm, Chuuya acted like he didn't give two shits about Dazai. During the times we've seen these two when they were in the pm, Dazai's care for Chuuya was 10x more evident than Chuuya's care for Dazai. Chuuya's behavior towards Dazai is much more crude and vulgar, but that does not mean that Chuuya doesn't care for Dazai, infact Chuuya cares a whole lot for him. Back then, Chuuya did not want to accept it. He did not want to accept that he cared for the person who he wanted to see as "inhuman" so badly.

Even though Chuuya "hated" him when they were in the pm, he felt close to Dazai, he felt so close to him to the point he truly trusts him with corruption and with battle strategies.

Chuuya defiently held a lot of care for Dazai in the pm but he never took the time to think or even realize his care. I would like to say that Chuuya's care was instincitve. Chuuya never hesitates to save Dazai, there was never an ulterior motive to save him, he just dives in without a question.

My favorite example to show when it comes to Chuuya's instinctive care will always be in stormbringer, code 4:

"So that's how it is..." Dazai said as he stared back at the black lump with a stern expression on his face.

Cracks appeared on the ground. Something that looked like the head of a reptile pooked out of the lump.

"Watch out!" Chuuya jumped to the side by manipulating gravity and grabbed Dazai, rolling over to the woods.

Chuuya did not even think twice of pulling Dazai away from harm. Chuuya didn't hesitate at all. The reason for that is simple, he cares. He just doesn't want to accept it nor acknowledge it.

Another perfect example of Chuuya's care when they were back in the pm is the whole microscope situation in the dragon head conflict. Its quite funny how a minute before realizing Dazai's plan, Chuuya told Mori how Dazai is better off dead, but the moment he realize that there was a chance to get Dazai and his own friends out of Shibusawa's mess, he did not overthink it at all and quickly goes over to help Dazai.

So my point is Chuuya was so focused on his own self-proyecting towards Dazai to even realize he cares for him. But that all changes the night Dazai leaves the pm.

The next think I will be discussing about is something that I have talked about on my last previous posts, so if you want a more detailed explanation about this you can go read them. (for some reason I can't link my own posts but they aren't hard to find!)

But anyways, Chuuya has lost so many significant people in his life, he's either been betrayed by them or they die. Dazai has been such a constant person in Chuuya's life and I believe that Chuuya didn't really acknowledge that, maybe he did realize in some sort of subconcious level, hence why he always is instinctively protective over Dazai when he's in real danger.

It was actually Dazai's departure when it hit Chuuya that he indeed does care for Dazai. It was the moment when he realized how wierd it feels to have that one person who stuck with you since you first entered the pm to suddendly disappear.

I think everyone in this fandom can agree that Chuuya was hurt by Dazai leaving without any explanation, even Asagiri confirmed this in the afterwards of stormbringer by saying that Chuuya's feelings towards Dazai leaving the pm haven't been fully revealed yet, and I think its pretty evident by Chuuya's expression when he mentions Dazai's departure, he wasn't happy about it at all.

It was Dazai's departure that wierdly enough strenghtened Soukoku's bond from Chuuya's end. Sure, Chuuya holds a lot of grudge and resentment towards Dazai for leaving, but Dazai has also been the only person in his life who was able to leave and come back, and not only just "come back" but both of them also managed to mantain the same partnership and bond they've shared for years.

When they see each other in the basement, Chuuya chooses to let him go. He could've restrained him to give Dazai a harder time, especially if we consider the fact that Dazai literally "betrayed" the pm– betraying Chuuya to an extension. But Chuuya lets him go, because he doesn't want him to actually die.

Chuuya could've also shown a way stronger resolve when it came to fighting Dazai in the basement, but he doesn't. He lets Dazai "harass" him back. He even goes as far as to humilate himself to make Dazai laugh.

There was literally no reason whatsoever for Chuuya to do this. It was just a sublte bonding moment between the two.

In the lovecraft battle, Chuuya was being so open about his trust for Dazai. These two always have this "actions speaks louder than words" thing going on but I think that Dazai really needed that reassurence, Dazai needed that reassurence that Chuuya still trusts him even after leaving him, he needed that reassurence that Chuuya trusts him.

Back when both were in the pm days, Chuuya would've never said this outloud. Ever. But now that he actually realized how important Dazai is to him so he can't help but say it out loud, to show that vulnerable side of him. Even when he believes that theres a posibility Dazai doesn't care back.

I literally love this "light punch to the chest" gesture, its so subtle yet so sweet. Showing us how although they both are in opossing sides now, they will always find a way to keep their partnership and bond. This little punch screams "I still see you as a partner and that's not changing you idiot" and I love that so much.

And then of course, we can talk about Dead Apple and how much trust Chuuya puts into Dazai and his strategies. We even have Chuuya admiting to trusting his vitality and craftiness. Chuuya trusts Dazai so much to the point he used corruption with the faith that Dazai will nullify it, even when everyone deemed Dazai dead.

These two truly treasure each other and especially their feelings towards each other. It's so intimate, it's so familiar and it's so bittersweet.

could you do an analyze for chuuya and his feelings ect ?

…..Sure!! Thank you for the ask, I’m very honored!! Though I admit I feel a bit insecure when talking about Chuuya since I’m not exactly the most knowledgeable about him.

I think Chuuya feels at home in the Mafia, and that’s very heartwarming. For all the shit we’ve been shown with regards to the Mafia’s shady activities, this dark organization is still one of the pillars of support for Yokohama. We don’t have to agree with their methods, of course, but their army is one of the main forces that keep the city safe from foreign enemies like the Guild, and Chuuya is one of those in the forefront.

In terms of emotional content for Chuuya, I could find more to unpack in the light novel Fifteen than in canon itself. I was particularly intrigued by how Asagiri-sensei tied his emotional development and maturity with his artificially attached special ability. We haven’t got to the dirty details of the experiments carried out at the government facility where Chuuya had been, but I think Asagiri-sensei will give us that because it is an important aspect of the government’s attitude towards special abilities and their users. In Fifteen, Chuuya was pretty much the same as we know him in canon, kinda reckless, kinda short-tempered, definitely strong and independent. Young Chuuya, however, did not have as clear an understanding of choice and duty as he does now. He started off without an identity and a past, and Sheep was his first family. I think he stayed with them because they didn’t care much about his identity, or lack thereof. Sheep didn’t just want a family member, though. They wanted Chuuya’s strength as their shield. Chuuya stayed with Sheep for so long because they gave them a place to belong, but also because of that sense of duty and loyalty. Though in the end, because they both wanted his strength and became fearful of it, Sheep was bound to betray Chuuya.

Emotionally, I think Chuuya was already mature in Fifteen. He didn’t care much for revenge and he understood Sheep betrayed him to protect themselves. And though Dazai made it sound like a deal had been made to arrange for Chuuya’s joining the Mafia in exchange for Sheep’s safety, in the end it was Chuuya’s choice. I feel like this was the first time he made that choice to stay with a family he found instead of doing what was expected of him. Mori and the Mafia didn’t demand Chuuya’s strength in exchange for a place to stay; on the other hand, Mori expressed genuine gratitude for Chuuya’s dedication and determination to be a great leader in the Mafia. Mori’s thought of raising Dazai and Chuuya to become sharpened diamonds shows his genuine hope for them to become valuable leaders to the organization.

Chuuya’s attitude towards his ability is another important aspect of his character. I found it intriguing how Chuuya questioned his attachment to his own body, and even doubted that he was actually human. His immense physical strength also meant he would never have to defend himself at the verge of death, something that usually would make people realize how fortunate they were to be alive. Chuuya doesn’t experience that, of course. He had an abundance of power, which means he’s always in control. However, he feels that power is not entirely his. This is where Chuuya shares something in common with Atsushi: their powers seem to have a life of their own. But while Atsushi doubts himself and becomes fearful of his own power, Chuuya wields it when he needs to, but wishes to feel a bit more human when he doesn’t have to use it. Chuuya and Dazai also share the sentiment of their humanity slipping away, Chuuya due to his inhuman power and the fact that it was forcefully built into his identity, Dazai due to his intelligence and isolation.

Chuuya’s connection with Arthur Rimbaud is perhaps the most memorable thing about him for me personally. For all the shit he’s been through, Chuuya doesn’t blame Rimbaud for making him the way he is. If anything, Rimbaud made Chuuya understand that he was fine just the way he was. He didn’t have to keep questioning how much of his identity was entirely his, because in the end, everyone is just a frame for something (I think what he meant was our body is only a frame for our soul, but I’m not sure). Rimbaud also told Chuuya to live, not as a shield or a tool, but as his own person, with his own will and freedom of choice. Not as a weapon of war, but as a valuable member of the most powerful underground organization in Yokohama, a place he chose for himself. Chuuya’s sympathy for Rimbaud’s dedication and loyalty, his maturity and strength, both physical and emotional, and his willingness to forgive and move on (non-applicable to Dazai) is one of the things I like the most about him.