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emilover-1 · 2 months

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Ohh okay! thank you though! Normally when ppl hate on mori fans or just hate me because of liking and analyzing mori instead of ignoring I just ask why, I really hate how ppl just feel the need to hate on other's likes when it normally doesn't affect anything with their lives unless it's a very problematic thing and even then it wouldn't affect almost nothing, either way thank you for answering and for your kind words! <3

Another round of Ask answers~

Hello, my 700+ followers who sadly interact with me way too little, yet I know I am absent from my blog for months too, so we're in this cycle together OTL I am grateful for each one of you and I praise the ones who were brave enough to interact with me. Do I seem intimidating on my blog? Sigh... Either way, I love good conversations, so here's a few short asks that need answering.

Thank you for your kind words! I have been drawing since childhood, would be the exact answer, but let's refer to my art schools & professional years only. Total: 17 years. I studied and went through many styles, grew bored of realism in art, so now I pursue other visual experiments, sometimes reflected in my... unconventional fanarts. The brushes I use are all kinds of watercolour brushes I bought over the years, with synthetic gold hair or sable hair, sometimes also squirrel hair. Some are not strictly "watercolour" brushes, they're for face-painting or acrylics, but one thing art studies teach you is that you can use everything to make your art. If you expected things like digital brushes, lolol, sorry to disappoint – my art is traditional!

This is a tough one, Anon! A tough one. The life of a rational Fedya fan online is hard, I mean this in the sense of: if you don't let yourself get carried by the fandom waves of hype, negativity, virtue-signaling, shipping hyperfixations, and general hornyposting dominance these years. At some point in 2022 or 2023 I gave up my quest to find genuinely enjoyable Fedya fanfics (maybe new ones appeared, but I don't want to dive into all that again...). I'm afraid I can't help you much, but I will list some great ones to check out:

my fav fanfic that is still preserved on my sideblog is this one by naaalau, by a deactivated account of a very good fanfic writer...

naturally, the goddess of canon!Dazai fanfics (pompompurin1028) wrote good pieces on Fedya as well, both, admittedly, when I was orbiting around her with my contagious adoration for Fedya lol. Here's her Fedya fic tag. Her Dazai fanfics are sublime though, I highly recommend them even if Dazai doesn't occupy your no.1 spot in your heart!

I find "once upon a december" by puppetlooselystrung a very enjoyable, fun read featuring a refreshing dynamic between a Fedya and a Reader who share a backstory and it's filled with repressed emotions and spy action. Not canon!Fedya per se, but it does extract some of his core traits (like competitiveness, playfulness and unpredictability) and finally gives them to you, who otherwise are flooded with aggressively ooc representations.

you can find more recs under my "fedya fic" tag on my sideblog. I saved pretty many of them there.

I also wrote exactly 3 fanfics for Fedya, you can find them on my blog here. I am not a writer, of course, so these are more idea-driven than anything, and reflect my own musings. Who knows, maybe you'll enjoy them, even if they barely have 100 notes... I just know I won't write or post more of them. A personal decision, even though I had many drafts, and Eliott knows them.

my end recommendation is... you should really just uhh.... switch fandoms and dive into the brilliant writer paradise that is the akeshu/shuake part of the Persona 5 Royal fandom lmao (like subject line, tomorrow B-SIDE, don't tell me you're fine, or the ones in this list here. Even me, who heavily dislikes ships in fandoms, has like 3 ships I ship across all media, and akeshu is one of them, others being 9S2B and SilverV). Or go directly to polarisbibliotheque's DMC Vergil fanfics. They're SO good, you won't believe it.

my actual end recommendation is avoiding disappointment by minimizing fandom engagement. Most fanfics are there to fulfill a reader's unrealistic sex fantasy. If you, like me, aren't into that, you're gonna have a bad time. It won't even matter if it's Fedya or Dazai or Tachihara or Bram or literally anyone – in that kind of fanfic, you could replace the character's name with any other and the fanfic reads the same. Then, what's the point?

Hello, @emilover-1 ! It seems I can't tag you here (update: does the tag work now OTL), but nonetheless my answer is: sadly I don't take analysis requests, and probably won't take analysis requests in the future either. Reasons are: I am mostly absent from my blog now, deep analysis takes weeks or months in-between real-life things and work, and also the simple fact that I want my blog to be a tranquil place dedicated to Fedya-only, very veeery rarely to other characters I still like a lot (my top 4 are Fedya, Dazai aka my ex, Kolya and Sigma, in this order). No shippings, no major topic deviations, just pure adoration for the Conjurer himself, as much as possible. A Mori analysis, just like a Fukuzawa analysis or any other, would simply not fit my blog's purpose. But I do appreciate you reaching out, and (I feel the need to say this) if anyone ever gives you shit for liking Mori as a character, ignore all that and remember: analysing fictional characters is a mental delicacy, and Mori is a terrifying and fun character to try to understand.

I might add that, if people have Fedya-related questions or analysis "requests" 100% focused on Fedya or key-points from my pinned post essay, I might take those into consideration and expand on them.

To be continued if more asks appear and catch me still on my blog~~~ Tick tock tick tock... Time's running out slowly~

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emilover-1 · 2 months

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I'll be lowkey busy due to school these days but I wanna upload something every Sunday or Saturday if it's possible

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emilover-1 · 2 months

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Ten Calamities theory

What if Fyodor is one of the ten calamities? We know for sure that Bram is one of the calamities and that probably Lovecraft is one too, however what if Fyodor is one?

We know that Fyodor was around when Fukuzawa was 32

and he also appeared in chapter 2 of the anime, season four, and with the new chapter, we can say that he was alive and looked the same age DURING the medieval era

It's even said by sigma that he looks the same age (Chapter 111 for reference on how he looked in the prison arc)

And we can assume it was placed when Bram still had his duke position, and what is my point?

He is old, very old and his ability is to take the rest of the years a non-ability user has. It hasn't been fully said what Fyodor's ability is about, we only know that he can kill non-ability users with a touch, and it would make sense for his ability to take the rest of the years those people would have lived, the non-ability users, but why am I only saying non-ability users? because it hasn't been shown Fyodor killing any ability user with his ability, neither Nikolai nor Sigma died while holding his hand, so I believe it's safe to say that his ability only works with non-ability users; let's remember that the ability is tied to the user's soul, and going by this theory by taking the rest of the years of those, his ability somehow gets a fragment of the soul away, it would give more years on his life making his aging less faster and making him live more.

Also! the ten calamities are said to be able to destroy the world, and yet again it would make sense for fyodor to be one due to 1 his intelligence and his ability, if someone kills a large number of people, can the world be considered as not destroyed? it can and at the same time can't because there would still be people, however the population would decrease a LOT, and if fyodor teamed up with bram to destroy the world they perfectly could by fyodor killing off every non-ability user and by bram a vampire outbreak on the rest of ability users and make them kill eachother.

HOWEVER THATS JUST A THEORY

A BSD THEORY

Thanks for reading!

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emilover-1 · 2 months

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Why Mori lied to Yosano

a short analysis!

In the chapter 65 of the manga, he tells Yosano about probably being choosed to be back to the pm, lying about the agreement he made with Fukuzawa, and my opinion and thoughts about this is that:

He lied to Yosano so she wouldn't be worried about the rest of the ADA members.

Mori lied to Yosano so she wouldn't worry about the rest of the ADA members, since Yosano is a very selfless character, she would have instantly thought that it was her fault due to Fukuzawa saying that Mori only couldn't choose Yosano, she would have felt guilty since she was the only one who wouldn't go back to the pm, anyone from the ADA might have to go instead. Not to mention that Mori's eyes do reflect guilt, same with his expression.

Even before and while saying that Fukuzawa had said he could choose her, it is quite obvious that he seems guilty, but at the same time satisfied.

THANK YOU FOR READING MY ANALYSIS!!

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emilover-1 · 2 months

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Why Mori indirectly killed Oda + Why he led Dazai out of the pm

A very short analysis

Killing Oda was the most logical solution, it was; to kill a lower member or to kill more pm members that possibly were higher rank, it didn’t make sense, and even Dazai in the light novel dark era recognized it:

Dazai glances at the at the muzzle still pointed at his face, following which, he turns back towards the center of the room, standing right in front of Ougai, quietly speaking. “I’ve been thinking. Between the mafia, Mimic, and the Black Special Ops Forces, who is the one manipulating these three organizations? When I realized Ango was a member of the Special Ability Department, I reached a conclusion. That conclusion was that this is the Special Ability Department’s plan. Their motive was to let the mafia and Mimic, two illegal organizations causing the government a headache, to kill each other off. If they were lucky, they would both perish together – I thought this was a playbook written by the Special Ability Department, that this was the real reason behind this war. But I was wrong.” Dazai pauses after these words, looking at Ougai. Ougai smiles, shrugging his shoulders, “I’m listening.” “The person who painted this picture was you, Boss. Using the illegal organization Mimic as a threat, you pulled the Special Ability Department onto the negotiation table. And the pawn in the center of this plan was Ango.” Dazai speaks with half lidded eyes. “Boss, the reason you sent Ango to infiltrate Mimic’s ranks was not to obtain information on Mimic. Because you knew that Ango was a spy from the Special Ability Department from the very beginning. Am I right?” Ougai does not affirm or refute this, only saying, “Huh.” “If you think about it that way, the meaning behind several truths will change accordingly. At the same time Ango passed us insider information on Mimic, he had to pass that information on to the Special Ability Department as well. They are undead ghosts that will not listen to negotiations or compromises, only seeking a battlefield. Such danger cannot be compared to the mafia. If this went on any further, conflict would break out between them and the government agencies. This is what the Special Ability Department thought. The next thing they thought of was to fan the flames of war between Mimic and the Port Mafia, manipulating matters by leaking information to Mimic through Ango. As long as Mimic bites the hook, the mafia has no reason not to fight back. Based on this line of thinking, they instructed Ango to engage in combat – all according to your plan.” “You’re overestimating me, but it’ll still be troublesome for me.” Ougai smiles. “To the mafia, the government agencies are also a demon-like existence, an opponent that cannot be manipulated easily.” “That is why you would come up with such a large scale plan – Because the value of that envelope is worth all that effort.” Dazai points to the black premium envelope beside Mori’s hand.

pages 125 and 126 of the light novel

By what they talk about, its pretty obvious that Dazai recognized it was a logical solution, yet he had got very attached, Dazai has little to no problems in using people, but the problem was that Dazai had got too attached with Oda. Not to mention that getting the envelope was beneficial to the port mafia, it was like getting rid of two birds with a stone or however it is said, and as I've said a lot of times, Mori goes to the option that benefits everyone in Yokohama or at least to the pm.

He is called "The one who fell to the optimal solution" isn't he?

next topic:

Why Mori led Dazai out of the pm

This is more of what I believe but I still wanted to include it

Mori led Dazai out of the pm because of two reasons:

He was afraid Dazai would aspire to take his position as a boss

He wanted Dazai to learn a lesson

It's mentioned that he is afraid of Dazai so we aren't going to talk about this topic right now, but about the lesson topic; Mori wanted Dazai to become more like him in case Dazai were to take the boss position, but Mori didn't thought that Dazai had grown that attached to Oda, and while Dazai did recognize that killing Oda was the most logical solution, he didn't like it, he would have preferred that more members had lost their lives than Oda losing his, and therefore to Mori; Dazai didn't want to learn the lesson.

Thank you for reading

I got the quotes (if it can be considered that) from this pdf, i hope you enjoyed my analysis! its very short but what can we do

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emilover-1 · 2 months

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Fyodor will live theory

uhhh late theory

Let’s talk first about his resemblance and references to Christianity and Jesus.

This is obviously Fyodor, however the season in which these pics where from was the 4th season, in the episode 2. This was a great parallelism to Jesus before dying, a LOT of people watching and Jesus being on the cross, and with Fyodor it is the SAME, only difference being that 1- it was Fyodor instead of Jesus and 2- Fyodor has clothes (specifically of the prison).

Into the next similarity to Jesus and reference to Christianity

In this scene, he says the same thing Jesus did before dying in Mark 15:34 and Matthew 27:46.

Let’s also talk about how he thinks of himself as a ‘God-sent’ while Jesus is literally God-sent, and both Jesus and Fyodor are shown as somehow cruel or bad because of God (Jesus refused to heal someone, Jesus engaged in a long harangue against the scribes and pharisee and he also used a whip of braided cords and drove merchants and money lenders out of the outer courtyard of the temple. Fyodor does things that in other’s eyes can be considered as cruel or bad but in his eyes everything he does is good and in the name of God.)

Let’s go now to the theory itself why Fyodor is alive,

In this official art, Fyodor has his arm hidden and it’s the SAME arm where he got his hand hurt and the SAME arm that he was took away by Dazai.

Fyodor’s backstory still hasn’t been revealed, and in the chapter 111, he says that Dazai was his most formidable foe since that man, which could mean Fyodor getting a backstory finally.

In this scene, which is in the untold origins of the agency, Fyodor appears crucified in his prison clothes and with the wounds that he got in chapter 111 of the manga and episode 11 of s5, however he doesn’t appear without one of his arms, which was supposedly took away by Dazai.

In this scene, Fyodor’s arm got off a bit too easily, which shouldn’t be like that since even though he got crushed by a rock, it wouldn’t make sense for it to come off that easily.

Let’s also talk about his out of character things.

Fyodor chooses to not take the antidote before going into the helicopter, which is out of character asf because if he is going to die in less than 15 or even 10 minutes the most logical thing to do would be to take the antidote as fast as possible, not to go to the helicopter and take the antidote inside.

Let’s also talk about Chuuya’s acting, because even though Fyodor did look surprised, there is no way he actually fell for it, for this we have to go to the Ace vs Fyodor chapter.

Fyodor led Ace to believe that he had a space/consciousness controller ability, Fyodor memorized the scratches of each single card, which made him won, not to mention, he had seen how Ace was listening to his conversation with Karma, which is why he lied and he himself gave false information to the one who kidnapped him, and what was it all for? To get the secrets of the pm executives and even the boss himself. He even drove Ace to kill himself, which was a pm executive and also a very intelligent man. So, how could Fyodor fall for Chuuya’s act? Let’s go to why he probably didn’t believe Chuuya’s act.

First of all, Chuuya’s skin isn’t the same as the other vampires, let’s compare Chuuya’s skin to Akutagawa’s one.

See the difference? Even though in canon Chuuya is a good actor, there are different things, one being his costume for the act to the act itself, and let’s admit that the act itself wasn’t that great, he grabbed his hat under the water, he putted his hands on his waist when walking and even when not.

When Chuuya was walking Fyodor should have known that it wasn’t a vampire because he was using vampires to communicate to the exterior.

Dazai's reaction is also weird, the expression he has is definitely not one would have after defeating a enemy, his expression is unsure, doubtable, and even going out of his expression, the way he speaks isn't his usual self, and even chuuya notices

Having took all those facts he probably didn’t believe Chuuya’s act despite him supposedly being surprised when he saw Chuuya again, and I say supposedly because it could have been an act considering how he got sigma to believe his act.

Let’s also mention that Fyodor ‘commanded’ Chuuya to kill Dazai when there wasn’t really any need, because Fyodor could have just escaped after letting Sigma unconscious and let Dazai die from either the poison or just bled out, he knew that if Dazai got to touch Chuuya, Chuuya ‘wouldn’t’ be on Fyodor’s side anymore, which can actually mean that he knew Chuuya wasn’t a vampire, not to mention he looks VERY confident that Dazai would be dead.

So, what does this bring us to? Fyodor faked his death, but why and what other proves are there for this conclusion? His arm got off too easily and his ‘corpse’ was never shown AT ALL, Fyodor is a very smart man so there is absolutely NO WAY he is dead when 1- his backstory hasn’t been showed, 2-it would be very abrupt to kill Fyodor and lastly, 3- it wouldn’t make sense.

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed this theory

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Has Dazai ever been emotionally neglectful towards Atsushi?

Short answer: yes.

We will be talking about chapter 25 in the manga.

But, what is emotional neglect? Disregard/invalidate/ignore/failure towards someone’s else emotional needs.

Some people say that Dazai slapped him to comfort Atsushi, when it obviously isn’t for that; he slapped him to get him out of a panic attack, Dazai went with the most logical option that was slap him to get him out of the panic attack as fast as possible, which is a disregard to Atsushi’s emotions, what Atsushi needed at the moment was comfort due to almost killing Naomi and hurting Haruno as self-defense when he already was being a bit more confident with himself, then having PTSD and a panic attack, in what world is slapping someone when having a panic attack comforting? Dazai could have comfort Atsushi, yet he didn’t. Even if he gave Atsushi advice afterwards, can it really be justified with just that? Sure, in his eyes before slapping Atsushi there was a doubt, and at the same time pity I can guess, but even then, that isn’t correct and is neither a good option for “comforting” someone out of a panic attack.

Someone in a comment of a similar post in tiktok about this topic had said that it was how he probably was treated and that he didn't know any better, however does that excuse anything? not to mention that it hasn't been confirmed how he was raised (before the pm), it's not really a good argument, not to mention that the he didn't know any better isn't an argument, does that excuse parents that abuse their kids because they were abused too as a child and didn’t know any better? it doesn't, and going on by that, then how would you explain that Dazai abused Akutagawa because he didn’t know any better yet said that with Oda Akutagawa would be better treated, Dazai learned from what happened with Akutagawa and saying that he didn't know any better is simply sugar coating it.

What Dazai did to Atsushi still can't be considered as abuse contrary to what some people say, but it can be considered as emotional neglect towards Atsushi, because abuse has to be something that is repeated; a pattern, and Dazai doesn’t neglect Atsushi’s emotions repeatedly, Dazai comforted Atsushi when the headmaster died. What Dazai said to Atsushi in chapter 39 of the manga was exactly what he needed to hear. Even though the headmaster had been abusive towards Atsushi, Atsushi still considered him as a father.

Thank you for reading!

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Mori isn't a pedo

TW: anime and manga spoilers, mentions of pedophilia, beast spoilers, light novel spoilers, official guidebooks spoilers

WARNING: my purpose isn’t to defend/justify/excuse/support pedophiles or lolicons, i have friends who have been victims of pedophilia and trust me the last thing i would do would be to defend/justify/support/excuse pedophiles and or lolicons.

CHARACTER SHEET

Basically, in his character information sheet, it says that he likes young girls, in JP it would have been young misses (幼女) but anyways, it doesn’t necessarily means something romantic, just like in the guidebook it can be platonic, after all theory, sweet red beans also appear on his likes, which- is a like in general but I believe firmly that it isn’t a romantic like, since Mori actually likes taking care of kids since in beast he literally runs an orphanage, so it makes me believe that it is a platonic type of like.

GUIDEBOOK

A lot of people didn’t understand this BUT, when he said about his favorite type is little girls below 12, doesn’t necessarily mean a romantic attraction, it’s a favorite type in GENERAL, we know that Mori likes taking care of children (beast) so it could be a favorite type as in platonic, and honestly, I believe it could be a reference to the irl author.

ELISE

Elise isn’t meant to represent Mori’s sexual desires despite the name, Elise is meant to represent his regrets, needs, and wants, nothing sexual here despite the name of the ability, I won’t talk a lot about the regrets because I already have.

In beast, Elise was a 20-year-old, but why? Because Mori didn’t need her as a child anymore, he already was running an orphanage so what he needed more was a helper, someone who could help him to take care of those kids, having another kid instead of a caretaker who could help him wouldn’t work for him.

A lot of people consider Elise a “victim” when she is an ability, she can’t really feel, she does whatever Mori wants her to, same with how she acts, she could be straight up a doll for him.

OMAKE

Omake 12, Mori says that Elise is his wife, however is that really what it should have said?

Bsd has a LOT of mistranslations, for example with Yosano in the Spanish version it isn’t specified who dragged her into the war, yet the English version says that Mori was the one who dragged her into the war.

In the JP version, it doesn’t say so, in the JP he says tsuma (妻), and while yes, if you put tsuma on the traductor it says wife, is the traductor really reliable? It isn’t. Tsuma goes from “side” and “edge”, indicating someone who is at the side of someone else, tsuma has historically been used for someone/something by the side, it depends on the context of the situation but honestly for this context I believe it makes sense to use the historical version. Mori could have perfectly used Okusan (奥さん) that directly mean wife, again I believe it’s a clear reference to the irl author who give things to interpretation a lot of times.

CONVERSATION WITH KOUYOU

This again, is used a lot for “proving” that Mori is a pedo, but again, this is another of the mistranslations, in the chapter 37 in the EN version he says “I’m touched, but the only girls I protect are aged twelve and under I’m afraid” yet in the ESP version it says “I’m very happy to hear that, but I’m only interested in those under twenty, you know?” In the anime if you put the JP audio and English subtitles it says “I’m grateful, but I deal only with those under twelve” however if you put the English audio it says “I’m quite grateful for that, but I prefer the woman in my life to be under twelve” which- absolutely sounds weird however the JP version and the JP version, from what I understand says “I’m happy but my defense range is under 12 years old” So, the prove that a lot of people use are straight up mistranslation because on every language it is different and it even variates from the manga to the anime.

CHAPTER 65

Basically, in this chapter a lot of people think that Mori was a creep towards Yosano because he liked her, and I honestly agree he was creepy, but not because of that, let’s start talking about some panels. I want to talk about this one a bit "先週まで和菓子屋の店番だった妾をアンタが無理やり徴用したんだろ" it’s translated very weirdly since it basically says on the translator as "You must have forcibly conscripted the mistress who was the keeper of the Japanese sweets shop until last week." but knowing the context I translate it to "You forcibly drag me, I was the keeper of the Japanese sweets shop until last week" however the translations are very weird, and even more because the kanji “妾” means concubine or mistress, but anyways, let’s go to the next panel.

The anime did a very bad job with this panel too, in this panel Mori says, “Such a strong will….” While having tears in his eyes and apparently, a nosebleed, however rather than being a nosebleed because of Yosano per se, its because of the strong will she has, the confidence she has. Mori represses his feelings due to being the pm boss and going always by the logical solution, in a lot of times he has been shown with regret on his face, an example being the fight with Fukuzawa, so I believe that the nosebleed is because of admiration while the tears are because of him deep down wanting to have that will. Also, his expression changed when looking at her before having the tears and nosebleed.

Next panel, basically a lot of people think that mori has an attraction towards Yosano because of this panel, in this panel he says “よ·さ·のくん私の与謝野君がお気に召したかね?” which means “Did you like my Yosano-kun?” which- does sound creepy, and I won’t defend that, but rather; I will explain. Mori wasn’t the only one who acted that way towards Yosano, other soldiers did too, but why would they? Because she was useful, with the soldiers I think that it was rather admiration for such an ability but that doesn’t change that the way they acted is weird. Mori not only admired Yosano due to her strong will, but because of her ability too. She was useful to war, and therefore she should not be attached because they could not only end up having hatred towards her which would cause her mental health to be worse, and or those soldiers could get killed and it would also affect her mental health. Sure, Mori did abuse her however it was never his direct choice to, sure shooting someone in front of her and forcing her to heal them did affect a lot on her mental health, but we also have to understand that going by Mori’s logic it would be better if she was willing to heal them without the necessity of them being at the border of death (it is shown that she COULD heal minor things).

DEAD APPLE AND LOLITA COMPLEX

This topic is very connected to the next one, so let’s start. In the Dead Apple intro, Mori is shown as someone with a Lolita Complex (ロリータ) and also in the Omake 12, let’s see what Lolita Complex mean; The term Lolita originates from the book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, we are not going to talk too much about this right now since it will be talked ahead. The English term refers to a man who finds young girls, mostly fictional sexually attractive, yet the Japanese one is different, it comes from positive idealization and romanticization of girl’s culture. I would also say that even though Asagiri said that Dead Apple is canon, I wouldn’t consider EVERYTHING from Dead Apple as canon due that Asagiri didn’t write it.

LOLITA AND LOLICON

To give context, Lolita comes from the book by Vladimir Nabokov, it touches topics about pedophilia, the protagonist being the pedophile towards his stepdaughter that has 12 years in the book and 15 in the movie, the term “Lolita” is used a lot for little girls or teenagers in porn. In Japan, the term Lolicon comes from the book Lolita, Lolicon refers to obsession, liking or attraction towards little girls coming from fiction. Which brings us to question; Can Mori be considered a Lolicon? The answer would actually be no, I used to think that Mori was a Lolicon, but analyzing it he wouldn’t be considered as such. Does he show attraction to Elise? No, taking in account that he isn’t attracted to little girls, and that he didn’t call Elise his “wife” where does the thought of mori being attracted to Elise? It comes mostly from the dark era in the anime version where he is dressing Elise, and honestly the anime did a bad job at this scene. In the light novel, he wasn’t just dressing Elise, in difference he was scolding her for throwing the dresses while running naked, but even if we go with the anime version, there wouldn’t be anything rare since he isn’t blushing or anything else.

CONVERSATION WITH FUKUZAWA

Omake 12

A lot of people, yet again misunderstand some of his conversations with Fukuzawa and use it as “proof” to say that Mori is a pedo, yet misunderstanding is again big. Firstly, the Omake. I believe that Fukuzawa either answered like that because of a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding because; Mori says that Elise is his tsuma, and since it technically does mean wife, Mori saying “Ah, that’s the response that hurts the most!” could mean that he either said it before or he said that on purpose even though it could be misunderstood. I can understand Fukuzawa’s reaction as a misunderstanding, and the next panel makes me think that even more, Fukuzawa says that he will report Mori, yet he didn’t, which makes me think that Mori told him that Elise was his ability afterwards

Chapter 30

In the chapter 30, during Fukuzawa and Mori’s fight, Fukuzawa says “相変わらずの幼女趣味か?” towards Mori, and yet again the mistranslation is very big. The word “趣味” usually means hobby, interest, fondness and even sometimes affection, which is very different to say that it is a fetish, in some translations it even says lust which not necessarily means something sexual but most of the times it is used for sexual things, so I do not understand them using those words.

ABILITY

First, to start about the ability part, we have to state what it has been said in the anime, manga, and even light novels; Abilities are tied to the soul of the user, it reflects the pure form of the user, but what does this has to do with anything? A lot of people use as an argument of mori being a pedo his ability; Elise being a child and the ability name being Vita Sexualis, which honestly at this point I’m not surprised, but as I’ve said before; The book isn’t an erotica despite it being cataloged as such, the book is about the sexual encounters of the protagonist named Shizuka Kanai which is like a autobiography by the author. He quote on quote suspected that unlike the rest of the human race, he might be indifferent to such sexual desires, so why is it named Vita Sexualis? Again, it is about Life and Sex, yet a erotica has to awaken sexual feelings, but the book HARDLY does that, so I do not think it can be considered as an erotica, it surprises me how so many people assume that just by the name.

Thank you for reading my analysis! The first two topics are inspired by some post of plinko mori, and the lolita complex is inspired by this doc!

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I disagree very hard with this post, i understand why you would think of him as a pedo yet he isnt.

He isnt a canon pedophile and the prove you showed was from the Omake 12, Mori says that Elise is his wife, however is that really what it should have said?

Bsd has a LOT of mistranslations, for example with Yosano in the Spanish version it isn’t specified who drag her into the war, yet the English version says that Mori was the one who drag her into the war.

In the JP version, it doesn’t say so, in the JP he says tsuma (妻), and while yes, if you put tsuma on the traductor it says wife, is the traductor really reliable? It isn’t. Tsuma goes from “side” and “edge”, indicating someone who is at the side of someone else, tsuma has historically been used for someone/something by the side, it depends on the context of the situation but honestly for this context I believe it makes sense to use the historical version. Mori could have perfectly used Okusan or oksan that directly mean wife, again I believe it’s a clear reference to the irl author who give things to interpretation a lot of times.

I honestly put a paragraph from the analysis im doing, however there is another great mori not a pedo analysis (its worth it trust) which i think you could read if you want to inform yourself in this topic, im sorry if i came off as unrespectful since that isnt my intention.

Also, a bit unrelated but not because you defend Mori it means you defend his actions too, a lot of people defend other bsd characters which in terms of crimes are even worse than mori (normally dazai) but it is obviously (most of the times bc someone out there may defend his actions) not a defend of actions, its irrational to think that, you can defend an specific thing and it will always be that, one specific thing you defended that isnt related to his actions.

Also, is it really neccesary to give arguments of why you like a character? not really, you can like a character just because, just as how you can hate a character just because. I really hate how mori likers or fans have to justify themselves saying they dont defend his actions when really its common sense, any chuuya or dazai liker/fan dont have to do that because its common sense, yet every comment about mori i see in different plataforms justify themselves and it honestly annoys me a lot.

Again im sorry if it came out as unrespectful or rude, i just disagree heavily and ive argued with a lot of people about this topic so it ,may sound rude by some words.

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hi! i’m here to provide a little ramble analysis thing to explain why people shouldn’t defend mori/their love for mori.

before i begin i wanna say that i don’t hold anything against people who like mori, and this isn’t an attack. it is just my personal view on mori and why i don’t think he should be defended. please consider reading even if he’s ur favorite character- it isn’t hate!

no spoilers below the cut, but tw for discussion of pedophilia (nothing explicit)

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emilover-1 · 3 months

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Mori Ogai; kindness and philosophy.

Mori is a very interesting character, and with that it comes the complexity of the character, since he is a complex character and not too much is known about him, its pretty often people in the fandom mischaracterizes Mori, so let’s talk about his kindness first.

In the official BSD guidebook, it is said that his strength is kindness and that his weakness is that he is uncertain whether he truly has the confidence of his subordinates.

Kindness is being selfless, caring, considerate and generous, is mori any of those things…? Actually yes. First let’s go with the selfless definition.

Selfless is being more concerned with the needs and wishes of others than with our own, unselfishness. Mori has shown to be concerned about Yokohama and the port mafia more than being selfish by just focusing on own needs, he has textually became the boss and therefore slave of the own organization, everything he does is for the better of Yokohama and the pm, Mori even helped Atsushi in his debut appearance despite it not giving any benefits to himself, there was no need to save Tanizaki and help Atsushi at all, yet he did.

He is caring towards those who are in the pm, even though some may die in missions he sent them to, he is shown to be sad when they die WITHOUT a reason, more than a hundred of his subordinates died because of a mission and he griefs over them because there wasn’t a good reason for them to die, after all mori is called “He who fell out to the optimal solution” isn’t he?

He is considerate towards (surprise) the pm and Yokohama, he puts Yokohama above EVERYTHING, even above personal wishes or needs, not to mention that he was generous to Higuchi admitting that Higuchi wasn’t suitable for the job but yet let her stay.

Now that the kindness topic is off the table, let’s go with his mindset and philosophy.

The philosophy that would suit him the best would be Niccolò Machiavelli’s philosophy. Niccolò Machiavelli thought that the end justified the means fully, he also thought that it was best to be both loved and feared, yet the two rarely go along, and anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in loved, but why? Because if people love you, they can still do things against you or your ideals, but if they fear you, they won’t.

Despite Niccolò not mentioning the word ‘philosophy’ in The prince or The discourses the word philosopher does appear (once) in The prince and 3 times in The discourses, Niccolò is seen as a philosopher himself by a lot of people, lets dive into his philosophy.

Niccolò thought that it would be excellent if a ruler had morals and all good things and none of the bad, but since it’s the nature of life that you cant have or practice al those qualities all of the time, a ruler must take care to avoid the disgrace that goes with the kind of failings that could make him lose his position, just as Mori thinks; the end justifies the means, if a ruler had morals it would be good, but it can’t be possible or it will lead to failure, it just isn’t possible, it isn’t affective.

Mori isn’t good on terms of morality, which may be contradictive to the first part where we were discussing kindness, however Mori is kind not because its just natural and no other intentions than good, he manipulates those people he is kind to, though not always, most of the time he manipulates. This is related to another thing Niccolò thought, was that you could be good, have morals, but not too much because its ineffective, you cannot be good because for you to be a good leader most of the time you have to be cruel, going back to the love and fear, you cannot control how or who people love but you can control who they fear. Have goodness is good, its good but its simply not affective, no matter how much people love you or claim they do, they can always lie, so why not lie to them too? Its better to be feared than lied that they supposedly love you but hate you and start conspiracies. People are cruel, selfish and deceiving, so why not be too?

A lot of people in bsd fear mori, others admire him, but almost none hate him, that shows how good of a leader mori is, and despite dazai and yosano hate him, yosano still fears him, and dazai didn’t always hate mori, dazai just started to hate mori because of what mori did with oda, yet dazai recognizes that it was the most logical solution, the only reason he ‘hates’ and I don’t think it can even be defined like that, I would say that its resentment, dazai wouldn’t kill mori, dazai has no wishes to become or even come back to the port mafia, and again that shows how good of a leader mori is.

Thank you for reading my analysis!

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emilover-1 · 4 months

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Fyodor DOES feel empathy… just not as you think.

Fyodor is seen most of the times as someone without feelings or empathy, however that’s just wrong.

He feels the Cognitive Empathy, which basically is the ability to understand other people’s mind and or mental state, both theory of mind and perspective-talking are VERY related (will be talked soon). The cognitive empathy is divided into 4 categories, the categories are:

Fantasy

Tactical

Emotion regulation

Perspective-talking

The fantasy empathy is the tendency to relate to fictional characters, the mental state relates or finds similarity to that fictional character’s mind, both perspective-talking and emotion regulation, it requires for the person to enter the character’s mind and understand them, the emotion the person feels towards the character will variate depending on their emotion regulation.

Tactical empathy is the deliberate use of perspective-talking to achieve their goals, most of the time the people that have the tactical empathy are selfish people, sometimes they use people as tools for their goals, however it isn’t in an aggressive way it is in a psychological way.

Emotion regulation is what allows you to empathize without feeling overwhelmed with the feelings of the person you are empathizing with.

Finally, perspective-talking is the understanding and spontaneously adapt others’ psychological perspectives, there are two levels in the perspective-talking which are:

Level one: it’s the ability to understand that someone else has different views from yours.

Level two: It’s the understanding other people’s physical views.

What does Fyodor have of perspective-talking? The level one which is mental.

Before going to the theory of mind let’s go to an example of where Fyodor has used both perspective-talking and tactical empathy.

Fyodor had started to manipulate Karma since they met, and when Karma saw Ace’s death and Fyodor started to talk about his plan, Fyodor then kills Karma to free him, karma ends up thinking that even though his life was horrible it wasn’t that bad. Karma’s wish was to be free, and his main problem was that he was a slave, for karma it was; to die as a slave or as a free boy, and yet even though he died as a slave, because of Fyodor’s view of death = liberating he died happily (not so much though), his life was horrible, however it could have been worse, which is why he says that. If Fyodor hadn’t killed him, his life would go worse and worse, being a slave of the port mafia despite Ace being dead. What Fyodor used with Karma was the tactical use, it was tactical use in its greatest, he understood Karma’s problem and understood Karma’s views, then manipulated him and used him (making Ace think that Fyodor’s ability was a time controller/space one) for his plan, which directly enters in tactical empathy.

Let’s go now to Theory of Mind.

In psychology, theory of mind refers to being able to understand other people by even understanding their mental state, it also refers to understand that other people have different views, beliefs, desires, intentions and emotions, theory of mind is important for social activities and it is very used for analyzing and or theorizing about other people, also when understanding someone else’s behavior, theory of mind is very similar to empathy and sympathy but it isn’t the same.

Conclusion? Fyodor has tactical empathy and perspective-talking.

Thank you for reading my analysis!

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emilover-1 · 4 months

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NIKOLAI ANALYSIS!!!! also some Fyolai analysis

To talk about Nikolai, the first thing about him that should be talked about is his views on freedom

What Nikolai is meant to represent is that there are no limits for humans, that humans can do anything, cruel or good things, humans can do it, what Nikolai thinks is that there is no such thing as ‘no human could be capable of killing their friend’ or that ‘no human is capable to be free’, because for Nikolai what the society thinks and puts limits to what a human can do or can’t is being in a cage. The limits being the consequences to crimes, and thoughts being what society thinks of someone, the judgement. That’s where his comparison comes from, a bird in a cage is what humans are, and a bird out of the cage is something that humans most of the times don’t dare to.

(ignore the quality pls)

Even though he is drawn to justice, he still chooses to support the DOA because of the evil in it, as I said before, he wants to prove that there are no limits for humans, humans can do and are capable of making very cruel things, however most of the people don’t do that because of the fear to consequences and because of morality, being why Nikolai says that it is brainwashing, because it is imposed since someone is very young, which leads that when people are older, they have that morality, being a gray, white or even sometimes black morality, it doesn’t matter because those people still have that morality imposed by society, it is imposed by family, schools and even friends.

Nikolai says that the cage is the skull, the logic behind it is that in the skull the brain and everything else comes to work together, the brain thinks of things even though you don’t want to think that, the brain is responsible for everything in your body, and therefore the skull is the cage, the skull is a cage for everyone, and the only way that someone ends up being free is being dead, once you die you don’t have to worry about anything at all, you cant move, you cant think, you are alone once you die because once you die everything is black for you, which is equal as freedom.

His quote “we can’t leave that warm, wet hell” refers to the body and brain.

Let’s go now to the second topic and how it is very related to the first one.

This may seem like it is not related to freedom, however for Nikolai, freedom truly is when you don’t have to think about morality, when you don’t have feelings attached to morality, when you don’t have anything attached to morality, that’s truly freedom for him, however how is it related to losing yourself? Nikolai doesn’t want to be limited to what society thinks, however he is, he isn’t free yet and he cant be totally free when he is alive, that’s why he opposes to God as a scream to be free and fights to lose himself, he doesn’t want to be limited by his personality and become predictable, what Nikolai wishes is to not be able to feel guilty at all, that’s part of the freedom he wants and considers, he wants to be able to have different thoughts, commit crimes and do things considered as unthinkable by society without being able to feel guilt.

It’s more than obvious that he wishes to not be aware of the cage he is in, birds die not knowing the freedom they could have had, not knowing that they are prisoners living in a cage; that’s what he wishes and why he is jealous of Tonan, Tonan is not aware that he is in a cage, he would die not knowing that he is a prisoner, dying happily inside of the cage, never being free at all.

Let’s go to his other philosophical way to think.

What do I think his philosophical way to think is? Absurdist.

The best way to be free would be dying, committing suicide, however Albert Camus thought that the act of escaping our lives does not counter the absurd and rather in the act of ending our lives, our lives become only more absurd, how does this connect to Nikolai’s mentality?

Nikolai knows that ending our lives would be the most easy way to be free, however it would also not prove what he wants to prove, becoming the act of suicide a absurd thing, which is why he ends up not dying, the plan was for him to really be killed, however he escapes to prove what he wants, that a human can do ‘unthinkable’ things to become free, that a human can do anything, there is no limit

Let’s go now to his relationship with Fyodor because it is very mischaracterized, the topics about fyolai will be; Nikolai’s obsession and wish to kill Fyodor, how Fyodor does NOT care for Nikolai and doesn’t see him as an equal.

His obsession with Fyodor comes from feeling misunderstood, then he meets Fyodor and Fyodor is the first person to understand him, then, Nikolai comes to a realization, that if he wants to be truly free he has to kill Fyodor. To show what humans are capable of, to try to not feel so guilty when killing, to be free and fight what society thinks and imposes. A common thing I’ve seen is that a lot of people think that he wants to be free from all emotions, but I don’t think so, I think that he only wants to be free from guilt, from morals and from society itself. About Fyodor, Fyodor understands Nikolai because he is very smart and analyses people very good, however he doesn’t see Nikolai as his equal, his only ‘equal’ is that man and Dazai, and Dazai isn’t totally his equal since Dazai could be very much said that he is an atheist and an ability user.

The chapter 111.5 was truly a very good show of how Fyodor does not care for Nikolai, even BEFORE this chapter got out it was OBVIOUS that he didn’t care about Nikolai, he uses them for his own benefit, as a matter of fact he doesn’t even trust Nikolai, I don’t blame him because how are you going to trust them if they tried to kill you, however the most easy way for Fyodor to get out of Meursault would have been asking Nikolai to bring him back to Yokohama or wherever he wanted to go next instead of going to the helicopter with a vampire driving. Show that Fyodor doesn’t care about Nikolai is the disinterest he shows to Nikolai, he seems disinterested and is only interested when Dazai could die too, Nikolai seems very happy however Fyodor doesn’t even look interested, in the chapter 111.5 Nikolai seems sad at Fyodor wanting to kill him too, and I don’t blame them either since Fyodor was the first person to them to understand them, and Nikolai seemed very excited to see Fyodor again, and its just sad Fyodor’s reaction because it is totally disinterested.

Fyodor doesn’t see Nikolai as an equal despite what a lot of people think, Fyodor sees God as his superior, then he is below God as he is God-sent, and the only equals he has or had was that man mentioned and Dazai. Dazai despite probably being an atheist and also being a ability user, he is on the same level of intelligence as Fyodor, they are both very similar despite that, and therefore Fyodor considers him as an equal but not God-sent. Then, there are sinners, which are people without an ability and are below Fyodor, then finally there are the worst kind of people for Fyodor, which are even more sinners that the people without the ability which are the ability users, and therefore he doesn’t consider Nikolai as his equal, remember that someone ‘worthy’ doesn’t instantly mean equal, and I don’t even think Fyodor sees Nikolai as a worthy ‘opponent’, I genuinely think that Fyodor sees Nikolas only as an opponent, though not worthy enough to be an equal.

Thank you for reading my analysis!

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OMG PLS PLS PLS DO AN OVERALL ANALYSIS FOR VERLAINE!!! I haven't rlly seen any verlaine analysis which tbh REALLY offends me anddd I love all of ur analysis! so pls pls pls do a verlaine one I'm begging rn

AND SO REAL!! I had some discussions on twitter abt mori and the pedo thing and ppl REALLY think that he is a pedo and that Elise is based on his irl book 'Vita Sexualis' and ppl RLLY see the name only and then think 'oh well it's an erotic novel' (I saw someone actually thinking that) when that is just wrong asf because the book isn't anything erotic really, it's about life and sex, and the protagonist LITERALLY is aroace so like...

And elise ISN'T based on vita Sexualis despite the novel being the name of mori's ability in bsd, elise is based on 'The dancing girl' where she gets some of her looks.

AND omg I'm so happy u put the essay link bc I actually LOVE IT!! it's one of the main reasons I do not believe that mori is a pedo or a lolic0n, and it even inspired me to do an analysis abt the topic (I spent like 6 hours on it and it flopped SO HARD on tumbler that I'm literally crying)

ALSO!! omg I love mori analysis I would literally cry of joy if you did a mori ability analysis because SO many people actually mistake it!!! btw I think that elise is based on mori's regrets, needs and wants! (I will also do a mori ability analysis so like I'm pretty happy that ure going to do one (after I finish the mori and kouyou analysis 😭))

ALSO!! (last thing I wanna say in this reblog) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUU HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUU

do you think mori is a pedo? (I don't)

BTW CAN I REQUEST YOU TO DO A ANALYSIS? >< anddd if I can COULD YOU DO A VERLAINE ONE?? >0<

Hi there!! :D

Honestly? I don’t either, and this is a surprisingly controversial stance to have, but I really don’t think Mori is a pedo.

I can see why it's a conclusion people come to, and I’m in the middle of an ability analysis on him that explains why I think this better, but the short end of it is that most of what people use as “evidence” of him being a pedo either doesn’t make sense or is a mistranslation. Not to mention Mori is a lying, fickle little fuck (affectionate) and is constantly misrepresenting himself intentionally to manipulate the people around him.

Given that "Vita Sexualis" itself is a work that Ogai Mori allowed critics and audiences to assume was an erotic novel, despite the fact that it's a largely philosophical work that examines sex and it's impact on society, I don't think it's a large jump to think that Asagiri might have taken that into consideration when writing BSD. Not to mention Elise isn't even from "Vita Sexualis", and that is something I definitely see as intentional.

(This is just my opinion and take on his character!)

This essay goes in more detail about some of the aforementioned things for anyone who's interested:

As for requesting an analysis, you absolutely can!! It's a massive compliment to me really, that people actually want to see me unpack certain topics, really got me giggling and kicking my feet here.

I hyperfixated on Rimbaud, and by proxy, Verlaine so I have a TON of thoughts on him already, and he's a character I'm absolutely fascinated by, if you have anything in particular you want me to look into I can totally gear it in a certain direction, or just do an overall breakdown of his character!

Tysm for this ask!! <33

#literally going to cry of joy #PLS FINISH THE MORI ABILITY ANALYSIS SOON OMG IM SO EXCITED NOW #giggling and kicking my legs #happy birthday to you #i need to re-read stormbringer so bad #i want to and at the same time I don't bc stormbringer is so long 😭

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