Dazai: Say Odasaku, do you think you'd ever kill again?
Odasaku: No.
Dazai: I thought you'd say that. Can I ask why?
Odasaku: I can't hold my kids with bloody hands. My hands will never be clean, not in a million years. I don't want to dirty them any more than they already are.
Chuuya who doesn’t let himself want things because he has to put everyone and everything else first, who feels like his own wants shouldn’t matter because he has power so he needs to be responsible and prioritize those weaker than him.
Dazai who doesn’t let himself want anything because the moment he gains it he will lose it, who can’t handle opening himself up to that kind of pain and vulnerability because he’s been taught that that is a weakness.
Both Dazai and Chuuya whose experiences tell them that the moment they want, everything begins to go wrong and they’ll lose the things they care about.
dazai having a self deprecation moment at lupin and joking abt not being human and ango is just awkwardly silent cuz he doesn’t know what to say to that while oda with complete sincerity is like “yes, exactly.”
ango is ofc like ?? what the fuck?? oda this kid looks up to u, don’t u think that’s a little cruel
but odas just been waiting for this moment cuz he’s like legit convinced that dazai is some kind of cat in human form
he just casually tells them this and ango is just staring at him in utter bewilderment and slowly starts sliding odas drink away from him while dazai and natsume side eye each other from where he’s laying next to dazai on the counter
I'm sorry the contrast between those two scenes is sending me, the anime is very serious about this friendship thing, meanwhile the light novel is just "yeah"
I keep seeing headcanons and fanart of Spy x Family with Dazai and Chuuya but y’all are missing the fact that it’s very obviously supposed to be Oda and Ango with a feral little Dazai running around
Release was delayed by my exams, so I didn't have much time for writing. BUT IM DONE NOW. So I'll be updating this more regularly
This project is a collaboration with @frenchonionsoop who has provided her amazing artwork for this poster and the chapter art.
This fic is full of references to both TLOU and BSD, see if you can see which scenes im referencing and if you can spot all the easter eggs. I try to keep the characters as close to cannon as I can.
You can read this without watching TLOU but i would still recommend the show, its really really good. (If you read this without watching bsd then good luck, I hope you can still enjoy it)
Character swaps:
Ellie = Dazai
Joel = Odasaku
Tess = Ango
Marlene = Mori
and lots more, but you'll have to read it for those (pretty much the whole cast shows up some how or other)