This is an official art for Bungou Stray Dogs’ film, The Dead Apple. Is the producer of BSD a fan of Soukoku? Scrutinize the photo and you will see that Dazai and Chuuya are lovingly holding each other’s hand. If this ship won’t become a canon, then I don’t know anymore.
okay i finally found the source for the edit, yay
to clarify: top half of the picture is official art, bottom half is fanmade
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after getting the 4th volume of the official manga in the mail today and checking out this Infamous scene, i can’t help but laugh at dazai being described as chuuya’s ‘ex-best friend’
(10 seconds in ms paint)
title: playing the pet
ship: dazai osamu/nakahara chuuya
rating: T
AO3 link: here!
some vague spoilers have been posted around on twitter, so, again, here’s what i’ve seen so far @ anyone who wants spoilers/is wondering:
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SO. looks like mafia boss dazai with chuuya as his right hand man is Real and Valid in the Shin Soukoku novel… (But At What Cost)
I gotta wonder what Chuuya’s reason for hating Dazai in this verse is– since it’s not like Dazai would have betrayed him by leaving the mafia in this scenario…
A big thing I was thinking about, though, is if Dazai’s death would mean Chuuya becoming the new mafia boss…? Hierarchy-wise, it would probably make sense, if Chuuya is the second in command… hmm
also got to fucking wonder how chuuya would feel having to take over the mafia because dazai killed himself, and chances are chuuya probably didn’t really know the details at all, considering dazai couldn’t tell him the truth about the book… assuming i’m correct this means chuuya still pretty much got abandoned by dazai… pLEASE SAVE CHUUYA
Yeah, I understand their feelings, honestly, but I wish people would just let the fans enjoy themselves, y’know? I think we all understand deep down it’s not really ~canon~, but getting this kind of content for your ships is really something worth celebrating.
Personally, I’m not actually used to having my fav characters or ships be Wildly Popular in fandom, so this is really an exciting thing for me? I originally got into BSD in 2016 mainly because of Chuuya and I’ve thought about and wanted shit like this so much since then. I love seeing other people appreciate my favs and the hype and excitement is so fucking Real right now and no one is going to stop me from enjoying this moment, tbh.
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