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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    “Dazai,” he said, his tone level and steady, sounding stern. It had changed. It was deeper, richer now, but still held the same undertones. Dazai didn’t know how to respond. “What the fuck are you doing here?”

    There was a pause. A moment of silence. Neither of them breathed.

    And then Dazai turned around, letting his hair cover his eyes, and smiled. He smiled. Chuuya felt like gagging with how fake and ugly it was.

    “Chuuya, long time no see.”

    After seven years, Chuuya reunites with Dazai in the most unexpected place he could think of: his own college campus.

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    30 Aug 2025

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    Dazai-centric, mostly canon one-shots all existing in the same universe. i.e. all the events in these fics are presumably in the same world and may be referenced in latter one-shots. My goal is to have 10 in total but who knows, maybe I'll make it to 20!

    ( ^◡^)っ ♡

    I've been recently reading the works of real-life Dazai so I like to sprinkle in some references and easter eggs along the way. I've also consumed a lot of BSD works (English fan translations) in a short period of time, so these one-shots reference:

    "Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era"
    "How I Picked Up Dazai" or "The Day I Picked Up Dazai" (Parts A and B - this is also my favorite light novel)
    "Beast" manga
    "55 Minutes" (my other favorite!)
    "Stormbringer"
    "Dazai, Chuuya, Age 15"
    "The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency"

    I'm up to date with the manga *cue all the soukoku heartache (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ * but I don't think I'll be incorporating recent chapters into these fics (though many a theory I have >>_>>)

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    21 Aug 2025

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    For 1st year med student Dazai Osamu, excellence isn’t a goal — it’s a requirement for being allowed to exist. Raised by his father Mori, Dazai has learned that anything below 100% is failure, freetime is indulgence, and parental affection is something one has to earn. Trying to uphold these impossible standards, he gets confronted with how coping mechanisms meant to maintain control can lead to losing it.

    Enter Chuuya Nakahara: sports science major, easygoing, backed by a supportive family, and the last person Dazai wants as a roommate. As their contrasting worlds collide and the pressure on Dazai keeps building he is forced to ask himself: is the price of excellence really worth it?

    At 15 he brought back a 97 on a test.
    "What did you miss?" was all Mori asked.
    "One question,"
    "And why did you miss it?"
    "I misunderstood—"
    "You didn't prepare properly," Mori cut him off. "Careless. Do you want to be a doctor responsible for patients dying because of such mistakes?"
    "No, sir."
    "Then do better."

    That night, Dazai stayed up late, re-reading his textbook until the words blurred together, fueled by fear of what would happen if he made another mistake.

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    10 Jun 2025

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    It’s easy to dismiss the nausea at first, in the wake of the implosion of his entire life.

    ~

    In which, unknowingly, Dazai does not leave the Mafia alone.

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    09 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 34

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    "I know who you pretend I am"
    Dazai and Yosano about Elise, probably

    A study in darkness told through the lens of the Demon Prodigy. Featuring Soukoku, angst, poetic bloodshed, and the overwhelmingly underrated (toxic) sibling duo of Yosano Akiko and Dazai Osamu.

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    02 Mar 2025