This Is Kinda A Rant

this is kinda a rant

I'll preface this by saying that I don't hate Dazai. His entire concept is really, deeply interesting. A traumatized, suicidal, manipulative, morally gray bastard. (not to mention the Aggressive Queercoding)

But he is So. Goddamn. Annoying.

A character that always wins is fundamentally uninteresting. If he has already planned All Possible Outcomes, there are no stakes.

In truth, I think that we are at a crossroads in his character. Asagiri needs to make Choices. And I have one Major Gripe.

Dazai needs to show more emotion. He does in the manga, but it's still subtle. This man needs to lose, needs to struggle. I wish the prison arc had been more than a fabricated game of mental chess. Dazai needs to show that he is different from Fyodor. And in truth, I dislike how he acts just. In general.

Think about it. imagine some random-ass man approaches you speaking in flowery, dramatic tones, and talks about killing himself. Now that would be concerning in of itself, but the whole double suicide gag (because that's what it's treated as, a gag) has always come across as threatening to me. Now, I'll admit that I don't think dazai (or, perhaps, asagiri) might simply understands how threatening it can be. like. saying he wants you to kill yourself with him just means 'i want to die, and I think you should die wth me" like.

It's always sat wrong to me, and I just think we should, y'know, address it.

not to mention the fact that we as a fandom need to acknowledge that Dazai is manipulative and that for him to redeem himself, he needs to directly address his actions, and stop puppetering events.

I also admit that the fandom loves him to an incredibly annoying degree and if I see one more dazai-centric fic I'm gonna lose it.

Please give attention to chracters other than dazai, especially the incredibly interesting bsd ladies.