Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
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“I asked,” he finally speaks up, swallowing down the memories that taste all too much of aging Petrus and refined vitriol . “If you had any wine in this shitty hovel of yours.”
If you still keep my things in your house, if you still remember me
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Chuuya, Dazai, and the words they can't say. Set immediately after the port mafia dungeon reunification scene
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- Part 10 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
- Part 1 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
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To Pin A Butterfly (To Cage A Demon) by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
06 Nov 2022
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"I didn't think it would hurt this bad," Yosano whispers, her own secrets chased with vodka and buried beneath the putrid tang of olive. "I was a kid I-"
She's interrupted by a stubborn scoff at her side, black hair blanketing her expression as she faces Dazai.
"Is that not his favourite?" he chuckles, a darkened sound, drenched in black blood that can't be washed from the soul. That stains so violently against tan the muddled colours nearly force bile to his tongue. Yet somehow he steels himself, quiets the whispers in his head and the trimmers in his hands with a tightly closed fist, never quite meeting the violet eyes ahead of him as he speaks.
"I still flinch... when I hear a camera shutter."
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Dazai, Yosano in a bar, spilling secrets like wine
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- Part 2 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 12 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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Rust In The Hands of A Rainstorm by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
12 Nov 2022
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Oda's car settles to a low rumble as he sits in his driveway, windshield wipers squeaking every now and again as he breathes in the final warmth of cinnamon car freshener. He could ignore the little mound of black sitting on his front porch. Walk right past it, pour himself a nice glass, and relax with a book to the steady rhythm of raindrops on his window. And yet, as he rubs a calloused thumb over the fraying leather of his steering wheel he knows the path he's going to take. Even without Flawless he recognizes that shivering mound so out of place in a sea of white-picket-fences and blooming shrub bushes.
It's with a sigh that he turns the key in the ignition, shutting off the old beater of a car and returning the neighborhood to its middle-class quiet. Far from the gunshots of the Port, the bustle of the city, and the shrill chime of beggar's cans that ring through Suribachi. Here, in this little slice of suburbia, of normalcy and oaths, of tan coats and coffee shop conversations, a demon somehow found its way.
Oda smiles at the thought.
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Dazai, Oda, Kouyou, Chuuya, healing what's been broken
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- Part 3 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 6 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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My Beating Heart Hit 0 to 60 by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
14 Nov 2022
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"Ah, well actually, Fukuzawa-dono... I don't know how to drive."
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Dazai, Fukuzawa, learning how to drive, learning how to live
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- Part 4 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 9 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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But these colours don't count...
Crimson and yellow and orange set ablaze. Fire and flame and the brimstone of a demon's demise, the hues of hell on the horizon. These don't count. These aren't the same.This is not a colourful death, Atsushi...
Dazai gasps with his next breath, forehead limply falling into the steering wheel, a weak horn sounding in protest at the action. A sound that suffocates the sparks from the sky, that overrides the heat of the flames licking the broken windshield, licking blood-matted hair and cotton bandages too infatuated with the flame.
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Dazai, Chuuya, a fateful night in late November, based off The 30th by Billie Eilish
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- Part 5 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 15 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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"Fine," the shorter huffs, yanking the next dress from the rack and flopping it over the growing stack on his arm with admittedly less grace. "Fucking fine, Dazai, I'll pick your stupid outfit is that what you want? Good dogs," Chuuya bites back, the hatred clear on his tongue as it falls to the dresses in his arm, to the man refusing to face him. "use their fucking words."
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Dazai, Chuuya, Atsushi, Akutagawa, wandering through a department store
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- Part 6 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 19 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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Marigolds Bloom From Bedsprings by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
04 Dec 2022
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Because it's only a bed
It doesn't have to be perfectIt doesn't need the corners tucked, as svelte fingers brush over cotton. It doesn't need the material pressed, as bandaged wrists trap a body lurching gag behind quaking lips.
Because it's just a bed.
It doesn't smell like metal, like antiseptic and cedarwood.
It's just a bed
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Atsushi, Chuuya, Dazai in a safe house, the nightly routine of a traumatized man
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- Part 7 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 20 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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Holy Words, Unholy Thoughts (Kneeling Before False Idols, Praying Before Dead Gods) by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
10 Dec 2022
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He never finishes, heaving breaths cut off by the bored swish of socks, Dazai inhaling heavily as devil eyes scan the sight of grace. Of angels falling. "Neh, Chuuya?" Silver tongues flicker, graze over fanged teeth as brown eyes shimmer in the yellow light, the siren song of whiskey glasses playing its opening note.
Yet it falls on deaf ears, Chuuya whipping with a violence that has strawberry locks falling from their restraints. "What?!" he chokes, fingers digging into the hardwood. "What, Dazai?"
"Do you pray to your chibi god?"
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Dazai, Chuuya, a shrine to false gods
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- Part 8 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 3 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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How Do You Whisper, The Praises of My Name? by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
18 Dec 2022
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Maybe it's the wine
Maybe it's the thought of tan coats on his hat rack, of bandages wrapped within his throw blanket, the scent of aging oak in this sweet-grape apartment but-"'Samu, do you ever jack off?"
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Dazai, Chuuya, begging to be fifteen again
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- Part 9 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 21 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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White Tigers In The Snow (The Glass Snowflakes of My Memories) by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
01 Jan 2023
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Chpt 1: A Tiger In The Snow
"Yeah! Yeah, I did-" Bare fingers grip the heat of mugs, burn with the sting of fire on ice, of red on blue in more ways than he understands. "I did want it- I do want it but, isn't your life worth more than that?"Or
Atsushi, Akutagawa, the gift of clothes in December cold
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Chpt 2: Red as Strawberries
“Go back to bed, Shuuji...""Dazai-san? Dazai-san, are you okay?"
"Close your eyes..."
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Dazai, Fukuzawa, Atsushi, Chuuya, Mori; what lies beneath a tree, what lies beneath a coat
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Chpt 3: Jack Frost and Father Winter
“How far back would you like me to go?""As far as you're willing,"
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Chuuya, Fukuzawa, conversations by a fire, the past told by smoke
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- Part 23 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
- Part 10 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
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Rain Upon The Mountaintop (So Reminiscent of The Storm) by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
08 Jan 2023
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Perhaps this isn't the right side of dawn, perhaps Chuuya isn't meant to bear witness to champagne bubble laughs and the crunch of pretzels shared between colleagues, between maybe-actually friends. Yet a piece of him knows it isn't so. Knows that this, that pajama-clad detectives and messy living rooms, lived-in furniture, and the scent of herbs that clings to the walls, this is what tan stands for. This is what trench coats represent, what soft smiles in the daylight, what incense between the fingers, fought so hard for.
This is who Dazai is.
Away from Mori
From the mafiaFrom Chuuya
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Chuuya, Dazai, Fukuzawa, the Agency ; stories from a garden house’s broken mirrorSeries
- Part 11 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 24 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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Cradle Me Softly In Hands I Can’t Break by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
17 Jan 2023
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He can't move
Can't breathe
Can't hear beyond the ragged breaths scraping over his chattering teeth, begging to be birthed. Begging for his jaw to move, for Dazai to say something,anything."Come now, Shuuji, you've always been such a sickly child, haven't you?"
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Dazai, Kunikida, Chuuya, a day at the doctor
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- Part 12 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 16 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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The Value of A Dollar (What Money Can Buy) by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
24 Jan 2023
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“What do you want?" It's sharper than it should be, filed to a point as it rolls across the table, scrapes lines in the wood on its way to Mori.
"A kid."
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(Young) Mori, Fukuzawa, buying children at an auction
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- Part 13 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 1 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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Bath Water Shouldn’t Burn by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
30 Jan 2023
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"Are you sure you want to do this? You can't," a dry swallow, another lick of cracking lips. "You can't take this back. If we do this, it's done, you understand that, right?"
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Dazai, Oda, Bar Lupin, and the night that follows
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- Part 14 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 5 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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The stage lights flicker
The masks crack and his character is broken, body shifting slightly as his guard is dropped. As that rare authenticity trickles through the hairline fractures."I'm not your boyfriend…”
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Dazai, Chuuya, and a post-Corruption flu
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- Part 15 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 26 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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But Your Kisses Taste of Buttercream I Never Learned To Swallow by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
19 Feb 2023
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Because it's June
and with June comes hydrangeas. Comes daylilies and moonstone and the nineteenth of the month.
Comes Dazai's birthday
Fuck
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Dazai, Chuuya, a birthday in June
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- Part 16 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 18 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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Red As My Bleeding Heart by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
20 Feb 2023
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It could be fine
It is fineMori is better now
Dazai is older nowMaybe it's alright...
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Dazai, Mori, Valentine's Day; the breaking of a promise, the breaking of a soul
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- Part 17 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 27 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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The Days God Can’t Reach by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
09 Apr 2023
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"I promise," Fukuzawa whispers, seals it with a hug to cracking chests, a kiss to blackened hair. "I promise, Ougai,"
"I'll take care of Shuuji, I promise..."
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(Young) Fukuzawa, Mori, Dazai, age eight, the raising of a demon, the rearing of a child
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5 seasons, 1 year; 5 times Fukuzawa suspects there may be more to Dazai and Mori's relationship + 1 truth revealed
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- Part 18 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 2 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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What Colour Is Your Love, The Hue of Our Violet Skies by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
12 Mar 2023
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With drifting petals on port breezes, salt, and the gunpowder of years past, a fragrance has settled beside tan though he knows it isn't true.
Knows it died in the firework flash of burning oil
The emerald glass of Petrus bottles
And yet somehow...
Somehow it doesn't matter now
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Dazai, Chuuya, two men drunk in love, (and in the streets of Yokohama)
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- Part 19 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 11 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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Bandaged legs uncross only to fold again, Dazai's knee restlessly bouncing as his arms cross once more. "Catch him, Akutagawa," and it's spoken too rough, scratches the mats on its way to the teen, a thousand memories and a hundred threats accompanying stoic expressions.
Accompanying near clinical instructions and Akutagawa is stilling, obsidian eyes dulling with the command. With a voice too reminiscent of mafia nights, of dark rooms and bandaged eyes, and the overwhelming stench of burning blood.
Of his blood.
"Do it again."
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Dazai, Atsushi, Chuuya, Akutagawa, a joint training session
Series
- Part 20 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 28 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)