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• Bouquet of Clumsy Words, a Simple Melody by caleatsapples

  Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • Multi
  • Work in Progress

  15 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Akutagawa Ryuunosuke/Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Edogawa Ranpo/Edgar Allan Poe (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Dazai Osamu & Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Armed Detective Agency Ensemble & Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Akutagawa Ryuunosuke & Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Yosano Akiko (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Edogawa Ranpo (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Edgar Allan Poe (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Sigma (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Kunikida Doppo (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Izumi Kyouka (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Miyazawa Kenji (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Tanizaki Junichirou (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Other Character Tags to Be Added
  • Mori Ougai (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Angst
  • Dazai-Typical Suicide Mentions (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Dazai Osamu is dead
  • Everyone Needs a Hug
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
  • video Journalism
  • Dazais Video Diarys
  • probably kinda ooc
  • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
  • Alternate Universe - No Powers
  • I think they're in high school but that's not important to the plot
  • Author Is Sleep Deprived
  • The Author Regrets Everything
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • ignore any mistakes at least its not ai
  • Parental Mori Ougai (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • He's trying at least
  • Dazai Osamu & Elise Are Siblings (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • NOT DISCONTINUED
  • Author Is Bad At Updating

  Summary

  Nobody is ever actually prepared for a loved one to die.

  They can be aware of deaths suffocating presence for years and still never be prepared for her.

  Dazai's friends thought they were prepared. Dazai had been dancing with death for so long that they thought she had grown tired of him; however, when the music stopped playing, she went to find a new partner, and Dazai would never dance again. Or breath, for that matter.

  OR

  Dazai's attempt succeeds, and Atsushi finds videos documenting his life up until the end.

  Language:

  English

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