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
Series
- Part 13 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 1 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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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
Series
- Part 8 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 3 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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Chuuya pauses, eyes squinting in thought before sapphire widens, gloved hands slowly falling from the edge of the counter. “Wait, are- are you blushing? From what?” He asks, incredulous tone unable to comprehend that Dazai is capable of emotions. “Me telling you to fuck off?”
The brunette doesn’t answer, only a minuscule breath answering the little god, Dazai’s chest minutely rising as he stares.
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Dazai, Chuuya, commanding the devil, submitting to gods
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- Part 26 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 4 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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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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These Watercoloured Nights by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
09 May 2023
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“I envy you, Nakahara," it's whispered under the rain, tied into the fraying tassels of the rug as Oda lays the back of his head against the wall, eyes shut with the declaration.
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Chuuya, Oda, the first cigarette
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- Part 22 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 7 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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Even Burning Film Couldn’t Hide Our Truth by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
18 Mar 2024
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Because Dazai finally did it.
He's goneHe's left like everyone else
Chuuya is alone once again.
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Chuuya, Kouyou, a bottle of Petrus , the memory of Dazai(OR OR, Dazai leaves the mafia, Chuuya is not okay)
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- Part 31 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 8 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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“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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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)
Series
- Part 19 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 11 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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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
Series
- Part 2 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 12 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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I Had Myself A Sister Once (She Lived Inside A Dollhouse) by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
20 May 2023
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Back when they would wake beside each other on the tatami.
When Fukuzawa still looked him in the eye, when they still shared rum glasses, still split blunts rummaged from candy tins. Back when they still spoke. Before Mori ruined it all, ruined them, everything that was, and everything that could have been.
Before he fucked everything for good
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Fukuzawa, Mori, Elise, the death of domesticity; a joint meeting with the mafia
Series
- Part 23 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 13 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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Candy and Confessions (All The Sweeter Shared) by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
13 Aug 2023
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His voice lilts with every adjective called, an eccentric to his soul and a jokester to his core, Dazai gifting another grin as he awaits Chuuya's response.
It never comes
and that damn mask glimmers in the moonlight
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Dazai, Chuuya, Elise, an Autumn school festival
Series
- Part 27 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 14 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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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
Series
- Part 12 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 16 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)
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What’s Found In Paint and Plaster by HickorySwallowedTheSun
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
26 May 2023
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Shuuji, can you smile?"
The screen flickers, a vintage grain casting itself across the image as the camera jostles, the picture shaking before straightening.
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Akutagawa, Atsushi, a hidden videotape
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- Part 24 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 17 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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"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
Series
- 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
Series
- Part 7 of Flames of Scarlet and Sapphire
- Part 20 of Skeleton Hands (The Lives That Guide Us)