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  1. Rec 25

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    Time seemed to still and the world around them muffled and felt impossibly removed from them. The only things that mattered, in that moment, were his neck getting warmer and the guy in front of him. If he had been looking into a mirror, Chuuya was sure he'd be seeing the same dazed look that Dazai had, and the black of his band fade to leave place to a bright, cherry red.
    “Hi,” he breathed out, voice barely more than a whisper.
    Dazai blinked, almost reluctantly, like he was worried Chuuya would disappear if he lost sight of him for too long.
    “... I don't even like coffee.”

     

    (Or, Chuuya had never really looked for his soulmate; Dazai had spent his entire life searching for them. It goes even better than either of them had ever thought it could.)

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    12 Jan 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 4

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    Arata Kashimura had never seen the stars. For all his twenty years of life, he always looked up and faced, in the night, nothing but deep blue.

    That is, until his twentienth birthday.

    When he found an old diary, and learned about that boy from the past: Osamu Dazai.

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    In which Chuuya Nakahara reincarnate as Arata Kashimura, and relieves memories of a past life he doesn’t know belongs to him, through the prism of Dazai’s words.

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    08 Jan 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    “Before you ask,” Chuuya raged on, her face marvellously dour, “no, I am not seasick. No, I did not eat grass as a child. And yes, I have always been green.”

    “Oh, but that wasn’t my question,” Dazai cocked her head. “I was going to ask why you’re so awfully short. Even for a Munchkin. Did all the vegetables you ate go to your skin instead of your height? What a pity. I, for one, am so sorry.”

    (Soukoku Wicked AU)

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    04 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    “What, I know you or somethin’?” Chuuya asked.

    Briefly, a look rushed over Dazai Osamu’s face— an emotion so quick, Chuuya couldn’t put a name to it. Then, his face mellowed out into a smile that had Chuuya itching for a fight; that screamed I think I’m the smartest person in the room, with just enough smugness and condescension to really rile him up.

    “No,” Dazai said and looked weirdly vulnerable, like he was admitting some big secret. “No, you don’t.”

    Or: the fight against the DOA ends badly for everyone involved. Now, the only person capable of ending everything before it even happens, would rather be dead and buried alongside his friends than deal with time travel of all things. Worse, when whatever adverse reaction No Longer Human had to the book has burned Dazai off the timeline as a whole.

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    31 Dec 2024

  5. Rec 48

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    Chuuya has trouble falling asleep. Desperate, he makes a decision and summons the Dream Eater. What he doesn't know is that all magic has a price. Will he be willing to pay it?

    "A kiss."
    "Huh?"
    "A kiss for one night."
    Chuuya hesitated.
    He leaned forward and clung to the neck of the Eater's yukata, who opened his eyes in surprise at his outburst. Chuuya searched his gaze for something, anything that might shed some light on this madness, but found nothing, or perhaps what he did find gave him courage. He stamped his mouth against Eater's cheek, cold to the touch, and Chuuya's heart skipped a beat.
    The intruder took a breath.
    "A kiss for one night," Chuuya repeated, using his words as a shield. They were very close, so close that Chuuya could feel the Eater's breath on his skin, if he breathed at all.
    "A kiss for one night," the Eater hummed. "And I always keep my end of the bargain. Sweet dreams, Chibi."

    Or: Dream Eater!Dazai x Human!Chuuya, which nobody asked me for, but I have to write it anyway.

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    30 Dec 2024

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