At Long Last, I'm Coming To Pick You Up, Nakahara Chuuya... My Dear Brother.

All the names Chuuya and Dazai call each other in the Fifteen light novel

Note: This is not every time they insult/make fun of each other. For example Dazai tends to say things like he'll put a curse on Chuuya to remain short whilst he grows tall, more than name calling. However this list is only name calling.

Dazai about Chuuya:

Kid

Pip-squeak (Uses more than once)

Little fairy

A child

Schoolboy (Uses more than once)

Little man

Filthy dog

Chuuya - He calls Chuuya by his name for the first time in the arcade, Chuuya then tells him not to use his name. After this Dazai repeatedly says his name over using nicknames.

Chuuya about Dazai:

Kid

Surprisingly gutsy kid

Little shit

Little punk

Dumbass

Lil twig

Mummy boy (Uses more than once)

Little wimp

Bandages

Idiot

Twisted freak

Little suicide-obsessed- (he's cut off before he finishes this one)

Sly dirtbag

Slimeball (Uses more than once)

Crafty son of a bitch

Sly bastard

Demon

Weasel

Dazai - He calls Dazai by his name for the first time during their fight with Rimbaud when they agree to work together to defeat him. However, he still mixes in name calling along with using Dazai's name.

BONUS - Names Chuuya uses for other people:

Old man - Hirotsu

Old fart - Hirotsu and the Old Boss

Doc - Mori

Bastard - Mori

Piece of shit - Mori

Damn octopus - Mori

Gramps - Random GSS member

Dumbass - Shirase

Ma'am (Ane-san) - Kouyou. (She also calls Chuuya 'Young man' just before this. They both disapprove of being called these.)

Boss - Mori

Randou - Rimbaud (as far as I could see Chuuya mostly used his name, though I may have missed a nickname)

A thing I noticed with Dazai is that he generally calls people by their names. He calls Hirotsu, Mori and Kouyou all by name. With Mori it sometimes feels like that's the insult, he knows he can get away with disrespecting him this way, so he doesn't call Mori his Boss. Similarly he only starts calling Chuuya by name after he's told not to. He also prefers coming up with imaginative insults/scenarios rather than name calling, though he's not above it, so his list is a lot shorter than Chuuya's.

Chuuya however, uses nicknames for practically everyone, they just get more polite the more he respects them. Mori goes from 'Bastard' and 'Octopus' to 'Boss', once he gains Chuuya's respect. Rimbaud felt like the exception because Chuuya kept calling him Randou during their fight.

I also think it's interesting that Chuuya calls most adults something to do with being old/older. I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but to me, this emphasizes how Chuuya is used to being solely around other children. Even Kouyou who is only nineteen, is labeled as older to Chuuya, probably because there were no Sheep her age. In both the anime and the manga they are all depicted as younger teens around the same age as Chuuya.

Ane-san is also a mafia title, so it could just be that, but I do think Chuuya is genuinely not used to being around adults and that not meaning danger.

I have to get this off my chest because the requisite number of SKK posts have crossed my dashboard and I can’t hold it anymore.

SO everyone is familiar with the HC that Chuuya basically admitted to drinking about Dazai leaving the Port Mafia, but allow me to provide more context.

We know that Chuuya states he opened an ‘89 bottle of Pétrus wine the night Dazai left. And Dazai wasn’t kidding when he says Pétrus is exorbitantly expensive. It is a collector’s item. So even a polite 750ml bottle costs something to the tune of five or six thousand dollars or more.

Not only that, but it has an alcohol content of 13.5%, as far as all wine goes it’s a bit higher (average being 12%) with most supermarket wines hovering around 6-8% for scale.

That said, we know two things about Chuuya; 1) the poor lad can’t hold his liquor for shit, and 2) he would not open this bottle like this unless he planned on finishing it.

We also know that Dazai confessed to planting a bomb under his car the night he left.

So allow me to set the scene: Dazai had defected from the Port Mafia, without telling his partner of 3 years. Distraught, Chuuya pops his most expensive bottle because what’s the fucking point, and absolutely trounces it. Finishing the bottle, he stumbles out of the building, beeps his car and it explodes, knocking him on his ass.

And from the ground, in the light of his flaming car he mutters “a’right, a’right… I won’t drink’n’drive…” before passing out in the street.

Prosecution rests.

“Chuuya wasn’t in Dark Era, why is he in this art??”

wdym, he’s right here 🤨

Sleeping at last — Saturn 💔

Do you think Ranpo and Fukuzawa ever had a "You're not my dad!" moment when Ranpo was a still a teen?

Do you think they both just stood there shell shocked as the unspoken part of their relationship, the parent and child bond they share, was brought to light and spoken out loud? And immediately denied.

Fukuzawa never intended to replace Ranpo's father, he never meant to be a parental figure, but he can't deny that part of himself that thinks of Ranpo as his. That saw the lost, naive and desperate boy and felt compelled to gather him close and protect him. The part of him that wants to provide for and nurture Ranpo, not just out of responsibility but out of fondness. The secret feeling he has when he wakes up to Ranpo's noise and excitement, which yes does still tire him to no end, but also has him thinking "Thank God, I found him."

And Ranpo doesn't think of Fukuzawa as his dad per se, he's his boss, mentor, his provider. The man who took the time to understand him, who broke through his wall of isolation and gave him a place to belong when he had nowhere left to go. But he's more than that too, because Fukuzawa didn't just give him a home, Fukuzawa is his home. He doesn't know what he'd do if he lost Fukuzawa and that same admiration and love he felt for his parents is there for him too.

Do you think, Ranpo in with all his powers of observation saw the pain Fukuzawa couldn't hide in the short seconds after and felt the floor go from beneath him?

Do you think it was yet another moment of Ranpo clinging to Fukuzawa, sobbing and begging that he's sorry because he thinks he's about to lose his family again?

He won't though. Unlike the first time, where Fukuzawa had yet to understand their bond and froze, Fukuzawa holds onto Ranpo just as tight and tells his child everything's going to be alright.

That’s not very “Just the two of us” of you sir

Just the wording… look at those words.

Neither LIGHT nor GRAVITY

Not light being Oda, and gravity Chuuya. The two who understood Dazai the most and were the closest to him. Also both managed to give him a reason to live…

But it’s side B what are we expecting it just hurts on an other level

Honestly, I can see a pattern here between Rimbaud's death in Fifteen and Oda's death in Dark Era. “The universe is empty and meaningless. Even then, live. There's still beauty to be found in it.”

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Anyflip links to complete bsd light novels

dazai’s entrance exam - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/vpeu/

dark era - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/pcxl/

untold origins - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/ghzd/

55 minutes - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/ppxc/

dead apple - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/wvkq/

beast - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/vaqg/

fifteen - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/msym/

stormbringer - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/gbxf/

i got a hold of these while z library was still in it’s full glory and thought i’d share! the translation on these is by yen press, if you want a site where you can download them dm me, send any complaints to my ask box :3 i also recommend checking out @/bsd-bibliophile’s website for fan translations