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CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Osamu Dazai
AGE: 38 (not including time spent dead, physical appearance is somewhere in early twenties)
CANON: Bungou to Alchemist
NAME: Osamu Dazai
AGE: 38 (not including time spent dead, physical appearance is somewhere in early twenties)
CANON: Bungou to Alchemist
CANON HISTORY: Part one, the Actual Dazai's history.
In the modern era, creatures called Taints have been destroying literature: not only do they blot out the pages, but the memories of the books disappear from people's minds. To slow their advance, the National Library in Toyko has hired a specialist alchemist known as the Librarian to summon famous writers with a strong attachment to literature in order to enter books and fight directly against the Taints. Dazai Osamu is one of these writers. Being summoned gave him skills with a scythe. When Dazai isn't in a book destroying Taints, he spends his time in the library stalking Akutagawa Ryuunosuke, trying to avoid being dragged drinking by Nakahara Chuuya, hanging out with the other members of the decadent school of writing, and in general acting like he's the most important one there.
The Librarian (the player insert) is capable of 'transmigrating' the spirits of authors with deep attachments to literature in order to have them enter tainted books and cleanse the Taints that are destroying literature. Dazai is one of those author spirits - he's one of the three rarest currently available to summon, along with Akutagawa Ryuunosuke and Izumi Kyouka, and appropriately he's one of the strongest.
The book spirits have the memories of their real life selves, though they can be influenced by people's views and their works (the two authors who are known primarily for children's literature are incarnated as children even though they remember being adults). Thus far, there's no indication that the authors in this canon lived lives any different from their real versions. They don't immediately remember every part of their lives due to the shock from being suddenly summoned, but they regain those memories as they stay longer in this world.
Dazai's job in the National Library is strictly to fight off Taints, and he's required to go into battle when ordered by the Librarian. Aside from that, he gets a certain amount of money from the library to do with what he wishes, and he gets his basic needs taken care of (spirits still have to eat). Basically it's a 'as long as you go fight these monsters when you're told to and don't cause a huge amount of trouble for the library, do whatever you want' situation.
CANON PERSONALITY: Within the first two sentences Dazai speaks after being summoned, someone might get the impression that he has an inflated opinion of himself, and they wouldn't be wrong. Dazai constantly talks about how great he is, how awesome he is in battle, how good he looks, how the Librarian must be his fan, etc. His narcissism is fragile, however, and he doesn't have any stops in between "I'm an amazing author and great at everything" and "I'm good for nothing and should just go die". "Emo mode", as one of his friends puts it, can be triggered by almost anything: working too hard, being ignored, remembering an embarrassing moment in his past, getting injured, having difficulty sleeping, basically anything.
Dazai is an attention seeker, and there's no one he wants more attention from than writers he admires. When he really idolizes someone, it's usually to his own detriment: Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's death led to Dazai Osamu's college life spiraling downwards, and his obsession with winning the Akutagawa Prize named for him (which he never did get) led to him alienating his teacher by sending him multiple letters begging for the prize. Being able to speak to his idol overjoys him: even if the conversation consisted of Akutagawa barely knowing who he was and only knowing that he wore a lot of red, Dazai could have died happy.
He's bad at confrontation. He'll gladly insult someone in print, even writing long attacks on people for such heinous crimes as not giving him the award he wanted, or implying/outright stating that a critic was responsible for his friend's death. But if they meet in person, he almost always switches to flattery. Even if that person knows what he wrote about them, his usual response is something like 'well, yes, I said all that, but really, I'm your fan!' He's easily cowed by people who are aggressive, even if they almost certainly couldn't win in a fight against him now or back when they were alive. It's incredibly easy to make him cry.
Dazai is fashion-conscious to an extreme: he's 'the stylish one', dating back to when one of his older relatives called him the ugliest of his siblings and he decided that if he couldn't be the most handsome, he would at least be the most fashionable. Even if it's something no one will see, all of his clothes have to look good, and if anyone sees him with even a hair out of place, then something is seriously wrong.
He holds grudges: he still won't forgive the person he blames for his friend Odasaku's obscurity as a writer and his death at a young age. On the other hand, he wants other people to forget about his embarrassing past, which is more than a little hypocritical.
With his friends, he tends to bicker good-naturedly with them, and worries about them when they push themselves too hard. Even if it's hypocritical, given what a disaster he is himself, he cares about the few people who are close to him and doesn't want them to end up like he did.
Dazai thinks of dying alone as too lonely, but would still be willing to go kill himself with a beautiful woman, even now. He's still a flirt with women - sleeping with his fans and cheating on his wives happened more than once during his lifetime - and he tends toward the naive when it comes to women he likes, such as being Shocked and Betrayed when he found out that his wife (who had been a geisha) had lovers before him.
tl;dr please get the National Library to employ a therapist on staff because Dazai needs it.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
Ink Healing: Since he's basically just ink, paper, and magic in the form of a person, consuming ink heals his wounds. It still tastes as gross as you'd expect.
Scythemanship: Being summoned gave Dazai the skills to use a scythe as a weapon in combat. He's one of the stronger authors in the library.
Scythe summon: The writers have books that they turn into their weapons - Dazai's book turns into an unnecessarily flashy-looking scythe.
Writing: Dazai is considered one of the most talented writers of modern Japan, and one of his novels, No Longer Human, is the second-best selling novel in Japan. He's one of the best authors of autobiographical "I-novels", and his reputation as a great novelist is well-founded.
Dialects: Dazai learned the Toyko-ben dialect of Japanese well enough to speak it flawlessly, but he grew up speaking Tsugaru-ben, a dialect so far removed from standard Japanese that it's usually subtitled on Japanese television for viewers who wouldn't be able to understand it.
In the modern era, creatures called Taints have been destroying literature: not only do they blot out the pages, but the memories of the books disappear from people's minds. To slow their advance, the National Library in Toyko has hired a specialist alchemist known as the Librarian to summon famous writers with a strong attachment to literature in order to enter books and fight directly against the Taints. Dazai Osamu is one of these writers. Being summoned gave him skills with a scythe. When Dazai isn't in a book destroying Taints, he spends his time in the library stalking Akutagawa Ryuunosuke, trying to avoid being dragged drinking by Nakahara Chuuya, hanging out with the other members of the decadent school of writing, and in general acting like he's the most important one there.
The Librarian (the player insert) is capable of 'transmigrating' the spirits of authors with deep attachments to literature in order to have them enter tainted books and cleanse the Taints that are destroying literature. Dazai is one of those author spirits - he's one of the three rarest currently available to summon, along with Akutagawa Ryuunosuke and Izumi Kyouka, and appropriately he's one of the strongest.
The book spirits have the memories of their real life selves, though they can be influenced by people's views and their works (the two authors who are known primarily for children's literature are incarnated as children even though they remember being adults). Thus far, there's no indication that the authors in this canon lived lives any different from their real versions. They don't immediately remember every part of their lives due to the shock from being suddenly summoned, but they regain those memories as they stay longer in this world.
Dazai's job in the National Library is strictly to fight off Taints, and he's required to go into battle when ordered by the Librarian. Aside from that, he gets a certain amount of money from the library to do with what he wishes, and he gets his basic needs taken care of (spirits still have to eat). Basically it's a 'as long as you go fight these monsters when you're told to and don't cause a huge amount of trouble for the library, do whatever you want' situation.
CANON PERSONALITY: Within the first two sentences Dazai speaks after being summoned, someone might get the impression that he has an inflated opinion of himself, and they wouldn't be wrong. Dazai constantly talks about how great he is, how awesome he is in battle, how good he looks, how the Librarian must be his fan, etc. His narcissism is fragile, however, and he doesn't have any stops in between "I'm an amazing author and great at everything" and "I'm good for nothing and should just go die". "Emo mode", as one of his friends puts it, can be triggered by almost anything: working too hard, being ignored, remembering an embarrassing moment in his past, getting injured, having difficulty sleeping, basically anything.
Dazai is an attention seeker, and there's no one he wants more attention from than writers he admires. When he really idolizes someone, it's usually to his own detriment: Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's death led to Dazai Osamu's college life spiraling downwards, and his obsession with winning the Akutagawa Prize named for him (which he never did get) led to him alienating his teacher by sending him multiple letters begging for the prize. Being able to speak to his idol overjoys him: even if the conversation consisted of Akutagawa barely knowing who he was and only knowing that he wore a lot of red, Dazai could have died happy.
He's bad at confrontation. He'll gladly insult someone in print, even writing long attacks on people for such heinous crimes as not giving him the award he wanted, or implying/outright stating that a critic was responsible for his friend's death. But if they meet in person, he almost always switches to flattery. Even if that person knows what he wrote about them, his usual response is something like 'well, yes, I said all that, but really, I'm your fan!' He's easily cowed by people who are aggressive, even if they almost certainly couldn't win in a fight against him now or back when they were alive. It's incredibly easy to make him cry.
Dazai is fashion-conscious to an extreme: he's 'the stylish one', dating back to when one of his older relatives called him the ugliest of his siblings and he decided that if he couldn't be the most handsome, he would at least be the most fashionable. Even if it's something no one will see, all of his clothes have to look good, and if anyone sees him with even a hair out of place, then something is seriously wrong.
He holds grudges: he still won't forgive the person he blames for his friend Odasaku's obscurity as a writer and his death at a young age. On the other hand, he wants other people to forget about his embarrassing past, which is more than a little hypocritical.
With his friends, he tends to bicker good-naturedly with them, and worries about them when they push themselves too hard. Even if it's hypocritical, given what a disaster he is himself, he cares about the few people who are close to him and doesn't want them to end up like he did.
Dazai thinks of dying alone as too lonely, but would still be willing to go kill himself with a beautiful woman, even now. He's still a flirt with women - sleeping with his fans and cheating on his wives happened more than once during his lifetime - and he tends toward the naive when it comes to women he likes, such as being Shocked and Betrayed when he found out that his wife (who had been a geisha) had lovers before him.
tl;dr please get the National Library to employ a therapist on staff because Dazai needs it.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
Ink Healing: Since he's basically just ink, paper, and magic in the form of a person, consuming ink heals his wounds. It still tastes as gross as you'd expect.
Scythemanship: Being summoned gave Dazai the skills to use a scythe as a weapon in combat. He's one of the stronger authors in the library.
Scythe summon: The writers have books that they turn into their weapons - Dazai's book turns into an unnecessarily flashy-looking scythe.
Writing: Dazai is considered one of the most talented writers of modern Japan, and one of his novels, No Longer Human, is the second-best selling novel in Japan. He's one of the best authors of autobiographical "I-novels", and his reputation as a great novelist is well-founded.
Dialects: Dazai learned the Toyko-ben dialect of Japanese well enough to speak it flawlessly, but he grew up speaking Tsugaru-ben, a dialect so far removed from standard Japanese that it's usually subtitled on Japanese television for viewers who wouldn't be able to understand it.
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Shuji Tsushima
AU AGE:24 25 26
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Shuji's eyes are brown instead of gold; his hair is naturally brown, but he dyes it to the same shade of obnoxious red as in canon.
AU NAME: Shuji Tsushima
AU AGE:
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Shuji's eyes are brown instead of gold; his hair is naturally brown, but he dyes it to the same shade of obnoxious red as in canon.
AU HISTORY: - Shuji is a second-generation immigrant: his parents came over from Aomori, Japan, after a run of bad fortune convinced them that the only way they could get their lives back on track was to shake things up, and they'd always wanted to live in a big city anyway.
- He's an only child! His relationship with his parents is awkward due to his difficulties with school and him actually learning how to support himself, but there's no doubt they love each other.
- Shuji has always been bright, but he's one of those kids who thinks that being bright is enough to get him to pass through school and college flawlessly even if he doesn't study and instead spends all his time writing in his notebook or listening to fifty different Youtube channels about fashion or flirting with girls-
- Unsurprisingly, this doesn't go all that well for him in college. He's currently on his third attempt at college: the first two ended somewhat similarly, with him taking breaks in between. He'd try his best for a while and then get distracted by other, more fun pursuits, then feeling bad about getting distracted would make him want to cheer himself up, and so forth until he had to withdraw. Right now he's still doing okay in this attempt, but who knows.
- He's had various teachers who've been good for him - Alexandros taught an astronomy class, which Shuji took to fill out his schedule rather than needing it for his degree and enjoyed it more than he thought he would. He's also been a frequent visitor to Lailah Lefay's office, since if anyone needs guidance from the guidance counselor in this college, it's him.
- Of course he's majoring in literature, and currently he's living at the dorms to at least try to get him to be independent.
- Since he's been in the same college three times now, he gives freshmen like Tuuri Hotakainen advice about specific teachers, because then it's cool that he already knows all the teachers and not just totally lame that he's still in college. (It's not cool.) In general he's social enough at college to have talked to a lot of people, such as John Steinbeck, in passing, but he doesn't have many close friends there.
- To help encourage responsibility, his parents have required him to get a part-time job this time around, so he's working in a convenience store. Working retail is probably not good for his mental state, but it was the first thing he could find available. He tends to be easily cowed by customers, and his coworkers have probably all seen him cry at least once. Most notably, Guido Mista was once fired for swearing at a customer who brought Shuji to tears.
- Once his flirting with girls led to Alison Montague stalking him. He is terrified of her to this day.
- He has tried various things for therapeutic purposes - he was once in a yoga class with Algira and still keeps in contact with him, though yoga didn't work out for him.
- He still spends entirely too much time browsing Youtube, and gets extremely excited if he meets a Youtube star in real life, like his college classmate Jade Harley. He also leaves mean anonymous comments to Youtubers he doesn't like, such as Akinobu Taira. He doesn't put up videos himself, but he does help Silver film his stupid stunts sometimes, and he's written lyrics and sent them to Aster Raban for her to sing on her channels.
- Another good chunk of his time on the internet is spent leaving comments on blogs like Nikkari Aoe's, debating the existence of ghosts from the Great Molasses Flood and things like that.
- He spends his money on fashion magazines, where he follows models like Baren Kaiyou and Zelos Wilder; alcohol, especially at Chuuya Nakahara's literature-themed bar where people like Kunikida Doppo can listen to him loudly debate over naturalism's artistic merit; and literature, including poetry books by Kasen Kaneda. More often than buying books, he hangs out at the library and gets opinions on books from people like Brett.
AU PERSONALITY: Still a disaster, but in a more moderate 'college kid needs to get his life together' way than an 'on the brink of suicide at all times' way.
A decent amount of Dazai's instability was caused by his family situation: Dazai's father was a busy government official and his mother was almost constantly sick from having had 10+ children, so Dazai was passed from nurse to nurse and never really had a stable parental figure - he wasn't even sure if his parents were his biological ones. Besides that, he was one of many siblings, and while he early on struggled to make a name for himself outside of his family, being emotionally disowned by his siblings after one too many screwups was a significant blow to his emotional health.
Shuji's situation is more or less the opposite: an only child with two parents who both cared for him. Having a stable family he can fall back on means he doesn't have as much of a driving need to be the best or a need to run off and die when he fails at being the best. He still has a healthy ego - he knows he's smart and a talented writer - and he still has self-destructive patterns, but those patterns are things like cheering himself up from doing poorly at classes by doing more of the leisure activities that resulted in him doing poorly at classes in the first place. He's only thought about suicide in a literary context, and has never seriously considered it as a solution to his problems. Not being forced to leave the nest has resulted in him still relying on his family for support past when he should have been 'an adult', but that's still an improvement over Dazai "I Wonder How I Can Die Painlessly And Magnificently" Osamu.
Shuji still idolizes people, but he hasn't attached to any one person as much as his canon self attached to Akutagawa, instead having a number of people he admires to a lesser extent. If any of his idols died, he'd be sad, but it wouldn't send his college life down the gutter as he sunk into despair. On the other hand, he's much more likely to actually contact them with gushing praise, given how easy it is to reach people over the internet.
Instead of publishing scathing papers about people, he leaves them scathing anonymous messages on their blogs/Youtube channels/etc. He's still bad at direct confrontation, so even if he's called out on having left someone a nasty message, he'll deny it, because obviously he is a good person who would never leave mean anonymous comments.
He's on way fewer drugs than his previous 'decadent' lifestyle - he still drinks to excess, but he's unlikely to end up in rehab for morphine addiction anytime soon.
He's certainly more naive than his canon counterpart, being fourteen years younger than him and much less experienced in the ways of adulthood. On the other hand, his past isn't nearly as embarrassing as Dazai's, and he doesn't have Dazai's problem of 'being famous means everyone knows about all the embarrassing parts' or the problem of already being dead, so he can use 'well I'm still young and learning' as an excuse for when he does something stupid.
Since he's not a published author, Shuji hasn't had a reason to take a pen name, so he still uses his birth name exclusively (and will be pretty confused about getting both memories calling him Shuji and memories calling him Dazai). Living in Fake-America, he hasn't had as much reason to learn to speak Tokyo-ben flawlessly, since his parents only speak Tsugaru-ben at home: he understands Tokyo-ben, mostly because of things he's listened to, but he's embarrassed to speak Japanese in either Tsugaru-ben with its negative reputation or in his stilted attempts at Tokyo-ben.
- He's an only child! His relationship with his parents is awkward due to his difficulties with school and him actually learning how to support himself, but there's no doubt they love each other.
- Shuji has always been bright, but he's one of those kids who thinks that being bright is enough to get him to pass through school and college flawlessly even if he doesn't study and instead spends all his time writing in his notebook or listening to fifty different Youtube channels about fashion or flirting with girls-
- Unsurprisingly, this doesn't go all that well for him in college. He's currently on his third attempt at college: the first two ended somewhat similarly, with him taking breaks in between. He'd try his best for a while and then get distracted by other, more fun pursuits, then feeling bad about getting distracted would make him want to cheer himself up, and so forth until he had to withdraw. Right now he's still doing okay in this attempt, but who knows.
- He's had various teachers who've been good for him - Alexandros taught an astronomy class, which Shuji took to fill out his schedule rather than needing it for his degree and enjoyed it more than he thought he would. He's also been a frequent visitor to Lailah Lefay's office, since if anyone needs guidance from the guidance counselor in this college, it's him.
- Of course he's majoring in literature, and currently he's living at the dorms to at least try to get him to be independent.
- Since he's been in the same college three times now, he gives freshmen like Tuuri Hotakainen advice about specific teachers, because then it's cool that he already knows all the teachers and not just totally lame that he's still in college. (It's not cool.) In general he's social enough at college to have talked to a lot of people, such as John Steinbeck, in passing, but he doesn't have many close friends there.
- To help encourage responsibility, his parents have required him to get a part-time job this time around, so he's working in a convenience store. Working retail is probably not good for his mental state, but it was the first thing he could find available. He tends to be easily cowed by customers, and his coworkers have probably all seen him cry at least once. Most notably, Guido Mista was once fired for swearing at a customer who brought Shuji to tears.
- Once his flirting with girls led to Alison Montague stalking him. He is terrified of her to this day.
- He has tried various things for therapeutic purposes - he was once in a yoga class with Algira and still keeps in contact with him, though yoga didn't work out for him.
- He still spends entirely too much time browsing Youtube, and gets extremely excited if he meets a Youtube star in real life, like his college classmate Jade Harley. He also leaves mean anonymous comments to Youtubers he doesn't like, such as Akinobu Taira. He doesn't put up videos himself, but he does help Silver film his stupid stunts sometimes, and he's written lyrics and sent them to Aster Raban for her to sing on her channels.
- Another good chunk of his time on the internet is spent leaving comments on blogs like Nikkari Aoe's, debating the existence of ghosts from the Great Molasses Flood and things like that.
- He spends his money on fashion magazines, where he follows models like Baren Kaiyou and Zelos Wilder; alcohol, especially at Chuuya Nakahara's literature-themed bar where people like Kunikida Doppo can listen to him loudly debate over naturalism's artistic merit; and literature, including poetry books by Kasen Kaneda. More often than buying books, he hangs out at the library and gets opinions on books from people like Brett.
AU PERSONALITY: Still a disaster, but in a more moderate 'college kid needs to get his life together' way than an 'on the brink of suicide at all times' way.
A decent amount of Dazai's instability was caused by his family situation: Dazai's father was a busy government official and his mother was almost constantly sick from having had 10+ children, so Dazai was passed from nurse to nurse and never really had a stable parental figure - he wasn't even sure if his parents were his biological ones. Besides that, he was one of many siblings, and while he early on struggled to make a name for himself outside of his family, being emotionally disowned by his siblings after one too many screwups was a significant blow to his emotional health.
Shuji's situation is more or less the opposite: an only child with two parents who both cared for him. Having a stable family he can fall back on means he doesn't have as much of a driving need to be the best or a need to run off and die when he fails at being the best. He still has a healthy ego - he knows he's smart and a talented writer - and he still has self-destructive patterns, but those patterns are things like cheering himself up from doing poorly at classes by doing more of the leisure activities that resulted in him doing poorly at classes in the first place. He's only thought about suicide in a literary context, and has never seriously considered it as a solution to his problems. Not being forced to leave the nest has resulted in him still relying on his family for support past when he should have been 'an adult', but that's still an improvement over Dazai "I Wonder How I Can Die Painlessly And Magnificently" Osamu.
Shuji still idolizes people, but he hasn't attached to any one person as much as his canon self attached to Akutagawa, instead having a number of people he admires to a lesser extent. If any of his idols died, he'd be sad, but it wouldn't send his college life down the gutter as he sunk into despair. On the other hand, he's much more likely to actually contact them with gushing praise, given how easy it is to reach people over the internet.
Instead of publishing scathing papers about people, he leaves them scathing anonymous messages on their blogs/Youtube channels/etc. He's still bad at direct confrontation, so even if he's called out on having left someone a nasty message, he'll deny it, because obviously he is a good person who would never leave mean anonymous comments.
He's on way fewer drugs than his previous 'decadent' lifestyle - he still drinks to excess, but he's unlikely to end up in rehab for morphine addiction anytime soon.
He's certainly more naive than his canon counterpart, being fourteen years younger than him and much less experienced in the ways of adulthood. On the other hand, his past isn't nearly as embarrassing as Dazai's, and he doesn't have Dazai's problem of 'being famous means everyone knows about all the embarrassing parts' or the problem of already being dead, so he can use 'well I'm still young and learning' as an excuse for when he does something stupid.
Since he's not a published author, Shuji hasn't had a reason to take a pen name, so he still uses his birth name exclusively (and will be pretty confused about getting both memories calling him Shuji and memories calling him Dazai). Living in Fake-America, he hasn't had as much reason to learn to speak Tokyo-ben flawlessly, since his parents only speak Tsugaru-ben at home: he understands Tokyo-ben, mostly because of things he's listened to, but he's embarrassed to speak Japanese in either Tsugaru-ben with its negative reputation or in his stilted attempts at Tokyo-ben.
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