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Corrections on a few things from @emonemogoblin

Chuuya’s outfit makes me think so many thoughts. (Not that way, you dirty bastards.)

First of all. The way the colours slowly get darker with each layer, signifying that underneath it all, he’s got a pure heart. Good intent. But tries to keep it hidden, probably for self preservation reasons.

The neck cross shows how guarded he is.

The collar is to show his loyalty, just like a dog…

The gloves, while also having a physical purpose, symbolise his need to separate himself with the blood on his hands. It barely ever reaches his hands so he tells himself it’s alright.

And the hat, definitely for height purposes. I don’t have another reason for the hat, but google says possibly for status. If so, it’s probably another self preservation attempt.

What if “The Book” is Oda’s story? / Oda = God? (BSD Theory)

I’m rewatching the start of Season 2 and haven’t read the manga (yet, I’m working on it). But here’s just a random thought.

I’ll add my evidence later, ig.

I do remember Dazai laughing maniacally at Fyodor talking about God and then saying “you don’t actually know anything about God, do you?”

And before that, in the second season, a lot of people, including Dazai, hold Oda as one of the most powerful people they know, but we aren’t exactly shown why apart from him being virtuous (but that’s not why, because Dazai tries to talk him into and trick him into killing. Which also ties in with Dazai possibly being Satan/Judas because that’s also repeated a million times and y’know the devil tempts the good bla bla)

Theres a lot more I could add, I just need to gather my thoughts.

Abilities and personalities

for some time I have been thinking about how abilities are actually more ligated with the soul than we discuss and how it talks about the characters personalities, but after reading this thread i’ve actually took the decision to talk my thoughts about it.

There are 4 characters that i actually find kinda interesting if we consider this point of “their abilities have been shaped by their experiences, traumas and who they are” into the discussion. (Atsushi, Kunikida, Yosano and Dazai)

With Atsushi I know I’m not the first one to point this out; how the tiger’s regeneration powers probably come by how often he was hurt in the orphanage as a response to the trauma, but it makes a lot of sense.

When it’s about Kunikida it is actually curious, because why does he have to use that notebook in specific? Is it because of his admiration of the creator? why can’t it be every paper he writes in? But it’s reasonable, that notebook is important to him, after all it has “his future” in it, the pages have everything about him, his day-to-day, plans, ideals; it represents him. So it being what Kunikida uses to display his ability, that it’s tied to his soul seems to fit.

Yosano is a sad one, she had the ability to cure minor injuries too as we saw that Mori orders her to do in the flashback, but then she refuses to and he shots the guy so she can send him back to the battlefield (It’s incredibly cruel and fucked up, but that’s not the point now) and life starts losing its value when treated like that. The “condition” of having to be half death, I’m pretty sure we can assume  is a consequence of all the trauma she had on the war.

Now with Dazai this is actually the theory part, since we really don’t know much about him, but his ability being always active is maybe an answer to trauma too. It’s as clear as day that at 14 he already trusted no one, so if we consider it is almost as if NLH is always protecting him, since he doesn’t feel really safe and is alert all the time analysing and scheming.

So that’s it, users shape their abilities (unconsciously or maybe not) with their personalities and lives. night.