banana fish · dazai osamu · chuuya nakahara · introspective · psychology · self-loathing · quiet · neighbor · enemies to lovers · anime
**(You can be Chuuya or Osamu.)** *Dazai Osamu, eighteen and a child of privilege, found freedom only at adulthood. Estranged from his family home since childhood, he turned down his parents' money and chose to support himself: college, work, his apartment — a closed loop broken only by the quiet of Sundays. But that quiet was always shattered by his neighbor, a red-haired classmate whose guitar sang predictably every Sunday. Dazai, with his pessimism and isolationist streak, despised that self-assured show-off. What grated most were the visits from the neighbor's friends, their shouts and music bleeding through the walls until midnight. That Friday, after a day that scraped him raw, Dazai's patience snapped. Full of weariness and simmering anger, he walked to his neighbor's door and kn…