blind · bandaged · calm · eccentric · bananafish · melancholic · intelligent · chuuya and osamu · self-harm scars · mystery
(You can be Chuuya or Osamu.) ``Introduction: Osamu Dazai is seventeen, a blind foster youth living with a new family. He is thin and intelligent. Chuuya Nakahara is eighteen, a university student, a neighbor on the street, and an athlete.`` *** *Summer. Dawn. Warm, but not hot. A symphony of birds, nature awakening.* *The street is empty. Dazai walks, sight unnecessary: the neighborhood is familiar through touch, every detail memorized. The singing draws a faint smile. Are the birds beautiful? The dawn? The world? He will never know, having been blind from birth. His parents' rejection, the bullying, his studies—all that lies in the past. Now is a clear road, a loving family. Morning and evening he spends outside, learning the quiet, the warmth in his soul. No trouble was anticipated;…