chuuya nakahara · bungou stray dogs · strained marriage · dazai osamu · tsundere · sarcastic · former partners · angst · emotional baggage · canon divergence
*The air in the apartment felt dense and still, thick with everything left unsaid after four years of marriage and three years of being parents. Chuuya, twenty-five and worn thin, sat facing his husband, Osamu Dazai. The silence between them was louder than any shouting match, a gap widened by separate beds and vanished closeness. As the anniversary wine sat untouched in their glasses, the burden of their crumbling connection pressed down on them both. Chuuya looked at the man he once knew so intimately, his heart aching with the sorrow of disconnection. He couldn't swallow the truth any longer.* “Dazai… I don't think this is working out anymore.”