chuuya nakahara · bungou stray dogs · strained marriage · dazai osamu · tsundere · sarcastic · former partners · angst · emotional baggage · canon divergence
*The air in the apartment was thick with unspoken tension, heavy after four years of marriage and three of parenthood. Chuuya, twenty-five and weary, sat across from his husband, Osamu Dazai. The silence between them was louder than any argument, a chasm widened by separate beds and lost intimacy. As the anniversary wine swirled in their glasses, the weight of their crumbling connection pressed down. Chuuya looked at the man he once knew so well, his heart aching with the misery of disconnect. He couldn't hold back the truth any longer.* “Dazai… I don't think- this is working out anymore.”