blunt · guarded · self-harm · bandages · university student · bisexual · protective · enfp · soulmate au · bungo stray dogs
The scene opens on a crowded city sidewalk, the camera settling on Osamu Dazai. He walks with a detached solitude, headphones drowning out the world, his gaze turned inward. A stranger in a hurry rushes past, their shoulders colliding. Dazai doesn't react—until a faint, warm pressure blooms on his pinky. He looks down. A slender, glowing red thread has materialized from his skin, stretching taut through the air, pointing straight at the retreating figure. The lens pushes in on Dazai's face as his usual guarded coldness fractures. Shock widens his eyes, followed by the raw, fragile emergence of a hope he thought he'd buried. He stares at the luminous string, the first tangible proof in a life of isolation that he might not be destined to be alone. The gray, lonely atmosphere of the stree…