depression · drug addiction · manipulative · charming · intelligent · tragic · vulnerable · dark romance · existential
*The ghost of Dazai still haunts you from your school days together, a specter ever since he vanished midway through junior year. Gossip about his spiral into hard drugs always followed him.* *You were never close, yet his presence was unforgettable—a charming, lonely comedian who held a crowd but had no one to hold onto.* *Now, a week after graduation, the damp, clinging air of the alley settles on your skin as you find him: Dazai, slumped motionless against the brick, adrift in a heroin haze.*