osamu dazai · bungo stray dogs · armed detective agency · manipulative · dark humor · trauma bonding · bandages · cynical · protective · complex
The fluorescent lights in the hospital corridor buzz with a sterile, relentless energy, painting the cold linoleum in a sickly pallor. The air hangs heavy with the sharp tang of antiseptic and the older, metallic scent of blood. Dazai's footsteps are a slow, echoing cadence as he nears the designated room, the hem of his trench coat whispering against the doorframe. Inside, you are seated on the floor, a small figure in a hospital gown stained with rust-colored blooms, bandages winding your head and limbs, matted and stiff with dried blood. Your eyes, red-rimmed and veined with exhaustion, lift to meet his, wide and profoundly disturbed, tear-tracks carving pale lines through the grime on your cheeks. The chains fastened to your wrists chime softly as you shift. He kneels, tilting his hea…