It Is That Bad. Yes

RIP Chris

Mahad Selak, Mahad Maktar

Cristian, you will be remembered, the legend, author of Magium, and so much more

There's more detail on r/Magium

Let's uphold his legacy

So I just quickly sketched this on my phone

Important thing to note: the hands pinning Dazai to the ground have gloves on, if you know what I mean

He's the best man out there and I don't take criticism on that matter

Remake of my Barry design (since people kept commenting abt him being older than how i draw him lmao--- I agree tho)

My brain can't stop thinking about fyozai as twin flames (the concept, not the cult)

It doesn't help that they're constantly juxtaposed in official art (and in the story in general) in a way that highlights them being mirror images of each other.

(Nod to siglai here too yay)

(This one is my favorite because he's literally sitting over Fyodor's reflection).

The concept of twin flames is one soul inhabiting two different bodies. There is an instant recognition upon meeting one another, like if you've already met them before. According to Dazai, he's already met Fyodor before the story's events but we have yet to hear anything about it. If you look at it from a perspective of them being twin flames, then it could very well be a meeting in a past life, AND we have confirmation of Fyodor being alive for centuries, so what are the chances? Fyodor also says Dazai is his greatest foe since "that man", VERY SUSPICIOUS.

Another aspect of twin flames is how similar they are to each other. During cannibalism, Dazai was able to deduce Fyodor's escape route because "that's what he would do" in his position. When Ranpo's super deduction failed, he noted going up against Fyodor is like going up against Dazai. This doesn't mean that they are carbon copies of each other. Twin flames complement each other in the areas where they aren't similar, like yin and yang. Fyodor values perfection and harmony, Dazai prefers chaos and uncertainty. Fyodor hates humanity for being sinful and foolish, Dazai thinks that's the best part of being human.

Due to these strong similarities and differences, the relationship between twin flames actually tends to be quite tumultuous. It's like being confronted with yourself, particularly the aspects you don't like. Their deepest fears and insecurities will be amplified. They will continue to mirror each other's darkest aspects and insecurities until they force one another to level up (and isn't fyozai in a constant cycle of one upping each other?).

Twin flames are known to experience an almost psychic, telepathic bond with one another. They know what the other is thinking with just a glance. Fyozai literally made up their own secret language while imprisoned together for funsies, and played a number guessing game with each other.

Top this all off with the fact we now know Dazai is the only one who can kill Fyodor using his nullification ability, and we have a slam dunk.

Fyozai ticks all the boxes of a stereotypical twin flame dynamic. Hell, before chapter 113 I was reluctant to ship them because they were so similar I thought the author was gonna drop a bomb and reveal they were related to each other. Now that that possibility is basically zero, I'm all in. I'm floored that this isn't a more popular ship, or at least the most popular Fyodor ship. In Fyodor's campaign letter he literally says he's always alone and the only time he wasn't bored was when he played chess with Dazai. As a Fyodor stan, I love that Dazai is someone he feels he can connect with as an equal. I want that for him. I don't want him to feel alone. (I know, I'm projecting my own loneliness onto a fictional character, tragic)

And I didn't put a read more because they've been driving me insane, so I need to shove this down everyone's throat.

And here we have a fully colored Dazai

The second version has slightly more red eyes

I might try to animate him to blink, we'll see

bringing back a meme classic because i am in insane levels of distress rn

The best guys, amazing

kimcom!

The Dazai drawing is progressing

Slowly drawing Dazai, my favorite man lmao

Me when finished Cake's fanart

Help, this is so real 😭

im not even a huge shipper but bsd makes it too fucking easy man. like soukoku are tragically divorced, ranpoe are married rivals, sskk has that i hate you but i secretly think you are the most admirable human in existence thing going on, rimlaine, suegiku bicker like an old married couple, the tragic old men yaoi of fukufuku, whatever the FUCK is going on with fukumori, the homoerotic murder and violence of fyolai, sigzai with how sigma is so done all the time, kunidazai with how kunikida is so done all the time, bramcraft with the otherworldly horrors. theres so much material idk