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so this scene has been floating through my head since i saw it.
Dazai’s character has always bothered me because he's so hard to read, and in the end that's kinda the point. this started out as a way to explain the bandages, but i guess it’s now a ridiculously long profile and i'm so sorry.
A note on the real writers
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if you're going to give me a bunch of historic figures, Bungou, i will absolutely use them in my analyses.
all the Bungou characters are mildly based on historical writers and Oda was the real life best friend of Dazai. together with Ango (yeah, him) they were considered 'The Decadent School', three writers that came to prominence in the years following world war
2. now writer Oda is best known for his realism. he sees and describes things the way they are, and he doesn't sugar coat it. writer Dazai, meanwhile, produced 'No longer human', which is about a guy who struggles with revealing his true nature to others. a lot of fictional Dazai's quirks are lifted from this book. the main character has a lot of failed romances (check) and tries to kill himself (double check). and his personal relationships tend to be based on him putting on masks.
wiki calls this 'buffoonery' and i have a gif.
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in 'No longer human', there's one guy who can see right through the main character and he befriends him, initially as a sort of preventative measure. that bit is also important.
