the essence of humanity || Tokyo Rev.

notes for readers

✓ THIS FANFICTION IS A CROSSOVER OF TOKYO REVENGERS AND BUNGOU STRAY DOGS.

To match the two stories, plots and themes there will be changes such as:

— Characters are aged up!
typically the Tokyo Revengers cast are in middle school or junior high school, but in this case they are in High School so you'll have to add 1-3 more to their ages considering the main character will be 18 years old. Exceptions are Naoto who's 1 year younger than Hinata. ༉‧₊˚

eg.
Takemichi and Hinata are 14 years old, last years of junior high school (based on what I know) +1 then they're 15.

— canon divergence!
some people get to live, some are gonna die, some are gonna have their backstories changed or altered. ༉‧₊˚

this will also include ooc-ness or out-of-character, because of the changes and influence that will happen in the story, characters may seem different from the manga or anime, or it may be because that the said character didn't have much screentime and I had to improvise or interpret the character myself.

— timeline wise!
the fanfic will start the moment Takemichi goes back to the past (Tokyo rev.) and after the dark era arc (BSD)༉‧₊˚

then it will end around after the tenjiku arc (it will not include the rest of the arcs following it, hence canon divergence).༉‧₊˚

✓ CONTENT OR TRIGGER WARNINGS

considering the nature of the two anime/mangas, readers should know what to expect.

warnings:
death by suicide, murder, sickness, burns
rape (moebious arc)
violence, use of weapons and firearms.
gangs, delinquents, mafias.
manipulation, scheming, backstabbing, gaslighting.
blood
suicide, attempted suicide, suicide ideation
abuse (domestic, emotional, mental, sexual(?))
pedophilia (?)
harassment
drugs(?)

Port Mafia Dazai,
Mori(?)
Kisaki

grammar and punctuation mistakes
sometimes lowercase only

✓ MAIN CHARACTER

— I don't do inserts anymore, because it's hard for me as the writer to immerse myself or get interested in writing my own story when I keep putting [name], [eye color], [height]༉‧₊˚

— I'm writing this story first and foremost for myself, my own indulgence, not everybody is going to be happy with a reader insert, and I certainly won't so I might as well write for myself. So if you don't like it, then exit the story rather than commenting much. Also I like naming my characters and choosing their appearance so yeah.༉‧₊˚

— main character is BASED on Dazai Ozamu, and takes his place in this fanfic. I emphasized on base but not a lot of people understand the difference of Based on and a copy off.༉‧₊˚

> main character's personality is based on Dazai Osamu's dark era personality and identity (PM Dazai), which will slowly transition to his ADA Dazai-self, supposedly, but in this story the main character will most likely be deemed ooc, far from the canonical ADA Dazai which I will explain and touch more on after the end of this story so you won't be spoiled.