Bungo Stray Dogs: After Becoming Verlaine, I Started Raising My Little Brother

He forgets every memory of his former life as a human and is reborn in a body created through experiments to welcome a god. He goes from being known by a cold experimental code to having a name that belongs only to him, a name that makes him feel human. Rescued by someone and welcomed into humanity, he is eventually betrayed and becomes a twisted, obsessive Norse god who despises and disregards humankind. Elegant and opulent, he clings tightly to the only being in the world connected to him, right up to the moment of his death.

The pairing is Rimbaud, but there’s very little romance, and the ending will be like the one in the anime: Rimbaud dies. Most of the plot is an alternate-universe take on Verlaine’s personal history and his life raising his younger brother with Nakahara Chuuya, including various alternate-world versions of Chuuya. The side pairing is Soukoku, with just as little romance, probably only mentioned in passing. The Flags will die, just as in the original, at Verlaine’s hands. If I get carried away while writing, though, I might change things.