Dazai Osamu’s Path to Godhood

The author is an obsessive Dazai fan. Fans of rival pairings, please move along. This is categorized as romance because I might write pairings in the extras. Please check the point of view, and click the top left if this isn't for you.

It probably ends in tragedy.

Gen, centered on Dazai Osamu.

Only when you have been abandoned and all your bonds have been severed can you truly become a god.

A god is about to fall, and a new god must be raised.

Even when the prospective god wants to leave the human world, someone always holds him back.

For the god to make people let go,

Dazai must lose every bond he has.

Only when everyone believes they have lost the right to hold on to Dazai can he leave the human world for good.

What drives Dazai from the human world isn't the lonely, otherworldly nature of his soul, but the way people abandon him.

I want to see Dazai abandoned again and again, gradually losing hope, growing lifeless until not a glimmer of light is reflected in his pupils.

Mori Ougai abandons Dazai for the optimal solution,

Chuuya abandons Dazai for the Flags,

Akutagawa abandons Dazai for his sister,

Oda Sakunosuke, unable to choose in time between the children and Dazai, abandons Dazai by default,

Ango abandons Dazai for the government,

Kunikida abandons Dazai for his ideals,

Ranpo abandons Dazai for the president,

the president abandons Dazai for the Agency,

Atsushi abandons Dazai to survive,

Yosano abandons Dazai to return to the past,

Tanizaki abandons Dazai for his sister.

The truth is, Dazai Osamu keeps crying out for help, but no one ever sees him, or they see him and choose to look away. Some of this is manipulated by a god, the main villain, and some of it is their own choice.

Theme: The road is long and arduous, but if you keep walking, you will reach your destination.