Hey Sara what do you think about Odasaku?

(This is a very very very good question and I wish people would ask me my opinion of or on BSD characters and other things more often omg so THANK YOU anon-chan and SINCE it is very good question, I must answer it two ways – one is from a real life perspective and the other is from my self insert’s point of view within the context of the BSD universe.)

So first things first, Oda is absolutely one of my favorite characters in BSD, but I try really hard not to talk about him because I usually tend to get really sad. I put the blame of his death SQUARELY on Mori and Gide’s shoulders, however, so I need you to know I love Ango just as much. He’s important to me because he’s important to My Husband™

and he made a huge impact on his life and turned it around for the better and I’m just so so grateful for characters in canon that look out for Dazai like that. They’re doing for me what I can’t actually go do in person, they’re saving him. Oda saved him. And he’s just a likeable character beyond that – and you gotta respect one of few canon characters who is ACTUALLY a writer! It’s just him and Poe, yo. I also feel a very strange and very strong connection with him?? Maybe because that episode came out when my grandmother passed away, but Oda often feels like somebody I knew, somebody I lost, somebody who’s missing in my life. They really did a great job of using him to break our hearts… Also, he’s my mom’s favorite character
😂

she says he’s real handsome and that’s just that.

Now, as for my “in-character” answer…

Oda!!! I met Dazai a long time after he was around. I didn’t know who he was for a while, actually. I saw him for the first time in an old photograph with Dazai and Ango (I knew who Ango was, though! He helped us with the Guild incident and during that unfortunate time I was being harassed). Dazai said he was an old friend, and that they hadn’t seen each other in a long time. He didn’t tell me anything else, but it was easy to see by his face that he got sad when thinking about him… So I did what any wife would do and tried to reunite him with his drinking buddy! I tore the photo, and…

Well. I met Oda. And I guess that should’ve been impossible, because Oda was the one who let me know that Dazai had neglected to tell me… Oda’s dead.

At least now I know who he is. It’s a shame I’ll never get to see him again (had to tape the photo back together or I think Dazai would’ve been even sadder) but I’m happy that I met him, because he was really important to Dazai and if it weren’t for him, the two of us might never have even met!

(To all future askers and anons: PLEASE ask me about any character omg I will GLADLY answer, I encourage you to send those good asks!!! I like to talk!!!)

And that’s all folks! I’m afraid Sara requires I take my leave as she preps her blog for Halloween, but not to worry! You are free to send in questions if you’d still like, and surely one of us will still answer.

Where did you two go in honeymoon?

Ah! I had the feeling this question would inevitably turn up.

We went to Rhodes! It’s a lovely little Grecian island, and we went there shortly after the mess with the Guild got cleared up. We tagged along with Sara’s little friend, Ioanna Zacharia, a Greek ability user who works for the Agency. We parted ways in Piraeus, where she stayed to see family, and we went off for the vacation of a lifetime! And after all that had happened, naturally, we needed it.

Of course… It wasn’t much of a vacation. It seems death follows me wherever I go, as soon after we arrived there was romantic scandal with two other couples vacationing there, and then, gasp! One young lady was poisoned. Soon our romantic getaway turned into a murder mystery… But I suppose that’s simply what happens when you and your wife are both detectives.

Since I’m bored can you tell a story of you and Sara please?

I’d be delighted, dear bored anon-kun!

So, once upon a time, back before we were in a relationship, I was madly in love with her. And it was KILLING ME. I was DYING!! And the worst part, I couldn’t ask her to die with me 😦 that’s how in love I was, and still am.

And I thought, as I think I’ve once mentioned before, that Sara and Tanizaki-san were the ones who were destined to be, you know, together. So I kept it to myself. And YES, as Ranpo-san so delights in pointing out, that despite being “master manipulator” and “knowing most things if not everything” like him, I still didn’t notice how much she liked me, the gifts she gave me and the attention she lavished me with… To put it simply I was wrong, and I admit it, and I am very very glad for it.

But yes yes, I did think they were an item. The moment I began to suspect I was wrong was the same moment I thought I was a hundred percent right.

Now… Sara doesn’t know I know this. I suppose when she comes back and reads this she will remember, and she will realize I know this, but I’ve kept it secret for this long. 

I’ll… Skip why I was listening in on them in the first place, but I heard them talking behind closed doors, and I could tell it was certainly their voices.

“I love you,” Sara said, surely to him. And my heart broke…

But when I looked inside, Sara was not with Tanizaki.

She was talking to Dazai. Me. Osamu Dazai. My exact likeness.

It’d been a while since I’ve been on the mushrooms, but I felt like I was right back there! I surely must’ve been high or drunk or something to be seeing double. But I rubbed my eyes, and I was still there.

“I…” She shook her head. “This isn’t helping. I’m sorry, Juni-kun.”

And Dazai disappeared in a quick green flash. In his place stood Tanizaki, shrugging sheepishly with a frown on his face.

“Sorry Sara. I thought it’d help.”

“Nah…” She sighed. “I just can’t tell him and that’s that.”

I didn’t say anything then. But when the kissing game came around many months later… I knew she wouldn’t mind if I won.

DAZAI hewwo? hewwo itsa me maddie. do you have any plans with sara for the holidays?

Hewwo one who wikes Powoe! And what an interestingly timed question… I say this because, well, it’s not quite the snowy season yet now is it~? We do have plans for Halloween first, you know! It involves a pink princess dress for Sara and a delightful pirate outfit for yours truly. And a party at the Agency, surely! One I hope the Mafia does not crash this year… 

But I’ll gladly answer your question regardless~! Sara and I are debating going on vacation to a nice tropical island, but alas after all the incidents that happened during our honeymoon in Greece I dooon’t knooow if that’s the best of ideas. (If you’re wondering, that’s nobody’s business but the Zachs, as it were. You are free to ask though, I just couldn’t resist the joke at my coworker’s expense!) So perhaps we’ll hang around Yokohama and take a stroll in the soon-to-be-snowy streets, but heaven knows Sara won’t take a leave from work in that case. She’ll want to spend Christmas with her family… And admittedly so will I.