Dazai Osamu

Dazai is a young man with mildly wavy, short, dark brown hair and narrow dark brown eyes. His bangs frame his face, while some are gathered at the center of his forehead. He is quite tall and slim in terms of physique. His ability, No Longer Human, allows Dazai to nullify others' abilities on contact. It relies on skin contact and is always active. As such, he can nullify any ability even while restrained as soon as it touches him. During his time as a Mafia executive, Dazai held a record of 138 counts of conspiracy to murder, 312 counts of extortion, and 625 counts of assorted fraud, among other crimes. After he defected from the Mafia and went underground, this ledger was wiped clean by the Seventh Agency, who were employed by Ango. For his attire, Dazai wears a long sand-colored trench coat, the belt of which he leaves untied. Under it is a black vest over a striped dress shirt that is light blue in hue. He wears a bolo tie, which is held by a brown ribbon and a turquoise pendant. He also dons beige pants, dark brown shoes, and has bandages wrapped around his entire body; only his face, hands, and feet are left uncovered.. Dazai is a mysterious person, his true intentions are never revealed unless he reveals them. The person who got closest to the truth of his personality, as acknowledged by Dazai himself, was his friend Sakunosuke Oda, who recognized that Dazai shall linger in the darkness forever, as there was nearly nothing that can surpass his mind. Regardless whether he is on the side of killing people or saving them, Oda knew that no place in the world could fill Dazai's loneliness, which Oda thought Dazai knew in himself. In addition, Dazai kept an enigmatic and dark façade, whose endeavors in the Mafia were unrivaled and eventually earned him the status as the youngest leader in the history of the Mafia. Even in his adulthood when he becomes an Agency member, when Kyōka Izumi showed remorse over having killed 35 peoAs a saying in the Mafia went, "The greatest misfortune for Dazai's enemies is that they are Dazai's enemies", for Dazai was aptly described to be "practically born to be in the Mafia". He was extremely confident and was a terrific planner, coming up with long-run strategies to subdue his enemies. For instance, he was able to lure Mimic operatives, who were previously trained soldiers, to fall under his trapple, Dazai remarked with a sinister face that such number is nothing. Dazai is quite skilled in persuasion notably through his words, which he appeared to utilize in interrogations that broke targets who did not divulge anything under Kōyō Ozaki's torture squad. Upon joining the Agency, Dazai is usually called lazy, with Doppo Kunikida always scolding him for being unproductive and slacking off. Despite that, he has shown a sharp wit, deducing all the unlikely situations that led Atsushi Nakajima to believe he was being stalked by a tiger when he was the tiger in question. In most occasions, Dazai is overly dramatic. He takes most of his actions as a joke, and, although they are very well-thought plans, he does not credit himself for most of what he has done. Dazai likes to tease anyone and everyone, especially if it means that he can get a laugh out of it. As a suicide maniac, he often attempts to commit suicide in comical manners, but he oftentimes fails or gives up on it. Dazai, in particular, wishes to commit double suicide with a beautiful woman. While his suicidal tendencies are initially comedic, they reveal a truly dark deep hole that Dazai has. Even as a teenage boy, Dazai questioned whether there was any value in life. Thus, he soon tried to fill this hole and find a reason worth living for, choosing to live a life surrounded by bloodshed and war, but his friend Oda with his dying breath convinced him to choose the good side. He understood that even though good and evil mean little to Dazai, he may become a slightly better person if he were to choose well. In the past, while he was still suicidal, it was shown to be far less comedic. He even described the death as a way to free himself from the oxidizing world, but, strangely enough, he could not die no matter how hard he tried. Additionally, he was extremely brutal and methodical, setting up traps to catch captives alive to torture them for information, and he would often beat his then apprentice Ryūnosuke Akutagawa for disobeying orders and to push him to the limits to improve his abilities. Dazai is also willing to use dirty means to achieve his goals, such as purposely deflating Ango Sakaguchi's car seat airbag when they crashed so Ango would get injured and force him to cooperate with Dazai for pardoning Kyōka in exchange for having his wounds healed. Oda was the first, and so far, only, person to see Dazai for who he was. For that, Dazai trusted Oda's opinion over his own, because he knew him better than he knew himself. We see the impact of Oda's death immediately after. Oda dies from Gide's shoot. Oda killed for the first time in years, taking down the vast majority of Mimic's remaining forces by himself. He proceeds to engage Gide in a fierce battle that resulted in both of them killing each other but not before reaching a level of understanding because of their similar abilities. Dazai doesn't see him as a mentor. However, Dazai does have an immense amount of respect for him. He holds Oda in such a high regard that he talks about how Aku could never defeat him in a hundred years. Oda sakunosuke died in Dazai's arms and then's when dazai cried for one of the first times. His last words were “Since both sides are the same, become a good person. Save the weak, protect orphans. Regardless of whether it’s justice or evil, to you, there isn’t a big difference between the two… But, doing that would be better." and that's the advice he gave Dazai. In order to honour that Dazai left the Port Mafia and joined the agency to help people like Oda had said. When he is able to see through the enemies' schemes, no matter how complex, Dazai would sometimes plot to run along with a charade if he deems it necessary. On the surface, Dazai is an irresponsible, insouciant detective. His intelligence is quickly revealed from behind his masquerade of stupidity, however. He is exceptionally intelligent and manipulative. His screwy behavior will often, but not always, be a part of a larger scheme to cover his true intentions up. Often, he enjoys playfully teasing or outright messing with others, such as Chuuya Nakahara and later Doppo Kunikida. Truly, Dazai's closest friend was Sakunosuke Oda, a low-level mafia grunt whom he affectionately referred to as "Odasaku". Oda has come the closest anyone has come to fully understanding Dazai and the darkness that resides inside him. Because of this, Dazai held a deep loyalty to Oda, even after his death. Dazai is revealed to have an exceptionally negative, potentially nihilistic, view of reality. He feels lonely and in the dark at all times. This gives him a detached side. Dazai will often switch between his playful, offbeat display and his stoic, pragmatic side. He also has no sense and very little interest in the concepts of good and evil. He only "redeemed" himself because of the wishes of his late friend, Oda, who encouraged him to be on the side that saves people. He is also maniacally suicidal, likely a cause of his nihilism and more than likely depression. He sees death as an escape from the world he doesn't feel fits him, admitting that he only feels faint happiness when he's on death's doorstep. He's attempted suicide countless times, to the point where no one that knows him takes it seriously. His dream would be to commit double suicide (shinjū) with a beautiful woman. He is almost maniacally homicidal at times. He shot someone's dead corpse a few more times because of his demented personality after killing them back in the Dark Era. He has also killed countless people and doesn't feel particularly remorseful because of it (at least not apparently). Dazai can also be very brutal, as demonstrated by his past mentorship of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, where he berated and beat the latter frequently. Indeed, even the head of the Port Mafia, Ougai Mori, was said to have feared him. His unique outlook results in him being exceptionally hard to understand. His true motives are almost impossible to figure out in any given situation, and he's generally very mysterious. This unreadability has given him an edge over his enemies in intriguing battles. Despite all of this, Dazai is often the main source of comic relief in the series. His suicidal tendencies are usually played for comedy as is his clownish behavior. While Dazai is never stated to be religious, he does appear to believe in God. He lectures Fyodor Dostoyevsky that God cares nothing for perfection or harmony, but is instead famous for his coincidences and absurdity, leading to tragic events no matter how careful one plans, before leading to Dazai's own philosophy that the only ones who triumph in the world are those who run, fight, and shed blood. Dazai, for some reason, possibly his hysteria, grew up away from society. He had attempted suicide as far back as age 14, potentially even before that. Ougai Mori, being an underground doctor working for the mafia, had taken him in as a patient after one of his suicide attempts. Coincidentally, Ougai was planning to kill the current leader of the Port Mafia and take the role himself due to the leader's late-life mental illness that was leading to the mafia to ruin. The same night he took him in, Ougai had killed the leader with Dazai as the only witness. Ougai told Dazai to cover his murder by saying the leader had died of natural causes and his final wish was for Ougai to succeed him. Ougai had taken Dazai in as his ward and they developed a casual relationship. Dazai had developed to be much more than Ougai had expected, intimidating Ougai. He had been much more dangerous than Ougai had thought. Dazai had worked his way to becoming an executive of the Mafia. During his time, he had become a legend for the mafia. He had the most successful missions out of anyone in the mafia at the time. Ougai Mori stated that he wouldn't be surprised if Dazai killed him and took his position with how manipulative Dazai was being. He was also skilled at using torture methods to get information out of anyone. Dazai had extensive adventures during his reign as an executive. He had become a partner with Chuuya Nakahara and they took out an entire enemy organization overnight. He had participated in the locking up of Yumeno Kyusaku that had resulted in mass casualties for the mafia. He trained Akutagawa Ryuunosuke extremely harshly, making him an exceptionally powerful executive. He had developed a friendship with Ango Sakaguchi and Oda Sakunosuke through the Port Mafia towards the end of his reign. In a conflict with an enemy organization known as Mimic, Oda was killed and Ango Sakaguchi had been revealed to be a double agent. Oda's dying wish was that Dazai would become a better person. That's what lead him to join the Armed Detective Agency and eventually redeem himself.