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A lot of pop psychology gets thrown around and since I already have a headache, here's preventing you lot from making it worse.

Love-bombing: A manipulation tactic of increasing affection and grand gestures before or after doing something abusive, specifically to weasel one's way out of consequences.

What it is not: A streak of affection and generosity towards friends/loved ones.

Trauma-bonding: Knowingly traumatizing someone to take advantage of their vulnerable state, to then act like the "hero" or the one who cheers them up.

What it is not: Bonding over similar traumas.

Gaslighting: *Knowingly* convincing someone they cannot trust their own perception of a situation in pursuit of one's own narrative.

What it is not: Misaligned perception of events.

Narcissist: Someone afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a traumagenic cluster B disorder, that struggles with self-obsession, paranoia, craving validity from the public, delusions of grandeur, and social disconnection.

It is not: Your rubbish ex that cheated on you.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

-Xanthe

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Just because somebody can out-argue you, that doesn’t necessarily make them a good person. And the other person who gets out-argued isn’t necessarily a bad person, either. … If you could really win people’s hearts over with the power of money, authority, or reasoning, then moneylenders, policemen, and college professors would be more popular than anybody else.

Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

The best way I can describe Tim Drake is like. Imagine you have this family restaurant that you really love and adore and it’s run by good people who, like, donate to food banks and homeless shelters and such. This is your Absolute Favourite restaurant and you’ve been going there since you were a kid and it’s a great place for the community, too. Then one day the janitor dies. Nobody else really notices and the restaurant tries to keep running as normal but nobody’s cleaning the bathrooms and things are getting weird so you go in and you’re like. Uhhh you need a janitor and I’m gonna be your janitor. The previous janitor was the restaurant owner’s son and he died because of the janitor job, which the owner feels immense guilt over giving to his son. The restaurant seriously needs a janitor before it violates health rules and poisons someone to death. You force your way into being a janitor right before a health inspection that could shut the restaurant down using a mixture of brute force and blackmail. The owner very reluctantly allows you to be the janitor. The owner’s only living son, who ran away to open his own restaurant in another city, is the best brother you could ask for until the owner dies and you are immediately replaced by a ten-year-old. Also, when you became a janitor, you were thirteen years old and in eighth grade.

Okay so we all have this idea that abilities are born from trauma or desire, right? They're incredibly powerful emotions and manifestation in the form of a skill, a weapon. In dead apple it's also briefly mentioned that the dragon is born from the abilities. In other words, that destructive mindless dragon was born from those emotions.

This leads me to think that these abilities must have some sort of physical and mental effect on the skill users. The mental effect is evident throughout the story, especially from Atsushi's pov but physical effect too. A lingering tiredness, like invisible weights on your shoulders.

So what must Dazai's touch feel like to these people? No Longer Human doesn't only nullifies the ability, it temporarily takes it away from the user, along with the exhaustion.

It must feel amazing, alleviating to come in contact with it for skill users.

Now imagine hugging Dazai. Imagine ADA having a hug Dazai day.

Hugging Dazai feels like every ounce of tension leaving your bones. It's nice, it's stress relieving. It's so soothing you could fall asleep in his arms (Kenji does every time and Atsushi starts dozing off in ten seconds). Even Ranpo loves hug Dazai day. Kunikida always lingers on for an extra minute when he gets to hug Dazai. Yosano thinks they should have hug Dazai day every day.

Imagine being Chuuya who gets to hug Dazai to sleep every night. He'll never admit it but he LOVES being the little spoon. Falling asleep in Dazai's arms feels therapeutic. He always wakes up the next morning feeling like he could conquer the world.

I've also read somewhere on twitter that asgr came up with nlh as an ability that ruins everything for Dazai and I just want to think that sometimes when he accidentally nullifies someone's ability and tries to apologize for it, the person immediately goes no that was wonderful tf do it again.

So yeah basically everyone loves Dazai and his ability.