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• To Save a Soul by rootbeer_drops05

  Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  14 Nov 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Edogawa Ranpo (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Kunikida Doppo (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Yosano Akiko (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Edgar Allan Poe (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Mori Ougai (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Elise (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Ozaki Kouyou (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Oda Sakunosuke (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Experimentation
  • Medical Torture
  • Pining
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Child Abuse
  • Electrocution
  • Panic Attacks
  • Self-Harm
  • I'm Bad At Tagging
  • Character Death
  • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Suicide Attempt
  • Manipulation
  • Violence
  • Torture
  • Friends to Lovers
  • No Smut
  • Child Neglect
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Alternate Universe - High School
  • Minor Edogawa Ranpo/Edgar Allan Poe (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Implied Relationships
  • Minor Akutagawa Ryuunosuke/Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Explosions
  • Minor Character Death
  • Fluff and Angst

  Summary

  Dazai Osamu is a very guarded person, but when his friends notice that something weird is going on with his life, they won't rest until they figure out what. Will they be able to save him before its too late, or is there no saving a person who is almost gone?

  OR

  Dazai and Elise are Mori's test subjects, and have to try to hold on to hope that is slipping away from them.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  24,184

  Chapters:

  6/15

  Comments:

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