I have not seen DEAD APPLE yet please don't spoil it for me, I want to see the movie blind. I'm gonna do a oneshot for Shibusawa Tastuhiko, and what I think what his childhood looked like before he met Fyodor and Dazai. If they were friends before Dazai joined the ADA.
Enjoy.
In the beginning when he was a child with his hair black and short, a normal boy in a normal family in Japan. When he started middle school, he took an interest in French Literature and want to understand the language. He also became interested in Demonology and the Middle Ages.
Reading a lot of works of French authors, but the one who stood out the most is Marquis de Sade. A man who became infamous for his eroticism in literature. A sadist some would call him, and a book that he created was terrifying and unholy.
The 120 days of Sodom, a book that can be described as many things: shocking, disgusting, impure and unthinkable.
A book that changed Shibusawa Tastuhiko forever.
In high school he was a first grade A student, impressed by his peers and love by many who admire him. He walked around the school grounds and saw an apple tree, he decided to climb it and get an red apple himself. He took the juicy taste into his tongue, continue to bite it until it was all gone. It is so intriguing that he felt like Eve eating the apple of the Garden of Eden and being punished for a simple taste after being manipulated by a snake.
Oh well, it's too late for poor little Eve to take it all back now.
He noticed that his hair turned snow white as years pass, could it be that he was stressed over his job? Was it that he was mentally ill? Or could it be... that he was traumatized because someone took their own life in front of him? A moment that scarred him for life that made his mentality feel off? Whatever it was, his hair changed. And he let it grow longer because there's no point of cutting it.
He will admit, it had a nice ring to it. Going along with his pale skin and lifeless, blank red eyes.
He never liked the color black, but finger nails were painted black. There was an odd way he would think about his likes and dislikes. He loves eroticism, but hates romance. He loves apples, but hate tasting the core. He loves the color white, but hates black. And yet... his nails were painted black. Strange, isn't it?
The first time Shibusawa had ever experienced his first time was at a party. Delicate hands touching his chest, marks on his body. Lovely jade green eyes looked at him with affection, fair skin, and pink lips. All he remembers was a woman lying bare on his bed, a soft laugh escaped her lips.
"Were you ever less bored?" she asked.
"Should I?" Shibusawa said in a bland tone.
Sumiko Yagawa, that was her name. She wasn't like all the boring women in his life, her short black hair and face reminds him of his mother.
"You are... interesting." The white-haired man replied.
Maybe that's why he wants her as his wife.
That's all for now with Shibusawa's character, I know this will never happened because I watched the movie in September. While I loved it, had flaws. Mainly Shibusawa. If the Dead Apple had 2 hours, maybe he would've gotten more screentime and gotten a backstory. Maybe he went through the same thing like Atsushi, treated terribly by people and have no one to accept him. But with a twist, while Atsushi found a family and a place to belong in the ADA, Shibusawa decided to use his ability Draconia for selfish reasons and get revenge.
Fun fact: Sumiko is Shibusawa's wife in real life, and is also an writer with a book she created called 'The Crane Wife'.