Paul Verlaine/Relationships


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Chūya Nakahara
"We can go on an assassination run together as brothers. All we have is a meaningless life. So how about we grant our creators a similar fate? A meaningless death—that should balance things out. A death without discrimination between the good and the wicked. Only then… Only then will we be able to live with and accept this meaningless life."

- Verlaine invites Chūya to come with him

Verlaine has a rather intense obsession with Chūya due to his isolation and identity issues chipping away at his sanity. As a fellow product of experimentation, he believes he and Chūya are the only people capable of understanding each other, and he refers to himself as the boy's older brother before they are even properly acquainted. He is also rather selfish in his endeavor to take Chūya with him, fully disregarding the mafioso's desire to remain with the Port Mafia and killing off people Chūya has formed attachments to to force him to go with Verlaine. However, Chūya is eventually able to empathize with Verlaine and views him as a tragic figure, and after his capture, Verlaine gives up on his goal, instead beginning to wait for "a storm".

Osamu Dazai
"Charming place you have here, Dazai. What frightens you so much that you choose to live in such a dreary place? Real estate tax?"

- Verlaine jests with Dazai

Flags
"''Well, you don't need your old friends anymore, do you?"

- Verlaine to Chūya after killing the Flags

Arthur Rimbaud
"I'm sorry, Rimbaud. But I want to save myself—I want to save the other me. […] I appreciate everything you've done for me. But surely you now understand the horrible mistake you made: bringing to life a man who should never have been born."

- Verlaine betrays Rimbaud

Verlaine was trained by Rimbaud after he killed his creator Pan, freeing him from the latter's control. Known then as Black No. 12, Verlaine was given the name "Paul Verlaine" by Rimbaud, which was his birth name. Because his family and ex-partner believed that he was dead, Rimbaud decided to give the name to his new friend.

After his betrayal on Rimbaud, Verlaine seemed to be deeply in denial over his feelings towards him, claiming he was glad his partner was dead. However, after the incident with Demonic Beast Guivre was resolved, Verlaine was met by Rimbaud who, in his last moments had used Illuminations on himself to become an ability and made himself into a singularity to keep Verlaine alive. At this point, Verlaine admitted he cared about Rimbaud and was extremely remorseful for his actions, apologizing over and over again. After that, Verlaine allowed himself to be detained by the Mafia, having nowhere he wanted to go and no one he wanted to see besides his friend, who was gone for good.

N
"I can see something sinister inside you. A darkness far deeper than any evil."

- Verlaine spites N

Adam Frankenstein
"Oh, look who it is. It appears destroying that airplane wasn't enough."

- Verlaine meets Adam after crashing his aircraft