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Nakahara Chuuya ([personal profile] indensity) wrote2020-02-15 10:20 pm

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Name: Nakahara Chuuya
Door: old acceptance, which made him a submissive

Canon: Bungou Stray Dogs
Canon Point: After chapter 62, when Chuuya rescues the ADA from the Hunting Dogs

Age: 22
Appearance: picture

History: bsd wiki
Personality:

Hothead - He deals so badly with his emotions, and he has so many of them, and sometimes that turns him into an idiot. He basically expresses every negative feeling as anger, because that's the one he's confident in. Sad? Angry. Lonely? Angry. Hurt? Angry. Scared? Angry. We see this when people tease him especially: He gets embarrassed, turns bright red, and then gets angry and often turns to violence. Dazai pokes and prods him into lashing out, then dodges Chuuya's violent kicks and punches, laughs at him some more, and the cycle continues.

It's a weakness beyond making him an easy target for teasing, too. It makes Chuuya lose fights that he should have been able to win in his sleep. In fact, at one point he loses against a man with zero fighting skills at all. His opponent mentioned one of his worst triggers -- he pointed out how Chuuya has lost to Dazai before -- and Chuuya loses his temper, makes the ground around him shake and crack, rushes the man, and completely misses that it was all a trap. Whoops.

Reckless - While he has learned to hold himself back a bit over the years, he'd still like to charge right in to any situation, riding his pink motorcycle, challenging everyone to a fight, before going out to get drunk in celebration. But it's not just about that rush of adrenaline: In the light novel 'fifteen,' he says that he fights without using his hands because he wants to get to that point where he feels like he'll lose. He didn't feel much attachment to his own body, and he hoped that the rush of losing would make him feel alive, and consequently make him feel like he might actually be human.

While he no longer struggles with his own identity as much, his recklessness in regards to his own safety never changed. He still sees himself as a trump card, because he believes that his power means he has a responsibility to fight and protect his subordinates. At one point he asks someone when it's okay to give up and go home, and then a moment later gives his answer: It's never okay. It's never the right time for that. While he rarely has to fear for his life, in the situation that he does, he still won't let himself hesitate. In Storm Bringer Dazai offers to come up with an alternative plan to using Corruption - at that point Chuuya not only risks losing his life if he uses it, but risks never being able to find out if he's truly human or not - and Chuuya ignores the offer and throws himself into the fight ahead, knowing it's the best course of action. His own needs are not on his list of priorities.


Arrogant - Despite the fact that he has lost several times, Chuuya still has complete confidence in his own strength. He goes into every fight convinced that he's going to win, and will even hold himself back to make the fight more fun or challenging. He'll toy with people, dodge their attacks and make fun at them to rile them up, knowing that his mere presence is a huge threat, that he's putting them on edge only by existing. And he loves it. He's at his happiest when he gets to be a dick about how powerful he is. At one point he's tasked to deliver a message to the Armed Detective Agency; and that's the whole job, leaving a message, but he still takes the time to make them fight him first, and only tells them why he's actually there when someone points out he's not there to fight.

In the case of his arrogance, that also extends to his belief in the Port Mafia, and in his boss. He is just as confident that the Port Mafia can't lose, and that his boss' plan will work. He'll even gloat about those plans when he can. He's sent to rescue the Port Mafia at one point, too, but there's a trade off for Chuuya's help - the ADA has to give up a member to the Port Mafia. And Chuuya makes absolutely sure to rub that in, because his boss always knows how to benefit from every situation, and Chuuya looks up to his boss. He has to make sure everyone else knows that Mori is better than them, too.

Loyal + Chuuya is loyal to the extreme, and the idea of betraying someone is unthinkable to him. Tricking an enemy is one thing, but if you're one of "his" people, he's on your side, forever. In the light novel 'fifteen' we learn that when he was part of his former gang, the Sheep, he repeatedly said that he had something he called 'the responsibility of power.' He was the strongest, and so it was his job to fight for the others, to protect them. Strength didn't make him a leader, it made him a trump card, and he calls out others who fight only to promote themselves. But Chuuya takes it further than that, too. When the Sheep betrayed him, out of fear that Chuuya would do the same to them first, Chuuya immediately forgave them. They tried to kill him, and he continued to protect them, even making a deal with Dazai to have them spared. And we learn that a year later, when Chuuya is a full fledged mafia member, his boss is still leveraging the Sheep against him as a precaution.

But Chuuya had no intention of betraying his new boss, either. He won Chuuya's loyalty when he helped him understand his own shortcomings as a leader, and so Chuuya knelt before him and promised himself as Mori's slave. He didn't have to go that far. Mori never demanded it of him. It was a sign of Chuuya's own commitment.

That said, Mori is not his number one priority necessarily. The two of them talked about a leader's responsibility to their subordinates, and the Port Mafia's responsibility to the city, and that's what moved Chuuya. And Chuuya protects his subordinates above anything else. While normally he trusts Mori completely and loves to follow his orders, if his subordinates are in trouble he might go against him. At one point he's taseked to rescue an Ability user known as Q, and to bring him back alive, but when Dazai threatens to kill Q Chuuya doesn't even care. He says that all he can see when he looks at Q are the dead faces of his subordinates. He tells Dazai to go right ahead. In the end Dazai was bluffing, but - according to Mori's orders, Chuuya should not have taken that chance.

Powers and Abilities: Chuuya is an excellent martial artist (the best in the mafia, which is saying something), and he's good with a knife. Additionally, he seems to be serving as the Port Mafia Boss' right-hand man: He's sent out to handle issues arising in areas outside of Yokohama, and trusted to act on the Port Mafia's behalf. When the boss is out of commission, it's Chuuya who takes on the role of leadership. He's been trained in various forms of strategic thinking, and knows how to properly run an illegal business. He was in charge of the mafia's dealings in smuggled jewels at 16, and managed to cdominate the market even then. He's also the kind of leader who naturally inspires loyalty.

In short: a hothead he might be, but he (usually) knows how to control himself for the greater good.

As for actual powers, he has a power called 'for the tainted sorrow,' which allows him to manipulate gravity. What this means more specifically is:

- Gravity schmavity, we're walking on walls, the ceilings, or just on air particles
- And he lands like an explosion, cracking the ground around him
- Actually, he can crack the ground while standing still as well
- He can seriously pack a punch
- He can pick up heavy objects like they weigh nothing (because he makes them weigh next to nothing)
- He can make things weigh more than they should, and for example make a person unable to move
- He can make a bullet simply drop to the ground as they hit him, without doing damage
- He can keep up with a motorcycle by making gravity push him as he runs
- He can make his hat and coat stay in place on a windy day

It should be noted that he has to touch an object to affect it, although once he does, the effect can last a while even if he lets go (he states once it will last 'until morning').

His ability's true form, however, is honestly terrifying. It's called 'corruption,' and is activated by Chuuya dramatically taking off his gloves and reciting:

O' Grantors of Dark Disgrace
Do not wake me again


Chuuya only ever activates this in extreme emergencies, and only if someone (Dazai) is around to nullify the power. This is because the longer he is in that state, the less control he has, and after a while he'll just attack everything in sight. And then he'll die.

But what he can do in this state is:

- Hover in the air
- Crush a tank with his bare hands
- Pick up giant apartment buildings like he's superman
- Manipulate the density of himself and objects he's touching to an even larger degree
- And even affect things around him that he isn't touching
- Throw around black holes that will swallow anything they come into contact with

He's extremely destructive when Corruption is activated, even if I estimate he'd only be able to last about 5-10 minutes before it kills him. I'll consider this part of his abilities nerfed unless the mods want to use it for plot purposes at some point.

Inventory: His knife, and a fairly expensive bottle of wine.

Samples: talking with a subordinate, which is very different from him talking to dazai.


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