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Character: Chuuya Nakahara
Age: 22
Canon: Bungou Stray Dogs
Canon Point: End of chapter 31
Background: This is basically a canon where everyone is named after authors and based on references to their works, but aren't actually fictionalized versions of said authors-- the presence of people with weird, dramatically-named powers is just a Thing here and nothing about where they come from or why people have them is really explained. As far as plot relevance goes: Chuuya is one of five executive members of the Port Mafia, which is initially after a huge bounty on a member of the Armed Detective Agency... until the mafia fails to deliver on the bounty and the organization that placed it, the Guild, turns on the mafia as well as the agency. While the agency and mafia are still also fighting each other. It's a three-way mess, essentially.
Translation efforts haven't fully caught up with the story, so there aren't a lot of known specifics about Chuuya's background pre-canon (including, well, whether there even are more details). What we do know for sure about his history is that he joined the Port Mafia at some point, possibly fairly early (implied by a chapter cover, no confirmation) and that he's Dazai Osamu's former partner. When Dazai was still a mafia member, the two of them were called 'double black' (the dumbest edgy nickname ever) and had a reputation for their capability to take out enemy organizations overnight, though they were at odds even before Dazai abruptly left the mafia-- either they never really meshed on a personal level, or it became strained. It's unclear when he became an executive member of the mafia, but he holds the position by the time of his first canon appearance.
In canon, he first shows up to antagonize Dazai after his old partner-turned-traitor's let himself be captured by the mafia. He gloats a bit, Dazai doesn't let him feel superior about it for longer than about 5 seconds at a time, Chuuya breaks him out and challenges him to a duel, they fight... annnd then before Chuuya can kill him, he finds out that Dazai's already warned the bosses that all the mafia's secrets will be leaked if he dies. Chuuya threatens him a little more anyway, tells him where to get the information he wants, and storms off with his wounded dignity.
Several chapters later, we get a couple brief scenes of him reporting to the mafia's boss Mori and carrying out Mori's plan to sniff out the Armed Detective Agency's new base. After finding it, Chuuya shows up there to deliver a message from the mafia, taunting them a bit before telling them when and where they can find 2 members of the Guild, which the mafia has lured with bait. Naturally this is pretty suspicious; a couple of the detectives attack him and he shows off his gravity powers, but the agency director interrupts before it gets too far. The detectives then find out the mafia's baited the Guild members by leaking info on where the agency's ability-less employees are hiding out, because they're dicks who like trying to play enemies against each other. More taunting ensues in which Chuuya tells them his boss knew they'd act on the information, even knowing it's a trap-- and then he disappears off to the background for a while again.
After a brief appearance directing the mafia's combatants during widespread commotion in the city (and surveying some of the aftermath a bit later), Chuuya is sent by his boss to join Dazai in retrieving Q (a curse-inflicting ability user being used to cause aforementioned mess) from the Guild members Steinbeck and Lovecraft. While neither of them is very pleased about working together again, they get past the Guild members and rescue Q (with a lot of arguing), then have to team up to fight off Lovecraft... who turns out to be an actual regenerating tentaclehorror shaped like a person, not an ability user Dazai can nullify. In order to destroy him, Chuuya's forced to trust Dazai and use his Corruption ability, an uncontrollable and incredibly destructive power that will kill Chuuya himself if not nullified in time. He tears up Lovecraft's Cthulhu-like form while Dazai handles Steinbeck, and Dazai does in fact turn Corruption off before it can kill him-- though he lets it go on longer than necessary and then leaves an unconscious Chuuya behind (after agreeing to get him back to his base). Thanks a lot, Dazai.
He's being pulled from about right there, after waking up to that nice little reminder of why he hates his old partner.
Personality: He is the very model of a mini mafia member-- or at least he is most of the time.
Chuuya's not an executive member of the organization for nothing, and is consistently loyal to it. The threat of being outlawed for killing Dazai without authorization forces him to back down from the opportunity to kill his rival, and when he's shown directing other mafia members in a larger-scale conflict, it's with orders to defend their territory with their lives. Even when he doesn't stick directly to an order, it isn't due to any absence of loyalty to the mafia itself; while he's working on orders to retrieve Q alive when he temporarily joins up with Dazai, Chuuya doesn't stop his former partner when he threatens to kill their target. He excuses it with the fact that they're too far apart for him to stop Dazai quickly enough, but still tells Dazai to go ahead and do it because Q's ability recently killed several of his subordinates. (Beyond that, Q's dangerous despite being a kid, and if left alive he could easily kill more of the mafia-- it'd be a preventative action as much as payback for the loss.) Chuuya is also the person who's most often seen reporting to and taking orders from the mafia's boss, and he and Kouyou (another executive member) seem to be the ones who have the most direct contact with Mori.
He can be pretty ruthless as well-- in the same scenario with Q, he calls Dazai soft for not going through with the murder-- and has no real qualms about killing; considering that he seems to have been part of the mafia for a while, though, the capacity for violence isn't too surprising. According to its leader, violence is the mafia's currency rather than tangible things, and it's an organization that pays its debts, whether that means returning a favor or eliminating an enemy. He and Dazai were known for their destructive capability, and Chuuya has held on to some of that reputation since; when sending him on a mission alone, Mori notes that the military force of the operation could wipe out the detective agency, and he's been referred to as the mafia's best martial artist.
His capability, though, has led him to be arrogant and even a showoff. Chuuya complains that he's being belittled when confronted by only two of the detective agency's members, and he doesn't often bother to make sure he'll be unrestricted in a fight; he almost always wears his coat like a cape and tends to just hold onto it with one hand mid-combat (and if he's ditched the coat, he's probably still making sure his hat doesn't fall off.) He makes sure an opponent knows he doesn't need his hands free to beat them, and that he's confident in taking them down without ever losing that dumb hat. Outside of a fight, he shows similar tendencies toward overconfidence, often posturing and mocking opponents and making unnecessarily dramatic entrances-- but I guess when you're 5'2" you have to put a little extra effort into making sure people notice you, right? Speaking of things that are short, though: Chuuya's temper. He isn't a terribly patient person, enjoys fights, and is full of threats in any given situation-- he's not totally indiscriminate about it, but start trouble with him and he'll definitely try to finish it.
On the whole, his behavior is about what one would expect from a mafioso-- unless Dazai is involved, at which point all of this turns up to 11.
At one point, they were partners, likely assigned because of the synergy between their abilities: Chuuya can't use his to its full potential without Dazai there to counter Corruption and keep him alive, and that's part of the whole problem with Dazai's defection. With Dazai out of the picture, he's no longer capable of using the ability that helped give them their destructive reputation, and he's effectively lost some of his value as a mafia combatant. While he's now an executive member and is definitely capable of a lot of damage without using Corruption (not to mention that he doesn't seem to like using it in the first place), Chuuya was undeniably more effective in that partnership-- which just makes Dazai's defection sting more. It's not just that he turned traitor to the mafia, it's that Chuuya's own partner let him down. For all that they say they hated each other even before Dazai left, their teamwork when they're forced to pair up again against the Guild makes it clear enough that they've always been capable of setting things aside to get the job done-- even when they're technically enemies, they're both able to pick things right back up, and Chuuya still defers to Dazai's strategies (though he won't do it without complaint, of course). The nature of Chuuya's ability means that to work effectively with Dazai, he needed to trust his partner with his life; regardless of his personal opinions, he still relied on Dazai only to have him leave mid-mission (the situation has yet to be explained, it's very Mysterious and everything.)
The end result? One hell of a grudge, and a whole lot of hate. Being around Dazai these days brings out his worst qualities with minimal effort-- Chuuya can be taunted by the detective agency's director and call it an honor, but he'll hurl insults and threats at Dazai with almost no provocation required, and his posturing is capable of hitting 'cartoon villain' levels (complete with there will be no next time!!!). He gets worked up all too easily, and it's only exacerbated by the fact that Dazai knows him and his habits so well; it's hard to get any satisfaction out of lashing out at someone who knows what you'll do and how you time your attacks, and he gets right under Chuuya's skin like no one else, even when he tries to ignore him (it never lasts long). He's infuriating, and Chuuya's intent on killing him for his betrayal, something he'll probably point out whenever Dazai is around (and sometimes when he's not-- every time he's shown drinking across the manga/extras/spinoff, he's ranting about Dazai in one way or another).
Chuuya obviously hasn't managed it so far, but he's going to do it, he swears. Next time. Next time he's definitely going to kill Dazai.
Abilities: Chuuya's primary ability, For the Tainted Sorrow, allows him to manipulate gravity to a certain extent-- he's able to alter the gravitational vector and strength of any object he's in physical contact with, and the effect can stay in place for a limited period of time without having to maintain contact (appears to be a few hours). Canon uses of the ability include things like: standing upside-down on ceilings like a nerd, pretty much gluing someone to the ground with gravitational force, and giving his attacks heavier impact. It isn't destructive on a "there goes the building" level, but he can hit the ground hard enough to leave a small crater in it. Comes with a black particle effect on whatever's being manipulated, as a little visual signature.
Annnd then there's Corruption. This is the true form of his ability, activated using the phrase 'o grantors of dark disgrace, do not wake me again' (because everything has to be dramatic with Chuuya, apparently.) While Corruption is active, he gains control over the gravitons in his surroundings, making him significantly more destructive-- he's capable of crushing a tank barehanded by increasing his own density, and can create and throw balls of compressed gravitons that are basically projectile black holes. He tore up a giant eldritch horror, we're on about that level of ridiculous. Corruption also visibly alters his appearance when active.
The trade-off/effective cap here is that Chuuya cannot control Corruption once he activates it, and it will kill him once his power is exhausted-- due to that, he can't use it without Dazai there to nullify and deactivate the ability. Considering that he really hates Dazai, making that happen will be difficult, especially when he was left alone and unconscious last time. Corruption also takes a toll on his body while it's active, giving it a pretty short time limit; how long Chuuya can survive isn't specifically stated, but it appears to take just a few minutes for his body to become strained (when used in canon, he's shown bleeding pretty heavily from the mouth/nose, and after it's nullified he can't stay conscious for long.) It's essentially a last-resort type of ability since it can't be used without risking his life, and because Dazai is the only nullifier he'd be able to work with. For the sake of keeping him from working with others who might have nullification powers in order to activate Corruption, Dazai's ability will be the only one that works on it.
On the non-supernatural side, he's noted as being the mafia's best martial artist, and generally fights unarmed with the aid of his ability (though he can use a knife, and carries one on him.)
Alignment: Elios: hate's a strong word, and that's exactly why he's using it. He doesn't just get mad, he'll hold a grudge and seethe over it, and his outbursts are fueled more by being slighted in some way. On the other end, calm's still a bit tame for his personality, so Elios wins out over Sosyne there.
Other: with his canonpoint, he's going to be showing up with pretty much nothing but his (questionably fashionable) outfit, seeing as a certain someone named Dazai stole his knife and presumably never gave it back.
Sample: small mafia's Bad Time (TDM)
Questions:
ability clarification!
for a better look at how Corruption works, here's the section from chapter 31 in which it's used:
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