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CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Chuuya Nakahara
AGE: 22
CANON: Bungou Stray Dogs
NAME: Chuuya Nakahara
AGE: 22
CANON: Bungou Stray Dogs
CANON HISTORY: The wiki isn't great, sorry for the tl;dr here!
His canon is an author-based detective story where the characters are all named after various authors and themed after them/their works (some have personality traits from their namesake, but none are actually fictionalized versions of the authors.) The presence of weird, dramatically-named powers is a thing here, but we don't actually know how or why people have them, only what they can do and that they can be transferred to individuals from a blood relative. There are organizations of Ability-users worldwide, from criminal groups like the Port Mafia to the government's Special Ability Department, and others such as the Guild with their own goals.
The story itself is set in modern-day Yokohama, Japan, where the Port Mafia runs the local underworld and the Armed Detective Agency works to handle cases and criminals (often but not always mafia members) that are too violent or difficult for the normal police, falling into grey areas law enforcement can't cover. The mafia itself doesn't control the city, but owns many businesses within it and has extended its influence to many parts of the city; it's integrated itself into the economy, and even holds an ability business permit allowing it some form of legitimacy. The local government has its own department dealing with those who have Abilities and keeps an eye on the mafia's activities, largely working in the background while the Detective Agency handles more immediate problems.
There aren't a lot of known specifics about Chuuya's history pre-canon. What we do know for sure about his history is that he appears to have been taken in by the Port Mafia at a fairly young age (~14 or less), trained by Ozaki Kouyou (another current executive, who he refers to as his big sister) 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 to join the Detective Agency. 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 (and most likely replaced Dazai.)
(While Chuuya isn't personally involved in the hunt, it's important to know for context that the mafia was offered a huge bounty for the capture and sale of a particular Ability-user, who is a current member of the Detective Agency, by an American organization called the Guild.)
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 on his Agency coworker's bounty, and storms off with his wounded dignity.
Several chapters later, the mafia has failed to deliver on their deal with the Guild, and a three-way war has ensued between the Port Mafia, Agency, and Guild. 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. More taunting ensues in which Chuuya tells them his boss knew they'd act on the information, even knowing it's a trap-- 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.
Apparently he gets back just fine, though, because he shows back up after the war against the Guild ends, bringing some very expensive wine to celebrate the end of the conflict with Mori and Kouyou.
CANON PERSONALITY: 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, and he's upset about their 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, seeing as only one other executive has even been shown (Chuuya and Dazai also refer to a meeting of all five executives as being rare, only done once every few years or in emergencies, so they seem to be fairly independent.)
Around other mafia members, he tends to be calmer and more businesslike; he's extremely polite and deferent to Mori especially, and gets along well with his subordinates. He goes out drinking with them, and is one of the ranking Mafia members who actually cares about the people under his authority. He's basically the Dad Boss, the guy who'll be firm with coworkers during business hours and then go take them to the bar and get embarrassingly drunk in front of them. The Port Mafia seems to be something of a family to him, especially considering how young he was when he joined and that he was very likely taken in by them (the Mafia has a habit of taking promising orphans under its wing); he calls Kouyou his older sister, and the Boss's (possible) daughter even includes Chuuya in a drawing of her family. His loyalty's due to both this and his training from Kouyou, who tried and failed to leave the Mafia when she was younger-- it's probable that she helped instill that loyalty to protect him and ensure he didn't try to make the same mistake she did.
He can be exactly as ruthless as his job requires, as well-- in the above scenario with Q, he calls Dazai soft for not going through with the murder despite Q being a child-- 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: one of its few rules is that "attacks received must be returned doubly". He and Dazai were known for their destructive capacity, 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. He's also 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. It's likely that this was driven by a need to prove himself, both because he's small and not very intimidating-looking and because of his time spent with his more successful partner. Dazai was known as being a 'demonic prodigy' and excelled at his work; few could outdo him and he was difficult to keep up with, so Chuuya would have needed to work hard to earn his own recognition... and after Dazai's betrayal, he left behind some fairly impressive shoes to fill.
His showoff tendencies come out in the expensive tastes he's developed as an executive as well, from the fancy outfits to his wine collection, which includes the priciest bottles he can get his hands on. He often overindulges despite being a huge lightweight, though, and his drunk rants are a bit of a running gag in side comics.
Most of those rants are about Dazai, who's remained a huge problem for Chuuya.
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 while Chuuya was away.
The end result? One hell of a grudge. Being around Dazai these days puts him at his worst 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 if he's sufficiently worked up and/or drunk (complete with 'there will be no next time!!!'). He gets heated 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 more than a little obsessed-- every time he's shown drinking in the manga/spinoff/extras, he's ranting about Dazai one way or another, and even still has Dazai's old number in his phone.
It's a fixation and attachment he can't let go of, one that leaves him constantly swearing he's going to kill Dazai and yet putting his life in Dazai's hands again to face a common enemy.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
For the Tainted Sorrow- the name has to be dramatic in this series, It Has To. 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, stopping bullets/flinging them back, 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. While it hasn't been shown in canon, the author's commented this could be used for a form of flight.
Corruption- this is the true form of his ability, activated using the phrase 'o grantors of dark disgrace, do not wake me again' (taken from the real-life Chuuya's poetry, like his other ability.) 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 compressed graviton bombs that function sort of like projectile black holes, sucking in and destroying whatever they hit. We're on about that level of ridiculous. Corruption also visibly alters his appearance when active. The trade-off here is that Chuuya has absolutely no control over this ability and can't cancel it himself, and it will slowly destroy his body if not nullified; it will rage until his power's exhausted itself and he dies. This seems to have a fairly short timeframe, as in canon it appears to be just a few minutes before he's bleeding heavily and Dazai comments he can't take much more.
Non-supernatural skills include:
Shady business- as an executive and right hand to the Boss, Chuuya helps oversee business dealings as well as dealing with traitors and disputes. He's familiar with using businesses as fronts and conducting illegal operations behind the scenes, as well as covering tracks when eliminating enemies. Can probably also drive well, considering he owns a car and has almost definitely needed to use it for getaways.
Hand to hand combat- He's the mafia's most skilled martial artist, and shown to be proficient with knives as well. Most likely can use a gun (the mafia's signature elimination involves using one), but has only been shown using knives or his hands and feet.
His canon is an author-based detective story where the characters are all named after various authors and themed after them/their works (some have personality traits from their namesake, but none are actually fictionalized versions of the authors.) The presence of weird, dramatically-named powers is a thing here, but we don't actually know how or why people have them, only what they can do and that they can be transferred to individuals from a blood relative. There are organizations of Ability-users worldwide, from criminal groups like the Port Mafia to the government's Special Ability Department, and others such as the Guild with their own goals.
The story itself is set in modern-day Yokohama, Japan, where the Port Mafia runs the local underworld and the Armed Detective Agency works to handle cases and criminals (often but not always mafia members) that are too violent or difficult for the normal police, falling into grey areas law enforcement can't cover. The mafia itself doesn't control the city, but owns many businesses within it and has extended its influence to many parts of the city; it's integrated itself into the economy, and even holds an ability business permit allowing it some form of legitimacy. The local government has its own department dealing with those who have Abilities and keeps an eye on the mafia's activities, largely working in the background while the Detective Agency handles more immediate problems.
There aren't a lot of known specifics about Chuuya's history pre-canon. What we do know for sure about his history is that he appears to have been taken in by the Port Mafia at a fairly young age (~14 or less), trained by Ozaki Kouyou (another current executive, who he refers to as his big sister) 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 to join the Detective Agency. 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 (and most likely replaced Dazai.)
(While Chuuya isn't personally involved in the hunt, it's important to know for context that the mafia was offered a huge bounty for the capture and sale of a particular Ability-user, who is a current member of the Detective Agency, by an American organization called the Guild.)
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 on his Agency coworker's bounty, and storms off with his wounded dignity.
Several chapters later, the mafia has failed to deliver on their deal with the Guild, and a three-way war has ensued between the Port Mafia, Agency, and Guild. 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. More taunting ensues in which Chuuya tells them his boss knew they'd act on the information, even knowing it's a trap-- 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.
Apparently he gets back just fine, though, because he shows back up after the war against the Guild ends, bringing some very expensive wine to celebrate the end of the conflict with Mori and Kouyou.
CANON PERSONALITY: 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, and he's upset about their 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, seeing as only one other executive has even been shown (Chuuya and Dazai also refer to a meeting of all five executives as being rare, only done once every few years or in emergencies, so they seem to be fairly independent.)
Around other mafia members, he tends to be calmer and more businesslike; he's extremely polite and deferent to Mori especially, and gets along well with his subordinates. He goes out drinking with them, and is one of the ranking Mafia members who actually cares about the people under his authority. He's basically the Dad Boss, the guy who'll be firm with coworkers during business hours and then go take them to the bar and get embarrassingly drunk in front of them. The Port Mafia seems to be something of a family to him, especially considering how young he was when he joined and that he was very likely taken in by them (the Mafia has a habit of taking promising orphans under its wing); he calls Kouyou his older sister, and the Boss's (possible) daughter even includes Chuuya in a drawing of her family. His loyalty's due to both this and his training from Kouyou, who tried and failed to leave the Mafia when she was younger-- it's probable that she helped instill that loyalty to protect him and ensure he didn't try to make the same mistake she did.
He can be exactly as ruthless as his job requires, as well-- in the above scenario with Q, he calls Dazai soft for not going through with the murder despite Q being a child-- 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: one of its few rules is that "attacks received must be returned doubly". He and Dazai were known for their destructive capacity, 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. He's also 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. It's likely that this was driven by a need to prove himself, both because he's small and not very intimidating-looking and because of his time spent with his more successful partner. Dazai was known as being a 'demonic prodigy' and excelled at his work; few could outdo him and he was difficult to keep up with, so Chuuya would have needed to work hard to earn his own recognition... and after Dazai's betrayal, he left behind some fairly impressive shoes to fill.
His showoff tendencies come out in the expensive tastes he's developed as an executive as well, from the fancy outfits to his wine collection, which includes the priciest bottles he can get his hands on. He often overindulges despite being a huge lightweight, though, and his drunk rants are a bit of a running gag in side comics.
Most of those rants are about Dazai, who's remained a huge problem for Chuuya.
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 while Chuuya was away.
The end result? One hell of a grudge. Being around Dazai these days puts him at his worst 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 if he's sufficiently worked up and/or drunk (complete with 'there will be no next time!!!'). He gets heated 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 more than a little obsessed-- every time he's shown drinking in the manga/spinoff/extras, he's ranting about Dazai one way or another, and even still has Dazai's old number in his phone.
It's a fixation and attachment he can't let go of, one that leaves him constantly swearing he's going to kill Dazai and yet putting his life in Dazai's hands again to face a common enemy.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
For the Tainted Sorrow- the name has to be dramatic in this series, It Has To. 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, stopping bullets/flinging them back, 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. While it hasn't been shown in canon, the author's commented this could be used for a form of flight.
Corruption- this is the true form of his ability, activated using the phrase 'o grantors of dark disgrace, do not wake me again' (taken from the real-life Chuuya's poetry, like his other ability.) 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 compressed graviton bombs that function sort of like projectile black holes, sucking in and destroying whatever they hit. We're on about that level of ridiculous. Corruption also visibly alters his appearance when active. The trade-off here is that Chuuya has absolutely no control over this ability and can't cancel it himself, and it will slowly destroy his body if not nullified; it will rage until his power's exhausted itself and he dies. This seems to have a fairly short timeframe, as in canon it appears to be just a few minutes before he's bleeding heavily and Dazai comments he can't take much more.
Non-supernatural skills include:
Shady business- as an executive and right hand to the Boss, Chuuya helps oversee business dealings as well as dealing with traitors and disputes. He's familiar with using businesses as fronts and conducting illegal operations behind the scenes, as well as covering tracks when eliminating enemies. Can probably also drive well, considering he owns a car and has almost definitely needed to use it for getaways.
Hand to hand combat- He's the mafia's most skilled martial artist, and shown to be proficient with knives as well. Most likely can use a gun (the mafia's signature elimination involves using one), but has only been shown using knives or his hands and feet.
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Chuuya Nakahara
AU AGE: 22
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Whatever scars he had from his life in the mafia, they're missing; aside from that, no difference! Chuuya is just a normal looking 5'3" redhead with a dumb haircut.
AU NAME: Chuuya Nakahara
AU AGE: 22
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Whatever scars he had from his life in the mafia, they're missing; aside from that, no difference! Chuuya is just a normal looking 5'3" redhead with a dumb haircut.
AU HISTORY: Chuuya was adopted as a baby, and while he still has the first name he was given by his biological parents, he's never chosen to look them up; all he really knows is that he's from Japan, the distance being part of the reason he's never dug for information about his birth family. His adoptive family is Japanese as well, and he was raised speaking both his native language and English. He was very close with his immediate family as well as some of his aunts, uncles, and cousins, who he saw often and grew very attached to. Chuuya also proved early on to be a troublemaker and attention seeker, though, and was put in martial arts classes in an attempt to get him to learn some discipline. It helped, to a degree-- it gave him an outlet he needed, something to advance in and ways to prove himself-- but it also taught him that he really enjoyed a good fight.
That didn't exactly help the ongoing problem of picking fights with other students, largely due to insults (real or just perceived, mostly about his small size and sometimes about his appearance not matching his name). While he stopped acting out on his own, Chuuya still spent a decent amount of time in detention (and sometimes suspension) thanks to issues controlling his temper when provoked. On the plus side, a couple of his teachers encouraged the interest that he had developed in both English and Japanese literature and poetry (thanks to an uncle who was an author himself), and he was allowed to use that time to pursue it when he didn't have other classwork to finish in detention. This eventually led to him choosing to study literature in college, and he moved to Recollé to pursue a degree, living with extended family in the area until he could get his own apartment.
He never finished his degree, though. Being on his own led to him pushing a little too far past the boundaries his parents had set back home, and he never got over that tendency to get himself into trouble-- he continued to pick fights, partied a little too much, the usual Problem Teenager issues-- though his ties to his family kept him from ever going too far, as he didn't want to end up making trouble for them. After being put on probation in his sophomore year, he decided he may as well drop out and pursue a life where he could just do what he wanted instead. Family friends gave him a job at the restaurant they ran, which he stuck with largely out of loyalty to them, and when he was old enough he started working at the neighboring bar they owned. He became close with the owner, coming to see him as a sort of honorary grandparent, and after getting some of the rebellion out of his system Chuuya had settled down enough to start devoting himself to the business, which he had become just as attached to after taking over as bartender and getting to know the regulars there.
Following the owner's death, the establishment was left to Chuuya-- at least in name. He's now the owner on paper, but older staff and an outside contractor he's hired to do the books are still helping him learn all the ropes, as he's still young and has no background in business; he's rebranded the place somewhat to suit his own tastes, and has been working to grow its clientele to add to the regulars who still visit. In his off time, he still occasionally writes his own poetry, as well as the lyrics for a small band he formed with some friends he met in college. They don't really play anywhere too often, just the occasional small gig; it's largely a hobby for all of them.
AU PERSONALITY: While he's kept his loyalty to an adopted family, the fact that he hasn't led such a high-stakes, risky lifestyle means that Chuuya is much less serious and not as driven as his old self. He's only just begun to develop something like the businesslike demeanor that his executive self maintained, now that he's a business owner, but he's never had to put his life on the line in a fight and is a much more casual person in general. Failure doesn't carry the dire consequences it would have before, which has also left him with less of a drive to succeed for much of his life; of course he's wanted to, but it's never been as much of a necessity, and quitting has always been an option with his family's support to fall back on (for example, leaving school instead of sticking with it after he chose to attend.)
He's also more of an open person now, less skilled at reining in his temper and more openly affectionate with family (and with close friends he basically considers family, anyway), more prone to saying what's on his mind even if he should try to be diplomatic and picking fights when he knows it's a bad idea. Chuuya's still retained some of his showiness and arrogance as well, backed up by the attitude he developed as a kid: if he picks the fight first instead of waiting for it to be brought to him, and if he establishes himself as someone who doesn't give a damn what others think, he feels like it'll keep others from trying to mess with him. That's stuck with him as an adult, and he still tends to be more verbally aggressive than is really necessary if someone pushes his buttons right.
Chuuya has also retained the expensive tastes his old self had, with one key difference: as an executive, he could actually afford it. Now, he has a very bad habit of living beyond his means, failing to save up when he should and spending what he does have on things that help keep up the appearance that he's living better than he really is. Designer clothes, shitty apartment; fancy wine, eating as cheaply as possible until the next payday. He manages to pay his bills, but he's terrible at spending his money wisely beyond that (likely because he definitely has gotten his phone shut off once or twice in the past.) He tries to keep it hidden, but he gets plenty of invitations to dinner from his extended family who know he's not going to do his grocery shopping properly.
Having a more relaxed life has also let him develop hobbies and interests he didn't have much of a chance to before, such as his interest in literature and poetry and his side hobby of singing for the band he formed with his college friends. Without being married to his work, he's been able to enjoy himself more, and he prides himself on living exactly how he wants (and in tailoring things to his own tastes-- the names of all the drinks at his bar are literary & poetry references.) He's had more time to devote to the people he cares about, too, and instead of taking care of them as their boss, this time he's become more of an uncle to younger members of his family... if one who's sort of a bad influence (though not enough of one that any of the family keeps him at a distance.)
That didn't exactly help the ongoing problem of picking fights with other students, largely due to insults (real or just perceived, mostly about his small size and sometimes about his appearance not matching his name). While he stopped acting out on his own, Chuuya still spent a decent amount of time in detention (and sometimes suspension) thanks to issues controlling his temper when provoked. On the plus side, a couple of his teachers encouraged the interest that he had developed in both English and Japanese literature and poetry (thanks to an uncle who was an author himself), and he was allowed to use that time to pursue it when he didn't have other classwork to finish in detention. This eventually led to him choosing to study literature in college, and he moved to Recollé to pursue a degree, living with extended family in the area until he could get his own apartment.
He never finished his degree, though. Being on his own led to him pushing a little too far past the boundaries his parents had set back home, and he never got over that tendency to get himself into trouble-- he continued to pick fights, partied a little too much, the usual Problem Teenager issues-- though his ties to his family kept him from ever going too far, as he didn't want to end up making trouble for them. After being put on probation in his sophomore year, he decided he may as well drop out and pursue a life where he could just do what he wanted instead. Family friends gave him a job at the restaurant they ran, which he stuck with largely out of loyalty to them, and when he was old enough he started working at the neighboring bar they owned. He became close with the owner, coming to see him as a sort of honorary grandparent, and after getting some of the rebellion out of his system Chuuya had settled down enough to start devoting himself to the business, which he had become just as attached to after taking over as bartender and getting to know the regulars there.
Following the owner's death, the establishment was left to Chuuya-- at least in name. He's now the owner on paper, but older staff and an outside contractor he's hired to do the books are still helping him learn all the ropes, as he's still young and has no background in business; he's rebranded the place somewhat to suit his own tastes, and has been working to grow its clientele to add to the regulars who still visit. In his off time, he still occasionally writes his own poetry, as well as the lyrics for a small band he formed with some friends he met in college. They don't really play anywhere too often, just the occasional small gig; it's largely a hobby for all of them.
AU PERSONALITY: While he's kept his loyalty to an adopted family, the fact that he hasn't led such a high-stakes, risky lifestyle means that Chuuya is much less serious and not as driven as his old self. He's only just begun to develop something like the businesslike demeanor that his executive self maintained, now that he's a business owner, but he's never had to put his life on the line in a fight and is a much more casual person in general. Failure doesn't carry the dire consequences it would have before, which has also left him with less of a drive to succeed for much of his life; of course he's wanted to, but it's never been as much of a necessity, and quitting has always been an option with his family's support to fall back on (for example, leaving school instead of sticking with it after he chose to attend.)
He's also more of an open person now, less skilled at reining in his temper and more openly affectionate with family (and with close friends he basically considers family, anyway), more prone to saying what's on his mind even if he should try to be diplomatic and picking fights when he knows it's a bad idea. Chuuya's still retained some of his showiness and arrogance as well, backed up by the attitude he developed as a kid: if he picks the fight first instead of waiting for it to be brought to him, and if he establishes himself as someone who doesn't give a damn what others think, he feels like it'll keep others from trying to mess with him. That's stuck with him as an adult, and he still tends to be more verbally aggressive than is really necessary if someone pushes his buttons right.
Chuuya has also retained the expensive tastes his old self had, with one key difference: as an executive, he could actually afford it. Now, he has a very bad habit of living beyond his means, failing to save up when he should and spending what he does have on things that help keep up the appearance that he's living better than he really is. Designer clothes, shitty apartment; fancy wine, eating as cheaply as possible until the next payday. He manages to pay his bills, but he's terrible at spending his money wisely beyond that (likely because he definitely has gotten his phone shut off once or twice in the past.) He tries to keep it hidden, but he gets plenty of invitations to dinner from his extended family who know he's not going to do his grocery shopping properly.
Having a more relaxed life has also let him develop hobbies and interests he didn't have much of a chance to before, such as his interest in literature and poetry and his side hobby of singing for the band he formed with his college friends. Without being married to his work, he's been able to enjoy himself more, and he prides himself on living exactly how he wants (and in tailoring things to his own tastes-- the names of all the drinks at his bar are literary & poetry references.) He's had more time to devote to the people he cares about, too, and instead of taking care of them as their boss, this time he's become more of an uncle to younger members of his family... if one who's sort of a bad influence (though not enough of one that any of the family keeps him at a distance.)
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