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[sensitiveheartless]

Chuuya Week Day 3: Found Family

(Or, Adam and the three messy teenagers he’s taken under his wing)

#sometimes family is: #a traumatized overpowered teen #his problematic edgy love interest #a bestie who makes bad decisions involving knives #and the best android detective in the world #I love these four so much. I would happily read so much of them running around together they’re such a messy group of dynamics #chuuyaweek2024 #chuuyaweek24 #bsd #my art #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai #bsd adam #bsd shirase #bungou stray dogs #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer

[originalartblog]

Chuuya week 2024 - Day 4 - Human

#with crops for the mobile gang #this is the most perspective i've done by hand in YEARS #don't @ me about that hand #chuuya week 2024 #chuuyaweek2024 #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #stormbringer #storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #bsd storm bringer #bsd chuuya #bsd nakahara chuuya #nawy's art

[port4shippers]

I have to give props to Chuuya. The fact that this man has canonically lost three whole friend groups (The Sheep through betrayal, the Flags to Verlaine, and those killed by Shibusawa during the Dragon Head Conflict) throughout a 3-year period, then loses his partner (Dazai) and has no idea where he is or if he's alive for 3-4 years...

You have to admire his mental fortitude, because he's relatively well adjusted for how much shit he's been through. (Not even counting his status as a government experiment and his existential crisis on whether he's human or not.)

#bsd #soukoku #skk #chuuya nakahara #nakahara chūya #nakahara chuuya #bsd storm bringer #this also doesn't count the subordinates he lost to q #he had to have been close to those members in order to hold such a grudge against them upon their release years later #port post

[kyouka-supremacy]

Who's gonna tell him

#The closet is nonexistent etc etc #osamu dazai #skk #soukoku #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd ch 101 #bsd ch 109 #bsd storm bringer #mine #That sb line is so funny. I don't know the context but in my mind it's like #Mori: Dazai-kun it's time to think of ways to counter Chuuya-kun #Dazai: That's my secret Mori-san #Dazai: I'm always thinking of Chuuya

[originalaccountname]

wanna know the most fucked up fact about Corruption?

using it never actually killed the target.

Lovecraft was blasted to pieces but showed up fine a while later.

The Dead Apple dragon was disintegrated but Shibusawa got up a few minutes after to fight Atsushi and the gang.

In the DA prologue, despite using Corruption, Shibusawa was not really killed, since he shows up later, now was he?

Guivre in SB was also vanquished, and Verlaine should have died, but Rimbaud came in last second and saved him anyway.

Even when Rimbaud accidentally released Arahabaki in Fifteen, it wasn't enough to kill him or Verlaine, and it didn't even destroy the lab enough for it to never come up again. And when Verlaine forced its activation in SB, there simply was no enemy to defeat.

Sure it most definitely killed people (grunts, scientists and bystanders for example) and it does get the job done for defeating the enemy, but it never actually kills the threat it was primarily used for. And that's messed up in ways I can't quite put into words.

#both funny and thought-provoking. #free my boy. #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd chuuya #bsd nakahara chuuya #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #stormbringer spoilers #sb spoilers #we need a standard tag for that i can't type all of these every time just in case #apparently i talk sometimes

[sixie]

Chuuya's Clone

Only available in small size

#Help him #he is just a little guy #I love him I'm sorry #chuuya #bsd #bungou stray dogs #myart #bsd fanart #bungo stray dogs #bsd chuuya #bsd meme #bsd storm bringer #storm bringer #stormbringer spoilers

[alma-torran]

my favorite part about teen skk is that they are just. equally obsessed. yeah we make fun of dazai (he was down bad bad) but chuuya is the only person that could possibly match him like. hello.

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #skk #soukoku #teen skk #teen soukoku #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #nakahara chuuya #osamu dazai #like??? hello #i also adore making fun of dazais immediate crush bc its so obvious #but i firmly believe that chuuya is down just as bad but in a diffderent way #it just took him a lot longer bc dazai is less likeable lmaooo

[frenchonionsoop]

"In the center of this hell was Chuuya... suffering."

Aaand as promised here's the other Stormbringer piece :]

#local ginger faces the consequences of being ginger #had to be done #motion blur is my WEAKNESS sorry if it kills your eyes #chuuya #chuuya nakahara #nakahara chuuya #stormbringer #bsd #bsd fanart #bungou stray dogs #bsd storm bringer #bsd art #my art #1000 NOTES OHH MY GOD????

[mr-vanhellis]

BSD HighSchool AU returns!

This time introducing Mr. Adam Frankenstein, The Nakahara Household (and Chuuya) Caretaker ♡

#bsd #bungo stray dogs #my art #bungou stray dogs #dazai osamu #soukoku #chuuya nakahara #bsd chuuya #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #bsd paul verlaine #bsd adam #sillies in love #adam skk supporter real

[sableeira]

I love how “I want to hang him upside down a pole and spin him around like a spinning top” sounds like something people on the internet would say about their special little character but it is something that Chuuya genuinely did to Dazai in Storm Bringer

#Dazai and Chuuya are so silly for their intricate rituals #my usual go-tos are “I want to squeeze them” or “I want to throw them across the room” #but I might start saying I want to spin them upside down a pole when a fave does something that makes me feel too many emotions #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #bsd storm bringer #bsd storm bringer spoilers

[raccoonwxrks]

Idk if ya needed these two gay bitches but I do

#bungo stray dogs fanart #bungou gay dogs #digital art #bsd rimlaine #bsd rimbaud #bsd verlaine #paul verlaine #arthur rimbaud #bsd storm bringer #bungou stray dogs stormbringer #the sad old men yaoi is back guys #i missed them

[sensitiveheartless]

This should have been you.

#every time I think of this part it’s just…man yeah that would stick with you wouldn’t it #what a fun ​~existential nightmare~ #bsd #bsd stormbringer #bsd storm bringer #my art #bsd chuuya #bungou stray dogs #bsd storm bringer spoilers #bsd stormbringer spoilers #skeleton

[originalartblog]

[Storm Bringer]

“In fact, I was against using Adam for such a frivolous investigation from the very start,” Dr. Wollstonecraft began in a huff as she crossed her arms again. “The government is always like this. They send a mechanical detective, then blow him up once they’re done to keep any secret information from getting out. [..] I suppose this is the government’s way of saying we ought to neglect science in favor of human life!”

Dr. Wollstonecraft, ma'am, I think your ethically-dubious opinions on science are better saved for other audiences.

Dr. Wollstonecraft (aka Mary Shelley) based on @videogamelover99's design!

#it's been 85 years but i finally drew this scene. it's been too long since i drew sb stuff. #vee i hope this didn't jumpscare you too much #i'm making the executive decision to have epilogue chuuya with the short hair in preparation for the dragon's head conflict #also dr w here being all ''ugh they ALWAYS do this this extremely specific thing that just happened for the first time 🙄'' #is extremely funny to me #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #storm bringer #stormbringer #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #bsd dr wollstonecraft #bsd wollstonecraft #bsd mary shelley #bsd chuuya #bsd nakahara chuuya #bsd light novel #nawy's comics

[shittydazai]

can’t stop thinking about this storm bringer quote in regards to uh. current events in the manga

#bsd spoilers #soukoku #dazai #chuuya #bsd storm bringer #bsd #max is speaking #stormbringer posting

[ettaevie]

Mori’s relationship with Dazai and Chuuya in the light novels is really funny to me because he’s like “Ugh, my boys. My beautiful weapons of mass destruction. One of them might try to kill me one day but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”

#he's such a proud papa #place your bets now #who's gonna get him #I vote Chuuya because he's less likely to see it coming #bsd #bsd mori #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bsd fifteen #bsd storm bringer #double black #soukoku #Welcome Back to me talking

[originalaccountname]

I made some funny comics a little while ago about the potential effects of Fukuzawa's ability on Chuuya's, and how it perhaps could make it revert to a pre-Arahabaki state.

I realized later that some of you lack the context for where that came from, and that I might be creating confusion, so this is a (hopefully) comprehensive walkthrough of things we learned in Storm Bringer that lead to this conclusion.

tldr; The lab created "Arahabaki" by manipulating an ability into a destructive force. That ability existed before the lab, and the nature of that ability is heavily implied to be the power to enhance other abilities through touch.

Explanation and sources below (so you can judge yourself) ⬇

- spoiler warning for Storm Bringer, hopefully written in a way that you'd understand even if you haven't read it yet -

In Storm Bringer, Chuuya meets the scientist that was responsible for Project Arahabaki, Professor N.

Project Arahabaki, N explains, was the Japanese government's secret project to create an ability singularity they could have control over and freely use as a weapon.

What are singularities? Singularities are what happens when abilities clash in specific ways and create a new, unforeseen reaction. The easiest way to create a singularity is to pit two contradictory abilities against each other to create a paradox; examples included the ability to always deceive and the ability to always perceive the truth, and to have two ability users who can see into the future (*coughs* Oda and Gide) try to one-up each other. The result is usually much more powerful than the original abilities on their own.

Some singularities are said to have been explained as god-like interventions, because of their often destructive nature. This is what inspired the name "Arahabaki", after the mythical being (here's a post of the subject and I'll it link at the end too) These events are described as very rare.

Like mentioned in that passage, there is another way to create a singularity: to have a single ability user use their ability in a way that contradicts itself. This is what the lab was trying to do.

For that explanation, Professor N gives an example. He first shows a video of a child, whose face is hidden from the camera, holding a coin (described as having a certain melancoly to it), with a moon and a fox engraved on it. The video is from one of the lab's tests. The child is made to recite some activation lines, which are directly taken from one of Nakahara Chuuya's poems, Upon the Tainted Sorrow (which does mentions a fox, as a fun fact).

The coin then starts glowing, the glow turns into a black mass, and from there the experimentation goes bad: the coin starts attracting things and absorbing them, the space gets distorted, the child's vitals flatline, panic spreads and someone calls for an emergency stop, we hear a scream. The video ends.

N explains that the child in the video had the ability to enhance the ability of others. That child then used that ability on themselves, effectively enhancing the enhancement which enhanced the enhancing, in an infinite loop. That loop created a lot of energy; the surplus of energy was so intense its mass deformed space (physics!) and it created a black hole.

Here's where it gets tricky: N claims that child died during that accident, that the child was absorbed by the black hole created by their ability. We never actually learn their identity.

But N is a lying liar who lies; he said about one and a half truths the entire book. The only reason he was telling them any of this was that he thought he'd get rid of all of them within the next few minutes. His objective was always to regain control over Chuuya, his pet project.

Plus, during the epilogue, we learn that Chuuya was assumed to have died during the war. That's what his parents think. That's what is officially recorded.

Furthermore.

Project Arahabaki was based off French research papers; someone else had done this kind of experimentation before, and their result was Verlaine.

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Verlaine's gravity-manipulation is a singularity. Better yet: Verlaine also has a Corruption state, named Brutalization. Their abilities are the same, because the lab copied the techniques that were used to create Verlaine when they worked on Chuuya.

Here's a passage of Dazai nullifying Corruption, at the very end of SB:

"The self-contradicting skill, which was supporting the energy of a singularity". This passage confirms that the source of Chuuya's ability is, in fact, like the child's and Verlaine's, if any doubts remained. "[...] weakening the singularity's output. It wasn't long before it returned to its normal state, and the Gate closed." The Gate refers to releasing Arahabaki, it's basically a limiter, just like the passage above when talking about Brutalization. When Dazai nullifies Corruption, he gives that limiter the opportunity to come back and seal Chuuya's power away again, but does not stop the singularity, only allows it to go back to its stable state.

From all that, we can say that Chuuya's ability wasn't always gravity manipulation, but that it was another, unconfirmed ability that was exploited in such a way that it became a permanent, stable singularity that allowed him to have control over gravity.

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Bullet point recap:

Chuuya's gravity manipulation comes from a singularity, like Verlaine, like that child;

You need a self-referencing/self-contradicting ability to create that singularity;

Such an event is rare;

There is a substantial amount of time spent describing a "random" child that was experimented on during the war;

That child created a black hole through their singularity;

That singularity was activated using a passage from Nakahara Chuuya's poems, while holding a coin that references it;

That child supposedly died;

Chuuya's parents think he died during the war;

N is a pathological liar with an agenda.

So no, there is no "confirmation" that Chuuya's ability was ability enhancement before the lab took him. But an author writes a story with an intent, so I am asking what Asagiri's intent was when writing all this, and if perhaps we weren't indirectly given the answer already.

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What is Arahabaki (Fifteen and Storm Bringer lore, with too many citations)

My own perceived timeline of the true events behind Storm Bringer (was originally gonna be part of this part, also with too many citations)

#the dazai parallels are a nice little bonus because we KNOW chuuya as a character was designed to match dazai #he was most literally designed to go with him and contrast him #but that's meta analysis so i didn't include it in the actual post with the rest of the textual evidence #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd analysis #bsd theory #bsd meta #bsd chuuya #bsd nakahara chuuya #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #stormbringer #storm bringer #i'll reblog this to my art blog tomorrow so the people most concerned have more of a chance of seeing it #apparently i talk sometimes