i strongly believe chuuya is a makeup MASTER. bright eyeshadow, usually red and orange tones, sharp ass cateye eyeliner, making his eyes absolutely pop.
i also strongly believe in chuuya doing dazai’s makeup, specifically on days when the brunette isn’t feeling the most confident.
brown/gray eyeshadow, smudgy black liner, accentuating those big doe brown eyes. he throws some blush on his nose for some color. but he doesn’t use concealer or cover up, seeing dazai’s natural beauty marks as the perfect finish.
he always makes sure to tell dazai he thinks he’s beautiful, his body, his scars, everything about him is just perfect.
but it doesn’t stop him from making sure dazai was at least a little more comfortable in his own skin.
Do you ever think about how the event that led people to start calling Dazai and Chuuya Soukoku was an act of grief?
Their partnership started at 15, but the mafia immortalized it after the Dragon's Head Conflict by dubbing them Soukoku.
The most fearsome duo in all of Yokohama.
Soukoku, a name meant to remind everyone, enemies and allies alike of the destructive force of they're capable of. Of the mafia's victory during the Dragon's Head Conflict.
Of the same night, the very moment, Chuuya learned he lost his friends again.
Chuuya wasn't there to bring the mafia victory or destroy buildings, he was there to save his friends. That's all he wanted, to get the people he cared about home, safe.
Instead he had more people ripped from him. He activated corruption in a state of grief and it's so different from the corruption we see in the main manga.
Chuuya's rage feels cold and calculated when he's fighting Lovecraft and then afterwards, he starts laughing manically. Dead Apple Chuuya's corruption feels so raw and pained.
Especially when we see Dazai nullify it.
He never stopped screaming, when the marks are gone and corruption's nullified, he's still screaming. You can't tell me that's not a tear in the second panel, it's shaped and shaded differently to the debris.
Chuuya told Dazai not to stop him and we assume he meant not to stop him using corruption, but what if he meant "Don't stop me, at all." What if he was so overcome with grief that, in that moment, he was okay with corruption burning through him completely. What if he didn't mean that but it's what Dazai heard? And that's why he's so gentle with Chuuya afterwards, because for a second, Chuuya sounded too much like himself.
Do you think there was a time where Chuuya couldn't stand the name Soukoku, not because it associated him with Dazai but because it immortalized the night he failed to save his friends again?
Do you think Dazai watched Chuuya just that little more closely afterwards, afraid to hear something like "Don't stop me." again?
Does hearing the name Soukoku sometimes bring back awful memories for them when other people say it with awe?
I like imagining PM!Dazai having to chase corrupted!Chuuya around after he defeats an enemy. Like you can’t tell me chuuya always floats over to Dazai to turn him back.
Dazai is out there running after him like you chase a dog that has something in his mouth he shouldn’t. Trying to corner him only to be outsmarted when Corrupted!Chuuya floats high enough that Dazai can’t reach. Dazai’s yelling at him the whole time to to stop running.
Eventually Dazai does catch him, out of breath and sweaty, and Chuuya still asks him why he didn’t change him back sooner. Which causes Dazai to lose it.
The Problem: Mori wants Dazai as his successor. The mafia wants Chuuya as Mori's successor. Dazai doesn't want it. Cannibalism stageplay revealed that Chuuya doesn't want it either.
The solution: They deal with is skk style. They flip coins, draw straws, battle it out at the arcade. Loser has to lead the PM for a week. Winner gets time off. A week later, rinse and repeat.
Yes, they cheat. Yes, they know the other is cheating. No, it doesn't stop them from trying to out-cheat the other. No, they don't miss a beat picking up right where the other left the work, no matter the codewords, operations, secrets, etc involved that they should technically be clueless about. No, they don't think that's strange. Yes, everyone else is screaming into their pillows.
(Bonus: Dazai spends his ill-gotten time off at the agency, working for the government for a given definition of Dazai-working at a job that pays less than 0.01% of the PM boss salary. He does it to be annoying (and also for mental health reasons).
Chuuya spends his ill-gotten time off attending classy wine-tasting events, writing poetry, and being lead singer for a rock band. He's got a healthy life work balance for the first time in his life.)
I have to get this off my chest because the requisite number of SKK posts have crossed my dashboard and I can’t hold it anymore.
SO everyone is familiar with the HC that Chuuya basically admitted to drinking about Dazai leaving the Port Mafia, but allow me to provide more context.
We know that Chuuya states he opened an ‘89 bottle of Pétrus wine the night Dazai left. And Dazai wasn’t kidding when he says Pétrus is exorbitantly expensive. It is a collector’s item. So even a polite 750ml bottle costs something to the tune of five or six thousand dollars or more.
Not only that, but it has an alcohol content of 13.5%, as far as all wine goes it’s a bit higher (average being 12%) with most supermarket wines hovering around 6-8% for scale.
That said, we know two things about Chuuya; 1) the poor lad can’t hold his liquor for shit, and 2) he would not open this bottle like this unless he planned on finishing it.
We also know that Dazai confessed to planting a bomb under his car the night he left.
So allow me to set the scene: Dazai had defected from the Port Mafia, without telling his partner of 3 years. Distraught, Chuuya pops his most expensive bottle because what’s the fucking point, and absolutely trounces it. Finishing the bottle, he stumbles out of the building, beeps his car and it explodes, knocking him on his ass.
And from the ground, in the light of his flaming car he mutters “a’right, a’right… I won’t drink’n’drive…” before passing out in the street.
in my ideal vision, when they finally get in something resembling a relationship (as adults, they were Not There as teenagers), it's because they both want it, which means they unlock previously forbidden features with each other like sharing a bed instead of a couch (you all know about my weird obsession with skk and couches), but also freely touching.
Dazai is a rather tactile person; my guy is freed after 2 weeks in prison and the first thing he does is dance, poke at, lean/hug and play with the hair of the first non-evil person (a stranger) he meets. Being with Chuuya, he constantly finds himself in Chuuya's bubble, and indulges in ways he usually can't with others. That often means direct skin contact, not even with ulterior motives, but really just because he is allowed and he wants to.
Chuuya on the other hand has never done something gently ever: he is fierce, he cares and loves intensely, and he never lets go, but he barely knows the concept of a reassuring gesture (working on it). Dazai being in his bubble wouldn't bother him at all by that point, but the handsy part? it's awkward. needs some getting used to. It's a learning opportunity.
And when Chuuya gets used to it and finally makes a move to return the favour? it's Dazai who short-circuits.
So we all see Chuuyas bandages around his stomach in his demon SSR costume in tales of the lost but what if it wasnt just for the costume.
What if Chuuya wore these bandages all the time? let me explain.
When Chuuya was 15 he got stabbed by Shirase around his stomach and once it healed it left a pretty nasty scar which reminds Chuuya that he got betrayed by them(the sheep)
Once Dazai found out he hated that he had a scar he gave him some of his bandages and said use them to cover it up so he doesnt have to see it.
Chuuya realised that is why Dazai always wears bandages. Him suggesting this was a moment of weakness for them both.
Neither of them spoke of that day again but they both remember it like it was yesterday.
my favourite headcanon for soukoku is dazai always flirting with chuuya and confessing his undying love like ALL the time and EVERYONE can tell he's being sincere even though he's doing it in a joking manner except chuuya.
like chuuya REFUSES to accept that he's flirting and he's like "oh dazai told u he's in love with me? lmao yeah he's annoying like that, its his favourite way to annoy me" or smthng and everyone is like how can u be this stupid
Though I don't think anything romantic happened between SKK whilst Dazai was still in the mafia, I do think their partnership was still real confusing from the outside.
Like, in the Fifteen manga these boys are repeatedly grabbing each other and holding on to each other. Dazai is constantly in Chuuya's space and it's fine, but as soon as they say something that alludes to, or makes it blatantly obvious they care about each other, they freak out. That's grooooooss to them. Because feelings are icky, but holding someone's face an inch away from your own is normal.
Given that neither have them had a real concept of what is socially acceptable, I think they formed their own boundaries around physical contact that wasn't influenced by societal opinions and was very casual.
Someone would say to Chuuya, "Hey are you and Dazai dating?" and when he acts disgusted by that idea they add "But you were sitting his lap yesterday???"
Then Chuuya responds, "No, he was ignoring me to play his stupid game, so I sat on him to punish him for not answering me. Then we took turns trying to beat this level in the game. I wasn't in his lap, I was on him, there's a difference, Moron."
Similarly someone will insinuate to Dazai that him and Chuuya are dating because they saw them holding hands and Dazai will correct them like, "Ew, he wasn't holding my hand. Chuuya gets cranky when he has to sit still, so he plays with my hand sometimes in meetings. It keeps him quiet, don't make it weird."
Maybe the older they got and the more people who would interpret this casual platonic intimacy as romantic they started to feel weirder displaying it in front of people. They put distance between themselves as people's opinions began to affect them.
And then, after Dazai leaves the mafia, they go several years not talking and develop complicated feelings around interacting with each other again now they're on opposing sides. Their boundaries get much harsher as they try to navigate getting to know each other again, but eventually they slip into old habits and comforts again.
Dazai occasionally modified Chuuya's bike, so the seat was slightly higher, and the pedals were slightly lower so he couldn't quite reach them. He would then say Chuuya was shrinking and should ride a tricycle instead.
Chuuya used his ability to put Dazai's shipping container on an actual container ship (Dazai was inside at the time, he did not enjoy Australia)
Dazai replaced Chuuya's flower with plaster, Chuuya was not a fan of Dazai's "crunchy pancakes"
Whenever Dazai got captured, Chuuya would carefully follow all traffic laws and stop to help pedestrians on his way to rescue him (not his fault if Dazai got a little extra beat up)