Nakahara Chuuya

Skills:

Anger management
Arcade Games
Black market dealings
Business
Fashion
Guns
Leadership
Martial Arts
Motorcycling
Murder mystery solving
Shooting pool
Sommelier
Video Games
Withstanding Torture

Canon Abilities: Upon the Tainted Sorrow | Gravity Manipulation

Chuuya's ability lets him alter the gravity of anything he touches. Frequently used in combat, it can turn anything in the environment into a weapon (given enough force), let him act as a machine gun with only his ability, or alter his/his opponent's gravity. He's able to kick and redirect bullets out of the air or slow the speed of a bullet coming out of a gun. Occasionally, he may feel like stuffing an entire skyscraper down a dragon's throat. As one does. Outside combat, he sometimes will walk on the ceiling or manipulate gravity in other ways. These are all typical low-risk uses of his ability.

Chuuya also has a corrupted form that gives him access to greater levels of power at the tradeoff of taking physical damage and losing control. He activates this form through reciting the phrase, "Grantors of dark disgrace, you need never call upon me again." He's able to set an objective on the level of 'defeat that enemy.' Red marks crawl over his body, and he fights on autopilot while observing from the back of his mind. He can make and throw black holes and generally use more power. He cannot turn it off. Something/someone else must stop Corruption, or he'll keep taking damage from it until he dies. In canon, this usually means Dazai's No Longer Human nullification ability.

Role: Legend
Role Qualities/Attributes: Wings, a halo resembling his black holes, and a mild version of color changing eyes. Enhanced durability and strength. Even higher pain tolerance. A sense for when someone needs rescuing.
Role Reasoning: Chuuya is both community focused and extremely loyal to his friends and organization. His entire life he has memories for, he's been a part of an organization, first a gang of children formed to protect themselves in the slums, then the Port Mafia. The Port Mafia itself is part of a framework centered around Yokohama's stability and safety (if the most violent arm within that). He's defended the city against multiple attacks and even the world—on the boss's orders. He's risen within the mafia for many reasons, including that he abides by and enforces their rules. That loyalty to friends and community is strong. Despite betrayal, he still makes a deal to save his gang's lives. He still cares about Dazai and gets concerned when he's injured (and frustrated at having to hurt him for a ruse). End of the day, he's a community and people person.

Chuuya will dislike being assigned Legend because he's not one of the good guys, and it calls attention to traits he might not want to advertise (that loyalty and caring for people). He'll also have to struggle with what to do in a place without an organization, without its structure and mission.

🎩 What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?

As a child, Chuuya was taken by the government for experimentation into abilities and ability singularities (a powerful to that point deadly version of an ability). He was locked up, experimented on, tortured, etc. Two spies, one his brother, broke him out and broke his seal. He destroyed most of the government facility and surrounding 1 kilometer radius area. This left him alone on the streets. As a result of this traumatic treatment, Chuuya has amnesia and doesn't remember anything before that night.

Chuuya learned to survive and sought answers multiple times over his life to understand who and what he is. This drive to understand himself is one of the few things to put him at odds (or seeming odds) with the organizations he's loyal to. At fifteen, he tracked down one of the spies with Dazai, who tried to kill them. A couple years later he faced his brother and learned more. When he became an executive, he finally learned he was human. He proved his loyalty to the Port Mafia by staying despite no longer needing them to find answers.

The process has led him to decide who he is, but it all started when he was seven years old, and he's never gotten his memories back.

🎩 What experience challenged your character's core beliefs? How did they handle this or change from it?

At fifteen, Chuuya worked with Dazai and the Port Mafia to track down information about Arahabaki (aka himself). The Sheep perceived this choice as a sign he was abandoning them for the Port Mafia, came together, and unanimously decided to kill him. His best friend stabbed him with a poisoned knife, and they all showed up to gun him down. Despite their betrayal, he made a deal with Dazai: join the Port Mafia in exchange for sparing everyone in the Sheep. They lived, if sent away from each other.

Chuuya saw the Sheep as his friends, who he was completely loyal to. It shocked him that they would not be completely loyal in return. Before pledging loyalty to the Port Mafia, he asked Mori about his philosophy of leadership and received an answer he can accept: a good leader does whatever is necessary for the good of the organization. He pledged his loyalty and saw it rewarded in turn, both in terms of friendships formed within the mafia and payment in kind from other mafia members.

In the end, Chuuya's core beliefs around loyalty didn't change, but he chose more carefully how to give it.

🎩 Is your character capable of forgiveness or will they hold a grudge until they die? Would anything ever make them change their mind?

Chuuya is capable of both holding a grudge and giving forgiveness, even at the same time. He doesn't forget wrongdoings and can get petty over them: Shirase betraying him, Verlaine killing his friends, Dazai leaving the mafia… Yet they don't get in the way of other matters. Chuuya still protects Shirase when he's danger. He gets to know and to work with Verlaine when he joins the mafia. He even understands Verlaine's perspective while fighting him. Chuuya continues to care about and to work with Dazai after he leaves.

The other person doesn't always have to change—Shirase sure doesn't. Yet if he understands why it happened, he can accept it, forgive it, and move on. Chuuya's anger is quick and direct and potentially overwhelming. So he deals with the anger rather than fueling it. So while grudges may flare up in a bout of anger, he doesn't nurture them. In all, the forgiveness far outweighs the grudges he holds.

The times he won't forgive are matters that go well above and beyond the other situations. For example, while he originally was willing to meet and to work with the government scientist who tortured him, once it became clear the man was continuing that work on other children, it was all over. No forgiveness. Time to die.

🎩 What would your character sacrifice to get what they want or to reach their potential? What have they sacrificed already?

Per Chuuya's own words: Do you know when it's all right to chicken out and go home? Never.

When it comes to the protection and safety of Yokohama, of people he's loyal to, of anything he's given himself to, Chuuya continually chooses to sacrifice himself. He trades himself for the safety of the Sheep. To save Yokohama at sixteen, he has to give up the only known way to prove whether or not he's human. In Dead Apple, he fights a dragon composed of the power of thousands of abilities into a singularity and says the above words. He face's the world's most powerful team of ability users. Over and over again, he will sacrifice what he wants and risk his life to protect others. His personal wants don't matter as much as his loyalty and devotion.

Each time Chuuya fights using Corruption, he places his trust in Dazai because he's the only known way to bring Chuuya back. Not only does that risk his death, but it means Chuuya sacrifices his control and autonomy over his own actions to face whatever needs to be faced.

One of the remaining questions for him, something that would determine whether he's fit to be Mori's successor to the Port Mafia, is whether or not he can make the best decisions for the organization, even when that means sacrificing someone loyal to it, someone he's loyal to. Chuuya has a much easier time paying any price himself, and it's not a situation he's had to face yet. If he cannot, he's reached his maximum potential within the Port Mafia.

🎩 What is a time where your character failed drastically at something and how did it impact them, what did they do about it?

During the Cannibalism Virus Arc, Chuuya with the Port Mafia faces off against the Armed Detective Agency. Ranpo gets him to attack and sucks them both into one of Poe's novels (where abilities don't work and the only way out is to solve the mystery). This novel had 1000 characters and 500 murderers to identify. Solving murders is the ADA's job, not the Port Mafia's. Chuuya grew frustrated that he could not help save Mori, failed at instantly solving the mysteries like Ranpo, and started beating people (characters) up. That was essentially a hissy fit as his anger got the better of him and he didn't have to worry about losing control of his powers.

Once he got that out of his system, however, Chuuya settled down to business. The only way out was through. So he earned his murder mystery solving chops without the use of any special abilities by solving… 500 cases. Fictional cases, mind you, yes, but as he lived and breathed in the book, they were the 'real life' he was living. In due time, he eventually got himself out.

An emotional outburst is only human and comes in small and large scale failures, but Chuuya picks himself back up and carries forward until he finds success.