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[nyxi-pixie]

okay skk thoughts returning thinking again how crazy it is that their very first fight goes the way it does. dazai is someone who has to value human strength because of his ability: he reverts people to simple humanity with no powered additions to amplify them. he doesnt make them weak he just takes away the unnatural benefit of their skills, leaving him to restrain them with equal unamplified strength. because of this, because he has to value it, he expects to be capable of overpowering anyone who is strong by virtue of their ability because why would someone like that value their unsupplemented prowess? why would chuuya, with gravity at his fingertips, give a fuck about physical strength without bending weight to his will? by all logic he wouldnt, and dazai proceeds in that fight believing chuuya wouldnt. but chuuya does, of course he does. of course chuuya holds in high esteem strength that is purely his, that doesnt come from some demonic ability that was attached to him. and in that, in easily kicking dazai off of him because he is stronger than dazai even without his ability, he does two things. he surprises dazai, in proving him wrong, and he demonstrates a bizarrely distant affection for humanity that dazai himself had barely begun to entertain at this point. dazai in fifteen is still dismissive of humanity, almost fyodor like in his conviction in their small predictable stupidity. but here is chuuya, unpredictable and affectionate enough of a humanity he feels outside of to replicate its power in pure muscled force.