Thread by @Chibikko_Chuuya, „If I’m late to support you, you’ll die. I’ll let you choose.”“Whenever [...]

„If I’m late to support you, you’ll die. I’ll let you choose.”

“Whenever you say that I never actually have another choice.”

Chuuya isn’t wrong here.
Dazai wouldn’t be Dazai when wouldn’t be able to predict Chuuya’s choices and actions and that’s because he knows Chuuya better

than anyone else. Dazai knows what’ important to Chuuya, what he values, what he wishes for and that he would sacrifice his life in order to protect it.

That’s how Chuuya is that’s why he indeed doesn’t think about choices, because he always acts align to his values.

Nevertheless, Chuuya treasures his life and Dazai gets the answer to a question he did ask indirectly: “Would you trust me again?”

And Chuuya does - he still trusts Dazai enough to know that the detective wouldn’t let him down, even though he was betrayed by the one he cares already twice in his life, leaving him insecure about himself and his his actions.

I like the fact, that Dazai asked this question, because it’s now apparent for Chuuya, that his partner did change.
Dazai shows a degree of genuine respect towards his hat rack as an individual.

I wouldn’t say that he didn’t have that back in the PM, but he would never expose himself like that in front of Chuuya, rather giving orders as the executive he became later than giving him a choice.

Despite their constant bickering and lovely nickname throwing their growing respect towards each other was already noticeable in the FIFTEEN Arc

During their iconic battle in the arcades, Dazai guessed that Chuuya was hiding something. So he asked him why he was always hiding his hands in his pockets during fights and why he was searching for Arahabaki in the first place.

Chuuya replied by asking why Dazai is actually longing for death and this may have been the first time we see them confronting the other with such intimate questions. Even though they didn’t understand each other at this point, they did /not/ reject the other

When the Sheep entered the scene, Dazai took his usual dazai-ish observing stance watching the quarrel of the teens, lurking for information.

Of course, he recognized how the Sheep pushed Chuuya to fulfill his responsibility towards them by protecting them as the gifted one,

even though their acts of recklessness. They feared Chuuya’s ability and their lack of trust towards him made our manipulative boi Dazai alert.

After he contacted Mori to release the hostages, the Port Mafia had no leverage against Chuuya anymore.

Dazai for sure was playing them to see the ginger’s reaction in this situation, because Chuuya now had to choose between his own wishes and what others want him to do.

When Dazai heads towards the door with a “Let’s go” and the Sheep tried to prevent Chuuya to tag along, Dazai says something very untypical for him:

“He has the ability to choose for himself how to use his power.”

This doesn’t just connect to the scene at the Lovecraft battle, where he offered Chuuya to choose, as mentioned before.

This is also a totally different Dazai from the one who shot a dead man mindlessly, longing for death feeling no connection to humanity and his own life.
Dazai showed compassion to the revelation of Chuuya’s humanness – something he later calls “sinfully stupid”.

But he was the first one who saw Chuuya as an independent individual.
Showing compassion towards other persons, when you can’t even self-comfort yourself is exceedingly progressing for Dazai’s character here.

We can only guess what Dazai was driven by here: if he just wanted to play his games with Chuuya and the Sheep, or if he perhabs experienced something similar, NLH being misused, in his still blurry past.

Chuuya could have left at this point – the Sheep as well as the forced coalition with Dazai – but he is terrified of being left alone. Nevertheless, he took the risk to leave his “friends” behind to join Dazai’s sight, pursuing his goal.

See them walking side by side gives a completely other impression than what we’ve seen before and that's how we will see them later with sixteen again.

This is huge change from the Dazai walking on the bricked wall looking down at Chuuya from the ground;

Standing on completely different sides yelling at each other;
one of them always in the back behind the other, observing the other.

They are walking side by side here, finally acknowledging their diversities as ok to be there, because they both have their reasons to be the way they are.

A healthy rivalry can only exist, if you acknowledge the other as equal and show respect to what he is and what he’s

capable of.

In short, a healthy rivalry is built upon respect and a mutual goal to achieve success. (As opposed to one built on hate and an intent to devastate, where "war" begins).

In my eyes Dazai respects Chuuya as much as Chuuya respects him and that's just one point why (and I'm sorry) I don't share the same perception with people, who see SKK as an unhealthy relationship. But that's just my way of reading our bois

Thank you for reading

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