After a million years, Iβm finally back with an analysis. Iβve already kind of analyzed Dazai and Chuuya as individual characters but I purposefully left behind something that was fundamental for both of their characterizations and that played a big role in molding their actual personalities. Yes, Iβm talking about the environment they grew up in: The mafia.
Because the length and the complexity of the topic, I decided to make an entire post just about this. Obviously there will be spoilers of the anime, manga and light novels so be aware of that.
*Also a friendly reminder that english is not my native language, so I apologize if thereβs any grammar or ortographic mistake or if something is worded in a weird way, I just hope is not bad enough that you canβt make sense of it at all. This is also extremely self indulgent and extremely long.
Iβm gonna start by establishing the main premise of this analysis and the idea I will be defending in the next parragraphs:
The mafia is literally the worst place for skk to be in (and yes, Iβm talking about BOTH of them)
Now this is a bold sentence because the immediate response would probably be something among the lines of βwell duh, the mafia is a horrible place for everyoneβ and yes but also no. The mafia affects soukoku in a special way that is vastly different to how it affects the other characters in the mafia.
Iβve found that the mafia is one of the most misunderstood points in the series (Cycle of abuse, Iβm looking at you) so Iβm gonna talk about it. Back in chuuyaβ analysis, I talked about how he shouldnβt be in the mafia. I wasnβt talking about this in terms of βChuuya is majorly speaking a good personβ and βThe mafia is a morally bad placeβ, thatβs pure bullshit and certainly not what I was referring to.
When the fandom talks about the mafia there are two major points of view. Either they saw it as hell incarnate or they see it as the βbadβ protectors of the city, kind of a twisted family. And while both of this opinions are not /completely/ wrong, theyβre also NOT right. Once again, the problem is that the fandom /still/ insists on assigning a moral category to something that is far more complicated than that. Yes, itβs the mafia, itβs literally a place of crime, itβs /obvious/ theyβre gonna do morally bad things but they are also an important part in the tripartite framework and a major reason of why the city is still standing, this are not mutually exclusive. And thatβs because the mafia is not a morally oriented organization.
The next biggest mistake when it comes to this topic is thinking of Mori and the Mafia as synonyms. People loves to blame Mori for every single thing that happens, there is always an entire section of comments that always claim βNormalize blaming Mori for everythingβ and thatβs just /plainly/ wrong. I need you to understand that the mafia existed before Mori and will exist after Mori and it still will require of a leader that have certain type of characteristics. The reason Mori is the perfect leader for this organization is because he perfectly represents the mafia ideology NOT the opposite. Is Mori who adapts himself to the mafia, not the mafia adapting to him. Obviously he is in charge and he gets to influence and dictate the actions of the organization, the same way the old boss did (and he made a shit hole out of it) but the mafia as it core exists as a concept that can not be altered not matter who is in charge of it. And thatβs what we have to understand.
Letβs start by defining it:
βAn economic body that uses violence as itβs currencyβ -Mori
And thatβs it, thatβs the first and most important thing you gotta understand about the mafia. Itβs not about bad people doing bad things for the sake of it. Itβs not about morally grey people saving the city because of the good in their hearts. The mafia as it core is about money, is about benefits, is about gaining the most. Itβs an economic body.
They will kill, kidnap and torture? Yes but they wonβt do it because theyβre bad, they will do it only if thereβs something to gain out of it. They save the city and stop the other criminal groups? Yes, but itβs not because they are secretly good people. Itβs to maintain the monopoly of the crime in the city and protect their territory where they have all the money and where they do their negotiations. There /are/ people in the mafia who genuinely care about the city like Mori, Chuuya, Tachihara or Hirotsu, I donβt doubt there are other people as well who cares about it but those are personal motivations that have absolutely nothing to do with the mafia as an institution. Because the mafia as itβs own entity only cares about the gains and losses.
So when we talk about the main difference between the Mafia and the ADA is not about morality. Both organizations are full of morally grey people, both of this organizations are ready to do criminal activities if required. The main difference is the objectives behind them. The ADA is a organization of people for people.
βThere is no agency more valuable than human lifeβ- fukuzawa about the ADA, first light novel
The ADA is about doing their best to help people, is about prioritizing human life above everything else. And when they do criminal acts? Itβs because it was the only way to preserve as many lives as possible.
The mafia on the other hand is about gaining money and resources and itβs about securing the survival of it as as Institution doing whatever is necessary to achieve it.
βThese magical stones always led to violence and bloodshed, and the only thing that could stop this violence and maintain a stable system was even more violenceββ Chuuya, stormbringer.
In the last chapters we realize that even though the ADA as an organization technically doesnβt exist anymore (because they were seen as a terrorist group) they still can perfectly exist as long as the members are alive. They can make another organization but they canβt just replace one of their members, that would be a critical hit for them. Thatβs abysmally different to how the mafia conduces itself. It doesnβt matter how many people die, they can be easily replaced but if the mafia as an institution falls? Then they lose everything. So this means, that the ADA will sacrifice the organization as many times as necessary if by doing it, they can protect itβs members meanwhile the mafia will sacrifice as many people as necessary if by doing it they assure the survival of the mafia as an institution. And this has been shown again and again and again. Itβs because of this main objective that the mafia by definition and independently of Mori, needs to be: Extremely Rational, utilitarian and deeply Machiavellian because if not, then it wouldnβt be able to survive. The mafia as an institution requires someone who will put the needs of the organization over personal feelings and even over the members of the institution if thatβs the best option..
And thatβs why Mori is the perfect leader of the organization, because he is the textbook ideal of what a Mafia boss should be. Mori is not known for being the cruelest or the evilest. He is known for being the most logical, not matter what. For always being cold and rational.
βDazai, Do you know why Iβm the boss? (β¦) I donβt posess an incredible skill like you or chuuya. Instead, however, I am a little better at something than the two of you. I can always predict exactly how many men I need to send into battleβ- Mori, stormbringer.
To illustrate this better letβs talk about the death of the old boss and Odasaku.
First thing to understand is that people is not stupid, they always /knew/ that Mori killed the old boss. For fuckβs sake even the sheep who were a group of literal /kids/ that werenβt even part of the mafia knew that there was no way that the old boss died of naturally causes and casually left the mafia to Mori who coincidentally happened to be his doctor. They all knew but they are collectively playing pretend. Why? Because they recognize that Mori is the best option, because they know that Mori wonβt sacrifice them without reason, he wonβt ask them to do useless things. Every single action that Mori takes is for the benefit of the organization, is logical and can be defended using rational arguments and when he decides to sacrifice someone thereβs also a reason behind it. And thatβs the best option possible for a place like the Mafia. The mafiosos chose him because of it, but make no mistakes, if the time comes where Mori is more a liability than an asset then someone will most likely kill him and take his place exactly the way he did. Thatβs the way of the mafia. Just like Mori says, even in the top, everyoneβs is a slave of the organization including himself.
Odasakuβs death was carefully planned and Iβm not denying that there were personal reasons there, Iβm not denying that part of it was to specifically aim to Dazai, being as part of training him to become the next boss of out of fear of Dazai killing him, Mori did this move knowing that Dazai was gonna be affected by it. But as much as all of you would hate to listen to it, it was also the most logical course of action. Just stop to think about it. You have this incredibly powerful asset, someone who is extremely competent, someone who is insanely strong but you canβt use him because he refuses to do any important task, he refuses to kill. He is basically wasted talent. But then thereβs an opportunity to gain something extremely valuable (the abilityβs permission) and you just have to eliminate one powerful group of people and hey, your liability happens to be the /perfect/ person for the job, so what do you do? What Mori did may be horrible but also was a genius move. He destroyed an entire organization while sacrificing one single person who was useless to him anyway. He gained something that was vital for the organization with basically no losses. Yes, he sacrificed the children and thatβs fucking sick and horrible but they werenβt his responsibility, the organization was. The kids werenβt part of the organization, sacrificing them doesnβt translate to any significant losses to the mafia. Thatβs why Dazai is so frustrated by the end, because he lost his best friend, he is suffering but he canβt deny that Mori was logical about it, he canβt deny that that was rational. Even in beast thereβs this whole part explaining how difficult it was to defeat mimic without oda, do you know what does that mean? Dazai probably sacrificed a large number of people to do it and even if he didnβt why would you as the Leander of the organization would take the most difficult path when thereβs other that is far easier and cheaper? And just like that, every single one of Moriβs actions can be explained with a logical process behind it.
I feel like the biggest argument to understand that even though Mori represents the Mafia ideals, the mafia is still an independent organization of Mori is Beast. He is not the mafia boss in beast but the mafia basically remains exactly the same organization, akutagawa is not suffering but Atsushi is. People are suffering exactly the same, the only different thing is /who/are the ones suffering. Sure, someone can argument that Dazai was not trying to be the best leader, just to save Odasaku but the whole point is that generally speaking he had to make enough of a decent job to maintain the order in the city. Under Dazaiβs command the mafia was more powerful than they were with Mori in charge. And itβs horrible, but thatβs the only way to rule it. Otherwise the whole organization would fall apart. So to summarize the horrible environment of the mafia is NOT because of mori. We already saw the mafia in charge of the old boss, of Mori and of Dazai and the environment is kind of the same with slightly worse or better differences and thatβs because again there are parts of the mafia that canβt be altered independently of who is in charge.
βA leader is simultaneously at the top of the organization and still a slave to it as a whole. You need to be willing to get your hands dirty to keep the organization afloat and thriving. A leader develops their subordinates and places them wherever they best fit and disposed of them if necessary. I will gladly perform the most heinous acts for the sake of this organization. Thatβs what it means to be a leaderβ- Mori, fifteen
Mori is far from perfect, he is horrible and sick and also have lots of personal interests, he also uses the organization to a certain degree to achieve them. But this is not fake. He will put the organization over everything else. Thatβs what it means to be the boss of the mafia.
So now that we got that out of the way and we learn to differentiate Mori from the mafia and we now understand that the mafia is not a moral organization but an economic body, we can start explaining why the mafia is such a terrible place for Dazai and Chuuya especifically. Letβs start with Dazai. We already discussed it but for the mafia to accomplish itβs main objective it needs to have certain characteristics.
Do this words remind you of someone?
βYour blood is mafia blackβ
Have you ever wondered why even though chuuya is the one with the greatest body count, Dazai is the one that always seems to be like the worse of them? Why Dazai is the first one to come to mind when they talk about the next mafia boss?
Itβs because just like Mori he perfectly embodies the ideals of the mafia as an institution. He is brilliant, kind of apathetic, cold, rational, manipulative and he is naturally an utilitarian (philosophy that believes that the best action is the one that produces happiness to the most people) and Machiavellian (ideology that puts oneβs goals over everything else, discarding the moral consequences and the ethics qualifications) this can be summarized to one simply sentence: Dazai is the type of person who is result oriented, it doesnβt matter the means, just the final result and thatβs exactly the kind of ideology that the mafia needs to exist. And thatβs just part of his natural personality.
So why the mafia is such a bad place for him if it seems like itβs the most natural place for him to be?
If this is the first thing that came to your mind:
Then youβre wrong and Iβm here to spit in this idea of cycle of abuse.
Okay so first of all, people refer to βcycle of abuseβ to the wrong thing. Youβre actually referring to intergenerational abuse and even more than that you are all thinking about the /individualized/ abuse of one person to other than then replicates the same thing in someone else. Thing is, if we make this cycle we will arrive to Mori and I just wrote half a bible of why this is factually incorrect, so donβt make me say it again. Then, thereβs the second biggest issue here, this is /incredibly/ reductionist. There /are/ parallelisms in this relationships, yes. But I need you to understand that even though they were indeed abused to a certain degree, they are all part of the mafia which is an abusive place to begin with and by definition. There was no way for them to not suffer this and they werenβt the only ones, everyone in the mafia was abused one way or another and it came from different places not just one specific person . Now let me start with the thing that bugs me the most of this cycle.
It obligates me to defend Mori
See, I can perfectly understand Dazai and Akutagawa being here because even though Aku was manipulated and used for more people in the mafia than just Dazai is a fact that he was the main abuser. Itβs true that is was a target abuse and that was repetitive and degrading every single time. Akutagawa is now basically a glorified Pavlovian experiment thanks to Dazai. Yes, Dazai cares for him, yes Dazai actually was trying to teach him and to make him stronger. The intention here is secondary, akutagawa still ended up deeply traumatized and with a pathological need of recognition to survive.
Now akutagawa and kyouka? This one is more questionable because we know that Kouyou and Akutagawa had kind of a twisted version of shared custody when it came to her. So kyouka was abused for more than one person and not necessarily in an intergenerational abuse so the cycle is no longer a cycle right? But okay letβs go with it. We have actual canon proof that akutagawa abused her replicating Dazaiβs methods with him so it can still qualify.
But Dazai and Mori? WHERE?
In all the story thereβs no proof that Dazai was abused in this way by Mori.
It simply doesnβt exist, itβs just a headcanon that became so popular that everyone started to believe it. Yes, Mori exposed Dazai to a murder when he was fourteen and thatβs a form of abuse, true. But have you noticed that most of the mafiosos got into the mafia when they were teenagers or even literal kids (Q was six, gin was also younger than Dazai) they were ALL exposed to this form of abuse. This doesnβt make it okay, of course but itβs not the kind of individualized abuse that you all love to talk about. βHe manipulated himβ true, he also manipulated oda, Ango, Chuuya, Q, etc. Again it certainly wasnβt personal or out of place for a mafia boss. And again ITβS NOT A CYCLE. We also have absolutely no evidence of Mori being physically or sexually abusive towards Dazai. He psychologically abused of him? Yes but once again thereβs no evidence of it being worse than it was with other people. Itβs plausible of course, because Dazai worked directly under him but for the most part it doesnβt seem like he was specifically horrible towards Dazai. You want to talk about Mori being horrible with someone? At least choose the right person because yosano is right there. Dazai had most of this personality traits before meeting Mori, so itβs not like Dazai was a perfectly sane and happy kid that wouldβve been normal of he was picked up by a good person, he was not ranpo or yosano. Letβs also add that Dazai seemed to be incredibly desensitized to violence even at fourteen. We canβt blame Mori for his character traits but we can certainly blame him because he made them worse.
So if not for this, then why Dazai shouldnβt be in the mafia? Is not for the abuse, is not for the moral implications, then why?
Easy, the real reason itβs because of Dazaiβs core as character. Dazai doesnβt care for the mafia, he doesnβt care for power and even though he naturally seeks the benefits out of every situation that also is not his core as a character. His core is and always be: Humanity. Thatβs what Dazai is looking for, thatβs his nucleus as a character and thatβs the reason the mafia is the worst place Dazai can be in, regardless of his abilities.
Dazai gets into the mafia trying to find a reason to live, trying to understand humanity so that would make him close to his own and it really seemed like the perfect plan, it was logical. The mafia certainly is a place where death is part of life, emotions are raw and most often than not genuine. Then why It didnβt work? Why his mental stake kept deteriorating more and more? Because it took him farther away from his humanity. Iβve said it before but the reason Dazai felt inhuman is because of a permanent sense of alienation and isolation. Dazai already has certain characteristics that make it harder for him to establish emotional bonds with people. His brain also moves faster than everyoneβs elseβs, so for him is so /easy/ to stop looking people as individuals and look at them as pieces to use and discard. The mafia is the worst place for him to be because it enhance this characteristics, the mafia impulses him to use them because that makes him the best asset but that also makes him incredibly miserable because it worsens the alienation thus increasing the deshumanization. Also the mafia makes him intellectualize as a coping mechanism which worsens his self awareness that to begin with is pretty poor. Thatβs not all, because of the nature of the mafia Dazai who already has trust issues ends up even worse so it isolates him even more. The only moments he seems to be closer to his humanity is with people like chuuya or Oda, and the hilarious thing about it is that they both are basically the opposite of what the mafia represents. More than that, Chuuya actually obligates him to go back to earth and start acting less as a god and more as a human being.
Which also explains why the ADA is better for Dazai than the mafia. Is not because of morality, is because is an organization that revolves around people so it obligates him to interact and create relationships with people, and even if theyβre not 100% honest. It still decrease his alienation and isolation and being him closer to his humanity. Thatβs the reason the ADA is the best place for him.
Similarly but in a completely different way thereβs chuuya, except that he is a thousand times more tragic than Dazai and every time I stop to think about him I want to sob, scream, throw up.
Dazai has the characteristics to be the perfect mafioso but his nucleus make it impossible for him to be one. Chuuya doesnβt have the characteristics to be a mafioso and also has the same nucleus as Dazai.
So the premise is: The mafia and chuuya are irreconciliable ideas and itβs a miracle that itβs still working.
We already went through everything that the mafia represents, we already know that by /definition/ the mafia is a place where you have to deshumanize other people and yourself in order to survive. Itβs not a surprise that is the WORSE place in the world for the two people whose whole characterizations revolves around humanity.
But in chuuyaβs case, his whole personality and ideological system directly clash with the mafia. Is fucking tragic. Let me remind you that chuuya gain his whole sense of humanity and identity out of the relationships he makes with people. Chuuya /cares/ for people, thatβs just the kind of person he is. You CANβT ask him to start viewing this people that are /everything/ to him just like chess pieces that can be sacrificed at any moment. That would be the equivalent of spitting in his sense of humanity, to take away his reason to live and his identity. That would completely break him. So chuuya keeps making bonds with people and suffering Every. Single. Loss. Because the mafia is a place of sacrifice and he canβt stop it not matter how hard he tries. And that itβs also devastating in a whole new way.
βHis eyes were tainted with Darkness just like everyone in the mafia. It was a murky darkness-one that viewed human lives as mere numbersβ- about Arthur, fifteen
This is the mafia, this is the mindset needed to be there. This is also precisely the opposite of everything that chuuya is. Chuuya survives because he canβt view human as numbers. People are the most precious thing in the world for him.
You value your friendships and make decisions accordingly. I suppose you could call this human nature- Adam, stormbringer
Chuuya is in a place where people die and no one cares, because they were simply numbers, because they donβt exist as individuals not really.
βCountless people died, but the incident hardly remained in anyoneβs memoryβ- stormbringer
The flags died and no one aside from him cared, after that he made new friends that were also killed in the same fucking year and once again nobody stopped, just him. The mafia just replaced them and acted like it was nothing. And meanwhile:
β-Chuuya you smell like incense. Did you go visiting those graves again?- shirase about chuuya, stormbringer
Chuuya keeps visiting those graves because even when no one remembers them, he does, because they were his friends, they were individuals. Hell, leave alone his friends, Chuuya fucking goes to talk to Arthurβs grave. Thatβs the type of person he is
Chuuya is emotional, he is straightforward, he is honest, he /cares/. Chuuyaβs so opposite to the mafia ideals that it would be funny if it didnβt make me want to eat glass. In order to be in this organization he has to go against his personality, against his values and against his moral code. Do you have an idea of how tiring that is? Of how much that affects him? Even if he refuses to notice? So chuuya solved his conflict, he found his humanity but he did it in a place that constantly tries to take it away from him.
Now, how has he survived this long then? Because he has developed coping mechanisms but this only slow his downfall. It wonβt stop it.
His first coping mechanism is one that I find /incredibly/ interesting. And Iβve never seen anyone talking about it: Selective deshumanization
This existed before the mafia but Chuuya made it stronger after becoming a mafioso. Iβve said it before, even though chuuya has so many hero like characteristics the reason he is a morally grey character is that he chooses. He decides that certain people are more important than others, he knows that he canβt protect everyone, he knows that in order to protect his people, he will have to sacrifice other people. So chuuya deshumanize that group of people as a defense mechanism, he needs to stop himself from looking at them as individuals. If you want examples of it, thereβs Dazai, Randou, Addam and Verlaine. At first I really thought that it was a coincidence but it happens enough to be an identificable pattern. When skk met, Dazai got obsessed really fast, chuuya didnβt. Chuuya tried to keep his distance as much as possible because he knew that Dazai was an enemy. He didnβt make personal questions even though it was obvious that he found Dazaiβs behavior weird, he refused as much as possible to give him personal information and more subtle but more important, Chuuya absolutely refused to call him by his name. He used lots of insults but never his name even when it was clear that he knew it, that was him trying to keep as much emotional distance as possible. And the moment he used it? It was over for him, because from there it doesnβt matter how much he tried he could never stop himself from looking at Dazai as a human being, worse than that, he ended up understanding him even against his wishes. Same happened with Arthur, he was just another crazy man obsessed with Arahabaki but the moment he talked about Verlaine? About how he was doing everything for his friend? He became a real person, he could identify with. Addam? Was just a bothersome machine, he also refused to call him by his name but by the end of it chuuya was using corruption because he considered Addam a friend that he loved regardless of his origin. Verlaine fucking ruined his life and killed the most important people in his life but once chuuya understood his reasons and his past, he empathized with him and defended that he indeed was a human being at the end of the day. What Iβm trying to say is that chuuya tries to keep his emotional distance by deshumanizing people but he kinda fails. A LOT.
The second one is the anger. Chuuya canβt express his emotions easily, a lot of it came from the fact that he always had to be the strongest so it was impossible for him to express vulnerability and then he went into the mafia and if thereβs a bad place to be vulnerable, this is it. Chuuya deals with every strong emotion transforming it into anger because thatβs an emotional he can control. The devastating thing is that It doesnβt only apply for bad emotions, even when he is happy or grateful he feels like he canβt express it and that makes me want to jump from a very tall something.
The third one is evasion. I find this particularly funny because in almost every fanfic Dazai is the one that evades his feelings and just decides to stop thinking about certain stuff when in canon the one that does that is chuuya. Dazai intellectualize as a way of dealing with feelings because he doesnβt know how to process them, and he overthinks a lot because he canβt stop himself from doing it. That is why his brain is his worse enemy. Chuuya, on the other hand, just evades. He supress all the emotions that he canβt exteriorize as anger, he supress his worst fears and his biggest insecurities, he put all of it into a mental box and throws away the key. But they are still pretty much there, lurking in the dark. Most of his βinstinctualβ actions are in reality guided by all of this things that he is trying so hard to hide.
And the last one? Is probably the worse one. We already establish that Chuuya canβt deshumanize the people in his group so he tries so absurdly /hard/ to protect them. He is always ready to sacrifice himself if by doing it he can save the people he loves, he carries too much, so the rest wonβt have to do it, he takes the worse jobs, he is in the front lines, he is always ALWAYS the one to be hurt first. It may seem different but he is basically in the same situation as he was with the sheep. Except that now is not his people that are asking for his sacrifice, now he is doing it himself. Because he knows that the people he loves can be stolen from him in any moment, so he over compensates by doing everything he can to avoid it.
βThe moment you get your hands on something worth going after, you lose itβ- Dazai, Dark era.
Not in the same way, never in the same way because that would be sacrificing his humanity but chuuyaβs thought process is not that different from Dazai. He doesnβt avoid relationships, though, he does everything in his power to avoid losing them JUST LIKE DAZAI DOES. Dazai knows that he canβt control everything, he knows that the world is absurd and full of irregularities but itβs terrifying to live in this kind of world, so he tries to predict everything, he tries to be three steps ahead of everyone else even if that make him feel less of a human being, because maybe then he can make a difference, maybe then he can protect what he has. Chuuya does basically the same thing, in order to protect his people, he will be the strongest, he wonβt fall, he wonβt ask for help, he will be the one carrying everything. Do you have an idea of how lonesome that is? To know that you canβt depend on anyone? Chuuya is a peopleβs person but he is so incredibly /lonely/. He can never be their equal because he is too busy trying to protect them. And this happens because the mafia is just like this, a place of sacrifices. A place of losses. Itβs not a place for long lasting relationships.
At least two of this coping mechanisms lead him to deshumanization even when he tries his best to avoid precisely that. So chuuya basically lives in the worst dilemma in earth and this much contradiction will kill him one day.
The only reason he is still able to be there is because in his position as executive he had never been in a position in which he had to choose between his friends and the major benefit of the organization.
Chuuya as the next mafia boss? is laughable
The whole organization would crumble in DAYS. And thatβs because chuuya goes against the single most important principle of the organization.
He is loyal to the people in the mafia, not to the organization
Chuuya will sacrifice the whole organization in a minute for its members, thatβs literally the OPPOSITE of what the mafia stands by. He canβt sacrifice in cold blood a friend, he just canβt do it, that goes against everything that he is. He refused to sacrifice Adam even though at that moment that seemed like the only option to save the city and the mafia and he still REFUSED. Because he simply canβt sacrifice a friend. Itβs impossible to him. Q is another good example of how much of a terrible leader chuuya would be. Believe it or not killing Yumeno was the opposite of what a proper mafioso shouldβve done. Thereβs a reason Mori ordered to bring Q alive and thatβs because rationally speaking yumeno is a weapon, killing him wonβt bring back the people that already died and honestly speaking Qβs life is far more valuable than most of the mafiosos but for chuuya? It wasnβt the case, he couldnβt be rational because /his/ people died because of Q because for him was more important to prevent this from ever happening again than to use Q.
So to summarize chuuya is stuck, he canβt leave the mafia because that could be to go against his identity and sense of humanity but staying there is slowly killing him because it obligates him to go against everything he is and to be completely lonely in a place that is dead on deshumanization. So he basically lives in a state of pressure and constant stress while feeling trapped and saying to himself that he is where he should be. The ideal place for chuuya, funnily enough would be the ADA. And Iβm not saying this for Dazai but because of the objectives of the ADA. A place that is oriented to people, a place that values relationships, a place that revolves around protection. It drives me mad everytime I think about how ridiculous ADA coded chuuya is only to be in the mafia.
Okay so basically that is the end of the rant, if you read all the way to here, congratulations and thank you for your time.