CHUUYA

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About: This is a role and age reversal AU, Atsushi, a former Mafia assassin, saves a suicidal young adult, Dazai, from drowning. Now, not only must he juggle mentoring Dazai, but also keeping his other mentee, Kunikida, safe as the Mafia grows more dangerous than ever.

CHUUYA

Chuuya used to be Atsushi’s mentee back when the older was in the Mafia. But unlike Atsushi, who was groomed into obedience, Chuuya was strong-willed, defiant, and never wanted to be a Mafia tool. However, despite his resistance, he was ultimately forced into the organization, largely because of Atsushi.

For years, Chuuya believed Akutagawa killed him. As the man hated Atsushi enough, and he even claimed being responsible. So Chuuya never doubted it. Until he runs into Atsushi again, alive, working for the ADA, and mentoring not one, but two damn students.

That leaves Chuuya reeling. The betrayal still lingers, but so does the bitter realization that Atsushi got to leave while he stayed trapped in the dark. And the fact that Dazai and Kunikida (Especially Dazai. He hates Dazai), Atsushi’s newest student, exists at all? That just makes his resentment burn even stronger.

AKUTAGAWA

Akutagawa and Gin were orphans, just like in the original. They had a small group of friends, barely scraping by until one night, the Mafia tore it all away. His friends were slaughtered. And Akutagawa, in a desperate, rage-fueled retaliation, barely managed to kill the men responsible before collapsing from exhaustion.

That’s when Kyouka and Atsushi found him.

For some reason, Kyouka took him in. And where Akutagawa went, Gin followed.

At first, he hated the Mafia. He hated everything about it. They took everything from him. But somewhere along the line, in a twisted way, he found his reason there.

One thing, though. He never got along with Atsushi.

Mori kept pairing them up, but they were like oil and water. Atsushi was too soft, too merciful, too weak, and Akutagawa refused to be second to someone like him. The competition was fierce, their clashes constant. No matter how strong Akutagawa got, Atsushi was always in his way.

Then Kyouka died. And Atsushi left.

Akutagawa caught him in the act. Tried to stop him. Failed.

And yet, in a moment he still doesn’t fully understand, he covered for him. Let everyone believe he killed Atsushi with his own two hands.

He told himself it didn’t matter. That it was for the best.

Then he sees him again.

And everything he buried? That ugly, seething resentment? Yeah, it comes back full force.

NOTES:

When it comes to Chuuya’s design, I wanted to keep it somewhat close to the novel's appearance while also making sure it felt unique to this AU. Because of that, in the end, I settled on a more strawberry-blond-leaning ginger hair and brown eyes (like in the covers of the novels), with blue specks that give him a dark greenish eye color overall. I took a lot of inspiration from both age 15 Chuuya and his Dragon’s Head Conflict design, which resulted in the red hoodie and dark green jacket.

I especially wanted to make sure Chuuya looks good and fashionable while incorporating more of his tough looks. His haircut was also a recent addition, as he cut it after the death of his close friends about a month ago (for reference, this is about a month before the "start" of the story, where Atsushi meets Dazai).

When it comes to Akutagawa, he stayed somewhat the same? Still rocking that Victorian orphan style. Sadly, I am always unable to do my man justice </3.

In this AU, he wears more layered clothes, a white classic shirt, a black vest, and on top of that, something like a frilly shrug blouse or shrug bolero. Plus a huge black coat. So, like always, he's fancy as fuck.

I also wanted to make sure he looks much more frail and sickly, so he's really pale, has bags under his eyes, and overall looks lanky and a bit sunken.