#forgive me for the horrible ms paint doodles i was at work all day

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my post finally got a little attention and y'all asked so here we go (thank you @the-gayest-sky-kid and @aroacesigma i owe you both my life)

so as i mentioned, concerts are basically therapy and a great mood booster right. so chuuya is normally in a pretty good mood after concerts. which, when you're ~16-17yr old chuuya, and your three emotions you're allowed to feel are anger, annoyance, and raw despair, that's kind of impressive. so dazai, who has probably never felt a positive emotion in his life (according to him), decides he wants to see what this whole live music thing is about. so he shows up with two already purchased tickets to some band he knows chuuya likes (because dazai keeps tabs on chuuya's interests so he can make fun of them, right, of course,)

now. chuuya isn't going to pass up free concert tickets, even if he has to drag dazai with him. dazai was going to go to a fucking concert in his dress shirt and slacks. chuuya had to prevent this because who dresses like that to a concert (unless you just came from a wedding. i've seen it.)

[ words are chuuya saying "you can't fucking wear that" and dazai starting to say "what's wrong with my clo-" ]

[ "-thes". arrow pointing says "one of Chuuya's hoodies lol" ]

[ disgruntled ]

dazai is bullied into a hoodie. he gets to keep his slacks.

now, for anyone that's never been to a concert, or has only been to stadium concerts, let me explain pits a little bit. in front of the stage is a very large mass of people standing very close to each other and getting covered in strangers' sweat, and not in a fun way. everyone is jumping and moving and very warm. everyone is screaming too. if you get closer to the center of the main pit, you'll find the moshers, which is basically playing human bumper cars and slamming into each other for fun. but like, really aggressively and throwing yourself into the crowd and back. the closer to the front you are, the more crowdsurfers get dropped on your head. if you have a problem, the fastest way out of a mosh pit is to crowdsurf out, where you find the nearest bro and point up like a child asking for uppies and then get passed/thrown forward until a security guard catches you and sends you on your way.

chuuya is telling dazai all about moshpits on the way to the concert. but at some point he says something along the line of "you don't have to get in though" which sounds like a fucking challenge, and dazai is no pussy and will tell chuuya as much, so of course they end up in the moshpit.

now. i believe dazai would fucking hate this. sure, dazai will obnoxiously get all chummy with people he already knows the behavior of, but in my Personal Opinion i really don't think he at this age would be particularly happy about a bunch of strangers jumping and sweating on him. he'd last three songs then a popular one would play and the crowd would go nuts, but he won't say "jesus christ get me the fuck out of here" directly, will he? so he's just standing stiffly in the middle of the moshpit trying not to lose where chuuya is (who is totally laughing at him) and just goes "i hate this."

now. remember the fastest way out of a moshpit? chuuya can tell dazai there's a fast way out but it'll kinda suck and dazai, who again is totally not going to be phased, can go "whatever just fucking do it" and without warning chuuya gets the help of the next guy over and throws dazai up to the crowd to surf him out.

dazai hates that. chuuya is laughing his ass off while eventually following him out. it was miserable.

dazai will never admit he had a little fun.

p.s. i was going to write this concept into a proper fic eventually (i promise i can write better than idea dumping) and still might but i'm too obsessed with the concept to wait until then

you cannot look at teenage chuuya nakahara and think he wouldn't go to concerts. that boy 100% uses those mafia paychecks on concert tickets. what else is he going to spend it on? luxuries? he doesn't know what those are yet. luxury to him is his mafia apartment with a weapons cabinet. i'm getting off topic, that's a different post.

so anyway, he goes to concerts, right? you cannot tell me otherwise. i'm talking emo-pop punk-rock-metalcore-vibe. you know he's in the mosh pits. they're a great mood booster. much less personal than therapy which is another plus. anyway, all this to say i have a very strong personal headcanon that he uses his ability to help crowd-surfers safely make it to the security up front without getting dropped (i've both been a crowdsurfer and have crowdsurfers dropped on me, surfing is fun but getting dropped sucks for everyone involved). under the concert lighting nobody would notice the ability glow very much anyway, and everything happens so fast nobody really cares.

tl;dr chuuya uses gravity manipulation to float crowdsurfers at concerts. i'm right