#this all goes for verlaine on my multi too btw!!

[sorrowtainted]

man sometimes i just think about... god/eldritch-like being chuuya... (my headcanons and stormbringer spoilers under the cut!)

I was kind of sad about stormbringer at first, ngl, because i absolutely adored the concept of chuuya being a literal god and struggling with his humanity as a result of that, and stormbringer seemed to kind of debunk that entirely. but then i realized i could easily come up with headcanons to make my ideas work anyway asfjsdhkjs

i do think what's (probably) intended in canon is great too, but I love the concept of a singularity being like... while it's not strictly a god in the conventional sense, and scientists think of it as more of a non-living phenomena than anything else... nobody actually really knows what one really is. while it's noted several times that the singularities don't have "personalities" so to speak, they do seem to embody the feeling of hatred, which suggests some level of sentience, at least to me - and who's to say that they aren't alive on a level that humans simply can't comprehend??

that goes along with my other headcanon, where first things first. chuuya is the clone - i know he was strongly implied to be the original and not the clone in stormbringer's epilogue, but it's not explicitly stated, so either interpretation works in my mind. either way though, i like thinking of the "artificial personality" of chuuya as having become one with the singularity arahabaki, which in spite of the scientist's beliefs, is actually more akin to a living, ancient being than an ability - one that simply accesses the world through the phenomenon of contradictory abilities clashing.

basically, i may not be explaining this right, but chuuya is actually arahabaki, the ancient and incomprehensible creature, rather than just a vessel for him. however, the artificial code used to create a human personality for arahabaki and his human body kind of interacted upon his "birth" with his already existing consciousness as a "god" and they kind of fused, in a way?? i'll probably make another post explaining what i mean better later, since i'm not sure i'm making sense, but.

i'm partially biased because i have a huge thing for the whole "arabahaki is chuuya" concept and have done from the start, but it's also because like... i like the theme of chuuya actually NOT being human in the most literal sense, but slowly coming to terms with the fact that he still is human in every other way that counts. that just feels more meaningful to me personally than him being a perfectly ordinary person after all. i liked that there was plenty of language in stormbringer bringing home how otherworldy the singularities were too, tbh.

tldr is that in my mind, in spite of what we were told in stormbringer, chuuya is the singularity arahabaki rather than just being a vessel for him, and accordingly, singularities are actually not what they appear to be and are living on some level, similar to the concept of "gods." i'm just trying to work that headcanon in with stormbringer so that everything's still technically compliant with it, lol. please tell me if this post makes no sense because i suspect that's the case and i'll explain better hopefully ahsdhfksdjdskj