#wah. chuuya my beloved theres sm to him it makes him so rewarding to write <3 love getting in his brain and balancing all that shit

[nyxi-pixie]

hello!! random question that hopefully isn't annoying!! when you say chuuya is contradictory as a character, wdym? I mean I know that but it's difficult for me to put into words so I'd like to hear what someone else has to say, esp as I've recently finished reading stormbringer!!

ty in advance hehe

ofc not love i am obsessed with talking about chuuya and will take all opportunities to do so🤩 also hope u enjoyed sb! its awful and wonderful and makes me insane!!

when i talk abt chuuya being contradictory i just mean that his traits are often in conflict with each other.

surface level hes arrogant, hes powerful and he knows it and plays that up (im always thinking abt his 'whats wrong? im just on my tippy toes😇' in fifteen manga), hes violent and he enjoys being violent, hes brash and loud and quick to snap.

but under that, youve got his self-blaming tendencies and a contentment with being used, and the isolation under his power that makes him resentful of it at times (when hes talking to hallucination sheep in sb: 'to hell with power, if i didnt have this skill id still be with you guys'), and he doesn't like needless death and has his own parameters for where the lines are rather than just being an amoral murderer looking for his next kill, hes quick and observant and patient and, sometimes, even quiet, small when the sheep are crowding him.

hes So Much of everything, even when those things are opposites, which is part of what makes him such a distinctly human character - and that in itself is more contradiction, that we spend so much time with his status as a human being ambiguous, when everything about him IS.