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If Chuuya had his original ability to strengthen anyone else's ability by touching them, I wonder if his and Dazai’s abilities would cancel out on contact (making Dazai vulnerable to others abilities and Chuuya unable to strengthen abilities) or if it would cause a singularity by making a constant feedback loop. It's a very unstoppable meets immovable object scenario.
for some time I have been thinking about how abilities are actually more ligated with the soul than we discuss and how it talks about the characters personalities, but after reading this thread i’ve actually took the decision to talk my thoughts about it.
There are 4 characters that i actually find kinda interesting if we consider this point of “their abilities have been shaped by their experiences, traumas and who they are” into the discussion. (Atsushi, Kunikida, Yosano and Dazai)
With Atsushi I know I’m not the first one to point this out; how the tiger’s regeneration powers probably come by how often he was hurt in the orphanage as a response to the trauma, but it makes a lot of sense.
When it’s about Kunikida it is actually curious, because why does he have to use that notebook in specific? Is it because of his admiration of the creator? why can’t it be every paper he writes in? But it’s reasonable, that notebook is important to him, after all it has “his future” in it, the pages have everything about him, his day-to-day, plans, ideals; it represents him. So it being what Kunikida uses to display his ability, that it’s tied to his soul seems to fit.
Yosano is a sad one, she had the ability to cure minor injuries too as we saw that Mori orders her to do in the flashback, but then she refuses to and he shots the guy so she can send him back to the battlefield (It’s incredibly cruel and fucked up, but that’s not the point now) and life starts losing its value when treated like that. The “condition” of having to be half death, I’m pretty sure we can assume is a consequence of all the trauma she had on the war.
Now with Dazai this is actually the theory part, since we really don’t know much about him, but his ability being always active is maybe an answer to trauma too. It’s as clear as day that at 14 he already trusted no one, so if we consider it is almost as if NLH is always protecting him, since he doesn’t feel really safe and is alert all the time analysing and scheming.
So that’s it, users shape their abilities (unconsciously or maybe not) with their personalities and lives. night.