Rest of the comic is under the cut, because LONG :0
Also! Content warnings for body horror, guns, blood(although in black and white) and just...horror in general tbh
Operation "Fall of the Hooded Hawk": For situations where one half of skk has to shoot without having clear vision, and relies on the direction of their partner. In this case, Chuuya was giving Dazai coordinates of where to fire by tapping against his ear. (It's kind of like a trust fall)
I scripted a whole followup conversation with more explanation of what exactly the mirror was, and just general context, but this comic has gotten so long that I'm gonna write that as a short scene in prose, because it's mostly dialogue and if I try to draw it all then I think my hands will secede from my body lol — I'll probably be able to get that done in the next couple of days. But in the meantime, thanks for reading! :D
So I think it's safe to say that the fandom has agreed that Chuuya is rather grumpy when he's tired (and I love that we have all accepted this as fact). So, imagine they are on their way home from Meursault and the plane hits a bit of turbulence. Nothing terrible, but enough to wake Sleeping Beauty (read: Chuuya) who has only been asleep for about 45 minutes.
Chuuya: Grantors of-
Dazai, poking Chuuya's cheek: Chuuya, no. It is not that serious.
Chuuya, swatting Dazai's hand away: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize you spent the last few days preparing to break you out of jail, breaking into Meursault, cosplaying a vampire, following the son of a bitch known as Fyodor around and following every fucking order-
Dazai: Chuuya-
Chuuya: Having to listen to you go on and on about fate and destiny and wtf was that even about??
Dazai: Uh-
Chuuya: Whatever, more importantly, I think I still have water in my lungs, Dazai.
Dazai: And my head still hurts, but you don't see me-
Chuuya: Oh, boo-fucking-hoo. Poor Dazai has a headache! Whatever will we do?! Someone save him! Quick, call a doctor!
Dazai: Then go get a doctor, Chuuya, since your legs are perfectly fine unlike mine!
Chuuya: You wanna go?!
Sigma: Both of you, zip it! Please! I'm trying to figure out where all of these bruises came from and I can't think with you two arguing. For crying out loud, it looks like I've been dropped 15 times!
Dazai: ...
Chuuya: ...
Sigma: ...What?
Dazai: Oh, nothing. I'm sorry Fyodor did that to you.
Chuuya: Yeah, that was real fucked up of him. I'm going back to sleep.
When last seen (in the anime), skk were going back inside the prison, presumably to get Sigma out (Dazai made him a promise + info he got out of Fyodor)
Now, there's no way Dazai is carrying Sigma, not with his injuries, and especially not when Chuuya is right there to do it for him.
The power of useless little dilettante Nie Huaisang looking at Zewu-Jun and Lianfang-Zun and all the complicated, intricate little compromises and hard choices and "what was I supposed to dos" that defined 3zun, going "Unacceptable, but fortunately l love Da-ge enough for all three of us," and then just unmaking everything they tried and chose to be in a tidal wave of implacable wrath... breathtaking.