Okay so minimafioso on twt brought this up but this art has everyone hanging on threads like puppets around Fyodor.
And if you look closer all of them are hanging in ways that show that they are obeying the laws of gravity, limp, and doll like with their hair and clothes all hanging off in the correct angles.
And then you have Chuuya who is hanging upside down but his doll isn't limp. Yes he is a gravity manipulator but he is being controlled like a puppet with no autonomy on a string so why isn't he limp? Why is his hat not falling off? Or his coat and hair? Why are they perfectly in place?
Also like, everyone is strung up and the body parts pulled up are all held up by strings but Chuuya only has one leg on a string and the other is still perfectly positioned despite not being held up by anything.
Chuuya's doll practically looks like it is standing upright. But if Chuuya is a puppet he shouldn't have control over his ability like that. Maybe it's just me but the doll also seems to be fully aware and looking straight at Fyodor, being the only one whose head is not in a natural position for his body (everyone else is).
And the whole speculation with Chuuya having broken out of Fyodor's (Bram's) control. We know Chuuya was really exhausted as a vampire when we first met him. He was heaving and sweating, something no other vampire in my memory was shown doing (I could be wrong about that though). And he's not someone who'd get exhausted easily. We also know Chuuya has managed to power through corruption and not only recognised Dazai but also actively searched for him in his corrupted state and controlled his strength to not take off his head with a punch in that state.
We also know that words can have some effect on the vampires like Aku remembering his promise to Atsushi which could imply something because we got Dazai's words invoking their unbreakable bond followed by the last panel where we saw his eyes showing a seemingly fully lucid Chuuya.
And then we either dont see his eyes and fangs at all or he is entirely missing from the scene. He hasn't even hissed and shit. And he had left the control room he and Fyodor were in long before Fyodor gave him the order to kill Dazai. Also Dazai dragging himself right to the camera to let Fyodor know exactly where he is.
Idk about anyone else but that bitch is planning something.
Dr.Ratio: "I'm not going to betray my dear friend Gambler, actually we work together to dupe you into thinking that green rock in his bag is actually aventurine and not jade. When I bring him to you please give him the bag, it contains the pieces of actual aventurine, he'll need it."
Sunday: "Yep, got it! You want to betray Aventurine because you hate him, and this green rock is aventurine, and I'll give him his bag to mock him because there's nothing valuable in it. Ok thanks bye!"
That's how that "betrayal" scene went, right? He just tells the truth, allowing Sunday to delude himself.
When Sunday asks whether Ratio is prepared to betray Aven for knowledge, he answers that there are things more important for him than knowledge. So it's basically a longer way to say "no".
"…you ought to realize that a competent scholar knows their position and wouldn't forsake more vital matters for the sake of petty pride."
Sunday ignores this and proceeds. Then Ratio directly tells him that aventurine is in the bag.
"...that Cornerstone has been in your hands from the very beginning"
Sunday finds jade, convinced that it's aventurine.
Then Ratio just tells Sunday what Aventurine is going to do, because at this point why not? Sunday is clearly living in his own world, and he only hears what he wants to hear.
"Then he makes up some trivial excuse, downplaying the matter, and requests the gift money. This is a gamble, one he's all too familiar with, betting on your single misstep leading to a total loss."