i understand why there are people who ship them, but to me they have more like a younger and older sibling dynamic, but that's just my personal opinion ofc
and the fact that asagiri confirmed that dazai didn't know if chuuya truly was a vampire or not at first so he really thought he was about to be killed by chuuya, so that smile he gives him was not a fake one at all he was being genuine 😭💔💔💔