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Did some whiteboard doodles wIth the gang
I’m not the most hardcore fan, but I still really need to see domestic cat atsushi. Atsushi with ball of yarn, catnip, scratching furniture, all that stuff.
precanon dazai taking in an orphan but atsushi's a fully feral preteen like biting, growling, etc etc
A girl!!
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“Plehehehease! Ryuu! I cahahan’t— I can’t take anymohohore!” Atsushi wheezed as Akutagawa tickled him relentlessly. Akutagawa raised an eyebrow, but then noted just how exhausted Atsushi was. His face was flushed pink and his eyes looked teary. He couldn’t always handle being tickled for this long, and Akutagawa knew he had definitely had more than enough.
Akutagawa pulled back from his hips and sat awkwardly, unsure of where to place his hands. He finally settled for rubbing Atsushi’s head gently. Atsushi was still giggling, but he leaned into Akutagawa’s touch anyway, smiling.
“Do you need anything?” Akutagawa asked, suddenly worried. He hadn’t meant to tickle Atsushi for as long as he did, he just got carried away sometimes listening to his laugh and watching his reactions. Atsushi shook his head, letting his head fall back into the couch pillow. Akutagawa frowned.
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this fic is one of the best things I've ever read https://archiveofourown.org/series/2388478#bookmark-form
I want a bsd au where Atsushi ran away from the orphanage at one point (maybe the tiger took over and ran off or something) and just ended up living in the woods for a while
Cannon eventually catches up with him one way or another and he’s still Atsushi but his feral cat meter is dialed up to ten
Like, he pushes Kunikida’s paperwork off his desk when annoyed
He takes naps whenever he ends up under a sunbeam
He has Matt Murdock super senses
Whenever he decides Akutagawa is being to much of a dick he just, Chomps™️
All that fun stuff
(I also really like the idea of Dazai having to explain things like curse words and sex and drugs the Atsushi ‘grew up in a catholic orphanage and then The Woods™️’ Nakajima)
Dazai makes one suicide joke and Atsushi is like "what's that??" and everyone just freezes all ?????
I want a bsd au where Atsushi ran away from the orphanage at one point (maybe the tiger took over and ran off or something) and just ended up living in the woods for a while
Cannon eventually catches up with him one way or another and he’s still Atsushi but his feral cat meter is dialed up to ten
Like, he pushes Kunikida’s paperwork off his desk when annoyed
He takes naps whenever he ends up under a sunbeam
He has Matt Murdock super senses
Whenever he decides Akutagawa is being to much of a dick he just, Chomps™️
All that fun stuff
(I also really like the idea of Dazai having to explain things like curse words and sex and drugs the Atsushi ‘grew up in a catholic orphanage and then The Woods™️’ Nakajima)
Dazai makes one suicide joke and Atsushi is like "what's that??" and everyone just freezes all ?????
Представьте, что у тигра аллергия на мандаринки и директор приюта — единственный, кто знал об этом, а Фукудзава и Харуно как кошатники могут догадаться, что это возможно. Ацу не понимает, почему ему никогда не давали их есть, а добрые коллеги решают накормить Ацуши первым в его жизни мандарином, но тигр реагирует по-своему.
Imagine, tiger dislikes oranges, and orphanage director is the only one who knew, and Fukuzawa and Haruno can guess it. But Atsushi didn't know about it because he wasn't allowed to eat it. And now his friends wants to feed him oranges. Tiger hates citrus smell.
И на второй картинку Ацу сидит в уголочке не из-за самой мандаринки. Просто не легко принять, что кто-то, кто очень сильно портил твою жизнь, мог сделать и что-то правильное(
For Atsushi it's hard and hurt to realize someone who made his life terrible sometimes did right things
ちょっとまってください。 Читается как "чëтто маттэ кудасай", дословный перевод - немного подождите, пожалуйста. Довольно простая и распространённая фраза.
ちょっとまってください。 Rōmaji: chotto matte kudasai. まって = wait, ちょっと = a bit, ください = please.
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atsushi: heyyy dazai-san!! good morning!!!!!!
dazai: hey atsushi~ do you wanna hear my cat impression???
atsushi: ?
atsushi: uh sure ig
dazai: heyyy dazai-san!! good morning!!!!!!
atsushi:
atsushi: >:(
*later*
dazai: kunikida-kun!! atsushi bit me again!!!
kunikida: its probably ur own fault
fukuzawa holding atsushi like a misbehaving cat: atsushi... we have talked about this
atsushi, tail sadly swishing:
"Or maybe it was because he’d pushed President Fukuzawa’s ‘cat dad’ mug off the table in the break room. He had said it was okay, but perhaps he’d been lying and was now going to punish him. Or maybe it was because he’d taken a nap with Ranpo a while back, under the best ray of sunlight the building had to offer, but when Ranpo kept on shifting around, he’d let an irritated Byakko take over and trap Ranpo underneath herself."
pushing my catsushi agenda and ranpo cant sit still agenda
headcanon that atsushi constantly has to try and ignore his cat instincts and constantly fails
atsushi, sitting down at his desk after a mission: it is SO HOT OUT. my throat is so dry, i think i’m going to die of thirst…
dazai, setting down a glass of water:
atsushi, looking at it:
atsushi, slowly using his hand to knock it off the desk:
dazai: ??? why did you do that
atsushi: i am SO THIRSTY
dazai, getting another glass of water:
atsushi:
atsushi, knocking it onto the ground:
dazai:
atsushi: i’m so thirsty
alternatively to atsushi slow blinking at ppl and confusing them, akutagawa googling cat facts and slow blinking at atsushi out of curiosity and atsushi turning so red he falls over and naturally the ada notice so then dazai slow blinks at him and atsushi blushes so much and only calms down until ranpo does it and so on and so forth then he's so flustered trying to slow blink back at everyone and trying not to pass out from how red he is
vivid image of my head of akutagawa grabbing atsushi's tiger tail and yanking him back when he's about to wander off
Headcannon that the Agency learn things about Atsushi's past not from Atsushi telling them.
But from the behaviours he exhibits that are very tiger like.
Because while many make sense to what they've researched, some don't. They dig deeper, and realise these are behaviours found in animals who've been kept not in the wild.
But in captivity.
And they can put together as detectives that Atsushi's exhibited these behaviours practically his whole life.
They don't know that Atsushi was literally raised in a cage and kept as a prisoner for most of his life.
But the behaviours he shows are evidence that he's been held captive, or something akin to that for a long time.
Such as how restless Atsushi gets when he has to sit or stay in one place for long periods of time.
Atsushi fidgets a lot. But he's grown comfortable enough to just get up and pace around the office in one big circle.
Which he will do repeatedly.
Atsushi also constantly messes with his hair, adjusting and re-adjudying his tie, despite it being fine. Ranpo reckons if he was in tiger form it'd translate to Atsushi fixing his fur over and over.
It really makes them all concerned, because just how long was Atsushi kept captive for this all to be second nature to him.
And more importantly how do they help.
(Dunno how accurate these are, not a tiger expert but I tried my best.)
Atsushi canonically isn't kind by nature (see Wan ch. 19), but that's okay because you don't have to be motivated by kindness to choose kindness, which is why Atsushi is the narrative's beautiful princess with a disorder anyway.
The biggest misconception in the bsd fandom ever to me is people constantly portraying Atsushi as someone who trauma dumps excessively when he canonically barely talks about it at all.
The entire point is that Atsushi does not talk about his trauma he’s just constantly thinking about/reliving it. He can’t escape the memories of his past so he tries not to acknowledge about them.
He only mentions it when asked, either directly or when someone asks him to explain himself.
Atsushi doesn’t even give a cohesive explanation for what he saw while under Dogra Magra, he just apologizes to Haruno and Naomi.
If Lucy hadn’t had her whole “you’ve never suffered the way I have” spiel then I doubt even the audience would’ve gotten to find out about his scars
If Akutagawa never asked him how it felt for the orphanage headmaster to die Atsushi would have never told him that he’s been hallucinating.
In the omake where Kyoka asks him why his hair is like that it’s clear he wouldn’t have told her that unless she had asked.
In 55 minutes Atsushi very briefly mentions sleeping on a dirty floor somewhere to Kunikida because he was trying to explain and justify his behavior.
And the thing is that there are scenes that implies that the other characters see Atsushi behaving strangely and are visibly confused because they do not understand what’s wrong with him.
Remember, we as an audience get to see things about characters that the main cast doesn’t. Just because we see into Atsushi’s mind doesn’t mean the other characters know what’s going on in there.
Also little footnote here that I think the scenes with Lucy and Akutagawa in specific are probably references to the moon over the mountain but I digress
This event is gonna make me a Lero Ro x Yuri shipper, I can already feel it
thought this as i was getting ready to sleep last night
atsushi who starts getting super clingy -- all hugs and cuddles, more than normal
atsushi rubbing his cheek against his friends'
atsushi giving his sweaters to his friends, or gloves or scarves or other such things
atsushi taking their clothes and wearing them and giving them back
the ada confused as hell, finally going to ranpo like "is atsushi dying???"
and ranpo is like "isn't it obvious"
and the ada is like "no" unaware that atsushi is scratching/sharpening his nails at the entrance
and ranpo is like "its the time of year we get a lot of cats in the neighborhood. he's marking his territory"
fukuzawa is delighted at being shown affection by his cat son but heartbroken that his cat son is trying to make sure no other cat comes
everyone else is mostly just amused
I read that cats (including tigers) take slower blinks/close their eyes longer around people they trust. I dunno I was just thinking it'd be really funny if Atsushi started taking some slow ass blinks around Akutagawa and he was like "Did he sleep enough??" the whole time.
-E
HC that even under Fukuzawa's ability Atsushi gets moody as it gets closer to the full moon. He gets more easily irritated and tiger features like his fangs and ears pop out more often than usual. Even though the president can suppress the full transformation Byakko WILL want to do kitty things on the full moon and make it everyone else's problem that she can't
Atsushi giving nonperishable foods to those they cares about.
He learned how to make various kinds of jerky because the tiger kept hunting and just leaving carcasses in people's homes. So, Atsushi's loved ones often wake up and just see a fuck ton of jerky in their houses, or mass amounts of cans and other various non-perishables on their chairs
big shoutout to red in tooth and claw for putting a name to my obsession (it's been 3 years i think this is going to stick with me for life)
im just imagining atsushi sneezing and then his tiger features come out
also more tiger behaviour atsushi bc its so fluffy
Ya know, Atsushi probably really struggles with physical affection. There’s probably a very few number of people who can touch him, and even then he needs to see it coming. I find it hard to believe that, as compassionate and caring as my little baby is, he is just over all of the physical and mental abuse he suffered. And while he makes connections quickly, it probably takes the members of the ADA months to get to a place where they can touch him without him panicking and flinching.
@dazaimultishipweek
The moon glowed high above the window. Its full glory shone blue light upon the living room floor. Any other person would think of it as peaceful, but the Kunikidazai family wasn’t a group of “normal” people.
Atsushi cowered in the corner, curled up in a ball.
“Don’t let it touch me,” he whimpered. “I’ll hurt you.”
Dazai’s heart ached. He and his husband, Kunikida, had adopted Atsushi quite recently. They’d only been together for about six months, and the abuse Atsushi had suffered at the orphanage still haunted him. Ever since he learned about his ability, he’d been swarmed with fear and worry. Such things shouldn’t trouble a six-year-old. That was horrible, even to an ex-mafia executive.
Dazai had to do all he could to quell his son’s fears.
“You won’t,” he assured. “My ability will stop that from ever happening.”
Atsushi shook his head and buried it in his knees. “I’ll get punished if I hurt you. I can’t… And your ability won’t make Daddy safe.”
His words tore at Dazai’s heart. He looked at Kunikida for guidance.
“See, I’m a problem,” Atsushi mumbled.
“No, you’re not. You’ll never be a problem, okay, Atsu?” Kunikida inched towards Atsushi as to not frighten him more. ‘In fact, I think—“
“Go away.”
Kunikida backed off.
An idea sprung into Dazai’s mind. “You know, if the moonlight doesn’t tough you, you won’t turn into a tiger. So, why don’t we build a pillow fort to block it?”
“A pillow fort?” repeated Kunikida and Atsushi in unison.
“Yes,” said Dazai, motioning for Kunikida to make his way to the couch. “We’ll get lots and lots of pillows, and then the moon will never get you. But I’m going to need your help.”
Atsushi raised his head. “Will you hold my hand?”
“Of course. Pappy’s got you.” Dazai bent down to Atsushi’s level and extended his hand. “I promise to hold onto you as long as you need.”
Atsushi reached forth his tiny hand and clenched his fist around Dazai’s hand.
“Toss me a pillow, darling,” said Dazai. Kunikida obliged. “Would you like to go first, Atsu?”
“O-okay.” Tentatively, he took it and pushed it towards the light, making sure not to touch the places the moon shone upon.
“That’s not too hard, is it?”
“How many do I have to do until you don’t hit me?”
Reality slammed into Dazai like a truck. He nearly choked on a breath. How dare that orphanage director be so cruel? “I’m never going to hit you.”
“Never?”
“I promise. Never, not ever.”
“And me too,” added Kunikida. “We adopted you because we wanted to. We’d never do anything mean to you.”
Finally, Dazai’s heart warmed. Kunikida had originally been very against adopting a child. But now, he cared about Atsushi possibly more than anyone. His words only made that love more apparent.
Atsushi sniffled. “Why are you being nice? No one was ever nice to me before.”
“Because we love you.”
Atsushi processed this. “You… love me?”
Dazai and Kunikida both nodded. “So, we’re going to all build the biggest pillow fort and keep you and us safe. Here.” Dazai grabbed a pillow with his free hand. “I’ll go first. If you just want to watch, that’s okay too.”
He stacked pillows one by one, and after about five of them, Kunikida joined in.
“That’s a pretty big wall,” said Atsushi, gaping at the fort.
Next, Kunikida dragged in two chairs from the dining room and placed them in opposite directions on each side of the fort.
“What are those for?” Atsushi asked.
“Once I put a blanket over those chairs, it’ll be like a new roof. Then, the moonlight won’t stand a chance.”
He draped a blanket over the chairs as described. “Now, all that’s left to do is go inside. If you’d like to.”
Atsushi pursed his lips. “Will you and Pappy be in there too?”
“Of course, if you want us too.”
“Okay.”
———————————————————————————————————
Atsushi lay on the bed of pillows, snoring gently.
Dazai hugged Kunikida’s shoulder against his own, smiling at their son. He didn’t need to say anything. All he had to do was just watch his dear little boy sleep.
“Are you sure he’s not going to transform?” Kunikida asked. “I really do want to keep my promise.”
“No, I think we’ll be fine,” replied Dazai, shifting his view to Kunikida. “And if he does, all I need to do is touch him. It’s impossible for me to get hurt by his claws. But, perhaps it’d be better to sleep in here tonight.”
“I’m fine with that,” said Kunikida. “Anything to let him be happy.”