#Maybe Akutagawa or Atsushi would say something at the same time maybe Akutagawa would call him for tea and maybe this will become routine

[lady-moufflet]

This is just a sketch, smooth and simple, of a reunion between my loves in beast.

I have a story about what the beast sskk reunion would be like (after all, you know?) And she borders on a angst but she’s cute. One day I’ll draw, who knows.

For now, just a simple sketchy.

[baizhoobies]

BSD Men and their Favourite Positions

A/N: OMG my first ever post on here ~ What better way to start off this blog than a little bit of smut with our favourite men? Cooked some of this up with a friend, I hope you enjoy! I ofc couldn’t fit every BSD character in here, depending if its what people want, I may do a part 2 dedicated to the Hunting Dogs, Mushitarō etc and maybe even a part 3 for various BSD women! So let me know if that’s something I should do next!

Warnings:, graphic descriptions of sex, mentions of kinks, 18+, minors dni

Reader is gender neutral with any genitalia !!

Including: Dazai, Atshushi, Kunikida, Ranpo, Fukuzawa, Chūya, Akutagawa, Tachihara, Francis Fitzgerald, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lovecraft, Fyodor, Nikolai, Sigma, Ango

𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲

Dazai

I am not entirely sure what this position is called, but picture this: You are laying on your back, Dazai using his strong hands lifts you up by the waist, your legs are over his shoulders and he pulls you into him with a rough thrust. I feel like Dazai is stronger than he looks, so he uses his strength to his advantage, and he most certainly is rough with it. Expect him to man-handle you a lot, he has to have complete control over you - expect to ache the next day, along with some very pretty bruises where his fingers dug in. I’m sure this position has a name but my friend called it the ‘cervix/g spot destroyer 9000’ so we will go with that.

Atsushi

Our sweet Atsushi… oh yeah you are bent over doggy style, gnawing at your neck and shoulders as he pounds into you. He would probably cry a little, but only because he feels so good. Unlike Dazai, its not necessarily about control, but instincts for him. Being with you, he would absolutely go feral and his tiger senses just go crazy. He will have nothing on his mind except the thought of him pinning you down with his weight, cock buried deep inside and his mouth biting anywhere he can sink his teeth into.

Kunikida

I am absolutely biased and I will take liberty in saying that he would be quite partial to pinning you down into a mating press. It makes him feel in control, and of course that being in his ideals, will absolutely follow it to a tee. Its a position where you are able to get the best grunts out of him, as someone who isn’t super vocal (more huffing and panting), having him balls deep in you like this is sure to make him let out some involuntary moans. Also…it doesn’t matter what gender you are, he is getting you pregnant fr. Have you ever seen a man so fuck drunk? WELL YOU ARE ABOUT TO; he can only stay in control for so long until his senses overwrite everything. Not exactly his ideal, is it?

Ranpo

2 words…pillow princess. If you have a dick or a strap, he enjoys being pressed down into the bed, hips up and back arched whilst being hit from the back. He comes across as someone who would enjoy being with someone who could ‘outwit him’, and if that is you, he would willingly relinquish the control he feels that he has over people …to you. I personally believe he is a switch, but his favourite position? Any position where you fuck his brains out completely. Bonus points if you reach around and jerk him off at the same time, you will turn him into a moaning and whining mess.

Fukuzawa

As someone who comes across as traditional, I feel like missionary would be his most preferred position. Its comfortable, can be as slow or as fast as he (and you) feels - but what he likes the most is being able to see your face, the way it looks as you take him in and when you cum. If he isn’t looking at your eyes as he thrusts, he is most certainly resting his face in the nook of your neck, kissing your sensitive skin - you don’t complain, as someone who probably isn’t so vocal during sex, this is the best position to hear his low moans and praises on his lips as he comes undone. It’s also a very versatile position because he can be slow and romantic, full of love and praise, or after a stressful day, he can harshly rut into you with rough fingers digging into your hips.

𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐚

Chūya

Never tell him that you’re a throat goat because he will go absolutely crazy. I mean CRAZY. He will have you laying on a table or a bed/couch if they are tall enough, your head hanging off the edge and your mouth open, taking him in completely. In this position he is able to fuck your throat mercilessly, noticing the bulge in your neck where his cock is buried; seeing it just inflates his ego and will jerk himself off using your throat for extra pressure/friction. If his hand isn’t around your neck, he will absolutely have one hand on your cock/cunt, playing with it for your own pleasure as he feels himself cumming down your throat.

Akutugawa

Also a missionary king, now it may seem ooc of him, but I feel like he would let his guard down with his significant other; like its a side only you get the privilege in seeing. Like he may have this tough exterior, but secretly he just wants to be held. So as much as he can be rough, he relishes in your warmth, your arms around him and pulling him into a hug; it makes him feel safe and secure. If your arms aren’t enveloping him, he will hold your hand, squeezing it as he enters you and when he cums. - Oh he definitely has a thing for holding your hand. Big meanie who is actually a softie!

Tachihara

The man relishes the thought and the feeling of having you sit on his face. You may feel like you are the one in control, but thats far from the truth. His grip is hard on your hips, pulling you further down onto his face, almost worryingly so; but don’t worry, the man knows what he’s doing. If he’s going to die by giving oral then that is a good way to die 🫡 Master tongue for real, like he prides himself. I BET he is the type of guy who gives his tongue a ‘work out’ just so he builds his durability for this very thing!! He won’t even think about cumming first without you cumming from his tongue; on second thought, he might even cum from eating you out alone, he just gets so in the moment…I better stop.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝

Francis Fitzgerald

Whew, okay this man wants you pinned against something, no matter the position; on his desk, against a wall, if its a hard surface, he wants you there. But in terms of favourite I would say against the wall, your legs wrapped around his waist, strong hands gripping and supporting your ass as he plunges deep and hard into you. It would definitely be an ego thing for him, being able to support you and also wreck your shit at the same time. Please do praise him, as his already mentioned ego will inflate and I just know he would fuck you better with each compliment. Expect a very bruised back and aching legs after, he doesn’t intend on taking it easy with you.

Edgar Allen Poe

As hopeless romantic like myself, I feel like he would want to be as close to you as possible with also being able to see your face. As strange as it may sound, but Poe enjoys having you in the lotus position - this way, he is able to feel your entire body grind into him so lovingly. The both of you would sit on his bed, your legs crossed around each other and his cock buried warmly inside of you, here he feels safe and content (you just know he is whimpering into your ear). Its also a good position for you to take more control, I just know ya man is a sub at heart, so do please tell him that he’s a good boy and how much you love his voice, because it will only egg him on to be louder.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

As a man of god, you will probably (definitely) be married to him to get anywhere near him sexually. But when you are married, rest assured that he will want to ravish you. He comes across as someone who has a lot of repressed sexual feelings, therefore he’d want a position that can demonstrate his absolute DESIRE. Because I am feeling generous, I would say either the mating press or cow girl. The mating press for…obvious reasons… his big strong body holding you down with a distinct goal in mind? Oh yes. I would also say the cowgirl, mainly because he would enjoy seeing you come undone on his cock, pulling you down either by your hips or your arms, balls bouncing against your ass…that man has seen god and its you.

Lovecraft

This is a tricky one, I don’t think he would necessarily have a favourite position for his own pleasure, but he would probably take gratification in your pleasure. YOU KNOW he would put those tentacles to good use if you ask him. With this in mind, I picture you asking him to “fill your holes”, which he does, and makes sure to do it where he has full view of the show. If you want his cock specifically, he will have several tentacles wrap themselves around your torso, one forcing your head down, the others keeping your thighs apart and hips up for him to enter you from behind - so in short I suppose his favourite position with you would be doggy !

𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝

Fyodor

Thigh fucking, 100%. Something that doesn’t actually involve penetrative sex because of the whole,,,religion thing. Unless you were married, there will be no sex; aside from the loop holes. You are on your back, wearing the fanciest of underwear as Fyodor lifts up and presses your legs together, poking his hard cock through your soft flesh and thrusts. He will curse you out, call you a little temptress or seducer…when he cums it’ll never be inside, not that he hasn’t thought about it, he has. Each time you would do it he would get closer and closer to giving in. “You tempt me…” he’d whisper, there are very few people who could get him to question his faith, his morals…but you…you really are a little charmer, aren’t you?

Nikolai

I had a hard time deciding with Nikolai, but I honestly believe that he would be super into 69-ing. He would probably enjoy the fact that its the ‘sex’ number and make numerous jokes about it outside the bedroom. But INSIDE the bedroom is another matter. He would most likely prefer to be on top, it means that he has more power over you (and that you can’t escape him, not that you’d want to). He would be kind of sadistic too, pressing his cock further and further into your mouth, enjoying hearing the little gags and chokes as he essentially keeps you prisoner under his weight; he would never endanger you but…there is always an element of danger with him.

Sigma

Spooning, its something so intimate and personal to him, both fucking you and hugging you. He gives me the vibe that he just wants to be close to you, he’s clingy and a little possessive, so holding you in this position is heaven to him. You are laying on your side, one leg hooked over his arm, lifting it up so that he has the perfect angle to plunge deep into you. He is so loving when he does this, to him you might as well be made of glass. Expect a thousand kisses along your back and shoulder blades, a few little bites but not too rough, but enough to mark you. Sigma is also a whimperer and whiner, very vocal with it too (possibly even a crier if over-stimulated)

𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚(𝐬)

Ango

Another very subby kinda guy, though definitely a switch in my mind, but I can elaborate in another post tee hee. I want to say his favourite is having you suck his cock. LIKE ofc he enjoys sex, but his favourite thing is seeing you servicing him on your knees, between his legs and swallowing every inch. He’s veryyyy sensitive on his tip, so even delicately kissing it before sucking him in will put him immediately on edge. He may try to establish dominance at first, but rest assured that will not last long. He will find it hard to compose himself, especially if you take every bit of him in your throat. His glasses will fog up, his face red and his fingers fumbling with your hair; awh look at him, you got him all flustered. Another man who whimpers, maybe even cry, but boy he sounds angelic whilst doing so.

A/N: ahhhh okay done!! I hope you enjoyed, I know I did. I fear that there are a few headcanons I’ve made and will have to elaborate on in the future. Like I am so going to dive into the Fyodor thigh fucking headcanon….lord have mercy I’m bout to bust. Alroighhtttt, till next time 🌸

[chososchalupa]

Hi I love your writing! Could you write a bsd imagine if you’re their sister and they find out you’re dating their rival? especially Dazai and Chu!

Thank you so much! and of course! I love writing for bsd sm

Your brother finding out your dating their rival

F!Reader x Dazai, Chuuya, Akutagawa, Atsushi

WC - 276, 293, 210, 267

not proof read!

Dazai -

The light from your phone shined bright on your face as you checked the time

01:32

Your older brother, Dazai, was definitely asleep by now which means you could easily sneak out to go meet up with your boyfriend.

You carefully tiptoed through your living room, trying not to make any noise until you heard a cough from the kitchen. You paused your movements, hoping he wouldn’t notice you standing in the darkness.

“I know you’re in there. Stop acting like a statue” Dazai laughed as he called out from the kitchen, “Come here”

You groaned internally and walked towards the lit up room,

“Yes, Osamu?”

Your brother smiled at you, his eyes gleaming with something you couldn’t place.

“How long did you think you could keep this up before I noticed?” He asked swirling his drink around in his cup

“Keep what up?” you replied, if you kept the innocent act up, maybe he would drop it.

He chuckled deeply at your words, “Come on,” he started, “Did you really think you could hide dating Chuuya from me?”

Your eyes widened, you knew he would catch on to the sneaking out, but how did he know it was to see Chuuya?

Dazai must have sensed your confusion as he continued, “I can hear his motorcycle outside every night” You sighed, “Are you mad?”

“Mad? No. You could do better than that slug though. I’m sure he's waiting. Go have fun”

You rolled your eyes and gave your brother a soft smile before turning to leave

“Tell Chuuya~ I said hi”

You laughed before waving goodbye. 

He took it a lot better than you were expecting

Chuuya -

“How do I look?” You asked, walking into your brother's room.

“Another date?” Chuuya asked, looking at your outfit, “Same guy?”

You nodded before reasking your question, looking at yourself in his mirror.

“You look good. Who is this guy anyway?”

A blush crept onto your face as fixed your hair, ignoring his question.

“Uh, hello? Do I know him?” he asked

“Kinda?” You replied, looking at your phone to see a text from Dazai saying he was outside. “Gotta go! Love you!”

“What do you mean ‘kinda’?” He yelled as you walked out of his room

Chuuya got up from his bed and ran after you, “I’ll come meet him. I have to make sure you're in good hands after all” he smiled as he caught up with you.

You sighed deeply as you both walked to your front door, “You can’t be mad”, you spoke as you opened the door

“Why would I be ma- DAZAI?”

Dazai stood outside, smiling as you two walked towards him.

“You have to be fucking kidding” Chuuya whispered as the two of you stood in front of your boyfriend

“You look stunning as always, y/n. You too, Chuuya~” Dazai laughed as he wrapped his arm around you

You watched as your brother's face turned a deep red with anger.

“I can not believe this. You better not hurt her or I will kill you”

“I would never” Dazai smiled as he kissed your head. “We do have to go now though, we have dinner reservations”

You said your goodbyes to Chuuya as you and Dazai walked to his car

“I can not believe he didn’t murder you on the spot” you laughed as he opened the door for you

“He couldn’t even if he tried”

Akutagawa -

“Atsushi, you really don’t have to walk me all the way there” you said, walking hand in hand with your boyfriend to the Port Mafias headquarters. 

“I want to make sure you get there safely!” He smiled

The two of you began saying your goodbyes until you heard the angry voice of your brother behind you,

“Weretiger. What are you doing with your hands on my sister?”

You turned to respond but Akutagawa already had Rashomon wrapped around your boyfriend's arms.

“Let him go, Akutagawa. He’s not trying to hurt me”

Akutagawa sneered at your words, “That was obvious. What is he doing here? More importantly, why is he touching you?”

You sighed again before grabbing Atsushi’s hand and raising it up, “We’re dating”

Akutagawa's eyes widened as he stared at the two of you in shock

“Yeah, we have been for a while” Atsushi chuckled, rubbing the back of his neck

Akutagawa glared at him as he spoke, “If you hurt her, you will be dead, Weretiger.”

As your brother finished speaking, he turned and walked away, not bothering to look back at the two of you.

“Well that went….good?” Atsushi asked, watching your brother walk away.

“For him, that went great” you laughed, pressing your lips to his.

Atsushi -

“Aku, please stop twitching so much” you groaned, setting down your nail polish as your boyfriend glared playfully at you.

The two of you were sitting on your bedroom floor, you had convinced Akutagawa that he would look amazing with eyeliner and painted nails and somehow, the eyeliner went on easier than the nail polish did. 

“I am trying. I’ve never had this done before”

You smiled up at your annoyed boyfriend as you brought his hand back down, “One hand left”

You went to pick up the black polish when you heard the apartment door open, 

“Y/N” Your brother called, “You home?”

Akutagawa looked up at you with wide eyes before mouthing, “Do not say a thing”

You giggled softly as you nodded, continuing to paint his nails.

The two of you sat in silence until you heard footsteps walking towards your room,

The door opened and Atsushi stood holding a box of cookies, “Hey, I went to the store and got some coo- Oh, Hey, Akutagawa. What are you doing here?”

“I am-” your boyfriend started before you interrupted, 

“Atsushi! I didn’t think you’d be home so early. My boyfriend and I are just painting his nails. Don’t they look great?” You asked, lifting up Akutagawa's hand

Atsushi smiled, despite looking very confused, “Boyfriend?” He whispered to himself, “Uh, Yeah. They look great, Akutagawa. I’ll leave the cookies on the counter”

You both waited until Atsushi shut your door before bursting into laughter,

“That was an interesting way of telling him” Akutagawa laughed

“It was now or never” You smiled, “I knew he wouldn’t mind”

[akutasoda]

Could you do a tall female S/o x bsd character. Where the reader is like a few inches taller than them but still they are the one who keeps her on her toes, by teasing her or mocking her (a playful relationship). Plz do Chuuya, Ranpo, Atsushi, Akutagawa or any else character you would like.

teasing banter

synopsis - how are they with someone who's taller?

includes - atsushi, ranpo, chuuya, akutagawa

warnings - fem!reader(not really specified), fluff, slight crack, teasing, wc - 518

atsushi nakajima ★↷

↪he never really took notice of the fact that you were slightly taller than him. it made no difference.

↪and he probably would never even think about mocking you because of that but he probably, if he got comfortable enough around you, would tease you.

↪it probably started as an accident. some small petty competition to which you lost and atsushi took great pride in winning. to which you absent mindedly commented on his height.

↪to which he responded. and from then on he would take many opportunities to playfully tease you about being taller.

↪mainly in the form of nicknames that he would randomly call you to which you always tried to respond but you found it rather sweet.

ranpo edogawa ★↷

↪he never said anything and he thought he never cared that you were taller. afterall he was the world's greatest detective and now he had the perfect victim to his spontaneous piggyback requests.

↪and he definitely wouldn't hesitate to tease or mock you for your height. whenever the opportunity arose for it, he would take it.

↪he didn't even have to have an opportunity, he would make one. and ince he started there was no stopping him.

↪ever so often no matter what it was, he would make a comment about your height. and so it would be fair that you would make similar comments.

↪it became a very common occurrence to see you both bickering over heights but it was always in jest.

chuuya nakahara ★↷

↪he knows he's short. he may deny it but he knows and to avoid any comments he never commented on other people's height. that often.

↪but he actually didn't care that you were taller than him, most people were anyway. so why should he care? he loves you regardless.

↪he only cared when he could use it against you. if he was in a bad mood or something similar, he would always tease you about being 'too tall'.

↪not so much mocking, but always saying something about being 'too tall for your own good'.

↪you knew it was in jest and so in turn you would comment the same but about him being shorter. but he always got back at you and some how manage to get the last laugh.

ryūnosuke akutagawa ★↷

↪he wouldn't care about a single detail to your appearance, height included. if he loves someone he will love them for who they are regardless even though it takes him ages to find that person.

↪so what if you were taller? he would never make comments about his or your height unless he was eventually provoked.

↪maybe you joked about him being shorter or someone else made a comment after seeing you both stand side by side. but after that he felt more inclined to make meaningless comments.

↪just casually refering to you in a way that would mock your height or tease you about being tall. these did initially catch you off guard. but you found them rather funny.

↪even if each time made you second guess what he just said.

[wizardfrog69]

'•.¸♡ what being in a relationship with them feels like♡¸.•

How being in a relationship with the bsd men feels like

Gn!reader

Masterlist

Enjoy!

Feat. Fukuzawa, Atsushi, Kunikida, Dazai, Ranpo, Akutagawa, Oda, Poe, Fyodor, Nikolai

Yukichi Fukuzawa:

⛾ it may feel distant at times but still loving.

⛾ he is often at work so the two of you can't see each other but when you do you can feel peacefulness and calmness.

⛾ he feels protective in a way which reassures you you can keep your gard as down as you like, not even needing it.

⛾ although he may not look pleased, he is, just know that he is, he is very pleased and happy to be there with you.

Atsushi Nakajima:

❀ being with him feels soft, calm and warm

❀ just like being friends with a cat

❀ he doesn't want anything to happen to you so he's always so nice to you.

❀ he wants to take care of you, to always be near you and for you to always be happy in a warm and peaceful environment, which he tries to always provide to you no matter what weather it be at home or at work, he just wants you to enjoy yourself

Doppo Kunikida:

✎ ̼ your relationship would be an ideal one

✎ ̼ greeting you in the mornings, weather its when you wake up next to him or as he sits sipping a cup of coffee while reading the news paper

✎ ̼ being romantic in thee afternoons

✎ ̼ caring in the evenings

✎ ̼ loving at night, and so on

✎ ̼ if he's with you then he loves you with all his heart and nothing can change that, even if the oxytocin wears off*

✎ ̼ it even sometimes feels like you're already married for years now.

Osamu Dazai:

: ̗̀➛ being with him feels like listening to your favourite song on repeat or wearing your favourite piece of clothing

: ̗̀➛ he feels like returning to a memory

: ̗̀➛ even if you didn't know each other for long, he still feels like a nice memory of laughter with your best friends

: ̗̀➛ it feels as though whenever he laughs it becomes engraved in your mind as your new memory which just becomes vivid everytime you see him

Ranpo Edogawa:

☆ his affection feels sweet and even sour at times

☆ he loves being near you and showing his love by hugging, saying sweet thing in your ear, handing you his snacks and so on

☆ all he needs is your presence and your comforting praises

☆ though he may say or do somethings without thinking of the consequences but he doesn't mean to hurt your feelings

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa:

☾ a relationship with him feels like a one sided relationship

☾ not always, only at times

☾ he isn't one to show affection or not in the traditional way atleast, his love language is more acts of service then physical touch

☾ he doesn't show emotions well so it seems one sided a lot of the time

☾ this doesn't mean he doesn't love you, he does and deeply he just has a hard time expressing his emotions and feelings he has toward you but that all doesn't matter to him, as long as you love him and know he feels the same way about

Sakunosuke Oda:

♡ a relationship where it feels like its lasted forever and will never end as long you both live is what a relationship with Oda feels like

♡ everyday he shows you how much he loves you, there isn't a time where you doubt his love towards you nor your love toward him

♡ even if you've know each other for a couple of months or years, it feels like you two have been married for well over a hundred years and your so called marriage will last a million more

♡ you two are the only thing you need to feel as if you were a big and loving family, ofc the orphans will be a part of that family aswell

Edgar Allan Poe:

✒ being with him feels like listening 'the last waltz' by Englbert Humperdink while reading a really good book about a murder mystery

✒ a perfect mix of romance and death in one with a hint of mystery and chosen isolation with the person you

✒ Poe loves you very much, and his feelings are best reflected in his writing, maybe he writes about a protagonist who is always the most beautiful person in a room, or an antagonist who has a heart made of pure gold. This character being accompanied by a raccoon sometimes!

✒ the love letters and poems also say much when it comes to his love towards you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky:

♔ he may seem heartless but this isn't entirely true, he does a heart it's just entirely filled with the love for you

♔ there is nothing on this earth that fyodor could love more, despite this no one can know about this as revealing his weaknesses can put him and more especially you in danger, and that is the last thing he wants

♔ Fyodor is a smart man, so keep his feelings for you is a little too easy for him, sometimes keeping them from you and even from himself and this can be evident, he often is also consumed by work locking himself in his office for hours even day at a time and never seeing the light of day, not even his love, unless they bring him food and tea to keep him breathing.

♔ but when he does have time off he can think of nothing else then spending it with you. He loves you and these are the times he shows you how much

Nikolai Gogol:

✶ Nikolai is very out going and this cannot be hidden when he express his love to his dear lover

✶ He's very expressive making a relationship with him exiting and filled with surprises

✶ he would love to take you to all crazy places and an adventure after adventure which can be tiring at times, that is when he will show you in a more calmer state how much he loves you, it may be out of character but he loves laying on the bed or sitting on a couch and just hug you constantly showing you his appreciation in a more physical way

༺♡༻ 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧 ⋆ 𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 ༺♡༻

* ok so ik if the oxytocin levels are low in a relationship it would mean that the couple would split up but idc alright even if he doesn't love you he still loves you

[selfaware-bungou-stray-dogs]

Bro like we know the normal Genshin impostor sagau but what if it would like with BSD. Like there is an impostor 'Guiding Light' saying the real one is trying somhething and somehow everyone belives (maybe Fyodor, Dazai, and Rampo would be suspicious maybe) and then they realized who is the real one like they would be horrified. (I live for angst)

If somehow Imposter managed to convince BSD Characters that Guiding Light are fake, and they hurt GL, BSD Cast would be horrified, when they learn the truth. They will do everything, to undo their mistake.

They will destroy the Imposter.

Will shower Guiding Light in presents, will do whatever they want. Even return to BSD World and stay there forever, to pay for their crimes.

Will let Guiding Light hurt them, if it will make them feel better.

......

But, personally, I think, that BSD Imposter SAGAU will be a little bit hard, if not impossible.

And here are my reasons, why

1. Emotions are universal, but not the same.

If Imposter stole GL's phone/ BSD Mayoi account, and start talking to characters through it, they would see, that Little Light changed its color, shape and size.

From "Family love(less). Prologue", where Reader start reading BSD after their relatives read it. Reader are reading the same books.

"And then another Kitsunebi¹ appeared.

This one was purple."

BSD Cast will know, that Imposter are a different person.

____

If Imposter get transported into Yokohama and start telling others about Evil Fake, but, Guiding Light stays in real world and continue reading/watching/playing, that will lead to an interesting situation.

_____

Imposter: And they pretend to be me! They are evil! Please, help me get rid of them.

Suddenly, Little Light appeared and start circling around Fyodor, Dazai, Chuuya, Atsushi, Nikolai and Akutagawa.

GL: New official art are so pretty

Dazai: give Imposter a heavy look Can you explain, why your emotions and thoughts are still coming from the different world?

Imposter: I... Well...

Fyodor: I don't think, that progress has reached that much, that will let you be in two places at the same time.

______

And, if others believe Imposter, but Ranpo, Dazai, Fyodor, Jounou and Ayatsuji don't, BSD Cast will lose a hacker.

_____

Imposter: tell characters, how terrible Fake Guiding Light are

Katai, runs into the room, holding a note.

Note: "Call us, when you finally realize, that this thing is lying to you. Fyodor D., Dazai O., Ranpo E., S. Jounou, Y. Ayatsuji"

Katai: We have lost our leading hacker!

______

2. Characters, that was based in characters, not authors.

Kirako in this AU, before she really became self-aware, were in so sort of stasis.

"Sometimes Kirako heard words from different world. Without abilities, where you, a simple person named [Y/N] live. Where they talk about their interests. And Kirako herd them. She couldn't control what she hears, but, thankfully, she never heard something personal."

If she saw, that Ranpo, Dazai, Fyodor, Jouno and Ayatsuji aren't sure, if Imposter are Real! Guiding Light, she could start questioning The Imposter on trivia she learned about Guiding Light.

All characters, that were based on characters and not authors (minus Sigma, in this AU he is considered an author) have deeper connection with real world and GL.

Naomi knew, that Reader aren't bad, the moment she felt their presence.

Kirako saw visions from the real world.

___Spoilers for unreleased entries___

Gin saw chunks of GL's memories about the past day, when she sleeps.

Karma, after canon chains were broken, got an 'ability' to 'connect' to the real world by will. He would volunteer to observe GL, if Imposter will insist that they are evil.

__And fact from STORMBRINGER___

Adam Frankenstein has a lie detector.

If only Imposter aren't Dazai's level of genius, their lie won't work.

3. Imposter's character

BSD Cast have more or less good understanding of Guiding Light's character. So, as long as Guiding Light don't do this:

GL: What?! They are talking bad about me?! I will burn them! run to find matches

GL: What?! They are a bad person?! I will destroy them! run to find a hammer

GL: What?! Old lady had a bad sigh and accidentally gave me wrong candies, that are normal, have good flavor and I don't have allergy, but they are wrong flavor?! Come here, old witch! run to find an inquisition

They would really be confused, why their 'Guiding Light' insisted on hurting/if not killing/ this person.

____

In real world. GL's apartment

Imposter: pointing at GL They are evil, protect me! Threw them away.

BSD cast is waiting, while Francis and GL are talking. GL show Francis documents (about apartment, birth certificate, ID)

Francis: It's their apartment. We can't throw a person, who have all rights to live here.

Imposter: But... Then kill them! They will do something bad to me! To you!

BSD Cast still didn't do anything

Francis: We and you will move away anyway, they won't bother you. Just forget about them.

Imposter: But... But...

Francis: By the way, since when you became that thirsty for blood?

_____

Important!

BSD Cast may be grateful to Guiding Light, but, if GL start treating them as... accessories, money bags and servants, BSD Cast will leave them.

They won't stand for being treated poorly. They won't keep a toxic relationship.

[oikasugayama]

Just Dazai spying on every date Akutagawa has with his pastel goth girlfriend and dragging Atsushi along.

oh my GODDDDD YESSSSSSS [click here for more on akutagawa's btggf]

dazai immediately went back to the agency after he found out that akutagawa has a girlfriend, and he shouted to the void that he has some incredibly important news about the port mafia, which of course made everyone stop their work to listen to him.

"AKUTAGAWA HAS A GIRLFRIEND!"

kunikida does not give a single shit and turns back to his work, a few people like the tanizakis ("SECRETLY" PARTNERS NOT SIBLINGS AND I'LL DIE ON THIS HILL) and ranpo are like "huh wtf?" but atsushi jumps out of his chair with as much enthusiasm as dazai has and is like "WHAT???? NO THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!! WHO WOULD DATE HIM???? how did he get a girlfriend before me..."

"i don't know but get this: she's tall and she's hot. he has to have her under some sort of spell or something. we need to follow them and find out what's going on."

"right!" atsushi agrees, and they both immediately leave, ignoring kunikida calling after than that they have work to do.

with dazai's skills and maybe some sneaky tricks, he manages to track down akutagawa and his girlfriend again. they're walking around a bookstore halfway between akutagawa's apartment and the last place dazai saw them at. akutagawa is carrying his girlfriend's bag of snacks in one hand, and in his other hand he holds one of hers, while she excitedly looks at a horror novel on the bestseller shelf.

"oh my god, you weren't kidding," atsushi says. "she's so pretty. and they're holding HANDS. his hands are always so cold, why in the world would she want to hold them?"

"how do you know how warm his hands are, atsushi-kun?"

"because you made us go on all those stupid missions together for a while. sometimes you just bump into a guy, or he grabs you when a bad guy throws you across a room, you know. whatever. not like i was holding his hand or anything."

........i think atsushi's bicurious ass is a little jealous, but he's not sure if he's jealous of akutagawa or of akutagawa's girlfriend......

next week on the same day (dazai assuming that it's akutagawa's day-off), dazai and atsushi stake out the convenience store that dazai first spotted akutagawa and his girlfriend at, and eventually they arrive!!! she's easy to spot with her pastel blue hair and nearly 6 ft stature, especially as people step away from her to avoid akutagawa. he's a guard dog. he's straight up her guard dog.

she picks out snacks again, akutagawa holds all of them and pays for them, then carries the bag. they walk down the street and atsushi and dazai follow. they don't stop at the bookstore this time-- they go right to akutagawa's apartment, and dazai tries to convince atsushi to go tiger mode to scale the building and peek in akutagawa's windows, but atsushi refuses because 1. he doesn't want to see what they get up to, and 2. if he gets caught akutagawa will literally fucking kill him.

[littencloud9]

4, 6, 13

@frankenjoly MY FINGER SLIPPED AND I ACCIDENTALLY ANSWERED YOUR ASK BEFORE I TYPED IT FULLY AKHSK SORRY. here it is again

4. with dialogue i'm proud of

from an sskk highschool AU that has been rotting in my docs for 9 months ish by now

Akutagawa scoffs. “You’re still a fool, if that’s why you live. The words of your past shouldn’t define you as a person now.” “And why not? They shaped who I am.” “But they aren’t who you are. If you let him torture you forever, you’ll never find yourself outside of him.” “…Sometimes I wish I could kill him with my bare hands. I think I’d be a little more at peace,” Atsushi admits. He sounds terribly guilty for saying something that Akutagawa wholeheartedly agrees with.  “Don’t sound so put off about it. I’d think the same. Yet you can’t, because it’s nonsensical, and you’d have to live with the blood stained on your hands forever. But there’s strength in being able to move on without closure. I think you have that.” “Oh.” Atsushi’s fingers finally unclench. He huffs. It sounds like a meek laugh. “You know, Akutagawa. I think we’re pretty similar in some aspects.” Akutagawa wrinkles his nose. “Don’t compare me to you, fool.”  “Yeah, whatever.” Atsushi’s smile grows and he falls back into that dumb loser Akutagawa’s more familiar with. “And for the record, you don’t need to be jealous. I like you just the way you are now.” “Hm.” They don’t exchange any words after that, but Akutagawa feels his body relax and Atsushi shifts a little closer.

6. that i struggled with, but triumphed over

from an itafushi college/coffeeshop AU! for someone online all the time, i have such a hard time writing about social media stuff lol

"Hey. Post a selfie on your story." "Why the fuck would I do such a thing." "If Itadori likes it, it means he's interested," Kugisaki tells him, fully serious. "Come on. Trust me on this one. Your eyeliner looks really good today, anyway." "No. I hate being perceived." "Do it!" "No!" Kugisaki stands up, and suddenly there's a camera in Megumi's face and the flash goes off. He jumps, glaring at Kugisaki. The bane of his existence, he swears. "I'll tag you!" she says, sounding much too delighted. Megumi hopes she slips on a puddle and dies.

13. that helped me understand a character better

from desert to ice floe (i will follow)

Perhaps that’s why it’s so easy to write it off as an ability. To pretend it’s something he cannot control and that it’s actually a gift. It’s nice to use what he has without people shaming him for it, all by calling it a blessing instead of a curse. Maybe that’s why he fell into this rabbit hole of lies and keeps putting up this front.  It’s just easier. Ranpo just… “I just lied,” he says lamely. “And it kept going. I don’t know. I’m sorry.”

send me asks!

[petty-pumpkin]

y'know, i get this feeling that the order of the clock tower arc is not going to be the next one as everyone says.

im pretty sure it's going to be the next one after the new one that has been introduced at the end of today's episode 'cause this one is going to be a small one.

i've got the idea that this arc rn is going to be the fight against akutagawa alongside with atsushi and the person with a naruto-like outfit whom i assume it's fukuchi.

not any fukuchi tho. i'm pretty sure this is young fukuchi (unless this mf has decided to shave his moustache) because if you paid attention you would notice that they share the same shape of hair, the same mask and clothes from the official art that came some days ago. Also it seems he is carrying amenogozen or whatever that stupid sword is called.

Now we know that amenogozen can go back in time or whatever. Anyway, fukuchi's abiliy is to intensificate the efficiency of something 100 times more or smth. So let's say that 0,10 sec = 10 sec.

here's why i think this is young fukuchi and not normal fukuchi: what would happen if there's an ability out there that can intensificate fukuchi's ability or amenogozen? what if we're introduced to a time-controlling ability ? what if one of those two abilitys manage to affect fukuchi and bro goes back some few years ago? i don't know it seems a little bit plausible to say the least.

back to the point, it seems that fukuchi, young or not, is going to fight with emo boi and tiger boi. So, if this man keeps bullshitting then that means that there's probably a second part to the decay of angels arc. This is probaly a mini arc bc we already got a massive one prior to this one, besides i think it's going to be just a fight between them, i don't think there's ging to be much plot besides that; maybe an introduction to the order of the clock tower as those three idiots fight eachother.

following the mini arc, i'm pretty sure we will be iwelcomed to the order of the clock tower arc. Since i'm sure that chuuya won't really be of much importance to the mini arc, he's definitely going to be of major importance in the order of the clock tower arc.

(i already made a post explaining why chuuya's going to have some sort of main characater role in the order of the clock tower arc but basically the order of the clock tower is in london, guess who's also in london? that's right, shirase and adam. Gues who are of major importance in stormbringer? that's right, shirase and adam. Guess who's the mc of stormbringer? that's right, it's chuuya. so there's no way of denying this man will play a major role in the order of the clock tower arc, he's been neglected by asagiri in the main manga for too long, let him have some spotlight)

either way, i myself don't know where tf this is going, but i think that this arc is going to be small, the order of the clock tower arc is going to be REALLY BIG bc the latter has been referencing itelf since the beggining of the manga, and im pretty sure that agatha christie is going to be the main villian of that arc. And i'm not sure if there's going to be another arc after the order of the clock tower one (let's hope yes).

but yeah that's all lmao, this was rlly pointless but i just wanted to give my thoughts on this.

NEVERMIND BRO I GAVE IT A THOUGHT AND WHAT IF THE PERSON WHOM AKUTAGWA AND ATSUSHI ARE FIGHTING IS AMENOGOZEN??? THEY DID SAY THAT THE SWORD WAS ORIGINALLY A PERSON B4 AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE 'NEW 'CHARACTER THEY VERY MUCH DRESS FUNNY

[flaresanimedump]

I am obsessed with finding out which characters in Bungo Stray Dogs can drive. It all started when I noticed that out of all the characters 14 year old Kyoka is shown behind the wheel almost every time the ADA is going anywhere in a hurry. Atsushi who is 18 has been in the passenger seat beside her multiple times with no mention of the fact that she is 14 and probably struggling to see over the dash and touch the pedals at the same time. How is Kyoka the driver. So.

Confirmed can drive:

Kunikida. He's shown driving multiple times as well. He probably has his license and everything. He still takes the train and taxies so I'm guessing he doesn't own a car.

Kyoka. She does not have her license but she's who they put behind the wheel when Kunikida is down or not around.

Ranpo. Of all people. Shown to be able to drive rather well in chapter 79. I'm becoming convinced this is why he doesn't know how to take the train - he drives literally everywhere.

Higuchi. Shown driving home. Probably the character who drives the most if it's part of her usual commute.

Haruno. Seen driving, is explicitly handed the keys in fact.

Ango: Seen driving (poor thing).

Teruko: Seen driving. Probably has a license since they're not big on breaking laws. (But then they weren't on a public road).

Steinbeck: Can drive in places other than Japan. Rammed his truck directly into a very obvious poll in Japan.

Mori? This is unclear. He gets into what would be the passenger side of the car that explodes, but it might have been an American car. Pretty sure it was supposed to be an American car actually. There's no logo but it doesn't seem like there was a chauffeur and he moves like he's reaching for the wheel. Also it's really old and square in the manga.

Chuuya: Flies for the most part but drives a motorcycle in Dead Apple. Not sure if I feel this is canon or not.

Tachihara. Seen driving a scooter. I guess I'll allow it.

Can drive but shouldn't:

Dazai. Apparently this is brought up in a light novel. He drives with Kunikida, implying he has a license, but apparently launched the car into something. He's called a 'bad driver' but I suspect he just needed the thing he flew the car into dead right then. May actually be a very good driver and just lazy.

Driving status unknown:

Tanizaki: Shown at the controls of a helicopter but never a car? Those aren't the same thing so I don't want to say he can drive but apparently he can fly.

Poe: Also can almost definitely drive. Can change out engines. I'm convinced he was driving the truck the agency members were hiding in during the cannibalism arc but I have no proof. Has not been seen behind a wheel.

Fitzgerald: I can't imagine him not knowing how to drive just for sports cars reasons but I also can't imagine him driving when he actually needs to go anywhere.

Fyodor: Travels pretty far a lot, seems to walk though?? It's unquestionable that he could drive a car if asked, but would he? Is he legally allowed to? We may never know.

Kajii: Driving a train like a maniac doesn't count.

Hirotsu: Travels pretty far pretty often. Could be taking trains.

Katai: Doesn't go anywhere

Natsume: Cats around

Akutagawa: Also flies. Shown walking when Higuchi was driving. Probably can't drive.

Gin: Also shown walking.

Jouno: Probably can't drive legally but could maybe drive in a pinch. Jury is still out.

Fukuzawa: Because both Haruno and Ranpo seem to be regular drivers and Fukuzawa is only ever shown walking even when it's logistically improbable I'm becoming increasingly convinced he can't drive.

Kenji, Yosano, Oda, Kouyou, Q, Hawthorn, Margret, Louisa, Melville, Lucy, Mark Twain, Fukuchi, Tecchou, Sigma, Gogol: can't say one way or another.

Can't drive won't drive:

Atsushi will literally let Kyoka drive rather than take the wheel himself.

Naomi hands Haruno the keys to their getaway car and I feel like she'd drive if she could so she goes here.

Oguri: I think he'd have a heart attack if he had to drive for more than 3 minutes. I could be wrong. Shown having a chauffeur though.

Lovecraft.

[akinomorie]

Black Sea

Author: Technicolour (Lirriel)

Summary:

A series of vignettes focusing on Atsushi - picked up by Mori and trained from a young age to be used as a tool. He's used to shackles, but he begins to seek freedom after meeting Dazai, an orphan eager to die. Alternatively: What if Atsushi and Dazai had been raised in the other's circumstances?

Relationship: Dazai Osamu/Nakajima Atsushi (Dazatsu)

Review:

• I'm absolutely in love with this fic. I've been rereading this tons of times already, analysing every sentence and theorising on the untold stories behind the words carefully left vague. This oneshot has so much potential I feel so inspired 😳✨

• I love the relationships between Atsushi and the PM members here. Mori is the horrible abusive adoptive father yet the one who saved Atsushi from his hell of the orphanage. Chuuya is still the same confident handsome bastard that I love in the canonverse, but with Atsushi as his partner he is gentler, calmer. And the Akutagawa siblings, who Atsushi cares for and grow to adore Atsushi in their own ways, really does weird things to my heart.

• The theme of this fic is freedom, which at first Atsushi didn't have because he was caged by the previous boss with a collar and later chained with thousands of ties to the Mafia by Mori, Chuuya, the Akutagawa siblings. His first meeting with one Dazai Osamu and many others later slowly change that. Personally I find the idea of relationship ties to be tragically romantic hhhhh.

• Atsushi's kindness. It is his kindness that leads to the, may I say, naive stubborn desire against killing, which Mori indulges, Chuuya sympathizes, and the Akutagawa siblings admire. Maybe I interpreted the lines wrong, or maybe I was right, but the PM members really try hard to protect this little hope of innocence that Atsushi holds, using their own twisted methods, despite how utterly foolish that hope is. Reminds me of the reasons why I fell in love with canon!Atsushi in the first place.

• Dazatsu's first meeting. I love the way Atsushi demands Dazai's will to live in exchange for the money, food and accommodation that he promises to provide. Really in character with Atsushi's love for life, both in this fic and the canon verse.

• Chuuya's gifts to Atsushi (and they are all expensive). Atsushi takes care of Chuuya when they go drinking. The two young boy comfort each other in the event of the trauma of their job.

• Akutagawa Ryuunosuke, calling Atsushi, "Atsushi-san" 😳😳😳 I also get this hunch quite often, that Akutagawa in this au is eager to kill because he wants to honor Atsushi's wish not to kill.

• Dazai's panic at seeing Atsushi's tears. Holy moly I felt like something in me was awakened when reading that part. Definitely one of my dazatsu favorite tropes.

• Atsushi! Smoking! (audible gasp)

• Dazai lit Atsushi's cigarettes 🤤 I want a cigarette kiss 🚬💋😉😘

• This fic was written back in 2017. The author admitted that they only read the manga and didn't know LN was a thing when they wrote it, which is why some details may seem out of place if you think about it. Personally I find this drawback to be quite appealing instead. I like to imagine how the other pieces of the BSD canonverse can fit into this au: Did Atsushi know about Yosano (because, Mori)? What would Fyodor do knowing Atsushi was the fearsome Beast of Calamity of the PM? How did Atsushi and Chuuya's first meeting go? How could Atsushi help dealing with Chuuya's Corruption power and Arahabaki? Where were Oda and Ango? How about Kyouka? So many questions, so many ideas...

Quotes:

*

“I’m never killing again.”

He doesn’t know where the sudden conviction comes from; he just knows that it bubbles and burns in his throat. The tiger paces inside his ribcage, making itself known in the ache that pushes up from the inside of his skin, pressing outward.

“What the hell, man.” Chuuya—doesn’t sound as angry as Atsushi would have expected, considering what he just said is tantamount to treason in their circle. Pacifists are dead weight, only good for menial tasks.

*

“I didn’t realize how famous Atsushi-san was,” Dazai says softly. He quirks his eyebrow at Atsushi, playful. “Imagine my surprise when I was being detailed on dangerous Port Mafia members and your name popped up.” He leans close to Atsushi, his breath hot against his skin and adds, “The reported number of deaths was strange, too.”

Atsushi shivers and says, “It’s complicated.”

Dazai shifts, turns his head fully to examine the camera that watches them. After a long pause, he turns back to Atsushi and asks, “Why are you with the Port Mafia, Atsushi-san? Someone like you...” and he pauses, looking down to where their hands are connected. “It just doesn’t make sense,” he says at last.

*

There are shouts, filled with rage and arrogance, as members of whatever organization has been marked for extinction surround him. They catcall and cajole him, laughing at the small, pretty sheep who has strayed from the flock and wandered into a concrete forest filled with wolves.

And always, always, Atsushi smiles mildly at them. Before each raid, he prays quietly for someone to have sense, for someone to escape into the night and not be foolish enough to stand and fight and die.

It is, Atsushi knows, a foolish wish borne from a foolish hope that this shall be the last death he must witness.

*

Dazai’s hand stills, and Atsushi feels his eyes. He continues to eat, quietly, layering the flavors that enter his mouth, trying to build a sensory symphony. “I have nothing to pay you with,” Dazai says, and Atsushi wonders if the lack of betrayal in his voice, the tired resignation, offers a clue.

“No, you do,” Atsushi says. “Something you hold little value in; something I consider to be of great value.”

*

Akutagawa does not quite smile at him – Atsushi does not think he even really knows what a smile is. But he quirks his lips, as if he is sharing something humorous with Atsushi, and Atsushi smiles back weakly.

“Atsushi-san could kill Mori-san and the other executives, and I would still want to follow Atsushi-san.” Akutagawa pauses, swallowing. And then he says, “Because Atsushi-san saved us… Our lives belong to you, Atsushi-san.”

Something weighty settles in the pit of Atsushi’s stomach, and he breathes out a hummingbird’s sigh. Akutagawa, he thinks, is so incredibly earnest. The obvious adoration in his voice makes Atsushi’s heart hurt.

*

We are only children, Atsushi thinks, as Chuuya lurches toward him with another sob, wrapping his arms around Atsushi’s neck. It is easier for him, like this – when Atsushi is in his tiger form, large enough that his bulk takes up almost the entire available space, with Chuuya curled into his belly.

He doubts Chuuya would treat his human form like this.

The tiger blinks, sharing its body with Atsushi, and chuffs softly at Chuuya, nudging at his head. It only succeeds in knocking his hat off. Tigers cannot purr, their vocal cords are not designed for it, but Atsushi tries to convey comfort in other ways. It is the only thing he can do.

It is his fault Chuuya is this way.

*

“Dazai-kun is incredibly kind,” Atsushi says.

There is a shadow of melancholy to Dazai’s face as he smiles and says softly, “No, but Atsushi-san is kind to think so.” He lets Atsushi eat a few more bites before asking tentatively, “Would you like me to leave?”

“No,” Atsushi answers immediately, and is surprised to find that it’s true. “I’d appreciate your company, if you have nothing else to do.”

“Never,” Dazai says. He smiles, and there is a gentleness to his expression that fills Atsushi with warmth.

*

“It was my home.” The “was” is weighty; there’s a finality to the words, and suddenly Atsushi sees what the tiger has seen all along, has known ever since that day by the river. There is a peace that comes from this knowledge, and he smiles at Dazai, trusting him to see what Atsushi saw. “But home is someplace different now.”

“I understand,” Dazai says. And he smiles back, a soft curve that dimples one cheek and makes his eyes shine like stars in the dark of night.

[madraleen]

Bungo Stray Dogs - Kafka Asagiri/Sango Harukawa Vol. 20 - The Usual Capslock Insanity (*anime spoilers and manga spoilers up to ch.115)

-aku-kun and atsushi, what a beautiful cover. LOOK AT THEM ON THE SPREAD TOO, THEY'RE SO-

-i really do want dazai to play nice with aku-kun. i want that for aku-kun. because aku-kun wants that. hey ho, was he always that pretty and i've missed him, or did he get prettier

-i want everyone to remember that the age difference between dazai and aku-kun is TWO YEARS. just two years. it's hilarious and terrifying.

-"and i would never deign to save the man-tiger" akutagawa says, as if he's not doing just that on reflex by now

-"just the two of us?" "do we need any more?" every time this exchange happens, it's a very IT'S THEM heart-eyes moment, and the answer is always YES BOYS YES, DAMN YOU NEED MORE!

-"the twin dark of the new generation" YOU ARE THE SAME GENERATION, DAZAI, FFS

-"young men... take the path that leaves no regret in your soul." in an alternate universe, aku-kun and atsushi heed fukuchi's advice, turn and kiss each other.

-this is something i get in the volumes and something i get with recent chapters - every chapter is SO. MUCH, it's such an experience, that no matter the page count, it feels like i've read a mini-arc. i legit cannot binge-read even though i know the plot. i say this as a good thing.

-my boy so strong :') akutagawa is so strong :')

-akutagawa thinks "i can't go on by myself" and atsushi sweeps in and saves him, WE GET IT, YOU NEED IT EACH OTHER, and we love you for it

-the panel of akutagawa's arm over atsushi's shoulder as atsushi supports him, my heart

-yeah see aku-kun, last time it was "just the two of us" you kinda died. so. given our current circumstances and the singularity and all - NO YOU CAN'T "JUST THE TWO OF US" YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS, PLEASE!

-"if you can land a hit, it can even kill god" oh?! oh?! foreshadowing? maybe?!

-OKAY YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK SO AGONIZED WHEN YOU CALL OUT "MAN-TIGER" AFTER ATSUSHI GETS YEETED, AKU-KUN, YOU REALLY DON'T

-dazai should have ramped up his goddamn team-building drills for aku-kun and atsushi, look where we are now -.- DAZAI-SAN, WHY DIDN'T YOU FORESEE THIS FUCKERY (you know i've been bsd-brainwashed when i've gone from "dazai predicted this TOO?! preposterous!" to "WHY DIDN'T YOU PREDICT THIS, DAZAI, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!")

-if i catch you babbling about dazai-san accepting you when you're up against the singularity, aku-kun, honest-to-god. don't you dare.

-"there isn't a man on earth who can replace dazai-san" i mean, agreed. BUT IF I CATCH YOU BEING RECKLESS FOR DAZAI-SAN WHEN FIGHTING THE SINGULARITY, AKU-KUN! we lost you once. it was enough. also the tragedy of aku-kun considering dazai his master. he works for mori, chuuya and the others are right there, dazai isn't in the mafia, he's literally in the enemy organization and they often have conflicting interests, yet when a master is mentioned, he instantly understands that to be dazai.

-aku-kun's expressions as he negotiates with fukuchi are such a mood

-fukuchi says he's grown weary of taking the lives of children for his mission, and guess who the singularity kills first -.- FYODOR, WHEN WE CATCH YOU FYODOR!

-BUT IS THAT UNNAMED LUNG DISEASE CURED NOW THAT AKU-KUN HAS LITERALLY DIED AND BEEN RESURRECTED AS A VAMPIRE AND WILL BECOME HUMAN AGAIN?! IF NOT, CAN YOSANO FIX IT?! AKU-KUN, fuck it, just come to the agency, we're open to anyone. atsushi will vouch for you if push comes to shove.

-lil atsushi's fighting stance, i love him so much.

-what beautiful action panels. so beautiful.

-I HATE TIME TRAVEL, IT'S SO UNFAIR! THEY BEAT FUKUCHI, THEY BEAT HIM FAIR AND SQUARE, IT'S UNFAIR

-not to be a fukuchi defender or anything, but imagine how wretched he must be feeling, needing to kill these two after all this effort and tenacity, after learning and adapting under pressure, after they legit beat him

-the end of the tripolar singularity could be "everyone dies, only fyodor and aya survive, end of the manga" and i'd be like "yep, can't argue with that, can't fault you for that, you couldn't write yourself out of that one."

-it's okay. it's OKAY, AKU-KUN WILL COME BACK, it's o- i hate it here.

-HHHRRRRR "away with you, you fool" and aku-kun smiles?!?! ARGH

-oh wait, atsushi doesn't know that akutagawa is alive in the manga timeline, right?! wait, do we see dazai's reaction to akutagawa's first death? omg i've forgotten so much from the anime.

-BRAAAAAAM

-WHAT ARE THE OTHER NINE CALAMITIES? MARY SHELLEY ANYONE?!

-and what happened to aku-kun's coat? atsushi left wearing it, but on the shore with ango he doesn't have it, and vampire!akutawaga doesn't have it either.

-so did killing bram cancel the skill so there's no more vampires, or is the skill still active through the echoes in his body? i vote for the first option 'cause the latter would complicate things too much, right? RIGHT?!

[alleycat-arcade]

Game Start! The Seven Lords: Rashōmon

Anonymous asked: Oh my god, I LOVED how you wrote an MC with Atsushis ability and was wondering if you could do an Akutagawa like MC? Or maybe a Dazai MC as I've always wondered how they'd handle someone like either of them considering there depth as characters and they were my absolute favorites. Aku deserved better-

Hey uh, you sure that the machine you wanted wasn't possessed or something? I swear it bit me... Anyway, it's fixed now. Do let me know if it starts biting again, though.

The Mafia's Hellhound. (Part 1)(Obey Me! Older Brothers x Akutagawa Ryūnosuke(BSD)-like!Gn!Mc/Reader)

Content Warnings: Since this character is from the same series as Atsushi Nakajima, I'm gonna put the same first bit of warning here. Bungou Stray Dogs is a series that contains characters based on real life authors, with each individual character having an ability based on a book by their namesake author. There is also a character in the series who is Sui///cidal and it is somewhat treated more light-hearted than how it is usually treated in media, and though it is explained later as to why I don't recommend anyone who is put off or upset by that type of content to watch it. Akutagawa is not this character, but this character does have a heavy impact on him. To those who are interested in the original concept as a whole, I'd definitely recommend watching up to Episode 3 first since that is the first appearance of Aku in the anime. This will have light spoilers for Seasons 1-3 as well throughout, so if you do end up really liking the anime and don't want the slightest bit of spoilers you should finish it first. The majority of spoilers lie in Aku's overall personality, but if you've seen Bungou Stray Dogs: Wan! it is not too dissimilar. There will be mentions of blood and general violence, as well as spoilers for Chapter 16-20 of Obey Me. Don't blame me, blame Belphie. And again, there will be angst. Not just because angst is my chicken soup for the soul, but that this character is very angsty.

(Takes place in between the Cannibalism Arc and Kamui Revelation Arc, which I assume Wan! is also set in. I went with this specific version of Aku because it's where the anime has left off at, and I personally believe anime watchers are more widespread than manga readers most of the time. I'll be doing my best not to accidentally water down his personality though, as even at that point in the story Aku still has quite the inferiority complex, violent tendencies, and other such issues.)

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The life of a self proclaimed "humble dog of the Port Mafia" has and always will be eventful. Or at least, that was what you used to believe. Perhaps now it would be best to say that life was only sometimes eventful and the rest a sort of repetitive cycle. While most of the Port Mafia was still up to their usual business, it was unusually calm on your end. Without receiving any trouble from the Armed Detective Agency members or any sort of other outside groups like the Guild, there wasn't much to do in the ways of combat or any particularly difficult missions. Another barrier that stood in your way as well was the promise you had made to one certain were-tiger, since you had to be extra careful when eliminating opponents that stood in your way. Still, there was at least always some work to be done and someone had to do it. And today, that someone had happened to be you.

As it turned out, there could still be somewhat physically draining tasks out there for you to do even with the sort of truce with the ADA. At the current moment you couldn't be happier to return to the home that you and your younger sister shared, just for a brief moment of rest until Mori inevitably called you out for another mission. Your humble abode was empty when you had returned, leaving you to assume that Gin must've also been out on her own mission with the rest of Black Lizard. Falling into your nightly routine, you set a kettle on the stove to boil.

By the time you had cleaned up a bit of your scratches and put on a change of clothes, the hiss of steam was already emerging from the pot and you made your way over to retrieve it. Setting aside the kettle onto the counter, you searched through the cabinets to find the proper materials to prepare the tea. But as you placed the cup you had retrieved onto the counter next to the kettle, a surging headache flooded your head. Leaning against the countertop now, you vigorously rubbed your temples in an attempt to alleviate the tension. This left you in a vulnerable state for just long enough to slow down your reaction time, allowing you to simply fall through the portal that had suddenly opened up underneath you.

Being sent tumbling into the ground of an unfamiliar room after quite literally falling through the floor wasn't something you were expecting today, and it definitely wasn't a surprise that you welcomed. You would've assumed that you'd somehow ended up in a strange courtroom if it weren't for the attire the strange people surrounding you were wearing. One of them dressed in almost all red seemed to be making his way towards you, followed by two others. Unable to allow them any closer without any resistance, you staggered to your feet and slowly back away despite the sway that hung onto your body as a result of the headache. "Why hello there Mc. Welcome to the-" "Rashōmon!" Your voice cut through the stranger's words, calling upon your ability to protect you. Inky black tendrils emerged from your clothing, creating a protective cage-like barrier around you as you struggled to get your bearings.

Lucifer:

"Lord Diavolo, pardon the crudeness of my words, but we need to send this one back. They're way too violent for this program and- what do you mean "no", milord? I'm aware that I chose them but... it said on their file that they are a part of a Human World mafia? That's what "PM" stood for? I.... Of course I knew that, but I just want to ensure your safety, my Lord."

What Lucifer had expected to come tumbling out of the portal to the Human World was, well, a human, but one weak, frail, and quaking in their boots like a newborn baby deer. Although your legs did quiver slightly as you stood, with the sudden black tendrils forming around you it was clear that you were expecting a fight. Everyone around him simply stared at you, unsure what exactly to do about this. You weren't a sorcerer last time he checked, you were supposed to be a normal human. So what in the Three Realms were these things surrounding you in a protective barrier? Did you have on a cursed object that created these seemingly living tendrils? And why was Diavolo staring at you with such amazement?

As expected of the firstborn, he was the first to jump into action with a spell that stunned your body. The restriction of your movement only infuriated you more, causing the tendrils surrounding you to begin twitching in an agitated manner. It seemed that they were a separate part of your being, one that was unaffected by magic. With no other options, there was an unspoken agreement between the demons occupying the room that if they wanted to get anything done here, they'd need to de-escalate the situation.

Getting you to calm down was far harder than they'd thought. Once or twice they had gotten you to lower what you had called "Rashōmon", but it shot back up whenever they brought up the fact that you were pretty much stuck here for the semester and could not return until it was over. Briefly, Lucifer swore that a flash of terror glazed over your eyes at the thought of being unable to return home, but it was quickly replaced by pure rage. You only calmed down finally when everything had fully sunk into your brain, cautiously retracting your ability and giving in. The downtrodden look that had crossed your face as you followed Mammon out of the Student Council room became stained in his mind for quite a while.

While you had been rather aggressive and violent in your first meeting, Lucifer rather appreciated your politeness in the days that would follow. He was unsure if it was just your personality that was so emotionally distant of if it was brought on by your circumstances, but he didn't care either way as long as you behaved yourself and didn't cause any trouble. This aspect of your personality made it all the more surprising as you made pacts with more and more of his brothers, especially considering their own unique personalities. Occasionally you would have short bursts of aggression towards the other students at RAD and at times his brothers, but as an increasing amount of pact marks adorned your body it seemed to slowly quell your anger.

Seeing as he'd failed to acknowledge the Mafia portion of your file prior to your enrollment in the Exchange Program, he only saw it fit to at least look a little deeper into your background. Lucifer had been aware of your previous history before the Mafia, with you growing up in the slums as an orphan alongside your younger sister, but your life in the Port Mafia was... a little shocking to say the least. He had to stop looking by the time he was through the 36th police report and the 19th article studying the Port Mafia as a whole. Now, Luci was a demon, and as many of his brothers had, he's killed before. But seeing a human become tangled up in such an organization that makes them kill and commit various crimes to survive? It was a shock to him, especially since he'd seen the species as incredibly weak. And there were even stronger humans similar to yourself out there as well? Just what had happened in Humanity's evolution over the years that he'd not been paying attention? Well, at least your "survival of the fittest" mindset made sense now.

Though he's not around as much as some of his brothers are, Luci is quick to pick up on the sort of inferiority complex that weighs down upon you. With no reason to get into intense combat and threats made against you should you fail, the only thing you have left to excel in is your studies. While you aren't stupid or anything, most of your intellect revolved around street smarts or simple education learned through books you had found as a child or read in your free time in between missions. Seeing as you had never properly attended schooling of any sort, you were at a disadvantage and out of your element, but even with all that you still stubbornly refused help. It wasn't until you had formed a pact with Satan that you finally buckled your knees and allowed someone to help you with your studies.

In the past, Lucifer had not truly cared for humans. His sister may have loved the creatures so dearly that she perished to save the life of one, but he did not hold the same sentiments. Yet, here he was now, worrying over you in the late hours of the night. Worrying that you may be pushing yourself to hard, worrying about how much your past had damaged you emotionally and mentally, and most strangely of all, Lucifer had begun to worry about what would happen once you returned to the Human World.

The last thought was one that had developed in the days prior to the Attic Incident, but he had pushed it as far back as he could manage. Until it had come bursting forth suddenly, a week after him and his brothers found your body deader than a doornail at the base of the stairs. Not a single trace of life remained in you as his younger brother cackled over you in triumph. A few pieces of his clothing were torn to reveal minor lacerations on his skin from your retaliation with Rashōmon, but nothing that could compare to your injuries. Even as the past version of you disintegrated and a very angry, alive, and partially strangled version of you emerged from the top of the stairs, the sight of your corpse was not one he'd soon forget. His worries only accelerated upon finding out that you were one of Lilith's descendants.

Lucifer knew that Lord Diavolo's rule was absolute and what he said went, but on the morning that would mark the last day of your stay in the Devildom he crushed his own pride in front of the Demon Prince. It took a lot out of him to kneel before Diavolo a plead for him to allow you sanctuary in the Devildom, alongside bringing your sister down there as well with the same offer of safety. Luci had come to care for you even without knowledge of your ancestry, and he couldn't bear the idea of just letting you return to the hellish part of the Human World they had inadvertently saved you from, albeit temporarily, without some form of resistance on his end.

(I'll leave the interpretation of whether or not Diavolo agrees to this proposal up to y'all, but either way you'll be having an extended stay in the Devildom sooner or later. Manga readers of BSD know what's up *sniffle* *sob*)

But let's edge away from all the big sad stuff and get back to something nice and fluffy with the eldest!(Before I cry again.)

Lucifer finds you as quite good company for the most part. He delights in the short fireside chats that you occasionally indulge him in, eagerly speaking about your interests in curios and antiques over some freshly brewed tea. Sometimes he does need to be careful if he involves sarcasm or older sayings, since despite your tough and bitter exterior you're somewhat naïve at times to the people you respect. Lucifer's chest swells with pride when you begin to trust and even respect him, but perhaps you shouldn't have so offhandedly mentioned your previous mentor and his.... teaching methods. Also, Lucifer almost definitely enrolls you in some form of therapy, and your younger sister as well if she is there. Literally everyone in HOL knows how much you need it, I mean like damn.

For the most part Luci isn't too deeply invested in knowing the ins and outs of your ability, but he does appreciate Rashōmon's presence on days where he needs extra hands on deck and none of his brothers are there or willing to help out. You're honestly a life saver on grocery days, making it so that the two of you can grab everything in one trip. He's somewhat curious if the creature that can be formed out of any of your clothing is alive or not, especially when it wraps around your body like armor or it consumes everything in it's path.

On the topic of clothing, he appreciates your more formal style of dress. If not for RAD's dress code he would've happily let your oddly vamp-... Victorian era attire be worn whenever you please, but he does wish you would learn the name of the "frilly thing" around your neck. In the same regard as clothing, Lucifer doesn't understand exactly why you refuse to be even slightly nude with anyone in a 2 mile vicinity, until you explain that you're essentially powerless without any clothes on. Thankfully you have your own separate bathroom that he installed prior to the program, so he just buys you a more secure lock for your bedroom door. Much to his brothers dismay, that is.

Mammon:

Mammon's already grouchy that he has to look after a human in general, let alone one that has such a short temper and violent impulses. You can preach about your beliefs of "survival of the fittest" and how you're strong enough to handle yourself all you want, but he knows the second he actually lets you get into a fight without his intervention you're going to get yourself killed. Not to mention the fact that you have such a short temper at times that you have tried to attack him before, with little success. Even after forming a pact with you he's still the one to drag you out of trouble you've caused. Honestly hats off to Lucifer for finding Mammon a source of stress far greater than 50% of his debts.

You've only unnerved Mammon deeply once, and it was right before you made a pact with him no less. Leviathan had been instructing you on how you were supposed to go about getting his brother to form a pact with you by taking his precious Goldie hostage, and the demon in question just happened to overhear. Unfortunately for him, he also started listening in on the conversation at the same time as you offered a different way to go about the formation of the pact. Though you do end up going with Levi's original plan, Mammon is oddly more compliant than he would've been originally. Perhaps the fact that you had suggested threatening to curb-stomp the second eldest and beat him into submission had something to do with that, but there's no way he overheard that, right?

The Avatar of Greed really doesn't start liking you until he eventually sees your vulnerable side. Though you may have formed a pact and hung out before the TSL quiz in preparation, Mammon only starts to genuinely care for you after seeing the thirdborn attack you. The way you instinctively flinch and guard your face as Leviathan's fist easily breaks through Rashōmon's barrier brings an unfamiliar pain to his chest, one only worsened by the look of terror the had been briefly present on your face even as Lucifer protected you from any more harm. It was as if for a moment that ice-cold barrier that surrounded your heart was shattered, revealing the frightened human that lied underneath.

After that experience, Mammon starts to take his role as your Guardian a bit more seriously and tries to hang around you more often as well. He's never up front with it, but he just subtly tries to get you to allow yourself to become closer to him and be somewhat more vulnerable around him. As the realization of his desire for you to feel safe dawns on him, another feeling slowly develops in the span of time before the pudding incident. Perhaps Mammon was beginning to grow fond of you. A fondness that wasn't the same type that he felt for his brothers, followed by a burning need for your presence.

Being a model, Mammon is aware that your fashion style is unique, but not without it's own merits. He'll occasionally buy you similar clothes or suggest things to you that he felt better suited you, but he's never direct about it. Doesn't really understand why you have such a massive lock on your door all of a sudden though. How is he gonna sneak all of these new things he secretly bought for you into your room without getting caught now?

In regards to your Ability, Mammon finds it somewhat fascinating. The way that the tendrils of dark matter can sprout from any piece of your clothing and be morphed into just about every shape is something the demon would find interesting to watch, if he weren't preoccupied with making sure you don't get yourself killed since every time you bring it out usually you're in a fight. He might subtly suggest for you to use Rashōmon to help him in some of his schemes, but after a while you just told him to be upfront with you if he wants something from you. With growing up in the slums and working for the mafia, petty theft is mere Child's Play to you. After getting you in trouble multiple times with the string of shoplifting and pickpocketing he got you to do, Mammon stops trying to involve you in his schemes. It's also around the time that he begins to develop much deeper feelings for you other than the friendly type. Even if you don't mind it, he doesn't want you to end up hurt or enduring any harsh punishments.

While Mammon's not the best choice for a study buddy, he understands a decent amount of the material covered at RAD. He doesn't really let onto it that much and disguises his lack of motivation as a lack of understanding instead. But, if you need someone to tutor you in one of his stronger subjects, he'll willing take up the mantle. Unlike some of his brothers, Mammon picks up pretty easily that you may need some extra help during studying and homework. Refuse it all you like, Mc, but he's bolting this door shut until you agree to let him help you with your Mathematics homework. Out of the brothers, Mammon is the most patient when it comes to your lack of knowledge to most academic things that aren't exactly required for your lifestyle in the Human World. Though he may get distracted a little bit easily, he does his best to take it slow with you and make sure that you fully understand the material before moving on. Tsundere-ness and Lucifer be damned, he'll give the teacher an earful if they're too harsh with you in class about your grades and what not.

Besides Satan, Mammon is the brother that helps you the most with dealing with your emotions. If Lucifer hasn't already done it, he will subtly try and suggest to the eldest for you to be enrolled in some form of therapy. Mams easily picks up on not only your anger issues but your underlying trauma as well, and knows that whatever happened to you in your life has really screwed with you in more ways than one. I mean c'mon, what kind of human just casually suggests waterboarding as a method of getting Lucifer to tell him where he hid Goldie again?

As you grow more and more into a much calmer and open person than the human that he was first told to protect, he spends an increasing amount of sleepless nights thinking about you. Most of those thoughts are just general ones revolving around his growing romantic interest in you, with some sprinklings of jealousy whenever you spent too much time around his brothers instead of him. With these thoughts becoming more frequent now, your position in his life becomes cemented in his brain. He doesn't like to think of the fact that once the Exchange Program is over you'll be sent back to the Human World, straight back into the arms of the Port Mafia as well, so he tries not to think about it too much. At first it's an easy thought to push back, but as the semester inches closer to the end it becomes an almost constant worry on his end.

Seeing as he was the second strongest of the brothers, your assigned guardian, and almost always at your side, Mammon didn't think that at some point during your stay in the Devildom that you might actually get killed. And by his own brother no less. You were already dead by the time they had found you, but it was clear that you at least put up some sort of fight before Belphie finally landed the killing blow. As he crumbled to the floor beside your lifeless form, Mammon desperately searched for some sign of life, an indication that at least some part of you remained and could be saved by some sort of healing spell. Yet, not even his attempts to draw out Rashōmon from your jacket were successful, and your body grew colder by the second.

When you miraculously come back to life a appear at the stairs, he's even more attached at the hip than he was before. He had been the first to embrace you upon your return, and the whispers of joy from the sobbing demon who clung onto brought tears to your own eyes. Being someone that suffered from such an inferiority complex and lacked a decent amount of self-worth, feeling someone cling to you and hearing them cry so happily at the simple fact you were alive brought forth a heart-wrenching sob that even you didn't know lay under the surface of your cold exterior. Once the tears started they didn't show any signs of stopping, and yet Mammon allowed you to cry to your heart's content, whispering sweet nothings that felt more like sweet everythings as he rubbed calming circles into your shoulder blades.

After seeing your dead body that day, the fact of your mortality becomes even more of a nagging thought on his mind. And with that came an immense amount of worry caused by the idea that they'd likely be sending you to your death one way or another should they send you back to the Human World at the end of the year. Similar to the eldest, he's not going to let this happen without a fight, and if he has to he'll just come with you to the Human World to continue to protect you. No Diavolo, he isn't open for negotiations either. No amount of treasure in the whole Devildom could deter him from ensuring that you continue to live your mortal life to the fullest. Plus, he's got a bone to pick with a particular human with an very intense death wish. Tsk, stupid human cursing him with such a deep infatuation...

Leviathan:

Geez, anger issues much? If you weren't a human, Leviathan might've worried that you may have ended up biting his head off at some point. You might just give Satan a run for his money in his position as the Avatar of Wrath if you became a demon yourself in the future. Not that a normie like you could even become such a high ranking demon anyway. You'd need to grind at least a gajillion centuries worth of kills to even be close to... wait you've actually killed how many people now? Well... those are still rookie numbers anyway! But uh, can you go away now?

Military officer or not, Levi doesn't wanna hear you described Humanity's newest forms of torture that it inflicts on other members of its species. Even with your rather off-putting nature, it's still not enough to deeply rattle one of the Seven Avatars of Sin. Honestly, he's probably seen a good chunk of whatever you're going on about before in an anime or manga, but that doesn't mean he really wants to hear about it right now. Your background in the Human World is easy enough to check also, and while it may be somewhat strange to him that they're fostering a known Human World criminal in their home, he's well aware that even with your ability you can do much in the means of harming or defending yourself from demons.

Leviathan is very upfront with his intentions regarding you at first. He just wants to use you so he can get his money back from Mammon, and then whatever else happens to you during your stay in the Devildom doesn't matter to him. But then oh no, you just had to go and pursue him and now he's catching feelings. Now he's stuck thinking about how much your newfound friendship reminds him of the new hottest anime in the Devildom, "I'm a Tsundere and this angry idiot keeps making me fall in love with them by accident while being a Tsundere themselves, please send help!". By the way, do you wanna watch it with him?

Your relationship is a bit rocky at the start, but overtime it smoothes out. Both of you exchange some rather harsh words in the beginning, which eventually fade and are replaced by more friendly exchanges instead. He's aware that you initially only formed a pact with him to get something, but he's not really in the space to complain about it considering Levi got you to make a pact with his brother to do pretty much the exact same thing for him. Plus, if you didn't enjoy him being around you wouldn't start hanging out in his room and playing video games with him in the dead of night, right? Or maybe you didn't, and all that self deprecation that lingers in the back of his mind is right.

Something Levi finds an odd sense of delight in is teaching you about video games and anime in general. The first time you had questioned what the plush toy he was holding in his hands was one night during one of his series marathons signed you up for a weeks worth of Otaku lessons from Leviathan-sensei himself. Lucifer had to forcibly remove you from the thirdborn's bedroom before he let you return to RAD, and as punishment Levi had to help you with all of the homework you missed when he had put you through the wringer known as "Otaku Boot Camp". Not that he really has an issue with this punishment though, he teaches you about the material covered at RAD just as easily as he taught you about all things non-normie. There's a bit of trial-and-error and some frustrations on both sides when he tries to go too fast for you to keep up, but eventually the two of you settle into a comfortable enough pace that you get a decent amount of learning done. As much as these study sessions would eat into his personal time, Levi grew to miss them after you started to go to Satan for assistance instead.

While we're discussing Leviathan's personal interests, your ability quickly becomes a new one of his. Until the constant usage of your ability shows a noticeable strain on you, he's going to keep begging you to do various things and show off as many attacks or defenses as you can. Either you'll need to outright tell him about the harm that over usage of Rashōmon is causing on your own strength and stamina, or he's going to have to pick up on it himself from your body language and sudden excessive coughing. If Leviathan's the one to pick up on the amount of strain you're putting on yourself for his enjoyment, he's probably gonna cry and beg you not to do it anymore if it hurts you so much to do. He doesn't care how strong you think you are, you have a household of seven powerful demons ready and willing to protect you in a moments notice if necessary. At most he might not argue letting you use Rashōmon for tasks that don't put any form of strain on you to use, but your days of getting into tussles with lesser demons are over once he has anything to say about it.

Though your fashion style is somewhat unique, it does bring quite a few characters to mind that share a similar Victorian aesthetic. Levi doesn't mind your dark apparel and can relate to your desire to never be seen remotely close to nude by anyone. But he does wish that you'd give into his demands for best friend privileges and give him a key to your door so he can come and tell you about all the latest anime and manga as soon as news of it reaches the air waves.

Like Mammon, any discussions of your former mentor piss him off to no end. Learning how someone could treat their subordinate and teach them the ins and outs of the mafia with such cruel methods makes him want to load up Hell's Navy and storm Yokohama in search of the bastard. Sure, the mafia itself is ruthless and cruel, but even the literal Grand Admiral of Hell's Navy would be pressed to barely think about using such tactics on his own subordinates. Tell him as much as you'd like about how you respect your old mentor or how he made you stronger and whatnot, Levi's gonna want his head on a pike for at least the next couple centuries. No body hurts his normie and gets away with it.

The jealous that begins to broil in his stomach is the catalyst that makes him realize his deeper feelings towards you, feelings far deeper than wanting to just be best friends. Unless best friends kiss each other on the lips, cuddle together, dress in couples' cosplays, and more... lewd activities that is. But seeing both parties are lacking in the self-worth department, something big would certainly need to happened for Leviathan to act on these underlying impulses. And oh would you look at that... you're dead.

WAIT YOU'RE DEAD. OH FUCK.

You're just lying there in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, his younger brother cackling over you, and Levi has no clue what to do with himself. Does he craddle you and check for any signs of life? No, Mammon's doing that just fine on his own. Does he try and search his mind for any sort of healing spell that might work? No, Satan probably is better with that. Leviathan's thoughts just become a tangled mess as all he can manage to do is collapse on the ground next to his older brother, fingertips only barely grazing your already ice-cold skin. If not for the fact that you somehow managed to come back to life, truly he doesn't know what would've happened after that.

If Lucifer wouldn't drag you away like he did the last time, Leviathan would've likely tried to keep you in his room for as long as possible after the Attic incident. Your lack of presence just allows his mind to drift, and his drifting brain only sinks itself into darker thoughts and insecurities that scream at him to check and make sure you're still breathing even if he did see you walking around just fine this morning. The night of one particularly nasty nightmare marks the same night of his confession regarding his true feelings towards you, even if they did come back in a ham-fisted, tsundere manner. He doesn't need or expect you to feel the same, and Levi's perfectly happy with remaining your friend instead, but he really just needs to tell you how much you mean to this yucky otaku. Hey, wait don't cry! Was it something he said? Oh, you're not used to kind words. *sniffle*

(Listen, to avoid constantly repeating myself, I will just say now that all of the brothers are in agreement of enrolling you in some god damn therapy. Just some of them are more forceful with it than others. Lord knows how much Aku actually needs it holy fuck.)

Let's go ahead and add another member to the "If Mc's going, I'm going" gang. It's somewhat shocking that he's willing to outright abandon the safe-haven of his room to ensure your safety instead, but it's a feeling that everyone in the Student Council and Exchange Program understands. The very thought of what might happen to you the second that you return home after being gone for so long without notice haunts him, making him cling even tighter to you whenever you hug him goodbye in between RAD classes. Lord Diavolo should either really consider how much control he has over the brothers or reconsider sending you back, unless he really doesn't want to end up with none of them left.

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(Aku is a very deep and well developed character, so I did my best to do him justice! Also, those of you who know, know that like Mori would probably legit off him the second he came back tbh. As always, any critiques, comments, or suggestions are welcome!)

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What kind of ability would Higuchi have and its potential name?

Hi to whoever is reading this! This is my first self-written post so I’m still figuring out how all this works and I’m sorry, if it gets a bit chaotic. Anyways, recently, I came across a question regarding Higuchi from Bungou Stray Dogs. It was about what Higuchi’s ability would be called and what type it would be. So I won’t go into details whether she has an ability or not. I believe she has since she is named after an author (and Asagiri himself kinda confirmed it via Twitter). Thus, I just want to write my thoughts on the potential names and kind of ability. 

Since abilities in the BSD world are always named after rather well-known works of the authors, I compared some of the famous works of Higuchi Ichiyo. Now mind you, I haven’t read her works myself. I mostly relied on comparing summaries and analyses of them. Since there are not a lot of summaries, I read two lesser-known stories myself. I will add the links of the summaries/analyses of the works down below. However, while comparing I found two works that would fit Higuchi. Now, first what do I mean by “fit”? Well, it might be best to start explaining what I think about the type of Higuchi’s ability.  

I believe Higuchi has not an offensive type of ability. Nothing like Atsushi’s, Akutagawa’s, Kyouka’s etc. If she had, I’m sure she would have used it already, since she’s fighting a lot with her guns, why wouldn’t she use her ability as an addition, why would she hide it? There are two possibilities why we haven’t seen her ability yet. First possibility would be that her ability is not visible like Odasaku’s or Ango’s, maybe it’s even an ability that she hasn’t even discovered, just like Fukuzawa hasn’t realized he has one before the ADA. Second would be that she can use her ability only under stringent conditions. And I believe it’s the latter, hear me out. 

Remember this scene from Chapter 14? Higuchi reaches out to hold Akutagawa’s hand but then pulls back because she remembered him saying that he doesn’t need her help. Now, you could argue that holding the hands of injured loved ones is a gesture of closeness, a way to show them your support, a way to tell them that you’re staying by their side. And Aku doesn’t want this support, so that’s why she retracted her hand. But something bothers me here. In this scene it looks like Aku slapped Higuchi’s hand away, doesn’t it? And then he says, he doesn’t need her help, instead of support. I know, you could say support and help are almost the same. But to me, help is something that you do more “actively”, while support can be something passive. What if Higuchi’s hand represents this “active” help? And what would actively help Akutagawa in this very moment? A healing ability for example. Coincidentally, in the panel before, Hirotsu asks Higuchi what power she posses to make them [the black lizard] obey. Is this a hint that there is a hint about Higuchi’s ability in the next panel? Maybe. But let’s look at the next panel. It’s the title page of this chapter. 

As you can see, Higuchi has a bandage wrapped around her leg and they seem connected to Akutagawa. In this chapter, it is revealed that Higuchi contemplated about leaving the Port Mafia but her reason for staying is implied to be Akutagawa. This is perfectly symbolized by the bandages in this title page. The bandages coming from Akutagawa are holding her leg back, stopping her from walking away from the PM. But maybe there is a second interpretation? If you’re looking at Akutagawa’s left hand, the bandages are starting to come off. What if this means Akutagawa is healing and doesn’t need the bandages anymore? Instead it wraps around Higuchi’s leg, restricting her movement. What if Higuchi’s ability allows her to help someone else (doesn’t have to be necessarily a healing ability) but in exchange she needs to sacrifice something? Anyways, I think she has an ability which allows her to help other people in a non-combat way. With this in mind, I was looking through several works of Higuchi Ichiyo, searching for something that “fits”. Meaning that I was looking for parallels and themes in irl Higuchi’s stories that could be “converted” into an ability. Just like the coat that the protagonist of Rashomon stole in order to now die of hunger was used as Akutagawa’s ability which seems to be able to eat everything, or like the wish that one’s brother does not die in war in Thou Shalt Not Die became Yosano’s ability and serving as a basis of her background story. Anyways, I’d like to present the works that could be used for Higuchi’s ability and draw some parallels. 

1. The Thirteen’s Night

The story revolves around a poor woman, called Oseki. Thanks to her marriage to a rich man, her family was able to live a better life and her brother found a job. But on the thirteenth night of the ninth month of the lunar calendar (one of two special nights for moon viewing), Oseki visited her parents with the intention on asking her parents for approval for divorcing her husband. Before entering, she overhears her parents talking about how lucky they are that they have such good children who don’t cause trouble and that they are very thankful for this marriage. Hesitating at first, she finally goes in and admits that she wants to divorce her husband because he abuses her mentally. He insults her constantly and tells her that she's worthless, stupid, and uneducated. Her mother is outraged. But her father, even though he acknowledges her suffering, reminds her what her husband has done for this family and that she would lose her son since women couldn’t get custody of their children after a divorce at that time. Agreeing with her father, Oseki decides to go back to her husband: 

“It was selfish of me to think of a divorce. You're right. If I couldn't see Tarō, there'd be no point in living. I might flee my present sorrows, but what kind of future would I have? If I could think of myself as already dead, that would solve everything… Then Tarō would have both his parents with him. It was a foolish idea I had, and I've troubled you with the whole unpleasant business. From tonight I will consider myself dead — a spirit who watches over Tarō. That way I can bear Isamu's cruelty for a hundred years to come.” 

– In The Shade of Spring Leaves, translated by Robert Lyons Danly

Just like BSD Higuchi contemplates leaving the PM, the protagonist here wants to leave her husband. The PM is like the husband. It allows her to support herself and probably her family (at least we saw that she has a sister). But there is constant abuse. Akutagawa is clearly the biggest source of abuse that we can see. But it’s not only him. In Chapter 14, Mori asks her if she is really suited for this job. Telling her indirectly that she is useless or that she is too weak for the PM. Later, you can see the Black Lizard doubting her capabilities, even threatening her. But just like Oseki she stays because of a loved one. What really concerns me is Oseki saying that she will consider herself as a dead spirit watching over Tarō. What if Higuchi, in order to use her ability, has to sacrifice part of her lifespan? Or maybe she loses a feeling? Like e.g. she loses the ability to feel happiness, making her a bit more dead inside? If you draw this parallel, you could also say that when ‘consider myself dead’ is the condition of the ability, then ‘watching over Tarō’ is a hint to Higuchi’s ability. An ability that allows her to watch over and protect her loved ones? This theme fits Higuchi perfectly, since a big topic in Higuchi’s story line is how she wants to help and protect Akutagawa. So it makes sense that her ability might be something that would help him (**intensely squinting at the recent events in the manga, especially chapter 88**). Moving on to the second possibility before the pain starts to set in. 

2. Takekurabe (literally: "Comparing heights", "Child's Play" in the Robert Lyons Danly translation, "Growing Up" in the Edward Seidensticker translation)

Now this is considered as Higuchi Ichiyo’s masterpiece. So the chances are high that the ability is based on this story. The story accompanies a group of children who live next to the Yoshiwara quarter. There are two rival gangs: the main street gang (’omote-machi’), lead by Shōtarō, a cultivated young boy who is the grandson of the owner of a pawnshop, and the back street gang (’yoko-chō’), lead by Chōkichi, the impulsive firefighter’s son. (Maybe a parallel to the ADA with (cultivated) Fukuzawa and the PM with Mori who’s a doctor which belongs into the same category of occupation as firefighters?). Among the main street gang, there was Midori, popular and pretty, who lives in the brothel where her sister works. Shōtarō probably has a crush on her. But Midori probably has feelings for the other main character, Nobu, the son of a Buddhist priest. Even though he returns her feelings, he distances himself from her out of his self-consciousness. Later he joins the rival gang after repeated request by Chōkichi. Anyways, they spend their days very care-free, attending school, playing with each other after school. One day, some conflict arises between the gangs and Midori, while protecting someone else, gets slapped by Chōkichi with a sandal. He then proceeds to tell her that their gang is backed by no other than Nobu. Midori feels humiliated and stops going to school. Soon she also stops playing with the other children. After some time passed, Midori is seen with her hair all done up. She has become a distant, lady-like young woman. This probably means that she got her first period and is old enough to become a prostitute or that she just had her first client as a courtesan. Little by little, the children grow up. Nobu is sent off to be trained as a priest and Shōtarō has come to accept the responsibilities of his family’s shop. 

There are several themes in this story that I’d like to point out, namely unrequited love, Midori’s transformation and underlying unchangeable fates. The first one is obviously a big theme in Higuchi’s story. Midori and Nobu are unable to express their love for each other because of their positions in life. Just like Higuchi is unable to express her feelings for Akutagawa. If you want some hope, AkuHigu shippers, maybe Aku has also feelings for Higuchi but is still very confused and self-conscious about it just like Nobu. Anyways, because of their positions in the PM, it would make everything very complicated if Higuchi confessed. Additionally, Midori feels like she was humiliated by her love when she got slapped by that sandal. I’m sure that Higuchi gets humiliated by Akutagawa a lot. The next theme is Midori’s transformation from a tomboyish to a lady-like, distant woman. We all know Higuchi looks really badass in her suits. But again, look at the title page of chapter 14. Higuchi is dressed up all prettily and lady-like in a dress, and her hair is done all up. Just like Midori after her transformation. Midori’s transformation stands for Midori accepting her occupation as a prostitute even though she doesn’t want to. In this chapter, we see that Higuchi has accepted her job in the PM, even though she doesn’t want to do this job. At the end Shōtarō sings the following: 

"Growing up,

she plays among the butterflies

and flowers.

But she turns sixteen,

and all she knows

is work and sorrow."

– In The Shade of Spring Leaves, translated by Robert Lyons Danly

I don’t know about you guys, but to me that necklace that Higuchi is wearing in that title page looks like a butterfly to me. This is really farfetched but maybe this could be a hint about when Higuchi joined the Port Mafia? However, the biggest theme in Takekurabe is the underlying unchangeable fate of the children. Shōtarō was destined to become the next owner of the pawnshop, Nabu was destined to become a Buddhist monk and Midori would become a prostitute. Maybe this gives us some insight into why Higuchi joined the PM? Maybe one of her parents was a PM member? I also like to think that since Aku is in the PM, since she wants to be with him, she can’t but stay in the PM, and this is her fate. Nevertheless, fate is a central theme in Takekurabe. This is the reason why I think, if the ability is based on this story, Higuchi’s ability would be something like changing fates. Changing fate of someone else but in return she must sacrifice something. 

Okay, so this post has become quite long. But I still wanted to mention two other stories Yamizakura (Flowers at Dusk) and The Sound of the Koto where I saw a lot of parallels. I just want to briefly tell you the story of The Sound of the Koto. In this story a woman abandons her son in order to leave her husband who has a bad reputation. The husband then turns into an alcoholic and dies later at a party because of alcohol intoxication. The boy becomes hardened to the world, despises his mother for leaving them, and even contemplates suicide. The story shifts then to a woman playing the koto.  I want to give you an excerpt for the end of this story: 

“On this night the sound of the woman’s playing helped another to be reborn. Through fourteen springs and fourteen autumns, the boy had been buffeted by the rains. His heart had gradually toughened until it had become as hard as stone. No arrow could penetrate it. He seemed destined to follow the example of his father, to die among the fields or in the mountains, where his remains would be bleached by the elements. Some were convinced the boy’s life would end in prison chains, while his bad name spread to every roadside. 

But now, at once, the tenderness buried in his heart was freed by the midnight strains of the koto. For the first time in many years, he felt tears come to his eyes. Or were they jewelled drops of dew? He would not exchange them for anything. 

He, who had known neither love nor compassion, and who had no idea what the player of these refrains could even look like, felt a moment of happiness as the music drifted over the garden wall. […]

[…] How could a stormy wind blow now? The clouds in his heart had disappeared. Once more the woman began to play. The sound of the koto would be his friend for a hundred years, the seed for a hundred years of yearning. He had entered a world where a hundred different flowers wer in bloom. 

– In The Shade of Spring Leaves, translated by Robert Lyons Danly

This boy somehow just reminds me so much of Akutagawa. Just like this boy, without any parents and home, wandering around in this world, Akutagawa has become hardened to the world. I’d like to think that Higuchi’s ability could free Akutagawa from his pain, just like the sound of koto does for this boy. 

So, now I said everything I wanted to say, I guess. If there is really anyone reading this and reading this until here, thank you so much! I appreciate it very much that you kept reading even though my thoughts are probably quite chaotic. I’m sorry if there are any grammar mistakes or weird sentence structures or anything like this. English is not my first language. I’m very happy, if you could point out any mistakes or have any suggestion for improvement. Lastly, I just want to remind you that these are my thoughts, I love discussing so feel free to comment your thoughts but I’d like you to keep in mind that there is not necessarily a wrong or right, theories are theories, interpretations are interpretations. Everyone has another interpretation. They can only be proven wrong by Asagiri sensei himself. Until then just keep the discussions friendly and tolerant towards other people’s thoughts and opinions. 

Sources:

All manga panels used in this post are from easygoingscans

Higuchi Ichiyo (樋口 一葉)

Higuchi Ichiyo: "In the Shade of Spring Leaves"

In The Shade Of Spring Leaves: The Life Of Higuchi Ichiyo, With Nine Of Her Best Stories, translated by Robert Lyons Danly

In the Shade of Spring Leaves – Ichiyō Higuchi, Part 1

“Flowers at Dusk” and Other Notes – Ichiyō Higuchi, Part 2

“Encounters on a Dark Night” and Other Notes – Ichiyō Higuchi, Part 3

“Child’s Play” and Other Notes – Ichiyō Higuchi, Part 4

HIGUCHI ICHIYŌ: BADASS WOMEN IN JAPANESE HISTORY

The Thirteenth Night (Wikipedia)

Female Subject, Interrupted in Higuchi Ichiyō's "The Thirteenth Night"

GAME OF TRADITIONS: TRADITION IN THE THIRTEENTH NIGHT AND DIARY OF A MAD MAN

HIGUCHI ICHIYŌ IN MODERN JAPANESE AND EUROPEAN DRESS: Modern Japanese versions (gendaigoyaku) of Higuchi Ichiyō’s Takekurabe and their Relationship with English, Castilian Spanish and Catalan Translations

Separate Ways Summary

Literary Analysis of “Separate Ways”

Flowers at Dusk

Nigorie (Wikipedia)

From the Margins of Meiji Society: Space and Gender in Higuchi Ichiyō's "Troubled Waters"

[yenkat101]

Bsd Calls/Texts Headcannon pt. 1

25 post event. 10/25. -pt. 2 (Dazai and Chuuya)

Characters: (Atsushi x you) (Akutagawa x you)

General: headcannons

Text type: Pine point

Warning: None

Master list

Atsushi Nakajima

-how many text and calls can they respond to in general? Almost all of them.. like he's not a busy guy but at the same time he is.. like there's time that the agency don't need him at all and then there's times where they need all hands on deck.. so yeah.. Atsushi's availability is quite misplaced but he does respond to most of your calls/text

Texts

-how many texts during a week? At least 3 three times a week.. why? The answer to why he texts you in general will be answered in the next question but why only 3 per a week? That's simply because he doesn't need to have a question once everyday.. there's some days that he doesn't need to go out and get something

-What are most conversations about? Most of the conversations on text are basic planning.. most of times he goes there just to ask "do you need anything? I just finished work"... Yeah most conversations are about stuff like that.. or he goes there just to tell you he'll be late because of work

-how many texts do they give you? Probably 3 throughout the week, with the same reason

-how many texts do they respond to from you? I would say there's like a 87% chance they'll answer any texts you give them.. if he did not answer them then he's probably on a job quote and quotes (report)

-what would make them text you more? The only thing I can think of at the moment is if you're a slow writer.. like you need time to think before writing.. why? I honestly think that Atsushi is the type that want to know what to get before leaving.. like if you take a bit to respond he might just send you a text a couple minutes before he's allowed to go home.. like maybe an hour or 30 minutes before work is done he'll ask you if there's anything that you need in the house.. only for you to respond two minutes before work is done for him.. he's not judging but he's the type that wants to somewhat know what is needed before entering a store because he doesn't want to look like a lunatic looking for something he had no idea where to find

-an SOS and their meaning, if you say SOS in a text. It would mean we ran out of something and we need to buy more immediately.. yes the SOS on text is reserved to determine if the both of you are out of stock on a certain product that is necessary afford both of yours lifestyle

-my advice, should you text them regularly? Yes you should text him regularly because you never know when he's on a mission and most of the time he responds quickly.. so yes it's recommended, he doesn't mind texts because it's like a permanent message he can reread all the time and a call on the other hand he needs to replay dozens of time to get to a certain part he missed

Calls

-how many phone calls during a week? Probably 0 to 1 call per week.. why? There isn't much of a reason why he needs to call you

-What are most conversations about? Most conversations are probably to catch up.. like if he's on a long far away mission, then he probably won't see you in a few days. So he'll probably call just to make sure you're all right and mostly because he missed you voice because he sometimes has a tad bit of separation anxiety

-how many phone calls do they give you? As I said 1 phone call..

-how many phone calls do they respond to from you? If you were to call him, he'll try his best to respond immediately.. similar to this scene "here" with a 78% (at least until he gets used to the phone)

-what would make them call you more? Probably if the both of you spend so much time apart.. like I don't know maybe you have a business trip.. so that means you won't see you as much.. then he'll get a bit anxious and call you just to check in.. yes I believe he's the type to.. feel a bit anxious when he hasn't seen you for a while.. so he tries to call at a reasonable time to see if he could talk to you for a bit.. always mentions how much he misses you.. always..

-an SOS and their meaning, if you call in an SOS. It will mean that you're in danger or something very bad happen.. so it's like the last resort.. example if you're being attacked. You call Atsushi and say SOS as you are running in the current location you are at.. mind you you have your location on so he could easily track you.. then he'll show up at the last moment and take care of them.. obviously he handed them in to the cops..

-my advice, should you call them regularly? I would advise texting unless he's not in work hours.. because you never know when he's working and his phone will just go out while he's working.. so texting to bed option because it only makes one sound, that's it, one sound.. but a phone heard hand makes repetitive sounds for like a minute until it turns off on his own and mind you is very loud

General

-do they prefer phone calls or text (my opinion) as I mentioned probably Texts are better.. because of the reasons that he might be working and his phone ringtone is quite loud.. imagine if that goes off during a meeting.. A text on the other hand just makes one little notification every text.. so it isn't a problem because you'll probably only send one or two texts at once and then wait until Atsushi response.. he doesn't mind phone calls but please do it after work hours

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

-how many text and calls can they respond to in general? Honestly he doesn't respond to a lot of them.. like he's quite busy and he doesn't exactly stop to answer his phone unless it's work.. he does answer once in awhile but he just hopes that you refrain from calling or texting while he's working, fine maybe texts are allowed, but calling.. please do it when he's not working

Texts

-how many texts during a week? Probably 1 or 2 texts a week

-What are most conversations about? Most of the conversations are probably about something important.. like example if the both of you are in need of groceries and you politely asked him if he could get what's on the list then he might do it.. because 1. you asked nicely and there isn't much of a reason for him to say no 2. You need it, like it's something you need to survive 3. And the most important reason for him, he feels safe knowing that you're not wandering around in a grocery store (yes he feels anxious when you're outside without him)

-how many texts do they give you? Probably 0 Texts a week

-how many texts do they respond to from you? there's like a 07.8% that he'll ever respond to a text.. why? He feels like it's just a waste of time just to tap on the screen to respond somehow.. yes he prefers phone calls

-what would make them text you more? I can seriously imagine that perhaps you give him texts and when he doesn't respond it makes you upset.. like you're always wondering if you had seen the message or not.. so after he starts talking to Gin.. he's so found out that if you type just the letter k, it can mean okay but an abbreviation. So whenever he receives a message he writes the letter k and send as a sign of acknowledgment that he has received your text.. (he means "this" when he says k not "this")

-an SOS and their meaning, if you just type SOS with your location on then it means you're in danger. If you type SOS and then explain it means you're in mild danger but you're currently okay. If you write SOS at the end of your sentence it means he should remember this.. pretty simple right. :)

-my advice, should you text them regularly? I don't really advise it.. because for him is somewhat mumbling.. it's like you're just writing something and sending it to him and don't even bother to wait for his response.. but on a phone call you get to hear him voice out his thoughts in front of you with your full attention.. I don't advise texts unless you're sending a list of things you need

Calls

-how many phone calls during a week? 2 to 3 phone calls a week. Why, Akutagawa is one for phone calls. Like he prefers phone calls over texts because he gets to deal with whatever's going on right now instead of thinking of a phrase he must write out in order for you to understand what are he's saying.. because if he were to write the wrong thing.. then you might completely misunderstand him and that's very annoying, a big inconvenience and a nuisance

-What are most conversations about? The conversation are either check-ins or the phone call to ask if you need anything while he's walking back to the apartment

-how many phone calls do they give you? As I mentioned before it probably be 3 to 4 coming from him alone.why, he's one for phone calls.. it's his way of communicating with others

-how many phone calls do they respond to from you? There's a 89% chance he might respond to you.. even while he's currently working.. the only reason he might not respond is if he's not in the mood right now or if you don't have another phone call with someone from work (sorry but work is more important)

-what would make them call you more? I think you would call in more if you're very hazardous.. like you get hurt all the time, you get sick often, you feel unwell... You tend to like wandering often God who knows where.. he just calls to make sure that you're not being an idiot... Like you get him worried sick when you're wondering off at like 2:00 in the morning.. like one time he finds you out at a variety store for some reason at 2 in the morning he's like what are you doing I could get you something.. only for you to look around and realize that you're not at home and ask where were you.. it worries him because you didn't even know where you were.. that's probably a main reason why he would call often (if you're not like that, you do not need to worry)

-an SOS and their meaning, you don't even need to say SOS.. if you call him and immediately turn on your location and you are breathing heavily he knows something's wrong.. probably an SOS always means you're in danger. that's how it rolls

-my advice, should you call them regularly? Yes but refrain from calling him when he's at work..

General

-do they prefer phone calls or text (my opinion) I believe he's personally into phone calls because they're not much he needs to do, all he needs to do is just click the button to respond and speak off his mind like he's having a conversation to someone in person.. but a text on the other hand he needs to write out everything he's thinking which can become very annoying and a very long process.. so we prefer the phone call because phone calls go pretty quickly if everyone stays on topic.. he gets to walk and do whatever the heck he wants while he's speaking it's not like he's texting and he can't multitask unlike when he's on the phone

25 post event with (Atsushi x reader) and (Akutagawa x reader) 10/25.

[narrators-journal]

Hello, I hope you are well, can I ask Yandere Akutagawa who probably hates you for how you make us feel? I may degrade you but get mad if someone else does

I hope this is good and is what you wanted! I'm a little rusty with Yandere content, so it might be a bit subtle here. I hope you enjoy nonetheless!

As a new low ranking mafia goon you had expected some harsh bullying from your coworkers, but that didn't mean you couldn't despise them for it, or have the occassional breakdown in the headquarters bathroom or something. That was actually how you'd met your first friend-like person in the organization, Higuchi had found you fighting to not cry in the bathroom one day, and instead of belittling you for the moment of weakness, she gave you a paper towel to dab the tears from your (s/c) cheeks and assured you that she understood your predicament.

In all honesty, the harassment wouldn't be that bad if it weren't for one specific man. Akutagawa Ryuunosuke.

Akutagawa was a violent, hostile, rabid dog of a man who took any possible chance to insult you without mercy. It didn't even have to be anything that would get you into trouble or annoy him, he would belittle anything he could about you as a person, not just your work for the mafia. It had quickly lost all of the leeway you had for newbie-hazing. At least now you had a reason to blame for the prickly mafioso hating your guts. Turns out he isn't a fan of his fashion being labelled 'hot topic tween goth.' After that, you just avoided him as best you could, which seemed near impossible with how much he continued to pop up in your life, even after you'd insulted him.

Of course, Mori would pair you with the goth pretty frequently despite your reluctance, Akutagawa had a pretty variable set of jobs he could be assigned to and thus would be a good on-the-job teacher for a newbie such as yourself, but after you'd insulted the goth he didn't leave you alone like you might've thought he would. Instead, he seemed to pop up a lot more frequently, even outside of the jobs you were paired with him on. Of course, you would see the pale vampire at the headquarters when you weren't working with him, but now you had gone from seeing him maybe once a week for a task or to retrieve or deliver ill-gotten cash, to seeing him a distance behind you in the hallway of the headquarters almost every other day, or in one of the spare sitting rooms the goons had overtaken and claimed as a sort of 'break room' on nights when you'd stay super late into the night and should've been alone.

However, you couldn't really accuse the hostile man of stalking you just to glare at you or spit insults. After all, Higuchi had always had a very valid point as to why you were running into him when you brought the occurrences up, and you'd be labelled a loon for thinking he'd been trailing you just because you had spotted him in the grocery store. So, you opted to keep your mouth shut and just ignored him whenever you could get away with it.

Though, every once in a while a snide remark or two slipped out, like one had on the day he limped into the headquarters after another spat with his rival, Atsushi Nakajima.           "You look like a cat's half digested dinner," you snorted, watching the wheezing vampire flop into one of the fancy velvet chairs in the empty break room. He was still glowing a pretty vibrant red, with his coat ribbon lashing like the tail of an angry cat, but he ignored your comment and instead focused on wrapping his slashed up arm and leg in bandages. Then, just as you were beginning to leave the room to find your own place to do some paperwork, you felt fabric slither around your neck to tighten into a razor-wire choke-collar and yank you none-too-gently over to the chair Akutagawa sat in.

You weren't likely to cut an impressive figure with your (e/c) eyes wide with shock at the sudden attack, and fear at the feeling of Rashoumon's sharp edges biting into your (s/c) skin to draw blood under your bully's cold, humiliation-filled glare,          "I think you're beginning to forget your place here, newbie." He spat, his raspy growl dripping with venom, "Not only do I outrank you, but I am much stronger than you. You are nowhere near Jinko's strength, fucking Higuchi is more of a threat to me than you are, so the next time you want to feel more significant than you are and insult me, I suggest you have a fucking grave dug beforehand." He got right in your face as he spoke, barring his teeth at you with sin-worthy wrath in his grey eyes, but, just for a moment before the lethal ribbon threw you away as easily as he would a gum wrapper, he hesitated. It was brief, only a few seconds, but Akutagawa's anger lessened, and instead he leaned forward just a hair. Just as quickly as it appeared though, the moment was gone. His fury returned with a vengeance and the ribbon that held you captive launched you across the room, sending you sliding across the floor and into the wall hard enough to crack it just a bit.

You took the hint and scrambled to your feet as soon as you got some air into your lungs, coughing and wheezing as you fled the room before Rashoumon could be sent through your spine next.

Admittedly, being snippy with the vampire after he'd already been embarrassed like that hadn't been a shining example of your best timing, but you tried to move past it, and that weird moment of hesitation, and label it a learning experience. Your fellow goons however, caught wind of your confrontation and did not give you such kindness. They instead turned it into more ammunition for snide remarks about how intelligent you were.

          "Hey! Look who just walked in!" A goon you had yet to learn the name of almost crowed one day when you were eating lunch in the breakroom, just trying to watch some tv before your next job when Akutagawa had come in. "Hey, (y/n), wanna try and see if he'll knock your braincells back into place?" You just glared at the man while he continued to call you stupid and just try to instigate whatever fight he could it seemed. You didn't fall for his trap though, keeping your mouth firmly shut and not responding to his insults or assumptions of how masochistic you were. No, you instead simply returned your attention to the tv and blocked out Akutagawa's existence until you finished your lunch and left for your job.

Thankfully, it was a solo mission, a new extension of trust from Mori, and a prime chance to not only prove yourself, but to get away from the assholes you worked with. So, by the time you returned to the mafia headquarters, you were feeling pretty good and had almost completely forgotten your earlier run-in with that asshole of a goon around your lunch time.

Of course, the sky was dark by the time you returned from the job, so on top of your improved mood, you were also spared further heckling since everyone else had finished their work and gone home for the night. So, you were gratefully able to fly through the report you had to write about the mission, and cataloging of the goods you'd distributed without issue. It wasn't until you stopped by the bathroom to change out of your clothing and into some more comfortable, not-dirty clothes before your walk home that you smelled the stench of blood.

It hit you like a brick as soon as you had opened the bathroom door. The whole bathroom reeked of the dizzying smell of iron and death so badly that it poured out into the empty hallway. All it took was a few steps inside to investigate for you to spot the source of such a strong stench. A corpse huddled into the far corner across from the stalls.

Through your stinging tears, you could see that it was likely one of the other mafia goons, and judging by the one bloody tuft of hair you could see amongst the chunks of flayed flesh...it was the same goon that was messing with you earlier. Since your only identifier was the shredded and blood soaked suit that the heap of shredded flesh and spilled entrails somewhat wore and a bit of hair, you couldn't say for certain, but something in your gut told you it was the same man.

      "You know, you should really grow a spine." You whirled around to face the doorway as soon as the raspy voice spoke, (e/c) eyes wide and your hand instantly falling to the small pistol you had at your hip. But, instead of some demented intruder out to murder any mafia goons they found, you were instead met with Akutagawa. Your worst bully.

For a moment, all you could do was stare in shock, your brain frantically scrambling to recollect its composure under the pressure of an almost primal terror, just letting you stammer out a shakey,         "What?" before your legs began to turn to jello, the thick blanket of coppery blood in the air making your stomach want to escape out of your mouth. However, you put your hand on the cool glass of the sink and bit back the urge to vomit. The last thing you wanted was to give the sadistic mafioso more ammo against you in his harassment, and if he was the goon-slaughtering-psycho, you didn't want to go out because you were too busy retching to defend yourself. However, he didn't attack you. He just stood in the doorway and glared at the mutilated pile of flesh as if it had insulted his family for a moment before speaking again,         "You're supposed to be a mafia member, (y/n), you can't just let people use you as a doormat, it reflects poorly on the organization." he chided with a derisive sniff, "Grow a damned spine and begin to stand up for yourself. No one's going to 'defend your honor' like this..." He trailed off, fixing you with a cold, irritated look for a long moment before he turned on his heel with a huff, "Clean that bastard up, before he stains the linoleum anymore than he already has."

With that, Akutagawa stomped off back to wherever he'd come from. Leaving you to deal with the bloody carnage you'd discovered, and to ask yourself why he had even been here. It was the middle of the night, most everyone should be home by now, but the goth had appeared only a moment after you'd entered the bathroom, how had he shown up so quickly? He didn't bring Mori or anyone else, so it wasn't like he'd discovered the body first...

You got a sick feeling that he'd been the one to leave such a nightmarish scene. And that he'd been waiting for you to find it or something.