Tigers That Are Kept In Captive Can Develop Repetitive Behaviours To Cope With Stress And Such.

New headcanon that Atsushi isn't actually a fan of his birthdays. Especially right after he leaves the orphanage. I feel like on his b-days there things would get extra bad. The only good thing is that the other kids would avoid him instead of joining in on the harassment from the staff, and even then they'd avoid him like the plague, giving him glances that screamed they were disgusted and scared of him. The staff would double down instead. Because of this Atsushi probably didn't mention his birthday to anyone, and was hesitant about it when any of the other ADA members asked. Ranpo ofc knew, and the first time Atsushis b-day passed Atsushi walked in to see a piece of candy from Ranpos stash on his desk. Now everyone knows when it is because of that, but the most they do is take a bit of the workload off of him (AKA get Dazai to do his own work, which he doesn't argue against aside from some complaining that day), and put something on his desk, because they know celebrations make him uncomfortable.

Nekomimi

(The Japanese art concept of giving human characters animal ears and tails is called kemonomimi! And did you know that tigers don’t purr, they chuff?)

216/365: Nekomimi

“Stop laughing.”

“I’m not.”

“You are. It’s in your eyes.”

Ryuu looks away quickly, placing his hand over the lower half of his face. Atsushi sticks his lower lip out.

“Now you’re covering up a smile,” he mutters. Ryuu coughs once, happening a glance back to Atsushi before he quickly turns to face the wall again, closing his eyes.

“How dare you accuse me of such things, Jinko,” he says. Rolling his eyes, Atsushi leans across the futon to swipe Ryuu’s hand from his face. For a split second, he sees the smile on Ryuu’s lips, a rare sight that Atsushi would normally welcome. But in this case, he groans and draws back.

“C’mon, Ryuu, it’s not funny,” he mumbles, crossing his arms over his chest. Ryuu glances at him once before giving a cough that sounds oddly like a snicker.

“Your tail is lashing,” he points out monotonously. Atsushi bristles, an emotion that’s only further emphasized by the fur on his tail sticking out in all directions.

“Imagine if you got hit with that Ability,” he says, round ears pinning back against his head. “Rashoumon would practically have a mind of its own.”

Ryuu coughs again, leaning forward, and Atsushi doesn’t realize until it’s too late that he’s reaching for his ears.

“Yes, but,” Ryuu says, rubbing Atsushi’s velvety fur between his forefinger and thumb, “this is far cuter, I believe.”

Atsushi blushes, and though his fur settles, his tail continues to swipe back and forth. He isn’t sure how long he’ll be stuck like this, with his Ability on the fritz and his ears and tail manifested, but he hopes it ends soon. Asking for Dazai’s help is out of the question; Atsushi wouldn’t hear the end of it for weeks. Months.

“You’re patronizing me,” Atsushi grumbles, shoulders bunched and knees crisscrossed beneath him. But Ryuu takes his fingers from his ear, moving down to the space behind it, scratching there, and Atsushi’s tension seems to suddenly and miraculously leave his body. He relaxes under Ryuu’s touch, closing his eyes, turning into butter in his fingers.

Ryuu abruptly stops, and Atsushi looks up to ask what’s wrong, but Ryuu stares down at him with something bordering on playful in his eyes.

“What was that?” He asks. Atsushi tilts his head, subconsciously cat-like.

“What was what?”

“You made a sound.”

Atsushi frowns. “Did not.”

“You did. You chuffed,” Ryuu says, the tiniest of triumphant smiles on his lips. Atsushi narrows his eyes.

“I did not,” he says again. “I’m not so much of a tiger that I’d-!”

He stops the instant Ryuu begins to scratch beneath his chin. Atsushi closes his eyes again, leaning into Ryuu as if some other force were controlling his body, smiling and definitely chuffing.

“Good kitty,” Ryuu murmurs, kissing the crown of Atsushi’s head as he scratches his chin with both hands.

Atsushi’s tail gives the occasional, satisfied twitch.

Представьте, что у тигра аллергия на мандаринки и директор приюта — единственный, кто знал об этом, а Фукудзава и Харуно как кошатники могут догадаться, что это возможно. Ацу не понимает, почему ему никогда не давали их есть, а добрые коллеги решают накормить Ацуши первым в его жизни мандарином, но тигр реагирует по-своему.

Imagine, tiger dislikes oranges, and orphanage director is the only one who knew, and Fukuzawa and Haruno can guess it. But Atsushi didn't know about it because he wasn't allowed to eat it. And now his friends wants to feed him oranges. Tiger hates citrus smell.

И на второй картинку Ацу сидит в уголочке не из-за самой мандаринки. Просто не легко принять, что кто-то, кто очень сильно портил твою жизнь, мог сделать и что-то правильное(

For Atsushi it's hard and hurt to realize someone who made his life terrible sometimes did right things

ちょっとまってください｡ Читается как "чëтто маттэ кудасай", дословный перевод - немного подождите, пожалуйста. Довольно простая и распространённая фраза.

ちょっとまってください｡ Rōmaji: chotto matte kudasai. まって = wait, ちょっと = a bit, ください = please.

This event is gonna make me a Lero Ro x Yuri shipper, I can already feel it

Recently discovered that when you (try to) chuff at tigers, they chuff back at you, regardless of how horrible your chuff is.

Imagine Dazai coming across this online and testing it out on Atsushi.

Dazai's face lights up when his pathetic attempt at a chuff works and Atsushi gives him the most adorable chuff back. Meanwhile, Atsushi, who chuffs back on instinct is confused but overcome with affection for Dazai.

Fukuzawa: Atsushi, I'm sorry

Atsushi: huffs, looks away

Junichiro: What's up with Atsushi?

Ranpo: A stray cat gave the President a fish.

Junichiro: wince And he accepted it?

Ranpo: Yup, Atsushi caught him a deer too but now he's not getting any.

Atsushi: Maybe those other cats can get you a deer, hmph.

TIGERS DON'T FUCKING PURR.

Bsd fan creatives stop making Atsushi purr challenge.

sskk living together but aku has a cat so whenever he goes "pspsps" to the cat while hes laying on the couch he just hears thudding and has five seconds to move before atsushi jumps onto him Cat: Akutagawa: Akutagawa: Pspsps- ah shit. *insert atsushi, going 40 mph, before tackling akutagawa*