This Event Is Gonna Make Me A Lero Ro X Yuri Shipper, I Can Already Feel It

Do you like boxes? (I've been watching big cat videos and a lot of them like boxes. Big cats really are just cats, but big.)

much to think about

Headcannon that the Agency learn things about Atsushi's past not from Atsushi telling them.

But from the behaviours he exhibits that are very tiger like.

Because while many make sense to what they've researched, some don't. They dig deeper, and realise these are behaviours found in animals who've been kept not in the wild.

But in captivity.

And they can put together as detectives that Atsushi's exhibited these behaviours practically his whole life.

They don't know that Atsushi was literally raised in a cage and kept as a prisoner for most of his life.

But the behaviours he shows are evidence that he's been held captive, or something akin to that for a long time.

Such as how restless Atsushi gets when he has to sit or stay in one place for long periods of time.

Atsushi fidgets a lot. But he's grown comfortable enough to just get up and pace around the office in one big circle.

Which he will do repeatedly.

Atsushi also constantly messes with his hair, adjusting and re-adjudying his tie, despite it being fine. Ranpo reckons if he was in tiger form it'd translate to Atsushi fixing his fur over and over.

It really makes them all concerned, because just how long was Atsushi kept captive for this all to be second nature to him.

And more importantly how do they help.

(Dunno how accurate these are, not a tiger expert but I tried my best.)

atsushi when the dead things he leaves in front of ppl's doors cause them to complain about there being dead things in front of their doors and not compliment him on his gifts

when people draw atsushi with a phone they always give him an iphone or just a phone with a touchscreen and it hurts my heart so much. we have to stop ignoring his little flip phone. he doesn't need social media either we have to keep him as chronically offline as possible. atsushi doesn't know what discourse is. if you showed him a meme he'd stare at it for a bit and go "i don't get it" while handing the phone back to you. when he sat in front of an agency laptop for the first time he holds his head in his hands because he doesn't know what the hell to do

Just as a side note to the Runaway sskk au: Kyouka is saved from the mafia by Akutagawa.

Atsushi was never the level that og!Akutagawa was as a mentor, but Kyouka was scared as fuck of him because he never took human form near her and was always watching from afar, so she frequently felt like walking on eggshells and like he would kill her if she made the slightest slip during any of her missions.

In reality Atsushi was just trying to look out for her in a way a tiger will usually deal with a cub close to the age of beggining to hunt, tottally unaware of how scary he was for her until she was hiding behind Akutagawa when he came to retrieve Kyouka from the ada and realized she thought of him as a threat.

atsushi with more cat/tiger behaviors but some lesser discussed ones:

he scratches all the doorways of the agency building and his dorm. kunikida scolds him for damaging property for over an hour but while he apologizes he’s strangely uncontrite (at least for atsushi who tends to overapologize) about it

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a mostly nocturnal sleep schedule feels the most natural to him but since his orphanage’s schedule was (quite literally) beaten into him, he regularly wakes up early, though after a long mission or multiple in a row, he tends to sleep through the day instead.

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when really frustrated (usually during an argument with akutagawa) he has a tendency to stomp his feet. it tends to break the tension, and atsushi finds its super embarrassing. akutagawa finds it cute

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he’s constantly fighting the urge to sit on his coworkers desks while they’re working and distract them. same with knocking things off their desks.

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head bunting!!!! he first starts doing it to kyouka after the end of the guild plot. just does it to her one morning while they’re cooking breakfast without realizing. he’s mortified for a moment until kyouka does it back, equally shy yet earnest about it. slowly he catches himself doing it to the rest of the agency: when kenji gives him a hug after a mission, when yosano buys him something he was looking at during a shopping trip, while sharing lunch with the tanizakis, to ranpo after atsushi solves his first mystery on own, to kunikida and dazai after a dangerous mission. he hasn’t worked himself up to doing it to the president yet (and fukuzawas kind of sad about it). dazai and kunikida are the most flustered by it, kenji and kyouka do it back to him the most.

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as much as he hates being locked up or confined against his will (and he really hates it), he genuinely loves being in small spaces. he sleeps in the closest for kyoukas privacy but he does geniunely feel comfortable there. sometimes he eats lunch under his desk or in the supply room if he’s feeling stressed. dazai did give him a giant box once to see if he’d sit in it and he totally did.

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he tends to suck on the corners of blankets and things like his shirts or sweaters when he’s asleep or distracted. dazai used to tease him for it until he read that it was often found cats taken to soon from their mothers. he didn’t really find it funny after that

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he will just Stare at people. agency members look up from their work and will see him looking directly at them. he usually snaps out of it right after and apologizes but just like slow blinks and winks and closing his eyes, he starts doing it more and more as he gets in tune with his ability.

drew my favorite outfits from the fall festival event for tog:nw 🍁🍂

i like to think that atsushi has longer nails that are maybe a little sharper than normal when he isn’t transformed. little leftover tiger influence yknow?

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.

Do you think it would have been cool if Atsushi's white tiger aged with him as he grew up