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.
Orange Cat Atsushi
Aka Atsushi is part orange tiger and thus exhibits orange cat behaviours.
Dazai: I know Atsushi I’m sure Kenji will be back soon.
Tiger Atsushi is curled up in a ball on the road and growls sadly.
Dazai: Oh I think I see him.
Tiger Atsushi perks up.
Chuuya: What the hell are you doing out here?!
Dazai: Oh never mind it’s just Chuuya. You know he’s so easy to mistake for a small child.
Chuyya: Why you!
Tiger Atsushi growls sadly.
Dazai: Wow Chuuya I hope you’re happy now you just made Atsushi sad.
Chuuya: I didn’t do shit. What’s wrong with him anyway?
Dazai: Atsushi wants to be carried.
Chuuya: You’re kidding me.
Dazai: Nope and while we could if he was in human form he refuses to turn back. And when I was gonna turn him back he hissed at me.
Chuuya: Oh boo hoo.
Dazai: Exactly, so now we have to wait for Kenji to come back from his case. But he ran into trouble so this is gonna be take a while.
Chuuya: What kind of giant rampaging tiger wants uppies?
Dazai: This one.
Chuuya thinks it over and sighs before looking at Atsushi.
Chuuya: So werebrat you wanna be carried?
Tiger Atsushi nods gravely.
Chuuya shakes his head and then lightly boops him on the nose and activates his ability.
Tiger Atsushi floats up in the air and spins around happily.
Dazai: Oh look you have uses after all.
Chuuya: I’m not doing this for you.
Dazai: Good because asking you for a favour might just kill me.
Chuuya: On that we agree:
Dazai: He looks so happy.
Chuuya: Yeah…why does he keep trying to crash into that building?
Dazai: When it comes to Atsushi one can never truly know.
I’m so obsessed with the idea of the ADA and the PM having beef, but only on the clock. On weekends they’re fine, they’ll give a subtle nod in recognition or maybe the younger members will engage in casual conversation, but Monday morning at 8 am? The black lizard is pulling up out front baby you already know
what if because of Fyodors (possible or confirmed unsure) religious past and present, he thinks Atsushi isnt “man” enough due to his reaction to his offer to join the DOA, he see’s him more a “boy” and less than a “man” because he’s more emotional.
What if the orphanage told Atsushi that and that’s why he’s so insecure and why thinks he’s so weak, i believe there are SOME implications that the orphanage could’ve possibly been religious, and with how he was treated its possible they could’ve told him stuff like how he’s “not ready to be a man yet” because he’d was just a more emotional kid
okay thats it!! i’lll go back to drawing, #1 atsushi fan is leaving now
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hand pain atsushi goes so well with my artist hc atsushi
What if instead of fighting over shin soukoku and atsulucy we found a third secret option?
Atsushi likes reading. I really like the symbolic meaningfulness that has to it. Much like Oda is the writer character (and the author's self-insert), Atsushi is the character who reads. In a series which is so intrinsically tied to the theme of literature to the point of having the word literature in its own title, with uncountable meta reflections of books being written on to create reality, characters fighting their already written narrative, endless loops of characters who are writers who are characters who are writers, Atsushi, as the Bungou Stray Dogs protagonist, owes a strong and deep connection to books as the reader character. He's the reader, and not the writer, because of the active role he plays, because he's the pov we experience the story through, because he interacts with the world firsthand but is oblivious to the overarching plot; and so he's the character the reader is supposed to feel the strongest connection with, and that's why he himself becomes a reader.
mizu5? 🤨 what? mizuena is on a date right now