I Love Any Atsushi Hc Where He Has Cat-like Behavior. It's So Adorable To See Fanart Of Him Doing The

Anyways... what?

is this even funny i dont think its funny im not putting it in the tags

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i think atsushi is nonbinary. for no reason other than the fact that i think its funny the tiger boy with yellow-purple eyes is nonbinary.

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.

Akutagawa saved Atsushi on the boat by using the shirt off his back to.

Not with the coat that Dazai gave him. The coat that has become the main conduit of his ability and marks the day they met.

It’s not with him now and in choosing to save Atsushi, he forfeits any chance of victory and thus ever gaining Dazai’s approval.

So what Akutagawa does is manipulate the shirt off his back instead. He uses something that truly belongs to him.

Its not a lot but in that moment it was all the power he had. And while it wasn’t enough to save himself it allowed him to get Atsushi to safety.

When Atsushi saved Akutagawa at the airport he did so by using his own strength.

And not the tigers.

Because while it was available to him unlike Akutagawa, Atsushi knew that it would’ve shielded him from the blade.

When he needed it to strike him.

And so Atsushi pushes Akutagawa away with all the strength he has. It is not enough to save them both but it’s enough for Atsushi to take his place.

Both of them are rendered in a situation where they are forced to rely on their own power. It’s not a perfectly executed plan of attack.

It’s a last desperate attempt with no other option to be found.

The I may be powerless right now but if I have the power to save you then that’s all the strength I need.

Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

Can you draw that snail? You know the one who got out of Grian's power and started to eat Gem's lighthouse?

little guy <3

alternatively: big guy.

GUYS

Y’all honestly need to give more love to atsushi bc he’s underrated in his OWN SHOW.

“But he’s a boring mc-“ Nuh Uh

He’s literally connected to the book somehow, his ability can literally rip other abilities to shreds,

Plus the theories on how he ended up in the orphanage and how much else he doesn’t even know happened to him bc he somehow forgot LITERALLY GETTING TORTURED BY SHIBUSAWA.

(My hc is that the headmaster definitely forced atsushi to be a cannibal-)

Like, his character is genuinely so interesting, and he’s one of the most mysterious characters in the show.

Same w Byakko. Like, an entirely sentient ability? Hello?

Plus all the shit w the headmaster?

And yet people say he’s boring… 😐