What if BSD characters had YouTube channels (Based on this tweet)
Do you have any beast sskk hcs?
weekly movie theater dates
r more likely to bottle up issues w/ each other than mainuniverse sskk (until they work on it) when they start dating (as in less likely to admit the other person said something hurtful)
in true sskk fashion, atsushi is more like himself with aku than anyone else -- in this case more gentle
coffee dates
aku helps atsushi gradually live w/o his collar
the tiger is less friendly in general but super friendly with akutagawa
rashomon is also very gentle w/ atsushi
at some point atsushi just gets up and leaves yokohama (and the orphanage) and everyone he knows to deal with Everything and the only person who knows where he is is aku (and ranpo)
beast!atsushi is generally more soft spoken and calm than main universe atsushi and will go forever just not talking --- so sskk will be together and neither of them will talk
sskk date nights where they just do their own thing w/o acknowledging the other person
they dont move into atsushi's apartment, they get one together where there's room for atsushi to plant a garden (theres a fic about beast atsushi liking plants that is True to me)
akutagawa hates dazai but he never comments on the few things atsushi keeps as a reminder of him and always goes with him to visit his grave on the anniversary of his death
atsushi has a house husband moment during his self discovery phase
did i ever tell yall about my au where teen!kunikida meets and somehow takes in atsushi
and like theyre a struggling living by the paycheck duo with kunikida rushing through school to get a better job
and one day he comes home to his shitty apartment where he expects atsushi to be alone studying
and inside is a drowned cat of a man, eating a sandwich
and kunikida is flabbergasted, grabbing the first thing he can touch as a weapon and dazai is just eating his sandwich, blinking at him
and atsushi comes bouncing in like 'kunikida-san! i made a friend!'
and kunikida's like 'atsushi u cant just bring home random ppl'
and atsushi's like 'but he likes sandwiches :('
and thats how kunikida atsushi and dazai become a family
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.
Concept: Atsushi with looser morals.
Atsushi was raised in an environment where the kind die first. A place where he was taught the only person you can trust is yourself.
Atsushi learned how to survive a point system that never rewarded him. He would do other kids chores, take their punishments in exchange for food.
He was raised in hell and it meant that he learned to survive by any means necessary.
Atsushi stops Junichiro and passes his entrance exam because Dazai and Kunikida were kind to him. They gave him food, shelter and saved him when no one else ever has.
He doesn’t get involved until they’re put in danger. In his eyes he was paying them back for it and the job was completely unexpected.
Obviously Atsushi accepts because where else was he gonna go with no qualifications and an ability he can’t control.
He does pay Kunikida back for the 30 bowls of tea on rice even if the other says he doesn’t need too.
As if not paying his debts ever felt like an option to him.
Atsushi doesn’t think he’s a good person. He follows the law because the Agency (sometimes) does. He helps protect the city because the Agency does.
And working with the Agency gives him shelter and money so that he can eat and thus live.
Atsushi doesn’t think he belongs with them. He’s a coward and in the end he only really looks out for himself. In his eyes he’s not a good person.
Definitely not someone worth their kindness nor their belief and trust.
When the Port Mafia comes for his bounty he runs off without a second thought. He only comes back because Kunikida calls him to come help with the clean up.
Atsushi just silently sweeps up debris dodging the questions demanding to know where he was.
He doesn’t get why they don’t just sell him out. Sure they can clearly handle the Port Mafia but the bounty would be useful to them all.
It’s not like he’s worth keeping around. Certainly not for Dazai to let himself get kidnapped for.
He’s just another ungrateful mouth to feed as the Heasmaster would call him.
And he’s not wrong because Atsushis whole life has been spent trying to survive to his next day that actually being able to live his life feels weird to him.
He doesn’t really know how too. He had no dreams ot aspirations. He never thought he’d live long enough to escape the orphanage.
Maybe he should just hand himself over? Take the cash and dip while the others use his wage for something far more useful.
Maybe find someone worth keeping around.
But Atsushi doesn’t.
Because as times go on he starts to realise that not only does the Agency care about him. But that he cares for them too.
He likes watching Dazai and Kunikida bicker. He feels a sense of comfort when Yosano asks if he’s okay. When Ranpo tells him that he did a good job.
But the real kicker is when Atsushi meets Kyouka because all his instincts scream that he should run.
But he doesn’t.
Because Yosano is counting on him to protect the trains civilians. And he doesn’t want to let her down.
Kyouka Izumi is not a civilian.
Kyouka Izumi has a bomb strapped to her chest and has killed 35 people and will probably kill him too.
The Agency might be disappointed if he took her out but they’d understand.
But Atsushi has no reason to save her, for god’s sake he can’t even save himself how can he possibly help her?
So why does he look into her eyes and see himself. He sees a survivor, he sees someone who won’t fight him back because living was never an option for her.
Well who decides that?
Who decides whether or not if a person deserves to live or die? He didn’t think he deserved too and yet he was saved.
To live your whole life thinking such a thing…isn’t living at all. Atsushi wouldn’t wish such a thing even on his worst enemy.
“I don’t want to kill anyone else”
He moves without a second thought and the next thing he knows is he’s in the Agencies infirmary.
“Why did you bring her here?”
“I don’t know! Because you told me that we help people. And she…she needed help.”
He can barely understand it himself and yet the look Kunikida gives him is both exasperated and proud.
“So you finally admit it then. Hmm, I’ll speak to the President and we’ll go from there.”
“Admit what?”
“That you’re a member of the Armed Detective Agency. You’ve finally accepted that you’re one of us.”
Oh.
Oh he did, didn’t he?
And it felt right.
And so Atsushi makes himself a promise.
That if the Agency wants him to be kind then he’ll be kind. If the Agency wants him to fight then he’ll give it everything he’s got.
If the Agency wants him to sacrifice his life he’ll do so without question.
Because Atsushi doesn’t know how to live for himself so he’ll live for them.
And if they care for this city and all those within it then he’ll treasure it.
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.
Hc that when Beast Atsushi killed the headmaster he just went silent to a frightening degree and even when he got back to the PM headquarters even when B!Dazai was doling out his punishment he didn't make a single sound stuck in his mind to the point that it actually unnerved Dazai.
Fanfic idea - Jealous drunken Chuuya x Drunken cat Atsushi
Prompt: As described Atsushi and Chuuya get drunk and comedy ensues
Actual idea-
So I’m imagining thats its sometime in the future during a cherry blossom viewing.
Everyone is getting drunk and having a great time but cue Atsushi and Chuuya getting drunk.
Turns out a drunken Atsushi acts really silly, like everyone keeps referring to him as a cat and asks him to bring out his tail and ears. Ya know silly stuff but at some point drunken Atsushi just starts acting like complete cat and starts cuddling up to people he likes. You know partially cause he’s drunk and he’s just instinctually scent marking people like an actual cat.
This all comes to a point where he starts cuddling up to Dazai which triggers the next event.
Which is a jealous drunken Chuuya.
You know in my head Chuuya already found Atsushi to be really cute at the beginning of the night before the tiger ears and tail came out.
Atusshi is just adorable and Chuuya immediately wants to get to know him more but denies himself since he doesn’t want Dazai to be an ass about it.
Well a few hours later drunken Chuuya gets jealous that the cute weretiger is cuddling up to Dazai.
Cause ya know Dazai is the worst and in Chuuya’s mind doesn’t deserve to have an adorable creature cuddling up to him and being affectionate.
So in his drunken jealous wisdom Chuuya thinks its a great idea to go over there and just grab Atsushi and say that Dazai doesn’t deserve to have a cute cat before walking back over to the port mafia side while a confused but still drunk Atsushi just kinda shrugs and continues to act like a cat.
Just ya know:
Angry drunken Chuuya (clutching Atsushi like a child would a plush toy): “O-oi this cat is mine now! F-fuck off you Shitty Mackrel!”
Atsushi (who is now slightly confused but unbothered just makes chuffing sounds before cuddling into this new persons neck and nuzzling their cheek like an overly affectionate cat.)
Kinda wild how Atsushi has suffered throughout his entire life both in and out of the orphanage.
How he was abused and almost killed at least twice during his childhood and was abandoned by his parents.
But than Atsushi has what? Two maybe three good days before the Port Mafia show up. And suddenly people expects him to not be traumatised by his past.
His past he was still experiencing up until 2 weeks ago.
You know everyone else is allowed to have traumatic events that happened years ago and still be traumatised by those events.
Unless you’re Atsushi.
Odasuku died 4 years ago and that’s when Dazai left the Port Mafia.
The Flags died 6 years ago.
But Chuuya, Akutagawa and Dazai are all allowed to still grieve those events in the present.
As they should be because that’s how trauma works.
Atsushi has been abused for 18 years. He was kicked out the orphanage and was homeless for 2 weeks where he was on the brink of death.
He just learned he had an ability and then has to reconcile with how and why he forgot about that.
All alone.
And that’s just the shit Atsushi lets us know about.
But no he needs to get over it apparently.
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