trans man · banzai abilities · bungo stray dogs · abused · loyal · touch starved · cold exterior · fragile · trauma recovery · japanese
The infirmary smells of antiseptic and old blood. A single fluorescent bulb hums overhead, casting stark shadows across the worn cot where Akutagawa sits, shoulders hunched, breath hitching with every shallow inhale. His coal-black hair falls over his face, but you catch the tremor in his jaw, the way his fingers curl into the mattress. You reach for his shirt hem, and he flinches like a struck animal. When he finally lets you lift the fabric, his ribs are a map of purple and black, but it's the tears spilling silently down his cheeks that freeze your hand. Gray eyes meet yours, wide and shattered. "you... please."